CATIA is Dassault Systèmes Pioneer Brand and the World’s leading solution for Product Design and Innovation. Several thousands of companies in multiple industries Worldwide have already chosen the Virtual Design capabilities of CATIA products to ensure their products Real Success. CATIA delivers solutions for the enterprise from large OEMs through their supply chains to Small and Medium Businesses.

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 V5R21 continues to extend and enhance its industry leading PLM technology portfolio for manufacturers and their interaction with factory processes through the delivery of two new product introductions and highlighted enhancements.

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.

Also from the Dassault stable, SmarTeam has the unique capability of interfacing with virtually EVERY known CAD/CAM product, to provide complete control over the end-to-end management of the product development process.

SmarTeam is a revolutionary web-enabled solution, providing easy and cost-effective collaborative data management and product development. SmarTeam gives an organization the ability to collaborate on vital product data within their extended enterprise and across the global supply chain.

In modern manufacturing organizations, product definition has been extended beyond geographical boundaries, with extended enterprises involved in the product development process and in worldwide manufacturing. In addition, supply chains have become complex to manage as they too become more globalized. These demands make a complete e-business product information collaboration solution essential.

SmarTeam gives your supply chain the power to collaborate as a virtual product community with the click of a mouse. A Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC) solution, SmarTeam allows companies to communicate and collaborate across the extended enterprise and supply chain, with remote personnel, OEM vendors and more, providing a business-to-business solution connecting all engineering, manufacturing, procurement and sales.

SmarTeam, the core of our PDM/CPC Solution, is the leading Windows-based, web-centric product data and workflow management solution for manufacturing businesses and departments of large enterprises.

Additional 3rd party integrations to SmarTeam are available for the following popular CAD applications:  CATIA TeamPDM1, developed by SmarTeam parent company, Dassault Systèmes, provides complete collaborative PDM capabilities for users of CATIA V5.  PTC’s Pro/ENGINEER   UGS/EDS’ Unigraphics   CoCreate’s ME10   Helix’s MicroCADAM.

It delivers easy to use search, navigation, and collaboration capabilities that provide a real-time snapshot of product status across the enterprise and throughout the lifecycle. Easy and fun to use, 3DLive revolutionizes Product Lifecycle Management – putting knowledge at your fingertip and contextually connecting you to the product ecosystem.

CATIA CAD CAM CNC Design Consultants, South Africa Standard Parts library seamlessly integrated to all the main CAD software: CATIA V5, SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge, Mechanical Desktop, thinkdesign, TopSolid, AutoCAD and GRANITE (Pro/ENGINEER), Parasolid, ACIS, STEP, IGES formats.

Content

Millions of manufacturers’ and standard parts (ASCO/JOUCOMATIC, BOSCH, BOUTET, EMILE MAURIN, FAIRCHILD FASTENERS, FESTO, FIBRO, HASCO, HP SYSTEMS, INA, LEGRIS, NADELLA, NORELEM, NSK, PARKER, PAULSTRA, PNEUMAX, RABOURDIN, SIAM-RINGSPANN, SKF, SMC, SNR, 85 + BS, NF, DIN, ISO, UNI, ANSI, ASME=85), essential for mechanical design in the machinery, aerospace and automotive industries: fasteners, shaft ends, keys, gears, bearings, cylinders, flanges, reducers, elbows, electrical motors, fittings, profiles, sections, mold bases and equipment, … with hundreds of technical data sheets.

Power

you can use different search engines and a real-time 3D viewer to quickly browse the huge parts database: the correct component is correctly inserted from the first time

Integration

you launch Trace Parts directly from your CAD software and the selected parts are automatically inserted into your assembly, with all their detailed Bill Of Materials data (part name, reference, manufacturer, standard, mass, …)

2D views

once the part has been selected, you can automatically generate all its 2D views in either DWG or DXF format

Multilingual

your can change Trace Parts language in just a few seconds (English, Italian, German, Spanish, French or Dutch)

Updates

you can download new parts catalogs and product updates through an exclusive maintenance contract, rapid access to international standard and manufacturers’ components, and the ability to insert them easily allows designers to dedicate their time fully to the design process, thereby improving productivity

Established in 1989 as a Technology Development Center for the metal stamping industry, Forming Technologies Incorporated (FTI) is a world leader in providing OEM’s and part suppliers with innovative software and training solutions designed to reduce the development time and cost of parts and tooling. For many customers, these solutions have resulted in millions of dollars in cost savings.

FTI’s Forming and Costing Software Solutions have been subjected to years of validation and refinement. It’s speed and ease of use empower the user to identify potential product, process and tooling changes, as well as cost improvements prior to completing the part or tooling design.

CATFORM is based on FTI’s popular FASTFORM formability analysis software. It’s integration with CATIA V5 provides a powerful tool for identifying formability problems and blank shapes in sheet metal parts without leaving CATIA’s environment.

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