Archive for the ‘World Wide’ Category
Renault Drives the Customer Experience with V6
Renault wanted an enterprise wide PLM solution that would effectively address issues of standardization for its processes and design tools. With more than 40% of its engineers located outside of France in “technocentres” in Romania, India, Korea, South America and Spain, the company needed a global engineering tool that would allow its designers to effectively and efficiently collaborate around the globe… Click here to read the whole story
Jaguar Land Rover: Transforming its business with V6
Jaguar Land Rover’s heritage comprises some of the world’s most iconic vehicles, including the Jaguar Mark II, the E-Type, and the Land Rover Defender. Having passed through the corporate hands of Ford, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has emerged within Tata Motors as an exciting, dynamic global enterprise. A glance at the Jaguar C-X16, C-X75 and Land Rover DC100 shows the shape of things to come, while press acclaim greeted Range Rover’s recent launch of the lighter, greener Evoque. Turning heads from Chicago to the foothills of Kanchenjunga, Nepal, Evoque is a true…
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.
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.







