Local product life-cycle management (PLM) specialist CNC Design Consultants (CDC) has teamed up with vehicle producer Optimal Energy in the design of the first South African electrical car, the Joule. The plug-in electric vehicle was conceived by Optimal Energy and has been refined by automotive and design company Zagato’s Total Design Centre. “CDC is working closely with Optimal Energy to ensure a quality design,” says CDC MD Igal Filipovski. The car will reportedly go into production in 2013 and is on display this month at the Geneva Motor Show, in Switzerland.

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CDC (CNC Design Consultants) has been honoured with the ‘Business Partner of the year 2004′ award for the northern region that was presented to Igal Filipovski, managing director of CDC, by IBM’s Senior European executives, Raoul van Engleshoven, vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Mike Kuklenko, business director of EMEA Region North. CDC, IBM’s Business partner and reseller of Catia solutions to South Africa, was competing with all IBM business partners from The Netherlands, Ireland and UK for this prestigious award and was recognised for its excellent performance, over achievement and for being the fastest growing business in the entire IBM Northern region.

Mike Kuklenko, Igal Filipovski and Raoul van Engelshoven

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CDC’s Managing Director, Igal Filipovski, and Advanced Material Technologies Magazine recently discussed the release of CATIA V6 and what this could mean for the relationship between South African manufacturers and OEM’s. CATIA V6 was developed in response to continuous pressure from OEM’s to shorten time to market and reduce costs. South Africa’s very own electric vehicle manufacturer, Optimal Energy, will use the system to enter into production of it’s much-talked-about Joule.

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Post your 3D Creativity and Win an iPod Touch!

Post your 3D creation until the May 7, 2010. On May 19, 2010 a Dassault Systèmes jury including our DS Design Studio will publish the five best creations in 3D on our community website and the top three winners will receive an Apple iPod Touch.

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On 8 September 2005, at the Automotive Supplier Park Conference Centre in Rosslyn, CDC and IBM held yet another successful CATIA Tooling Seminar. The theme of this year’s event was ‘Innovate with CATIA’, and it addressed not only the automotive industry but also the growing field of aerospace. This was a direct result of recent developments that have created significant new opportunities for local tool suppliers.

During the course of the event, two extremely significant video clips were shown, featuring interviews with top-level executives from two world-renowned companies – Airbus Industri, and McLaren F1 Construction. Both these companies were forced to review their choice of CAD/CAM facility, both carried out exhaustive and intense benchmarks – and both ended up choosing Catia to replace their then-existing systems.

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