Engineering is critical to Business Success

With significant global competition, it is hard for companies to bring new products to market that will stand out.

The world has gotten smaller, and with technology advancements, many small companies now have access to resources that used to be only available to the largest companies, but they need to make sure they are using the right technology to get that competitive edge. Meanwhile, large companies need to stay ahead to protect their market share. The key to bringing competitive products to market lies in engineering.

CATIA Engineering provides the platform, which enables engineers to create any type of 3D assembly, for a wide range of engineering processes.

 

CATIA Engineering Key Benefits

Model Anything

CATIA is known for its high geometric accuracy. It is so robust; engineers can quickly iterate without the model failing.

Reuse Geometry

CATIA makes working with MultiCAD data easy and supports reverse engineering.

Work on Large Assemblies

3DEXPERIENCE CATIA ensures efficient assembly design and fast retrieval of large assemblies.

Manage Product Data and Adapt to Differing Needs

3DEXPERIENCE CATIA integrates PLM, so engineers never leave the design environment

Learn It Easily

Contextual menus, streamlined commands, action pad, and consistent logic enhance user efficiency

10 reasons 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA gives engineers an advantage

Engineering is key. Engineers need to focus on numerous reasons why customers buy their products. Innovation is critical to success as it is the biggest differentiator between Top Performers and others. Explore how the combination of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform powerful capabilities will empower mechanical engineers to develop more competitive, more profitable products.

3DEXPERIENCE CATIA offers all the tools mechanical engineers need to achieve any design, regardless of industry.

Realizing Productivity Gains

With 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA's superior modeling and assembly management capabilities, engineers can expect to see a 20% to 50% gain in productivity. Then, if you complement it with the unified modeling and simulation environment and powerful design for manufacturability capabilities, and tie it all together with integrated data management on a collaboration platform, you can expect an additional 30% productivity improvement, depending on your usage and industry. Explore the following disciplines.

CATIA Engineering Roles

CATIA Engineering software products are packaged as Roles on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to get you up to speed faster and work more efficiently with all needed applications available at your fingertips. Select a package that corresponds to your role in an organization.

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Concept Structure Engineer

Create agile and robust Conceptual Structure, from shapes to fastening. Explore it thanks to a one click simulation model and find the best design alternative.

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Consumer Products Composites Designer

Cut design cycle times of home and lifestyle composites parts by designing in context of collaborative loops while accounting for manufacturing constraints.

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Design Automation Engineer

Increase design robustness and productivity, reduce errors and optimize geometry, by capturing company know-how and best practices in all design processes.

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Eco-Design Engineer

Perform efficient Lifecycle Assessment studies and elect best design alternatives, respecting assigned goals to deliver performant innovative products

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Engineering Intent Manager

Engineering Intent Manager role enable you to enhance product definition by providing additional specifications to be consumed by downstream process.

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Flow Driven Generative Designer

Improve the efficiency of internal fluid systems by generating shapes that respect performance KPI targets, via a streamlined & intuitive workflow experience

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Frame Structure Designer

Optimize development cost for complex structural assemblies by easy evaluation of alternative “What If” design scenarios

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Function Driven Generative Designer

Increase & parallelize weight reduction trade-off studies of generated design alternatives with high accurate shapes respecting structural & thermal KPI targets

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Hydroformed Airframe Designer

With respect of manufacturing rules, accelerate the Hydroformed Sheetmetal part design in context of an Airframe assembly including model based definition

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Hydroformed Body & Chassis Designer

With respect of manufacturing rules, accelerate the Hydroformed Sheetmetal part design in context of a body and chassis model based definition

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Initial 3D Arrangement Specialist

Early definition of the general arrangement layout for ship disciplines like structure, steel outfitting, accommodation, equipment, electrical and fluid systems

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Interior & Exterior Trim Engineer

With respect of manufacturing rules, accelerate the detailed design of complex plastic parts mechanism, including model based definition and kinematics

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Lattice Designer

Design lattice structures in high performance parts, from conceptual to detailed, enabling structural validation, and output 3D printers readable format.

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Layered Product Designer

Create complex soft layered product stacking, with ad-hoc representations and very accurate weight monitoring, at all stages of the design.

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Mechanical & Shape Designer

Create simple and sophisticated mechanical projects with integrated part, product and complex surface diversity

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Mechanical & Shape Engineer

Increase your mechanical & advanced shape product design quality. Increase the number of studies for complex mechanism design and simulation alternatives.

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Mechanical Designer

A powerful set of applications built to create and manage sophisticated mechanical projects

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How to optimize your design with MODeling & SIMulation ?

MODSIM unifies modeling and simulation on a common data model within a single user experience on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The goal is to consider the whole product development process and break down barriers.

With  products becoming more complex, the faster you can validate your product by simulation, the more time you’ll have to find the best innovative technical solution. MODSIM enables a simulation-empowered shift-left strategy that pulls verification and validation upfront in the concept phase of the design. The design engineer can investigate multiple design options and select the one closest to the requirement specification. Engineering decisions are facilitated by visualizing physical simulation variants of multiple 3D model alternatives. By using the so-called Design Of Experience process, the design engineer reduces the risk of late-stage failures and reworks.

It's easier to do things like IP control with CATIA Product Structure: being able to give someone an assembly and then they can work in context within the assembly.

Brian McTigue

Digital Twin Project Lead, NIAR

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