Ducati Corse, the Italian bike producer and present MotoGP world champion, has renewed its technical partnership with Siemens Digital Industries Software program for an extra two years, taking the profitable relationship via to a minimum of the top of 2027.
By utilizing the Siemens Xcelerator’s a number of software program and capabilities, Ducati has been in a position to absolutely leverage the digital transformation potential of the platform to fulfill the design and manufacturing calls for on the leading edge of motorbike prototyping and racing.
Particularly, Siemens’ Fibersim software program has helped deliver down growth timescales for advanced carbon fiber elements to a matter of days, in comparison with weeks and even months as beforehand would have been the case.
“Throughout race weekends, we will remotely design new elements utilizing Siemens’ expertise, that are then despatched to the monitor and printed on a 3D printer,” stated Ducati CTO, Massimiliano Bertei. “On this planet of racing, having the ability to modify your bike till the final second is essential.”
With aerodynamics taking part in such a key function within the sport and the fixed evolution of intricate and complicated elements equivalent to aero wings, the game by no means stands nonetheless and engineers are frequently fine-tuning the bikes in actual time throughout race weekends.
Through the use of Siemens’ tech together with 3D printing, Ducati have been in a position to check numerous modifications all through a Grand Prix and undertake iterative developmental work that might in any other case be restricted to between races or the off season.
Sweeping technical modifications are set to come back into impact in MotoGP in 2027 too, with numerous important engineering challenges on the horizon. Many of those have already been included into producers’ challenge timelines, however close to instantaneous design-to-print processes will play a pivotal function within the coming season, as they’ll in pre-season testing.
On-track testing for the 2026 MotoGP season will begin on the finish of January, and with the variety of permitted monitor days tightly restricted the power to make on-the-fly design modifications will once more show invaluable.
Ducati has been incorporating additive manufacturing into its engineering philosophy for quite a few seasons, and in 2022 labored with 3D printer producer Roboze as a technical companion, profitable its first MotoGP title in 15 years. Robze has since grow to be a technical companion of the Yamaha crew, lately extending the partnership via to 2030.
AM has additionally been extensively utilized in System 1, with the game factoring AM-specific pointers into its technical rules for the 2026 season.
