Toyota Motor Experiences the Power of CATIA V5 on Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition
18 Julho 2006 - 3:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Leading carmaker streamlines product development and more
efficiently delivers innovative new products with Dassault
Systemes' solution on the Microsoft platform. TOKYO, July 18
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at the 2006 Japanese CATIA Forum
(JCF), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq:
DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) announced that Toyota Motor
Corp. (TMC) has adopted CATIA V5, Dassault Systemes' virtual
product design product lifecycle management (PLM) solution on
Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Professional x64 Edition. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO ) TMC's use
of CATIA V5 on the Microsoft platform demonstrates the customer
benefits of the global strategic alliance between Dassault Systemes
and Microsoft. Announced in November 2004, the alliance provides
deeper integration between Dassault Systemes' V5 PLM and 3-D
collaborative solutions and the Windows client and Windows
Server(R) platforms to enable more flexible customer solutions that
are cost-effective, easy to deploy and easy to maintain. All V5 PLM
products take advantage of the familiar Windows experience but with
the dramatically enhanced power of 64-bit. "Having Dassault
Systemes and Microsoft working together is a key success factor for
our company," said Yoshikazu Amano, managing officer for Toyota
Motor. "The alliance of the leader in PLM with the leader in
computing technology provides us with a solution that extends the
memory capacity necessary to design and review large assemblies,
and ultimately enables us to deliver innovative products to the
market more efficiently and cost- effectively." As a part of the
design and manufacturing process, TMC requires huge amounts of data
to support detailed and complex product designs and is faced with
having to create and review large product models more accurately
and quickly. TMC first deployed CATIA V5R16 with 64- bit in its
technical and production engineering department in May, with plans
to expand the deployment in a phased approach. As a result of the
64-bit environment, large assembly data can now be processed. In
addition, Dassault Systemes and Microsoft worked together to
provide a mechanism that helps ensure 32-bit Visual Basic(R) for
Applications (VBA) macros would run flawlessly in the 64-bit
environment, enabling customers to efficiently leverage existing
assets. Generally speaking, CATIA V5 on Windows XP 64-Bit Edition
brings customers the following advantages: -- Streamlined product
development. Virtually eliminates the need for the additional data
handling often required on a 32-bit PC for huge assemblies and
enables customers to load full product assemblies rather than
partial assemblies. In addition, customers can perform generative
updates on very large assemblies and support advanced design
methodologies such as relational design. -- Improved product
quality. Enables complex and extensive analysis and performs
simulation on an entire product instead of multiple runs on partial
components. Customers can also support visualization and complex
simulations of larger mockups. -- Reduced time to market. Helps
accelerate product design and simulation processes, reduces time to
create or modify a design, and cuts the time needed for a
simulation's computation. "We are pleased to see the Microsoft and
Dassault Systemes' relationship and the computing power of 64-bit
benefiting global customers such as Toyota," said Sanjay
Parthasarathy, corporate vice president of the Developer &
Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft. "Today's announcement
demonstrates how the winning combination of Microsoft platform
technologies and Dassault Systemes' PLM solutions makes top-line
product life-cycle management applications more accessible and
affordable to customers throughout the manufacturing value chain."
"With CATIA V5 on Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, our customers can make
more decisions on product behavior at the virtual stage and on
larger mockups, achieving significant improvements in quality, as
well as reducing costs," said Etienne Droit, executive vice
president of PLM Sales and Distribution at Dassault Systemes. "For
better productivity and increased capacity, our customers require a
significant memory upgrade, which CATIA V5 on Windows XP 64-Bit
Edition brings, handling gigabytes of data easily and quickly."
About Dassault Systemes As a world leader in 3D and Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, the Dassault Systemes group
brings value to more than 90,000 customers in 80 countries. A
pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systemes
develops and markets PLM application software and services that
support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire
lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance. The Dassault
Systemes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual
product -- SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design -- DELMIA for
virtual production -- SIMULIA for virtual testing and ENOVIA for
global collaborative lifecycle management, including ENOVIA VPLM,
ENOVIA MatrixOne and ENOVIA SmarTeam. Dassault Systemes is listed
on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock
exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com/ . About
Microsoft Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses
realize their full potential. NOTE: Microsoft, Windows, Windows
Server and Visual Basic are either registered trademarks or
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countries. CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA and SolidWorks are
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the U.S. and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and
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+1-503-443-7070, or for Microsoft; or Derek Lane of Dassault
Systemes, +1-818-673-2243, or ; or EMEA, EMEA Rapid Response Centre
of Waggener Edstrom, +44-870-2430515, or , for Microsoft; or
Anthony Marechal of Dassault Systemes, +01-55-49-84-21, or ; or
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+81-3-5442-4138, or Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/
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