IBM and Dassault Systemes Announce CATIA Version 5 Release 9

Latest Release of PLM Product Engineering Solutions Enables Unparalleled Innovation and Efficiency with Breakthrough Product Morphing

IBM and Dassault Systemes announced the availability of CATIA Version 5 Release 9 (V5R9), the leading three-dimensional product life cycle management (3D PLM) solution for product design, creation, simulation and optimization.

As part of the global 3D PLM offering, CATIA V5R9 represents a major milestone in the PLM space by delivering the set of business practices for breakthrough product morphing. Available worldwide on July 26, 2002, CATIA V5R9 delivers a total of 129 products - 11 new products and over major 87 product enhancements - for unparalleled product design.

"Product morphing" is a set of state-of-the-art business practices enabled by CATIA V5's unique knowledgeware, relational design, process integration and PPR infrastructure, which automatically combine existing design definitions and/or templates, with new specifications to drive the regeneration of fully-engineered derivative product definitions. By maximizing reuse of existing knowledge and experience, morphing gives customers the ability to reduce cycle times and increase their market responsiveness.

"The difference between success and failure in new products is more and more dependent on their innovation content." said Dominique Florack, Executive Vice President of Dassault Systemes. "The paradox in today's development processes is that most of the money and effort is invested revisiting decisions that were made for previous programs. Struggling for percentage improvements does not solve this paradox. Morphing-based processes eliminate this redundancy, leveraging digital knowledge models that adapt to new specifications and automate routine decision-making. Since knowledgeware is natively implemented within the V5 infrastructure, we now can work seriously with customers on turning dreams such as the "one-year car" into a reality."

CATIA V5R9 Major Highlights

CATIA V5R9 offers a wide range of new capabilities to make product morphing a reality and to significantly improve the efficiency of product design and simulation across engineering processes:

• Major enhancements to 87 products for design and manufacturing process definition in areas such as cast, forged, and molded parts, and automotive body-in-white.
• Eleven new applications providing expanded process coverage for the consumer goods, industrial machinery, aerospace, industrial equipment systems, and shipbuilding sectors.
• Enhanced relational design methodology and support of collaborative multi-CAD product development processes.
• New product, process, resource (PPR) technologies to strengthen CATIA-ENOVIA integration and improve the interaction between numerical control (NC) manufacturing processes and product design definitions.
• New capabilities to maximize knowledge capture and reuse through system- and subsystem-level design templates.
• Extended openness within the 3D PLM space with a total of 18 third-party V5 applications.

Value for the Customer

CATIA V5 is the product-engineering solution offered within the 3D PLM portfolio. 3D PLM enables companies to optimize their business Processes for engineering, manufacturing, maintenance and support, using Collaborative Workspaces to share a common product, process and resource model (PPR). With PPR, companies can capture, share and reuse Knowledge throughout the product lifecycle. The open CAA (Component Application Architecture) V5 allows extension of this solution to - and integration within - multiple enterprise environments.

Process-Centric

CATIA V5R9 accelerates reengineering and optimization of primary industry processes such as automotive body-in-white, cast, forged, and molded parts by providing 87 major application enhancements to part design, drafting, analysis, tolerance management, and generative shape design. All product design improvements are based on a specification-driven, or "generative" approach, and enable customers to rapidly create new products, explore variants, and manage design changes within a digital product morphing environment.

Eleven new applications extend process coverage in the consumer goods, industrial machinery, aerospace, industrial equipment systems, and shipbuilding domains. CATIA V5R9's Healing Assistant 1 product, for example, delivers increased reliability with improved topology and geometric accuracy for imported mold parts. Weld Design 1 completes the fabrication and assembly process for industrial machinery. Tubing Diagrams 2 provides specification-driven system processes that link logical and physical design for automotive and aerospace customers. Finally, Aerospace Sheetmetal Design 3 provides dedicated design capabilities for hydro-pressed and break-formed sheetmetal parts.

3D Collaborative Workspace

CATIA V5R9 offers improved collaboration and change management throughout the enterprise by linking product knowledge within relational design methodology. For instance, the ability to share design parameters by explicit publication at any level of a product structure facilitates collaboration, captures design intent by defining the interface, and provides automatic reconciliation of parameters and dependent geometry or constraints during component replacement or version update.

This latest release also provides enhanced capabilities for working with multi-CAD data, thereby facilitating collaboration within a heterogeneous environment. Other improvements include standard interfaces, consistent parts catalog management with TeamPDM 1, the new Healing Assistant 1 product, and V4 integration enhancements.

PPR

New PPR reconciliation technologies make a company's PLM environment more flexible by permitting file-based CATIA projects to be integrated with ENOVIA at any time. CATIA V5R9 supports virtual product data management by reinforcing the combined use of CATIA and ENOVIA through standardized parts catalogs and integration of concurrent digital mock-up (DMU) application data around a common PPR model. CATIA V5R9 improves interaction between NC manufacturing applications and product design definitions to facilitate rapid change propagation.

Knowledge

By enabling the capture and reuse of predefined product design templates, CATIA V5R9 acts as the cornerstone for full morphing implementation. System-wide knowledge specifications now extend from simple features to the entire assembly level, thereby expanding the opportunities for development of automated, "morphable", designs. The application of product morphing has been shown to deliver design time and costs reductions of 50 percent or more in project critical processes by factors not previously achieved.

CAA V5

Thirty-one key players in various areas of PLM expertise support the open nature of CATIA V5R9 and its underlying architecture, which includes analysis and simulation, electrical, and manufacturing processes, and such specialized fields as optical design. With unparalleled development speed and quality, these partners have built a total of 18, ready-to-use V5 applications focused on accelerating product design, simulation and NC manufacturing for the customer. CATIA users have been able to benefit directly from the native integration and consistent performance afforded by these V5 applications.

IBM and Dassault Systemes Announce ENOVIA Version 5 Release 9

Latest Release of PLM Decision Support and Life Cycle Management Solutions Enables Unparalleled Innovation and Efficiency with Breakthrough Product Morphing

IBM and Dassault Systemes announced the availability of ENOVIA Version 5 Release 9 (V5R9). Building on the industry's most comprehensive solution for end-to-end 3D product life cycle management (3D PLM), this latest release paves the way for innovative virtual product development management (VPDM) through unique CATIA and strong multi-CAX integration. As part of the global 3D PLM offering, ENOVIA V5R9 represents a major milestone in the PLM space by delivering the set of business practices for breakthrough product morphing. Available worldwide on July 26, 2002, ENOVIA V5R9 delivers a total of 89 products for unparalleled product development.

"Product morphing" is a set of state-of-the-art business practices enabled by ENOVIA V5's unique knowledgeware, relational design, process integration and PPR infrastructure, which automatically combine existing design definitions and/or templates, with new specifications to drive the regeneration of fully-engineered derivative product definitions. By maximizing reuse of existing knowledge and experience, morphing gives customers the ability to reduce cycle times and increase their market responsiveness.

"ENOVIA V5R9 delivers breakthrough product development and decision support capabilities that have been extensively validated with leading customers, and extend our position as an innovation provide," said Joel Lemke, Chief Executive Officer, ENOVIA Corp. "These new capabilities further take advantage of the knowledge that is created in the development of complex products for reuse in new designs, while still in the virtual world, to significantly enhance the quality, validity, and timeliness of bringing these new products to market. The result for our customers is the delivery of products that are "right to market" in substantially reduced elapsed time."

ENOVIA V5R9 Major Highlights

ENOVIA V5R9 offers a wide range of new capabilities to make product morphing a reality and to significantly improve VPDM deployment throughout the supply chain:

• Enriched support of VPDM processes, including relational design, design-in-context, and clash management
• Support for new and enhanced "out-of-the-box" best practices, including process flow control and optimization, and product simulation using kinematics and analysis data
• Improved functions for accessing and sharing VPDM information across the supply chain
• Complete product variation management through sophisticated configuration control capability
• New process, product, resource (PPR) multiCAD hubbing facilities for enhanced interoperability

Value for the Customer

ENOVIA provides decision support and lifecycle management solutions within the 3D PLM portfolio. 3D PLM enables companies to optimize their business Processes for engineering, manufacturing, maintenance and support, using web-based Collaborative Workspaces to share a common product, process and resource model (PPR). With PPR, companies can capture, share and reuse Knowledge throughout the product life cycle. The open CAA (Component Application Architecture) V5 allows extension of this solution to - and integration within - multiple enterprise environments.

Process-centric

From a process-centric perspective, ENOVIA V5R9 focuses on providing enhanced relational design capability for accurate change and project analysis. This is achieved through consolidated process support for VPDM requirements, including reproducible product packaging and analysis, easier assembly management, assembly drawing management, and full analysis of design impacts.

ENOVIA V5R9 eases V5 deployment by extending CATIA V4-V5 transition support with the integration of design-in-context capabilities for CATIA V4-V5 environments. It also introduces new and enhanced "out-of-the-box" best practices for rapid decision-making and deployment in the areas of business process flow control, document management, clash reconstruction management, product simulation, and ergonomics and packaging.

The new Graphical Workflow Designer, for instance, provides managers with greater flexibility in defining improved enterprise business process templates. This product complies with workflow management coalition (WfMC) standards and is fully integrated with life cycle program management.

3D Collaborative Workspace

ENOVIA V5R9 leverages collaboration for the easier review and exchange of 3D information across co-engineering and partner communities in the enterprise. New capabilities for reviewing 2D documents, generating technical documentation, and working with ENOVIA consulting information off-line using "briefcases" considerably contribute to collaborative product development and manufacturing across the supply chain.

In ENOVIA V5R9, the use of 3D images for the sharing and understanding of product information is facilitated by the new Photo Studio Optimizer 2, which produces high-quality virtual product images for professional photography or filmmaking, and enhancements in environmental rendering and real-time shadowing.

PPR

ENOVIA V5R9 facilitates morphing through the modeling, centralization, and integration of PPR information across all 3D PLM brands and other CAD systems. The use of reference assembly configuration and relational design is increased with reusable structure templates and sub-assembly effectivities. In V5R9, the PPR allows for access to ENOVIA product configurations from within a DELMIA session. Finally, high-powered DMU management and design is enabled through extended multi-CAD capabilities in the ENOVIA Life Cycle Applications.

Knowledge

ENOVIA V5R9 creates a "learning enterprise" by providing full access to product and process information, experience, and enterprise methodologies, including enhanced capture and visualization of CATIA V5 knowledge. Enterprise cultures are further enriched through customisable ENOVIA Web-based Learning Solutions, which include best practices and related knowledge for developing enterprise-specific process learning.

CAA V5

ENOVIA V5R9 boasts superior flexibility in V5-based application development and customization by broadening middleware and platform use. Major enhancements include the new Java Dashboard product for creating WebSphere-compatible applications, capabilities for managing distributed data between "co-enterprises", improved coverage of VPDM functions on Windows NT platforms, and the modification of Web-based enterprise learning solutions with the Companion Development Studio.

Dassault Systemes Announces DELMIA Version 5 Release 9

Latest Release of 3D PLM Manufacturing Engineering Solutions Enables Unparalleled Innovation and Efficiency with Breakthrough Product Morphing

Dassault Systemes announced the launch of DELMIA Version 5 Release 9 (V5R9), the leading 3D product life cycle management (3D PLM) solution for manufacturing process planning, detailing, verification and simulation.

As part of the global 3D PLM offering, DELMIA V5R9 represents a major milestone in the PLM space by enabling breakthrough product morphing. DELMIA V5R9 will be available worldwide on July 26, 2002, with significant manufacturing process planning enhancements and a total of 130 products.

"Product morphing" is a set of state-of-the-art best practices enabled by DELMIA V5's unique knowledgeware, relational design, process integration and PPR infrastructure, which automatically combine existing design definitions and/or templates, with new specifications to drive the regeneration of fully-engineered derivative product definitions. By maximizing reuse of existing knowledge and experience, morphing gives customers the ability to reduce cycle times and increase their market responsiveness.

"DELMIA V5R9 is a major step in our PLM deliveries," says Philippe Charles, Chief Executive Officer, DELMIA Corp. "With a particular focus on the manufacturing processes coverage, V5R9 offers a more powerful 3D PLM collaborative workspace for the manufacturing community, driving innovation and productivity along the overall product development process in the industry."

DELMIA V5R9 Major Highlights

DELMIA V5R9 offers a wide range of new capabilities to make product morphing a reality, and lead the way to integrated manufacturing engineering:

• Date and range configuration mechanisms for manufacturing engineers working in the aerospace, shipbuilding, and defense industries
• Enhanced creation and management of numerical control (NC) manufacturing processes
• Geometric tools for improved collaboration between manufacturing and tooling design engineers
• Planning infrastructure improvements to leverage the reuse of existing manufacturing libraries in process planning and detailing

Value for the Customer

DELMIA provides solutions for manufacturing process planning, detailing, verification and simulation within the 3D PLM portfolio. 3D PLM enables companies to optimize their business Processes for engineering, manufacturing, maintenance and support, using Web-based Collaborative Workspaces to share a common product, process and resource model (PPR). With PPR, companies can capture, share and reuse Knowledge throughout the product lifecycle. The open CAA (Component Application Architecture) V5 allows extension of this solution to - and integration within - multiple enterprise environments.

Process-centric

DELMIA V5R9 application enhancements provide significant gains in productivity for manufacturing process planners and detailers. For example, DELMIA has extended the spot welding management and planning tools within the Digital Process for Manufacturing (DPM) Body in White application to include support for other types of point fasteners (such as stud welds, rivets, and screws), access to plans stored in process libraries, and cutting and pasting of plans between multiple documents.

This release includes 16 new products which expand process coverage in automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding and defense, heavy equipment, and consumer goods sectors. The new DPM Powertrain configuration, for instance, delivers planning capabilities for process planners involved in automotive powertrain part fabrication.

"With 16 new products and major enhancements leveraging the V5 technologies, the DELMIA V5R9 Release is yet another breakthrough in the adoption by DELMIA of the V5 architecture to better support Dassault Systemes' 3D PLM vision and strategy," said Pascal LECLAND, Executive Vice President Research and Development, DELMIA Corp. "The pervasive PPR access throughout the DELMIA Applications portfolio provides our customers with new and more efficient ways to morph their existing Process and Resource Intellectual Property to better help the Product Life Cycle maturation Process."

3D Collaborative Workspace

DELMIA V5R9 gives customers a more collaborative, multi-user environment by supporting date and unit-range effectivity control within manufacturing process planning. This type of collaboration is particularly critical for the aerospace defense and shipbuilding sectors.

Other significant enhancements include better functionality for accessing and filtering data, improved intelligent data locking, read-only modes and configuration, and effectivity control of simulation and process planning data. Additionally, the introduction of a set of geometric tools improves collaboration between manufacturing and tooling design engineers. With DELMIA V5R9, engineers can experiment with and resolve resource and design issues as they relate to manufacturing process planning, and communicate with engineers who have design responsibilities.

PPR

DELMIA V5R9 delivers enhanced DELMIA-ENOVIA integration and PPR infrastructure support, which collectively facilitate "planning-in-context" based on a unique PPR model. This release enables the filtering of information, including configurations, as well as date and range effectivity control on all PPR objects (once again, vital requirements for aerospace, defense, and shipbuilding domains).

Knowledge

DELMIA V5R9 allows manufacturing engineers to make better reuse of enterprise standard process libraries, which empowers the morphing of manufacturing processes during planning and detailing stages. Process planners and process detailers can easily access and share standard practices throughout the extended enterprise. This knowledge can then be shared with other users, thereby reducing development and verification efforts.

CAA V5

New interfaces within DELMIA V5R9 Robotic Workcell Layout & Sequencing provide additional support to software community program (SCP) partners developing CAA V5 applications for DELMIA.

IBM and SmarTeam Accelerate Collaborative PDM Strategy to Meet Growing Market Demand

IBM and Their Business Partners Become a Leading SMARTEAM Sales Channel Worldwide

IBM and SMARTEAM Corporation, a Dassault Systemes company, announced that they are enhancing their joint go-to-market strategy and accelerating sales, marketing and support activities through IBM's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) business unit.

As the partnership between both companies gains increased momentum, they are doubling their resources to address growing market demand for SMARTEAM Solutions. The result of IBM and their Business Partners becoming a leading SMARTEAM sales channel worldwide will reflect on customers whose needs will be addressed ever more effectively.

SMARTEAM Solutions, a core element of the IBM and Dassault Systemes PLM portfolio, provides customers with rapidly-implemented, totally customizable, and easy-to-use Windows and Web-centric PDM solutions that effectively enable collaboration between their teams, and throughout their extended enterprises and supply chains.

The expansion of IBM and Dassault Systemes' strategy towards collaborative PLM solutions drives the integration of SMARTEAM into the IBM and Dassault Systemes product portfolio as well as leveraging the PLM sales, marketing, consulting and support operations. As part of 3D PLM solutions, SMARTEAM will further leverage the V5 architecture contributing to deliver comprehensive solutions with ENOVIA and increased levels of integration with the CATIA product portfolio.

Herve Rolland, Vice President Collaborative Solutions, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, said, "As manufacturers focus on technologies to improve their product development, industry analysts report that the product lifecycle collaboration solutions market is growing at rates beyond 30 percent annually, making this one of the fastest growing segments in the industry. The need for comprehensive solutions continues to grow, leading us to expand our SMARTEAM-focused teams within IBM's PLM group in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Together, SMARTEAM and IBM respond to our customers' three primary needs: consistency across processes, strong reactivity (time savings) and flexibility both internally and with an extended supply chain."

"Reinforcing our collaboration with IBM is a significant step in our open multi-channel, multi-CAD strategy to bring the benefits of rapidly implementable, collaborative PDM solutions to broader markets. The full range of SMARTEAM solutions will further enable our customers to innovate, shorten time to market, reduce manufacturing costs and improve product value," said SMARTEAM chief executive officer, Avinoam Nowogrodski. "These are the key strategic components that set our partnership apart from the competition and that make our collaborative solutions the most competitive on the market."

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Ramping up to a Smart Product Lifecycle Platform

Cross-enterprise Collaboration is Key to Success

Product information exists in many forms: spreadsheets, handbooks, and formulas, but more often it appears as unwritten rules of thumb, intuition, insight, and experience. It's what companies refer to as "intellectual capital". It's the fruit of the collective labor of every designer, engineer, manager and shop floor worker whose efforts make a product a reality. SMARTEAM Corporation's goal is to supply you with innovative tools to leverage and manage this dispersed knowledge through cross-enterprise collaboration and to reduce critical product development time ensuring quicker time to market.

Effective Communication - The Heart of Good Business Practices

Unleashing the expertise of the people that make your products, means bringing them together around the development process. SMARTEAM's solutions provide a bridge to unite engineers and designers around the globe with real-time, Internet-based communication tools for viewing CAD models and related documents. SMARTEAM's industry-leading technologies create a cohesive enterprise: Your engineers can access corporate business data like parts costs and supplier profiles with SmartGateway, while managers track engineering projects through continuous and easily-achieved interaction via SmartFlow. With SmartBOM, everyone in the supply chain gets immediate access to the all-important Bill of Materials.

Global problems - Easy-to-Implement Solutions

Innovative and rapid product development has never been so critical. Today's increasing globalization and decentralization mean collaboration on virtual prototypes between your enterprise, subcontractors and the supply chain has never been so critical. SMARTEAM's response is to deliver advanced innovative tools enabling you to overcome the challenge of compressing cycle times and slashing costs with a comprehensive range of tailor-made solutions for managing huge volumes of data. Cost-effective, scalable, and easy to install and customize, SMARTEAM delivers world-class systems to give your enterprise an efficient and far-reaching advantage.

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