20 February 2009

Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Dassault Systèmes and Intercim, a manufacturing and production operations management software solutions provider for advanced and highly regulated industries, have advanced their strategic alliance, with Dassault Systèmes taking a minority position in Intercim.

Dassault Systèmes says the announcement demonstrates the two companies’ commitment to bringing the real world of manufacturing execution systems (MES) into the virtual world of product lifecycle management (PLM). The partners will provide a dynamic, real-time ability to execute production orders exactly as planned by manufacturing engineers and close the loop between engineering and the shop floor.

The investment in Intercim, a Dassault Systèmes partner since 2004, follows a June 2008 Memorandum of Understanding to provide the aerospace and defence industry with Intercim's manufacturing operations management solution integrated with Dassault Systèmes' V6 platform.

This investment strengthens the currently available joint Dassault Systèmes – Intercim V5 solution around 3D process planning and manufacturing execution. It also accelerates the development of a new V6 production experience that combines the values of MES and PLM. This is expected to revolutionise the sharing of intellectual property between engineering, manufacturing planning and production communities by creating real-time collaboration on product and production lifecycle data in a single online referential between the different communities in the manufacturing supply network; enforcing engineering-driven production execution on the shop floor; and increasing visibility and traceability for all manufacturing stakeholders of shop floor execution.

“Because of the trends we see in aerospace and defense, like global sourcing, physical separation of design and manufacturing activities, and engineering specialisation, it is critical that information exchange and collaboration between engineering, manufacturing and the supply network be handled in real-time,” said John Todd, Intercim president and CEO. “The combination of our proven execution and manufacturing intelligence capabilities with the virtual experience provided by Dassault Systèmes’ solutions allows this type of collaboration and knowledge sharing for the first time.”

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