Dassault Systemes and IBM Announce Version 5 Release 15 of Their Product Lifecycle Management Portfolio

New version extends the proven power of the V5 platform with open 3D collaboration.

Dassault Systèmes and IBM announced the release of Version 5 Release 15 (V5R15) of their product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio, comprised of CATIA for collaborative product development, and ENOVIA and SMARTEAM for product data and life cycle management, collaboration, and decision support. Concurrently, Dassault Systèmes announced V5R15 of DELMIA for digital development of factory and production processes.

The new release builds on the strengths of V5R14 by providing unified working environments, or desktops, targeting the specific needs of key user communities such as engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise users. It strengthens its leadership position in coverage of business processes, delivering breakthrough technologies that improve productivity and innovation in all industries.

“Providing a 3D digital view really improves communication with customers,” said Kenji Kozaki, general manager for the Information Technologies Department of Sanyo Machine Works, a provider of industrial automation systems. “When we discuss the design of an assembly line, we are able to get a clear understanding of what the customer wants. This improves collaboration and accelerates design validation.”

Mech-Tool Engineering, a UK supplier to the Offshore Oil Production industry and a recent convert to the V5 toolset, leverages Generative Mechanical Design capabilities and breakthrough Knowledgeware practices. “Although we are still in the early stages, the progress we’ve made is very promising,” said Ron Davison, technical director. “We have already experienced 25:1 productivity gains, and we believe those benefits are sustainable.”

The V5R15 product portfolio brings business value to manufacturers in the following areas:

Accelerated Collaboration with Suppliers – V5R15 accelerates supply chain collaborative processes by facilitating the exchange of engineering package data between OEMs and suppliers of all sizes. This enables faster and more frequent design iterations, while preserving engineering relationships – resulting in “right-first-time” products.

Enhanced Communication with 3DXML – V5R15 leverages the open and extremely lightweight 3DXML format. Using 3DXML, customers can communicate in 3D by easily and rapidly sharing high-quality 3D representations of the virtual product throughout the extended enterprise. V5R15 also introduces a new 3D XML viewer.

Increased PLM ROI for Companies of All Sizes – To facilitate rapid deployment in companies of all sizes, V5R15 strengthens entry-level solutions based on CATIA -SMARTEAM and extends the VPM Navigator, which provides a unified environment for 3D authoring and virtual product management. It also introduces a unique approach for conceptual design within the 3D environment with the new CATIA – 2D Layout for 3D Design application. Furthermore, it enhances the V5 manufacturing desktop, introducing new change management capabilities between engineering and manufacturing, pre-defined databases for manufacturing process planning, and new and enhanced V5 manufacturing applications, such as the DELMIA – Arc Welding solution.

Enabled PLM Business Processes Across the Enterprise – V5R15 increases business process visibility and agility by orchestrating cross-functional processes across multiple enterprise application domains. The ENOVIA – LCA Enterprise Process Management product, using WebSphere, improves process definition through ready to use templates, monitors process execution through extensive reporting and statistics capabilities, enables informed decision making based on filtered views of enterprise processes and PLM product information, and tracks decisions, enabling re-use of experience in future projects. Among other benefits, enterprise process management significantly reduces cycle times and optimizes resource utilization.

Extended PLM Value with the OPEN V5 Platform – V5R15 continues to deliver on its proven openness framework and to support industry standards by delivering major improvements in quality, performance and scalability, as well as extending AIX 64-bit support. V5R15 also continues the expansion of the V5 software community with more than 50 partners providing more than 320 V5 applications.

“With V5R15, 3D collaboration has no more limits,” Bernard Charlès, president and CEO, Dassault Systèmes. “3DXML extends 3D outside the engineering department and across the extended enterprise, so that anyone in a company can now benefit from the power of 3D. This release leverages the open V5 PLM platform to provide all of the companies in the supply chain with critical competitive advantages in terms of collaboration and process coverage.”

“With V5R15, we are reinforcing our commitment to helping our customers enter a new world of enterprise collaboration and value chain integration,” said Scott Hopkins, general manager, Product Lifecycle Management, IBM. “This open V5R15 platform can help them tackle their time-to-market and innovation challenges and start their journey as On Demand businesses.”

V5R15 Brand Highlights: for detailed V5R15 brand information, visit http://www.3ds.com/V5R15 or http://www.ibm.com/software/plm

CATIA for collaborative product development – CATIA V5R15 accelerates V5 adoption by enhancing PLM relational design practices. It uses the 3D XML format to make it easy to share high-quality 3D representations and expands collaborative engineering between OEMs and suppliers by strengthening capacities for engineering package exchange. It delivers a unique approach in the area of conceptual design and further shrinks the distinction between virtual and real products. It also extends 64-bit support to the entire CATIA V5 portfolio.

ENOVIA for product data and lifecycle management and decision support – V5R15 introduces the LCA Enterprise Process Management product, which leverages standard middleware to orchestrate business processes across multiple enterprise applications. The new release provides unmatched productivity for concurrent development processes with enhanced ENOVIA VPM Navigator. It extends virtual product development across the extended enterprise by delivering significant enhancements to the exchange of engineering packages and to the practices for virtual collocation.

SMARTEAM for product lifecycle collaboration– For V5R15, SMARTEAM delivers key productivity enhancements to its CATIA integration, facilitating concurrent engineering and optimizing design collaboration, and leverages openness to increase process coverage and automation. Its strengthened PLM practices drive knowledge reuse, standards compliance, and innovation for OEMs and suppliers of all sizes in different industries.

DELMIA for digital development of factory and production processes – In V5R15, DELMIA delivers new digital manufacturing solutions for the automotive body in white, robotic arc welding, and off-line programming domains. It delivers improved efficiencies in both the deployment and utilization of the collaborative Manufacturing Hub environment, and breaks down the barriers between product and manufacturing engineering.

The Really Big Picture

With intensifying competition and the need for ever more stringent cost controls, physically prototyping and testing adds time and expense to projects that must come in under budget and meet short development cycles. Increasingly, design teams are called upon to perform more design, engineering and testing virtually. Those who can do this efficiently gain a strong advantage over less efficient competitors.

While designing individual parts and small assemblies on a desktop workstation is effective, when it comes time for the design team to unite their efforts into a coherent whole, even the most powerful workstation running CATIA V5 applications software, with the largest monitor, is completely out of its depth. To look at detail, you must zoom in on the individual part, but in doing so, you lose the context of the whole assembly.

Enter the HP Visualization Center sv7. The HP sv7 is a scalable, rackmount visualization and rendering solution designed to provide large-scale manufacturing customers with the highest possible graphics performance for presentations and engineering design reviews.

The HP sv7 can model the entire design and render it in real-time on a wall-sized display that presents as close to a life-size image as possible so that the entire team can look at and interact with the model at the same time and in the same place.

The heart of the solution is a master node, with either four or eight networked HP xw8200, dual-processor workstations with NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 graphics functioning as display nodes.

Each display node acts as an individual graphics pipeline responsible for rendering a different sector of the final display for maximum performance and resolution on displays at or near life size. Using this method, each sector can have resolution as high as 1600 x 1200, can be edge mapped to other sectors or overlapped to eliminate frame issues, and can use native Active and Passive Stereo display at resolutions as high as 1280 x 1024 for maximum 3D fidelity and realism.

Putting eight high-end workstations to work just to create one massive display unit is not the only trick in the HP sv7’s bag—idle rendering nodes can be used either as individual design stations, or as computing clusters to maximize both concurrent and collaborative effort. Each render node functions as a seamless part of the whole, but can also be used individually as a networked workstation ensuring maximum utilization and investment protection.

The Visualization Center also offers unprecedented scalability in a multi-system solution. You can build your solution as your needs dictate, starting off with a four-node solution now and building to eight later. The HP sv7 architecture theoretically allows an unlimited number of graphics pipelines, so as technology allows you could expand further to 12, 16, or however many display nodes you need. The architecture is also upgradeable, allowing you to replace the HP xw8200 workstations with newer technology when needed and re-allocate those workstations to less intensive demands elsewhere in your organization, protecting your investment while ensuring maximum performance and utilization throughout the solution lifecycle.

Because the HP sv7 Visualization Center is based on HP’s proven HP-UX operating system and OpenGL standards, standard OpenGL applications are supported without the need for code modifications. CATIA V5 runs with full performance, image quality and resolution regardless of the number of graphics pipelines being used.

No, the HP sv7 Visualization Center is not for everyone. But if your organization has a need for large-scale, detailed visualization of complex projects, then the HP sv7 may be exactly the solution for you.

To learn more about the HP sv7 Visualization Center, visit the sv7 webpage at: http://www.hp.com/workstations/risc/visualization/overview.html.
Or visit www.hp.com/go/catia for a complete overview of HP solutions for CATIA V5 users big and small and every size in between.

Dassault Systemes to Acquire ABAQUS Inc. to Create Next-Generation Solutions for 3D Realistic Simulation

DS announces SIMULIA as the unified scientific simulation platform

Dassault Systèmes announced an agreement to acquire ABAQUS Inc. in an all-cash transaction approximating $413 million, subject to certain adjustments at closing. ABAQUS is the established leader in nonlinear finite element analysis software. DS expects the planned acquisition to be immediately accretive to net income, excluding acquisition costs and the impact of deferred revenue accounting treatment. DS is also unveiling SIMULIA, a scientific, open platform that will enable the integration of all types of simulation applications.

ABAQUS and DS will make realistic simulation accessible to a wider audience and greatly increase ease of use. With this initiative, DS will also diversify into markets beyond its existing manufacturing base. The ABAQUS purchase is a significant step to reshape the large but currently fragmented simulation software market, in which most companies still use niche applications rather than unified solutions. According to industry analysts, the simulation software market is estimated at $2.35 billion today and is expected to grow to $4 billion in the next five years, with average growth of 12 percent per year. Many applications currently in use are internally developed programs, and current market figures do not take those applications into account.

ABAQUS is well recognized for its best-in-class technology, which companies are increasingly seeking, that is capable of scaling from simple to the most demanding simulations. For example, a simple drop-test simulation enables users to observe the behavior of all of the internal components of a mobile phone. DS will also benefit from ABAQUS’s tremendous intellectual capital, embodied by its world-class technology team including 70 PhDs.

“With the best teams, we can transform the industry,” said Bernard Charlès, president and CEO, Dassault Systèmes. “We warmly welcome the impressive ABAQUS team. Together, we will enable our customers to experience virtually what their customers will experience using their products in the real world.”

“I am delighted and enthused that Dassault Systèmes has selected ABAQUS as the foundation of its strategic investment in simulation technology,” said Mark Goldstein, president and CEO, ABAQUS Inc. “As companies continue to adopt performance-centric practices as a fundamental component of product design, the role of simulation will become ever more important to the success of an enterprise. I look forward to the contribution that ABAQUS technologies will bring to Dassault Systèmes’ PLM solutions while at the same time maintaining our focus on delivering industry-leading advanced finite element solutions to the PLM market in general.”

“With total revenues approaching the $100 million threshold on an annual basis, ABAQUS has a high level of both software and recurring software revenue,” said Thibault de Tersant, executive vice president and CFO, Dassault Systèmes. “Moreover, ABAQUS has a strong level of profitability, which should enable the acquisition to be immediately accretive to earnings excluding acquisition costs and the impact of deferred revenue accounting treatment.”

Dassault Systèmes estimates that the impact of deferred revenue write-down, as part of purchase accounting adjustments, may result in a loss of revenue of approximately $20 million within twelve months of the completion of the proposed acquisition of ABAQUS.

The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of certain customary conditions and approval by certain regulatory authorities. Neither Dassault Systèmes nor ABAQUS will require a shareholder vote. Dassault Systèmes expects that the proposed acquisition could be completed by the end of its third fiscal quarter.

SIMULIA will be the new unified, open platform supporting all simulation domains. It will accelerate innovation by supporting the capture and deployment of best practices for predicting product behavior, as well as reduce the cost of ownership for scientific applications. SIMULIA will also give users access to simulation capabilities without requiring the steep learning curve of disparate, traditional simulation tools.

SIMULIA will have the largest open ecosystem available in the simulation market by including the DS Component Application Architecture V5 (CAA V5) ecosystem and existing ABAQUS partners.

“Dassault Systèmes’ acquisition of ABAQUS—the gold standard for nonlinear simulation—marks a new beginning for simulation,” said Charles Foundyller, president and CEO of Daratech, Inc. “This could be the tipping point that ushers simulation into the mainstream of PLM. For this reason, I expect Dassault Systèmes’ vision for SIMULIA to be widely accepted throughout the manufacturing industry and beyond.”

About ABAQUS Inc.
Founded in 1978, ABAQUS, Inc. is the world's leading provider of software and services for advanced finite element analysis. The ABAQUS® software suite has an unsurpassed reputation for technology, quality and reliability. It has been adopted by major corporations across all engineering disciplines as an integral part of their design process. ABAQUS offers a powerful and complete solution for simple to complex linear and nonlinear engineering problems, using the finite element method. A wide range of structural, thermal, and coupled analyses is supported. The software delivers a unified finite element analysis environment without equal, presenting a compelling alternative to implementations involving multiple products and vendors. ABAQUS employs over 400 people worldwide, with 28 direct offices for technical support, sales and services, plus a network of technically advanced distributors in emerging markets. (http://www.abaqus.com)
ABAQUS® is a registered trademark or trademark of ABAQUS, Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders.

Dassault Systemes and i2 Form Strategic Partnership

Partnership developed to produce next-generation, 3D-based sourcing solutions for collaborative PLM

Dassault Systèmes, the world’s leading developer of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, and i2 Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of demand-driven supply chain solutions, announced their intent to form a strategic partnership to jointly develop sourcing solutions based on Dassault Systèmes’ V5 platform for the CATIA, ENOVIA, and DELMIA applications.

The intent of the partnership is to integrate sourcing throughout the product lifecycle, thus eliminating barriers between the engineering and sourcing communities and providing both sides with the opportunity to more effectively drive innovation and create value.

“We believe this partnership will define a new, collaborative way to integrate sourcing into product innovation and PLM,” said Bernard Charlès, president and CEO, Dassault Systèmes. “By partnering with a visionary in supply chain management, Dassault Systèmes intends to define the convergence of the PLM and SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) spaces to support our networked global customers.”

“We believe this is a great opportunity for i2 to continue to enhance and grow our expertise in supplier relationship management with a world-class PLM company such as Dassault Systèmes,” said Michael McGrath, i2 chief executive officer. “We believe this partnership can provide our customer base with an enhanced roadmap and growth path for the future.”

The joint offering will be designed to offer cross-functional visibility and unmatched collaboration, bringing sourcing considerations to the engineer's desktop, and engineering criteria and 3D digital mockup to the sourcing specialist. The solutions will provide benefits such as:

• Ability to design for supply. Engineers will be able to optimize design by taking into account part-sourcing information such as obsolescence, availability and companies' sourcing preferences early in the design cycle.
• Enhanced re-use management. Companies will be able to manage a cross-functional enterprise catalog, fully immersed in the 3D design environment, by combining engineering and sourcing information. This will give engineers the ability to evaluate and compare components based on functional engineering specifications as well as on cost, vendor preference, lead times, geographic regulations, and other sourcing characteristics.
• Optimized component and subsystem lifecycle management. Companies will lower product support risks because they will be able to evaluate all risks (technical, vendor, availability) before committing to final changes.
• Converging engineering and sourcing processes. All criteria can be considered in advance, meaning fewer iterations between sourcing and engineering, less rework, and better collaboration. Sourcing analysts will be able to visualize, manipulate, test and simulate components before buying.

“Truly integrated PLM and sourcing solutions drive better collaboration between engineering and sourcing, leading to higher part re-use and more consistent part usage,” said Leni Kaufman, vice president and CIO, Northrop Grumman Information Technology/Internal Information Services. “This is something that should be interesting to any company that designs and manufactures products.”

“Enterprises aligning sourcing and engineering earlier in the product development cycle have reported 18% reductions in product costs, 10% to 20% improvements in time-to-market cycles, and more than 20% improvements in initial product quality,” said Tim Minahan, senior vice president of Supply Research for Aberdeen Group. “Combining the strengths of i2's sourcing and Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative engineering capabilities should deliver a compelling platform to optimize product costs and accelerate innovation capture and new product introduction cycles.”

The next-generation sourcing solutions will be developed in a dedicated competency center hosted in a new i2 subsidiary. This joint competency center will bring together i2’s domain expertise and core SRM components along with Dassault Systèmes’ V5 platform and PLM expertise. As a part of the long-term partnership, i2 will convey control of the competency center to Dassault Systèmes for approximately $10 million once certain conditions are met. i2 will then continue to provide SRM component upgrades and sourcing expertise and will work jointly with Dassault Systèmes to define the scope of the project. i2 will also continue to market and sell its SRM solutions and support its customers.

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About i2
i2 is a leading provider of demand-driven supply chain solutions designed to enable business agility. i2's flexible solutions can synchronize demand and supply across an ever-changing global supply network. Nineteen of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply Chains belong to companies who are i2 customers. Seven of the Fortune global top 10 are also customers of i2. Founded in 1988 with a commitment to customer success and supply chain innovation, i2 has a history of delivering value by implementing solutions designed to provide a rapid return on investment. Learn more at www.i2.com.
i2 is a registered trademark of i2 Technologies US, Inc. and i2 Technologies, Inc.

About the CAA V5 Software Community Program
CAA V5 (Component Application Architecture) is Dassault Systèmes’ open middleware and development environment for PLM. The CAA V5 Software Community Program is dedicated to ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) willing to develop, sell and support CAA V5-based applications, fully integrated with CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA V5. This collaboration results in the expansion of Dassault Systèmes’ PLM solutions to cover the entire product lifecycle range, thus enabling mutual customers to take advantage of a larger set of products in response to their specific industrial needs. By delivering best-in-class complementary V5 applications, CAA V5 Gold Software Partners further promote Dassault Systèmes’ objective of supporting and continuously improving customer processes. Gold Partners also benefit from a unique and privileged access to Dassault Systèmes’ R&D laboratory and advanced technical and marketing support.

Recent IBM Announcements

IBM announces new server based on X3 Architecture
The IBM eServer xSeries 460 easily scales up to 32-way processing in an eight chassis configuration, allowing customers the flexibility to upgrade on demand.
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Crédit Immobilier de France chooses IBM technology The company consolidated five servers and a multitude of storage systems onto one IBM eServer iSeries 570 and one IBM TotalStorage DS8000 system
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IBM’s Enhanced PLM Express Portfolio Offers Medium-Sized Businesses Improved Productivity and Quicker Time-to-Market at a Lower Price

IBM announced that it has enhanced its portfolio of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Express offerings created specifically for medium-sized customers. Mid-sized businesses face the same challenges as larger enterprises – including improved productivity, faster time-to-market and better customer service – but have unique requirements given the size of their IT staffs and budgets. "PLM Express for Industrial Products and Consumer Goods" and "PLM Express for Electronics" have been improved to now deliver even more functionality to mid-sized manufacturing companies to help them start their On Demand journeys at an even lower price.

This announcement fits into IBM’s Express Portfolio overall announcement. The IBM Express Portfolio now counts 100 offerings all designed, developed and priced for the mid-market, including new Express services offerings, a retail solution, a Business Partner program called “Built on IBM Express Portfolio”, new Express servers and high-powered IntelliStation workstations.

A new integrated suite based on Collaborative Generative Design
At the core of the PLM express offering is a new integrated suite of PLM software, called Collaborative Generative Design, based on CATIA V5 design and knowledgeware applications to capitalize on previous projects and proven designs; SMARTEAM software for collaboration and secure access to product data; as well as STEP for data exchange of CAD drawings in other formats.. CATIA V5 and SMARTEAM are both IBM PLM solutions developed by Dassault Systèmes. Building on the Collaborative Generative Design platform, optional “Profile Packs” can also be added to tailor each engineering seat to the specific role that the engineer serves on the project team. Thus, companies of any size can start small but add function as their needs and skills evolve. With the introduction of IBM Financing Advantage, the total solution, including implementation services, can be financed more easily than ever before.

IBM PLM Express for Industrial Products and Consumer Goods Manufacturers According to industry analyst AMR Research, nearly three quarters of small and medium-sized manufacturers are considering investing in PLM. PLM can provide the cost savings and top line revenue improvements that Industrial Products and Consumer Goods Manufacturers need to remain competitive in a dynamic market. This new affordable PLM Express package enables small and medium-sized businesses to become on demand and exceed their customers’ expectations by offering them the right product, at the right time, at the right price.

It provides advanced PLM capabilities based on best practices for “Collaborative Generative Design”. This method enables manufacturers to capitalize on knowledge from previous projects to standardize parts, using the most common ones, and to reduce the amount of time spent on repetitive tasks, freeing up their time to focus on adding innovation and competitive advantage to new product designs. Thus companies can lower their cost of new product development and reduce long cycle times for custom projects. They can respond to requests for proposals (RFPs) and requests for quotes (RFQs) more quickly and profitably and thus win more business and grow revenue. They can also enforce compliance to industry and company standards.

IBM PLM Express for Electronics Manufacturers: PLM continues to be the most successful business strategy to help mid-sized electronics manufacturers keep pace with changing customer preferences and adjust to market forces by becoming on demand. This new affordable PLM Express package enables them to anticipate the changing pace of innovation and offer their customers the right product at the right time while enforcing compliance to industry and company standards.

By easing the integration of conceptual industrial design with detailed mechanical design, companies can remove the barriers between departments and engineering disciplines and reduce the delay between teams, thus facilitating more concurrent engineering and reducing the overall product development time. The integration of mechanical, electrical and software systems within the bill of materials (BOM), and the integration of analysis and machining with design for total digital product visualization, streamlines and speeds product development. Moreover, to help electronics companies drive innovation and differentiate their products from the competition, IBM PLM Express for Electronics Manufacturers also delivers new product differentiators like advanced styling and improved customer service.

“Meyn provides its customers with complex processing systems in a competitive market that sees short lead times in combination with an exceptional product variety,” said Steef Klein, CIO of Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V, a leading global supplier of poultry processing systems, equipment and services, based in Oostzaan, the Netherlands. “Tightly managing both the development and the realization process in terms of speed, costs and accuracy provides additional competitive advantages. We are happy that IBM, Dassault Systèmes, and their Business Partner MSC Software, were able to match our ambitions in this respect.”

“PLM Express now allows us to add advanced functionality like full visualization, kinematics simulation and advanced surface design at a price that meets our budget. We can now create marketing literature to promote new products even before the first prototype is manufactured helping us to bring new cycling technology to market faster.”Says Forrest Yelverton, Director of Engineering at Pacific Cycle, a leading manufacturer of high performance bicycles, based in Madison, WI, United States

About PLM and PLM Express
Product Lifecycle Management is a strategic approach to creating and managing a company’s product-related intellectual capital, from its initial conception to retirement.
IBM‘s Express portfolio is comprised of hardware, software, services and financing and is the first in the industry to meet specific criteria for medium-sized businesses --- companies between 100 and 1000 employees that often have fewer IT skills and tighter budgets than larger enterprises – in their transformation into On Demand businesses using IBM’s open standard-based technology. Sold and serviced through IBM and IBM’s extensive locally based PLM Business Partner network, the IBM PLM Express Portfolio consists of CATIA Version 5, the leading collaborative product design software, and SMARTEAM for product data management, both developed by Dassault Systèmes. To know more about PM express, please visit http://www.ibm.com/solutions/plm/express

Training on Various Subjects in CATIA V5 Through the Live Learning Series from RAND Worldwide

What is the Live Learning Series?
The Live Learning Series is a sequence of live, Expert-Led classes delivered over the Internet on a regular schedule. They are designed to complement RAND Worldwide’s classroom learning by providing an in-depth look at a specific subject within CATIA. The topics addressed in each class are based on top issues and challenges identified by users who have contacted the RAND Support Center, as well as on suggestions submitted by registering students

The Live Learning Series enables students to interact with a live, expert instructor who facilitates, instructs, and demonstrates the lesson as well as answers questions and supplies feedback in real time. The instructor executes lessons from their desktop while students participate from their own computer.

Each WebClass runs approximately 60 minutes in length and consists of a web-delivered lecture followed by a step-by-step demonstration within CATIA. As with all of our WebClasses, clients are provided with an interactive learning experience, as they are encouraged to participate and ask questions throughout the presentation. Attendees will receive a PDF copy of a Learning Aid that contains images, menu selections and instructions that enable the student to quickly apply any of the concepts and procedures presented in the class.

• What are the benefits of the Live Learning Series?
• Continuous improvement of general CATIA skills
• Answer specific questions about a workbench or procedure in CATIA
• Introduce a workbench for which CATIA users have not received classroom training
• Learn tips and tricks to improve modeling performance in CATIA
• Learn new functionality in the latest release of CATIA
• Interact with a live, expert instructor and follow the class from any location with Internet access and the minimum hardware and software requirements
• New classes to be added to the series, existing classes to be repeated throughout the year

Contact us for further information about the Live Learning Series:
E-mail: education@rand.com
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