Kalmar Industries Chooses CATIA V5 for Heavy Equipment.Business and High Tech Editors STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2001 World's Leading Supplier of Mobile Equipment Adopts the Flagship Solution of 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. and 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) , 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. , with the Support of Semcon IT Solutions Kalmar Industries, a part of the Partek group, has acquired forty CATIA V5 installed workstations, for the whole of its group. The decision to shift from a 2D to a 3D computer assisted design was taken by the Austrian company in spring 2000. After in-depth evaluation of several CAD systems, the CATIA V5 by Dassault Systemes and IBM was judged to be the best adapted to the growth and development of the group. Each solution was tested by designers based on the ease and accuracy of creating a steering axle axle Pin or shaft on or with which wheels revolve; with fixed wheels, one of the basic simple machines for amplifying force. Combined with the wheel, in its earliest form it was probably used for raising weights or water buckets from wells. design. This method provided the production team with comparable underlying material with which to evaluate the competing applications. "It is too early to be able to say how important the efficiency and financial gains will be, but we know that we will save money, become more effective and reach the market faster with CATIA V5", said Mats Karlsson, project leader for Kalmar Industries. Kalmar also believed that Semcon, as implementation partner, would be able to provide considerable value through its understanding of both Kalmar's way of working and of CATIA. The decision was taken to implement CATIA V5 as Kalmar group's common CAD system. "It creates greater efficiency within the whole group because we now have a common platform", says Mats Karlsson, who is project manager at Kalmar Industries. "Some of our installations had old systems, meaning that we could only work in 2D. With CATIA V5, we are able to work in 3D throughout the entire organization." Par Nobring, project manager at Semcon, says "CATIA V5 is perfectly adapted to Kalmar Industries' operations, thanks to the functionality that V5 provides. CATIA V5 supports the whole process of an engineering company, including design, computations, manufacture, information management and simulations". CATIA V5 is currently used at Kalmar Industries for computations, analysis and simulation in the creation of new product series of various types of fork-lift trucks fork-lift truck Noun a vehicle with two moveable arms at the front that can be raised and lowered for transporting and unloading goods fork-lift truck n → máquina elevadora . This first takes place in 3D in order to then create underlying production material in the form of drawings in both 3D and 2D. One works with different modules, such as a base module for 3D and 2D (MD2), collision analyses (SPA), visibility field analyses (NAV See navigation system and navigation bar. ) and sheet metal design (SMD (1) (Storage Module Device) A high-performance hard disk interface used with minis and mainframes that transfers data in the 1-4 MBytes/sec range (SMD-E provides highest rate). See hard disk. ), movement simulation and fatigue measurement (FEM FEM Female FEM Finite Element Method FEM Feminine FEM Finite Element Model FEM Fédération Européenne des Métallurgistes (European Metalworkers' Federation) FEM Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica (Brasil) ), as well as STEP for communication with subcontractors. In addition to CATIA enabling the discovery of collisions and to include processing at an early stage, there exists distinct time-savings when working, for example, with sheet metal design. Another decisive quality for Kalmar Industries has been the possibility to simulate visibility fields from a fork-lift truck driver's cab. Different countries have different legal requirements for the content of this visibility field, which are easy to simulate with the aid of visibility field analysis. Several extension modules will be installed afterwards af·ter·ward also af·ter·wards adv. At a later time; subsequently. afterwards or afterward Adverb later [Old English æfterweard] Adv. 1. , such as electrical installation, production modules and 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 . "We are naturally very pleased and proud that Kalmar Industries chose CATIA V5. It demonstrates that the need for advanced and flexible systems such as CATIA V5 are to be found equally well in small and medium-sized companies as in large groups", says Raimo Nikkila, who is Nordic Manager for 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 at IBM. About IBM 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. The fastest way to get more information about IBM is through the IBM homepage at http://www.ibm.com About Dassault Systemes Dassault Systemes (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) is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM 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, 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 life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SmarTeam, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and collaborative PDM software solutions based on Windows and the internet. Spatial, also part of Dassault Systemes family, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components and services (for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability) to meet the requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business applications. Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.dsweb.com. About Kalmar Industries The company is the world's leading supplier of mobile equipment, including fork-lift trucks for container and trailer handling. Products from Kalmar Industries are primarily to be found in ports and inland terminals. For other sectors, such as steel, pulp and paper, the company provides solutions for heavy material handling. There are currently more than 65000 machines from Kalmar Industries located in 140 countries. The company reported total sales of SEK SEK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Swedish Krona. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 4.7 billion in 1999. Further information is available at www.kalmarind.com About Semcon Semcon is one of the leading design and development companies in the Nordic Region, with more than 1600 employees and total sales of SEK 1 billion in 2000. Semcon's consultants develop products, processes and people in Sweden's leading industrial companies. The combination of profitable growth over 20 years and well-established relations with leading industrial companies forms the basis for Semcon's continued success. Semcon AB (publ) is listed on the the O-list of the OM Stockholm Stock Exchange The Stockholm Stock Exchange (Swedish: Stockholmsbörsen) is a stock exchange located in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1863 [1] it is the primary securities exchange of the Nordic Countries. . Semcon IT Solutions is a part of Semcon, which through a partnership agreement works with IT-based global solutions within design and development, with a focus on CAD, PDM and systems. Semcon IT Solutions currently employs about 60 people in Lund, Linkoping, Gothenburg, Trollhattan and Kista. Further information is available at www.semcon.se |
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