Daimler Beats Economic and Environmental Constraints with PLM Solutions from IBM and Dassault Systèmes   

Integrated CATIA Machining, Programming and Simulation System Enables Quicker Powertrain Manufacturing for Fuel-Efficient Large and Complex Parts
  
Dassault Systèmes recently announced that Daimler AG, a long-term IBM customer and Dassault Systèmes partner, reached new levels of manufacturing productivity gains and increased energy-efficient output for Daimler’s cars, using Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA. CATIA provides an integrated machining simulation solution for fuel-efficient large and complex engine and transmission parts.

Automotive OEMs aim to improve the manufacturing time, product quality and safety of powertrain components as they are under tremendous pressure to improve conventional combustion engines’ fuel efficiency. This is required by stringent environmental compliance standards.  Environment friendly technologies, such as Daimler’s fuel cell drive - designed to integrate future requirements linked with economic and CO2 emission efficiencies - are now under development but not yet ready for production. Powertrain manufacturers face a changing environment in which they must comply with new environmental restrictions while staying on time for product delivery to the market.

“The fuel efficient, powertrain design process is quite challenging due to the delicate shape and texture of its part components.   Design accuracy is key, explains Eric Buehler, senior manger ITP (Information Technology Production) and CAD-CAM systems manger, Daimler AG. With a traditional powertrain manufacturing approach, the CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) and simulation systems run separately, causing lengthy production cycles and inciting errors. With Dassault Systèmes’ technology, we are able to assure high accuracy of engine machined parts, while speeding the manufacturing cycle, ultimately freeing more time for innovative designs.”

DS’s CATIA Machining solution has allowed Daimler to put the latest virtual and environmentally-friendly manufacturing concepts to work as follows: 

• By incorporating all regulatory compliance requirements into processes built into CATIA, manufacturers can be sure they are meeting the latest environmental standards by testing the product design before engaging in a costly and energy- intensive manufacturing process. The programming tools in CATIA allow for easy adoption of new environment requirements that vary by country and region and are changed frequently by car emission and international standards organizations.
• CATIA Machining, programming and simulations components, allow Daimler to digitally define the production of a powertrain component, such as an engine's cylinder head, before starting the "plant" manufacturing process, saving manufacturing energy and time and ensuring the accuracy of each step in the manufacturing process.
• CATIA Machining Simulation tools give manufacturing experts at Daimler a chance to virtually test the “choreography” of parts production to ensure the finished product will meet precise design expectations and not damage plant production, costly machines.  Adjustments are made virtually until perfection is reached, and only then do operators on the shopfloor launch the live machine performance.

“CATIA Machining solutions are integral for Daimler’s powertrain program,” says Jacques Leveille-Nizerolle, CEO, CATIA, Dassault Systèmes.  “By working in tight collaboration, we have enabled Daimler to more efficiently plan, detail, simulate and optimize its powertrain machining in order to drive engine improvements.”

Dassault Systemes Partners with Integware to Deliver Industry Focused Solutions for Life Sciences and Consumer Packaged Goods Industries

Dassault Systèmes recently announced a business alliance agreement with Integware, Inc., a leading PLM services and solutions provider for the life sciences and consumer packaged goods markets.

Integware will become a gold partner in the DS Component Application Architecture (CAA) Software Community Program expanding DS’s footprint in key industries. The two companies will work together to develop deep domain solutions for life sciences and CPG companies that will combine ENOVIA’s leading PLM technology with Integware’s fifteen years of implementation and solution development experience and history of success with industry leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic and Abbott.

According to Joel Lemke, ENOVIA CEO, "Medical Device and CPG companies of all sizes face a competitive marketplace where it is vital to deliver innovative new products while ensuring compliance with increasingly stringent federal regulations that govern most aspects of design and manufacturing. This alliance with Integware will enable us to leverage their impeccable history of customer success, and provide our customers with the solutions they need to promote innovation, improve product quality, and automate manual, paper-based processes that address many FDA and other regulatory compliance risks.”

According to Chris Kay, Integware CEO, "Integware is extremely excited to work together with Dassault Systèmes and ENOVIA. We felt it was the next best step in evolving Integware as a company to provide our customers the very best possible solutions. Our customers will gain not only our experience in deploying industry best practices but also the best in breed technology as we work with ENOVIA to build specialized solutions unmatched in the PLM marketplace.”

About the CAA Software Community Program
CAA (Component Application Architecture) is Dassault Systèmes’ open middleware and development environment for PLM. The CAA Software Community Program is dedicated to ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) willing to develop, sell and support CAA-based applications, fully integrated with CATIA, SIMULIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA.

This collaboration results in the expansion of Dassault Systèmes' 3D PLM solutions to cover the entire product lifecycle range, thus enabling mutual customers to take advantage of a larger set of products in response to their specific industrial needs.

More Information available at http://www.3ds.com/alliances/software-partnership/