Braking Records: Brembo Chooses CATIA and ENOVIA Portal for E-Collaboration

High-end automotive brake manufacturer launches strategic e-collaboration project underscoring long-standing confidence in IBM and Dassault Systemes

BERGAMO, Italy and PARIS, France - September 3, 2001 - Nine of the eleven Formula One race teams use CATIA solutions from IBM and Dassault Systemes to make subtle design changes after every race -- based on factors such as individual track conditions -- to squeeze every bit of speed into their cars. Conversely, quite a few are also using CATIA designs to safely reduce their speed.

Brembo S.p.A, one of the world's first names in high-end automobile brake design, IBM and Dassault Systemes today announced that Brembo has chosen CATIA and ENOVIA Portal for its strategic e-collaboration project to shorten time-to-market and streamline engineering processes. When speed is of the essence, safety becomes an ever more important concern.

Brembo designs and manufactures braking systems for high-end automobiles, motorcycles, industrial vehicles and even Formula 1 race cars for customers including Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Honda, Mercedes and Porsche. These uncompromising customers lead Brembo to rely on the track-proven expertise of IBM and Dassault Systemes' CATIA and ENOVIA solutions.

Using CATIA V4, for example, Brembo was able to secure a solid lead in the braking business. Now their objective is to go a step further to reduce time to market, extend innovations in product performance and quality, and increase productivity. To reach this ambitious goal, Brembo has chosen to implement a company-wide online design collaboration environment using ENOVIA Portal Solutions to assist the research and design departments to streamline their engineering processes and produce exceptionally high-quality customised braking components in up to 30% less time.

Said Paolo Crovetti, Information Technology Manager, Brembo S.p.A., "Brembo is considered a status symbol in the automobile industry. Our products must meet the most rigourous demands of our customers. The technology we implement, now including ENOVIA Portal Solutions to complement our existing CATIA V4 installations, is a key to our success and helps us reinforce our leadership position. The fact that we've won Ferarri's 'Most Innovative Supplier ? 2001' trophy and AT Kearney Consulting's prestigious 'GEO (Global Excellence in Operation)' award for the best production site in Europe and the world demonstrates that, with the proven technology supplied by IBM and Dassault Systemes, we are moving forward to reach this goal."

In fact, thanks to IBM's easily-accessible global infrustructure, Brembo has chosen IBM as its strategic supplier for all its e-business needs, from servers (AS 400) to workstations (RS 6000) to 3D design technology. The scope of Brembo's latest project with IBM, e-collaboration, spans the globe. In the first phase of the project, Brembo added ENOVIA VPM to its existing CATIA installations at their Italian headquarters, allowing 3D design collaboration company-wide. Brembo is now in the second phase of the project, equipping their international production facilities with IBM Product Lifecycle Management solutions. This includes the installation of 500 ENOVIA Portal seats and 40 ENOVIAVPM licenses used to allow better management of design modification. The third phase of the project is scheduled to begin in September will include the roll-out of ENOVIA V5.

Since the project started, Mr. Crovetti has already noted that teamwork has improved. "At Brembo, we implement a full production cycle, integrated at over 8 plants worldwide. In order to produce state-of-the-art braking systems within this international structure, we must be able to coordinate our activities on-line. This is why we chose ENOVIA Portal. It's an easy to use, web-based application giving our extended enterprise access to all product, process and resource information that we need. Now our logistics teams can collaborate with the design and production teams, eliminating both guesswork and time lags."

Joel Lemke, chief executive officer, ENOVIA, commented "ENOVIA Portal Solutions provide the foundation for a 3D collaborative product development workplace enabling dramatically reduced development time and increased innovation. We are pleased to play a role in extending Brembo's leadership position in the automotive industry."

Klaus Schaefer, Global Leader, Digital Sales, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, concluded, "Brembo's confidence in IBM is testimony to our committment to provide a total e-business solution for all businesses of all sizes and industries. ENOVIA Portal Solutions are a key component of IBM Product Lifecycle Management e-business. These solutions leverage e- business technologies to optimize the product development process and provide an integrated enviroment federating and optimizing the business processes throughout the extended enterprise."

IBM Product Lifecycle Management offers a complete range of integrated products and services, including CATIA and ENOVIA developed by Dassault Systemes to support and manage the collaborative creation, simulation, visualization and knowledge of products, processes and resources.

About Brembo S.p.A.

Leader Company at European level in the production of braking systems for two and four-wheel motor vehicles and in the spares market for car brake discs. The activities are represented by: study, design, development, application, production, assembly and sale of braking systems, as well as light-alloy castings for different sectors, amongst which the car and motor cycle industries, as well as for industrial applications. The company, situated in the province of Bergamo, includes six plants, all in the same area, employing over 2000 employees.

http://www.brembo.it/english

About IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM Sales & Distribution, which supports more than a dozen key industries worldwide, works with companies of all sizes around the world to deploy the full range of IBM technologies.

http://www.ibm.com

About Dassault Systemes

Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product life cycle from initial concept to product in service. CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA solutions support industry-specific business processes to help unleash creativity and innovation, reduce development cycle time, improve quality, competitiveness and shareholder value: CATIA supports the digital product definition and simulation, DELMIA provides solutions to define and simulate lean digital manufacturing processes and ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources. The combined integration creates the Digital Product life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SmartSolutions, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and TeamPDM software solutions based on Windows. Spatial, also part of Dassault Systemes family, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components and services (for 3D modelling, visualization, and interoperability) to meet the requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and B2B applications.

http://www.dsweb.com 

 

Sponsored Links

AnyDWG Offers DWG to PDF, DWG to DXF, PDF to DWG, DWG to JPG, PDF to DXF Converters

AutoDWG offers DWF to DWG, DWG to PDF , PDF to DWG, DWG to Flash Converters, DWG Viewer.

eCampus.com Get your stuff for College... Cheap! Textbooks, Greek Gear, DVD's, University Clothing, Computers and MORE!

Access Your PC from Anywhere Free Trial plus 10% Off!