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Automotive News Europe, April, 2002 by Kisiel, Ralph
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Toyota hired IBM and France's Dassault Systemes to create a computer system to design vehicles and the equipment and factories to build them.
The deal is worth an estimated $1 billion (E1.1 billion). It could help Toyota reduce product development time by months without sacrificing quality. And it could help Toyota meet its goal of 15 percent of global auto sales by the early 2010s. It has about 10 percent now.
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Automakers have used elements of the technologies - notably digital car design - for years, but they haven't been linked on this scale. Global deployment across Toyota's ...
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