DELMIA/QUEST Gives DAIKIN the Edge In Improving Productivity and Optimizing Production Line Design.Business Editors TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 6, 2001 30% increase in productivity and significant reduction of investment costs Those program costs required beyond the development phase to introduce into operational use a new capability; to procure initial, additional, or replacement equipment for operational forces; or to provide for major modifications of an existing capability. DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Expo/Conference 2001 - Daikin Industries, Ltd., a global leader in the manufacture of commercial and industrial air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. systems, and DELMIA DELMIA Digital Enterprise Lean Manufacturing Interactive Application Corp., a 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. company (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris Euronext Paris is France's securities market, formerly known as the Paris Bourse, which merged with the Amsterdam and Brussels exchanges in September 2000 to form Euronext NV, which is the second largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange. : #13065, DSY DSY Drum Storage Yard .PA) announced today that DELMIA/QUEST(R) solutions has helped Daikin to create innovative and highly efficient production systems with 30% productivity improvement and significant reduction in investment. Daikin announced these results at the "DMS Expo/Conf Special Seminar" held in Tokyo today. Daikin has launched a production innovation program called "Transformation to High Cycle Production System." Targets included further reduction of product inventory, design & build for flexible production line, and drastic reduction of supply lead time. To meet their demanding targets, Daikin realized deployment of the simulation software Simulation software is based on the process of imitating a real phenomenon with a set of mathematical formulas. It is, essentially, a program that allows the user to observe an operation through simulation without actually running the program. was needed for design and validation of the line. After extensive benchmarks, Daikin selected QUEST, a discrete event simulator with proven results in many industries. In order to detect bottlenecks of the current production line and to check the various alternatives, conventional methods, such as trial run or observation of the production lines, had been used at Daikin. These traditional methods took a lot of time and increased costs. Using QUEST, the production line is modeled in 3D, and problems are detected easily and many alternatives can be tested efficiently in the virtual environment. As a result, Daikin has successfully achieved their targets to improve the productivity of its existing production line by 30%. Daikin also utilizes QUEST in other areas, such as production line design and distribution system validation. "QUEST gave us the freedom for quick validation by trial and error using many alternatives in the virtual environment. In the production line design project, for example, all the related team members, such as production engineers, shop floor engineers and equipment manufacturers, come together to discuss the design from various points of view. Know-how and requirements from all parties could be incorporated in the design from the early phase of the project. This cannot be achieved without powerful 3D simulation software," explained by Takayoshi Inoue, Home Air Conditioning Div., DAIKIN Industries, Ltd. Rob Barlow, President of DELMIA Japan, Ltd. commented, "We are so pleased that DAIKIN, a global leader in the air-conditioner market, has chosen DELMIA/QUEST to meet their challenge of shortest lead time in the market with success. The successful deployment at DAIKIN once again demonstrates the direct benefits of the our DELMIA digital manufacturing solutions and the unlimited capability of QUEST in yet another industry." Daikin Industries, Ltd. is a global leader in the manufacture of commercial- and industrial-use air conditioning systems and holds more than one-third of the market share in Japan. The Company is also a leader in fluorochemicals, with an approximate 20% share of the worldwide market. Daikin boasts an unparalleled combination of mechanical, electronic and chemical expertise as well as robust R&D capabilities. The Company is committed to leveraging these strengths to create new, innovative products and flexible, highly efficient production systems. Daikin is a dynamic global company with a well-established presence in five major areas; Japan, China, Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. , Europe and North America. Thus, Daikin is poised to excel in an increasingly borderless business environment. DELMIA Corp. develops e-business solutions for manufacturing by implementing a process centric solution to define, plan, validate, monitor and control production systems from single device work cell, production line, factory material flow to extended enterprise production flow. DELMIA serves industry segments where continuous transformation and optimization of the manufacturing processes are critical such as Automotive, Aerospace, Fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. and Assembly, Electrical and Electronics, Consumer Goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and , Plant and Shipbuilding. DELMIA constitutes the core offering for Digital Manufacturing and Production, serving the product life cycle. DELMIA solutions are interoperable with major CAD, PDM (1) (Product Data Management) An information system used to manage the data for a product as it passes from engineering to manufacturing. The data includes plans, geometric models, CAD drawings, images, NC programs as well as all related project data, notes and and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems. Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product life cycle from initial concept to product in service. 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. , ENOVIA and DELMIA 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 life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SmarTeam, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and collaborative PDM software solutions based on Windows and the internet. Spatial, also part of Dassault Systemes family, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components and services (for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability) to meet the requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business applications. Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.dsweb.com. Information about Daikin is available at Information about DELMIA is available at http://www.delmia.com DELMIA/QUEST is a registered trademark of DELMIA Corp. DELMIA(TM) is owned by Dassault Systemes. All other company product or service names mentioned may be trademarks or service marks of others. |
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