CATIA V5 and SMARTEAM at P&H Mining Equipment

P&H Mining Equipment has purchased CATIA v5 and SMARTEAM to replace their current CATIA v4 licenses and PDM. P&H is the global leader in heavy electric mining shovels. Because of the immense size of these machines the product synthesis capabilities; DMU, Kinematics, FEA, etc, was a key feature in the decision to move forward with Dassault products.

Bertrandt AG Selects Product Lifecycle Management Solution from IBM and Dassault Systèmes to Maximize Efficiency of Product Development Platform

IBM and Dassault Systèmes announced the signing of a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions contract with Bertrandt AG, a leading engineering services provider for the automotive industry.

Bertrandt selected an IBM PLM solution, with ENOVIA™ Life Cycle Applications (LCA) V5 for product data management, developed by Dassault Systèmes. IBM's Business Consulting Services (BCS), working with Dassault Systèmes, will support Bertrandt AG's efforts to standardize its entire product development platform, including integrating the ENOVIA solution with the company's existing CATIA® V5 product development platform.

IBM PLM solutions and Dassault Systèmes will enable Bertrandt to improve product design and reduce time-to-market for a variety of auto parts including the chassis, engine and electrical equipment for customers such as DaimlerChrysler, BMW, Ford, Volkswagen and Audi. Bertrandt's 3,100 employees will share design information in real time across the extended enterprise and with international partners and automotive manufacturing customers.

The implementation process will occur in several phases, gradually enabling Bertrandt to harness the benefits of the PLM platform. IBM BCS, working with Dassault Systèmes, will provide consulting, implementation, integration, and training for company-wide deployment of the solution and manage the project, ensuring consistent processes and methodologies across Bertrandt's various design and product-related departments and teams.

"Our integrated PLM solution from IBM and Dassault Systèmes enables us to simulate every aspect of the end-to-end development process for complete derivatives, including design support and manufacturing," said Bernhard Zechmann, Manager CAx Application Strategy, Bertrandt AG. "We now have numerous design tools in one powerful application and can improve designs and processes early in the development stage. We can share this knowledge with our automotive manufacturing customers in a common work environment, thus significantly optimizing workflow while achieving unequaled levels of quality."

"IBM helps customers transform into on demand businesses - by enabling them to become more highly responsive, focused, resilient and variable in ever-changing marketplaces," said Klaus Schaefer, vice president, IBM PLM EMEA. "By implementing our PLM solution, Bertrandt will become even more efficient."

"In the vehicle design business, new concepts and design modifications occur frequently," said Denis Senpéré, vice president PLM Europe, Dassault Systèmes. "Henceforth, Bertrandt's design changes will be updated immediately and automatically, ensuring that all extended product development and production teams share the same information in a company-wide 3D collaborative workspace. By using a CATIA-ENOVIA V5 combination, Bertrandt is giving itself a strong competitive edge."

Powerful SMARTEAM Data Management Toolset to be Linked with Altair HyperWorks, Delivering Robust CAE Collaboration Solutions.

Altair Engineering Inc., a global leader in product design consulting, engineering software and high performance computing technology, announced today that it has signed an agreement with SMARTEAM Corporation Ltd., a Dassault Systèmes company and leading provider of innovative product lifecycle collaboration solutions, to develop direct integration between Altair® HyperWorks® CAE software suite and SMARTEAM® V5 business solutions to support enterprise product lifecycle management.

"This agreement will provide a viable engineering data management solution that will synchronize as-designed, as-tested and as-analyzed product configurations within PLM," said Alhad Joshi, Altair Engineering Director of PDM and Process Automation. "Based on Altair's highly respected HyperWorks suite of CAE products and SMARTEAM's leading product lifecycle collaboration solutions, our solution pack promises to deliver a robust and scalable, low cost solution to the CAE community."

"The powerful combination of cutting-edge analysis tools and comprehensive product lifecycle collaboration functionality creates tremendous value for global product development teams," said Ron Shahar, SMARTEAM's Director of Business Development. "Through rapid access to product knowledge and expedited enterprise-wide business processes, HyperWorks customers can complete their projects more effectively and efficiently, creating higher quality products more quickly and ultimately with greater margins."

Altair HyperWorks is an integrated open architecture suite of world-class design and analysis software tools for improving product performance, automating processes and maximizing profitability. Designers and engineers use HyperWorks to standardize and automate CAE event analyses, model complex structures and assemblies, study their physical behavior, optimize design performance and assess their manufacturing feasibility.

SMARTEAM provides best-in-class product lifecycle collaboration solutions for global product teams. Capturing intellectual property at its source from design, manufacturing and maintenance, SMARTEAM drives product knowledge and key business processes across the extended enterprise and the supply chain, empowering the entire lifecycle, from concept through retirement.