Strategic Manufacturing Planning Software to Help Reduce Costs
Wednesday March 7, 1:00 am ET

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. & FELLBACH, Germany
Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Volkswagen AG will implement DELMIA Process Engineer (DPE) software throughout its organization. On the basis of a group-wide agreement, DPE will be employed in all production sites for strategic assembly planning for the Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Seat brands. This will lead to improved planning reliability, shorter planning times, and a reduction of development costs.

"We are committed to enabling lean manufacturing processes in the automotive community and this deployment within the Volkswagen group demonstrates the value of our digital manufacturing solutions," states Philippe Charles, Dassault Systemes , CEO of DELMIA. "After several years of successful partnership with Audi, we are delighted to be working with all entities of the Volkswagen group on the implementation of DELMIA to further enhance the manufacturing efficiencies."

Process engineer is a key element of the 3D Product Lifecycle Management solution of DELMIA. This software, for comprehensive manufacturing process planning and target costing in simultaneous engineering, ensures high-level planning reliability along with optimized planning and implementation times and costs. It paves the way for an early and reliable overview by showing the production time and investment costs, production space and the amount of manpower required so that the time from product design to the production phase is considerably shortened. The object-centric Product-Process-Resource (PPR)-Hub database, on which this solution is based, allows for redundancy-free data management, which ensures consistency of planning information in all detailing stages. As a result, DPE leads to more planning reliability, shorter planning times and a reduction of development costs.

About DELMIA

DELMIA is a premier brand for digital manufacturing solutions, focused on two unique software applications that can be used to streamline manufacturing processes. DELMIA Automation provides solutions to digitally design, test and validate the control of a machine, workcell, or entire factory line and DELMIA PLM provides the process and resource capability to enable continuous creation and validation of manufacturing processes as related to the product throughout the entire product lifecycle. DELMIA serves industries where the optimization of manufacturing processes is critical, including automotive, aerospace, fabrication and assembly, electrical and electronics, consumer goods, plant, and shipbuilding sectors. Information about DELMIA is available at http://www.delmia.com .