CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
11 August 2004
Implementation Investments
Ford Motor Company Selects Elysium for Global CAD Interoperability
Elysium Inc. ( http://www.elysiuminc.com ), a global provider of digital design data exchange software, announced that Ford Motor Company has selected Elysium to enable a global CAD vision throughout all of Ford and its subsidiaries based on the Teamcenter® product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio from UGS.
"Globally dispersed and culturally diverse customers require the flexibility of a multi-CAD vision for PLM," said Steve Bashada, vice president of Teamcenter applications, UGS. "Teamcenter leads the industry with the depth and breadth of our CAD integrations, which enable an extended enterprise to leverage existing investments in CAD systems and data. Our relationship with Elysium further extends Teamcenter's multi-CAD capabilities to meet the business requirements of manufacturers worldwide."
Elysium is supplying and implementing CADporterT software to translate CAD model geometry and CADpdmT software to control updating and versioning, and manipulate attributes within the CAD file. Model geometry and the associated PDM metadata are extracted from the original CAD system where it can be completely defined in the target system including metadata consistent with the originating system. This combination of software enables UGS' Teamcenter, the corporate PLM standard at Ford, to manage and distribute complete primary and secondary CAD data for any part or assembly throughout Ford's extended enterprise. Ford Motor Company currently utilizes UGS' I-deas® and Dassault's Catia V4 and Catia V5 CAD systems.
Elysium's intellect enables an environment where any CAD data is available to the user in the native format. The company has been developing advanced translation tools for PDM attribute and metadata for the last 2 years, in concert with its 3D geometry data translation technologies.
Elysium is a Foundation Partner in the global UGS Partner Program.
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