Archive for January, 2010
CATIA V5 and V5 PLM for Toyota Motorsport
CATIA V5 is used by Toyota Motorsport to drive design solutions for their most powerful cars. CATIA V5 has enabled Toyota Motorsport to accelerate their entire design and development process so much so that they are able to produce double the number of wind tunnel tests before a race.
In Formula 1 teams only have a two week window in which to cover the entire design cycle of a car and need a powerful set of end to end collaborative tools to keep up with the fast paced ever evolving pack.
Dassault Systèmes Turns on a New Site!
Dassault Systèmes has launched a virtual Energy Showroom
Here you can learn more about Dassault Systèmes solutions for the Energy sector and thier customers.
To visit the energy showroom, please click here... or on the picture below…
Should you decide to submit the participation form, please mention CDC as your VAR.
This new site is interactive
Over 80% of All LA Auto Show Vehicles Designed in CATIA
VW UP lite Concept Car
LOS ANGELES, December 9, 2009 Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that CATIA, the company’s solution for virtual design, was used in the development of over 80 percent* of all the vehicles on display at the 2010 LA Auto Show, open to the public through December 13, 2009. The use of the CATIA solution has proven exceptionally strong (85%) in the Green Ride & Drive vehicles, which are experimental models that offer high efficiency, low environmental impact or run on a variety of alternative fuels. The Green Car Journal’s 2010 Green Car of the Year, as well as the 2010 International Car and Truck of the Year awards announced during the LA Auto Show were also all designed in CATIA.
It has long been recognized that implementation of CATIA allows automakers to reduce vehicle development cost and bring product to market more quickly. In addition to bringing efficiency to the process, CATIA allows more time for innovation and testing of different design features that can help reduce energy consumption, such as rolling resistance, aerodynamics, and vehicle weight, to name a few.
As automakers endeavor to meet today’s aggressive emission standards, vehicle system complexity will continue to increase as hybrid and other advanced powertrain technologies become increasingly prevalent. To help with this, Dassault Systèmes next generation V6 platform provides an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to product development where all engineering domains and solutions are linked together in a common and dynamic engineering template. Components from multiple disciplines, as well as the numerous interactions between them, are modeled in the authoring environment of CATIA to enable dynamic simulation of the complete system via a virtual prototype. This allows all systems (mechanical, electronic, software) to be dynamically tested and validated together to improve system performance, reduce cost, and maximize reliability of these critical systems.
The L.A. Auto Show runs from December 4 – 13 and takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center. For more information, visit http://www.laautoshow.com/.
*Numbers based upon LA Auto Show confirmed vehicles as of November 23, 2009
CATIA V5 Used for Ford Global Powertrain
CATIA V5 has been chosen by many divisions of Ford for its ability, in all aspects ranging from world leading surfacing technology to the fact that everything is collaborative and all workbenches are unified. Design time is minimized by CATIA V5′s parametric modeling methodology and hence design changes now take a matter of minutes where in the past could have taken days. Ford has incorporated design rules to capture the company’s intellectual property within their CATIA V5 models and not with the personnel.
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