Meet the engine ofautomotive innovation
If you’re looking for a winning record in racing innovation and performance,
where do you go? Daytona Beach? Monaco? The Autobahn?
Look again—at University of Wolverhampton Racing (UWR) in Telford, England,a trailblazing U.K. university program that’s putting Lenovo® ThinkStation®
solutions to work transforming the automotive industry.

UWR is innovating the processes of car manufacturing andracing from the ground up. Working out of next-generation
automotive workshops powered by Lenovo ThinkStation
workstations, four UWR racing teams design and assemble every
component of their cars. Among them is the Formula Three (F3)team, the first and only university-based team to enter the F3
Cup Championship. This successful team is regularly competingin professional races—and winning.
Race by race, UWR innovations are becoming the new industry
standards, attracting the attention of Aston Martin, Rolls Royce, andFormula One racing teams. These companies know talent when
they see it: they recruit students on their visits to UWR, and now,
every single graduate has a real-world job in the automotive industry.

UWR takes a data-driven approach to automobile design and racing, including:Running simulations: Programs like
MATLAB®, Simulink®, and the Lotus
Suspension Analysis SHARK module
help students understand the kinematiceffects of changes in the chassis andsuspension, letting them experiment insimulations before committing to a design.

Designing new parts from scratch:
Using SOLIDWORKS®, ANSYS®, andGeomagic®, participants build their own
auto components, combining techniquesand materials in ways that are completely
new to the race track.

Printing new components: Participants
study powder morphology so they canbring components to life with a 3D
metal printer—and scan them back into
the system with a 3D laser scanner.

Performing detailed data analysis:
Every car has built-in software recording
everything from lap times to component
performance. UWR students use race
data applications to analyze past races
and optimize for the future.

Until recently, UWR hadn’t standardized theirworkstations, and maintenance and reliability
issues were slowing them down. Given theprogram’s varied workloads and fast pace,every workstation in every lab had to run every
application, so students could maintain acontinuous workflow wherever they were.
Now, UWR has equipped its labs withThinkStations—gaining reliability, flexibility,
scalability, and world-class graphics andThinkStation
P300 Seriescompute performance. With a failure rate ofless than a quarter of a percent, the systems
have integrated seamlessly into the program’swork, keeping up with everything from heavy
data analysis to component design and printing.

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Between running race simulations and designing, rendering, andprinting new components, UWR needs world-class graphics to keep
up with their work.
NVIDIA® Quadro® graphics, which power all Lenovo workstations,have the ISV certifications and stable drivers to keep their
SOLIDWORKS, Geomagic, and ANSYS projects running smoothly.
For their most graphics-intensive work, participants can rely on theThinkStation P900 Series, the only workstations able to accommodate
three NVIDIA Quadro P6000 cards to deliver the ultimate ingraphics performance.

UWR has secured a worldwide reputation for automotive innovation and expertise. The ideas
and machinery of the F3 team have even persuaded some F1 teams to outsource design andmanufacturing to UWR, with the F3 team securing a valuable collaborative contract with theMorgan Motor Company.
Relying on Lenovo ThinkStations with NVIDIA GPUs to power their ingenuity, this professional
construction and racing crew is taking the automotive industry to the next level.

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