Technology Update
Dassault Systèmes and IBM Strengthen Their Strategic Partnership to Accelerate PLM Growth in the SMB Market
Partners streamline channel management model in selected European countries and the United States
Dassault Systèmes and IBM announced implementation of a new channel management model designed to improve organizational efficiency and help IBM Business Partners better capture the growing PLM opportunities in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market. While IBM will continue to provide end-to-end, global PLM solutions, Dassault Systèmes will be responsible for operation of the sales channel of IBM PLM Business Partners in the SMB market in selected European countries and in the U.S.
Midmarket manufacturers will increase PLM spend at 16% CAGR* through 2008, according to an AMR report. The new Channel Management Provider (CMP) organization has been established jointly by IBM and Dassault Systèmes to streamline their support to IBM Business Partners in the PLM market and help accelerate the transition of small and medium sized customers from CAD to full PLM implementations. In this new organization, Dassault Systèmes will be in charge of the operational management (sales management, channel enablement and marketing programs) in the U.S, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Russia and the CIS countries (Commonwealth of Independent States), leveraging the success of the model already in place in France, Belgium, Monaco, and Luxembourg.
This is the first of a series of agreements aimed at strengthening and transforming the IBM-Dassault Systèmes partnership to maximize the value of their PLM offerings. This will help customers, included SMBs, accelerate their On Demand Business transformation of which Product Lifecycle Management is a key component and will help IBM and Dassault Systèmes increase their global PLM market share.
In this new model, the contractual relationship between IBM and its Business Partners in the PLM area remains unchanged as they continue to be IBM Business Partners. IBM will continue to have the overall responsibility of Marketing, Sales and Support of its PLM portfolio of solutions.
“The SMB market is recognizing the tremendous benefits that can be achieved by implementing PLM”. said John Gaydac, Director PLM Transformation, IBM Product Lifecycle Management solutions. “Together with Dassault Systemes, we have agreed on a new and more efficient operational approach for channel management. This new level of teaming will allow IBM and DS, along with our Business Partners— to deliver increased value to our SMB clients, enabling them to realize the full value of PLM.”
“This new development is a positive evolution of our long-lasting partnership with IBM and demonstrates our continuous mission to provide the channel with best-in-class skills and resources for sales, marketing and technical support,” said Etienne Droit, executive vice president, Sales and Distribution, Dassault Systèmes. “Together with IBM, we have engineered a lean and efficient model to better capture the growing PLM opportunities among SMBs. We see this as a unique opportunity to capture PLM growth opportunities, to expand into new markets, to achieve breakthrough results, and to increase our market among SMBs in Europe and the US.”
DELMIA Automation for Control Engineers in V5R15
Tools for users to digitally define, control, and monitor automated systems
DELMIA Automation enables programming of different Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), and validation of this logic against a virtual machine, a cell, or an entire line and the performance analysis of these systems. With time and cost considerations putting pressure on new product introductions, PLC programming can no longer be seen as an isolated, independent function of moving a product forward on to the shop floor. With DELMIA Automation you can optimize your engineering process by allowing your control department to work (earlier in the development process) in parallel and share information with your mechanical and electrical departments.
During the ramp-up of production lines, as well as in the machine building business, time to ramp-up and risk of error have become crucial factors. DELMIA Automation helps you cut ramp-up time significantly by catching logic errors well before the ramp-up, evaluate PLC program changes on the virtual equipment instead of taking risks on the real equipment and allow pre-commissioning with real PLC. DELMIA Automation’s offerings include the following tools:
DELMIA Automation LCM Studio
LCM Studio is a PLC programming environment using the standard languages defined in the IEC61131-3 standard. Users can create and re-use pre-defined control logic blocks. LCM Studio makes the PLC program independent of the hardware. The resulting PLC program is downloaded to a targeted PLC through a dedicated PLC Setup. PLC Setup is developed by or in close collaboration with the major PLC providers (Schneider Electric, OMRON, Siemens and others) using the V5 open platform (CAA V5).
DELMIA Automation Smart Device Builder
Smart Device Builder turns your 3D CAD models (CATIA, Solidworks, UGS, ProE, Solidedge, and others) into actuators and sensors in defining kinematics/tasks, internal behavior and electrical I/Os. The internal device behavior is programmed using the languages supported by LCM Studio making the device internal behavior definition easy for control engineers. The internal behavior can also be used to create default and abnormal conditions to validate how the PLC program would react to such conditions. Smart devices can then be assembled to build the complete virtual equipment with the complete set of I/Os.
DELMIA Automation Controlled System Simulator
Controlled System Simulator allows the user to simulate, to debug, and to validate a complete PLC program against virtual equipment before any real equipment is even built. The PLC program can be loaded to a virtual PLC or to the real PLC. Users just need to map the PLC program I/Os defined with LCM Studio to the virtual equipment I/Os defined with the Smart Device Builder and then define the simulation environment. The simulation environment is defined by an input part flow (source and sink) and such stochastic distributions for creation times and part types. A production system analysis and reporting can then be generated providing part centric and resource centric statistics:
- Resource: average utilization of resource, total busy time, total idle time, average content, wait time.
- Part: number of parts created, total number of parts entering a resource, total number of parts exiting a resource, production rate, total parts processed.
DELMIA Automation PLC Setup
PLC Setup (one per PLC provider/type) downloads a PLC program developed with LCM Studio to the real PLC:
- Compile to the PLC native code and transfer to the real PLC.
- Develop by PLC vendor using CAA V5, to guarantee the downloaded program and shorten support time for new PLC hardware.
- Integrate into DELMIA Automation V5 desktop so control and maintenance engineers can download, run, stop, and debug within the same environment.
Using DELMIA Automation Controlled System Simulator with the real PLC
Once the PLC program is downloaded to the real PLC using the correct DELMIA Automation PLC Setup, the Controlled System Simulator can be used to link the real PLC and the virtual equipment using open connectivity (OPC). The users can define the simulation environment as previously described and perform production system analysis and reporting. Operations can be created with the real Human Machine Interface (HMI) connected to the real PLC. The DELMIA Automation Controlled System Simulator can be used for virtual startup, virtual commissioning with the end users, and operation training.
So Many Solutions in One Little Package
“You need to get out to the remote office.” Those words can keep you up nights. They can mean a lot of time spent taking notes that have to be translated into your CAD files and how many times have you sat there scratching your head trying to remember what that notation meant?
It can also mean wasting time fighting with an inadequate machine, trying to imitate a workstation, to get the work done. There are some good units out there, but the more demanding your application and designs, the harder you push the machine’s limitations, resulting in out-of-memory errors and long waits for models to render.
A good portable workstation is a good investment if you spend a lot of time working from remote sites, but it has some limitations such as file versioning. While you are at the remote site, the design team back at headquarters hasn’t stopped working. You don’t have their work and they don’t have yours.
This creates a pretty large set of problems, none of them insurmountable, but certainly inefficient and prone to error.
But by installing two pieces of software, one on your office workstation and one on your portable, you sweep ALL of these problems away. HP Remote Graphics Software forges a link between your portable or remote computer and your office workstation allowing you to run applications and access files on your workstation as if you were sitting at your own desk.
The heart of the solution is an HP patented compression algorithm that compresses graphics and user input data by a factor of 170:1 to ensure real-time performance over any distance. And because the only data that passes over the network is graphic and user input, the integrity and security of the design and data is assured.
So you can work effectively wherever you are (as long as you can plug into a network), night or day, at a jobsite or at a customer site (though firewall issues may need to be addressed), at home or in a hotel room, without penalty, without out-of-memory errors or rendering delays and without compromising the versioning integrity of your files.
So what else can HP Remote Graphics help you do? It helps you collaborate with distributed workgroups. Your colleagues can all access the same files and watch the same workstation display whether you are just at different locations in the same building, different buildings in the same complex or different cities in different countries. Since the technology was developed to allow near-real-time communications with the Mars Rover lander, Cincinnati or Bonn should be no problem.
Do you do frequent customer presentations? No problem with HP Remote Graphics. Just plug in your portable, fire up HP Remote Graphics and connect to your workstation to show your clients just how good you are at what you do without having to load files, go through time consuming setups or compromise the security of proprietary information.
Do you work in a frustratingly cluttered environment with workstations taking up desk space, floor space and turning your office into a furnace? Put those workstations in an air conditioned computer room somewhere and access them from a single desktop machine. The only limit to the number of workstations you can access simultaneously is the number of monitors you can connect to your desktop.
When was the last time you had a solution to so many problems that was this simple?
For more information on HP Remote Graphics Software, go to www.hp.com/workstations/software/remote/remote_graphics.html.
IBM and Network Appliance Relationship Delivers New Product Offerings for Small and Medium Sized Businesses
Company Focused on Meeting Growing SMB Market Need for Simple Information on Demand Solution
IBM announced an array of new storage offerings that further broadens its portfolio of solutions expressly designed for the fast-growing small and medium sized business (SMB) market.
The first is an entry-level storage disk offering, the first product resulting from the recent IBM alliance with Network Appliance (NASDAQ:NTAP), followed by a roadmap to introduce an expanded product line in the fourth quarter of 2005.
The first product resulting from the alliance, the IBM TotalStorage N3700, is designed to offer an economical and robust network attached storage (NAS) solution for small and medium-size businesses of less than 1,000 employees, yet is versatile enough to be used in large, distributed enterprises with remote office and branch office storage requirements. The device also incorporates iSCSI technology, a segment that is tracking the growth of SMB storage and is predicted to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 107% through 2009, according to analyst firm IDC1.
“The SMB customer segment requires simple, easy to deploy solutions for the data needs of a round-the-clock business environment,” said Barry Rudolph, Vice President Disk Systems, IBM. “Today’s announcement is anticipated to be just the first in a line of open solutions from IBM and NetApp that offer innovative solutions for companies relying on critical information in an on demand world."
“With the introduction of today’s initial offering, Network Appliance and IBM are demonstrating the speed at which we plan to deliver tangible customer solutions from our agreement,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Partners at Network Appliance. “We are excited IBM is rapidly providing NetApp technology to SMB customers and we look forward to supporting IBM as they bring the benefits of our technology to additional customers in the near future.“
The IBM TotalStorage N3700 is a robust NAS solution scaling up to 16 terabytes designed to deliver the ease and functionality of Internet Protocol attached storage along with the pervasiveness of iSCSI SAN technology. It offers features and functions SMB customers value, including support for disaster recovery, which allows users to mirror data both within the appliance as well as to a remote device.
Last week, NetApp and IBM announced that the companies planned to work closer together in the virtualization and blade server product segments. The focus is on combining IBM’s storage virtualization technologies and the full line of NetApp® V-Series and FAS storage systems into integrated solutions, signaling the beginning of efforts to collaborate to exploit the synergies between the companies’ respective virtualization technologies.
NetApp will also join IBM as one of nine founding members in the new Blade.org industry community. The community was conceived to enhance the relationships between the founding members and to serve as a catalyst for the industry to create new blade technology. NetApp is already providing back-end storage systems for IBM eServer® BladeCenter™.
Storage Archive for Data Retention
For companies facing compliance challenges, IBM is also announcing the availability of the TotalStorage DR550 Express, a single logical storage archive system providing non-erasable and non rewriteable policy-based storage management. The new offering is designed to be easy to install, configure and operate, to help address the needs of small and medium businesses facing growing data retention requirements, including requirements driven by emerging government and industry regulations. The device, which scales from one to 56 terabytes, offers encryption technology which can help protect data in the event of theft as well data replication technology to protect information in the event of a disruption.
SAN Starter Kit
Rounding out today's offerings for the SMB market, IBM is introducing the SAN Starter Kit to help small business customers consolidate their storage into a single place, in a manner that is accessible and sharable by servers throughout the business. The SAN Starter Kit is designed for xSeries environments and includes an IBM TotalStorage Storage Switch L10 and dual-controller IBM TotalStorage DS400 Express disk storage for an entry-level Fibre Channel solution for workgroup storage applications such as email servers, collaborative databases, and web serving. It will also include a detailed step-by-step Install Guide to help customers install their storage networking solution quickly and easily.
The IBM TotalStorage N3700 will be generally available in late August with prices starting at $50,000. The DR550 is available today with prices starting around $45,000. The SAN Starter Kit is also available today and is priced at $16,376. All products are available with worldwide service and support, including lending options through IBM Global Financing, from IBM and IBM business partners.
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com.
1) According to IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2005-2009 Forecast and Analysis: Virtualization, Regulatory Compliance, and Cost-Optimized Storage - Pillars for Future Growth, IDC #33477, June 2005
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What’s New in SimDesigner for CATIA V5 Version 2005 r3 for CATIA V5R14
Antoine Reymond, MSC.Software Corporation
With SimDesigner for CATIA V5 integrated solutions, CATIA users benefit from the world’s leading simulation and virtual product development (VPD) technology from inside their preferred environment.
SimDesigner provides companies and their product development teams with the scalable tools needed to enable them to focus on product performance while improving reliability and repeatability in their design process.
The latest release, SimDesigner 2005 r3 for CATIA V5R14, includes many new capabilities and significant enhancements for increased product development efficiency. Performance improvement can be found across the whole product family through an enhanced user interface and integration with the latest MSC.Software solvers. Some of the new features include:
SimDesigner Suspension (SDS)
With the new capability of automatic transfer of load histories to SimDesigner Linear, load histories can now be exported to a new or existing CATAnalysis document.
In a typical FEA analysis, boundary conditions are estimates based on experience or ‘expected’ values. Using load transfer from SDS, analysts can automatically add more accurate boundary conditions based on actual simulation results. In addition, these loads are transferred directly from the SDS simulation and are applied automatically to the FEA model, saving the analyst pre-processing time.
SimDesigner Fatigue (SFA)
Direct access to transient and load transfer results from SimDesigner Suspension provides a seamless link to the suspension vertical application. Design engineers can use either nodal transient stress time-histories or stresses from load transfer cases to perform fatigue or “factor of safety” calculations. This capability augments the load handling capability of SFA.
Advanced Structures Professional (ASP)
By supporting additional MSC.Nastran entities, legacy data can be preserved without any loss of data. ID Manager and meshing enhancements allow improved usability and productivity, as well as better support of company processes. More group creation options allow for easy application of loads, boundary conditions, and properties.
SimDesigner Linear (SDL) and Gateway for MSC.Nastran (GWN)
Extended support, improved usability, and extensive user interface will help support companies processes.
Many new options are available in 2005 r3 including the ability to import mesh data and/or results from the MSC.Nastran xdb files, and to define ambient temperature, providing enhance usability in steady-state thermal coupling.
SimDesigner Nonlinear (SDN) and Gateway for MSC.Marc (GWM)
Along with improved performance for contact simulations and automatic constraint optimization, the new release supports MSC.Marc 2005 r2. Pre-stress loads are now available, providing improved modeling capability to analyze more types of engineering problems. SDN supports friction models, allowing the definition of a ‘stick-to-slip’ transition region.
Gateway for LS-DYNA (GWL)
The 2005 r3 release supports many new types of elements, addressing finite element modeling with hybrid assemblies (mix of lumped masses, 1D, 2D, and 3D elements).
SimDesigner Thermal (SDT)
With the support of MSC.Marc 2005 r2 solver, SimDesigner Thermal delivers the ability to solve larger models with improved performance for contact simulations.
For more information on SimDesigner for CATIA V5:
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