CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 October 2004
Implementation Investments
Siemens Selects Product Lifecycle Management Solutions from IBM and Dassault Systèmes
IBM and Dassault Systèmes announced that Siemens ICM, a global large manufacturer of GSM mobile and cordless phones, has selected their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions as its mechanical design platform for production of its cordless and mobile phone products.
Siemens will implement CATIA V5, for collaborative product design, and SMARTEAM, for collaborative product data management. These IBM PLM Solutions, developed by Dassault Systèmes, will enable Siemens ICM to capture, share and reuse design information across its mechanical development and manufacturing environment, which includes operations in Germany, Denmark and China. CATIA V5 and SMARTEAM will also help Siemens maintain a competitive advantage with superior technological know-how and product development tools.
"We undertook extensive efforts to compare and validate different mechanical design solutions," Hermann Thonhauser, vice president for mechanical design and development IT, Siemens Mobile Phones. "IBM PLM Solutions developed by Dassault Systèmes were clearly the winner. With CATIA V5, we have an application portfolio that is very powerful and gives us the most flexibility in terms of design possibilities and data reuse from one model to the next. The SMARTEAM product data management solution responds to our need to store, retrieve and share mechanical product data among our worldwide teams."
"Electronics manufacturers around the world are leveraging IBM PLM technologies to turn innovative ideas into business success," said Raoul van Engelshoven, vice president, IBM PLM, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. "Our solutions allow electronics manufacturers to develop products in line with consumer trends, reduce turnaround time and create customer loyalty with quality products that are priced right. Accelerated time-to-market, innovation, additional revenue streams, and cost savings - this is what IBM PLM is all about."
"CATIA and SMARTEAM enable electronics developers such as Siemens to capture their valuable engineering and manufacturing rules as corporate knowledge and optimize their end-to-end business processes," said Denis Senpéré, vice president PLM Europe, Dassault Systèmes. "Knowledge reuse and sharing means Siemens can leverage its existing designs and significantly reduce product development cycles and costs."
MDTVISION, a wholly owned services subsidiary of IBM, is managing solution implementation, training and support services at Siemens ICM.
The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (Siemens mobile) offers a complete range of mobile solutions including mobile devices, infrastructure and applications. Devices include mobile phones, wireless modules, mobile organizers and cordless phones as well as products for wireless home networks. The infrastructure portfolio includes GSM, GPRS and 3G mobile network technologies from base stations and switching systems to intelligent networks, e.g. for prepaid services. Mobile Applications cover end-to-end solutions for Messaging, Location Based Services or Mobile Payment. For fiscal 2002 (September 30), Siemens mobile recorded sales of EUR 11 billion and employed approximately 28,600 people worldwide.
MDTVISION is a leading European supplier of consulting and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) services supporting industrial companies to improve their design-to-manufacturing processes. A wholly owned services subsidiary of IBM, MDTVISION address business needs of companies of all sizes, in the automotive, aerospace and defense, general manufacturing and machinery, consumer product and electro-mechanical industries. Customers can profit from a complete range of services designed to help them define, implement and maintain end-to-end solutions in CAD/CAM, PDM, document and information management, suppliers integration, digital factory and manufacturing simulation. The service portfolio includes consulting, integration and deployment, education, user support and outsourcing of applications. For more information, visit http://www.mdtvision.de/
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