RENAULT Success Story: Securing and Evolving Materials Data for Engineering and Numerical Simulation

With material properties constantly changing, RENAULT’s calculation department faced a critical challenge: they needed a reliable, easily accessible, and sustainable repository for their simulation and engineering materials data. After consulting the market’s leading calculation software vendors without finding a solution that met their expectations, the automaker turned to BASSETTI Group.

Discover how implementing TEEXMA transformed RENAULT's data management strategy, upgrading their workflow from a basic storage vault into a dynamic, evolving engineering tool.

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Tailored Support for a Sustainable Knowledge Management Strategy

Building a comprehensive materials database involves much more than just saving numbers. It requires an intimate understanding of numerical simulation constraints, the day-to-day realities of calculation engineers, and a data architecture built for long-term scalability.

BASSETTI partnered closely with RENAULT to navigate this digital transformation by delivering:

An interview-driven methodology designed to map out operational workflows before and after deployment—a hands-on approach other suppliers lacked
A highly scalable solution engineered to quickly integrate new materials and dynamically adjust data structures
The flexibility required to keep pace with rapid advancements and new domains in numerical simulation

Driving Numerical Simulation Performance Through Centralized Data

RENAULT utilizes TEEXMA to structure its critical materials data, creating a highly dependable, scalable, and sustainable repository for engineering teams.

Context and Challenges

The calculation division required an intuitive, sustainable platform to access verified materials data. Key drivers for the project included:

Following a thorough market review, RENAULT found that traditional calculation domain suppliers could not meet their specific requirements.

The engineering team needed a platform capable of:

  • Evolving seamlessly alongside data updates and new material rollouts.
  • Establishing correlations between properties and building standardized business rules across the entire dataset.
  • Identifying constitutive laws to help R&D progress in behavior modeling.
  • Serving as an active engine for engineering growth, rather than functioning as a passive storage vault.

By centralizing this knowledge, engineering teams gain instant access to reliable material data, mitigating design risks and accelerating research into advanced constitutive laws.

TEEXMA Deployment and Tangible Results

The partnership with BASSETTI succeeded due to a deeply collaborative, human-centric approach tailored to RENAULT’s specific business practices.

Core achievements of the deployment:

  • Integrating an agile structure that allows rapid modifications to match ongoing material innovations.
  • Moving past a basic “vault” setup to make materials data fully actionable and dynamic.
  • Optimizing simulation workflows by automatically generating the exact datasets required for engineering calculations.
  • An assessment process rooted in detailed user interviews to thoroughly define current and future operational needs.

Today, TEEXMA gives RENAULT a unified, evolving data ecosystem that enhances engineering efficiency, ensures data integrity, and advances material behavior modeling

About the RENAULT Group

The RENAULT Group is a pioneering French global automotive manufacturer. Operating in 128 countries with a turnover of 40 billion euros, RENAULT is an industry leader. To push the boundaries of innovation, RENAULT places material quality and performance at the center of its product design, particularly to support the heavy demands of numerical simulation.

To manage increasingly complex material characteristics, RENAULT launched a targeted digital initiative. The goal was to convert sensitive technical data into a strategic asset. Implementing TEEXMA provided the robust, future-proof repository essential for validating materials quickly and safely throughout the engineering lifecycle.

Key Figures for RENAULT:

  • A global automotive leader with a presence in 128 countries
  • An annual turnover exceeding 40 billion euros
  • One of France’s premier automotive manufacturers
  • 2.2 million vehicles sold globally (in 2023)
  • A strong product pipeline with 25 new vehicle launches scheduled between 2022 and 2025

Adopting TEEXMA for Materials represents a major milestone in RENAULT’s mission to optimize engineering workflows and numerical simulation while securing highly reliable, scalable, and long-term data assets.

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