Ford signs up for company-wide PLM solutions
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Elysium product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Aug 17, 2004
Ford Motor Company has selected Elysium to enable a global CAD vision throughout all of Ford and its subsidiaries based on the UGS Teamcenter product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio.
Ford Motor Company has selected Elysium to enable a global CAD vision throughout all of Ford and its subsidiaries based on the UGS Teamcenter product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio.
"Globally dispersed and culturally diverse customers require the flexibility of a multi-CAD vision for PLM", said Steve Bashada, Vice President of Teamcenter Applications, UGS.
"Teamcenter leads the industry with the depth and breadth of our CAD integrations, which enable an extended enterprise to leverage existing investments in CAD systems and data".
"Our relationship with Elysium further extends Teamcenter's multi-CAD capabilities to meet the business requirements of manufacturers worldwide".
Elysium is supplying and implementing CADporter software to translate CAD model geometry and CADpdm software to control updating and versioning, and manipulate attributes within the CAD file.
Model geometry and the associated PDM metadata are extracted from the original CAD system where it can be completely defined in the target system including metadata consistent with the originating system.
This combination of software enables UGS' Teamcenter, the corporate PLM standard at Ford, to manage and distribute complete primary and secondary CAD data for any part or assembly throughout Ford's extended enterprise.
Ford Motor Company currently uses UGS' I-deas and Dassault's Catia V4 and Catia V5 CAD systems.
"The ability to translate CAD model geometry has become almost commonplace in industry", said Ken Tashiro, VP and COO, Elysium.
"Now we are seeing that product data management consistency is required to ensure that everyone involved in a project is referring to the same set of data".
"Not only is the CAD data required, but also the metadata and product structure has to be accurate and up to date".
Elysium's intellect enables an environment where any CAD data are available to the user in the native format.
The company has been developing advanced translation tools for PDM attribute and metadata for the last 2 years, in concert with its robust 3D geometry data translation technologies.
Elysium is a Foundation Partner in the global UGS Partner Programme.
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