Company Overview

To help eliminate churn and streamline its processes, Fujitsu turned to Dassault Systèmes (3DS) and its 3DS Mechatronics Systems Design Experience, custom built for the way high tech companies work. One key solution included in the 3DS Mechatronics System Design Experience is 3DS Requirements, Traceability & Test, which helped Fujitsu improve its data visibility, eliminate rework, and streamline product development from initial customer requirement to manufacturing.

The Challenge

Fujitsu Network Communications needed to speed time to market by eliminating inefficiencies in its requirements management and test case management processes while maintaining the highest level of product quality.

Dassault Systemes Response

Fujitsu chose Dassault Systèmes’ Mechatronics Systems Design Experience, built on ENOVIA Version 6, to integrate its requirements and test case management processes.

Company Overview

Terrafugia Inc. was formed in 2006 by engineers and flying enthusiasts to create just such a vehicle. The company is closing in on the successful realization of that dream with delivery of the first Transition Roadable Aircraft, scheduled for 2012. The Transition was conceived as a vehicle that makes aviation more accessible to private pilots.

The Challenge

Broaden access to general aviation by resolving the design challenges of a lightweight vehicle that is both a plane and an automobile.

Dassault Systemes Response

Terrafugia chose SolidWorks professional 3D software to design its Transition Roadable Aircraft and CATIA Composites Design integrated with Simulayt to optimize composite lay-ups to maximize strength and durability while minimizing weight.

Company Overview

The Stadler Rail Group is driving at full throttle down the road to success. The Swiss company, with its headquarters in Bussnang, delivers regional railways, tramways and rack railways precisely tailored to customer needs. Annual turnover has increased from 4.5 million Swiss francs in 1990 to an estimated 750 million in 2006. At the same time, Stadler acquired additional companies in Switzerland and Germany and opened a new site in Budapest. Currently Stadler is building a new plant in Poland, which will bring the total number of employees worldwide to 2,000.

The Challenge

As a rapidly expanding manufacturer of customer-specific trains and tracks, the Stadler Rail Group required a stable IT infrastructure so that several sites could collaborate on the same projects.

To meet as-yet unreleased crashworthiness standards for their latest GTW articulated rail cars.

Dassault Systemes Response

In order to implement a collaborative environment and create synergy between the CAD environment and the PDM system, Stadler Rail chose CATIA V5 and SmarTeam Multi-site.

Engineers validated the new crash module design through a combination of dynamic physical testing and simulations in Abaqus finite element analysis software from SIMULIA.

Company Overview

CAVE³ Electronics Research Center is a National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center at Auburn University. The Center focuses on research related to electronics design, reliability, and prognostics in harsh environment applications such as automobiles, military, defense, and aerospace.

The Challenge

To study drop reliability and cracking in solder interconnects under impact loading to develop more durable electronic products.

Dassault Systemes Response

Realistic simulation with the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) software from Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA brand was chosen for Auburn University’s study to evaluate drop reliability and cracking in all the corner solder interconnects, the most vulnerable joints to crack during a drop.

Company Overview

Incorporated in 1988, Lenovo is a multinational computer company that develops, manufactures and markets desktop and notebook computers, workstations, servers, storage drives, IT management software, and other related products and services.

The Challenge

Create a high-quality, reliably strong notebook while keeping cost and product development time down.

Dassault Systemes Response

Engineers at Lenovo use finite element analysis (FEA) early in the design process to verify product strength, choose between different versions, and identify and improve problem areas. SIMULIA’s Abaqus FEA simulations at Lenovo include modeling drop, shock, vibration, static pressure, and motherboard strain.

Company Overview

Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG is a world-leading provider of power systems and has established a strong position in global markets—civil aerospace, defense aerospace, marine and energy. In the civil arena alone, their engines can be found on 30 types of commercial aircraft, with more than 13,000 engines in service for 650 airlines.

The Challenge

To deliver robust gas turbine engines with consistent performance, fuel-efficiency, and short delivery cycles, while ensuring quality and reliability and keeping design manufacturing and maintenance costs low.

Dassault Systemes Response

Engineers at Rolls-Royce use SIMULIA’s Isight software to help identify the best turbo- machinery blade design solutions that meet all criteria. Rolls-Royce continuously chooses Isight for its drag-and-drop capability for creating simulation process flows, letting engineers link and automate.

Company Overview

The German-based TÜV NORD Group is organized into Mobility, Industrial Services, International, Natural Resources and Training and Human Resources divisions. These competence centers are in permanent contact with customers for analyzing, consulting and also developing and implementing customized solutions.

The Challenge

To predict fatigue and fracture in vessels, valves, and headers during temperature change and optimize power plant cycling and operations.

Dassault Systemes Response

Realistic simulation with Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA brand was chosen as the core solution for TÜV NORD’s Cycle Optimized Operation (COOP) program, which was designed to improve facility standards, performance and management. Abaqus has sophisticated capabilities for analyzing fluid structure interaction, fracture and fatigue as well as advanced tools for calculating crack propagation.

Company Overview

Z.Ma Research and Consulting is a structures and strength consultant specializing in using complex simulation technologies.

The Challenge

To determine the durability of powder-actuated fasteners used in the installation of steel roofing systems at ambient and fire temperatures without relying on physical testing.

Dassault Systemes Response

Abaqus FEA validated experimental outcomes for a highly complex nonlinear civil and mechanical engineering problem under combined thermal and mechanical loading with progressive failure prediction.

Company Overview

Jaguar Land Rover’s heritage comprises some of the world’s most iconic vehicles, including the Jaguar Mark II, the E-Type, and the Land Rover Defender. Having passed through the corporate hands of Ford, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has emerged within Tata Motors as an exciting, dynamic global enterprise.

The Challenge

Due to its varied ownership history, JLR inherited a complex and mixture of auto industry software from its previous owners, not scaled or supportive of JLR’s aggressive business plan.

Dassault Systemes Response

To enhance innovation and reduce development time, JLR has partnered with Dassault Systèmes to deploy Version 6 in a business transformation program called i-PLM.

Company Overview

Renault was founded in France more than 110 years ago and has since developed internationally. It designs, produces and sells a broad range of vehicles, including from 2011 a range of electric vehicles accessible to all that embodies the company’s commitment to the environment. The company is pursuing its strategy of profitable growth with associate brands Dacia and Renault Samsung Motors. Renault has a workforce of 121,000 worldwide.

The Challenge

Renault wanted an enterprise-wide PLM solution that would effectively address issues of standardization for its processes and design tools.

Dassault Systemes Response

Renault chose Dassault Systemes’ Version 6 PLM platform as the cornerstone of its global automotive engineering processes to support an internal program called NewPDM.