Tesla Motors has selected Dimensional Control Systems (DCS)’s 1DCS and 3DCS solutions to provide tolerance analysis as part of its commitment to lead the automotive industry in quality with the development of the Model S.

Tesla’s design engineers are using 1DCS in the earliest stages of product development to explore hypothetical designs for rapid evaluation and iteration throughout development of the Model S. 3DCS will provide the tools to run precise tolerance analyses of the Model S design and the associated manufacturing process using the Functional Tolerancing and Analysis (FTA) process in CATIA.

“We are pushing the automotive and engineering limits at Tesla in our development of the Model S,” said Tesla Motors Dimensional Engineering Manager Steve Bannasch. “To ensure our cars are first in quality, we must be the very best in fit and finish. DCS allows us to achieve our goals without adding unnecessary cost. Their solution is completely integrated with CATIA and provides the most flexibility of design. The DCS team has clearly taken the time to research the differences between rigid and flexible materials and the impact they have on tolerances.”

What kind of processes do you use to ensure fit, finish and function? Do you take advantage of dimensional engineering?

The DCS Team

Recently, Coastal Logic became one of our newest PLM Marketplace members. We thought it would be interesting to share some additional information about this dynamic company.

Coastal Logic is the leading provider of out-of-the-box printing and PDF rendering solutions for Enovia MatrixOne.

The company was founded in 2002 in response to a demand for capabilities lacking in PLM database software systems. Many PLM users have the need for robust, enterprise-controlled batch printing and PDF rendering solutions. Coastal Logic was formed to address the growing demand for commercial, out-of-the-box solutions that help companies ensure regulatory compliance, increase efficiency and accelerate profit.

Today, Coastal Logic solutions are globally deployed in a wide variety of industries including Aerospace, Industrial, Medical, and Energy manufacturing. One such client installation is at Smith and Nephew.

Smith and Nephew is a global medical device manufacturing company with operations in 33 countries and annual sales of over $2.6 billion. Prior to adopting Coastal Logic software, Smith and Nephew was running on a legacy custom-built platform for printing documents and drawings on the shop floor. As with many internally-built systems of this sort, this solution became brittle and difficult to maintain over time. One challenge of this Coastal Logic successfully installed printLogic to handle their printing requirements, along with some additional custom interface development to make the system work with their current shop floor processes. The resulting installation works seamlessly with their existing process and has the benefits of full support and maintainability. The project has been a huge success.

The out-of-the-box Coastal Logic solutions include two flagship products, convertLogic, which automatically stamps documents and renders them to PDF, and printLogic, which gives Enovia users a "print" button, right in the web interface, that allows them to print metadata-stamped documents without needing to use viewing software or native applications.

convertLogic helps to enable regulatory compliance and increase document transportability by converting files into secure, metadata-stamped PDF or TIFF files. Conversions are triggered automatically by PLM lifecycle events and occur on dedicated servers, so there is no additional load on the RMI servers.

printLogic enables Enovia users to create secure, metadata-stamped prints directly from the Enovia web interface. Prints can be queued one or hundreds at a time, and virtually any data can be extracted from the database and applied to prints. 

What are some issues that you have had with Enovia with regards to printing or file format conversions? Tell us about it in the comments.

Shaun, for Coastal Logic

The PLM MarketPlace is growing and our latest partner to be referenced in our catalog is Actas. In order to make sure that everybody perceives the benefits of their experience and solutions, we asked them for a short introduction. 

This blogpost aims at giving you a first overview of the capabilities of Actas' softwares. Do you see a value in them for your industry/job? Are you facing technological challenges you think you can win thanks to MPA or TDA? Feel free to comment!

This is more and more obvious: 3D is not only the future: it is still the present. We build cars in 3D, we watch movies in 3D, we design our living-room in 3D, etc… But why is it so successful? Maybe because people can easily translate visually what they think of and interact with their peers to share emotion, opinions, ideas,…
 
In parallel with the development of powerfull and easy-to-use 3D technologies such as 3dvia, social networks are more and more popular. People interact with each other on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn either on their computer and thanks to their iPhone for instance. Sharing ideas and sending messages “in 3D” has never been so easy.
 
Doing what we say
 
The aim of PLM MarketPlace is to deliver more value to our customers thanks to the cooperation between our Solutions Providers and our Value Added Resellers. In other words, we sell 3D solutions all day long. This is nice but not enough.
 
We now want to go a step ahead and build a kind of “PLM MarketPlace in 3D”. In the end, this is quiet logical for people promoting 3D technologies! This is why we have built a virtual showroom allowing people to discover the program in 3D! With your own-made avatar, you can walk through the scene, watch videos, read products data sheet and presentations, interact with other people visiting the scene at the same time, contact us, and much more!
 
Be our guest!
 
This PLM MarketPlace in 3D is available now, feel free to enter by following the instructions below. 
 

For those of you wanting to share the experience with customers, colleagues, partners,… you can share the link of the demo video as well.

 
This is a first step for us and we are looking after your comments, suggestions and ideas to improve the next scenes we are working on with our partners part of the PLM MarketPlace.
Feel free to share your feedback by leaving comments on this blogpost!

FOKKER ELMO is one of the world largest providers of systems and wiring for the aerospace and defense industry. The company has developed a tool (WDMS - Wiring, Design and Manufacturing System) to handle the increased complexity of wiring harness design, development, integration, and production, which involves both control and process of an enormous amount of data. In 2009, FOKKER ELMO signed a contract with the Canadian aircraft manufacturer BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE to design and supply the electrical wiring Interconnection system for the new CSeries aircraft family.

Recently, FOKKER ELMO contracted ELSYS’s solutions to convert existing wiring system diagram and started new harness design add-on’s.

Both companies started two projects, combining their knowledges and expertises.

The first project was the implementation of an automatic retrieval and transfer of the existing PTC CADDS 5 schematics and data into the ELSYS’s ELECTRE software for electrical schematics.

Then, in the frame of the CSeries project, FOKKER ELMO and ELSYS are setting up an application that will automatically generate wiring diagrams from both WDMS and external supplier’s data.

For more information please visit http://www.fokker.com/elmo and www.e-elsys.com

 

GKN Aerospace, a Tier One supplier to the global aviation industry, sought to eliminate the time-consuming process of troubleshooting composite lay-ups on the shop floor and avoid data translation concerns.
Leveraging Dassault Systèmes PLM solutions, the company reduced manufacturing engineering time and greatly improved collaboration throughout the extended enterprise. In that process, Pertinence Suite from Intercim was chosen to ensure digital continuity from engineering to production. The solutions enable GKN Aerospace to electronically deliver planning and work instructions to the shop floor, monitor information, and generate activity and quality reports to tightly connect the physical world of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) with the virtual world of PLM.

A Picture Is Worth One Thousand Words

Powerpoint presentation and brochures are really important to understand what a product can do. But it’s not always enough. The best way to understand something is to talk with someone who will explain all the features you have to know. A few weeks ago Intercim made a webinar about composite manufacturing and they had the great idea to record it. Everybody can now access to this webinar and see what Pertinence Suite can do.

Watch the recorded Webinar, « Operational Excellence for Composite Manufacturing »

As the chinese proverb says “A Picture Is Worth One Thousand Words”, here is a video about Intercim that is worth watching if you want to have an overall idea of what these guys do, in just 4 mins.

Last week, Dassault Systèmes hosted two major events at its Paris DS Campus: the SwYm Conference (formerly DEVCON) and the 2010 Partner Summit. Attendees had the opportunity to enjoy cool demos of 3DVIA Studio: the game Billions and a realistic 3D and interactive view of a city.

Guests were wowed by this experience thanks to two of our technology partners: Hewlett-Packard who brought its latest HP Z800 Workstation and AMD with its high-end ATI Eyefinity technology 3D graphics card.

Using ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology allows professionals as well as gamers to get the most out of the 3DVIA product range to have superior lifelike experiences. The 3D professional graphic cards are also fully certified for working with a variety of other Dassault Systèmes brands, including CATIA.

Watch Antoine Reymond (AMD Senior Strategic Alliance Manager) and Tom Schorr (Dassault Systèmes Technology Partner Programs Manager) demoing the power of 3DVIA Studio and ATI Eyefinity technology running together.

If you attended the SwYm Conference / Partner Summit, what are your impressions about the ATI Eyefinity 3D graphics card showcased there?

Anthony

For product designers, simulation specialists and manufacturers, there is an ongoing desire to increase innovation and reduce design time and costly errors. To help address that need, the new ATI FirePro^™ desktop and mobile workstation professional graphics delivers ground-breaking features and performance for Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA users working with challenging design and engineering projects, while helping boost productivity and pushing designs to the limits throughout the manufacturing process.

For example, the ATI FirePro^™ V8800 features 1600 Stream Processing units that offer up to 2.6 TeraFLOPS of power with 147.2 GB/sec of memory bandwidth¹. Using ATI Eyefinity technology, ²CATIA professionals can increase their desktop real estate and workflow productivity to view large scale models and multiple applications by running up to four independent and simultaneous 30-inch displays from a single card³.

The ATI FirePro^TM product range includes:
- Entry Level: Workstation quality for balance price and performance
ATI FirePro^™ V4800 Professional Graphics Cards
- Mid-Range: Advanced features and outstanding performance for complex visualization
ATI FirePro^™ V5800 Professional Graphics Cards
- High End: 4 to 6 outputs and extreme performance for the most demanding visualization and compute jobs
ATI FirePro^™ V8800 Professional Graphics Cards or ATI FirePro^™ V7800 Professional
Graphics Cards

AMD works with Dassault Systèmes to tune, optimize, and enable the real-time manipulation of very large PLM data sets as well as realistic rendered models using ATI FirePro graphics, giving manufacturing companies the ability to accurately model and analyze product performance characteristics while limiting the number of physical prototypes.

Antoine Reymond is Senior Strategic Alliances Manager at AMD. His posting is his own opinion and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links sites and no endorsement is implied.

Meet AMD!
Don't miss the opportunity to meet AMD and discover their tremendous ATI FirePro graphics cards and ATI Eyefinity technology: join the DS SwYm Conference!

¹Based on comparison of 1600 stream processors and 147.2GB/s memory bandwidth for ATI FirePro^™ V8800 vs. 240 CUDA processors and 102GB/s for NVIDIA QuadroFX 5800, as reported on http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.html as of 3/16/10. As of 3/1/2010, ATI FirePro^™ V8800 has the highest number of stream processors of any graphics card.

²ATI Eyefinity technology can support up to 6 displays using a single enabled ATI FirePro^™ professional graphics card with Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems. The number of displays may vary by board design and you should confirm exact specifications with the applicable manufacturer before purchase. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort^™ connectors, and/or certified DisplayPort^™ adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort^™ connector(s), are required. Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is also required.

³Based on support for up to four displays using ATI Eyefinity technology on ATI FirePro^™ V8800 graphics vs. two displays for typical prior single-card technology

On May, 12th 2010 took place the DS PLM FORUM in Slovenia. For Noomeo, present as a sponsor, this was the opportunity to meet CAD-CAM companies, Dassault Systèmes' solutions distributor. This meeting has been an opportunity for “live” in common demonstrations on Noomeo booth, which presented point clouds acquisition thanks to OptiNum scanner and data integration in the CATIA platform.

Noomeo booth @ PLM Forum Slovenia

From May 26th to 27th, 2010, was held DS PLM FORUM in Czech Republic. Noomeo, as a sponsor, got the chance to meet Technodat, a Dassault Systèmes VAR. From this collaboration was born for Noomeo the opportunity to become known in this region of EMEA, as Technodat would like to integrate Noomeo supply in its next communications.

Noomeo booth @ PLM Forum Czech-Republic

Noomeo attended to the DS PLM FORUM in Belgium on June, 2nd 2010. The innovative company participated in partnership with Keonys, a Noomeo solutions distributor, and first Dassault Systèmes solutions distributor and integrator in Belgium. This association has been a success thanks to common “live” demonstrations where visitors were introduced to a complete process: the combination between 3D OptiNum scanner point clouds acquisition and the integration of these data for use in CATIA.

On June, 9th 2010, took place 2 events at DS Campus in Paris: “Les Rencontres” (the French event for Customers) through a conference on the V6 and last Dassault Systèmes news and also “La Tribu” presenting a panorama of Dassault Systèmes 3D and virtual technologies for the children of its customers.
Noomeo team had the pleasure to be on “La Tribu” way with its OptiNum 3D scanner. This was an opportunity to share an unique 3D experience with children: scanning their faces with OptiNum, followed, in partnership with IMMERSION, by exploitation and manipulation of 3D face in their Holocubtile.
In parallel to this animation, M.Vincent LEMONDE, Noomeo CEO, in partnership with Dassault Systèmes represented by M. Sébastien ROSEL, head of Design Studio designers, have participated to a conference session on “Co-Design Engineering”.

Did you have the opportunity to meet us at one of these events? Do you want to know more about the potential of 3D scanners for your business? Then don't hestitate to leave comments here, we'd love to talk about it with you!

The Noomeo Team

See and do more, without necessarily spending more

ATI Eyefinity technology is a revolutionary graphics technology from AMD that takes the relationship between workstation and display to the next level.¹ This powerful new technology enables CATIA® and Dassault Systèmes users to run up to four simultaneous high-resolution displays with a single graphics card to create a hugely expanded visual workspace, and supports Dassault Systèmes’ strategy for immersive virtual reality.

For professionals in areas such as design, manufacturing, engineering, and technical publications, who work with large visual data sets, the ability to see full-screen 3D images and video across multiple displays working as a single desktop workspace is empowering. In addition, more space for multiple concurrent application windows greatly increases speed and productivity for your PLM workflow.

Until now, this high-performance, multi-screen capability has required additional expensive logic, but with ATI Eyefinity technology, all you need is a cost-effective, ATI Eyefinity-enabled ATI FirePro™ professional graphics card to complement your workstation. Furthermore, workstations can use multiple cards in concert to support even more screens to create truly massive on-screen workspace that’s budget friendly.

Tomorrow’s technology today

By leveraging the latest advances in graphical techniques, ATI Eyefinity technology brings immersive, panoramic personal computing to a wide audience of commercial and technical users and provides them with a stunning visual experience.

Key features include:

• AMD’s 10 bit video output technology supporting emerging display devices standards for dramatically improved depth of colour
• Innovative bezel management for seamless transition of moving images across display borders for a more realistic view
• Comprehensive support for the next generation of software standards including the sophisticated Microsoft DirectX® 11 interfaces and OpenGL 4.0

Ready to go out of the box

This groundbreaking technology is provided by a range of competitively priced, industry standard ATI FirePro™ professional graphics cards that are compatible with a wide range of existing graphics software applications out of the box. High resolution, multi-screen projects can now be accomplished on a wide range of PC workstations, from entry-level models through to high-end professional systems.

See ATI Eyefinity Technology in actions

Meet AMD!

Don't miss the opportunity to meet AMD and discover their tremendous ATI FirePro graphic cards: join the DS SwYm Conference!

The AMD Team

¹. ATI Eyefinity technology can support multiple displays using a single enabled ATI FirePro™ professional graphics card; the number of supported displays varies by card model. Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, or Linux® is required in order to support more than 2 displays. Depending on the card model, native DisplayPort™ connectors and/or certified DisplayPort™ active or passive adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your card’s DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s) may be required. ATI Eyefinity technology is supported by the ATI FirePro™ V8800, ATI FirePro™ V7800, ATI FirePro™ V5800 and the ATI FirePro™ V4800 professional graphics cards. See www.amd.com/firepro for details.

Robert Jamieson is Marketing Manager EMEA, Workstation Graphics at AMD and Antoine Reymond is Senior Strategic Alliances Manager at AMD. Their postings are their own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links sites and no endorsement is implied.