SERRA SOLDADURA (Spain)
Dernière mise à jour: 01/03/2004

Présentation de la société

Founded in 1934,the family-owned company Serra Soldadura S.A.has expanded from a small Barcelona-based welding systems workshop into a world-class enterprise with plants in Spain, France, Portugal and Brazil, and 800 employees worldwide, including 380 at its Barcelona headquarters. Today, SERRA is a leader in its field,designing and producing turnkey automated welding installations for the automotive Industry and big sized assembly lines and tooling in the aeronautic field. The company 's success stems from its continuous investment in personnel and technology, enabling it to develop innovative concepts for competitive foreign markets. Clients include major automotive manufacturers, such as Volkswagen AG and General Motors, Daimler Chrysler AG, Renault SA and PSA or aeronautics companies such as as AIRBUS.

The Challenge

Continuously and dramatically reduce time-to-market.

Substantially reduce costs throughout the supply chain - Capture company know-how to define and leverage company assets.

La réponse de Dassault Systèmes

To meet these challenges and become more competitive, SERRA's management decided to completely reengineer their design-to-manufacture processes.Their aim was to be able to reuse existing designs and validate manufacturing early on to produce the right product more rapidly. "We were looking for a unified PLM solution which combined powerful 3D product development capabilities with digital manufacturing solutions. CATIA V5 and DELMIA solution was the right choice," says Blai Felip, Engineering Director, Serra Soldadura.