Case Study: Dana Incorporated achieves up to 25% CAE time savings and a streamlined simulation lifecycle with Dassault Systèmes' SIMULIA SLM

Dana Incorporated - Customer Case Study

Dana Incorporated, a global Tier 1 supplier of drivetrain, sealing and thermal-management products, needed a way to connect its extensive CAE toolset to business decision-making, manage growing simulation data and IP, and improve collaboration across distributed engineering teams and customers. To address these challenges, Dana worked with Dassault Systemes to assess and adopt SIMULIA Simulation Lifecycle Management (SLM) for enterprise-wide simulation process and data management.

Dassault Systemes implemented SIMULIA SLM with guided templates, live visualization and open connectors to Dana’s existing CAE tools, automating workflows and centralizing data access. The deployment improved collaboration, reduced time spent searching for data by weeks, and delivered measurable efficiency gains—Dana reports 20–25% time savings on CAE projects and up to 25% faster project cycles—while enabling more consistent, repeatable simulation practices.

Dana Incorporated

Frank Popielas

Senior Manager of Advanced Engineering in the Dana Power Technologies Group and Head of CAE