CUSTOMER REFERENCESVOLUME 1

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L’ORÉAL – FRANCE

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CARBOMILL – SWITZERLAND

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3CON – AUSTRIA

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ECOCEANE – FRANCE

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ETERNA – SWITZERLAND

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CENTERLINE (WINDSOR) LIMITED – CANADA

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L’ORÉAL

“We can manage and monitor all the operational activities...contributing to increasing our Right First Time from 93.5% to 94.4%, and allowing us to have full traceability of products 10 times faster than before.”Martin Rhein, CIO-Operations, L’Oréal

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Challenge:L’Oréal sought to better integrate operations across all factories worldwide to improve visibility and control over worldwide operations, and to position the company as a leading global IT organization.

Solution:The company deployed Dassault Systèmes’ DELMIA Apriso to 30+ plants worldwide, as its unified manufacturing operations platform; deployed at same time as global SAP ERP rollout.

Benefits:Achieved better consistency with the execution of production, quality and inventory management processes; full global traceability program now in effect across organization; increased first time right metric to 94.4%.

To make this goal happen, L’Oréal adopted an integrated deployment plan whereby SAP ERP and DELMIA Apriso were implemented together at each site. The DELMIA Apriso solution was chosen because it could be deployed at all the company’s plants, providing a single solution enterprise-wide. The L’Oréal team worked closely with both vendors to ensure smooth, successful operations throughout the process.

Today, the deployment project is complete with 30+ plants worldwide now part of a unified manufacturing operations platform. Clear visibility to material throughout has been captured. Best practices are now readily captured and shared across logistics, production and quality management activities. Further, L’Oréal can now more effectively drive operational excellence consistently across their organization, with full control of material flows and end-to-end product traceability.

By choosing a partner that is committed to investing in its product and leveraging new technologies, L’Oréal has not only met their goals of a global Industry 4.0 operations platform, but has best positioned themselves for the future. For example, adding new mobile capabilities can be readily accomplished once a DELMIA Apriso solution is live and operational.

WIDE FOOTPRINTA key reason why L’Oréal chose the DELMIA Apriso solution was its wide “footprint” of applications that extends beyond the plant floor. L’Oréal can use their solution to manage on-site production, quality, traceability, material movement, and even warehouse operations within a single, seamless system both locally and enterprise-wide.

“DELMIA Apriso enabled us to integrate all our manufacturing principles in terms of safety and quality and in terms of plant productivity and efficiency,” says Martin Rhein, CIO-Operations at L’Oréal. “In IS terms, DELMIA Apriso provides a platform that is easy to implement with a clear mission concerning costs and business cases. Thanks to the modularity of the solution we can cover all the processes of our factories which have different industrial activities.”

FULL TRACEABILITY: BOTTOM UP AND TOP DOWNImproving traceability was another major goal of L’Oréal because of the company’s high standards for quality and brand reputation. DELMIA Apriso lets L’Oréal see both broadly and deeply into their production operations, quickly tracing issues before they become an issue, helping to raise quality, and maintain continuous process improvement.

“We can manage and monitor all the operational activities … to optimize product quality and traceability,” explained Plant Director at one of the L’Oréal European manufacturing plants, “contributing to increasing our Right First Time from 93.5% to 94.4%, and allowing us to have full traceability of products 10 times faster than before.”

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SEAMLESS WORKFLOW BETWEEN PEOPLE AND SYSTEMS While L’Oréal has automated process control and operations management, the company relies also on its workers to execute key steps in receiving, warehousing, production, quality, packaging and shipping. DELMIA Apriso has provided the ideal level of automation, creating a seamless workflow between people and systems that can respond quickly to change, helping to improve operational responsiveness. Examples of how people and systems work together include:

• Labels are printed in receiving from a barcode scanner, then immediately applied by the operator

• In the warehouse, DELMIA Apriso tells workers where to put the goods, then verifies it electronically

• In production, raw materials are called by DELMIA Apriso and moved to the weighing station by Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), allowing workers responsible for the weighing to focus on their job; efficiency improved 100%

• During production, operators can track process drifts on their screens and initiate corrective actions, if necessary

• During process production, correct recipes & material formulas are sent to the automation systems to ensure consistent quality

• During packaging, quality samples at the packaging line are automatically weighed and process drifts are tracked so that operators can initiate corrective actions

Focus on L’Oréal:

Products: Cosmetics and beauty products manufacturer

Headquarters: Clichy, France

Employees: 78,600

For more information: www.loreal.com

“Clearly our DELMIA Apriso solution has brought added value to us and our customers by improving our agility. DELMIA Apriso is easy to use for our operators, simplifying shop floor execution and decisions.”

- L’Oréal Plant Manager

L’ORÉAL CONTINUES WITH IMPROVEMENTSAll L’Oréal plants now use the DELMIA Apriso solution, but the improvements are far from over. A L’Oréal Plant Manager says that DELMIA Apriso makes information “available in real-time, which is then visible to our entire organization. This lets us react to consistent data at any level, leading to process improvement.”

The flexibility of the DELMIA Apriso solution, and L’Oréal’s commitment to technology leadership, has put the company at the forefront of manufacturing excellence. And, as the world of manufacturing embraces the fourth industrial revolution and the Industrial Internet of Things, L’Oréal is poised to already have a manufacturing platform to manage, collect and best understand all the intelligence that will soon be readily available. The scalability, agility and “future-proof” architecture of the DELMIA Apriso solution continues to ensure L’Oréal will maintain improvement well into the future.

More benefits:• Increased Right First Time to 94.4%

• 10x improvement in product traceability

• Consistent production and quality best practices

• Full global traceability across the enterprise

• High quality products and brand protections

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CARBOMILL

“Thanks to the integrated database and the ease of use of DELMIA V6 Machining, we save up to 20% in the CNC programming process.”Patrick Meyer, Founder, Carbomill

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Challenge:Shortly after the company was established, production at Carbomill had to be up and running to satisfy customer expectations for rapid delivery of high quality products.

Solution:The company uses Dassault Systèmes’ DELMIA Version 6 (V6) solution to create its components made of fibre-reinforced materials and for mold design and construction.

Benefits:Just 24 hours after installing DELMIA V6, the company was already milling high-precision molds.

“Just one day after the DELMIA V6 installation, we were milling parts and shipping them to satisfied customers!”

— Patrick Meyer, Founder Carbomill

Swiss start up Carbomill specializes in the production of carbon- fibre reinforced components. Founded in June 2011, the young company faced some immediate challenges. “We could not afford to spend time on a start-up phase or a pilot project,” says Patrick Meyer, Carbomill AG founder. “We had to operate efficiently from day one, otherwise the venture would have been deemed a failure.”

The most important condition the company had to meet was to have its processes in place and working. “It was absolutely essential that the software and its interfaces function smoothly,” explains Meyer. In addition, the machining of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) structural parts place extreme demands on CAM programming, material handling and consequently require using the right tools. “With our state-of-the-art and dynamic CNC-controlled five-axis milling machine, we offer machining quality that is second to none in surface quality and precision,” he says.

“Due to our specialized knowledge in the manufacture of parts made of fibre-reinforced materials, we are able to prevent structural damage to very expensive components that could arise from mechanical processing. Milling fibre-reinforced materials is a delicate process, starting with the CAM programming and extending through the clamping stage all the way to the actual machining.”

POSITIVE EXPERIENCES RIGHT FROM THE STARTDELMIA V6 Machining enables manufacturing companies to plan, detail, simulate and optimize their machining processes. Through close integration between machine tool simulation and the definition of the machine tool paths, NC programmers can detect and solve potential problems at an early stage during NC programming. “With DELMIA V6 Machining, we benefit from powerful new features such as the user interface, which is clear and efficient. Fewer clicks are required to complete each task, making designing more logical and intuitive,” says the young entrepreneur.

Meyer also particularly appreciates the new integrated machine tool data management function. “This enables complex machine tool constructions to be managed without requiring additional separate products as was previously the case,” says Meyer. And thanks to faster processing times, operation and simulation are now much quicker.

In the Version 6 environment, Carbomill can easily access up-to- date data such as production resources, NC programs, component versions or clamping information. The storage and reuse of intellectual property in DELMIA V6 enables a higher level of standardization and automation when generating NC programs. Since Carbomill’s data is now stored in a central database rather than a file-based system, employees have rapid and convenient access to data.

Documentation can now be easily traced and retrieved on screen with little effort. “This is very beneficial, especially for follow-up orders that are often very similar to previous orders,” explains Meyer. “We can effortlessly view everything on screen that is relevant to the new job. In this way, new components

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A single secured environment from design to production facilitates better collaboration among internal and external persons involved in projects.

Focus on Carbomill

Products: Carbon-fibre reinforced components.

Headquarters: Seon, Switzerland

For more information: www.carbomill.ch

“With DELMIA V6 Machining, we benefit from powerful new features such as the user interface, which is clear and efficient. Fewer clicks are required to complete each task, making designing more logical and intuitive.”

— Patrick Meyer Founder Carbomill

that are similar to previous ones can be easily manufactured, saving precious time.” Thanks to the integrated database and the ease of use of DELMIA V6 Machining, we save up to 20% in the CNC programming process,” says Meyer.

COMMON PLATFORM FACILITATES COLLABORATIONA single secured environment from design to production facilitates better collaboration among internal and external persons involved in projects. The use of a common platform with integrated communication functions improves collaboration between the designer and the NC programmer or between the NC programmer and the

machine operator. DELMIA V6 Machining is located on its own server, which allows external access and support.

Altogether, the installation took three days. Transfer of the old data records was then a simple process. After four-days of training, everything was implemented and full production began. “Just one day after the DELMIA V6 installation, we were milling parts and shipping them to satisfied customers!” recalls a delighted Meyer.

“We needed our processes in place and working rapidly, and we were able to achieve this goal thanks to the efficient collaboration between Dassault Systèmes, Carbomill and Dassault Systèmes’ local partner responsible for sales and onsite support.”

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3CON

“All the apps we need to design and build our machines are available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform - CATIA for 3D design, DELMIA for 2.5 to 5-axis NC programming and simulation and ENOVIA for project management - and most importantly, they are all integrated.”Daniel Schöpf, COO, 3CON

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Challenge:3CON, a global leader in manufacturing equipment for the automotive industry, needed to accelerate design and delivery of machines tailored to its clients’ specifications.

Solution:The company adopted Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform for virtual design, collaborative innovation and workflow management.

Benefits:3CON has reduced commissioning time at the customer site by 50% and improved design productivity by 30% with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

“In a fast-moving automotive industry characterized by ever shorter lead times, no compromises are acceptable.

With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, design engineers from our three sites can work with one another throughout product development to accelerate cycle times.”

— Hannes Auer

CEO, 3CON

DELIVERING LEADING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY FOR AUTOMOTIVE INTERIORSWhile safety, fuel efficiency and reliability top automobile customers’ list of important buying criteria, interior design and ergonomics are not far behind. Today, car manufacturers and their suppliers offer a wide range of fabrics, accessories, and technologies that enhance the driver’s well-being and experience. Austria’s 3CON has built a solid reputation as a leading global manufacturer of automotive interior machinery since it was founded in 1998 by Hannes Auer.

“Our laminating machines are used to produce door panels, instrument panels and center consoles equipped with a variety of materials, fasteners, handles and lighting,” Hannes Auer, CEO at 3CON said. “Over the years, we have developed our processes beyond lamination to include joining, anti-squeak and edge folding technology, thereby enabling us to cover all techniques related to the manufacture of interior parts. Our clients are Tier 1 suppliers that include Yanfeng, Dräxlmaier, SMP and Grupo Antolin and car manufacturers that have their own production facilities,” Auer said. In addition to Austria, 3CON has production sites in China and North America to cater to the local requirements of customers in these countries.

“Our clients look for reliability in our machines and in their vendor,” Auer said. “Our after-sales service is characterized by our swift response, which reduces machine downtimes at the customer site to a minimum. This differentiates us from our competition.”

“Our clients also appreciate our innovative spirit,” Auer said. “Our Exact Shape Lamination (ESL) technology, for example, is one of 3CON’s innovations that allows companies to manufacture better-quality parts, while generating savings of up to 50% because they use fewer materials such as glue, leather or other textiles. We’ve integrated the edge-folding process in the ESL machine, eliminating the need to have separate machines for each process.”

COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION3CON needed to improve collaboration between its different sites and accelerate the process of transforming concepts into sturdy, efficient equipment. The company chose Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE® platform because it wanted to allow globally dispersed project stakeholders to access a centralized data structure to improve collaboration and innovation. Another reason was 3CON’s desire to shorten lead times while maintaining the high quality of its products.

“In a fast-moving automotive industry characterized by ever shorter lead times, no compromises are acceptable,” Auer said.

“With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, design engineers from our three sites can work together throughout product development to accelerate cycle times,” Auer said. “They can rapidly try out new ideas because the system is fast and easy to use, enabling them to test more design iterations in any given amount of time,” he said. “Design teams can also exchange information with NC programmers while managers monitor project status, all in real time.”

“With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we also have a flexible and open environment that enables us to collaborate and exchange information with our clients,” Christian Mayr, CTO at 3CON added. “In this way, they can easily provide us with the data that forms the basis for the customized machine we will manufacture for them before design begins and throughout the development process.”

“In addition, the platform enables us to be more agile in the way we work since information can be accessed at any time and from anywhere,” Auer said. “This enables us to optimize the use of our available resources. For instance, if one site lacks the manpower to finish a job, another site can jump right in to fill in the gap,” he said.

Dassault Systèmes and a local business partner provided 3CON with assistance during the integration of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. “After implementing the hardware and software on the server and client side, the partner provided us with user and administrator training,” Auer said. “Users were trained according

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Top image: The 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers a flexible andopen environment enabling 3CON to collaborate andexchange information with all stakeholders.

Bottom image: Edge Folding Machine

INDUSTRY SOLUTION EXPERIENCES3CON uses the following Industry Solution Experiences from Dassault Systèmes to help them meet their development challenges:Bid to Win: Enables teams with industry-proven tools and processes to analyze opportunities, win optimal new business, then design, engineer, validate, manufacture, and deliver on target to customers’ satisfaction.Single Source for Speed: Enables companies to manage their entire product development process – from idea to design, production and servicing – across all geographic locations.

to their specialization: design and 3D modelling apps for the designers, NC programming for numerical control specialists and database and workflow management for project managers. They also taught us how to configure our bill of materials (BOM) with ENOVIA,” he added.

“The partner’s in-depth expertise with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its application ENOVIA was very valuable to the success of our installation,” Auer said. “For example, they tailored the software to accommodate the way we manage our projects and bill of materials. Along with Dassault Systèmes, both companies have been able to help us solve even the most complex challenges.” Mayr added: “Moreover, the environment is so well designed and structured we were up and running in only three weeks.”

INTEGRATED PLATFORM“All the apps we need to design and build our machines are available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform - CATIA for 3D design, DELMIA for 2.5 to 5-axis NC programming and simulation and ENOVIA for project management - and most importantly, they are all integrated,” Daniel Schöpf, COO at 3CON added.

“This means we don’t have to deal with the inconvenience of performing costly and time-consuming data conversions that can delay release of a new machine to market. We have a streamlined process from design to commissioning,” he said.

“There is data associativity between the different applications. If we make a change to the design, it is automatically reflected in the NC program.”

With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s ENOVIA app, 3CON is more efficient at managing workflows because the system makes sure that design approvals are completed at the right time and by the right person. “We can assign roles in ENOVIA and define who is authorized to do what, like modifying certain standard parts,” Mayr said. “ENOVIA keeps track of any design changes made along the way, providing us with a clear change management scheme that we can refer back to whenever needed.”

END-TO-END COST CONTROLOne of 3CON’s major challenges is cost control. “In the past, if projects were going over budget, very often we would realize this late in the process, at the production or purchasing stage,” Auer said. “This made it difficult to make adjustments and still stay on budget and on schedule.”

“With ENOVIA, we can assign non-geometric metadata such as material and production costs or material delivery times to our parts or assemblies in our BOM, which enables our engineers to monitor in real time, if projects are on track budget-wise from the earliest design stages,” Schöpf added.

3CON uses the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s design and visualization apps during the sales process to convince prospects that it has the best solution to their needs. “Machine concepts are modeled in a virtual environment providing prospects with a clear view of what we propose before they place their order,” Schöpf said. “They can make informed decisions and additional requests at this early stage, which are easier to implement than if we had to make the changes further down the line.”

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“Once we have their approval, we begin the design process in which multiple disciplines from different continents work together on the same assembly, contributing their expertise and exchanging ideas,” Auer said. To cope with the increasing complexity of their machines, 3CON uses a modular approach to design. “Modularity accelerates the development cycle of a new machine,” Auer said. “We capitalize part geometry from previous projects in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with ENOVIA, resulting in a catalogue of standard parts that can be reused in the development of new machines. Because machines are tailored to customer specifications, if a standard part does not fit the bill, the flexibility of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its CATIA design application enables us to engineer new parts and use them as well.”

30% PRODUCTIVITY INCREASEEngineers need to work on large assemblies that are often linked to other assemblies. This sometimes causes performance issues that can slow them down. “One of the benefits with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is the ability to visualize and work on huge assemblies with a performance level never achieved before,” Mayr said. “One of our most recent experiences involved the development of a thermoforming vacuum lamination machine, which is comprised of many large subassemblies. Thanks to the system’s excellent performance, more than 20 people were able to simultaneously access and work on these assemblies, which improved productivity. We are now more effective and faster,” Mayr said. “Due to high user acceptance, the benefits of standardization and the enhanced release process, we’ve cut design time by 30% while simultaneously improving the quality of our designs,” Auer added.

Assembly workers have access to the 3D geometry from the shop floor, which improves their understanding of how a machine should be assembled. “If an issue is discovered at this stage, they can use redlining to indicate where the problem is and add comments if necessary,” Auer said. “This can be viewed by the designer in real time, who can proceed with the necessary design adjustments.”

“The people on the shop floor can interactively document changes or lessons learned in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and the different roles are immediately informed that these modifications were made. Everyone is always up to date,” Schöpf added.

START-UP PHASE DIVIDED IN HALFOnce a machine is assembled, it is tested by application engineers on the shop floor to see if it works correctly and meets customer requirements. When approved, it is disassembled and re-installed at the customer site during the start-up phase.

“Commissioning technicians have access to all knowledge databases on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to check machine parameters like clearances or temperatures, which helps them during an installation,” Auer said. ”Any issues encountered at this stage are documented on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform so that designers can correct their designs on subsequent machines. Because the issues were corrected upstream, new machines can be installed faster. As a result, we have been able to reduce the assembly start-up phase by up to 50%,” Auer said. “In general, enabling our technicians on the shop floor and application engineers to visualize a complex system in a virtual environment has put us on the road to paperless production,” Schöpf added.

Non-technical people can also visualize machine geometry with ENOVIA 3DLive, which provides a “virtual workspace” to view product data in an immersive 3D environment. “For our buyers to accurately assess machine costs, they need a visual representation of the components,” Auer said. “The 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its ENOVIA 3DLive app are ideally suited for this purpose.”

FUTURE TRENDSIn a hyperconnected world where the Internet of Things continues to expand, 3CON machines must include the latest innovations to maintain their competitive advantage. “The 3DEXPERIENCE platform can serve as the foundation to capitalize and analyze all the information generated by 3CON machines installed in the field, information that will not only improve maintenance but also future designs,” Auer said.

In the future, 3CON plans to use the 3DEXPERIENCE platform as the company’s central database for capacity management to help ensure that its IT resources are correctly sized to meet its business requirements. “We are also interested in pushing the virtual reality facet even further by delivering high-end 3D virtual experiences to our sales force and customers,” Auer said.

“Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXCITE app is ideal for this. Finally, we plan to use DELMIA to virtually simulate robots in action to make sure they’re optimally positioned before physically installing them on the assembly line.”

Focus on 3CON World-leading reference for manufacturing equipment for the automotive interior industry.

Products: Door panels, instrument panels, consoles and pillars as well as after sales services

Revenue: 40 million Euros (2015)

Headquarters: Ebbs, Austria

For more informationwww.3con.com

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ECOCEANE

“As a matter of fact, with everyone working on the same integrated platform and digitally interacting and exchanging on the same master data, we have reduced project development time by up to 50%.”Benjamin Lerondeau Naval Architect, Ecoceane

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Challenge:Ecoceane needed to accelerate and streamline its response to increasing customer demand for its revolutionary pollution cleaning vessels.

Solution:Ecoceane uses Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE® platform for the development and manufacture of its vessels, including CATIA for design, SIMULIA for virtual product simulation, DELMIA for digital manufacturing and 3DVIA for documentation and customer presentations.

Benefits:With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Ecoceane has enhanced its performance in bringing innovative vessels to market making it a global leader in the fight against marine pollution. With the 3DS applications, Ecoceane has reduced project cycle time by 50%, and improved collaboration of all stakeholders from the early stages of the design process, thus improving the design quality and production-readiness of each vessel.

“Enabling designers, manufacturing staff and customers, each with their own ideas, expertise and

know-how, to participate on a project is the best way to create the most efficient design.”

— Benjamin LerondeauNaval Architect, Ecoceane

Over 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water. It is one of Earth’s most precious natural resources. With globalization placing increasing demands on maritime shipping, when accidents occur, the consequences to the environment can be catastrophic. Tankers leaking oil, vessels dumping their refuse inadvertently without regard for aquatic life or coastal residents; the negative environmental impact is real – for fauna, flora and humans alike.

An innovative conceptAs experienced during disasters such as Exxon Valdez oil spills in Alaska in 1989 or the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, cleanup efforts are monumental tasks and their success depends on how fast authorities can intervene and whether they have the appropriate equipment to do the job.

From France’s Brittany, Eric Vial and Robert Gastaldi, co-founders of Ecoceane created in 2003, decided to boost the efficiency of vessels that are used to collect the liquid and solid waste floating in the water. They realized that despite significant means and efforts employed to recover hydrocarbons after an oil spill, very few hydrocarbons were recovered at sea before reaching the coastlines and causing irreparable damage. They invested more than 10 million euros and seven years in research and development to come up with an innovative concept that would tilt the odds in favor of clean-up operations forever. Their patented technology equips clean-up vessels that can collect more oil and waste per hour and with a capacity ten times that of traditional vessels. A revolution.

“Our customers are government agencies, harbor managers, ship-owners and shipyards and their needs vary,” said Eric Vial, President of Ecoceane. “We therefore design and build water-cleaning boats for different situations: from harbor, lake and

river clean-up and coastal protection to out-of-port operations to recover all floating waste and oil spill monitoring and recovery in high seas. Our technology is unique and our boats are the only ones capable of collecting hydrocarbons at sea up to a wind and sea force of 6 or 7 on Beaufort scale and at speeds of 4 to 5 knots. Our competitors are limited to a wind force level of 3.”

The company’s founders invented an innovative way to separate water from hydrocarbons that prevents emulsion. “With our technology, we avoid a mayonnaise-like emulsion when collecting hydrocarbons that would otherwise require a specific process to separate the hydrocarbons from the water before they can be stored in tankers. We gain in efficiency this way.” Its vessels transfer only pure emulsion-free hydrocarbons into tankers as they work. Once a tanker is full, another can take its place. “This continuous exchange of storage means our vessels have an unlimited 24/7 recovery capacity during a clean-up operation,” Vial said. “More than 80 vessels have been sold in over 25 countries around the globe since Ecoceane was created. There is strong demand for our technology.”

Ecoceane provides its customers with end-to-end design to production services. “We tailor the design of each vessel to a customer’s specifications and then have the boat built at one of the shipyards we work with around the world, a solution that satisfies customers’ need for proximity,” Vial said.

Harnessing the power of integrationTo develop its vessels, Ecoceane uses Dassault Systèmes’ (3DS) 3DEXPERIENCE platform, with CATIA for design, SIMULIA for virtual product simulation, DELMIA for digital manufacturing and 3DVIA for communication with shipyards and customers.

“For structural steel shipbuilding design, CATIA has built-in job-related features such as sheetmetal and structural steel design, that save us a lot of time,” said Benjamin Lerondeau, Ecoceane’s naval architect. “As a result, we have more time for innovation.”

The link between CATIA and SIMULIA enables Ecoceane architects to seamlessly use the 3D Digital Mock-Up created in CATIA to run simulations of the boat performing under working conditions as it sucks up water and pollutants into the vessel. “We virtually simulate the vessel collecting water and

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Top image: Latest line of pollution-cleaning vessels – ReverseGlop – designed with CATIA Bottom image: SIMULIA virtually simulates the boat’s system collecting hydrocarbons on water

hydrocarbons and visualize the flow of these liquids through the different compartments of the boat where filters separate the hydrocarbons from the water,” Lerondeau said. “The hydrocarbons are then eventually transferred to a tanker and the water released into the sea. We want to avoid releasing the pollutants into the sea instead of the water. With SIMULIA we can see if the vessel functions properly before it is built. The virtual simulations are so realistic and precise that we could eliminate physical prototypes, which are expensive and time-consuming to produce.”

Engineers use SIMULIA for stress analyses and the results are used to adjust the 3D design in CATIA if needed. “Working on the same platform means there are no gaps and no interruption in the development chain,” Lerondeau continued. “When the simulation and analysis phase is complete, we then transfer the 3D model to a virtual production environment in DELMIA to digitally prepare all manufacturing operations, including the sheet metal cutting plans and assembly procedures. We then use 3DVIA to create assembly instructions in 3D for the shop floor. With 3D, we eliminate misunderstandings that can lead to errors.”

Ecoceane’s sales force uses 3DVIA for their customer presentations and to allow future boat owners to experience their vessel before it is completed. “It has changed our relationship with our customers,” Lerondeau said. “They are excited to be involved in the design of their vessel and it saves us time since we know what they want from the early design stage, before it is too late or too costly to implement changes,” he added. “Enabling designers, manufacturing staff and customers, each with their own ideas, expertise and know-how, to participate on a project is the best way to create the most efficient design. As a matter of fact, with everyone working on the same integrated platform and digitally interacting and exchanging on the same master data, we have reduced project development time by up to 50%.”

With its latest line of pollution-cleaning vessels – ReverseGlop – Ecoceane proposes a way for shipyards to incorporate its technology in the stern of any boat under construction that is more than 25 meters long. Its technique preserves the vessel’s normal functions in the aft and transforms it into an oil spill response vessel when the boat shifts into reverse. “This configuration means any service – military, cargo or even ice-breaking – vessel can be transformed into a pollution clean-up boat,” Vial said. “More than ever, we need a robust solution to help meet our development and sales objectives. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a fully-fledged part of our strategy and I believe that together with Dassault Systèmes, we can do great things for the protection of our earth’s waters.”

Focus on Ecoceane France-based company devoted to research, development and commercialization of vessels collecting hydrocarbons and floating solid waste at sea, without using chemicals.

Products: Workboats for marine pollution cleanup

Employees: 25

Headquarters: Paris, France

For more informationwww.ecoceane.com

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ETERNA

“With DELMIA’s V6 Machining application, we can efficiently program for every type of shape or contour while keeping material waste to an absolute minimum.”Paride Della Corte Head of CNC production and security coordinator, Eterna

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Challenge:• Eterna needed a powerful software solution

to fully benefit from the capabilities on their new 3-axis CNC milling machines for watch manufacturing.

Solution:• The company selected Dassault Systèmes’

3DEXPERIENCE® platform including DELMIA Machining Pack for 3D simulation and NC programming.

Benefits:• With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Eterna

manufacturing engineers benefit from production simulation features and automatic NC programming capabilities, thereby reducing production cycle times and machine fatigue and improving sustainability by reducing material waste.

“In the watchmaking profession, components are very complex and anything

short of perfection is unacceptable. With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and DELMIA V6, production cycle time is shorter because the part is right the first time.”

— Paride Della Corte Head of CNC production and security coordinator.

Watchmaking craftsmanship with 3DEXPERIENCEWill the market for traditional watches fall victim to the arrival of high tech “smartwatches”? According to Citigroup, the answer is no. In a 2013 research paper entitled “Smart or Good Looking: Watches”, Citigroup concluded that the two types will likely coexist because consumers buy watches for different uses. So while wearable technology attracts tech-savvy consumers, the success of traditional timepieces will likely continue.

This is good news for Swiss watchmaking companies like Eterna. The Swiss have long dominated the watch and clock industry with a reputation for high quality. Innovations such as the self-winding wristwatch and the first electrical watches have contributed to their international renown.

150 years of innovationSince its creation in the Swiss Jura Mountains in 1856, Eterna has emerged as one of the few watch manufacturers that produces entire movements at their own manufacturing facility.

“As early as 1915, we invented the first table clocks featuring a proprietary movement with an unprecedented eight-day power reserve,” said Paride Della Corte, head of CNC production and security coordinator, Eterna.

For more than 150 years, the company has delivered watchmaking innovations such as the revolutionary self-winding movement that reduces friction with a ball-bearing mounted rotor system and that since became a standard for automatic movements. “The five small low-friction ball bearings are synonymous with Eterna; they have become our logo, which appears on the dial of each timepiece,” Della Corte said.

Eterna is dedicated to perfecting the art of mechanical watchmaking combining expert craftsmanship with modern production techniques. “Every component of an Eterna

mechanical watch is designed and manufactured here in our Grenchen facility,” Della Corte said.

“We recently invested in new numerical control machines to increase our production output and our manufacturing efficiency. However, we rapidly realized that our previous NC software did not have the ability to sufficiently exploit these machines. So we set out in search of a more powerful solution that could take advantage of our new machines’ advanced possibilities.”

3D and simulation: a powerful combinationEterna chose Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform including DELMIA V6 Machining Pack for its manufacturing activities. “With this platform, we have a complete solution that includes DELMIA for our prismatic machining programming, CATIA for 3D design visualization and rework, and ENOVIA to manage our tooling library.”

Eterna visualizes designs virtually in 3D and simulates the tool path complete with material removal and automatic generation of the machine code. “With CATIA, I can visualize the 3D model created by our designers, model our NC machine and accessories with DELMIA Machine Builder and the NC program for our 3-axis machine is automatically generated,” Della Corte explained. “With 3D, we can see potential problems and at the manufacturing level this can save us considerable time and avoid production re-dos that can increase waste and drive up costs,” Della Corte said.

“In the watchmaking profession, components are very complex and anything short of perfection is unacceptable,” Della Corte said. DELMIA Machining Pack can simulate the machining of a watch mechanism to verify that it can be done and if something is not possible, I make the necessary adjustments to the design myself using CATIA. I then create the associated tooling and virtually verify that there are no collisions between the part, tool and clamp before proceeding with physical manufacture. The result we obtain during virtual simulation is the one we obtain in the real world. Production cycle time is shorter because the part is right the first time.”

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Upper: ETERNA Adventic, Automatic caliber Spherodrive 3843 Lower: CNC machining of the Barrel Bridge Caliber 39

Less waste, longer machine tool life“For the six families of mechanical movements that we produce, there are many parts, which translates into a lot of time spent programming and setting up the machines,” Della Corte said.

“A significant amount of preparation is required upstream, which is why it is important to work with a programming application that is flexible and provides fast results. With DELMIA’s V6 Machining application, we can efficiently program for every type of shape or contour while keeping material waste to an absolute minimum. Moreover, a more efficient machining program means less wear and tear on the tool because there is less friction and no collisions.”

Della Corte manages an elaborate tooling database with ENOVIA that he relies on for the manufacture of the watch mechanisms Eterna designers create. “My first job is to check if the tool needed to manufacture a part already exists and if not, I create it with CATIA V6. It is then capitalized in ENOVIA for future use.”

Does Della Corte worry about the arrival of high tech smartwatches? “There will always be a market for a timepiece that represents over a century of great watchmaking tradition with meticulous attention to detail and beauty. While technology enhances the user experience in many ways, wearing a timeless piece of engineering craftsmanship is also a wonderful experience for many.”

Focus on Eterna Switzerland’s Eterna is a mechanical and self-winding watch manufacturer.

Products: Mechanical and quartz timepieces

Employees: 80

Headquarters: Grenchen, Switzerland

For more informationwww.eterna.com

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CENTERLINE (WINDSOR) LIMITED

“In the past, we would process approximately 60 robots a year, but this year alone we are processing well over 250 robots. This would not be possible without the use of a virtual manufacturing solution.”John-Paul Girard, robotics simulation leader, CenterLine (Windsor) Limited

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Challenge:• CenterLine (Windsor) Limited needed to

improve its robotics manufacturing processes methodology by implementing standard, collaborative single-source-of-truth technology to provide its customers with on-time, on-budget and efficient solutions.

Solution:• The company selected Dassault Systèmes’

3DEXPERIENCE® platform including DELMIA V6 for production line design and simulation.

Benefits:• CenterLine develops more complex manufacturing

installations and makes better use of shop floor space by visualizing and verifying robot movements in a virtual environment.

“DELMIA V6 helps us innovate and solve the difficult problems. That’s why our customers come to us.”

— John-Paul Girard, robotics simulation leader at CenterLine (Windsor) Limited

CenterLine (Windsor) Limited sees itself as more than just a supplier of custom automated production systems. It prefers to establish long-term partnerships with its customers based on trust and confidence drawing from the technical know-how of its global workforce.

“Becoming a leading supplier of automated assembly solutions for major automotive, aerospace and defense OEMs, when 50 years ago we started out as a two-man tool and die shop, requires perseverance and innovative solutions,” said John-Paul Girard, robotics simulation leader at CenterLine (Windsor) Limited. “Our customers come to us when they have a difficult problem and need a creative solution. They value the reliability of our equipment and our service delivery.”

MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS WITH AN EDGEAs business pressures increased, CenterLine’s customers began to request solutions that would lower costs, improve cycle times and reduce time to market. When a new production unit involving a series of machines and robots needs to be installed, positioning each element and optimizing the use of floor space can be a long and complicated process. This is why CenterLine employs digital simulation to test different shop floor layouts before deciding on the optimal choice for the customer in terms of production needs and space requirements.

“We can arrange robots, tooling fixtures, and various weld equipment in a digital environment and present our proposal to the customer before bolting anything to the floor,” Girard said. “We can place machinery and humans in this virtual environment as well and see how they all interact once production gets underway. If modifications need to be made for safety reasons, to avoid interferences or to make better use of available space, we can verify everything in the digital environment first.”

CenterLine chose Dassault Systèmes’ (3DS) 3DEXPERIENCE platform based on V6 architecture, including DELMIA for digital manufacturing to design production line layouts for its

customers. “Physically installing a production unit is time consuming,” Girard said. “When errors are detected because robots are too close together or workers are not ergonomically positioned, it forces us to redo the installation, which can drive up costs and delay the customer’s production startup.”

“Simulation ensures that everything will function correctly prior to physical installation. It also enhances our service offering because we can propose larger and more complex installations,” Luciano Mancini, robotics simulation specialist at CenterLine (Windsor) Limited, added.

DELMIA V6 has a comprehensive set of features to digitally model and simulate different production situations and robotic tasks. “For example, DELMIA’s Arc Welding solution enables our programmers to automatically generate collision-free arc welding tool paths in minutes and to simulate the process prior to installation,” Mancini said. “It enables us to optimize the use of space as well as man-machine resources and eliminates the inefficiencies of a trial-and-error approach.”

Another advantage is when design changes occur. “When a CAD model of a welded part is modified, DELMIA automatically updates the weld trajectories because they are fully associated with the geometry,” Mancini said. “We avoid having to manually regenerate the paths since DELMIA does it for us. This application is really a cut above the rest.”

THE V6 ADVANTAGEAs a long-time DELMIA V5 customer, CenterLine transitioned to V6 because of new functionality and its intuitive easy-to-use interface. This update, supported by Dassault Systèmes business partner Aventec, also removed many manual processes and created a more seamless transition of simulation data to and from Girard and Mancini’s Robotics Simulation department.

“In addition to its arc welding function, another important enhancement is the Spot Welding solution,” Mancini said. “As a welding gun manufacturer, DELMIA’s 2D gun sectioning feature really stood out for us. We can provide our gun design division with feedback of interferences or suggested design improvements based on simulated welding scenarios. And with DELMIA’s auto tool search feature, designers can choose from a library of possible gun solutions, which we expect, based on our preliminary studies, will generate productivity gains in robot cell design and simulation.“

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CenterLine custom robotics welding system with multiple robot weld stations and servo driven FlexGun welding gun packages.With DELMIA Mechanical Device Builder, CenterLine can define

all the mechanical devices it would need in a downstream manufacturing situation, from clamps to robots and other process-related equipment. Once engineers verify that a device satisfies a robot’s work envelope requirements such as tool reach and trajectory, they can store it in a resource catalog for future use by programmers or simulation technicians who need to define and validate their manufacturing plans.

“What impresses me is the single-button approach, whereby the user is provided with an immersive tool bar that allows them to define and simulate a multitude of complex mechanical devices with relative ease. It streamlines the procedure for the user and we can expect a 10 to 15% productivity gain thanks to device building alone,” Mancini said.

DELMIA Robotics also provides an enhanced collaborative work environment that enables the user to break down complex work cells into manageable segments thereby allowing multiple technicians to work on the larger cell simultaneously. “Recently, we successfully managed to process an 80 robot line in different phases,“ Girard said.

“Upon completion of the individual segments, DELMIA enabled us to combine the work cells into a complete line simulation, which allowed us to identify any line level bottleneck areas.”

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Focus on CenterLine (Windsor) Limited A global corporation specializing in advanced automation processes and technologies primarily for metal joining, forming and metal coating needs.

Products: Welding gun packages, pedestal welders, cylinders and presses, electrode nut detection systems, servo driven turntables, seam welders, cold gas dynamic spray systems, custom designed equipment and tooling

Revenue: $100M

Employees: 550

Headquarters: Windsor, Ontario, Canada

For more informationwww.cntrline.com

Focus on Aventec Dassault Systèmes Business partner and Certified Education Partner located in Markham, ON helped CenterLine with their DELMIA installation and provided training. Aventec is Canada’s leading provider of 3DEXPERIENCE technology and professional services to the engineering and manufacturing community. Aventec assists companies to improve their competitiveness, productivity and profitability utilizing its expertise with Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

For more informationwww.aventec.com

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PATHGirard believes simulation technology from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will enable his company to take its customer engagement to the next level by providing customers with on time and on cost business value that makes a difference in the competitive world of manufacturing. With DELMIA V6, CenterLine is on a continuous improvement path that is producing results.

“Over the last five years, our manufacturing capability has increased significantly,” Girard said. “In the past, we would process approximately 60 robots a year, but this year alone we are processing well over 250 robots. This would not be possible without the use of a virtual manufacturing solution. DELMIA makes managing the resulting complexity of so many robots easier. It also helps us innovate and solve the difficult problems. That’s why our customers come to us.”

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