Karmann Selects ENOVIA as Digital Enterprise Solutions for Managing Product Development Processes
OSNABRUECK, Germany and PARIS, France--April 12, 2001--Wilhelm Karmann GmbH, a leading independent first-tier supplier to the automotive industry, IBM, and Dassault Systemes announced today that Karmann has selected ENOVIA for the management of the company's product lifecyle management processes. The contract includes the purchase of more than 250 licenses of ENOVIAVPM and ENOVIA DMU Navigator as well as IBM services, installation and training. Karmann is implementing ENOVIA as key solutions in its e-business strategy to reduce product development time while improving product quality.Karmann selected ENOVIA after extensive evaluation. Karmann engineers recognized that ENOVIAVPM and the Internet-based ENOVIA Portal Solutions manage efficiently and effectively, in real time, the variants and alternatives of configurations, and roles and responsibilities of those participating in the product creation process. These products also allow Karmann's professionals to visualize, navigate, review and simulate digital mock-ups quickly, saving time and increasing responsiveness to customers.
Initially, Karmann will implement ENOVIA at its headquarters near Osnabrueck, Germany, where more than 250 users, all participants in the product creation process, including staff from technical development, manufacturing engineering, digital plant development, and non-CAD users, will be able to access product development data created in CATIA, the world's leading computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) software. Following the ENOVIA rollout in Germany, the company plans to install ENOVIAVPM and ENOVIA Portal solutions at its subsidiary in Livonia, Michigan (USA).
Michael Burrey, Karmann PDM project director, said, "ENOVIA solutions will enable everyone in the development process to share product and supply chain data more efficiently, facilitating collaboration throughout our extended enterprise."
Klaus Schaefer, Director of digital enterprise sales worldwide, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, said, "ENOVIA will enhance Karmann's ability to continue to deliver innovative, high quality products to its customers in less time. Along with CATIA, ENOVIA solutions are solid PLM building blocks for constructing Karmann's digital enterprise."
Joel Lemke, CEO, ENOVIA, said, "Today, with Karmann's decision to select ENOVIA solutions as their product lifecycle management solutions, we are very proud to contribute to the success of such a significant global automotive supplier. ENOVIA solutions will help Karmann optimize response time and cost in the development and market of new products within their extended enterprise."
ENOVIA solutions make manufacturers more competitive by helping them manage digitally all aspects of the product life cycle. ENOVIA Solutions enable companies to use continuous product innovation as a competitive differentiator.
Dassault Systemes develops ENOVIA and CATIA; IBM's Product Lifecycle Management business unit and IBM Business Partners market, sell and support them, worldwide.
About Karmann
Founded in 1901 as a coachwork company, Wilhelm Karmann GmbH celebrates a century of service to the automotive industry. Specializing in handling full service projects for automobile manufacturers, Karmann has extensive experience in all stages of automobile development: from development and manufacturing engineering of such complex projects as the design, development, tooling, production planning and manufacture of complete vehicles of all types, to niche vehicle assembly and the design and engineering of modules, components and tools. As a turnkey supplier, Karmann manages and controls entire automobile projects, applying its years of experience and knowledge in simultaneous engineering, communication systems, and project and quality management. The Karmann Group employees more than 7,500 people in Europe, North and South America. Information about Karmann is available at http://www.karmann.com.
About IBM
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About Dassault Systemes
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 SmartSolutions, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and TeamPDM software solutions based on Windows. Spatial, also part of 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.dsweb.com.
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