ISCAR Chooses PLM Solutions from IBM and Dassault Systemes to Optimize Global Design Data Management

Business Wire, Dec 9, 2008

Worldwide Precision Tool Maker Improves Design Cycle Times and Product Quality Using ENOVIA SmarTeam and CATIA

VELIZY, France -- IBM and Dassault Systemes (DS) (Paris: DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced today that ISCAR, a worldwide supplier of precision carbide metal working tools, has chosen their ENOVIA SmarTeam and CATIA Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. By using ENOVIA SmarTeam to create a unified environment for managing its CATIA digital design data, ISCAR is enabling all users across departments, from engineering to manufacturing, to participate in collaborative product development processes.

ISCAR, part of the IMC Group, is leveraging the DS PLM solution to accelerate design cycles and enhance product quality by improving management of its rich 3D design data and streamlining design approvals. ISCAR's success to date illustrates the value of a combined CATIA and ENOVIA SmarTeam solution for large-scale, sophisticated engineering environments, requiring high stability, scalability and extended functionality for their concurrent design requirements.

To achieve these design-related goals, ISCAR chose to deploy ENOVIA SmarTeam's collaborative engineering solution to support advanced CATIA design-to-manufacturing processes. The new concurrent design environment will span all CATIA V5 and SmarTeam seats across the company's sites worldwide.

"We chose ENOVIA SmarTeam for its excellent integration with CATIA," said Moshe Rudko, manager, Engineering Information Technology (EIT) division, ISCAR. "By expanding our 3D design solution to gain greater control and efficiency, we shorten our design cycles and improve product quality by closing the product development loop through to integrated downstream manufacturing processes."

Most ISCAR design and production engineers are CATIA users. ENOVIA SmarTeam is facilitating real time collaboration, product and knowledge re-use, usage of up-to-date data and automation of downstream manufacturing operations, such as integration with the computerized numeric control (CNC) system that controls the robots on plant floor. ISCAR is taking advantage of the industry-leading, seamless CATIA - ENOVIA SmarTeam solution, the revision life cycle management expressed in CATIA icons and commands, and the ENOVIA SmarTeam links management that facilitates complex design-in-context designs.

"For ISCAR, key challenges involve maintaining profitability while delivering a product on time without losing focus on product innovation and quality. These are all major challenges for leading industrial companies, said Angel L. Blanco Diaz, PLM solutions leader, IBM. "ISCAR understands the business benefits that advanced design collaboration can bring. We are confident that our solution will make an ongoing contribution to companies across all industries as they sharpen their competitive positioning and market leadership for next year."

"The ENOVIA SmarTeam - CATIA solution is the best solution on the market for powerful, rapidly implemented, collaborative management of CATIA data," said Andy Kofoid, vice president, ENOVIA, Dassault Systemes.

Yael Software, a DS Value-Added Reseller with particular expertise in CATIA and ENOVIA SmarTeam implementations, is helping ISCAR with all aspects of the implementation and user training.

For more information about IBM please visit http://www.ibm.com and http://www.ibm.com/solutions/plm.

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About ISCAR

ISCAR is a dynamic full line supplier of precision carbide metal working tools, producing a wide range of carbide inserts, carbide end mills and cutting tools covering most metal cutting applications. ISCAR also provides metal working solutions in both engineering and manufacturing to major industries throughout the world. Many innovative products, designed specially according to customer requirements, have made ISCAR a world leader in manufacturing industries such as automotive, aerospace and die & mold production. For more information, visit http://www.iscar.com.

About Yael Software

The Yael Group numbers some 750 professionals and includes six companies dealing with development marketing and maintenance of software products, technologies and projects in Israel and abroad. The group is owned by a private company registered in Holland, and represents a group of Canadian private investors. Yael Software & Systems Ltd is the largest company in the Yael group, and one of the largest privately held software companies in Israel, numbering more than 450 software experts, project managers, systems analysts, programmers and others dealing in the provision of software solutions in three main areas of activity. For more information, visit http://www.yaelsoft.com.

About Dassault Systemes

As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systemes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systemes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling. The Dassault Systemes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. Dassault Systemes' shares are listed on Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) and Dassault Systemes' ADRs may be traded on the US Over-The-Counter (OTC) market (DASTY). For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com.