V6R2010 focuses on accessibility, simplicity, and readiness to make it easier than ever to benefit from PLM 2.0. In particular, direct modeling, expert realistic simulation technology for designers, and the ability to model and simulate the dynamic behavior of systems debut in V6R2010.
V6R2010 delivers important product enhancements across the full V6 portfolio - CATIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA, ENOVIA, and 3DVIA - in line with each of the core values critical to enabling PLM 2.0:
Global collaborative innovation - expands PLM to include business users, as well as consumers, in a product's life cycle, using the universal language of 3D and the power of online communities.
- Customers now have the ability to use their own applications to feature tailored, 3D lifelike experiences. With 3DVIA Composer Player Pro (PYP), customers can now build customized user experiences leveraging interactive 3D documentation, such as Web-based or on-board service guides.
- Advances in program management allow a user to coordinate and simultaneously manage multiple changes within highly complex products. These advances ensure accurate execution of changes, global tracking, and complete traceability at the program level.
- Non-traditional PLM business users can further leverage their 3D content stored in ENOVIA by navigating and filtering 3D assembly data using the power of 3DLive to produce and update interactive documentation.
Lifelike experience - Advanced product innovation requires that a 3D product be experienced as it looks and behaves in real life, and that it has an intuitive interface that mimics real life.
- CATIA Live Shape, the revolutionary direct editing modeler, allows users to quickly create design concepts and modify existing designs, including those from other CAD tools, using direct 3D intuitive manipulation with contextual balloons. Collaboration with CAD specialists is simplified by the seamless integration with feature-based modeling.
- High-end, real-time rendering capabilities are delivered for all CATIA users.
- Significant technical illustration enhancements include the ShadowCaster color vectorization engine, which automates the creation of contour lines and shadows that a technical illustrator would normally draw by hand. In addition, industry-standard S1000D and WebCGM formats are now supported.
A single PLM platform for intellectual property management - Harnessing a company's collective intelligence, a key aspect of PLM 2.0, requires a single platform that can federate all product-related knowledge no matter where it resides, not just within the engineering and manufacturing realms, but all the way from idea to product experience.
- The introduction of SIMULIA products on the V6 platform with DesignSight Structure allows designers to run robust realistic simulations with the same Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) technology used by expert analysts. The product suite is engineered for the design community and does not require extensive simulation expertise.
- IP security applications help users in globalized industries limit their exposure to IP loss and to large fines by managing and enforcing export control compliance (for example, international traffic in arms regulations (ITAR) for the aero and defense industries) and internal company policies.
Online collaboration and creation - Collaborative online creation offers authoring using real-time Web technology, and brings product requirements together with functional, logical, and physical (RFLP) definitions of the product.
- Two major advances have been made in systems engineering, the multidisciplinary design methodology that integrates RFLP product definitions:
- Systems architects can easily model - using Dymola technology and library components - and simulate the dynamic behavior of multi-disciplinary systems. This represents a major step forward for systems engineering, allowing for systems simulation in the 3D digital mockup in operation.
- A tailored environment allows electrical designers to easily define their 2D logical architectures, including wire harness and nets, connectors and ports, and so on.
- Within the Digital Manufacturing domain, users can develop and associate multiple resource layouts to a process plan. This enables users to make better decisions on which scenario or facility is best in terms of cost, capacity, and efficiency.
- Extensions to the V6 kinematic and structural analysis capabilities allow users to match current V5 functions.
Ready-to-use PLM business processes - Industry-specific best practices enable a rapid return on investment in PLM 2.0 implementations.
- Advances to the V6 robotics solution extend the only integrated design-to-manufacturing-planning automotive body-in-white (BIW) solution available in the marketplace all the way to shop floor implementation. This includes the delivery of an exhaustive robot library that includes 700 robot models from all major manufacturers and offline programming (OLP) translators for all BIW controllers.
- A ready-to-use PLM business accelerator for the consumer packaged goods industry allows users to manage consumer packaged goods (CPG) specifications with multi-level bills of material (BOMs), resulting in improved accuracy of the product record and integrated change management processes.
- For the semiconductor industry, this release introduces a seamless environment for integrated hardware and software system-on-a-chip (SOC) development with the integration of DesignSync and Eclipse, a major open source software platform.
Lower cost of ownership - V6 offers a single database for all applications and embraces SOA standards, thereby reducing the cost of ownership and allowing easy enterprise integration.
- V6R2010 enhancements include: The introduction of a new team solution for Virtual Design, Realistic Simulation, Digital Manufacturing and Production, and Collaborative Innovation. The solution enables small and medium businesses and small teams within larger organizations to realize the key benefits of PLM 2.0 in a ready-to-use environment engineered for rapid deployment. This team solution supports user communities that do not require the full breadth of ENOVIA cross-functional business processes. Larger engineering groups and customers working on more complex products will require the collaborative business process capabilities provided by the broader ENOVIA product portfolio.
- Additional migration and coexistence scenarios for ENOVIA V4 and ENOVIA V5 customers further ease the transition to V6 and extend the value of customers' existing PLM assets.
- A new immersive user interface provides additional openness capabilities by allowing seamless access to a variety of CAD tools (for example, AutoCAD/Inventor, CATIA, SolidWorks, Bentley, Pro/ENGINEER, NX, SolidEdge, and so on), providing ease of use and improved productivity. Also, 3DVIA Composer APIs now allow the development of direct integrations to product data management (PDM) systems.
