Automatic Path Planning Available with DMU Fitting and DPM Assembly

The leading technology for automatic motion and path planning from Kineo Computer Aided Motion (Kineo CAM) has been integrated with both CATIA DMU Fitting Simulator and DELMIA DPM Assembly Process Simulation.

With these new specialised products marketed by DELMIA, Dassault Systèmes brings significant advantages to DMU Fitting Simulation and DPM Assembly Process Simulation, due to its simplified user interface and increased reliability of the result path. Reusable computations and fast design validation will lead to time savings for users, as well as the ability to solve very complex situations:

• Forecasting accessibility issues of a mechanical assembly within 3-D Digital Mock-up during the early stages of the engineering design will prevent costly bottlenecks later on
• Documenting maintenance feasibility and manufacturing processes are no longer only internal requirements but also customers’ requirements whatever their industrial field is
• Studying Mounting and Dismounting activities serves both the “Time to Market” and “Service Quality” criteria of any industrial good
• Searching and validating a trajectory is becoming increasingly time consuming in many engineering areas:
• Automotive
• Aircraft
• Shipbuilding
• Power plant

All are industries benefiting from Automatic Path Planning.
DMU / DPM Path Planner provide tools for better addressing these activities thanks to automatic collision free motion and path planning.
The product workbench provides highly-efficient path planning commands for collision-free path planning to facilitate design, serviceability and manufacturability studies resulting in time savings due to faster computation times and improved quality of the planned path.
In the following example using DPM Path Planner on the well known screen wiper disassembly scenario, the user wants to find a collision-free path between the mounted position and the dismounted position.

The dismounted position is specified thanks to a move activity (DPM Assembly) or a track (DMU Fitting).

 Clicking on the Path Planner icon, the user chooses the desired clearance he needs around the obstacles before launching the automatic search.
As a result, the user finally gets a collision-free move activity or track for inserting or removing the screen wiper mechanism from the assembly. All the features related to a move activity or a track remain available, for example the swept volume computation as shown below.

Beyond the user friendliness of DMU / DPM Path Planner as demonstrated here, the time required for the overall operation (less than two minutes on this scenario) constitutes another strength of the technology breakthrough.

Visualize the scenario by watching the video.

For further information, please contact your Delmia representative www.delmia.com or your Kineo CAM representative www.kineocam.com

Dassault Systèmes and IBM Announce Version 5 Release 17 of their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Portfolio
Collaborative innovation from concept through manufacturing

Dassault Systèmes and IBM announced the release of Version 5 Release 17 (V5R17) of their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) portfolio, comprised of CATIA for collaborative product development, ENOVIA VPLM and ENOVIA SMARTEAM for collaborative lifecycle management. Dassault Systèmes also announced DELMIA V5R17 for virtual production and its V5R17 PLM sourcing solutions (Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing - CES) for ENOVIA VPLM. V5R17 delivers on DS and IBM’s PLM strategy for business process optimization, value chain innovation, engineering to manufacturing cycle streamlining, intellectual capital growth and standards adoption.

“V5R17’s unique virtual community enables integration between stakeholders in the product development chain, facilitating the reuse and sharing of knowledge,” noted Dominique Florack, executive vice-president, Strategy and R&D, Dassault Systèmes. “V5R17 delivers unequalled benefits for manufacturing and sourcing to all industries, while expanding coverage of engineering processes. V5R17 extends V5 openness, offering major XML enhancements through its combined 3-DXML and Web services strategy, for large deployments in our customers’ ecosystems.”

Walter Donaldson, General Manager, Product Lifecycle Management, IBM, said, “Leveraging product information to align product development processes with business strategy is a key challenge for our customers. V5R17 reinforces our ability to help customers grow their businesses by deploying innovative solutions that drive efficiency, productivity and overall success in the marketplace. IBM’s breadth of business transformation skills, SOA infrastructure, middleware, hardware and services combine perfectly with V5R17 to deliver on the promise of enterprise-level PLM and improve the entire business operation.”

"We recognize that DELMIA has introduced a paradigm shift with the latest release. As a Body-in-White planner, the new possibilities in resource and layout planning are very interesting for me. With these, DELMIA closes the loop between early product evaluation and process planning - where we already use DELMIA in production - and resource oriented capacity planning, in context, with the manufacturing layout. With selected suppliers, we are currently evaluating the benefits that we would get in deploying the new release," said Holger Schanz, Teamleader Digital Body-in-White Planning DaimlerChrysler.

V5R17 Brand Highlights: for detailed V5R17 brand information, visit http://www.3ds.com/V5R17 or http://www.ibm.com/software/plm
CATIA V5R17 boosts innovation for product excellence - CATIA V5R17 extends end-to-end industry process coverage through major enhancements in 3-D electrical harness flattening, and the increased efficiency of CATIA Machining NC programming and simulation. This significantly reduces overall manufacturing process time. New core styling enhancements allow for rapid exploration of design ideas while permitting last-minute styling modifications. Design productivity is significantly improved with a breakthrough auto-filleting capability that enables automotive powertrain and chassis designers to dramatically save time. ENOVIA’s key enhancements in the VPM Navigator and in the VPLM/SMARTEAM reconciliation capabilities foster relational design and concurrent working across the extended enterprise. CATIA V5R17 extends the 3-D master approach with new capabilities, enabling the fast and convenient display of tolerances and annotations in a familiar drawing layout within the 3-D environment. 3-D XML now includes automation support, finite elements analysis (FEA) results and materials rendering.

ENOVIA VPLM V5R17 extends the power of collaboration with integrated PLM sourcing.
In V5R17 Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing (CES)[1] combines engineering and sourcing functions into one collaborative desktop environment, enabling design for supply, parts reuse and obsolescence management early on and throughout the product lifecycle. The new release enhances versioning and embeds advanced effectivity and configuration management in VPM Navigator, dramatically improving designer productivity. V5R17’s
ad-hoc review and dynamic approval capabilities provide more flexible business process support, allowing an organization to respond more rapidly to the demands of global collaboration and competition. Broader utilization and proliferation of 3-D XML data leverages and extends the power of 3-D beyond engineering communities.

ENOVIA SMARTEAM V5R17 accelerates product development collaboration across the engineering chain V5R17 adds breakthrough flexibility to product structure management, significantly accelerating engineering processes across disciplines. Out-of-the-box Express packages cost-effectively drive rapid PLM adoption and immediate ROI for SMBs. V5R17’s best-in-class CATIA V5 integration and reconciliation deliver greater robustness, optimizing design collaboration and OEM-supplier interaction. With a newly designed Web user interface that optimizes the user experience, V5R17 extends collaborative benefits to remote users. Enriched support for digital mock-up, 3-D XML and security enhancements further foster enterprise knowledge-sharing and decision-making. Latest CAD certifications maximize collaborative engineering scenarios for multi-CAD organizations.

Pushing Performance to New Levels

For users in the most demanding design and engineering environments, there is no such thing as too much power, too much expandability in a workstation. They constantly push the limits of the available technology until they scream, bend and break. For these power users, the very latest generation of Intel® Dual-Core workstations offers the next major step in performance advantage.

The Intel dual-core, 64-bit architecture features two separate processing cores on each processor and much faster I/O throughput with higher bandwidth and faster front-side buses. The latest Intel 5100X chipset featured in HP’s new HP xw8400 workstation offers up to two Dual Core Intel Xeon® processors (5100 Sequence), with up to 1333 MHz front side buses and 4 MB shared L2 cache per processor, and is certified for CATIA V5.

This unmatched processing power is mated to a highly expandable memory architecture with 8 DIMM slots for up to 32 GB of ECC registered, four-channel DDR 667 MHz, fully buffered memory. As the DIMM technology becomes available some time in 2007, this can expand to as much as 64 GB. This will make it hard for even the most aggressive power user to create out-of-memory errors – even with their largest assemblies and most complex models.

HP also offers a choice of operating systems to suit your immediate needs, including Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional in 32- and 64-bit editions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux® WS 4 (64-bit), or if you prefer to set up your own custom Linux image, you can opt for the HP Installer Kit for Linux – all while keeping HP as your single source of award winning support*.

The HP xw8400 workstation also offers plenty of storage and hardware expandability with five internal hard drive bays, three optical bays, three PCI Express slots, three PCI-X and one legacy PCI slot. The new xw8400 gives you the room you need to grow and adapt.

Graphics performance has long been a strength of HP’s workstation offerings, and the HP xw8400 is no exception. Thanks to HP’s unique relationship with leading graphics suppliers like NVIDIA and ATI, HP is able to offer the most power, most reliable and most stable graphics solutions on the market such as the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 and Quadro FX 4500 or the ATI FireGL V7200. Choose between a variety of solutions that suit your needs – from professional 2D cards to the most powerful 3-D solutions. And thanks to HP’s close relationship with Dassault Systèmes, you can rest assure that the graphics cards in your HP workstations are fully tested, certified and optimized for your CATIA applications.

Finally, HP empowers you with a number of user-relevant innovations to help you get the most out of your technology, including the exclusive HP Performance Tuning Framework and HP Cool Tools. The Framework helps you optimize and maintain your workstation for reliable and robust performance and comes pre-loaded on the HP xw8400 and other HP workstations. Cool Tools provides quick and easy access to a suite of HP Web pages that address specific implementation, maintenance and support issues.

So if you are constantly looking to test the limits of workstation performance or your projects always seem to be pushing your workstation beyond its limits, consider the HP xw8400 workstation and see just how far those limits can be.

*HP recently won the J.D. Power and Associates Certified Technology Service and Support award, as well as a spot on the Association of Support Professionals (ASP) “Ten Best Web Support Sites of 2006.”

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Dassault Systèmes Reports Excellent Second Quarter With Revenue, Operating Margin and EPS Above Targets
Dassault Systèmes reported financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006.

Second Quarter Highlights

• GAAP total revenue up 29% to €280.0 million; GAAP software revenue up 32% to €238.0 million; GAAP EPS of €0.25
• Non-GAAP total revenue up 32% to €286.0 million (up 33% in constant currencies);
• Non-GAAP software revenue up 35% to €244.0 million, (up 36% in constant currencies); excluding ABAQUS and MatrixOne, Non-GAAP software revenue up 16% (17% in constant currencies)
• Non-GAAP EPS up 12% to €0.37 on operating margin of 24.5%
• MatrixOne achieves break-even in first period following acquisition
• Non-GAAP PLM revenue up 35% (36% in constant currencies)
• DS raises 2006 EPS and constant currency revenue growth objectives; reconfirms 2006 operating margin objective

Bernard Charlès, Dassault Systèmes President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “DS had a great second quarter, with revenue, earnings and operating margin coming in above our objectives. Software revenue increased 36% in constant currencies on broad-based strength, with CATIA results providing a solid foundation. The strong performance of our sales organization and partners, including IBM, business partners and the SolidWorks channel, contributed to this excellent quarter.

“We continue to see good dynamics for our business in Asia, where revenues increased 49% in constant currencies for the second quarter. In particular, the level of interest in PLM remains high in Asia and we see this continuing as evidenced by record attendance at our major user conferences in Japan and China in July.

“In summary, DS is very well positioned for growth in 2006 and the coming years as the leading provider in PLM, which is mission critical for product development performance and innovation. We have continued to gain market share in the first half of 2006 and with our recent acquisitions of both ABAQUS and MatrixOne we are further expanding our addressable market. Working together with our customers and partners, we expect to continue to extend the value PLM brings to multiple industries.”

Thibault de Tersant, Executive Vice President and CFO of Dassault Systèmes, commented, “MatrixOne is delivering on all of our acquisition objectives. MatrixOne’s performance exceeded our targets and it is already at break-even in its first period of operation as a part of Dassault Systèmes. And our plans to achieve cost savings are solidly on track.”

Second Quarter Financial Results

Dassault Systèmes completed the acquisition of ABAQUS, Inc. in October 2005 and MatrixOne Inc. in May 2006, and has accounted for these acquisitions pursuant to U.S. GAAP (hereinafter GAAP) purchase accounting rules. Certain supplementary information is provided in this press release which is not in conformity with GAAP. See tables for a reconciliation of 2006 and 2005 second quarter and six month GAAP and Non-GAAP financial data.

Revenue

GAAP Revenue Discussion
Revenue growth reflected broad-based strength across DS software applications. GAAP total revenue increased 29% to €280.0 million for the 2006 second quarter, compared to €217.3 million in the year-ago quarter. GAAP software revenue increased 32% to €238.0 million in the recently completed quarter.

Service and other revenue increased 15% to €42.0 million in the 2006 second quarter, compared to €36.4 million in the 2005 second quarter.

Non-GAAP Revenue Discussion
In the 2006 second quarter, total revenue increased 32% to €286.0 million and increased 33% in constant currencies compared to the year-ago period on strong growth in software revenue. Software revenue in the 2006 second quarter increased 35% to €244.0 million and increased 36% in constant currencies. Excluding ABAQUS and MatrixOne, software revenue increased 17% in constant currencies on broad strength. In the 2005 second quarter, software revenue was €180.9 million. Software and service revenue represented 85% and 15% respectively of Non-GAAP total revenue in the 2006 second quarter. New CATIA and SolidWorks seats licensed increased 15% to 20,485 seats in the 2006 second quarter, compared to 17,755 in the year-ago period.

For the 2006 second quarter, PLM revenue increased 35% to €229.9 million, and increased 36% in constant currencies, up from €170.7 million in the year-ago quarter. ENOVIA revenue increased 88% and 90% in constant currencies, and excluding MatrixOne, ENOVIA revenue grew 19% in constant currencies. Underlying the strong growth of PLM was CATIA, with a good level of activity. In particular, CATIA seats licensed increased 12% to 9,100 in the 2006 second quarter.

ABAQUS had a solid quarter with revenue of €23.2 million and MatrixOne’s revenue totaled €17.8 million, both before the impact of the deferred revenue write-downs required under GAAP purchase accounting treatment. ABAQUS and MatrixOne software applications are included in PLM results.

SolidWorks revenue increased 20% to €56.1 million and increased 22% in constant currencies in the recently completed quarter, compared to €46.6 million in the 2005 second quarter. SolidWorks seats licensed increased 19% to 11,385 licenses for the second quarter.

From a regional perspective, 2006 second quarter revenue in Europe increased 35%, in the Americas it increased 20% (19% in constant currencies) and in Asia, revenue increased 42% (49% in constant currencies).

Operating Income and Margin and EPS

GAAP earnings per diluted share decreased 22% to €0.25 in the 2006 second quarter, compared to €0.32 in the year-ago period. GAAP operating income decreased 9% to €49.7 million (17.8% operating margin) in the 2006 second quarter, compared to €54.7 million in the 2005 second quarter (25.2% operating margin).
Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share increased 12% to €0.37 in the 2006 second quarter, up from €0.33 in the 2005 second quarter. Non-GAAP operating income increased 27% to €70.2 million in the 2006 second quarter, compared to €55.2 million in the year-ago quarter. The Non-GAAP operating margin was 24.5% in the 2006 second quarter, ahead of the Company’s stated objective. This was a solid performance compared to the Non-GAAP operating margin of 25.4% in the year-ago quarter, given the dilution from recent acquisitions.

Other financial highlights

Net operating cash flow was €63.7 million and €164.9 million for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006, respectively. At June 30, 2006, cash and short-term investments totaled €473.5 million and long-term debt was €202.9 million. In May 2006, DS finalized the acquisition of MatrixOne Inc. for an all cash purchase price of $410 million in aggregate, before reflecting a cash balance of U.S. $93 million and estimated tax benefits.

Second quarter customer highlights included, among others:

• DS is announced that Airbus is standardizing product development processes on CATIA and ENOVIA VPLM for all new programs.
• DS is announced that Ford Motor Company has extended its multi-year contract, which designates CATIA V5 as the global design and engineering standard for all new vehicle and powertrain systems development.
• New PLM wins and reorders included Legrand in E&E (electrical and electronics), Viking in Consumer goods, Mecasonic and Tokyu Car in F&A, the Quai Branly Museum, Keylex in Automotive and Kaji Metal in Aerospace.
• ENOVIA MatrixOne closed 18 transactions in the Semiconductor sector, including significant orders from Qualcomm and Agere, and expanded its presence in the apparel sector with Luxottica and Quiksilver.
• SolidWorks wins included Fuji Xerox Co. in E&E in Japan, and in F&A, Comact Equipment in Canada, Hoffman Enclosures in the United States, Knipex in Germany and Metal Saur in Brazil.

DS completed the acquisition of MatrixOne ahead of schedule and introduced its PLM Collaborative Environment Portfolio

On May 11, 2006, DS announced the completion of the acquisition of MatrixOne Inc. and the introduction of its new PLM Collaborative Environment portfolio under the ENOVIA brand name.

• ENOVIA VPLM – 3-D Collaborative Virtual Product Lifecycle Management of highly complex product, resource and manufacturing processes in medium and large extended enterprises.
• ENOVIA MatrixOne – Collaborative Product Development business processes for enterprises across a wide range of industries, and including Synchronicity for semiconductor design data management.
• ENOVIA SMARTEAM – Collaborative Product Data Management for small and mid-sized enterprises, engineering departments of larger organizations, and across supply chains.

Cash dividend approved by shareholders at Annual Shareholders’ Meeting

At the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held on June 14, 2006, DS’ shareholders approved the payment of an annual cash dividend equivalent to €0.42 per share, representing €48 million in the aggregate, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005.

Strategy, Technology, Customers and Partnerships

In June, DS unveiled its V5 SOA strategy, demonstrating the Company’s commitment to extend the benefits of PLM solutions to new markets as well as new types of users and communities. V5 SOA is the cornerstone for DS and its partners to deliver fully collaborative PLM services on demand. V5 SOA is the technical foundation for DS’ PLM brands and partners’ solutions moving forward, designed to bridge the gap between PLM solutions and existing enterprise middleware.

DS introduced ENOVIA 3-D Live beta version, the first 3-D Collaborative Intelligence solution, exploiting DS V5 SOA architecture for online applications.

Via an intuitive interface, ENOVIA 3-D Live enables any individual to instantly search and navigate any PLM information, regardless of location, source or format.

SolidWorks unveiled SolidWorks 2007, powered by revolutionary “SWIFT™” technology.

In addition to more than 200 new features, this latest version of the leading 3-D CAD software introduces SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology (“SWIFT™”), which for the first time puts expert-level techniques for 3-D CAD's most challenging design operations in the hands of every user.

ENOVIA MatrixOne announced the latest updates to the MatrixOne Medical Device Accelerator.

The MatrixOne MDA manages Quality System Regulation/ISO-regulated design processes, projects, documents and data, and is the only medical device-tailored solution built on an enterprise-class PLM platform that has been proven effective at the industry’s top three device manufacturers.

First Half 2006 Financial Summary

• GAAP total revenue of €532.1 million, up 28% as reported for first half
• Non-GAAP total revenue of €542.0 million, up 30% and 29% in constant currencies
• Non-GAAP revenue excluding ABAQUS and MatrixOne up 14% in constant currencies
• GAAP software revenue of €451.1 million, up 30%
• Non-GAAP software revenue of €461.0 million, up 32% and 31% in constant currencies
• Non-GAAP software revenue excluding ABAQUS and MatrixOne up 17% and up 16% in constant currencies
• GAAP EPS of €0.51; Non-GAAP EPS up 20% to €0.71 with operating margin of 24.1%

Business Outlook

Thibault de Tersant, Executive Vice President and CFO, stated, “Business activity was strong in the second quarter and we continue to see stronger activity for the second half despite some potential signs of softening of the economic environment globally. Therefore, on a constant currency basis, we are raising our 2006 revenue growth objective to about 27-28%, compared to our previous assumption of 25-26%, reflecting higher expected activity of about €15 million for the full year, including the second quarter overachievement. At the same time, we are reconfirming our operating margin objective and increasing our EPS objective slightly.

“Due to the volatile currency environment, we believe it is prudent to update our exchange rate assumptions for the US dollar and Japanese yen. The higher activity level expected for the full year and more conservative currency assumptions largely offset each other on a reported revenue basis.”

• Third quarter Non-GAAP total revenue of about €280-285 million, Non-GAAP EPS of about €0.33-0.34 and Non-GAAP operating margin of about 22.0%
• 2006 Non-GAAP total revenue objective of about €1.175-1.185 billion, representing 27-28% growth in constant currencies
• 2006 Non-GAAP operating margin of about 27.0%
• 2006 Non-GAAP EPS of about €1.77-1.79; +11-13% growth
• Objectives based upon US$1.30 (previously US$1.25) per €1.00 and JPY 145 (previously JPY 140) per €1.00 exchange rate assumptions for the third and fourth quarters of 2006.

Endnotes:

• All comparative figures are given on a year-over-year basis unless specified otherwise. All EPS figures refer to fully diluted earnings per share, unless otherwise noted.
• All financial information is unaudited and reported in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP). Additional financial information is also presented that is not in conformity with U.S. GAAP, in particular the presentation of revenue before deferred revenue write-downs, and operating income, operating margin and earnings per share before deferred revenue write-downs and excluding acquisition costs (acquisition costs are primarily comprised of technology and other acquired intangible assets amortization in addition to other acquisition-related costs) and share-based compensation expenses. The Company believes this information, which is not in conformity with U.S. GAAP, is helpful supplemental information in order to better understand its past and future performance. In addition, the Company’s management uses this information in its planning. This information provided by the Company may not be comparable to similarly titled measures employed by other companies. The Company has provided in the tables to this press release and on its Web site http://www.3ds.com/corporate/investors/ reconciliations between U.S. GAAP and Non-GAAP figures.
• The Company uses constant currency revenue growth to evaluate its financial performance in comparison to prior periods and as a measure of expected growth in planning and setting objectives for future periods. The Company believes this measure is an important indicator of the Company’s progress and outlook because it provides a better gauge of the level of change in the business activity as it eliminates any changes arising from currency fluctuations. The Company believes the presentation of this measure is relevant and useful for investors because it allows investors to view revenue growth in a manner similar to the method used by the Company’s management, helps improve investors’ ability to understand the Company’s revenue growth, and makes it easier to compare the Company’s results with other companies, including competitors, whose reporting currency may be different from Dassault Systèmes. Constant currency revenue growth, as calculated by the Company, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures employed by other companies.

CAD Translations … No Problem

• Do you translate CAD data you receive from external sources? 
• Do you send out CAD data in varying formats? 
• Do you share CAD data with other CAD or CAM systems? 
• Do you receive poor quality IGES/STEP files and spend valuable time cleaning up these models?

The issues related to translating 3-D geometry between proprietary CAD formats or neutral formats like IGES & STEP have plagued the CAD industry since its inception and continues to affect quality and productivity levels today.

Elysium Inc. would like to take this opportunity to show you how we can solve your CAD interoperability problems. We have a range of software products for the translation of 3-D geometry from one native format to another, a product suite for the translation of parametric/feature-based data between all the major CAD systems, and technology for the healing and repair of data during the translation process.

CENIT. Your Consulting and Software Partner

CENIT has been a consultancy and software specialist for the optimisation of business processes in product lifecycle management, enterprise content management and application management outsourcing since 1988.

CENIT has become one of the leading consultancy and software companies for product lifecycle management (PLM) in co-operation with its partners Dassault Systèmes and SAP. The services range from the selection of suitable PLM software, process chain consultancy and the introduction of PLM solutions for the customer to comprehensive service solutions

The development of the company is supported by its success in application management outsourcing, in which CENIT operates critical company applications relating to PLM or ECM for customers. Well-known customers such as BMW, Allianz, Mann+Hummel, VW and medium-sized enterprises have been using CENIT’s application management expertise for years.

CENIT is headquartered in Germany (Stuttgart), where it is present in all the major cities. It also has a branch near Detroit to cater for the American market. CENIT is also represented in Switzerland.

PLM is not a simple application but rather a whole strategy which integrates existing CAD applications with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and solutions for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM). The goal is the achievement of shorter development times while retaining high product quality.

In addition, processes optimised in line with product development can avoid expensive failures and replanning in production. Only a PLM solution that is professionally integrated into the business processes can achieve rationalisation effects of more than 35%.

Being SAP and ENOVIA development partner, CENIT is your integration partner for complete PLM projects and ENOVIA implementations. Especially in these areas, CENIT has great experience in more then 100 projects during many years. This technology knowledge helped our customers to introduce a PLM system successfully.

Product Lifecycle Management is already well established in the automotive industry in which suppliers manufacture more than 80% of the total product. In this industry the link to IT systems beyond the confines of the company is virtually the order of the day. And the automobile supply industry has not got any other choice but to follow as the supplier companies now see the overall picture, not only a fraction of the end product.

Thus they can influence development online, which results in considerable cost reductions through the lack of changes. The creation of cost and time-intensive prototypes is virtually superfluous.
This is where CATIA, ENOVIA, SMARTEAM, DELMIA and the CENIT services can demonstrate their superiority. 

These solutions form a significant part of the development and production process for many companies in the automotive industry globally. The implementation of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an important strategic decision for many companies.

In the context of Product Lifecycle Management it is professional implementation that counts. Only in this way is it possible to achieve the required optimisation potential. After all, PLM is not simply an individual application but rather a strategy, which integrates existing CAD applications with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and solutions for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM).

The goal is the achievement of shorter development times while retaining high product quality. In addition, processes optimised in line with product development can avoid expensive failures and replanning in production. Only a PLM solution that is professionally integrated into the business processes can achieve rationalisation effects of more than 35%.

This requires PLM consultants such as CENIT,  which can generate a link between the digital business and the real production world. Consultation and the provision of PLM experience is thus the major task – processes are looked at from outside, redesigned and optimised. The consultants actively push ahead implementation.

The result: considerably shorter innovation cycles and tremendous cost savings, which by far outweigh the investment costs of a PLM project.
Apart from the specialised PLM consultation, other services naturally also play an important role These range from the classic IT consulting to outsourcing, software development, systems management and training.

These days a plane initially flies loops in the heads of engineers, then on the computer and, only at the very end, does it actually fly in the air. While working on the virtual model, the decision can quickly be made whether holes for rivets are planned at the right spots or whether there is sufficient room under the cabin floor for the mighty cable harnesses.

There are various reasons why new airplanes can be produced increasingly cheaply: new materials reduce weight and interior fittings can be accurately planned and adapted on the computer. Another important factor is that the construction engineers involved have constant access to all data, be they internal or external. Completely in line with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), this saves time and costs. Furthermore, failures can be counteracted right from the start.

Solutions

CATIA Version 5 is a cornerstone for the integration of employees, methods, resources and tools within a company. The software has developed to become the market leading CAD/CAM/CAE tool. Thanks to leading CAD technologies, products are simply constructed and simulated. Through changes directly on the digital model, there is nothing to hinder an optimisation of construction and production processes. More than 13,000 clients have already made their decision in favour of CATIA. 

The CAD/CAE evolution of recent years has resulted in a widespread integration of all areas involved in the product development process. In so doing, the focus is on Product Lifecycle Management. The benefits of CATIA V5 at a glance:

• Higher level of competitiveness
• Recording and reuse of company knowledge
• User-friendliness
• Use of state-of-the-art technologies
• Utilisation of the existing working environment
  

ENOVIA supports a cooperative product development across the company – in line with the holistic Product Lifecycle Management. The solutions comprise all elements of a digital company: from the consolidated presentation and analysis of product data to the knowledge of this information and through to the processes to design the products. Management, documentation and the provision of the entire product knowledge lead to a maximum of flexibility in product innovation.

The ENOVIA solutions are based on the following foundations:

• Adaptable, scalable information system
• Effective data management system with workflow support
• Role-based Product Lifecycle Management applications
• Opportunities for global access to support decisions
• Link of product information with production processes and resources.

Five reasons why ENOVIA V5 leads to greater productivity, to the optimisation of products and processes and to the improvement of efficiency of the entire organisation.

CENIT is an official ENOVIA development and consulting partner. CENIT has many years of experience in projects with ENOVIA VPM for CATIA V4 and CATIA V5 for example at customers like TRW, Webasto or Johnson Controls. Talk to us when it comes to integrate your ENOVIA system into SAP. We realized successful projects for example at EADS and Westland Helicopters.

In addition, CENIT is the official Dassault Systèmes partner for integration of Boeing suppliers regarding ENOVIA LCA. Also, CENIT has competence to integrate your ENOVIA system into DELMIA.

The range of requirements in Product Lifecycle Management toward producers is increasing constantly due to globalisation. Cost pressure, brief development and time-to-market periods, new production technologies and ever more complex products require an optimisation and stringent pursuit of business goals in all areas of the business.

To meet these requirements DELMIA developed a product portfolio adapted precisely to PLM and that is based on the V5 infrastructure. DELMIA comprises solutions for the design, simulation, optimisation, control and monitoring of production procedures. This combination enables an optimum implementation and an efficient ongoing development of production processes. The advantages are:

• Cost savings through significant process optimisation
• Significant savings through the shift from real to virtual processes
• Optimisation of time planning for strategies such as lean construction, time-to-market and delivery reliability
• Consistent associativity enables quicker and more sustained learning effects and reuse of knowledge (Knowledgeware)
• Interface issues are a thing of the past
• Rapid reaction through consistent timely and up-to-date data structures
• Data conformity in line with the requirements of the OEM
• Investment and planning security through one-stop solutions

CENIT is an official Dassault Systèmes Premier Partner and Certified Education Partner.