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Fokker-Elmo harnesses CATIA's capabilities for aircraft electrical systems
The integrity of an aircraft's wire harnesses-lifelines that connect all electrical components-is essential to the plane's safe operation. One of the world's leading specialists in aviation electrical systems turned to CATIA Solutions to help assure the soundness of its wire harness design and manufacturing processes.
Real-time design means clear skies for Aircraft Engineering Corporation
At Aircraft Engineering Corporation (AEC), last-minute changes in producing tools for aircraft parts have moved from crisis to routine thanks to solid-modeling design in real time. AEC now does in hours with CATIA what used to take days or weeks.
Electroimpact
Electroimpact chose CATIA based on its ability to do fixtures, and handle large files, large assemblies, and lots of details and because of its wide industry acceptance. They experienced a lot of time savings.
Daimler-Benz Aerospace
Daimler-Benz builds space stations without physical prototypes. The head of engineering design said, " I believe that we could not actually do our job here with any other software package."
Korean Air
In the manufacturing division of Korean Air (KAL), aircraft components that appear today on computer screens as 3-D models will be in the air tomorrow as key parts of airliners all over the world. The world's three leading manufacturers of civilian aircraft, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Airbus, all rely on parts made by the KAL Aerospace Division (KAL-ASD), which, in turn, relies on IBM's state-of-the-art 3-D modeling software, CATIA**.
Per Udsen
CATIA Analysis reduces design cycle time for Per Udsen. Per Udsen is a prime contractor to the Royal Danish Air Force, USAF and other NATO air forces.
Stadco
CATIA greatly increases accuracy and is vital in compressing Stadco's delivery cycle. A tolerance of .005 inches was achieved for a width of 60 inches and a length of 216 inches.
Hamilton Standard
Hamilton Standard shortens cycle time by about 50%. They created the air conditioning system for the Comanche helicoptor. They design and manufacture engine control systems, environmental control systems, propeller systems, and flight systems for commercial, military, general aviation and space markets.
Alenia Aerospazio gets to top of the line with IBM and ENOVIA Digital Enterprise Solutions
Alenia Aerospazio uses ENOVIA to be competitive and to collaborate with their partners. Known for its participation in some of the world's most important aeronautic programs, Alenia Aerospazio is using IBM's Digital Enterprise Solutions as a foundation for reducing design costs and roll out time of its aircraft.
Sikorsky Aircraft
Sikorsky efficiently designed and integrated components from suppliers in six different countries with CATIA. The components were delivered on schedule at a cost savings. Manufacturing proceeded much faster than they anticipated.
Raytheon Aircraft Company
Digital design helps new Raytheon jet take flight.
GKN Westland
GKN Westland Aerospace (GKN WAe) is aiming for an information technology first with its plan to implement enterprise-wide PDM software.
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics Sector has formed a long-term alliance with IBM of the United States and Dassault Systemes of France. The companies will work with Lockheed Martin to create next generation, computer-based aircraft development tools and processes.
IBM and DASSAULT Systemes awarded Boeing CATIA contract
Boeing renews CATIA, committing to minimum 8000 seats. Boeing has the largest CAD/CAM installation in the world.
British Aerospace chooses CATIA for design of advanced military aircraft with a 13M Pound order
British Aerospace shortened design times, minimized expensive errors in assembly, and achieved high customer confidence early in the life cycle. The time for electrical wiring installation was reduced significantly.
Gulfstream
Gulfstream designs world's first global business jet with CATIA. The computerized mockups enabled them to check shape, size and fit of the parts as if they had already been built.
Coca-Cola selects CATIA V5 to meet new bottle design challenges
Coca-Cola was able to reduce design time by being able to quickly develop multiple variations for review and testing
JUN-AIR chooses CATIA V5 for silent compressors
JUN-AIR reduces product development time by more than 50 percent thanks to CATIA V5.
Smith Meter's 3D imaging develops 'revolutionary' product
With CATIA, Smith Meter developed a revolutionary new positive displacement meter for measuring petroleum product tank loading. CATIA improved communications and productivity and reduced the number of engineering changes which reduced the costs of design and production.
Oakland Community College features the CATIA dimension in its offerings
Oakland Community College prepares students to work in the automotive industry and upgrades those who are already working with CATIA training at the college's Advanced Technology Center.
3D design and prototyping at Windfall Products, Inc.
While significantly improving quality and lowering costs, CATIA cut development lead time by almost 50%. Windfall used CATIA to design and modify the tools that compact powdered metal into its proper shape for automotive parts.
Western Resources, Inc.: CADAM provides a lesson in co-operation between engineering and MIS
Western Resources CADAM implementation allows them to respond more quickly to changing needs and changing technology.
Solo Golf tops manufacturing leader board with CATIA
Solo applies aerospace and metallurgical knowledge to building a better golf club. CATIA allows them to reduce development time by 75% and production costs by as much as 60%. Some prototypes were so good they required zero modification and went straight into production.
Dresden church to rise from ashes of World War II
IBM worked with the government of Germany and the state of Saxony to create a virtual reconstruction of the die Frauenkirche using CATIA and other 3D IBM visualization tools. Already under actual construction, the cathedral has become a symbol for hope and peace.
Resplendent Abbey raised from ruins using CATIA: "La Maior Ecclesia"
Engineering students used CATIA and excavation plans and drawings to complete a computerized reconstruction of Cluny Abbey in just three months.
CATIA at Frank O. Gehry & Associates, Inc.
Thanks to CATIA, craftsmen understand architect's elaborate designs precisely. Costs were reduced by as much as 1/3.
CATIA helps Weidmuller Interface reduce time to market
Weidmuller brings products to market more quickly because design and production times are much shorter with CATIA. They've halved time on typical tool design and tool making.
Haden puts CATIA and CCPlant to work for Chrysler
With CATIA,Haden reduced interferences by 90 percent and saved 1% of cost overruns on the first project.
Schelde Industrial Engineers & Contractors Switch to CCPlant
Waste incineration produces energy to save about 300 million cubic meters of natural gas each year in the Netherlands. Schelde used CATIA to design this and other energy and environmental facilities.
Shipbuilding precision at Meyer Werft
Meyr Werft uses CATIA to make sure that shipbuilding remains an interactive process, that changes are consistent, and that the individually prefabricated segments fit together right down to their details.
Scania's "King of the Road" gets new V8 engine with CATIA power
Scania reduced the time taken to model a cylinder block by 75 percent and used the time saved to explore twice as many design alternatives than were previously possible. Similarly, they reduced the time needed to mesh an engine block from six months to two days, thanks to the new meshing techniques and better design preparation.
Renault now has more than 1,000 users and 700 licences in production
Renault up to 700 licenses for 1,000 users in implementation of strategic CATIA decision.
Grupo FICOSA couples security and reliability
Grupo FICOSA couples security and reliability while reducing lead time and costs with CATIA.
Scania optimizes truck components with CATIA
Scania optimizes truck components with CATIA. The CATIA ELFINI solver enables dynamic simulations to be performed to assess modal frequencies and to determine acceptable frequencies of the valve. The total number of iterations they are able to perform on a component has increased from 10 to 20. Over the last five years they have been able to reduce the time needed to mesh an engine block from six months to two days.
CATIA helps eliminate paper for DaimlerChrysler and UTA
CATIA helps eliminate paper for DaimlerChrysler and UTA.
Daimler-Benz Truck Division performs analysis with CATIA
Daimler-Benz Truck Division needed to leverage the use of computer simulation to better handle critical design parameters, such as vehicle weight and deformation of the trucks under static, dynamic and crash situations. Daimler-Benz TD standardized on CATIA as their main CAD/CAM system for the design of all truck systems and components. More than 2,500 CATIA workstations are installed today.
Chrysler
IBM's SPIN made it easy for Chrysler to extend its enterprise, communicate with suppliers, and put as much information on-line as possible. In its first year of operation, SPIN has increased productivity over Chrysler's entire "Extended Enterprise" family of suppliers by 20 percent, and has reduced operating costs significantly.
Chrysler - Virtual Manufacturing CATIA
Testimony of Daniel J. VandenBossche, Chrysler Corporation Commerce Subcommittee at Manufacturing and Competitiveness Hearing on Virtual Manufacturing.
3D design puts AlliedSignal in the fast lane in designing the latest safety restraint system
Allied reduced time to design a part from three days to two hours using CATIA solid modeling capabilities.
Business takes off thanks to IBM business partner using CATIA
Tool Design Services takes off thanks to an IBM Business Partner and CATIA.
Zagato - marque of success
The Centro Stile Zagato uses the CATIA integrated design system in every development stage of the product: styling, creating the model and virtual prototyping. New contracts were signed to double the number of existing CATIA seats.
ENOVIAVPM helps Bosch Braking enhance global product development
Bosch uses ENOVIAVPM to collaborate globally with dozens of designers, engineers, technicians and others to produce automotive braking systems and components involving thousands of parts, hundreds of suppliers and numerous product variations.
Fontana Group close to totally integrated factory with help from CATIA and IBM
Fontana Group close to totally integrated factory with help from CATIA and IBM.
Integration of CAD and FEA within chassis development at BMW
BMW realizes considerable time savings in development and testing of a vehicle with CATIA by first creating a purely digital form on the computer. Hard prototypes are increasingly built only after each individual component is checked and analyzed by BMW engineers with the help of computer-aided simulation.
Raufoss Automotive - Just in time, thanks to CATIA analysis
The use of CATIA Analysis & Simulation products coupled with complementary solvers such as LS-DYNA3D for crash and C-MOLD for plastic injection, enables Raufoss to perform complex simulations enabling efficient, flexible and fast product development.
The Brose Group gains competitive edge with CATIA
CATIA workstations are installed at customer
sites in France, UK, Spain and North America and linked to the headquarters at Coburg via ISDN lines. This enables up-to-date 3D models to be accessed at all times, and allows Brose to effectively service its customers.
Dodge
Pfaltzgraff - 3D Technology and Tradition Merge
Technology is serving the company's 200-year-old tradition of a hand-crafted look. The nuances and subtleties of the surfacing requirements for pottery design demand advanced capabilities in the technology we use. CATIA has provided that answer for Pfaltzgraff.
Feber
Feber has developed a highly integrated, focused approach to the design and manufacture of large molded plastic components. Feber cut design time in half using CATIA, and became much more flexible.
CATIA and ENOVIA speed consumer products to market
The design and development of consumer products is one on the most arduous tasks an engineer can face. Because every consumer is unique and competition is fierce, consumer products need to be innovative, durable and inexpensive to succeed. With that in mind, consumer product engineers have turned to computer-aided-design (CAD) 3D software to help them achieve these development standards. Using 3D CAD design, consumer goods engineers have the freedom to let there dreams come true, because its all done virtually at no cost to the manufacturer. This freedom is what enabled companies like Solo Golf to make golf clubs using the property characteristics of a supersonic jet.
Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries
Matsushita-Kotobuki designers used CATIA stress analysis products to optimize parts. Not one prototype was made and all checks to ensure the model could be assembled were done with CATIA.
IBM Adopts CATIA and Product Manager
IBM on track for productivity gains using CATIA and Product Manager. IBM Adopts CATIA and ProductManager to Support
its re-engineered hardwaredevelopment process"
Black and Decker UK
Black & Decker links design centers on three continents with CATIA. The ability to fit as many parts, and usually the most powerful motor possible, into the most compact space is essential for us so that we can design a product that fits into the user's hand with optimum ergonomics. CATIA allows us to satisfy this objective.
Frigidaire
Frigidaire is committed to using 3-D modeling and CATIA in all new products, and are implementing new CATIA applications, such as finite element analysis, to help assure the quality of those designs.
Flymo
Flymo has a robust platform based on a variety of IBM RS/6000 servers and Power PC workstations. It has upgraded to the latest CATIA release and has added assembly and generative shape modeling, plus CATweb Navigator which allows for on-site viewing of models well as suppliers access via the web.
SNE Enterprises
SNE has cut its go-to-market time in half, from one year to six months. With the solid modeling made possible by CATIA, they create a design model and then set up parts and assembly specifications without needing to use paper drawings.
IBM: Popular notebook computer owes success of keyboard design to CATIA
IBM ThinkPad 701C's rave press reviews, customer acceptance, and keyboard design success is owed to CATIA.
Samsonite
Travelers carrying the latest Samsonite product will pack their belongings in sleek, streamlined lightweight luggage that's arriving on the market two years early thanks to state-of-the-art 3-D design used by the Denver-based corporation.
Peavey:Design success in the key of C (CATIA)
CATIA.s strength in solid modeling means that initial designs are extremely close to reality. Peavey can simulate parts on the computer screen, do interference checks, and determine inertial and mechanical constraints.
By allowing designers to create "virtual prototypes", CATIA has helped them cut two months or more off the development cycle for most new products. Producing a physical prototype takes at least two weeks. Before CATIA, an average of six prototypes were created for each new product. "Now, we do one or two engineering prototypes and we.re done", says Goodman. "CATIA gives us a quality result on the first try. More than once, we.ve been able to turn our prototype run into our manufacturing run, further increasing our speed to market. That would be impossible without the power of CATIA."
Gentex
Gentex typically took three months from development to final tooling. With CATIA they were finished in about a month. The resulting design has been described as the most attractive low current-draw signal on the market.
Valmet, CATIA makes all the parts fit
Engineers who design paper manufacturing equipment at Valmet Inc. are making sure the parts fit precisely, without leaving their workstations.
3D Tubing Design speeds production of automobile assembly systems
Pico-Wisne now uses CATIA. Instead of relying on manual hit-and-miss shop floor operations, the design and shaping of bent tubing and placement of controls equipment and fittings are now all done electronically ahead of time.
CATIA and ENOVIA help accelerate machinery design
Companies whose industries range from railway rolling stock, to automated manufacturing and assembly systems for automobiles to creating dumpsters have found CATIA and ENOVIA to be highly beneficial when it comes to saving time and money.
Krebs engineers pick CATIA for ERP integration
Krebs evaluated several popular software solutions. In the end, CATIA with SmartTeam was chosen as the right ERP integration path.
Vanderlande industries, material handling products analyzed with CATIA
Vanderlande Industries used CATIA to reduce weight by 30 % while keeping the required stiffness and strength. It took them 2 weeks for prototype and 3 days for optimized design.
Claas Group projects 30% savings using CATIA for prototypes
Claas Group projects 30% savings using CATIA for prototypes
Goninan working to be first choice of Railway Rolling Stock customers with help of CATIA
Goninan recognized the need for integrated mechanical, structural, interior and electrical 2D and 3D design and drafting capabilities. The company installed Dassault CATIA software on an IBM RS/6000 platform. This configuration has proved to be an invaluable tool in the design of railway vehicles.
CATIA links design of heavy machinery and cars at Samsung Heavy Industry
Site visitation was part of Samsung's benchmarking and comparisons with other design solutions. In the case of CATIA, SHI engineers cited its use as a single platform for entire processes in car manufacturing. CATIA's leading competitor was used only for limited applications such as parts and assembly modeling.
Next Generation Shipbuilding with CATIA and ENOVIA
This story describes how companies are finding that by using CATIA Solutions or ENOVIA e-business solutions, they are significantly shortening and economizing the once arduous process of developing massive 300-ton ships.
Meyer Werft cruises to success with IBM RS/6000 and CATIA
Meyer Werft explored IBM RS/6000* and CATIA, an integrated combination that could offer a complete solution. Meyer Werft found this solution was not only revolutionary for design, but also extremely flexible and cost efficient for its IT infrastructure.
Tenix has designs on speed and precision of CATIA and RS/6000
Tenix uses CATIA to do automatic interference checking to ensure that no pipes or other fittings clash, and instantly review numerous other details related to the functionality and operability of the part of the ship being designed. Dr. Wright explains, "Previously, these checks would have been conducted manually with significantly less accuracy and speed than they are now."
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