V5PLM: SP&P

In a consumer centric market, being fast and first to market with innovative products that meet the needs of ever demanding consumers is key to success.

Today's manufacturers of Styled Products face growing pressure to differentiate their products and increase market responsiveness.

Our customers are leading manufacturers who benefit from our Styled Plastic & Packaging Solution to:

Increase brand value by optimizing product design, style, performance and quality
Improve margins and gain market share by reducing development cycle time, rapidly incorporating the latest market trends in the product design and bringing innovative products to market
Minimize development costs by reusing company knowledge, eliminating the need for physical prototypes and increasing engineering and manufacturing productivity


	Overall design time cut by 44%

	Design change management time cut by 65%

	Prototype costs cut by 66% annually

	Overall ROI: 1.7 year payback period

	"Our old way of working was slow, inaccurate and costly. With CATIA V5 and SMARTEAM we are now getting to market faster and generating additonal revenue." Richard C. Gurmin, Senior Project Engineer Download the Customer Story


	Eliminated the need for detailed drawings

	Design time reduced from 14 months to less than a year

	Proven operation during design phase thanks to kinematics capabilities

	Greatest simplified interaction between the design team, the toolmaker and the manufacturing engineers

	"Styling and the ability to package the components in the most economical way is the benefit of CATIA V5. It is a big success in Black & Decker, there are no two ways about it." Brian Kennedy, Engineering Support Manager Download the Customer Story


	Quickly and easily created realistic 3D geometric models without prior sketching or prototyping

	Eliminated the need for surface specialist thanks to 3D modeling learning curve down to a minimum

	Overall design and bidding time reduced to a minimum

	"With the CATIA V5 Imagine & Shape workbench, we can present our customers with more high quality design proposals than before and propagate changes quickly and easily during the validation phase." Baptiste Hannebicque, Design Manager Download the Customer Story


	Product development time reduced by 50%

	Able to launch 10-20 additional new products an average of two weeks sooner, generating up to $1 million in new revenue

	Simplify and expedite order entry by 75%

	"PLM is not just a platform for improving new product development performance. It provides a system infrastructure and conceptual framework to improve many additional processes within the organization." Stephen Segal, Vice President and CIO, Loewen Download the Customer Story


	Simulation of the complex shrinkage behavior of cast products

	Capture of internal know-how to create the product right the first time

	Designers automatically alerted if their choices are outisde the limits of manufacturability

	"CATIA V5 allows us to define a new way of designing our products for a more global market. Captured design know-how can now be repeated by any of our designers." Stefan Ginter, Manager for CAD/CAM Implementation Download the Customer Story

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