Formed in 1995 by an EADS initiative, CIMPA has become a major international company in PLM (Product Life Cycle Management). In this field, CIMPA provides a complete area of solutions including consulting, application development and support on every stage of the business cycle from the product idea to the operational use.

Thanks to our industrial experience, we help our customer and their ecosystem to improve their PLM efficiency, by a unique combination of process know-how with IS and technologies competencies.

CIMPA skills are situated all along the industrial process chain related to the product:

- Research, design and development of the product (Piloting of studies),

- Consulting (processes, value chain, project management, …)

- Industrialization of the product (CAD, PDM, CAM, ERP),

- Support / Methods of the product (CAD, PDM, DMU, CAM, ERP),

- Digital Mock-up (Virtual reality, Simulations …),

- Configuration Management (Change Leader, Head Version Manager, Architect, Process …),

- Maintainability (operational reliability, Maintainability Cost, DMU Simulations …),

- Technical documentation,

- Technical Data Exchanges,

- Robotic, CAPE,

- In addition: Supervision, Post-processors, DNC, and Automatisms…

CIMPA France counts more than 600 employees spread out on its two development sites of Paris and Toulouse and regional outposts allowing proximity to its customers (Bordeaux, Nantes, Marignanne…)

CIMPA works for the whole EADS Group and assumes a federative role on PLM projects. CIMPA operates also in other companies such as DCN, RENAULT, GIAT… bringing, this way, to the Group, its multi-branch industrial expertise (spatial, aeronautic, automotive, shipbuilding, train, services…) CIMPA is a European company able to lead cross-border projects with subsidiaries in Germany (230p) and in the UK (30p), probably in China and Spain in 2007. CIMPA is out of the GIE CRC (EADS Corporate Research Centre) and maintains, logically, close collaboration with research actors in the Group.