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News Release from: Dassault Systemes | Subject: Virtual product design PLM software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 August 2006
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Leading carmaker has streamlined product development and is more efficiently delivering innovative new products using virtual product design product lifecycle management software.
Microsoft Corp and Dassault Systemes have announced that Toyota Motor Corp (TMC) has adopted CATIA V5, Dassault Systemes' virtual product design product lifecycle management (PLM) software on Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition TMC's use of CATIA V5 on the Microsoft platform demonstrates the customer benefits of the global strategic alliance between Dassault Systemes and Microsoft
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 2 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Having Dassault Systemes and Microsoft working together is a key success factor for CATIA V5 on 64-bit," said Yoshikazu Amano, managing officer for Toyota Motor.
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"The alliance of the leader in PLM with the leader in computing technology provides us with a solution that extends the memory capacity necessary to design and review large assemblies, and ultimately enables us to deliver innovative products to the market more efficiently and cost-effectively." As a part of the design and manufacturing process, TMC requires huge amounts of data to support detailed and complex product designs and is faced with having to create and review large product models more accurately and quickly.
TMC first deployed CATIA V5R16 with 64 bit in its technical and production engineering department in May, with plans to expand the deployment in a phased approach.
As a result of the 64 bit environment, large assembly data can now be processed.
In addition, Dassault Systemes and Microsoft worked together to provide a mechanism that ensures 32 bit Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro would run flawlessly in the 64 bit environment, enabling to efficiently leverage existing assets.
Generally speaking, CATIA V5 on Windows XP 64-Bit brings customers the following advantages.
* Streamlined product development - virtually eliminates the need for the additional data handling often required on a 32-bit PC for huge assemblies and enables customers to load full product assemblies rather than partial assemblies.
In addition, customers can perform generative updates on very large assemblies and support advanced design methodologies such as relational design.
* Improved product quality - enables complex and extensive analysis and performs simulation on an entire product instead of multiple runs on partial components.
Customers can also support visualization and complex simulations of larger mockups.
* Reduced time to market - helps accelerate product design and simulation processes, reduces time to create or modify a design, and cuts the time needed for a simulation's computation.
"We are pleased to see the Microsoft and Dassault Systemes' relationship and the computing power of 64-bit benefiting global customers such as Toyota," said Sanjay Parthasarathy, corporate vice president of the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft.
"Today's announcement demonstrates how the winning combination of Microsoft platform technologies and Dassault Systemes' PLM solutions makes top-line product life-cycle management applications more accessible and affordable to customers throughout the manufacturing value chain." Etienne Droit, executive vice president of PLM Sales and Distribution at Dassault Systemes, said: "With CATIA V5 on Windows XP 64-Bit, our customers can make more decisions on product behavior at the virtual stage and on larger mockups, achieving significant improvements in quality, as well as reducing costs.
For better productivity and increased capacity, our customers require a significant memory upgrade, which CATIA V5 on Windows XP 64-Bit brings, handling gigabytes of data easily and quickly.".
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