PLM Solutions V5.16 Empower your innovation network

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1 Software Announcement November 8, 2005 PLM Solutions V5.16 Empower your innovation network Overview Collaborate across the value chain: Using IBM/Dassault Systemes (IBM/DS) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), you and your partners can work as one in a mutual product development environment. You can foster collective creativity and minimize costly engineering and manufacturing changes all while protecting your intellectual assets. V5.16 extends relational design throughout the value chain by improving exchange and reconciliation of product definition and manufacturing data, including analysis results and manufacturing process plans. Additionally, V5.16 expands the 3D XML format by embedding 3D information such as annotations, animations, sections, and measurements. Streamline processes to accelerate innovation: IBM/DS PLM helps you to optimize participation of all disciplines in the end-to-end product development process. You can drive innovation within your company to reach the market at the ideal time with products that your customers demand. V5.16 strengthens virtual product simulation, including finite element analysis assembly. Engineers can validate products in real time, eliminating time-consuming and error-prone data translations, and facilitating rapid design iterations. V5.16 further extends PLM within the enterprise by delivering valid engineering product configurations to sales and marketing. Optimize product development and production processes: IBM/DS PLM manages the relationships between products and their manufacturing processes and resources. You can master product development complexity and increase understanding with on demand propagation of design decisions to all affected stakeholders. V5.16 further integrates the engineering and manufacturing disciplines by ensuring that requirements such as tolerancing can be shared between design and manufacturing without translations. Additionally, VPM 1 Navigator expands beyond design to access enterprise information, enhancing decision-making based on corporate knowledge. Capture, protect, and re-use intellectual property: IBM/DS PLM applications not only have industry process knowledge built-in, but can capture, share and reuse your company-specific know-how. This helps you improve decision-making, optimize product designs, achieve regulatory compliance, and maximize product standardization and quality. In V5.16, Business Knowledge Templates promote reuse of company business process knowledge and increase productivity in design generation. Extend the reach of PLM: IBM/DS PLM solutions are built on standards, are open for extension by customers and software development partners, are easy to customize, and easily integrate with your enterprise applications. The solutions help you extract and share information across your extended enterprise. V5.16 increases support for enterprise integration and interoperability by extending 64-bit support to Windows, by leveraging the openness of Web services, and by improving SMARTEAM interoperability with multi-cad environments. 1 Virtual Product Manager Planned availability date December 2, 2005 At a glance Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions help you expand your revenue streams with innovative products that meet or anticipate customer demands. They increase the speed and agility of your product development while reducing risk. V5.16 allows you to: Collaborate across the value chain and work as one with your customers and business partners to develop industry-leading products. Optimize the end-to-end product development process to reach the market at the ideal time with products that customers demand. Manage the relationships between products and their manufacturing processes and resources helping you master product development complexity and increase understanding. Capture, share and reuse your company-specific know-how to improve decision-making, optimize product designs, achieve regulatory compliance, and maximize product standardization and quality. Utilize the openness of PLM Solutions to leverage your existing investments and to extract and share information across your extended enterprise. This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation

2 Description PLM is a set of capabilities that enables an enterprise to effectively and efficiently innovate and manage its products and related services throughout the entire business lifecycle, from conception through recycling or disposal. PLM solutions deliver an open, collaborative product development environment. PLM helps you innovate with exciting products that meet, or anticipate customer demands, introduce innovative products that expand your revenue streams, and increase the speed and agility of your product development while reducing risk. PLM Solutions V5.16 comprises the following products: CATIA V5.16 ENOVIA V5.16 SMARTEAM V5.16 CAA RADE V5.16 Web-based Learning Solutions (WLS) V5.16 With IBM PLM solutions, Your company can focus on its core competencies. You encourage innovative thinking. You increase market demand for your products by designing products right the first time. Your staff, suppliers, and partners access the latest production information in the right format, when needed. You can respond to marketplace events quickly. You can win more profitable contracts. You can become an On Demand Business. PLM solutions are of critical importance because: In the on demand world, demand drives innovation. Innovation drives growth, and flexibility makes it happen. Companies must leverage any and all sources of product innovation from across their entire enterprise, which includes collaborating with suppliers and customers from outside of the enterprise. An on demand business must be able to integrate end-to-end internally and externally to respond with flexibility and speed to any customer demand, market opportunity or threat. Innovation should be an effective, efficient and repeatable process. Consistently being able to go to market at the right time with the right product is no longer just a matter of competitive advantage. It is a matter of sheer survival. If your enterprise is an on demand business, you can: Innovate with exciting products that meet, or anticipate, customer demands. Introduce innovative products that expand your revenue streams. Increase the speed and agility of your product development while reducing risk. PLM solutions help clients achieve their top business needs: Higher top-line revenues through innovative, differentiated products. Faster time to market. Increasing collaboration and process efficiency across the value net. Improved visibility and reaction to business performance and market changes. Enablement and simplification of product development ecosystem. PLM helps you to: Drive business innovation Boost your market share with innovative products Reach the market at the ideal time with products customers demand. Optimize your product development process from concept to rollout. PLM can help you cut time-to-market by months, even years. Become a company that offers product designers the tools to view the entire product development picture in real time. Speed both new product development and those already in the pipeline with effective prototyping and testing. Encourage more innovation thinking by analyzing an expanded number of design choices. Design products right the first time. Collaborate for value Work as one Your suppliers know what materials you need, even before you do. In response to customer requirements, you develop products in a lean, responsive digital design and modeling environment. When marketing conditions change, you can quickly shift product development to partners. Production, sales, and delivery costs fall as a result of real-time collaboration and outsourcing capabilities. With IBM PLM solutions, your company can focus on its core competencies: Form a partnership with others for non-core processes Conserve time and resources Focus on what you do best Extract greater value from data Drive your decision-making to the fast lane Get the most out of the data you have. PLM gives you immediate access to engineering assets, product knowledge and design data, allowing you to make better and faster decisions that help you, maximize your return on assets and minimize your costs. Reliable, scalable, industry standard PLM technology from IBM can help you manage data. So your staff, suppliers and partners get the latest product information in the right format, right now. Reuse or extract data from existing designs. Improve your product portfolio management. Focus resources on the products with the most potential. Improve employee productivity Gain valuable time to create breakthrough ideas The faster you can design products, the sooner you can share them with eager customers. PLM Solutions help you wipe out idle time in your existing processes and boost employee productivity. Efficient design time is the key to innovative results

3 Your engineers and designers can complete tasks in minutes, instead of hours or days. Move complex tasks from mainframes to desktops to save time and money. Take advantage of scalable engineering to put the right skills and capacity in place to match project needs. An on demand business is the right size for any project. Streamline processes Transform an endless cycle into a faster process Reduce physical prototyping. Make fewer engineering revisions. Perform less manufacturing rework. When your product design and support processes integrate seamlessly across the entire virtual enterprise, you can collaborate on designs with customers and suppliers and identify problem areas sooner. Respond to marketplace events quickly. Win more profitable contracts. Evaluate a wide range of real world performance parameters and manufacturing feasibility during the product development stage. Even simulate a product s performance throughout its lifecycle before it goes to the factory floor. Products IBM/DS PLM Solutions consists of the following products: CATIA is the leading solution for product creation and simulation dedicated to all manufacturing organizations, from OEMs, through their supply chains, to small independent businesses. ENOVIA delivers a complete set of integrated solutions for virtual product modeling, lifecycle management of intellectual property, collaboration, analysis, and decision support for companies making complex, high-value products. SMARTEAM offers highly flexible product data management and mission-critical business process management, optimally leveraging product knowledge and driving collaboration across the enterprise and value chain. Component Application Architecture Rapid Application Development Environment (CAA RADE) delivers the most complete set of tools, guides and APIs to support the development process from the very start of the need definition to the final product packaging. CATIA/ENOVIA/SMARTEAM Web-based learning Solutions (WLS) is an easy-to-use learning and support system that offers product information and training in one source for maximum assured productivity of the user community. DELMIA delivers digital solutions to define, plan, validate, and monitor manufacturing processes. CATIA The range of its capabilities allows CATIA V5 to be applied in a wide variety of industries, such as aerospace, automotive, industrial machinery, electrical, electronics, shipbuilding, plant design, and consumer goods, including design for such diverse products as jewelry and clothing. CATIA V5 is the only solution capable of addressing the complete product development process, from product concept specifications through product-in-service, in a fully integrated and associative manner. It facilitates true collaborative engineering across the multi-disciplinary extended enterprise, including: Style and form design Mechanical design and equipment and systems engineering Managing digital mock-up Machining Analysis Simulation CATIA products are based on the open, scalable V5 architecture. By enabling enterprises to reuse product design knowledge and accelerate development cycles, CATIA helps companies speed-up their responses to market needs and frees end-users to focus on creativity and innovation. ENOVIA ENOVIA solutions enable companies developing large engineering-intensive products to manage the complete product lifecycle in a unified environment. All participants in the lifecycle can access, share and manage product information securely. These results increased innovation, reduced development time and costs. The results boosted the difference of new products reaching the market right the first time. Information generated during the product development lifecycle is a key part of a company s intellectual property and a source of competitive advantage. ENOVIA manages this information using the PPR model, including a product s definition along with its manufacturing processes and related resources. ENOVIA Solutions enable companies to jump from a current design to a competitive innovation by applying new practices, such as collaborative design, product morphing, design in context, and digital mock-up. Industry leaders in the automotive, aerospace and shipbuilding markets have adopted these solutions. SMARTEAM SMARTEAM delivers highly flexible product data management and mission-critical business process management. It optimally leverages product knowledge and drives collaboration across the enterprise and value chain. SMARTEAM delivers highly scalable Windows and Web-based collaborative product lifecycle management solutions distinguished by rapid implementation, high usability, and customizability. SMARTEAM enables diverse manufacturers of all sizes, including small- to mid-sized enterprises, to increase their competitive advantage by generating value throughout their product and plant lifecycles. SMARTEAM PLM solutions enable companies to securely capture, manage and reuse corporate product knowledge across the extended global organization. The solutions facilitate innovation, while improving product quality, reducing costs and time-to-market and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Leveraging its open, standards-based architecture, SMARTEAM maintains data integrity throughout the product lifecycle, offering multi-cad integrations, product structure and configuration management, change management, program management, enterprise application integration, and value chain collaboration. A core component of the Dassault Systemes V5 product suite, SMARTEAM delivers a robust collaborative platform that plays a major role in PLM industry solutions

4 PLM V5.16 product highlights Collaborate across the value chain V5.16 offers new capabilities for exchange and reconciliation of product definition and manufacturing data, including analysis results and manufacturing process plans, in shared design and manufacturing environments. These capabilities extend relational product development (RPD) throughout the value chain. They allow all product development partners to gain from RPD benefits, which include faster and more frequent design iterations, and preservation of valuable engineering relationships within a global / distributed design and manufacturing environment. Streamline processes to accelerate innovation V5.16 strengthens virtual product simulation, including new capabilities for realistic visualization. This release enables engineering to experience and validate products within a unified user environment in real time. It eliminates time-consuming and error-prone data translations, and facilitating rapid design iterations that lead to innovation. V5.16 further extends the scope of PLM within the enterprise by allowing visibility of valid engineering product configuration to sales and marketing. Optimize product development and production processes IBM/DS PLM manages the relationships between products and their manufacturing processes and resources. It helps you master product development complexity and increase understanding with on demand propagation of the impact of all design decisions to all affected product stakeholders. V5.16 leverages its unique architecture supporting end-to-end PLM to deliver new capabilities integrating the engineering and manufacturing disciplines. For example, V5.16 ensures that manufacturing specifications information such as tolerancing can be shared between design and manufacturing without time-consuming and error-prone translations. Additionally, VPM Navigator can now access enterprise information, enhancing decision-making based on corporate knowledge early in the design cycle. Capture, protect, and re-use intellectual property IBM/DS PLM applications not only have industry process knowledge built-in, but also can capture, share and reuse your company-specific know-how, helping you improve decision-making, optimize product designs, achieve regulatory compliance, and maximize product standardization and quality. Extend the reach of PLM IBM/DS PLM solutions are built on standards, are open for extension by customers and software development partners, are easy to customize, and easily integrate with your enterprise applications helping you extract and share information across your extended enterprise. V5.16 increases support for enterprise integration and interoperability by extending 64-bit support to Windows, leveraging the openness of Web services to simplify integration with enterprise systems, and improving SMARTEAM interoperability with multi-cad environments. Adoption of V5 architecture is broadening, now with more than 2 industry-leading CAA partners and more than 40 third-party application. CATIA V5.16 Process-centric: V5.16 accelerates product development processes such as relational design and optimization with 64-bit support of the CATIA portfolio on Microsoft Windows. Taking full advantage of superior 64-bit memory capacity, V5.16 empowers customers to create and analyze even the largest and most complex products. V5.16 extends CATIA Machining Solution s leadership by integrating proven DELMIA simulation technologies through ISO code-based, realistic NC machine and material-removal simulation, reducing lead-time from programming to production. V5.16 strengthens virtual product simulation, enabling customers to experience and validate their products. In particular, V5.16 improves the analysis assembly process, further promoting concurrent engineering across the extended enterprise. Collaborative workspaces: V5.16 promotes collaboration between business partners working with ENOVIA or SMARTEAM. It fosters relational design across the supply chain with the new SMARTEAM Reconciliator, facilitating company interaction for concurrent engineering. V5.16 expands the usefulness of the open and extremely lightweight 3D XML format, designed specifically for fast and efficient 3D communication about the virtual product, with additional PLM product information. V5.16 enables 3D-only paperless engineering design to manufacturing planning. Significant improvements in the ability to capture and share engineering requirements within the 3D model enable the full consumption of the design intent, further ensuring final product compliance to engineering specifications Product, process, resource (PPR): V5.16 streamlines product development by strengthening the single desktop for designers to search and navigate, to communicate and collaborate, and to control and propagate. In V5.16, engineers can seamlessly manage and share more advanced design process information with the VPM Navigator, further facilitating formalized concurrent work processes. Knowledge: Resulting from collaboration with industry leaders, V5.16 makes it easy to interactively capture and reuse corporate business process knowledge. This release further facilitates the use of engineering process knowledge using the Business Process Knowledge Template application, further increasing productivity in design generation. Component Application Architecture (CAA) V5: V5.16 provides the only end-to-end, fully-integrated composites solution on the market. Third-party market leaders have chosen the powerful and flexible open V5 architecture to develop highly-specialized applications for composites parts manufacturing, complementing the CATIA V5 offering. For more information on CATIA Solutions V5.16, refer to Software Announcement , dated November 8, ENOVIA Process-centric: V5.16 expands 64-bit support to Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, leveraging the full scope of the V5 capabilities to support in-context, large scale relational design and review. ENOVIA Virtual Product Manager (VPM) Electrical Cable Route Management promotes concurrent engineering for

5 electrical cable routing within large-scale products. ENOVIA Lifecycle Applications (LCA) Product Simulation Management fully integrates product simulation processes, data, and models with design and lifecycle management processes to improve productivity across domains. Collaborative workspace: ENOVIA offers the collaborative environment and easy access to Product Process Resources (PPR) information for all PLM users. ENOVIA Web Viewer facilitates rich 3D collaborative product reviews and persistent annotation between product development partners. A richer, lightweight 3D XML format for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) further extends collaborative access across the extended enterprise. V5.16 extends PLM collaboration with business partners. ENOVIA VPM Supply Chain Engineering Exchange integrates finite element analysis specifications and results to fully support the extended enterprise global product simulation. Flexible exchange packages of CATIA relational data across ENOVIA, SMARTEAM, and CATIA facilitate engineering collaboration to enhance decision-making and productivity. Product, process, resources: In V5.16, VPM Navigator strengthens the single desktop paradigm, further facilitating formalized concurrent work processes and enterprise-wide communication. This release tightens the collaboration of engineering and manufacturing teams. ENOVIA-DELMIA PLM Change Management delivers a direct view of impacted processes and shares more information seamlessly between design and process engineers. Knowledge: With V5.16, ENOVIA LCA Enterprise Process Management better harmonizes workflows across disparate applications, delivering greater control, visibility and flexibility for robust end-to-end business processes. Component Application Architecture: V5.16 drives next generation openness and infrastructure standardization for enterprise deployability. ENOVIA Web Services simplify and accelerate the integration of PLM with existing enterprise investments, providing a flexible, cost-effective method to link existing business systems, partners, vendors, and customers. For more information on ENOVIA Solutions V5.16, refer to Software Announcement , dated November 8, SMARTEAM SMARTEAM V5.16 delivers design continuity among value chain partners and optimizes processes across expanded product knowledge, including multi-cad, while enhancing competitiveness and solution cost-effectiveness through partner offerings. Product, Process, Resource (PPR): V5.16 enhances engineering productivity through powerful capabilities for integrating exchanged CATIA relational data, as well as impact analysis and digital mock-up processes. A new SMARTEAM product delivers 3D comparison and lifecycle-managed synchronization of exchanged CATIA relational data, fortifying design chain continuity. Impact analysis leverages tight SMARTEAM link relationships to expose the full impact of a design change, enhancing decision-making. Seamless integration to Digital Mock-up optimizes the total design process environment. Process-centric: V5.16 optimizes process automation, enhancing efficiency for users and administrators across the enterprise. Automatically updated organizational data enhances resource assignment in work processes. Compatibility with CATIA s 64-bit platform supports large assembly work, leveraging technology assets to improve overall user productivity in all sectors. LUM flexibility allows configuring of idle time, optimizing license use. Knowledge: V5.16 maximizes productivity in a heterogeneous engineering environment through latest version and enhanced functionality support for Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, Solid Edge and Autodesk products, as well as an expanded capability for secure project reuse. Collaborative Workspaces: V5.16 enhances collaboration and change management through a fortified bi-directional links mechanism, enhanced embedded best-in-market viewing and markup, and optimal Web deployment scenarios. Continued 3D XML compliance in the SMARTEAM environment extends collaboration to non-traditional PLM users and customers. Component Application Architecture (CAA): V5.16 leverages platform flexibility and openness to extend solutions value and scope, including through new partner offerings. Generic sales configurator available from Tacton leverages item data with a business rules engine, boosting build-to-order competitiveness. Third-party adapters available from iway expand options for low-cost, rapid interconnectivity with IT assets, directly and via standard middleware. Up-to-date certifications, including across operating systems and client browsers, ensure robust, standards-compliant enterprise-wide PLM delivery. Tested scenarios validate SMARTEAM using DB2 on Linux, offering a highly secure, cost-effective operating system platform, well suited to sensitive data. For more information on SMARTEAM Solutions V5.16, refer to Software Announcement , dated November 8, Web-based Learning Solutions (WLS) WLS is an easy-to-use learning and support system. It offers the necessary environment to allow users of SMARTEAM to learn the product capabilities in a progressive and easy way. WLS delivers a set of learning resources called skillets that are designed to acquire or enhance a given skill in a short time. The skillets include different learning components, such as show me, do it, monitored practice and assessment, which provide an interactive experience to the user. The varieties of components make the skillets very adaptive to the learner style and preferences. Extended PLM coverage A new companion product, ENOVIA User Companion for VPM V5, is introduced in V5.16 to offer a natural education

6 from the PLM concepts to the implementation and usage of Virtual Product Management (VPM) concepts and design. Consisting of three main building blocks, the first contains enhancements to LCA fundamentals, Engineering Hub and product structure. The second focuses on how users implement design in context, concurrent engineering and relational design in the Engineering Hub environment. The third building block is dedicated to VPM Navigator usage. This new companion is the best-in-class module to support any deployment of this new innovative design approach. To complement this new product, the ENOVIA User Companion for LCA has been re-designed to offer advanced PLM know-how of LCA Solutions. In this re-engineering, the user learns how benefit from fundamental tools such as Engineering Change Management, Configuration Management and Content Management and the usage of the LCA Navigator interface in lifecycle operations. SMARTEAM companion has been enhanced to cover Web Editor functionality and its integrated Workflow. Restructured into two main building blocks, the first focuses on PLM fundamentals and SMARTEAM foundation concepts. The second delivers two parallel paths, one for the Web environment and the other for Windows. This course delivers the most advanced solutions in PLM SMARTEAM usage. For SMARTEAM Solutions V5.16, refer to Software Announcement , dated November 8, For CAA RADE V5.16, refer to Software Announcement , dated November 8, Trademarks DB2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Windows and Microsoft are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other countries or both. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. Long lasting investment V5.16 WLS courses deliver the most up-to-date market modules to cover the latest enhancements in CATIA, ENOVIA, and SMARTEAM brands. These courses unique on the market by virtue of their extensive coverage of new release enhancement, address mechanical, shape, analysis (structural and extended structural products), sheetmetal and digital mock-up domains. In the updated courses, new exercises illustrate best-in-class examples of these advanced capabilities. Accessibility by people with disabilities These products and features have been granted a deviation exception for Product positioning PLM allows you to design, analyze, and manage your company s products from initial conception to retirement. Improving the efficiency of product development processes and company s capacity to use product-related information, it enables companies to make better business decisions and deliver greater value to customers. As the world leader in providing on demand solutions, IBM has been at the forefront of serving the needs of small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as top Fortune 500 companies, for more than 21 years. The key to this success has been its ongoing strategic partnership with Dassault Systemes, the developer of CATIA, ENOVIA, and SMARTEAM the products that lie at the heart of the IBM PLM solution set. Reference information For CATIA Solutions V5.16, refer to Software Announcement , dated November 8, For ENOVIA Solutions V5.16, refer to Software Announcement , dated November 8,