9383-CM8 NORTH:Mise en page 1 28/07/08 11:37 Page B2 “What about putting a gym in the plane?” 9 Laura, age 10. mag 08 2008 Contact The DS PLM Magazine CATIA V6 Virtual Design for PLM 2.0 Arup Sport Pushing the Limits in Facility Design With 3D, your customers are your best designers. SolidWorks and SolidWorks Working in 3D lets you integrate your customers’ preferences into your project Consumer Packaged Goods DESign SA more easily than ever, even online. Together, you can create, share and expe- Out of Africa the US and/or other countries. rience your ideas - all in 3D. With Dassault Systèmes solutions, your company PLM, the Path to Innovation is empowered by a new, universal language to invent the product of the future. Discover SolidWorks, CATIA, SIMULIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA and 3DVIA at www.3ds.com DASSAULT SYSTEMES LTD Suite 9 -10 Riley Court - Milburn Hill Road Coventry CV4 7HP © Dassault Systèmes 2008. All rights reserved. CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA. All rights reserved. CATIA, © Dassault Systèmes 2008. are registered trademarks of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries3D VIA in TOLL-FREE CALL FROM A LAND LINE WITHIN EUROPE 9383-CM8 NORTH:Mise en page 1 28/07/08 11:37 Page 2 Editorial International 4 news • CATIA V6: Virtual Design for PLM 2.0 here are times when we all get 6 partner the feeling that time accelerates • Federated eBOM Makes Heterogeneous Tsharply. Since we’ve introduced Environments Seamless the spiral of innovation with our V6 PLM 2.0 platform early this year we, at Dassault 8 feature Systèmes, clearly have that strange feeling. • Consumer Packaged Goods - PLM, the Path to Innovation • Dedicated Solutions for the CPG industry We have now moved to the official delivery phase of our • Consumers too can create in 3D V6 solutions and the number of pilot projects where we • Managing Ideas with Integware introduce V6 is on the upswing. And the first results are • Technology at the Service of L'Oréal extremely encouraging: “ease of introduction, good perfor- • Barilla: from a Functional to a Process Approach mance, real openness, reliable, excellent V5/V6 compatibility, cool on-line collaboration tools” are just some of the 16 product comments we frequently hear during these pilot projects. • Dynamic Simulation for Multi-Engineering Systems • Volvo Cars: Active Safety From every standpoint, we are now convinced that the • BPA Business Development Increase evolution from V5 to V6 will be much, much faster than the the Odds for Project Success one we observed from V4 to V5. So let us all accelerate time and innovation with PLM 2.0! In this new Contact Mag issue, we hope you will enjoy discovering the value of PLM in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. Yet another new industry segment where UK, Ireland and SA the deployment of our V5/V6 PLM solutions brings lots of business benefits and remarkable return on investment. 22 in practice Make it yours now! • CATIA Drives PLM at Ascari Cars • Arup Sport: Pushing the Limits in Sports Facility Design • Rogers Yacht Design: Non-Stop Around the World • DESign SA: Out of Africa DENIS SENPÉRÉ 30 academics Senior Vice-President • The Nuts and Bolts of Cognition Dassault Systèmes] Contact mag The DS PLM Magazine published by Dassault Systèmes 9 quai Marcel Dassault - 92150 Suresnes - France • Publication Executive: Denis Senpéré • Publication Manager: Céline Pérès • Editorial Board: Frédéric Lefebvre, Alain Floutier, Maryla Bachmann, Steffi Dondit, Lisa Granton, Jean-Marc Galea, Fulvia Vaccher, Corinne Hirzel, Irina Seledkova, Paola Briani • Photo credits: Dassault Systèmes’ customers and partners Cover image: courtesy of L’Oréal • Design and Production: Images et Formes • Printed in France - “ISSN applied for” To receive or to be featured in further issues Contact mag | n°9 3 please contact [email protected] 9383-CM8 NORTH:Mise en page 1 28/07/08 11:37 Page 4 news © Dassault Systèmes © Dassault Systèmes © PSA By Pascal Turcq] CATIA V6: Virtual Design for PLM 2.0 To increase the odds of success, companies are harnessing the collective Property (IP) reference, react, and make collaboration faster and more easily than ever of this system so that the car comes to a intelligence of customers, marketing experts, sales people, designers and their modifications all together on this single before. For example, people who do manu- stop. CATIA V6 goes beyond the physical Schuler is adopting V6 engineers, before, during and after the product is defined. This provides platform, at anytime from anywhere. facturing will be able to work on the same aspects of a product and promotes a Systems Schuler AG is a leading global manufacturer of mechanical and hydraulic metal forming them with an undeniable source of creativity, essential in today’s • On-line instant collaboration for 3D brain - product as those who design or do digital Engineering or multi-discipline, collective storming: new tools enable everyone to simulation. This means that all actors use approach to product development based on products, systems and services. The company competitive business environment. CATIA V6 on PLM 2.0 allows is enhancing its V5 PLM solution by adopting identify other contributors, connect in a the same information as the basis for their a unique Requirements, Functional, Logical, this participative process of product development to happen. V6. Its different work sites throughout peer-to-peer manner, chat, exchange discussions. and Physical approach. Designers can, the world each handle different product snapshots, perform co-review and, most therefore, go further than modeling the parts and processes. The complexity of CATIA IS FUN TO USE with it in an intuitive way as if it were a real importantly, co-design to exchange design TOWARDS A SYSTEM shape, mechanics and equipment of a its products requires real-time data sharing Today’s young generation of video game product. It promotes collaborative innovation intent in 3D. ENGINEERING APPROACH product. With CATIA V6, they can model and decision making among engineers, aficionados naturally learn, play, and socialize between all the players in a company’s eco- 3D is the design media of choice for product and simulate the behavior of the embedded suppliers, and customers. They can in a virtual 3D world. Relying on the aggre- system with a new set of tools that address SINGLE PLM PLATFORM authoring and creation. However, at the software systems in a product. benefit from V6’s single PLM platform and connect on line from wherever they are gating power of 3D, they easily and intuitively creative product design by allowing access FOR IP MANAGEMENT modeling level most systems approach via a simple Web connection to work in search for and access new information, ma nip - and manipulation of the 3D product throughout Design data is accessible online from the virtual product design by mainly focusing on CATIA V6, A REVOLUTION concurrent engineering. This on-line remote ulate game characters and environments, its entire lifecycle. single PLM platform and is managed as objects designing the skin or shape of the product, AND AN EVOLUTION collaboration would remove the constraints and connect with other players on the internet in a database and no longer as documents. its mechanical functions and the equipment From what we have seen so far, CATIA V6 of replication and users will be able to to share their live experiences. Today, product GLOBAL LIVE This breakthrough in terms of data management that makes up the product. In reality, though, is clearly a revolution. Yet, it is also a natural share their work-in-progress together in designers have similar expectations: they COLLABORATIVE DESIGN allows users to manipulate the PLM objects many technologically advanced products extension of V5: the ramp-up time will real time in 3D. “V6 reduces the problem want access to all the relevant product data 3D is the ideal media for collaborative innovation. at the right level of granularity. This guarantees have “brains” or embedded systems that be short for V5 users and the transition in of bandwidth and latency time. All our from a live 3D session. V6 fully embodies Dassault Systèmes has put it at the center a better life cycle management between pilot the way they function. When you want methodologies from V5 to V6 very smooth. stakeholders could connect and work together simultaneously on the same these principles and offers the same pleasure, of the enterprise by making it accessible to those PLM objects and ensures true concurrent to stop your car, you step on the brake. This first release of CATIA V6 covers nearly product,” said Walter Knoblauch - PLM simplicity of interaction and feeling of comfort everyone thanks to 3D Live, the 3D portal engineering and higher performance online By stepping on the brake, you are actually 80% of the V5 portfolio making it ready Manager. And with 3D Live and the to business applications. CATIA V6 truly engages for all product development participants. creation. As an example, two users from two sending a signal to the braking system that for implementation in selected industries. In turntable and heads-up displays, Schuler in life like experience, bringing unmatched In CATIA V6, collaborative innovation is distant sites can work in parallel on the same pilots and coordinates the different components addition, with V6, customers have a portfolio employees, even non-technical staff, realism to product design. It provides everyone brought to the user in various ways: product without locking each other out as they that is mapped to their specific industrial would be able to navigate, understand with the ability to see the product at any time • On-line global collaboration: people are would in traditional CAD systems. The single processes •) and participate in product definition in 3D.