PSA Peugeot Citroën to Take Innovation to the Next Level With PLM Solutions From IBM and Dassault Systèmes

PSA Peugeot Citroën to Take Innovation to the Next Level With PLM Solutions From IBM and Dassault Systèmes

IBM and Dassault Systèmes announced today the confirmation of their agreements with automotive manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroën. Following the successful implementation of PLM solutions based on CATIA V4 and VPM, PSA Peugeot Citroën signed a contract for the deployment of CATIA V5 in December 2004 and through 2005 pursued its commitment to PLM with a joint work plan leveraging next generation digital mock up tools. This will help PSA Peugeot Citroën to speed the development of innovative cars and ensure optimal price-quality ratios, thus helping strengthen its leading position in the global automotive industry.

PSA Peugeot Citroën’s current challenge is to answer an ever-increasing demand for new car models, which need to be developed as quickly as possible. To dramatically speed the renewal of its Peugeot and Citroën car models — one-third of its portfolio has been updated in the past year — PSA Peugeot Citroën is using IBM and Dassault Systèmes’ PLM solutions. These will be a key factor in helping PSA Peugeot Citroën attain its objective of growing sales to 4 million cars. The group has broadened its PLM implementation and deployed a full global IBM PLM solution including the latest V5 portfolio of solutions (CATIA, DELMIA, and ENOVIA) developed by Dassault Systèmes, IBM’s middleware (DB2 database) and hardware (IBM eServers), and using IBM Global Services to ensure high availability of the PLM environment.

PSA Peugeot Citroën is gradually migrating from CATIA V4 to CATIA V5 and deploying DELMIA in an integrated 3D digital mock-up environment. The group will leverage CATIA V5’s new functionalities in a Virtual Product Management (VPM) environment, tailored to its specific needs by IBM Global Services, Dassault Systèmes’ and PSA Peugeot Citroën’s teams. The objective is to launch future car programs faster and in an innovative way, reusing existing knowledge with template-based approaches. PSA Peugeot Citroën has also selected DELMIA Digital Manufacturing Solutions from Dassault Systèmes to optimize final assembly processes in its manufacturing plants. Currently, these solutions are serving 29 vehicle development projects in 8 different plants throughout the world.

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