Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced the availability of Version 5 Release 18 of its PLM portfolio. V5R18 brings unrivalled engineering and enterprise business process collaboration, accelerates PLM adoption for companies of all sizes with industry solutions, and empowers online collaboration for all enterprise users. In addition, it leverages and extends DS’s V5 SOA openness, and delivers enhanced IP protection.

V5R18 delivers enhanced collaboration between enterprise users and engineers, bringing the power of ENOVIA MatrixOne’s collaborative business process (CBP) applications to ENOVIA VPLM engineering users, and vice versa. “The concurrent use of ENOVIA MatrixOne and ENOVIA VPLM will allow Honda to deploy a unified business process that connects complex engineering activities to business process management in a seamless collaborative environment, enabling Honda to deliver new products to market more quickly,” explains Hideyuki Tanaka, manager of Computed Integrated Systems 3 Department at HONDA R&D Auto Tochigi, in charge of PLM. V5R18 closely connects program management and design, synchronizes configured enterprise and engineering bill of materials and unifies change management across the enterprise.

New possibilities offered by V5R18 include new functional modeling capabilities within CATIA which will allow customers to reach new productivity levels when designing and modifying complex parts. In addition, improvements in the electrical and systems domain mean that users can ensure design quality and compliance, from the design desktop.

“With V5R18 we continue to leverage and extend V5 SOA openness, which will deliver powerful IP federated management capabilities, with other enterprise applications – all accessible within the 3DLive environment,” outlines Dominique Florack, Senior Executive Vice President, Products- R&D, Dassault Systèmes. “V5R18 enhances IP protection while strengthening collaboration, leveraging Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology.”

V5R18 is immediately available through DS and its VAR sales network. It can be ordered immediately through EDS Technologies and will ship to customers from 1st October. For more details mail to marketing@edstechnologies.com