Dassault Systèmes Launches ENOVIA MatrixOne 10.8
Dassault Systèmes recently announced the availability of ENOVIA MatrixOne 10.8. ENOVIA MatrixOne 10.8 is a major step in Dassault Systèmes' ENOVIA strategy and the first V6 enabled solution in support of PLM 2.0(1). ENOVIA MatrixOne 10.8 is the foundation of Dassault Systèmes' single PLM platform for all customer business processes in all industries.
"ENOVIA MatrixOne 10.8 is the foundation for DS's V6 platform - central to our long term vision and future PLM offerings and services," said Joel Lemke, CEO, ENOVIA, Dassault Systèmes. "By adopting ENOVIA MatrixOne 10.8, existing and future customers will be V6 ready." ENOVIA MatrixOne 10.8 is a significant step in Dassault Systèmes' SOA strategy for PLM, to manage and federate any PLM related IP in the extended enterprise.
ENOVIA MatrixOne 10.8 is a major contributor to the values of the newly announced V6:
Single PLM platform for IP management:
- Demonstrating Dassault Systèmes' commitment to deliver innovative industry accelerators and applications supporting PLM strategies in Dassault Systèmes' target industries
- Delivering a New Collaborative Platform to federate all PLM related IP in the extended enterprise
Global collaborative innovation:
- Providing a solution to enable collaborative innovation communities for global enterprises and their supply chains
- Enabling technologies for dynamic creation of structured and ad-hoc ecosystems for innovation between enterprises
Online creation and collaboration:
- Supporting the creation of online communities that need to reuse, share, experience, collaborate and create IP
Lifelike experience:
- Providing a new industry benchmark for PLM, with unrivalled realism in business process modeling and simulation
- Allowing customers to benefit from Dassault Systèmes' award winning 3DLive navigation technology, to experience IP live online
Ready-to-use PLM business processes:
- Delivering unique competitive advantages based on next-generation best practices across the PLM lifecycle, including: modeling, simulation, manufacturing, support and enhanced program management of complex multi-site, cross-functional programs
- Leveraging online dynamic modeling and execution of business process technologies,
- Expanding its accelerator portfolio significantly in industries including: life science, apparel and semiconductor
Lower cost of ownership:
- Implementing the best of the online and SOA worlds, with PLM capabilities going far beyond SOA standards (dynamic business process modeling, bi-directional federation based on XML, minimum footprint), making V6 the most powerful and open PLM platform, the quickest to deploy and lowest by far in terms of global cost of operation
All ENOVIA MatrixOne 10.8 solutions are scheduled for general availability in February 2008, available as a standard upgrade for ENOVIA MatrixOne customers.
Dassault Maps out V6 PLM Platform
SOA and Web 2.0 functionality highlight new release
Beth Stackpole, Design News
Calling it an architecture rather than product announcement, Dassault Systèmes outlined the high points of its upcoming V6 PLM platform, including new Web 2.0 capabilities for sharing 3D data across the enterprise along with a full service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Dassault V6 fully incorporates the MatrixOne technology, which Dassault officials say better position it to be the single PLM platform for IP management across all engineering disciplines and for enabling collaborative business processes. This single repository will merge what previously constituted the separate data models of Enovia, MatrixOne and SmartTeam into a single physical platform, officials say, and Dassault will follow up with availability in May of a common set of business processes that spans all engineering and enterprise users, including those for BOM management, sourcing, regulatory compliance, program and portfolio management and requirements management.
IBM, Dassault’s partner on PLM for over 20 years, called V6 a key development in bringing together the data and tools used between the design world and the manufacturing world. “The current working between design and manufacturing has been limited — it’s been connected but not together,” says Peter Markey, solution and product marketing for PLM worldwide at IBM. “When you’re talking about a global manufacturing enterprise where business processes and suppliers span different parts of the world, those things start to become a bottleneck in terms of maxing time to market. “V6 is a major step forward for providing a single platform to drive that collaboration to the next level.”
In addition to the integration benefits, V6’s SOA also positions Dassault to provide PLM offerings under the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model, where customers pay a monthly fee to access the software over the Internet. “We’re not announcing any SaaS products yet, but we see a need for it in our portfolio as a deployment option for customers on the low end to get up and running without major hardware and administration costs and on the higher end for large OEMs with a lot of suppliers,” says John Squire, Dassault’s vice president of marketing, Enovia.
The other major piece of the V6 architecture announcement is the Web 2.0 angle. The software will be enabled for real-time, current collaboration across multiple locations via a Web connection and all modules will sport Dassault’s 3DLive interface so non-traditional CAD users can easily search for, collaborate on and share 3D models and data. In addition, V6 will also encompass elements of 3DVIA, Dassault’s community for sharing and creating 3D experiences aimed at the average consumer, the intent being to allow all constituents — from developers to consumers — to be involved in the product design process, from gathering requirements to testing and providing feedback on virtual prototypes prior to production.
“We’re hanging this off the Web 2.0 concept of social design, viewing it as PLM online for all,” Squire says. “This allows an online community to participate in product design throughout all stages of the lifecycle.”
The addition of the 3DLive interface to the Dassault PLM suite in particular will go a long way in opening up access to non-traditional CAD users, according to Ed Miller, president of CIMdata Inc. “Leveraging the 3DLive program across their entire suite is a nice step forward,” Miller says. “They’re using it as a vehicle to enable simplification of processes and that’s a big deal.”
Squire said V6 solutions of CATIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA and ENOVIA are slated for delivery in May.
Tube Bending Software Costs Forming Requirements
CATIA tube bending analysis module produces accurate thickness distribution, accurate tube length for costing and set-up, and will automatically determines hot or cold forming process requirements
A leading developer of solutions for design, simulation, and costing of sheet metal components, Forming Technologies (FTI), has released a Catia module, CATTube CAA V5 based. By leveraging CATIA V5's parametric design and analysis environment, CATTube's fully associative and regenerative features drastically reduce downstream design changes.
Vice president of sales and marketing at FTI, Michael Gallagher, said, "CATTube is a tube bending analysis tool for the aerospace, automotive, nuclear, and process industries."
This solution incorporates our exclusive CHI solver to produce accurate thickness distribution, accurate tube length for costing and setup, and will automatically determine hot or cold forming process requirements'.
He told manufacturingtalk.com: '"CATTube will significantly reduce the number of iterations between design and manufacturing, reduce the number of half-pipe pressings, and reduce both procurement and manufacturing costs."
* Fast feasability assessment - the CATTube will allow engineers to quickly assess a proposed tube design for feasibility.
Engineers will have a tool to rapidly assess process options with immediate feedback on changes to geometry, gauge, and material.
CATTube is fully integrated within the CATIA environment and will take full advantage of the Associative and Regenerative features as well as allowing designers to use only native Catia files for ease of use and increased efficiencies.
Because FTI's simulation time, set-up time, and run time is accomplished within minutes, CATTube takes full advantage of the CATIA Sensor-Based Design Optimization Engine.
"Our newest solution was developed for our aerospaceautomotive clients and has demonstrated tremendous time-saving advantages," added Gallagher.
"What typically has taken the industry many weeks to accomplish, CATTube has achieved, in many cases, better and more accurate results in minutes."
We offer the largest portfolio of CATIA based solutions in our industry and we will continue to expand on this offering in the near future to allow our clients to take advantage of the best in class, latest technology in the market place today'. |