IBM and Dassault Systèmes have released Version 5 Release 11 (V5R11) of their product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio, comprised of CATIA for collaborative product development, and ENOVIA and SMARTEAM for lifecycle management, collaboration and decision support.

Concurrently, Dassault Systèmes announced V5R11 of Delmia for the engineering of lean manufacturing processes. V5R11 PLM solutions bring companies one step closer to e-business on demand by enabling them to become more responsive, focused, resilient and variable in ever-changing markets. The new features of the V5R11 PLM portfolio provide value to customers in the following areas:

* Predictive Lifecycle - V5R11 simulates products realistically so that customers can anticipate in detail the behaviour of future products and factory manufacturing operations. This reduces the risk of product failure, production inefficiency, market mismatches, and after-delivery compliance cost (products that cost more to make than they can be sold for).

* Engineering Emotion - V5R11 offers new innovative tools to better capture the aesthetic, visual design that designers intend for a product. It also provides the user more high-productivity tools to control and engineer product shape and deliver styled products that can be manufactured easily.

For more information contact Igal Filipovski, CDC (CNC Design Consultants), 011 786 3516, igal@cdcza.co.za