DaimlerChrysler Aerospace Selects ENOVIAVPM for its Military Aircraft Division.Business Editors MUNICH, Germany & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 14, 2000 DaimlerChrysler Aerospace DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG, or DASA, was the former aerospace subsidiary of Daimler-Benz AG (later DaimlerChrysler) from 1989. In July 2000 DaimlerChrysler Aerospace merged with Aerospatiale-Matra and CASA to form EADS. (Dasa), Germany's largest aerospace company, 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 that Dasa's Military Aircraft Division (Dasa Military Aircraft) has selected ENOVIAVPM as its e-business solution for engineering. The agreement includes the purchase of 280 ENOVIAVPM licenses, which Dasa Military Aircraft will use to manage the designs of the tens of thousands of parts for the company's aircraft programs. Dasa Military Aircraft will run ENOVIAVPM on IBM RS/6000(TM) workstations in conjunction with 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, the aerospace industry'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. Dasa Military Aircraft selected ENOVIAVPM for its full integration with CATIA, and for its capabilities in managing highly complex processes with ease, efficiency and speed. These will be essential to the success of the initial project for which Dasa Military Aircraft will use ENOVIAVPM: production of the Eurofighter Typhoon This article is about a fighter aircraft. For the computer game, see Eurofighter Typhoon (computer game). “EF2000” redirects here. For the computer game, see EF2000 (computer game). , a twin engine, multi-role combat advanced aircraft developed jointly by Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Dasa Military Aircraft is responsible for the jet's center fuselage. This highly complex area of the plane accounts for 30 percent of the aircraft, and includes the avionics, hydraulics hydraulics, branch of engineering concerned mainly with moving liquids. The term is applied commonly to the study of the mechanical properties of water, other liquids, and even gases when the effects of compressibility are small. , fuel system, intake, cooling system cooling system: see air conditioning; internal-combustion engine; refrigeration. cooling system Apparatus used to keep the temperature of a structure or device from exceeding limits imposed by needs of safety and efficiency. , flight control, secondary power system, and gun installations. Because the center fuselage contains a large number of components compacted into an extremely small space, Dasa Military Aircraft engineers will create CATIA 3D digital mockups Digital MockUp or DMU is a technology that allows product design engineers to replace physical prototypes with virtual ones, using 3D computer graphics techniques. It is also frequently referred to as Digital Prototyping or Virtual Prototyping. (DMUs) of all 10,000 parts of the final production units. This will enable the company to save an estimated 20 percent of the time needed for future aircraft development because Dasa Military Aircraft engineers can use the DMUs for clash detection and other analysis operations. DMUs will also enable Dasa engineers to work efficiently with these models when exchanging fuselage information among company sites within Germany, and among their project partners throughout Europe. More importantly, however, using 3D digital mockups with ENOVIA will let Dasa Military Aircraft manage its CATIA models to improve the design and quality of the fuselage parts. Like many military planes, the Eurofighter will evolve as technology improvements arise. This means that the configuration of the center fuselage may change as much as 50 percent over the 30-year service life of the plane. With ENOVIAVPM, managing these changes will be quick and easy. For example, when a Eurofighter customer requests an avionics upgrade, Dasa Military Aircraft engineers, using ENOVIAVPM, can locate the exact configurations and series in only a few minutes, rather than searching for days through physical drawings. Not only will Dasa Military Aircraft engineers be able to respond to their customers in a minimum of time, but they will be certain that they have identified all planes in question. Dasa Military Aircraft will also use ENOVIAVPM as the e-business solution for the development of a new light-combat and advanced trainer aircraft, the Mako mako (mä`kō), heavy-bodied, fast-swimming shark, genus Isurus, highly prized as a game fish. Also known as the sharp-nosed mackerel shark, it is a member of the mackerel shark family, which also includes the great white shark and the family. Dasa Military Aircraft engineers will design the entire Mako jet in CATIA and manage it in ENOVIAVPM, making it the first military airplane that is 100 percent digital. Dasa Military Aircraft estimates that using CATIA and ENOVIAVPM through all disciplines and stages of the jet's life cycle will improve efficiency and productivity, and reduce development time from 10 years to 2 years. Explained Dr.-Ing. Gerd Berchtold, Dasa Military Aircraft senior manager of aircraft equipment design, "ENOVIAVPM is the perfect tool for our aircraft programs. It turns our CATIA digital mockups into living models--the DMU (Digital MockUp) The combination of geometry data from multiple CAD systems rendered and manipulated as a sub-assembly, assembly and/or product. DMU - Data Management Unit Data Manipulation Unit Data Multiplexer Unit is identical to the manufactured jet. And, it gives our designers a high degree of freedom within our pre-established rules, to find creative solutions that best meet our customers' needs." Scott Hopkins, vice president digital enterprise sales, IBM 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, commented, "Dasa Military Aircraft's vote of confidence confirms IBM's leading role in helping the aerospace industry deliver the best possible products to customers." Said Joel Lemke, president of ENOVIA Corporation, "The expanded use of our solutions within Dasa to include ENOVIAVPM on these very critical military projects is a clear testimony to the value that ENOVIA represents, as well as to the breadth of capability that ENOVIA provides in support of sophisticated, distributed product development. We are pleased to be playing an expanded role in support of the Eurofighter program, and in contributing to the achievement of Dasa's aggressive goals for reduction in development cycle time." Dasa Military Aircraft's parent company, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG, will merge in July 2000 with France's Aerospatiale Matra SA and Spain's CASA Ca´sa n. 1. A house or mansion. I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance. - Bret Harte. , forming the world's third largest aerospace company, called the European Aeronautic aer·o·nau·tic also aer·o·nau·ti·cal adj. Of or relating to aeronautics. aer  o·nau , Defense and Space Company (EADS EADS European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V.EADS Expeditionary Air Defense System (USMC) EADS Extended Air Defense Systems EADS Environmental Assessment Data System EADS Echelons Above Division Study ). Engineers in the new company will continue to use ENOVIAVPM and CATIA for development of military aircraft. ENOVIAVPM is part of the ENOVIA Portfolio, a set of solutions that make manufacturers more competitive by helping them manage electronically all aspects of the product life cycle. CATIA Solutions is the world's leading CAD/CAM/CAE software. Dassault Systemes develops ENOVIAVPM and CATIA; IBM's Engineering Solutions business unit and IBM Business Partners worldwide market, sell and support them. The Military Aircraft Division (Dasa Military Aircraft) of DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) designs, develops, integrates, manufactures, supports and maintains a wide range of fighter planes, military transport planes and mission aircraft. Its work also involves aircraft-coordinated reconnaissance and electronic warfare Noun 1. electronic warfare - military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum EW military action, action - a military engagement; "he saw action in Korea" systems, training craft and training programs for on-board and ground personnel. As the principal German contractor for the Eurofighter, a joint endeavor supported by Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, Dasa is responsible for the flight control system and the development and production of the center fuselage. Headquartered in Munich, Dasa Military Aircraft employs more than 6000 professionals at three locations in Germany. The upcoming merger of Dasa Military Aircraft's parent company Dasa, the French company Aerospatiale Matra and CASA of Spain to form the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) will create the largest aerospace company in Europe and the third-largest in the world. 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. Dassault Systemes (NASDAQ:DASTY) is the premier global software developer of Product Lifecycle 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 ) 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, ENOVIA and DELMIA DELMIA Digital Enterprise Lean Manufacturing Interactive Application 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 DaimlerChrysler Aerospace is available at http://www.dasa.com Information about IBM is available at http://www.ibm.com Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.dsweb.com IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. ENOVIA is a trademark owned by Dassault Systemes. |
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