Hendrick Motorsports winning with Service Lifecycle Management

Hendrick Motorsports is an American professional auto racing organization, based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, that competes in the NASCAR Cup Series and challenges for the title. They rely on Teamcenter Service lifecycle management to efficiently manage physical assets, ensuring race-ready vehicles with dependable engines, and delivering peak performance for continued success.

Watch the video to delve deeper into how Hendrick Motorsports brought about quality improvements, cost reductions, and increased profits. Hear insights from Jim McKenzie, who talks about success of using Teamcenter service lifecycle management (SLM) to integrate and connect all their operations, from workshop to racetrack by tracking all of their assets, including vehicles and engines.

“MRO (Maintenance, Repair and overhaul) is very important to our business and gets more so every day as we continue to leverage its capabilities. The Teamcenter service lifecycle management solution and service asset management module are a critical part of that"

Jim McKenzi

Engineering applications manager, Hendricks Motorsports

Driving Service engineering efficiency through asset management

Managing between 10 and 20 race engines weekly in both the NASCAR Sprint Cup and World Truck series involves supporting multiple vehicles, each with its own engine configuration tailored to the specific series. Therefore, tracking extensive data for numerous cars, engines, and teams presents a challenge.

With Teamcenter Service Lifecycle Management, Hendrick Motorsports optimizes engine and car management in a manner similar to that of production assets, and is also able to

• Capture and manage the physical configurations of every engine and vehicle, along with test and race results, to enhance performance and deliver the fastest, most reliable engines to the teams.
• Maximize decisions based on historical evidence and traceable information, utilize formalized data models and standardized practices
• Enhance ease of documenting and finding issues and failures and fully leverage MRO practices.
• Track engines throughout their lifecycle to save time, allowing the team to allocate more resources to engineering and testing, thus improving reliability further.

Watch the video to learn how Hendrick Motorsports track part usage to improve performance and maintenance planning.