Dassault Systèmes

Fellbach, Germany and New York City, NY, February 26, 2002 - DELMIA Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Dassault Systemes, S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), and the Digital Manufacturing component of Dassault Systemes 3d PLM solutions, announced today that it has been selected to join the team developing the new A380, Airbus’ 21st century super jumbo aircraft, for the final assembly processes in Airbus’ new manufacturing facility in Hamburg, Germany. DELMIA solutions will be used to manage such tasks as material flow, ergonomics simulation and assembly studies. <br/>

 “DELMIA tools will be used to simulate and visualize critical manufacturing processes, unifying and integrating components from four different European sites be assembled at Hamburg”, said Peter Schmitt, Vice President, worldwide Marketing for DELMIA.<br/>

The virtual factory models of the gigantic lifting platforms must take account of the extraordinary demands placed on the ergonomics of each workstation, as well as the kinematics of the aircraft.  Every plane requires an assembly area of at least 80 meters by 80 meters and a height of at least 25 meters. <br/>

As part of the selection, a DELMIA project office has been established at the Airbus site in Hamburg, where DELMIA aerospace specialists are working jointly with the Airbus teams. In addition to the use of DELMIA solutions, Airbus is also using Dassault Systemes’ CATIA, for the design and development of their next generation aircraft.<br/>

 “With DELMIA, we have selected a system that mirrors the strategic aims of Airbus superbly”, said Carsten Rasch, who is responsible for digital manufacturing at Airbus Deutschland.  “We have already seen the benefits from our projects.  Our next step will be to integrate the individual applications into a digital factory platform.”

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Airbus is a global aerospace player with a workforce of approximately 45,000, mainly at sites in France, Germany, Great Britain and Spain.  This geographical separation naturally increases the significance of integrating different IT structures into a common database.  The first A380 is due to be delivered at the beginning of 2006 and the first flight is to be staged at the end of 2004. <br/>

DELMIA provides comprehensive software solutions and expertise for customers to virtually create, monitor and control agile, distributed manufacturing processes geared towards Build-to-Order and Lean Production practices. The DELMIA software suite contains alphanumeric and 3D-driven process planning, standard time measurement applications, human being simulations, robot and machine tool simulation as well as solutions for layout generation and material flow simulation. Such software allows development, screen-based simulation and optimization of manufacturing processes for single device, work cell, production line, and factory material flow up to Extended Enterprise production flow. Applications range from concept development phase to shop floor implementation and production management. The DELMIA range of simulation software packages integrates behavior models to be used in simulation, analysis, programming and control applications. DELMIA offers state-of-the-art technology to design factories on-screen, before actually building them. DELMIA serves industry segments where continuous transformation and optimization of the manufacturing processes are critical such as Automotive, Aerospace, Fabrication and Assembly, Electrical and Electronics, Consumer Goods, Plant and Shipbuilding. DELMIA constitutes the core offering for Digital Manufacturing and Production, serving the product life cycle. DELMIA solutions are interoperable with major CAD, PDM and ERP systems.

Information about DELMIA is available at - http://www.delmia.com

Dassault Systemes is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product life cycle from initial concept to product in service. CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA Solutions support industry-specific business processes to help unleash creativity and innovation, reduce development cycle time, improve quality, competitiveness and shareholder value: CATIA supports the digital product definition and simulation, DELMIA provides solutions to define and simulate lean digital manufacturing processes and ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources. The combined integration creates the Digital Product life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SMARTEAM Corp., as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and collaborative PDM software solutions based on Windows and the Internet. Spatial, also part of the Dassault Systemes family, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components and services (for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability) to meet the requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and B2B applications.

Information about Dassault Systemes is available at - http://www.3ds.com