Dassault Systemes Creates DELMIA, the World Premier e-Manufacturing Brand for the Digital Enterprise.Business and Technology Editors SURESNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2000 Leveraging on DENEB, DELTA and SAFEWORK, DELMIA DELMIA Digital Enterprise Lean Manufacturing Interactive Application delivers collaborative solutions for Lean Manufacturing Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything compared to mass production: less human effort, less manufacturing space, less investment in tools, and less engineering time to develop a new product. 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) today announces the creation of DELMIA, its new brand for e-Manufacturing. DELMIA consolidates Deneb, DELTA and SAFEWORK under a unique brand and provides the manufacturing community with e-solutions to create, monitor and control agile, distributed manufacturing systems geared towards build-to-order (BtO) and Lean Manufacturing and production (LM). DELMIA becomes the world premier digital manufacturing provider, offering customers the most comprehensive and integrated methodologies and solutions to fully address their digital manufacturing needs. Philippe Charles will operate as DELMIA Chief Executive Officer, reporting to Dominique Florack, Executive Vice President of Dassault Systemes, with headquarters in Troy, Michigan Troy is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a suburb of Detroit. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 80,959, the 12th largest city in Michigan by population. (USA). DELMIA develops e-business solutions for manufacturing by implementing a process-centric solution to define, monitor and control production systems from single device work cell, production line, factory material flow to extended enterprise production flow. DELMIA will serve industry segments where continuous transformation and optimization of the manufacturing process are critical, such as automotive, aerospace, fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. & assembly, electrical & 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 of the Digital Manufacturing and Production, thus serving the product life cycle. As part of the Dassault Systemes Group, DELMIA will develop long-term customer relationships, capitalizing on Dassault Systemes' competitive strength and ability to build successful partnerships. The new company is extremely well positioned to leverage Dassault Systemes' best resources, including expertise and know-how, infrastructure, components, and digital enterprise brands. "'Build-to-order' is key to Renault's development strategy. The deployment of this strategy will require technologies and methods to increase the agility of our production system. This is why we are pleased with Dassault Systemes' commitment to e-Manufacturing, through the creation of DELMIA," commented Francois Pistre, Vice President for Technical and Scientific Computing, Renault. "The capability to produce a large variety of products is a key to competitiveness in our truck business. Due to the flexible manufacturing processes, it is absolutely necessary to use modern factory and robotics simulation tools. Processing a huge set of simulations allows us to validate our flexible production system. Therefore we welcome the DELMIA creation and especially its strong emphasis on agile manufacturing definition," added Dr. Lothar Wissing, Manager Cab and Plant Equipment/Design and Manufacture, DaimlerChrysler Trucks. "DELMIA is ideally positioned in Dassault Systemes to leverage Collaborative Product Commerce business practices (CPC (1) (Central Processing Complex) An IBM mainframe that has two or more central processors (CPs) that share memory. It is the collection of processors, memory and I/O subsystems manufactured with a single serial number, typically all contained in one cabinet. ) to implement Product Life Cycle 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 )," added Bernard Charles, President of Dassault Systemes. "It confirms Dassault Systemes as the right strategic partner for customers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. digital manufacturing solutions and providing a complete integrated e-business solution with this new brand." "DELMIA demonstrates the power of the Deneb, SAFEWORK and DELTA technologies, and how our products are extremely competitive," said Pascal Lecland, Director of R&D, Deneb. "Customers have already expressed their satisfaction on the combination of Deneb and DELTA products to benefit the manufacturing process planner community. We are, more than ever, committed to provide them the best products worldwide and serve their needs in an appropriate manner with DELMIA." DELMIA has an open system, interoperable with major CAX CAX The ISO 4217 currency code for Canadian Cent. , 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. Integrated with ENOVIA, it does provide a unique integrated manufacturing solution. Dassault Systemes S.A. is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM II 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 SmartSolutions, 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. Information about DELMIA is available at http://www.delmia.com. CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA are registered trademarks of Dassault Systemes SA. All other marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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