Daimler Truck

As one of the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, Daimler Truck faced a critical challenge: its product development and manufacturing operations were built on legacy Daimler AG systems that could not support the scale or pace of modern truck and bus development. Engineering workflows, mechanical design data, electrical design, and simulation outputs existed in fragmented systems across global hubs, brands, and business segments. Without a unified digital backbone, coordinating product lifecycle decisions across this complexity created bottlenecks, slowed innovation cycles, and left the organization ill-positioned for the shift toward e-mobility and next-generation commercial vehicles.

Daimler Truck selected Siemens as its technology and implementation partner to build an integrated digital engineering platform using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. The centerpiece is Teamcenter for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), extended with Bill of Materials (BOM) management as the company's future standard PLM solution. The platform consolidates mechanical design, electrical design, and simulation data into a single environment, replacing disconnected legacy systems. Deployed via cloud technology to enable a global platform approach, the solution is being rolled out across Daimler Truck's engineering hubs, brands, and business segments worldwide. The digital thread created by Teamcenter positions the company to build digital twins of its commercial vehicles, connecting development and lifecycle management in a continuous, data-driven workflow.

The initiative represents a foundational shift in how Daimler Truck manages product development at enterprise scale. By migrating off fragmented Daimler AG legacy systems onto a unified Teamcenter platform, the company gains:

• Unified data environment integrating mechanical, electrical, and simulation workflows across global engineering teams
• Global platform consistency enabled by cloud deployment across all engineering hubs, brands, and business segments
• BOM management standardization establishing a single source of truth for complex commercial vehicle product structures
• Digital twin readiness as the integrated PLM foundation enables future digital twin capabilities for trucks and buses

The qualitative outcome is a modernized engineering infrastructure capable of supporting both current vehicle programs and the transition to e-mobility.

• Legacy system migration is often the primary trigger for enterprise PLM transformation — the cost of fragmentation compounds as product complexity grows.
• Cloud-based PLM deployment is essential when engineering teams span multiple global sites, brands, and business segments.
• BOM management integration must be addressed as a core workstream, not an afterthought, in any PLM standardization effort.
• Choosing a single technology partner for both software and implementation reduces integration risk on large-scale digital transformation programs.
• Establishing a unified digital engineering platform is a prerequisite for digital twin adoption — the twin is only as reliable as the underlying data infrastructure.