Since the beginning of the 2010 Formula 1 season, Canadian company Processia Solutions is a new technical partner of the famed Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team.
We recently met with directors of the two companies at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, UK to see how new rules and regulations call for innovative ways to work in F1. A Formula 1 car is like a big 'lego' car made with fully interchangeable parts and like a living prototype as the car evolves until the last race of the season. For that reason, the car is never fully finished as the configuration for one circuit is not suitable to the next. So engineers design and adapt the car to the circuit it will run on.
Processia Solutions is involved in implementing best of class PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions to improve all the processes involved in the design, manufacturing and exploitation of highly complex F1 car. The company was created in 2000. The head office is located in Laval, Canada and it has a branch in Paris and an office in Great Britain. Processia is a company providing specialized implementation services on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and agile software development services. In other words, they help manufacturing companies to implement information systems that enables them to design and manufacture better products in less time. It serves customers such as Bombardier, Boeing, Volvo, Renault, Pratt & Whitney and now, the McLaren Formula 1 team.
A Formula 1 car is made of 7000 parts with less than 10% of carryover form one year to the next. The aerodynamic definition of the new car starts 12 months before it will run on track. Every year, the team produces more then 10,000 wind tunnel model components, performs 10,000 tests in the wind tunnel, makes an average 12,000 drawings and produces some 150,000 individual car parts!
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