Full blown Dassault CAD and PLM coming to a computer near you
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Mid-market engineering companies and small teams within large organisations can now get big boys' PLM, in the form of V6 PLM Express.
It's part of Dassault Systèmes' V6R2010, the latest release of its CAD and PLM platform, which, according to Dominique Florack, senior executive vice president at the company, also includes 42 new software products and "groundbreaking direct modelling capabilities and realistic simulation solutions for non-experts".
For him, it's all about 'PLM 2.0', which he bills as "an enterprise-wide business transformation catalyst integrating both industrial business processes and dedicated applications".
Deciphering that, the point is real-time seamless collaboration and online-enabled design-anywhere functionality, all enabled through a single, open scalable platform, in pre-packaged modules.
"V6's lifelike experience, IP collaboration, modelling, simulation and manufacturing solutions provide customers [with] an agnostic and federating platform that truly accelerates PLM 2.0 transformations," says Florack. "V6R2010 delivers the promise of our virtual universes through our unified open architecture and our deep understanding of collaborative and social innovation needs."
Renault user Odile Desforges, executive vice president of engineering and quality, agrees: "With the objective to transform our engineering processes worldwide, we needed to replace multiple existing solutions with a single, integrated and globally deployable one. We also wanted to concentrate on collaborative engineering for improved efficiency.
"After about one year of testing, we chose the full V6 portfolio because its integrated PLM environment perfectly responded to our requirements in terms of real-time collaboration and online-enabled design."
And tellingly, he adds: "We will deploy Dassault Systèmes' V6 solutions worldwide for the development of our future engines and cars from mid-2010. The scalability and openness of the V6 platform, its out-of-the box configurations and its easy-to-use intuitive V6 interface make it appealing. V6's inherent integration to the supply chain means our teams will be able to collaborate seamlessly with suppliers."
Also note that a key differentiator of V6 is to deliver the power of PLM to communities of expert and casual users. For example, Catia Live Shape introduces "revolutionary" direct 3D modelling, and allows even non-CAD users to quickly create design concepts in a lifelike environment, or to modify existing designs, including those from other CAD solutions.
Similarly, Simulia V6 DesignSight Structure makes advanced non linear finite element analysis technology available to non-experts.
