Subaru's Richard Burns Wins World Rally Championship with Help from Dassault Systemes and IBM Design Solutions.Business Editors BANBURY, England & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2001 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)-- 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 Solutions Used in Car Design is Vital to the Subaru Driver's Victory in the FIA FIA feline infectious anemia. Series Last Sunday The Subaru World Rally Team The Subaru World Rally Team is a racing team formed by Subaru in 1989 to compete in the World Rally Championship.[1] It entered its first car, a Prodrive prepared Legacy in 1990. , along with 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 (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 that the use of Product Lifecycle Management Solutions from IBM played a critical role in Richard Burn's victory at last Sunday's FIA World Rally Championship. 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, the world's leading 3D design application within IBM's Product Lifecycle Management portfolio, was instrumental in the development of the victorious Subaru Impreza For the high-performance versions of the Impreza, see Subaru Impreza WRX and Subaru Impreza WRX STi The Subaru Impreza is a compact car that was first introduced by Subaru in 1993. WRC WRC World Rally Championship (auto racing) WRC World Radiocommunication Conference WRC Water Resource Center WRC Women's Resource Center WRC Welding Research Council WRC Water Research Commission (South Africa) 2001 rally car, notably in engine design and testing, as well as roll and body cage. Based in Cardiff, Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. , the Network Q Rally, is the UK's largest annual rally event, attracting hundreds of thousands of people. In fog and driving rain, the Subaru rally car was able to keep up the pressure on the other drivers, balancing skill and speed on the final four stages, through perilous forest roads. "We have managed to achieve an incredible win," said Julian Cooper, Chief Designer at Subaru World Rally Team. "CATIA has enabled us to design most of the parts on the car, the modeling and checking of installations in record time and with unflinching quality. CATIA has been essential for most of the key elements, but most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially for the roll and body-cage." These safety features are necessary to minimize the risk of high-speed rallying for Richard Burns, the Subaru pilot, who became the first Englishman ever to win the FIA World Championship, since the series was established in 1979. Subaru has now been the driving force behind five FIA World Titles. The Japanese model was manufacturers' champion in 1995, 1996 and 1997, and the Subaru Impreza powered Colin McRae to the Driver's title in 1995. Cooper continued, "The CATIA package is a vital part of the Subaru Team. We use it in modeling, packaging components and checking installations. Many parts of the body shell on this year's car were designed on the system - the complex roll cage fitted to the Impreza WRC2001 is a prime example. CATIA enabled us to design a lightweight, but extremely strong cage, the sections of which can be precisely bent and cut by computer controlled machinery." "Another benefit of our using CATIA is that we can share information easily with the Subaru designers in Japan who also use the system to design road-cars. Being able to transfer ideas back and forward in this way is a great bonus in the development of high performance Subaru road and rally cars." Kim Stuckey, Worldwide Small and Medium Business Manager, IBM 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 , said, "Optimizing a race car for specific races at specific venues represents the ultimate time challenge for product innovation. This is one of the main reasons why PLM Solutions from IBM are so focused on the auto-racing laboratory, where quality and speed play such an important role in victory. We are very excited about this win that demonstrates the power of PLM Solutions from IBM and Dassault Systemes. One of our primary goals here at IBM is to create value for customers by providing them with the most powerful tools to leverage knowledge and innovation. With CATIA V5 backed by the strength of IBM service and support, Subaru has the power to innovate in car design and dominate on the track. The proof is Subaru's fantastic fifth title at the FIA World Rally. By relying on IBM and Dassault Systemes, Subaru has positioned itself in first place." "We are proud that Subaru and Richard Burns, the new world champion, have selected CATIA", said Etienne Droit [French, Justice, right, law.] A term denoting the abstract concept of law or a right. Droit is as variable a phrase as the English right or the Latin jus. It signifies the entire body of law or a right in terms of a duty or obligation. , Executive Vice-President of Dassault Systemes, Sales and Marketing. "Their choice confirms once again Dassault Systemes' foresight and leadership in delivering strategic 3d PLM Solutions, based on V5 technology, to the automotive industry. The Dassault Systemes and IBM partnership with Subaru is a real opportunity for us to further develop and implement innovative technologies." About The Subaru World Rally Team Established in 1958, Subaru has been part of the world rally scene for just over two decades but has already become one of the legends of the sport. The major successes achieved by Subaru on the World Rally Championship have come from the Impreza model range, run by Banbury-based Prodrive. Subaru has gained an enviable reputation for cutting-edge, innovative design and is the only manufacturer to have contested the World Championship solely with four-wheel-drive cars. As well as developing some of the world's most admired road and rally cars, the Subaru World Rally Team has also launched the careers of a number of the sport's top drivers, such as Richard Burns and Colin McRae. Former World Champions Ari Vatanen, Juha Kankkunen, Carlos Sainz and Didier Auriol have also driven for the team. Further information on the team as well as rights-free high-resolution photographs can be found at http://www.swrt.com Stephen Webb, Subaru World Rally Team PR Manager E-mail: stephen.webb@swrt.com 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 (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.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. The 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 (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 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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