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CATIA Mechanical Design Discipline

Technology
IBM defines technology solutions
Mechanical designAre you overburdened by your design system? Take control and use the mechanical design solutions. These provide a suite of applications and hardware that help you decrease development time and meet your customer’s demands. Your company’s design and modeling needs can be met in an easy-to-use, scalable environment.

The benchmark
Why IBM?
Mechanical design solutions offer easy integration with disparate systems. Together, CATIA and IBM software, middleware and hardware can provide powerful resources that can improve vital product development business processes:
  • CATIA V5, built exclusively for IBM by Dassault Systemes:
    • CATIA provides a proven architecture that enables you to leverage 3-D digital product definition and simulation.
    • The scalable architecture also supports users ranging from the novice to the expert.
    • 20 of the top 30 auto manufacturers in the world use CATIA.
  • Multiple servers and hardware that include the IBM eServerand IBM PCs, IBM ThinkPad® notebooks and workstations

The components
Technology and applications
Mechanical design solutions can help you integrate applications and systems to provide your organization with the tools to handle complex industry processes. Our solutions may include:
  • CATIA V4 and V5 -- families of next-generation CAD/CAM/CAE software solutions
  • IBM eServer systems that include the IBM eServer pSeries™ (UNIX®) and IBM eServer zSeries™ (mainframe)
  • IBM DB2® Universal Database -- a scalable, Web-ready database that delivers powerful e-business benefits
  • Hardware that includes desktop PCs, ThinkPad notebooks and Microsoft® Windows NT® workstations
  • Powerful software and middleware including IBM MQSeries®, IBM WebSphere® platform, Tivoli® and Lotus® suite of products from IBM
  • IBM WebSphere Business Integrator® -- a tool to help you integrate your business processes across multiple applications
  • Leading industry consultants to help assess and incorporate new technology into your existing systems and architecture

The implementation
End-to-end integration
Mechanical design solutions can help your IT department optimize its CATIA design and modeling systems by providing:
  • Process consulting -- impact product designs with overall process improvement, not just a specific technology
  • Methodology skill transfer --focus on specific industrial processes and best practice skills
  • Education and training -- teach your staff how to exploit application functions to better maximize your return on investment
  • Implementation services -- install and customize your engineering design environments
  • Customer support
  • IBM Global Financing

The cost of ownership
Effective management
Mechanical design solutions can help you manage your systems more effectively by offering:
  • The ability to leverage your existing technology investments to provide an end-to-end solution
  • Single-tier architecture to manage the design process and save IT resources
  • Easy integration through a rich set of standards-based software applications and hardware designed to operate with emerging technology -- so you can capitalize on your investment as you grow

CATIA Mechanical Design

CATIA Mechanical Design business benefits

CATIA Mechanical Design discipline overview