In a fast-moving automotive industry characterized by ever shorter lead times, no compromises are acceptable. With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, design engineers from our three sites can work with one another throughout product development to accelerate cycle times.

With our previous method, we relied on the use of static photos and drawings and the resolution was not very good. Now with 3DVIA, our illustrations are more vibrant and closer to the real thing.

With 3DEXPERIENCE we better control the configuration of our products and thus reduce complexity since it allows us to modularize.

With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we also have a flexible and open environment that enables us to collaborate and exchange information with our clients. In this way, they can easily provide us with the data that forms the basis for the customized machine we will manufacture for them before design begins and throughout the development process.

In general, enabling our technicians on the shop floor and application engineers to visualize a complex system in a virtual environment has put us on the road to paperless production.

Our CAE workflow now enables us to optimize crowning of pinion gear teeth designs accurately and with far less manpower than before. This method reduces design times dramatically.

With Single Source for Speed, we have a complete view of our product information, traceability, and efficient management and control at all times.

It’s difficult enough trying to locate a design at one location. If designs are scattered between two or more sites the error rate would simply be too high without the PLM system. We couldn’t have done it without ENOVIA.

The real potential of our development environment is unfolding over time. Thank goodness we made the move to CATIA or we’d be experiencing many more problems today.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a key enabler in our digital transformation journey.

Kärcher has been pursuing a cloud strategy for several years now which we continue to pursue with Dassault Systèmes and 3DEXPERIENCE. The main advantages for us are scalability, global availability and low operating costs. We are currently running three different projects with more than 50 participants using 3DEXPERIENCE on the cloud and will continue to scale this number up in the following months.

By implementing the product creation process into the platform, we started with process automation the first time and we made the process transparently available to every project member. Integrated project management on the cloud provides transparency and consistency in our product development because we can standardize our methods, documents and guidelines and deploy them around the world. For example, now that we have formalized our processes on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we know sooner that we have to contact the patent people or packaging development department. This is no longer a last-minute activity thanks to information availability and transparency.

CATIA’s knowledge-based design capabilities enable us to relocate a feature such as a ridge or flange with a few clicks of the mouse. The rest of the design adjusts itself automatically to accommodate the change.

With Abaqus, we're able to be more innovative, more quickly, and produce higher-quality products.

Dassault Systèmes and its DELMIA Version 6 technology is essential to calculating and simulating the most optimum solution that will be implemented, which includes the ergonomic considerations related to worker movements.

Abaqus is our preferred nonlinear solver. It has powerful composite analysis capabilities, especially for 3D elements such as in our LIR study.