Collaborative innovation from concept through manufacturing

Paris, France, September 5, 2006 - Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) and IBM today announced the release of Version 5 Release 17 (V5R17) of their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) portfolio, comprised of CATIA for collaborative product development, ENOVIA VPLM and ENOVIA SmarTeam for collaborative lifecycle management. Dassault Systèmes also announced DELMIA V5R17 for virtual production and its V5R17 PLM sourcing solutions (Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing - CES) for ENOVIA VPLM. V5R17 delivers on DS and IBM’s PLM strategy for business process optimization, value chain innovation, engineering to manufacturing cycle streamlining, intellectual capital growth and standards adoption.

“V5R17’s unique virtual community enables integration between stakeholders in the product development chain, facilitating the reuse and sharing of knowledge,” noted Dominique Florack, executive vice-president, Strategy and R&D, Dassault Systèmes. “V5R17 delivers unequalled benefits for manufacturing and sourcing to all industries, while expanding coverage of engineering processes. V5R17 extends V5 openness, offering major XML enhancements through its combined 3DXML and web services strategy, for large deployments in our customers’ ecosystems.”

Walter Donaldson, General Manager, Product Lifecycle Management, IBM, said, “Leveraging product information to align product development processes with business strategy is a key challenge for our customers. V5R17 reinforces our ability to help customers grow their businesses by deploying innovative solutions that drive efficiency, productivity and overall success in the marketplace. IBM’s breadth of business transformation skills, SOA infrastructure, middleware, hardware and services combine perfectly with V5R17 to deliver on the promise of enterprise-level PLM and improve the entire business operation.”

"The portfolio of PLM products that Johnson Controls has deployed helps us support a seamless product development process. This Engineering Data Management "sub-process" is especially complimentary to our overall Product Lifecycle Management tools and process. Based on the innovative CATIA V5 and supportive PLM approach, the entire CATIA Engineering Data Management process is managed by ENOVIA VPM. The tight integration within V5R17 will also help us to better collaborate with our customers who use similar tools, shortening the overall joint product development cycle, helping our entire product development process to run more smoothly and our company and those customers to be more innovative and responsive" said Eckard Gatzmanga, IT Director Product Development & Launch Systems at Johnson Controls Europe, a global market leader in automotive systems and facility management and control.

"We recognize that DELMIA has introduced a paradigm shift with the latest release. As a Body-in-White planner, the new possibilities in resource and layout planning are very interesting for me. With these, DELMIA closes the loop between early product evaluation and process planning - where we already use DELMIA in production - and resource oriented capacity planning, in context, with the manufacturing layout. With selected suppliers, we are currently evaluating the benefits that we would get in deploying the new release," said Holger Schanz, Teamleader Digital Body-in-White Planning DaimlerChrysler.

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