IBM and Dassault
Systèmes Announce Industry Solution for Electrical
and Electronics Manufacturers
“Integrated Mechanical Product Development”
first in series of E&E industry-specific PLM
solutions -- speeds mechanical product development
while strengthening innovation
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Paris,
France - January 8, 2004 - IBM and Dassault
Systèmes (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris: #13065,
DSY.PA) today announced an IBM Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) Industry Solution for the
Electrical and Electronics (E&E) industry. The
Integrated Mechanical Product Development for
Electronics (IMPD) solution links the applications
and disciplines involved in mechanical product
development and enables manufacturers to reuse
valuable corporate intellectual property.
The IMPD solution consists of a set of integrated
products from CATIA and SMARTEAM combined with a
set of DS PLM Practices developed for the E&E
industry. IMPD streamlines mechanical product
development operations by increasing the amount of
semantic data exchanged between applications and
development disciplines such as style, design,
manufacturing, and analysis.
By maintaining the product’s design history across
all stages of development, the IMPD solution
enables E&E companies to shorten time to market
and focus on innovation. It allows them to explore
more design possibilities in less time, capture
and reuse existing features or assemblies made
context sensitive, keep automatic links between
part and mold design, create designs in accordance
with corporate standards through automatic
guidance, and take into account quickly and
seamlessly the results of digital simulation and
analysis.
“PLM solutions from IBM and Dassault Systèmes have
proven instrumental in capturing, managing and
sharing corporate know-how to ensure compliance of
product and processes with corporate standards and
best practices in terms of integration and
optimization,” Toshiyuki Nakazaki, director of
Research and Development at car-audio electronics
manufacturer Clarion.
“In electrical and electronics manufacturing,
rapid innovation is the name of the game,” said
Thomas Friel, worldwide Electronics business
leader, IBM PLM. “To help our customers optimize
their product development operations, we have
developed a comprehensive solution uniting IBM BCS
services with IBM PLM Solutions and have included
best practices developed with leading electronics
manufacturers in all domains of electro-mechanical
product development. This winning combination
integrates the design process with analysis and
tool design, provides morphing capability for
design re-use and supports the ability to make
rapid changes late in the design cycle. The new
solution will help our E&E customers deliver more
stylish and innovative products to market faster,
laying the groundwork for their future success.”
“E&E manufacturers face very specific challenges
in their industry, namely, rapidly changing
customer tastes, short time to market, and a large
number of actors involved in product development,”
said Etienne Droit, executive vice president Sales
and Services, Dassault Systèmes. “IMPD is a
federating solution that unifies the often
fragmented approach to product development in the
E&E industry, and in doing so, provides a precious
opportunity for business-process reengineering.”
About Dassault Systèmes
As world leader in PLM (Product Lifecycle
Management) solutions, the Dassault Systèmes group
brings value to more than 65,000 customers in 80
countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market
since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets
PLM application software and services that support
industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of
the entire life cycle of products from conception
to retirement. Its offering includes integrated
PLM solutions for product development (CATIA®,
ENOVIA®, DELMIA™, SMARTEAM®), mainstream product
design tools (SolidWorks), and 3D components
(ACIS®) from Spatial Corp. Dassault Systèmes is
listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris
(#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges.
For more information, visit
http://www.3ds.com.
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology
company, with 80 years of leadership in helping
businesses innovate. IBM Sales & Distribution,
which supports more than a dozen key industries
worldwide, works with companies of all sizes
around the world to deploy the full range of IBM
technologies. The fastest way to get more
information about IBM is through the IBM home page
at
http://www.ibm.com.
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