CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 May 2007
Implementation Investments
Shanghai Automotive Corporation Drives Dassault Systèmes PLM Solutions Throughout the Enterprise
Dassault Systèmes ( DS ) announced that Shanghai Automotive Co., Ltd (SA), China's largest automotive OEM, will deploy DS's CATIA throughout the group: R&D Center and Suppliers across China; SA's engineering branches in the UK and SSANGYONG Motor in Korea. The signing ceremony was held in Shanghai today at DS's 2007 PLM Executive Summit. Driving these solutions throughout the enterprise will allow SA to enhance its own brand car development, innovation capabilities and ultimately boost efficiencies and quality.
"Thanks to the common architecture linking with CATIA, we are building a virtual product development environment where designers and production planners, no matter where they work, can collaboratively explore and validate design and manufacturing decisions. It is milestone for the cooperation between DS and SA," says Zhang Xinquan, CIO of SA.
"As China transforms from a 'Made in China' to a 'Created in China' economy, streamlined PLM solutions are essential to speeding time to market and product innovation, prerequisite criteria to gaining and maintaining global market share in the automotive industry. This marks the most significant commitment to date of PLM business in China's automotive industry," comments Bernard Charlès, president and CEO, Dassault Systèmes.
DS's CATIA enables users to simulate the entire range of industrial design processes, from initial concept to product design, analysis and assembly. CATIA seamlessly integrates with ENOVIA thanks to DS's open, component-based architecture (CAA). This will help SA to easily deploy the next step of its PLM strategy, ENOVIA VPLM, which enables users to manage highly complex product, resource and manufacturing processes in medium and large extended enterprises.
About Shanghai Automotive Co., Ltd
Shanghai Automotive Co., Ltd (SA) is currently the largest listed auto company in China. SA has a wholly-owned passenger car company and several joint ventures, including Shanghai General Motors (SGM), Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) and Shanghai Sunwin. It has a controlling stake in Shanghai General Motors Wuling (SGMW) and Ssangyong Motor. SA also owns an auto financing company as well as companies that produce transmissions, chassis, electronic instruments and other related car components.
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