
For internationally successful products, today everything has to be just right – innovative technology, customer-specific variability, intuitive handling, highest quality, competitive price and a unique, brand-typical design. In order to make leading products ready for the market, you require an interdisciplinary team of experts that has the cross-company specific knowhow of the product and the manufacturing process and one that closely collaborates on a continuous basis.
Good for you if you use the allround genius CATIA for product development with which all development tasks can be effectively solved similarly and the consistent product data model of which consolidates all engineering disciplines without interfaces.
Whether your personal contribution involves industrial design, design engineering, volume or surface modeling, sheet processing, drawings, knowledge-based engineering, toolmaking, mechatronic development, 3D circuit board layout, composite components, electrical wiring, piping design, FEM simulation (CAE), NC manufacturing (CAM) or digital validation (DMU) – to name just a few – CATIA offers every user a custom-tailored solution for their specific tasks.
Due to increasing customer expectations and international competition, companies are forced to develop new, innovative, inspiring, intelligent and resource-friendly products in ever shorter intervals. The trend toward ever-more complex products with higher diversity and increasing electronic and mechatronic share subjects companies to entirely new challenges.
Many development teams therefore have to battle it out with problems such as these:
The CATIA mechanical environment offers comprehensive tools for the generation of 3D parts of all kinds – from cast, forging, processing and metal sheet parts to mechanical assemblies – on a centrally integrated infrastructure for the easiest online collaboration.
CATIA Shape solutions offer an extremely productive environment for the simple shaping and visualization of the design. It has comprehensive tool for esthetic forms of all kinds - to generate, test and change shapes from class A freeform surfaces to smooth manufacturing-appropriate shapes.
CATIA Systems offers solutions for the parallel development and integration of electrical, electronic as well as hydraulic and pneumatic systems within a digital 3D model. These solutions specifically suited for various industries extend mechanical product descriptions into holistic system specifications.
CATIA Equipment Solutions offer of series of products which enable the simultaneous development and integration of electrical and mechanical systems as well as flow systems within a digital 3D model.
CATIA Knowledgeware offers numerous tools with which developers can define, reuse and share their knowledge in the extended enterprise. In V6, Knowledgeware supports Lifecycle Management of company knowledge for reuse in design and manufacturing.
CATIA simulation solutions offer a calculation environment in which designers can independently perform and administer simulations. Linear and non-linear simulations examine the realistic behavior of models in various stress situations.
CATIA is the pioneering product of Dassault Systèmes. Today, CATIA is the world's leading solution for product development and innovation, used successfully in companies of all sizes, from SMEs to large-scale OEMs and their supplier chains.
CATIA V5 is the leading software solution for the development and the definition of the complete digital product model. Through its process-oriented scalability, CATIA V5 covers the entire product development process – from the concept idea to maintenance.
CATIA V5 PLM Express offers SMEs the quickest path to CATIA V5 including coordinated Product Data Management (PDM). The offered PLM Express packages make the choice for the optimum solution for all tasks and requirements easy. The preconfigured packages are based on task descriptions that support specific engineering disciplines as well as typical activities in the development process.
CATIA V6 embodies the the next generation of the now 30-year old success story and offers a comprehensive service range for the cross-discipline development and global collaboration in virtual development teams. The area of application of CATIA V6 goes far beyond traditional 3D-CAD software tools, as it conveys a unique digital product experience, based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It is used to plan all aspects of the product, to uniquely specify, multiphysically simulate, realistically visualize and thus make them fully comprehensible and assessable.
With V6 and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, various brands and solutions of Dassault Systèmes – CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA, CATIA Composer, DYMOLA, ICEM, EXALEAD, NETVIBES – are integrated via a consistent user concept and integrated product data model to a seamless solution.