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“The right tool at the right moment”: Bart van Lotringen of DAF Trucks

2025-02-10T17:28:00

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The design director of DAF Trucks, Bart van Lotringen, speaks with Car Design News about his teams’ use of digital tools, AI, and the future

As we began organising the month’s February Focus, we queried many designers and educators about the uses Digital Tools in the design studio.

We got many fine responses, but Bart van Lotringen, of DAF Trucks sent back an exceptionally detailed response. Here is a transcript of our survey/interview, lightly edited for clarity:

Car Design News: How have digital tools impacted your workflow at DAF?

Bart van Lotringen: Digital Design has helped us to increase our design speed, increase volume of design work (do more with less people), be more flexible and maintain the design intent when going into the engineering phase. Virtual Reality has been adopted heavily since the Pandemic, we could not have done without it and it has replaced much physical modelling due to its speed, flexibility to work until the last minute and the exchange with the design studios of Peterbilt and Kenworth on global synergy projects. We do not need to ship models anymore, our VR-tools are standardized globally. After initial hesitance our management now feels reasonably..

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