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14 March 2006

Implementation Investments

MatrixOne Deployed At The Heart Of Faurecia's Core System

MatrixOne, Inc. announced that Faurecia, France's number one automotive supplier, has chosen MatrixOne's PLM platform to manage all of its product development information and enable seamless product collaboration amongst its design offices, program teams and factories throughout 160 international sites.

In order to enable Faurecia to standardize its technical data management system and a number of associated engineering processes, MatrixOne has worked closely with the automotive supplier since 2004 to develop a 'core system' encompassing all of its needs in this area.

"We wanted to implement a collaborative solution which was easy and quick to deploy and would be common to all activities, while still allowing for additional developments to accommodate the specific needs of certain groups," said Valéry Beulné, PLM project manager at Faurecia. "MatrixOne's solution gives us the flexibility we need."

Today, over 3,500 employees use the system to manage bills of material (BOM), manipulate CAD information, and handle customer modification requests and associated costs.

"By deploying MatrixOne's solution, Faurecia now has the means to optimally share relevant information amongst its teams and thereby meet the specific requirements of its customers more effectively and efficiently," said Jean-Luc Dosne, MatrixOne, France.

The international deployment of the platform should be completed in 2006 with a total of 5,000 users on the system. Faurecia also plans to expand the solution to incorporate its main partners and thereby accelerate information exchange.

"Faurecia is an excellent example of how our PLM solution is perfectly suited to the demands of the automobile market," commented Henri Carasso, regional sales director for MatrixOne. "In an industry where time-to-market is increasingly short, MatrixOne's solution enables acceleration of the development process in a collaborative environment while ensuring product quality."

About Faurecia

Faurecia is a world leading automotive supplier of six major vehicle modules: seats, cockpits, doors, acoustic modules, front ends and exhausts. In 2004, the Group posted sales of €10.7 billion. It operates in 28 countries and employs 60,000 people on 160 sites. Faurecia is listed on the Euronext Paris-Eurolist stock exchange.

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