Marine industry disruptor leverages Siemens’ NX, Teamcenter and Simcenter to help develop category defining products across recreational and commercial marine industry.
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that Arc Boat Company (Arc) is using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to support the design and production of its electric boats.
Founded in 2021, Arc is a venture-backed startup based in Los Angeles, California. The company designs and manufactures everything for its electric boats in-house, including battery packs, powertrain systems, thermal control systems and software. Arc One, the company’s first product, sold out its initial production run and the next generation, Arc Sport, a 500 horsepower (hp) all-electric wake boat, is taking the wake boat industry by storm.
The Arc team had experience using Siemens software at other companies, so Siemens Xcelerator was a natural choice to be the company’s technology platform.
The ability to build complex parameterized models in Siemens’ NX software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio enables Arc to develop adaptable parametric 3D models that support its rapid iteration design, build, test and redesign process.
Arc uses Siemens’ Simcenter software to simulate its products, addressing the design, engineering, and manufacturing considerations involved in developing all-electric propulsion systems for the marine industry.
Arc also uses Simcenter software to optimize the centre of gravity, which is challenging due to the heavy battery pack, and to optimize across the composite hull, deck and hard top to remove weight. This lightweighting is critical to achieving required performance. Simcenter software also enables the team to carry out smaller-scale part structural, vibration and thermal analysis work across the entire boat.
Arc added Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management (PLM) during development of its second product, the Arc Sport, to optimize its product and production data management as the complexity of both its product and supply chain increased. Today, the company is expanding its operations in the recreational and wake boating industries and has announced its first steps into the commercial marine industry and expanded line of recreational boats including the Arc Coast, a ‘center console’ all-electric boat that targets fishing and other water activities.
Arc is opening research and development facility at the port of Los Angeles and has begun to build out the charging infrastructure needed to support the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach’s goal to move to zero emission equipment by 2030. It is also collaborating with Portland, Oregon, shipyard, Diversified Marine, to retrofit a 26-foot-long tugboat for high-performance, zero-emission operations.
As Arc seeks to continue to innovate in the marine industry without using fossil fuel power propulsion methods that don’t fit with today’s requirements for cleaner, more sustainable activities, Siemens Xcelerator is at the heart of its product development process.
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