Aston Martin chose Lenovo as its Official Workstation Partner to support demanding workflows across styling and design, CAD, engineering, and validation with consistent, reliable performance.

Before standardizing on Lenovo, Aston Martin struggled with:

• Inconsistent hardware across teams
• Reliability issues that impacted productivity
• Limited visibility into future hardware developments

Lenovo addressed these challenges by providing:

• High performance workstations powered by NVIDIA Quadro professional GPUs for modeling, rendering, and visualization.
• Reliability and stability that have significantly reduced complaints from engineering and design teams over the last three to four years since standardization.
• Roadmap transparency so Aston Martin can plan ahead and be confident their systems will stay aligned with evolving technical needs.

According to Steve O’Connor, Director of IT at Aston Martin, Lenovo’s workstation catalog lets them configure machines for each major workload and match the unique needs of different teams, from stylists to engineers.

Lenovo workstations sit at the core of Aston Martin’s end-to-end design and engineering process, helping teams move seamlessly between the digital and physical worlds.

Key ways they’re used include:

• Styling and design: Designers use Lenovo workstations with NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to work with complex digital sketches, surface models, and visualizations, then compare them directly to physical clay models.
• CAD and engineering: Engineers run demanding CAD and validation applications, ensuring every aspect of fit, finish, and complex surfacing is thoroughly checked and refined.
• Visualization and rendering: High-performance GPUs enable detailed rendering so designs can be inspected, critiqued, and adjusted throughout the process, bringing concepts closer to near real-world products.

This setup allows Aston Martin to:

• Blend digital and physical design reviews in a continuous loop.
• Handle large, detailed design files without delays.
• Validate designs to a high level of detail before they reach production.

The result is a workflow that helps Aston Martin reimagine how they move from concept to finished vehicle while maintaining their focus on precision and quality.

Lenovo supports Aston Martin’s modern, distributed way of working with both mobile hardware and tuning tools that keep complex software running smoothly.

Remote and mobile work:

• Aston Martin uses ThinkPad P Series mobile workstations so designers and engineers can open and work with large design files from anywhere.
• These systems combine mobility with NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics, allowing teams to continue design, engineering, and visualization workflows without being tied to a fixed workstation.

Managing diverse software environments:

• Aston Martin runs a broad mix of applications, including tools from Adobe and Autodesk, covering almost every major category used in design and engineering.
• The Lenovo Performance Tuner helps IT and end users optimize workstation profiles so performance settings adapt to whichever application is in use.

According to Aston Martin’s IT leadership, since standardizing on Lenovo, their workstations are the most up to date they’ve been, and complaints from engineering and design teams have dropped significantly over the past three to four years. This gives their teams confidence that the digital tools behind them will keep pace with their creative and technical demands.