Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Drives Dassault Systèmes PLM Solutions throughout the Enterprise

05/25/2007

China’s Largest Automotive OEM Enhances Product Development and Innovation Capabilities with CATIA

Shanghai, China, May 25, 2007- Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), China’s largest automotive OEM, will deploy DS’s CATIA throughout the group: R&D Center and Suppliers across China; SAIC’s engineering branches in the UK and SSANGYONG Motor in Korea. The signing ceremony was held in Shanghai today at DS’s 2007 PLM Executive Summit.  Driving these solutions throughout the enterprise will allow SAIC to enhance their own brand car development, innovation capabilities and ultimately boost efficiencies and quality. 

“Thanks to the common architecture linking with CATIA, we are building a virtual product development environment where designers and production planners, no matter where they work, can collaboratively explore and validate design and manufacturing decisions. It is milestone for the cooperation between DS and SAIC,” says Zhang Xinquan, CIO of SAIC. 

“As China transforms from a ‘Made in China’ to a ‘Created in China’ economy, streamlined PLM solutions are essential to speeding time to market and product innovation, prerequisite criteria to gaining and maintaining global market share in the automotive industry.  This marks the biggest transaction of CAD business in China’s automotive industry,” comments Bernard Charlès, president and CEO, Dassault Systèmes. 

DS’s CATIA, the industry standard for designing the virtual product, enables users to simulate the entire range of industrial design processes, from initial concept to product design, analysis and assembly.  CATIA seamlessly integrates with ENOVIA thanks to DS’s open, component-based architecture (CAA).  This will help SAIC to easily deploy the next step of its PLM strategy, ENOVIA VPLM, which enables users to manage highly complex product, resource and manufacturing processes in medium and large extended enterprises. 

About Dassault Systèmes

As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 90,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes 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 Systèmes 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 Systèmes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit : http://www.3ds.com

 

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About Sanghai Automotive Industry Corporation

About Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation
SAIC Motor Corporation Limited (SAIC Motor), securities code 600104, was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in November 1997. It is currently the largest listed auto company in China.  SAIC Motor has a wholly-owned passenger car company and several joint ventures, including Shanghai General Motors (SGM), Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) and Shanghai Sunwin. It has a controlling stake in Shanghai General Motors Wuling (SGMW) and Ssangyong Motor. SAIC Motor also owns an auto financing company as well as companies that produce transmissions, chassis, electronic instruments and other related car components.