ALSTOM Transport Selects ENOVIA as PLM Solution Worldwide implementation of 700 ENOVIAVPM licenses.Business & High-Tech Editors PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2000 IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Dassault Systemes Dassault Systemes (Dassault Systèmes S.A.) (Pronounced - Dasoh) (NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext: 13065) is a leading company specializing in 3D and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DASTY, Bourse bourse (b  rs), term applied to a European stock exchange. The first international bourse was established in Antwerp in the 16th cent. de Paris)
announced today that ALSTOM Transport has selected ENOVIA products for
the development and the management of the company's entire railway
systems product line. The contract includes the purchase of 700 licenses
of ENOVIAVPM and the implementation of 1250 ENOVIA V5 licenses by
January 2002. An estimated 2500 professionals at 20 sites worldwide will
eventually use ENOVIA, making it ALSTOM Transport's standard
product lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. management (PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design ) solution.
ALSTOM Transport designs and manufactures railway systems. Highly complex to manufacture, a railway system comprises an important number of components and equipment. ALSTOM Transport shares design and manufacturing activities among several sites. By using ENOVIAVPM, ALSTOM Transport can manage these tasks with efficiency, reuse standard parts easily, implement modifications early in the development process, and decrease cycle time on part modifications. ALSTOM Transport engineers will use ENOVIA, along with the company's 450 existing licenses of CATIA A family of 2D and 3D CAD programs from IBM. CATIA was one of the first CAD programs to provide 3D solid modeling. The program was developed by Dassault Systems, a French aerospace company. Solutions, to define and manage all products digitally throughout their life. ALSTOM Transport anticipates reducing design modification time by 20 percent. Said Jean Pierre Combarre, program director, ALSTOM Transport Digital Model Assembly Global Solution (DMAGS), "Using ENOVIAVPM, we will be able to optimize data exchange and collaborative work throughout our company around a unique Product-Process engineering reference." Added Stephan Rambaud-Measson, ALSTOM Transport senior vice president technology and quality, "Our decision is more than just the choice of a PLM solution. It's part of an e-business approach with IBM as we intend to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the experience, technology and e-business alliances of IBM through the extended enterprise." Scott Hopkins, vice president digital enterprise sales, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, commented, "Our e-business expertise, combined with our experience in providing solutions to the world's leading railway companies, will enable us to meet ALSTOM Transport's most stringent demands for engineering collaboration, and help them keep their position as one of the world leaders For a list of heads of state, see . World leaders is a MMORPG. The game involves creating a state, joining an alliance and going into war. It is mostly played by players from Israel, China, USA, Britain, Brazil and Saudi-Arabia. ." Said Bernard Charles Bernard Charles is the CEO of Dassault Systemes. References
ENOVIAVPM is part of ENOVIA Portfolio, a set of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions that support e-business throughout the digital enterprise. As a core solution for IBM's Product Lifecycle Management, ENOVIA Portfolio enables small and large companies to increase innovation, optimize product lifecycle costs, and address new markets with evolving business models. CATIA Solutions is the world's leading computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive , manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) software. Dassault Systemes S.A. develops ENOVIA and CATIA; IBM's Product Lifecycle Management business unit and IBM Business Partners worldwide market, sell and support them. About ALSTOM Transport With annual sales of 4.1 billion euros, ALSTOM is one of the world's leading rail companies. Its products include all types of urban and suburban mass transit mass transit, public transportation systems designed to move large numbers of passengers. Types and Advantages Mass transit refers to municipal or regional public shared transportation, such as buses, streetcars, and ferries, open to all on a systems, including subways, trams, and freight, regional and high-speed trains. It also provides signaling, and infrastructure and rolling stock rolling stock Any of various readily movable transportation equipment such as automobiles, locomotives, railroad cars, and trucks. Rolling stock generally makes good collateral for loans because the equipment is standardized and easily transportable among maintenance. Information about ALSTOM Transport is available at http:// www.transport.alstom.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 About Dassault Systemes Dassault Systemes is the premier global software developer of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product lifecycle from initial concept to product in service. CATIA, DELMIA DELMIA Digital Enterprise Lean Manufacturing Interactive Application and ENOVIA Solutions support industry-specific business processes to help unleash creativity and innovation, reduce development cycle time, improve quality, competitiveness and shareholder value: CATIA supports the digital product definition and simulation, DELMIA provides solutions to define and simulate lean digital manufacturing processes and ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources. The combined integration creates the Digital Product lifecycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and Smart Solutions, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and TeamPDM software solutions based on Windows. Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.dsweb.com. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. ENOVIA(TM) is owned by Dassault Systemes and used under license. All other company product or service names mentioned may be trademarks or service marks of others. |
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