IBM and Dassault Systemes Announce CATIA Version 5 Release 10 pdf

IBM and Dassault Systemes Announce
CATIA Version 5 Release 10

CATIA V5R10 expands scope of PLM to include small and medium
sized businesses and extends business process optimization

Paris, France - October 29, 2002 - IBM and Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext
Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) today announced the release of CATIA Version 5 Release 10
(V5R10), their leading product lifecycle management solution for collaborative product
development. As part of their global V5R10 PLM release (including ENOVIA and
SMARTEAM) and Dassault Systemes’ DELMIA solution, CATIA V5R10 enables best
practices deployment for collaborative product development.

CATIA V5R10 contributes to the V5R10 “Connected by Knowledge” core concept through the
pervasiveness of knowledge in CATIA V5R10 products as well as the new BKT product
(Business Process Knowledge Template) that enables customers to capture and deploy their
best practices through custom-built applications. CATIA V5R10 highlights also include entry
PLM products for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), extended end-to-end
processes coverage for OEMs, and a CATIA-ENOVIA Work Package Exchange for supply
chain collaboration.

“CATIA V5R10 is an extremely significant release because it expands the scope of PLM to
cover businesses of all sizes,” said Dominique Florack, executive vice president of research
and development at Dassault Systemes. “With CATIA’s V5R10 Entry PLM products, SMBs
can gain the same competitive advantages of shorter development cycles and lower costs
that industry-leading manufacturers already enjoy. In addition, the increased integration of
CATIA V5R10 with Dassault Systemes’ other 3D PLM solutions enables new levels of
collaboration across the extended enterprise.“

CATIA V5R10 - Value to the Customer

The CATIA V5R10 products and enhancements listed below are grouped according to the
five Fundamentals of 3D PLM. The fundamentals are the core elements of the Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) business model that bring value to a customer.

Process-Centric
: basing customer solutions on industry-specific processes
• Improved Entry PLM process coverage with six new Platform 1 (P1) entry-level
products, improved SMARTEAM Integration, and optimized solutions for small and
medium businesses (SMBs).
o Large assembly management, Drafting, Welding, and Electrical dedicated
solutions have been strengthened for Industrial Machinery and Industrial
Components. Shape Design solutions have been enhanced to improve Plastic
Parts processes and to provide dedicated configurations for Consumer Goods
industries.
o The new "Electrical Harness Installation" and "Generative Shape Design" P1
products extend Entry CAD/CAM/CAE solutions.
o The new "Part Design Feature Recognition" product facilitates entry PLM
users to retrieve data in multiple formats and modify it in an integrated
environment.
o Large assembly management capacity and performance has been enhanced
with an update of Assembly Design in visualization mode; new drafting
generation on tessellated representations (.CGR files), use of occlusion-culling
technology (only relevant data loaded and updated); and extended interactive
drafting performance on large drawings.
o The new "CATIA - Styled Mechanical Design 1” configuration is a product
creation package specifically created for the Consumer Goods domain. The
solution includes comprehensive Part and Assembly design products, as well
as advanced surface creation and healing tools, and associative drawing
extraction capabilities.

• Enhanced domain-specific process coverage with 13 new products and 82 enhanced
applications for the automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, and E&E industries.
o The Automotive Body-in-White process has been enhanced with improved 3D
tolerancing as well as thickness and orientation surface management within
the "Generative Shape Design" product
o The Automotive Body-in-White Design to Manufacturing process has improved
with the new "Automotive Body-in-White Fastening" product that supports
welding technologies and mechanical fastening.
o Detailed 3D design in Powertrain/Consumer Goods/Plastic Parts has been
expanded with blend vertex fillets and functional tolerances generation from
sketcher feature parameters.
o The end-to-end Automotive and Aerospace Harness engineering process has
been completed with the new "Electrical Harness Flattening" product that
enables design manufacturability validation and downstream drafting
generation.
o
V5R10 delivers enhancements in the NC manufacturing domain:
improvements in 3-axis and 5-axis operations mean a shorter manufacturing
cycle; the new "Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant" product extends
manufacturing process coverage with advanced NC feature recognition
techniques.


Collaborative Workspaces: delivering a shared, real-time, 3D working environment
• More efficient collaborative engineering through expanded publication mechanisms,
assembly links management, and relational design. The improved V5R10 collaborative
workspace raises relational design to new levels by spanning all product design phases,
from conceptual design (small number of high-level engineers) to detailed design (many
designers across an extended enterprise).
• Better supply chain collaboration with CATIA - ENOVIA Work Package Exchange. The

Exchange enables OEMs to exchange their ENOVIA-based product data with suppliers
that do not use ENOVIA (and retain its integrity).
• Greater ability to manage heterogeneous and multi-CAD environments through feature
recognition, healing, and multiCAD generative drafting capabilities.
• Simplified implementation of best practices through CATIA's enhanced capacity to
capture and reuse corporate standards.

Product, Process, Resources Model (PPR): integrating product development, business
processes, and resources
• Greater CATIA-ENOVIA integration with increased ability to capture and manage
analysis results, kinematics definitions, and Knowledge-driven products.
• Expanded CATIA-DELMIA integration with the "Tolerance Analysis of Deformable
Assembly" product. Processes and resources defined and managed in DELMIA can
now be directly used and simulated in CATIA.

Knowledge
: capturing, sharing, and reusing information
• Unique ability for customers to create process-driven applications. V5R10 CATIA
Business Process Knowledge Templates now enable companies to interactively,
capture and reuse their best practices within their own custom-build applications.

CAA V5
: encouraging development of other PLM solutions by independent software vendors
• Growing openness of the V5 architecture is demonstrated through the ever-increasing
number of key players adopting the V5 architecture.
• Thirty-five CAA V5 software partners have created more than 50 integrated products
with another 45 under development.CAA V5 now supports seven different operating
systems used to build and run CAA V5 based applications.

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About Dassault Systemes
As world leader in 3D PLM (three-dimensional Product Lifecycle Management) solutions, the Dassault
Systemes group brings value to more than 55,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D
software market since 1981, Dassault Systemes develops and markets 3D PLM application software
and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire life cycle of
products from conception to retirement. Its offering includes 3D PLM integrated solutions for product
development (CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SMARTEAM), mainstream product design tools
(SolidWorks), and 3D components (SPATIAL). Dassault Systemes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY)
and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges.
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