Ford Designates CATIA V5 as Global Design and Engineering Standard for All New Vehicle Development; Reinforces Commitment to IBM and Dassault Systemes' PLM Solutions for New Product Development.PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- 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:DASTY) (Paris:DSY DSY Drum Storage Yard ), world leaders in 3D and 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 ), today announced that Ford Motor Company has extended its multi-year contract, which designates 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 as the global design and engineering standard for all new vehicle and powertrain systems development. A component of the CATIA V5 solution at Ford is the Engineering Hub, which provides a native V5 environment for sophisticated access and management of CATIA V5 within Ford's C3P C3P CAD-CAM-CAE Applications (Ford Motor Company) C3P Certified Call Center Professional NG platform. This C3P NG solution is used for new product development across the Ford extended enterprise and within Ford affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. . This helps Ford, at a global level, to continue streamlining digital product development processes - fostering both innovation and competitiveness - and accelerating time-to-market. C3P NG is Ford's product development platform, which delivers the next level of digital product capabilities to all brand partners in Ford Motor Company, effectively conducting enterprise-wide vehicle and technology product creation. CATIA V5's ability to quickly adapt a design for other vehicles on the same platform is critical to making gains in an overall corporate product development process, and is directly contributing to Ford's goal of reducing product development costs and increasing product quality. Used by Ford since 2003, CATIA V5 was first implemented on the Body-in-White development of the new Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan, and Lincoln Zephyr Zephyr or Zephyrus: see Eos. vehicles, helping Ford reduce its overall digital development time. Use of CATIA V5 has expanded into other vehicle programs and functional domains, including chassis, electrical and interior. John Porter, vice-president, Product Lifecycle Management, IBM Americas, commented: "This PLM agreement expands and strengthens the existing relationship between IBM and Ford Motor Company, and outlines IBM's commitment in enabling Ford to design best-in-class vehicles. Ford's decision to expand their relationship with us is proof positive that they view our PLM solutions as key to their innovation and business growth. This further strengthens our position in the automotive industry." "Dassault Systemes CATIA V5 PLM is all about fueling innovation. Ford's focus is on quality, innovation and competitiveness and Dassault Systemes' solutions are helping meet that challenge," said Joel Lemke, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Dassault Systemes' ENOVIA brand and the company's global Ford executive. "CATIA V5 is delivering higher quality design information earlier in the Ford vehicle development process than ever before." "The Engineering Hub manages 'engineering-owned' intellectual property gathered during the product life cycle, and provides a consistent information infrastructure, supporting the complex web of inter-relationships that relate individual data components," continued Lemke. Leveraging CATIA V5, developed by Dassault Systemes and a core foundation of the IBM portfolio of PLM solutions, enables a top-down, functional approach to geometric modeling, preserving product & process associativity and integration. Within the context of the associative design process, CATIA V5 yields a significant reduction in geometric modeling time, while delivering greater design fidelity and completeness earlier in the product development process. About IBM To now more about IBM and PLM, visit http://www.ibm.com/solutions/plm About Dassault Systemes As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, the Dassault Systemes group brings value to more than 90,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systemes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance. The Dassault Systemes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA DELMIA Digital Enterprise Lean Manufacturing Interactive Application for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing and ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, including ENOVIA VPLM VPLM Virtual Product Lifecycle Management , ENOVIA MatrixOne and ENOVIA SmarTeam. Dassault Systemes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA and SolidWorks are registered trademarks of Dassault Systemes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. |
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