Dassault Systèmes

Balancing increasing complexity with rising performance and quality requirements is a challenge at the heart of the product development process.  3D virtual prototyping as well as digital analysis and simulation allow development teams to digitally create a 3D product and its environment, then simulate and analyze its behavior to gain early insight into key factors that determine its quality and performance.

Dassault Systèmes' High Tech Mechanical Engineering solution, based on our flagship product CATIA, provides wide and in-depth coverage of all digital mock-up, analysis and simulation processes to test and validate a virtual product, as well as identify potential design flaws early in development.  From fluid dynamics and heat transfer analysis to realistic deformation simulation, we empower development teams with the best tools for accurate digital product evaluation.  The native integration between the design, simulation and manufacturing applications of our solutions bridges different teams to optimize design for quality and performance, while speeding the product development process.

One of the key challenges of the product design-to-production process lies in making sure that the parts designed are suitable for fabrication.  Designers need to have access to instant manufacturing information to prevent design flaws and manufacturing rules violations that otherwise result in higher project cost and schedule overruns. With our advanced knowledge management capabilities, manufacturing specifications are captured and embedded in intelligent templates and introduced early in the design process.  Manufacturing information is automatically taken into account in the design of sheetmetal parts or plastic parts, for instance, speeding design and avoiding design changes late in the process.  This enables designers to explore a wide variety of sophisticated conceptual design proposals while simultaneously integrating downstream technical constraints.