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Devised and developed by Dassault Systems in France, CATIA (Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application) is acclaimed throughout the world as the leading program for use in design.

CATIA offers unequalled scope of functionality, together with total integration of all its functions, thereby ensuring that its users are able to address the most challenging design tasks, and then translate those into realistic, manufacturable products.

Our Engineers have been to courses in the UK and we at CDC are now proud to be certified to sell you the latest technology and thinking on the market today. V6 is the future in technology and will help your business manage you data more efficiently, collaborate and communicate more effieciently as well as bring your business together from design, to sales, to production and through to your executives needing a top down view of happenings in the company.

DELMIA V5R17 accelerates collaborative manufacturing and introduces the V5-based Product Process and Resource (PPR) family of products for unified V5 access on the product, process and resources stored in the Manufacturing Hub. This allows DELMIA users to navigate and author manufacturing information in the context of the product definition and under lifecycle, effectivity and configuration control.

V5R17 boosts productivity in the body-in-white automotive process for OEMs and their suppliers, with concurrent process planning, integrated Gantt charts, and intuitive assembly line resources management. V5R17 leverages the design engineer’s specifications to automatically generate detailed shop floor instructions, significantly reducing authoring time, eliminating errors and improving accuracy.

With V5R17, DELMIA is delivering highly focused solutions for the small and medium-sized enterprise in Work Instruction Authoring and Human Task Simulation and Analysis, optimizing return on investment. Process coverage is broadened through new CAA applications in the domains of robotic coatings, inspection, off-line and on-line programming and integration with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

ENOVIA V6 a PLM Platform to Global Collaboration

Companies implementing a global engineering and manufacturing strategy are taking a hard look at how everyone, regardless of location or status, can collaborate across their PLM business processes. To solve this issue, ENOVIA V6 introduces the concept of “PLM online for all” that helps harness collective intelligence from business units, suppliers, and customers. This vision of “PLM online for all” is enabled in V6 by means of Web technologies. 

ENOVIA V6 is based on the Web technology principle of a n-tier architecture.  There are three primary tiers to the logical architecture, namely: data, application and presentation.  The data tier holds the application data (ENOVIA Database Server) and files (ENOVIA File Collaboration Server).  The application data acts as a single source of truth for all the information relevant to ENOVIA.  The second tier is the application tier, which handles the business logic and access to the database.  Last is the presentation tier where ENOVIA V6 is delivered to the user, over the Web.

A significant challenge in global collaboration is file access across multiple regions and continents due to the high bandwidth requirements for large files (like CAD data).  This is addressed in ENOVIA V6 through the use of the ENOVIA File Collaboration Server (FCS) architecture.  ENOVIA FCS allows a customer to deploy file servers closer to end users (ideally on their LAN, or high-speed WAN) for improved file transfer performance.  All the communication between the file server and the system or user (browser) is done securely through HTTPS.  The ENOVIA system automatically replicates files across file servers if the file at a local server is outdated.  This replication can occur on-the-fly as a user performs a download operation, or can be initiated proactively using background scripts.

The ENOVIA V6 engine identifies the location of the file and targeted FCS based on the mapping between the content being transferred, and the user’s default site configured in the system. For example, when Steve from London is trying to Check In a CAD file; the system knows to upload the file to the Bristol server close to Steve’s default site.  Alternately, if he is checking in a Microsoft Word document related to a project, the file would get Checked In to the Cambridge server location.

There are inherent advantages to a n-tier architecture as it is able to scale based on business needs.  Companies can start with a minimal setup with a single site and then grow into a multi-site environment with minimal changes to the ENOVIA V6 configuration.  With the use of Web architecture, product creation and collaboration is enabled for real-time, concurrent work across multiple remote locations with only a Web connection.  So a new employee in South Africa can access the ENOVIA V6 application hosted in New York and seamlessly start to collaborate with other employees and suppliers on different aspects of product design.

V6 n-tier architecture indeed delivers multiple benefits to the customer with secure global collaboration, scalability, enhanced file collaboration and system performance.  Please contact us for more information on ENOVIA V6.