Bring Innovation to the Forefront of the Design Process

14 July  2006

With the consumer goods market expected to grow by more than 12% per year over the next 3 years, manufacturers of styled products face growing pressure to produce innovative and eye-catching products. They have to increase collaboration, improve management of changing market requirements, reduce product lifecycle costs by minimizing the use of physical prototypes, eliminate data conversion and deliver the right products to the consumer on time.

Dassault Systèmes has tailored its Styled Plastic and Packaging (SP&P) Solution to meet the demands of manufacturers in the Consumer Goods and Consumer Electronics market with a complete and integrated portfolio of tools to easily create, simulate and modify complex and innovative product shapes. It is comprised of CATIA V5 for product design and simulation, ENOVIA SmarTeam for process and lifecycle management and a set of dedicated V5 PLM Practices in the form of training.

SP&P solutions feature two key products - Imagine and Shape for rapid creation of complex surfaces and Functional Molded Part dedicated to the creation of molded parts.

Phil Gray, Managing Director of Quadro Consulting comments ”Without a doubt, CATIA V5 is the best surfacer on the market… it is just fantastic. The latest modules like Functional Molded Part and Imagine and Shape are the icing on the cake.” With SP&P designers can rapidly innovate, create and visualize their products by taking advantage of subdivision surface technology and intelligent features. This helps speed up design time and improves flexibility when making changes. They can also use templates and design rules to increase productivity, reduce errors and standardize design methodology. With CATIA V5’s rendering capabilities, product changes, displayed in 3D very early in the design process, make it possible for designers to see the impact these changes have on the design. The resulting product is better in quality, more innovative and closer to the needs of the consumer. Finally, thanks to ENOVIA SmarTeam, the designer has better control over a product’s lifecycle through increased collaboration

CATIA V5 AND ENOVIA SmarTeam Best Practices for SP&P

• Conceptual Industrial Design for styling

• Surfacing Industrial Design for reworking styled surfaces

• Functional Design for the conception of molded plastic parts

• Photo Rendering for computing high quality images or animations for marketing and sales

• Reverse Engineering aimed at those who create physical prototypes for quick surface reconstruction

• 3D Collaborative Design for collaboration between designers