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Issue Date: August 2002

EADS standardises on PLM solutions

1 August 2002

EADS, Europe's largest aerospace and defence group recently signed a seven-year multimillion Euro agreement in which EADS will use IBM's and Dassault Systemes' Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions for all development, construction and production across its divisions worldwide, including EADS Military Aircraft, Eurocopter, Astrium, EADS Launch Vehicles, and EADS CASA.
This agreement expands EADS' existing installed base of roughly 1100 CATIA workstations by 30%. During the initial stages of the seven-year agreement, EADS will migrate from CATIA V4 to CATIA V5 for virtual product design coupled with ENOVIA collaborative product data management solutions which are sold and supported worldwide by IBM. EADS will also implement Dassault Systèmes' DELMIA manufacturing solutions to define, simulate and execute complete production processes.
IBM business partner, EADS Matra Datavision, will support the software migration process. The enterprise installation of the PLM platform will allow EADS to streamline processes and better coordinate activities between divisions, thus providing the company with greater product standardisation and decreased redundancies.
EADS is taking this strategic PLM-based approach to improve collaboration, product innovation, management of product-related processes, and dissemination of product information, not only to achieve cost reduction, but also to promote innovation and other value driving processes. These shared product databases will be utilised not only by the research and design teams, but also by nonengineering functions, such as product support, purchasing, production and after-sales services.
For more information: Igal Filipovski, CDC (CNC Design Consultants), 011 786 3516.


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