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News Release from: Desktop Engineering | Subject: Catia V5
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 08 September 2003
Airbus supply chain initiatives
Disparate departments linked with Catia's collaborative knowledge management tools empowered with three-dimensional information on products and processes.
In September 2000 Airbus started to make plans to implement Catia V5 across their transnational companies - the aim was to link once-disparate departments with Catia's collaborative knowledge management tools empowered with three-dimensional information on products and processes Over 2000 seats are now in plan to roll out across the enterprise "Deploying common methods and processes based on a common set of tools across the whole entity is a major driver to harmonise the development processes in Airbus," said Rolf-Stefan Scheible, vice-president Airbus Concurrent Engineering (ACE)
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 5 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"This will reduce development time and costs significantly from the very beginning of the project".
"Another key advantage of the migration to Catia V5 is that this solution is standard to the entire aerospace and supply industry and provides digital mock-up functions that meet our rigorous demands".
Airbus UK has now taken the step to mandate the use of Catia V5 in the design and manufacture of wings and landing gear to the forthcoming A380F freighter version of the double desk A380 passenger aircraft; and the A400M military transport.
This applies throughout their internal design function, out to their external design and manufacture supplier community.
All suppliers into these aircraft programs need now to make ready for meeting the needs of Airbus.
CenitDesktop is a leading supplier of Catia and related manufacturing software into Airbus suppliers and associated aerospace companies.
Our customers include BAE Systems and Shorts Brothers who use our advanced software for controlling 5 axis machine tools in airframe manufacture.
Our skills in delivering the process knowledge is unsurpassed and we can draw upon the experience of Cenit AG in Germany who for 2 years have been the training provider to Airbus , training more than 800 designers in Catia. Request a free brochure from Desktop Engineering ...
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