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News Release from: IBM
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 October 2004
PLM to improve mobile phone process
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IBM and Dassault Systemes has announced that one of the world's largest manufacturers of mobile and cordless phones, has selected their PLM solution as its mechanical design platform.
IBM and Dassault Systemes has announced that Siemens ICM, one of the world's largest manufacturers of GSM mobile and cordless phones, has selected their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions as its mechanical design platform for production of its cordless and mobile phone products Siemens will implement CATIA V5, for collaborative product design, and SMARTEAM, for collaborative product data management
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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These IBM PLM Solutions, developed by Dassault Systemes, will enable Siemens ICM to capture, share and reuse design information across its mechanical development and manufacturing environment, which includes operations in Germany, Denmark and China.
CATIA V5 and SMARTEAM will also help Siemens maintain a competitive advantage with superior technological know-how and product development tools.
"We undertook extensive efforts to compare and validate different mechanical design solutions," Hermann Thonhauser, vice president for mechanical design and development IT, Siemens Mobile Phones.
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"IBM PLM Solutions developed by Dassault Syst?mes were clearly the winner.
With CATIA V5, we have an application portfolio that is very powerful and gives us the most flexibility in terms of design possibilities and data reuse from one model to the next.
The SMARTEAM product data management solution responds to our need to store, retrieve and share mechanical product data among our worldwide teams." "Electronics manufacturers around the world are leveraging IBM PLM technologies to turn innovative ideas into business success," said Raoul van Engelshoven, vice president, IBM PLM, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
"Our solutions allow electronics manufacturers to develop products in line with consumer trends, reduce turnaround time and create customer loyalty with quality products that are priced right.
Accelerated time-to-market, innovation, additional revenue streams, and cost savings - this is what IBM PLM is all about." "CATIA and SMARTEAM enable electronics developers such as Siemens to capture their valuable engineering and manufacturing rules as corporate knowledge and optimise their end-to-end business processes," said Denis Senpere, vice president PLM Europe, Dassault Systemes.
"Knowledge reuse and sharing means Siemens can leverage its existing designs and significantly reduce product development cycles and costs." MDTVISION, a wholly owned services subsidiary of IBM, is managing solution implementation, training and support services at Siemens ICM.
"The Siemens name is synonymous with high quality and innovation - and this is what we aim to deliver," said Urban Mayer, CEO of MDTVISION in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
"This new contract, based on solid and long-term cooperation between global leaders, will impact the innovative product development processes at Siemens and surely lead to more breakthroughs in mobile communication for people on the go." * About Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group - the Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (Siemens mobile) offers a complete range of mobile solutions including mobile devices, infrastructure and applications.
Devices include mobile phones, wireless modules, mobile organizsers and cordless phones as well as products for wireless home networks.
The infrastructure portfolio includes GSM, GPRS and 3G mobile network technologies from base stations and switching systems to intelligent networks, e.g for prepaid services.
Mobile Applications cover end-to-end solutions for Messaging, Location Based Services or Mobile Payment.
For fiscal 2002 (September 30), Siemens mobile recorded sales of EUR 11 billion and employed approximately 28,600 people worldwide.
http://www.siemens-mobile.com * About IBM - IBM is the world's largest technological company, providing leadership and innovation throughout the world for more than 80 years.
IBM is the largest supplier of "hardware", "software" and Information Technology services, and pioneered the development and implementation of "e-business" solutions.
IBM Sales and 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.
* About Dassault Systemes - as world leader in three-dimensional product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, the Dassault Syst?mes group brings value to more than 70,000 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 maintenance.
Its offering includes 3D PLM integrated solutions for product development (CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA, SMARTEAM), mainstream 3D product design tools (SolidWorks), and 3D components (ACIS) from Spatial Corp.
Dassault Systemes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges.
Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.3ds.com A wholly owned services subsidiary of IBM, MDTVISION address business needs of companies of all sizes, in the automotive, aerospace and defence, general manufacturing and machinery, consumer product and electro-mechanical industries.
Customers can profit from a complete range of services designed to help them define, implement and maintain end-to-end solutions in CAD/CAM, PDM, document and information management, suppliers integration, digital factory and manufacturing simulation.
The service portfolio includes consulting, integration and deployment, education, user support and outsourcing of applications.
For more information, visit http://mdtvision.de/.
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