Siemens Comes Aboard with La Roche-Posay Racing Team –
The technology leader supports the French team as it ramps up
toward the 38th America’s Cup
La Roche-Posay Racing Team announces the arrival of Siemens as an Official Supporter. This technology partnership will enable the French team competing in the 38th America’s Cup to adopt Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software, with Designcenter™ X software for design and Simcenter™ X software for the simulation environment.
As Naples 2027 approaches, La Roche-Posay Racing Team is strengthening its technological setup. In a competition where every design choice, every gram, and every interaction between structure, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and onboard systems can make the difference, the French team will rely on a cutting edge digital environment to accelerate, secure and optimize its development process.
With Siemens, La Roche-Posay Racing Team is equipping itself with digital solutions dedicated to design and simulation, serving a clear ambition : to design faster, simulate more precisely and make better decisions.
La Roche-Posay Racing Team sets course for Siemens’ digital solutions
Resolutely focused on performance, innovation and operational excellence, La Roche-Posay Racing Team relies on an integrated design office capable of working in constant interaction with the sporting teams, engineers, designers, simulation experts and technical partners involved in the project.
The adoption of Designcenter X allows the team to structure its design environment around a collaborative, agile and remotely accessible platform. It enables simultaneous work between the different project teams, improves data flow and helps accelerate decision making cycles.
In parallel, the Simcenter X licenses provide La Roche-Posay Racing Team with an advanced simulation environment, essential for analyzing, comparing and validating different technical options before they are implemented.
“In an America’s Cup campaign, the ability to design, test, correct and validate quickly is absolutely decisive. The integration of Siemens’ digital solutions allows us to gain fluidity, responsiveness and precision in our development processes,” says Antoine Carraz, Technical Director of La Roche-Posay Racing Team.
“Siemens Xcelerator give us the means to strengthen collaboration between our teams, better capitalize on our data and advance our technical choices with an increasingly rigorous approach.”
Design faster, simulate more precisely, make better decisions
In the world of the America’s Cup, the boat is never fixed. It is constantly evolving, shaped by sailing sessions, performance analysis, sailors’ feedback, class rule constraints and advances from digital simulation.
Siemens’ solutions support this logic of continuous iteration. Thanks to a collaborative digital environment, the teams can access design data more easily, share models, compare several hypotheses and integrate insights from analyses more quickly.
Simulation plays a central role here. It makes it possible to virtually test the behavior of certain elements, anticipate mechanical constraints, evaluate interactions between different systems and reduce the number of physical iterations required. In a competition where development timelines are constrained and every modification must be measured with precision, this gain in time and reliability represents a strategic lever.
“The America’s Cup is one the most demanding arenas for digital engineering. With Siemens DISW solutions, teams leverage fully connected digital thread – combining high-fidelity simulation, data-driven engineering and lifecycle collaboration-to innovate faster while mastering complexity and mitigating risk at every stage.” says Pascal Bourcet, Country Manager for France, Siemens Digital Industries Software.
“We are proud to support La Roche-Posay Racing Team in this new campaign and to put Siemens Xcelerator at the service of an ambitious French project, at the crossroads of elite sport, technology and innovation.”
Setting course for the 38th America’s Cup
With the arrival of Siemens as an Official Supporter, La Roche-Posay Racing Team continues to structure its technological ecosystem ahead of the 38th America’s Cup.
In a competition where innovation is constant and where margins are often decided by invisible details, the adoption of Designcenter X and Simcenter X solutions represents a major asset in supporting the development of the French team.
From design to simulation, from analysis to decision making, this partnership is intended to enable La Roche-Posay Racing Team to take a new step forward in its pursuit of performance.
About Designcenter X : Designcenter X is Siemens’ digital solution dedicated to digital design. It provides access to the capabilities of Designcenter NX within a secure, flexible and collaborative SaaS environment, enabling teams to create, modify, share and optimize their digital models. In the context of La Roche-Posay Racing Team, Designcenter X will support design processes and help accelerate development cycles in the service of performance.
About Simcenter X : Simcenter X is Siemens’ digital suite dedicated to digital simulation. Flexible and scalable, it makes it possible to perform multidomain analyses and explore different technical hypotheses before physical validation. For La Roche-Posay Racing Team, Simcenter X will be a key lever for refining design choices, reducing iteration times and supporting a continuous innovation.
