Dassault Systemes and PlanetCAD Announce a CAA V5 Development Partnership Agreement.Business/Technology Editors PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 Integration of PrescientQA Design-Quality Engineering Software into the 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. V5 Environment PlanetCAD Inc. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange : PCD PCD polycystic disease. ) 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: 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 the signing of a Component Application Architecture (CAA Caa See CCC. ) V5 development partnership. The purpose of this agreement is the integration of PlanetCAD design quality engineering validation software in the CATIA V5 environment. This will enable the integration of customers' critical processes, from design up to design quality control, into a single environment. Engineers in the digital manufacturing supply chain need to test and confirm the quality of their data early in the design process. It is vitally important to test CAD, CAM and CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. models early and often. This helps eliminate errors, improve interoperability and save time and money. When models are not tested, problems often result later in the design process, including lack of interoperability and hidden errors that may not show up until manufacturing. CATIA Mechanical Design 2 Configuration is a new generation CATIA V5 solution, offering all the necessary tools to perform advanced 3D design of parts and assemblies in the context of the full scale digital mock-up mock·up also mock-up n. 1. A usually full-sized scale model of a structure, used for demonstration, study, or testing. 2. A layout of printed matter. and generation of production drawings. In addition, CATIA V5 Knowledge Expert 2 enables customers to build up and share corporate knowledge in rules-driven databases. Captured rules and checks can be applied across the enterprise to ensure compliance with established design standards Design standards Specifications of materials, physical measurements, processes, performance of products, and characteristics of services rendered. Design standards may be established by individual manufacturers, trade associations, and national or . PrescientQA On CAA V5 is complementary to the full range of CATIA V5 products, which cover all stages of product design and development. By taking advantage of CATIA V5 Knowledge Ware capabilities, PrescientQA On CAA V5 allows engineers to define and integrate rules and checks for design validation. It also offers a unique and innovative set of predefined design standards: the DesignQA on CAA V5 standards focus on measuring and ensuring the completeness and effectiveness of communication of the data/information necessary to describe the design for downstream uses. In addition, GeometryQA On CAA V5 standards gives the possibility to validate a CAD model against VDA VDA Vendor Driven Architecture VDA Verband Der Automobilindustrie E.V. (German Automobile Industry Association) VDA Virginia Department for the Aging VDA Ovda, Israel (Airport Code) VDA Visual Data Analysis recommendations that comprise quality specifications to the automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. . PrescientQA(R) On CAA V5 is PlanetCAD's leading engineering quality software system, which will be fully integrated with CATIA V5. This application detects, assesses, corrects and prevents product development problems caused by inaccurate, incomplete or inconsistent design modeling practices allowing individuals, departments and companies to leverage their best modeling and design practices consistently throughout the product development process. "PlanetCAD and Dassault Systemes enjoy a very strong, cooperative relationship. We recently sold our Component Software Division to Dassault Systemes, and we have a number of ongoing cross-licensing agreements with the company," said Dick Sowar, Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, PlanetCAD. "It was therefore an obvious choice for PlanetCAD to participate in the CAA V5 Galaxy Program with PrescientQA. It will provide our customers with yet another option for their software needs." "The signing of the CAA V5 partnership agreement is the result of a successful teamwork between Dassault Systemes and PlanetCAD," said Dominique Florack, Executive Vice-President, Research and Development, Dassault Systemes. "PlanetCAD, with its strong experience in the design-quality engineering software arena, has naturally joined the CAA V5 community to offer CATIA V5 users with highly competitive and efficient tools. Thanks to this new integration, we still go on in building a strong and consistent products portfolio to always improve the 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 )." The CAA V5 development partnership program is dedicated to companies sharing the Dassault Systemes goal of supporting and continuously improving customers' business processes by delivering a consistent product portfolio. Dassault Systemes partners benefit from the next-generation V5 Component Application Architecture as well as advanced technical and marketing support to develop, market and sell innovative products based on CAA V5 and de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. seamlessly operating with CATIA V5. In order to ensure timely and compatible product releases, Dassault Systemes provides its partners with a unique and privileged access to early development code. Each integration release is tested to certify its high quality and compliance with CAA V5 standards to better serve the needs of mutual customers. Dassault Systemes (NASDAQ:DASTY, Euronext Paris) 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. PlanetCAD develops and delivers Web-hosted and enterprise-based application services See ASP and Web services. and e-commerce sites for streamlining engineering data interchange throughout the digital manufacturing supply chain. PlanetCAD's application services include the PrescientQA(R) design-quality engineering software suite, which reduces costly design errors, accelerates time-to-market, and improves the product development process; 3Dshare.com(TM) (www.3dshare.com), which provides online translation and repair of 3D CAD models to streamline the flow of engineering data between organizations regardless of installed CAD systems; Bits2PARTS(TM) (www.bits2parts.com), an e-commerce service that streamlines the communication and data transmission process between manufacturers and rapid prototyping service bureaus across the Web; and IntraVISION(R), which enables viewing, markup, measuring and converting of more than 300 CAD file formats. PlanetCAD is headquartered in Boulder, Colo. and has offices in Boston and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.planetcad.com, or call (888) 319-0871. Information about is available at http://www.planetcad.com Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.dsweb.com CATIA(R) is registered in the US Patent and Trade Mark Office by Dassault Systemes. All other company product or service names mentioned may be trademarks or service marks of others. |
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