NKK Partners with Dassault Systemes and IBM for Shipbuilding PLM; To Reduce Ship Design Lead Time by 20 to 30%.Business Editors SURESNES, France & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2002 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; 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) today announced that NKK NKK Nippon Kaiji Kyokai NKK Norwegian Kennel Klub NKK Nordisk Kemiteknolog Konferens (conference for engineering students from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland) NKK Navta Kriejtiv Kru Corporation, one of Asia's leading shipbuilding company, has signed an agreement with IBM 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 and Dassault Systemes around 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 (Product Lifecycle Management) for shipbuilding. PLM solutions based on V5 architecture developed by Dassault Systemes and marketed by IBM worldwide, is setting future industry standard which help shipbuilding companies to reduce the development period as well as further improve their products. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the partnership, NKK will work with Dassault Systemes and the IBM Shipbuilding team to establish new methodologies that take advantage of PLM technologies. Through trial deployment at the outfit design, NKK will define and test the special needs of their specific ship design activity and will submit these requirements to Dassault Systemes and IBM. For full operational deployment forecasted for 2004/2005, NKK will launch this innovative project step-by-step, starting in 2002 with a trial deployment of 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 on the IBM Intellistation The IBM IntelliStation workstation class personal computer was announced March 1997 as the follow-on to the IBM PC Series 360 and 365. In February 2002 POWER processor based workstations, which where previously sold directly under the eServer pSeries brand, where also placed under platform to evaluate CATIA V5 for outfit design. The Need for PLM in the shipbuilding industry Noun 1. shipbuilding industry - an industry that builds ships industry - the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications" shipbuilder - a business that builds and repairs ships The decision to implement PLM for shipbuilding by Dassault Systemes and IBM is based on several factors. First, most of the product design technologies that will be used, have already been deployed and validated by other types of manufacturing industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation , and can be adapted to the shipbuilding sector. Moreover, Dassault Systemes and IBM have a proven track record in the shipbuilding industry owing to owing to prep. Because of; on account of: I couldn't attend, owing to illness. owing to prep → debido a, por causa de several existing partnerships in the admiralty, marine education, and commercial shipbuilding. Finally, owing to increased international competition along with the need to build more value-added sophisticated ships, the worldwide shipbuilding industry has seen the advantages of working in 3D, and is eager to implement PLM solutions, which will blend state-of-the-art technologies with current shipbuilding methodologies. Decisional Factors for Partnership Up to now, NKK has been using several different CAD systems; the in-house system for the ship hull design, and several systems including CATIA V4 for outfit design. In order to access cutting-edge technologies and reducing in-house CAD system development activities, the company started to evaluate several high-end commercial mechanical CAD systems - including CATIA V5 - as well as other ship design systems available on the market in its outfit design. During benchmarking, NKK was impressed by CATIA V5's strong customization functions, such as the capacity to easily integrate attributes. NKK's benchmarking study also demonstrated that the simple migration of data from CATIA V4 to CATIA V5 would allow them to capitalize years of data collection and know-how, and insure a smooth transition V5 in the outfit design process. "The shipbuilding industry is a relatively small from an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and perspective, which in turn makes it extremely competitive," said John MacKrell, Shipbuilding analyst, CIMdata. "The end-to-end product lifecycle management solutions provided by IBM and Dassault Systemes will give NKK the tools they need to achieve the distinct advantage of faster time to market - a crucial win factor for a shipbuilding OEM." Kimio Kitano, General Manager, Ships & Offshore Structures Planning Dept., NKK, said, "In the shipbuilding industry, lead time reduction is very critical to maintain and reinforce our competitiveness, and in this perspective, NKK is hoping to reduce its current average lead time from 9 months to about 6-7 months with the deployment of 3D PLM solutions. In our selection of a system capable of overcoming the lead time reduction difficulties and to fulfill the particular needs of the ship design, we looked for a solution containing of course high performance modeling functions, a relative openness to respond to our special needs, and high extension possibilities. We hope that CATIA V5 fulfills these requirements with the support of the IBM platforms and implementation teams, and we all expect it will become the best matching solution for NKK." Francis Bernard Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet (1712-16 June 1779) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor in New Jersey and Massachusetts. Francis was born in Brightwell, Oxfordshire, England to the Rev. Francis and Margery Bernard and was christened on July 12, 1712. , Dassault Systemes Executive Committee Advisor, commented, "The ship building industry is one of the most important target segments for Dassault Systemes. We are very honored that NKK formed an alliance with Dassault Systemes to deliver PLM solutions for shipbuilding based on the current and future deliveries. The fact that NKK, Dassault Systemes and IBM are jointly starting the project is an important milestone to consolidate CATIA V5 positioning as the standard solution in the shipbuilding industry." Ed Petrozelli, General Manager, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, commented, "Global shipbuilders, such as NKK, have realized that to continue to succeed and prosper in a period where time and money are everything, it is essential to develop a more efficient business model. Shipbuilders around the world are turning to IBM and Dassault Systemes to achieve this goal. IBM Shipbuilding Solutions incorporates the best thinking in the business to solve the very real challenges facing ship builders today. With IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. and IBM platforms to pull it all together, to mix and match modules to suit all needs and customize the software accordingly, IBM Shipbuilding Solutions is the most complete, comprehensive, customizable and collaborative e-business solution for shipbuilders available today." About NKK NKK was established in 1912 as Japan's first commercial steel company. Ever since, NKK has been developing as one of Japan's key industries though a unique combination of business activities in steel making, shipbuilding and heavy industries. NKK's total revenue in 2000 was 1010 billion yen. NKK has 3 manufacturing plants in Japan, 3 research centers and 2 steelworks, with a whole number of employees of 10,702. Consolidated Engineering Division in NKK researches and builds large-scale ships and marine facilities, and in addition, perform technical developments for large scale bridges, sluice gates, steel frame architecture, and general engineering. It provides liquefied gas carriers including LNG/ LPG LPG: see liquefied petroleum gas. 1. LPG - Linguaggio Procedure Grafiche (Italian for "Graphical Procedures Language"). dott. Gabriele Selmi. Roughly a cross between Fortran and APL, with graphical-oriented extensions and several peculiarities. carriers, large tankers, bulk carriers for ore, coal and grain, multi-purpose cargo carriers, passenger cruisers, etc. to various customers around the world. For more information, consult www.nkk.co.jp 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 home page at http://www.ibm.com About Dassault Systemes Dassault Systemes 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 Corp., as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and collaborative 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 software solutions based on Windows and the Internet. Spatial, also part of the 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 |
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