What layout strategy addresses trade offs between space and material handling?

The expanded 3DEXPERIENCE® Works portfolio, from SOLIDWORKS, unites your entire ecosystem, allowing you to connect the people, applications and real-time data from every aspect of your business for improved productivity, increased collaboration, and accelerated innovation. The portfolio provides best-in-class 3D modeling, simulation, data management and manufacturing solutions in one, connected universe on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Learn more about 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

Enrich a virtual twin with contextualized data to empower all stakeholders with actionable insights. Transform large volumes of heterogeneous, multi-source data into meaningful, real-time Information Intelligence to help users improve business processes and gain competitive advantage. Achieve business breakthroughs, learn from the past and navigate the future.

The ENOVIA Collaboration and Intelligence portfolio connects everyone in the value network through structured collaboration and governance to share knowledge, raise productivity, improve quality and reduce costs. The portfolio provides businesses of all sizes with a way to break down silos between departments and eliminate the patchwork of communication tools. In a single, inclusive environment, teams come together to innovate on ideas and then create the tasks and project plans to bring them to life. With everything connected in one place, stakeholders see data in context and use 360-degree views to make informed decisions and drive operational excellence. With teams working on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, everyone contributes to the innovation process from anywhere and on any device.

DELMIA Collaborative Operations is the cornerstone of the 3DEXPERIENCE Operations vision. With that vision comes Lean practices-- a standard part of business, building better team relationships and visualizing 3D content and data within a digital framework. While enabling a common understanding for all stakeholders, DELMIA 3DLean addresses different team challenges and goals to continuously improve operational efficiency by empowering teams to find new ways to innovate together. Users will realize value to teams working in any function, as well as cross-functional teams along with the framework to guide collaboration and improve team performance. Efficient collaboration through lean practices is achieved by digitally connecting users so companies can have visibility into, control over, and synchronization across their enterprise. Learn more about 3DLean and See the 3DEXPERIENCE Store on 3DLean

Commercial Content Creation enables mass content production using an integrated and automated approach to create all product media from the single source of truth. Go-to-market content can be created earlier, is always up-to-date and is scalable to the ever growing portfolio size and number of communication channels. Democratized content creation enables local marketing organizations, social media teams and partners to be agile in the creation of the right content for their current needs - personalized and relevant for their given audience and purpose.

Commercial Experience Building seamlessly connects product definition and design with 3D customer engagement for compelling marketing & sales experience creation. Benefit from direct presentation of the current product, it's configuration options as well as behavior and animations to authentically communicate all unique selling points. Increase engagement and customer understanding using 3D as a universal language.

Commercial Experience Governance accelerates all go-to-market activities starting right from your product design using the 3DEXPERIENCE commercial twin. Managing and life cycling all product media alongside the commercial product portfolio ensures accurate and correct go-to-market communication. Controlled yet convenient access for your experience ecosystem enables digital transformation and ultimately secures commercial success.

The design and engineering processes for complex buildings and infrastructures project development requires close collaboration among multiple stakeholders and across all project phases. Additionally, increasingly complex construction projects require that all teams rely on CATIA and 3DEXPERIENCE virtual twin technology as a ‘common language’ to facilitate collaboration and reduce rework between phases. CATIA allows architects, engineers, owners and governments to build and collaborate beyond the limits of traditional project delivery methods, by delivering a range of 3D modeling and experience solutions that span throughout the whole design, engineering and delivery process. This allows for complete digital continuity for diverse project teams on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

From product to transportation industries, the style & design of the product plays a major role in its success on the market. Develop shape & material creativity, reach a high level of surface sophistication & quality, and get the right decision tools with physical & virtual prototypes. These are the key elements of CATIA Design/Styling to boost design innovation.  From 3D sketching, subdivision surface, Class-A modeling to 3D printing, reverse engineering, visualization and experience, CATIA Design/Styling provides all the solutions for design  creativity, surface excellence and product experience.

Before investing in a new mine, or when re-evaluating mine plans in an active operation, you need to be sure the deposit, design and schedule can deliver the profits required to justify the required capital investment. With GEOVIA, you have the capabilities to maximize profitability and gain greater confidence in the decisions you make. With GEOVIA, you can analyze the economic viability of a mineral deposit, and then align designs and schedules to company goals. You also have the ability to optimize return on investment (ROI) by exploring different design options. Risks can be reduced by considering different mine design and operating scenarios by examining the sensitivities to changes in commodity prices, demand, and operating costs. Once you have your strategic mine plan, you can use it to guide the development of a practical-to-mine production schedule which will also deliver the best possible ROI. Related Products: Surpac, GEMS, Minex, Whittle, PCBC

Electromagnetics simulation discipline includes technology for simulation of electromagnetic waves propagation and signal strength related to design and positioning of devices for communication and detection.  Technology from CST Studio Suite is connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to allow a wide range of high-frequency and low-frequency scenarios to be efficiently simulated related to electromagnetic performance and device placement.

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As products and experiences continue to increase in complexity, performance and quality targets are becoming more demanding. CATIA answers that challenge, enabling the rapid development of high-quality mechanical products. Mechanical engineers equipped with CATIA 3D Modeling tools can gain insight into key factors of quality and performance early in the product development phase. Digital prototyping, combined with digital analysis and simulation, allows product development teams to virtually create and analyze a mechanical product in its operating environment.  CATIA Engineering provides the platform which enables engineers to create any type of 3D assembly, for a wide range of engineering processes.

Organizations that manufacture formula-based products must ensure regulatory compliance globally and efficiently manage the complete lifecycle from idea to label. By facilitating the management of product complexity as well as the regulatory requirements for global formulations, BIOVIA’s solution for Formulations Design and Management helps to improve productivity, manage costs and speed products to market.

It gives formulators instantaneous regulatory guidance throughout formulation development and provides secure access to all current and historical product development data that significantly increases efficiency. It helps accelerate product innovation and product launches while successfully navigating complex regulatory requirements and more effectively managing and leveraging their formula, packaging and consumer Intellectual Property (IP) in a single, global PLM solution.

GEOVIA provides you with the geology modeling capabilities needed to quantify and then plan the extraction of mineral deposits. Our applications integrate: ore body or seam modeling; geostatistical analysis; resource modeling, estimation and Block Model generation; survey; and other critical functions. With GEOVIA, mine site productivity can be increased through the automation of workflows for processes such as grade control, eliminating repetitive tasks, helps to reduce errors, and is underpinned by visual validation of designs. Using GEOVIA, data can be centralized and secured, making it accessible whenever it is required. In addition to enabling effective collaboration, you benefit from robust audit trails, giving you increased confidence in creating reports for JORC, Valmin, SAMREC, and NI 43-101 and other requirements. Related Products: Surpac, GEMS, Minex

DELMIA Industrial Engineering enables innovation and efficiency by planning, simulating, and modeling global operations. DELMIA allows manufacturing and service providers to virtually experience their entire operations from the impact of design to determining how to meet global demand. This is made possible with a single 3D data model across operations--spanning engineering, manufacturing, logistics and service. Customers can virtually validate value networks, factory layouts, transportation plans, process plans, logistics plans and workforce plans to quickly respond to the competition or new market opportunities. For manufacturers, capabilities extend visualization beyond the product into manufacturing and operations--simulating manufacturing processes before the physical plant or production line even exists.

Science-based organizations need to optimize operations by improving efficiency while maximizing quality and adhering to regulations, while driving innovation. These challenges also apply to the lab environment, which needs to remove inefficiencies and compliance risks from lab processes and to provide a collaborative environment for innovation. The solution is to remove disconnected and paper-based processes that are error-prone and hamper access of relevant data throughout the research, development and manufacturing lifecycle.  It is imperative to make decisions as early as possible in the lifecycle, in order to drive innovation and to optimize processes and products. Digital Laboratory Informatics capabilities allow for streamlined and more efficient lab workflows, harmonization and standardization and a fully integrated and automated easy-to-deploy process. 

DELMIA Manufacturing & Operations solutions transform global operations to achieve and sustain operational excellence. This is accomplished through digital continuity, a shared digital landscape connecting all stakeholders to improve visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing operations and supply chain processes on a global scale. The result is improved agility and expanded continuous improvement across the enterprise and extended value network. By providing a model-based, data-driven digital user experience, customers can establish a common set of operational processes that can be created, managed, and governed holistically on a global scale. Now enhanced by Diota solutions, users can leverage technologies like interactive 3D, augmented reality, computer vision, AI and deep learning to guide human operators in complex assembly tasks and automate quality inspections based on the product virtual twin. Produce right the first time to drive significant time and cost savings. Explore DELMIA Apriso

Even the most innovative ideas will fail if they can’t be manufactured efficiently. Companies require a set of tools tailored specifically for a factory’s environment that enable design and manufacturing teams to work concurrently—from ERP to the shop floor.

Declining R&D productivity is forcing organizations to think outside the box to keep up with increasing consumer demands. Relying on physical experimentation alone is not economically sustainable in such a climate. Researchers need to facilitate a deeper understanding of both how and why their products work to better tie them to project and business goals. Modeling & Simulation provides a snapshot of the fundamental atomic interactions supporting product performance. In silico testing allows researchers to test concepts with minimum risk and lower costs, unlocking new avenues of ideas to explore. By tying the virtual and real worlds together, researchers can better guide their projects with virtual tests guiding physical ones and vice-versa. As a result, teams are able to create better performing, safer and cost-effective products, leading to improved patient outcomes.

Multibody Dynamics discipline includes technology enabling engineers to simulate the complex non-linear kinematic and dynamic motion behavior motion, kinematics, dynamics, and performance of any mechanical or mechatronic system.  A browser-based environment powered by the Simpack multibody simulation solver is delivered  to allow the behavior of product mechanisms and systems to be validated and improved.

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The Optimization discipline provides capabilities to automatically run and re-run simulation methods with varying parameters allowing design space exploration and optimization using Isight technology.  Tens, hundreds, or even thousands of simulations can be automatically run to provide an entire neighborhood of data points for comparison and selection.  Within these data sets, optimal design points can be discovered and chosen to reduce weight and cost and increase durability, strength, and lifespan

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Existing users of SIMULIA standalone products can take advantage of many benefits of using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform including capture and sharing of existing analysis methods, easy collaboration with other analysts, and publishing their work for others to build upon.  Abaqus, SimPack, XFlow, and CST Studio Suite are currently supported.

Define a portfolio of products and services based on a global business strategy to capitalize on market trends and comply with regulations. Flexibly plan and track programs and projects via analytics to deliver on time, on cost and on quality. Capture and leverage knowledge and know-how to foster innovation. Monitor environmental assessments to meet product sustainability goals.

The ENOVIA Planning portfolio connects every product or services portfolio definition with its product plan. This connection provides businesses with the agility to react quickly to changing market trends while maintaining clear traceability from requirements to delivery. Through proper planning on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, development and product cost targets can be achieved with higher confidence. Connecting program and project management capabilities with data from across the enterprise in a single dashboard provides the information intelligence necessary to make decisions that are more informed. With support for industry-specific processes from regulatory and materials compliance, to quality management and IP security programs, companies move from being document-based to knowledge driven.

Scientific discovery arises from the collaboration of diverse teams. The types of content they utilize can be equally as diverse, across disciplines such as cheminformatics, bioinformatics, proteomics, genomics and more. Organizations must ensure that researchers have the tools they need to effectively analyze and share this content to maximize its impact. Leveraging a common framework for managing scientific content helps facilitate an environment of collaboration across internal and external R&D networks. Researchers can easily aggregate, process and analyze data while rapidly sharing and discussing results. Scientifically-aware tools also help guarantee that researchers have the capabilities they need to explore their data more deeply. Together, such an environment facilitates innovation and helps researchers guide their work via data-driven decisions.

Structures simulation includes Finite Element Analysis (FEA) using Abaqus for solids and structures to model linear and nonlinear static, thermal, dynamic, and impact effects.  Realistic simulation includes complete material behavior (for metals, elastomers, composites, and many other materials), contact and impact, and large motion.  Fracture/failure analysis can be included.  Fatigue simulation and lifecycle estimation is provided using fe-safe technology. Integrated directly with CAD models generated within CATIA & SOLIDWORKS, a wide range of scenarios can be efficiently modeled & simulated from single parts to complete assemblies allowing simulation to become a core part of product design & engineering processes.

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Developing smart products has never been more challenging.  Developers need an integrated systems engineering approach that enables them to manage the complete development process.  Requirements engineering, systems architecture definition, detailed modeling and simulation of complex systems and the development of embedded software all need to be mastered in the context of the complete product.  The Systems Engineering solution from Dassault Systèmes delivers a unique, open and extensible development platform – a platform that fully integrates the cross-discipline modeling, simulation, verification and business process support needed for developing complex ‘cyber-physical’ products. It enables organizations to quickly and easily evaluate requests for changes or develop new products or system variants, while utilizing a unified performance based systems engineering approach that reduces the overall cost of system and product development.

The Systems discipline provides capabilities to model and simulate complex multi-disciplinary systems that include control systems, mechanisms, flexible bodies, and multiple simulation domains such as fluid-structure interaction.  Logical and physical models can be coupled together.  Multidisciplinary experiments can be run and re-run to evaluate and validate system performance reducing design time and risk-of-failure in physical testing

An intelligent digital model based on geometric and topographical, demographic, mobility and other elements addresses the complexity of the cities, enabling the stakeholders to work in a systemic approach to collaborate around the common referential that allows them to simulate the evolutions of the city. The stakeholders are able simulate, plan and manage the city in a transversal and collaborative way to remotely share data and better observe urban phenomena.

Gather and organize all your product parts and related knowledge in a 360° view thanks to powerful, intuitive, artificial intelligence-driven sourcing and standardization intelligence. Clustering technology based on 3D and semantic similarity search allows you to deduplicate, classify and standardize your components. Compare them to identify the right one to be reused by your designers. With all of your components in one place, enhance communications between Engineering and Procurement. Test and select qualified 3D components from a robust catalog of +1,000 suppliers.

The ENOVIA Value Network portfolio allows companies to turn their value network into a sustainable advantage that reacts dynamically to changing market conditions. Through upstream collaboration between engineering, manufacturing and the value network, suppliers can be selected that optimize product costs and meet quality and regulatory requirements. The portfolio enables businesses to establish value network relationships that allow for sourcing decisions to be done earlier, avoiding costly decisions late in the development process. By working with suppliers on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, requirements can be shared so decisions are made that best meet cost and sustainability goals. For companies exploring supply options, the platform offers an integrated part supply marketplace, to rapidly identify and evaluate alternatives and maintain a resilient supply network.

The ENOVIA Virtual Product Development portfolio enables companies to cost effectively design and manufacture products. A multi-discipline, holistic product definition provides efficient and real-time collaboration across the value network, allowing companies of all sizes and industries to transform the innovation process and reduce design cycle times. Using a configured virtual product definition, teams can more flexibly explore and deliver product variants that address changing customer preferences. Connecting the entire value network to the innovation process reveals new collaboration opportunities and helps overcome challenges earlier in the development process. Standardization and modularity capabilities on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform further optimize speed to market and help ensure quality and compliance through reuse of previously qualified components. Previous investments in legacy applications are maintained by connecting third-party design data with the platform for collaborative, model-based engineering.

What layout strategy focuses on production of a single product or group of related products?

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Which strategy simplifies the movement of materials?