CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 May 2008
Implementation Investments
Moriroku Streamlines Design Process and Increases Productivity with Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA PLM Express
Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced that Moriroku Company, Ltd. (Moriroku), a leading manufacturer of industrial chemicals and plastics, supplier of automotive parts based in Japan, has streamlined its design process and dramatically increased productivity with Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA PLM Express.
A manufacturer of plastic interior and exterior auto parts, Moriroku faced continuous time-to-market reduction pressure in the increasingly global automotive supply chain. To further boost its competitive edge, Moriroku selected the Automotive Supplier Offer based on CATIA PLM Express, looking to standardize its design process, shorten design time, and improve product development cycle. Using CATIA Functional Molded Part - included in Auto Supplier Offer - history-free construction and features with discipline oriented behaviour enabled concurrent design between its styling and mechanical designers. Their ability to share accurate design concept and intention throughout the design process resulted in high productivity gains at design creation, true parallel work for the design team, and a 30 percent design time reduction. Also, with 2D Layout for 3D Design, 2D design is seamlessly reflected in 3D, which helped to standardize the design process.
“The Automotive Supplier Offer was the best choice for us, because it provides all the functions we need at a reasonable price,” says Tetsuo Toda, Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager of Production Headquarters and General Manager of Technical Research Center, Moriroku Company, Ltd. “Deploying it enabled us to accelerate our product development process standardization.”
“We are pleased that Moriroku chose Automotive Supplier Offer to improve its development process,” says Nikos Calfacacos, general manager, Dassault Systèmes Japan. “In the competitive auto industry, both high quality products and shortened time to market are indispensable. We are committed to providing the value of PLM to small and mid-sized companies as well as to helping them increase their competitiveness. DS Solutions were implemented through a collaborative effort from DS and Argographics, a DS Value Added Reseller in Japan.”
Automotive Supplier Offer based on CATIA PLM Express is the ideal solution for companies the size of Moriroku, who are turning to PLM for a simple way to bring high quality innovative products to market faster than ever while reducing costs. In addition to CATIA Functional Molded Part, Automotive Supplier Offer includes CATIA 2D Layout for 3D Design with which the same data can be used throughout end-to-end processes from upstream initial layout to downstream detailed design thanks to the link between 2D and 3D, bringing transformation to the design process. This supports 2D users in moving to 3D easily. Automotive Supplier Offer also includes data management functions that enable customers to capitalize its intellectual properties and reuse it effectively.
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