Case Study: Honda R&D cuts workflow time by 50% with Hexagon MSC Apex

Honda R&D - Customer Case Study

Honda Motor Company faced a challenge in integrating its separate teams of structural analysts and multibody dynamics engineers. These groups used different software, built different models, and had no easy way to combine their insights, which prevented a holistic view of new car designs. To solve this, they turned to vendor Hexagon and its product, MSC Apex.

Hexagon's solution was MSC Apex, a unified platform that provided a common modeling environment for both MSC Nastran and Adams solvers, enhanced by Python scripting for automation. This integration cut the time required for model creation, analysis preparation, and post-processing by 50%. The result was a streamlined workflow that allowed designers, testers, and analysts to collaborate on a single, common platform, leading Honda to adopt MSC Apex for all future mass production model development.

Honda R&D

Shigeki Nomura

Assistant Chief Engineer