Dassault Systemes and SGI Announce a CAA V5 Development Partnership Agreement.Business/Technology Editors PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2000 Integration of SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. Immersive Software technologies into the ENOVIA 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 navigator environment Silicon Graphics Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SGI) 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, 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 the signing of a Component Application Architecture (CAA CaaSee CCC. ) V5 development partnership to develop high end immersive Solutions fully integrated within the ENOVIA DMU navigator environment. SGI has already been using successfully the next generation Component Application Architecture V5 to develop its first application, the Immersive Solutions Review On CAA V5, enabling the integration of customers' processes (from design up to immersive review) into a single environment. Companies in the discrete manufacturing Fabricating products by assembling components and subsystems into larger systems. The automated assembly line is the prime example of discrete manufacturing such as in the making of automobiles, household appliances and computer systems. market such as the Automotive, Aerospace and Shipbuilding industries, dramatically need to review the product through the different steps of the design process. They need to test the 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. as if it was a real one, to cut down drastically their expenses by reducing their number of physical prototypes 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. gain time in their design implementation. Offered to all populations involved in the Digital Mockup 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. process within the extended digital enterprise, ENOVIA DMU navigator products provide a full range of high performance and scalable solutions from simple visualization to immersive environment through the V5 Virtual Reality architecture. ENOVIA DMU navigator handles digital mockups of all sizes, from 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 assemblies to very large automotive, aerospace, plant, ships and heavy machinery mockups, on both Windows and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. Through this software development partnership, SGI will provide the industry with global immersive solutions in the following fields: hardware, planning, devices, software as well as customization. They become de facto a matchless solution provider in this specific market. Under this development agreement, SGI will concentrate its new Virtual Reality developments on top of the CAA V5 architecture: it will bring to the V5 Virtual Reality (VR) architecture state of the art immersive visualization See virtual reality and CAVE. technologies and will add on vertical applications. Our customers will thus benefit from latest virtual immersive solutions integrated in their daily processes without leaving their 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. These applications support all major VR devices, from benches, flat wall to CAVE. "With technical, scientific, and creative users as our true customers, SGI is the manufacturer's computer company." says Paul Chermark, Vice President of Marketing for Manufacturing Industry Solutions. SGI is unique to provide customers with a complete solutions set enabling them to design, simulate, and visualize their ideas. We help people build their new products better than anybody else. We appeal to the engineering community and have the expertise in-house to help focus, engineer to engineer, on the tough, technical solutions. With Immersive Solutions Review On CAAV5, finally a dream has come true: engineers can model a product in CATIA V5 on a workstation and evaluate the result in a CAVE, just a mouse click away. They are able to benefit for the first time from the possibility to work within an immersive environment without leaving their familiar and powerful CATIA V5 environment." "This development partnership symbolizes the achievement of a five-year-old fruitful teamwork between Dassault Systemes & SGI. By leveraging the V5 Virtual Reality infrastructure, our customers will benefit from best in class SGI experience and recognition in the field of immersive solutions. Delivering immersive solutions is a key element of Dassault Systemes Product Life Cycle Management strategy to turn virtual into real," says Dominique Florack Executive Vice-President, Research & Development, Dassault Systemes. This Development partnership is the achievement of a mutual commitment to ensure excellent long-term product integration within CATIA V5, with an ultimate goal of anticipating and serving the needs of our mutual customers. Being a software development partner of Dassault Systemes provides SGI with a unique and privileged access to early development code directly from Dassault Systemes ensuring timely and compatible products releases. Each integration release is tested to certify its high quality and compliance to the CAA V5 standards. Through this development partnership industries will benefit from the latest technologies enabling them to unleash their ideas in a 3D virtual world before becoming reality. SGI provides a broad range of high performance computing and advanced graphics solutions that enable customers to understand and conquer their toughest computing problems. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with offices worldwide, the company is located on the Web at www.sgi.com. Dassault Systemes (NASDAQ: DASTY, Bourse de Paris) 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, 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 SGI is available at: www.sgi.com www.sgi.com/realitycenter/ www.sgi.com/manufacturing/partners/catia 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. 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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