PSA Peugeot Citroen Chooses CATIA and ENOVIA VPM Solutions for its Numeric Modeling Platforms
PARIS--July 12, 2001--In order to get its cars to market more quickly and efficiently, PSA Peugeot Citroen decided in 1998 to implement a digital modeling strategy, "Ingenum," which they unveiled publicly today. This automotive development strategy relies heavily on ENOVIA VPM (Virtual Product Modeling), developed by Dassault Systemes and sold and supported by IBM as its primary VPM e-collaboration for its CATIA based-numeric modeling platform.
Today, ENOVIA VPM allows over 2000 users in various domains throughout PSA Peugeot Citroen's extended enterprise to have real-time access to the 3D digital models of future vehicles created using CATIA applications. Jean-Jacques Urban-Galindo, Director of the Ingenum Project, PSA Peugeot Citroen explains, "We are now in an information sharing mode. All our CATIA 3-D designs are on-line throughout every engineering stage. As a design matures, the different development teams can collaborate with the others online. This spans beyond the initial conception. It includes verification of manufacturability using advanced simulation to the final manufacturing bill of materials. This dramatically reduces the time from order to delivery and makes us much more competitive, allowing us to reinforce our position as Europe's second largest car maker."
The first step of the Ingenum project was to empower engineers with dynamic information. "Our ambitious strategy consisted of providing our digital modeling engineers with the ability to interface and share 3D designs on line within their teams and also with the part referencing and purchasing departments in order to reduce development time, increase cost-effectiveness, while increasing quality, as well," continued Urban-Galindo.
Today, PSA Peugeot Citroen is reaping the benefits of this operation with streamlined processes, allowing the car manufacturer to roll out appealing and competitive new models in less than two years after the initial stages of the design process.
The company is now undertaking the next phase of its Ingenum project: the wide-scale roll-out of ENOVIA VPM e-collaboration. Said Urban-Galindo, "We are confident that rapid and easily accessible data exchange will allow tooling and other material resource suppliers to react more quickly up and down the supply chain."
Dassault Systemes, IBM and PSA Citroen worked hand-in-hand to adapt ENOVIA VPM to the complex demands of the carmaker's automotive development teams, including specialized configuration management tools. PSA Peugeot Citroen's digital models are already on-line for internal usage throughout the company. Using ENOVIA VPM, some suppliers can already reference these models on secure websites, depending on extremely precise access control mechanisms, allowing certain designs to be available to specifically-assigned suppliers.
"This joint sharing of timing-related information," said Urban-Galindo, "will soon provide our suppliers with real-time visibility to our design changes. The faster suppliers can react to these changes, particularly materials suppliers, the greater the impact in terms of both time and cost savings as we increasingly remove time lags from the process."
"The main goal here at Dassault is to provide businesses with solutions that enable greater business efficiency, faster time to market, and the ability to offer more customized products, with easy access to a wealth of product and business information up and down the supply chain. PSA Peugeot Citroen's success proves that we are achieving this objective," said Etienne Droit, Vice President of Marketing, Dassault Systemes. "Ahead of the initial schedule, PSA Peugeot Citroen generalized the most competitive practices to date, such as the Digital Mock-up, Design in context and Generative Engineering. By optimizing the business processes first within the company to then extend them to its suppliers, PSA has leveraged e-business by deploying proven business practices."
Jean-Marc Deshays, Director West Region, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, commented, "IBM and Dassault Systemes now provide the automotive industry with total integration of information throughout the lifecycle of a product -- from design through manufacture and distribution, to end customers and web-linked service providers. This new generation of business solutions comes under the label Product Lifecycle Management."
CATIA Solutions is the world's leading computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) software. ENOVIAVPM is part of ENOVIA Solutions, which provide collaborative product lifecycle management capabilities to create an open, knowledge-based environment that links companies, their customers and their suppliers. Dassault Systemes develops ENOVIAVPM and CATIA; IBM's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) business unit and IBM Business Partners worldwide market, sell and support them.
Peugeot Citroen, with it's Peugeot and Citroen car brands, is Europe's second-largest automobile manufacturer with a market share in 2000 of 13.7 percent. Present in over 140 countries, PSA Peugeot Citroen sold over 2.8 million vehicles in 2000. In 2001, the group expects to exceed this record with sales of over 3 million vehicles. On a worldwide scale, PSA Peugeot Citroen is currently ranked sixth and, for the third consecutive year, holds the leading position in internal growth. From 2001 to 2004, the group plans to roll out 25 new models, compared to 9 models introduced between 1997 and 2000. To learn more about PSA Peugeot Citroen, visit the site http://www.psa.fr
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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 modelling, 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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