Revolutionizing manufacturing industries with virtual modeling and enhanced collaboration
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is transforming manufacturing by combining cutting-edge virtual modeling and collaboration, enabling innovation and achieving sustainable growth
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Manufacturing production lines were physically installed, without any possibility to optimize or change the way they were operating once set up
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Embracing the power of immersive virtual modeling empowers manufacturers to drive innovation and growth to meet growing demands of customers, regulators and the planet, in tight collaboration across their value chains
Faster, cheaper and more sustainable production: these are just some of the enormous social and economic challenges forcing manufacturers to rethink their engineering platforms and processes. The rise of smart factories, digital manufacturing and proliferation of AI and data-driven technologies opens new opportunities for manufacturing industries to rethink operations while addressing emerging challenges. From optimizing car design or planned use of manufacturing robots on production lines, to empowering the food or shipyard industries to leap into the digital age, to providing a path for a new generation of sustainable aircraft, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is at the forefront of revolutionizing manufacturing. Virtual twins of machinery, processes and products are accelerating digital transformation, leading to greater operational efficiency and data-driven decisions through the product lifecycle, from conception to reuse.
Revolutionizing vehicle engineering
BMW Group has extended its strategic partnership with Dassault Systèmes to develop its future engineering platform with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform at its core.
Dassault Systèmes and BMW Group have extended their long-term strategic partnership to develop BMW Group’s future engineering platform. Placed at the core of this project, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will empower BMW Group to rethink its engineering process to accelerate the development of all vehicles, streamline company-wide collaboration and enable more efficient data management.
Mastering the complexity of car variants
For decades, Dassault Systèmes and BMW Group have built a strategic partnership, pooling their knowledge and know-how to advance technological innovation in areas including production planning and scheduling, part design and production efficiency. With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform at the core of BMW Group’s future product development environment, all engineering disciplines will now work on a virtual twin of a vehicle that can be configured for variants of each model using real time, integrated data. Teams can reuse components more easily, master the complexity of car variants and accelerate engineering to manufacturing cycle time. In addition, BMW Group can seamlessly migrate data from existing IT solutions and extend its engineering platform to other disciplines, such as modeling and simulation.
Accelerating sustainable mobility
Speeding time to market of sustainable mobility solutions using advanced technology like the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a competitive differentiator in the automotive industry. Extending the partnership between Dassault Systèmes and BMW Group is testimony to the fundamental and transformative role of the platform’s virtual twin experiences to streamline enterprise-wide collaboration and deliver data-driven approaches to manage the exponential complexity carmakers are facing during engineering connected, autonomous vehicles.
“We will only optimize our engineering process if we think digital, work connected and rely on an integrated data. For the BMW Group the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will support this approach and help to reach a higher level of quality in our processes.”
Improving the efficiency of industrial robots
Virtual commissioning allows Robot at Work to meet its customers’ increasingly complex requirements more easily and help them run their manufacturing operations more efficiently. Now, virtual twins on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud help Robot at Work improve its customers’ production line setups.
Manufacturers are feeling increasing pressure to streamline operations to create products at a lower cost, accelerate time to market and maintain the highest levels of efficiency – while also increasing employee productivity and maintaining business relationships. It’s a tall order, and for Italian production line solutions specialist Robot at Work, it meant finding a way to meet customer requests for complex automation needs with standard robots.
Robot at Work used to receive a customer request, then had to imagine how a robotic cell would operate within the context of their customers’ shop floor operation. Seeing the success of their automotive customers using virtual commissioning – the testing, verification and validation of automation control systems through a digital model of the plant and equipment – the company knew they too could use virtual models to test their robots’ capabilities, evaluate their functionality and identify issues and improvements to meet all their customer’s needs.
Defining robotic cells virtually
DELMIA applications on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform provide Robot at Work sophisticated features to program robots in the context of a specific production line and simulate in depth behavior of all robotics. Other solutions on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform allow them to create virtual plants where they can run unlimited scenarios to check setup and design before a customer commits to building or reconfiguring physical production lines. And because the solutions could be deployed on the cloud, Robot at Work could get started without a major upfront investment in IT infrastructure.
Robots at Work can now simulate in-depth the behavior of all the robotics on a production line, integrating many robot brands and comparing to see which one is best suited to a customer’s needs. By defining each production line solution in great detail, they can determine which robots are best suited for different tasks and combine several different functions into one cell. With this approach, Robot at Work can establish the optimal solution for each of its customers’ requirements without the costs, delays and mistakes that come from a traditional approach of physically installing a new line and then trying to debug and optimize it on the shop floor.
Creating new aftersales offerings
The transition to virtual commissioning has been transformational for Robot at Work, not only in meeting its customers’ increasingly complex requirements, but also in opening new service opportunities once a production solution is fully up and running. Many customers change production two to three times a month. Using our solutions allows Robot at Work to help a customer get a new cell up and running more quickly, strengthening their relationships: their customers trust that they are getting the best solution before they must commit to building it, showing early on exactly how their investment will pay off.
“Our customers can now see a complete simulation of their production line upfront and know exactly how their investment will pay off. It’s bringing us much closer to our customers.”
Becoming a leading food-tech company
Among the leaders in the food industry, the Bel Group, a French company, is known worldwide for its emblematic brands such as Babybel and GoGo SqueeZ. Bel and Dassault Systèmes have joined forces to bring a healthier, more innovative and responsible diet based on milk, fruit and plant-based products.
Bel Group's mission is to positively impact the food industry and ensure everyone has access to healthier, more sustainable offers, including a wide range of dairy, fruit and plant-based portions of goodness. As a 150-year-old French family company, Bel is committed to transform food models towards sustainability and regenerative agriculture, with a focus on minimizing food waste and offering healthier choices.
In pursuit of this ambitious goal, Bel has formed a powerful alliance with Dassault Systèmes to capitalize on their combined strengths and expertise. The complexities of meeting the world’s food demands have propelled the need for innovative technologies like precision fermentation and sustainable agriculture.
Through this partnership of these two French and Family groups, Bel aims to enhance its operational efficiency, implement cutting-edge online platforms, and advance digitization efforts across manufacturing and product lifecycle management.
Dassault Systèmes is powering Bel’s data science capabilities across 11 factories in different regions, propelling the journey towards greater operational efficiency and breakthrough R&D. Together, we’re working to standardize industry solutions and leverage AI to bring healthier, more sustainable food choices to people worldwide.
PLANTS BENEFITING THOUSANDS OF BEL GROUP OPERATORS
R&D RESEARCHERS INVOLVED WITHIN BEL GROUP
Standardizing processes to unlock efficiencies
Damen Group is focused on becoming the most sustainable and connected shipbuilder in the world. This international shipyard group is using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to facilitate their transition from a product-centric to a service-centric company.
Shipbuilders are under pressure to meet demand for customized, sustainable and cost competitive vessels, making digital transformation a critical path for this complex and labor-intensive industry. With 12,000 employees across 35 shipyards and a goal to be the most sustainable and connected shipbuilder in the world, Damen adopted the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to consolidate its IT applications and bring its engineering offices, shipbuilding sites and other stakeholders into a centralized digital environment.
The platform helps empower Damen to meet its mission of putting customers at the heart of their approach, allowing its engineers to handle complex vessel configurations and design changes with agility, and plan manufacturing, assembly and maintenance early in the design phase. They can collaborate more efficiently with industry partners to deliver higher quality, pioneering products on time and within budget, and test options to increase vessel sustainability. Damen plans to extend the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to its workboats division. But, its ultimate goal is to develop a complete virtual twin of a ship to extend across the vessel’s lifespan, from component ideation to designing monitoring equipment that enables predictive maintenance.
Designing a next-generation hybrid aircraft
French startup VoltAero is taking electric aircraft to an entirely new level with electric-hybrid propulsion. Founder Jean Botti describes how the company worked with our DesignStudio to develop a proprietary design for its aircraft while also developing a unique branding proposition.
"3DEXPERIENCE platform allowed us to optimize the aerodynamics while making something beautiful"
What challenges, from design and organizational aspects, did you face in designing the Cassio 330 hybrid aircraft?
VoltAero develops high-performance aircraft for multiple purposes: to carry people, goods and medical evacuations. A dedicated collaborative space on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform allowed us to use integrated design practices for sustainable innovation, throughout development.
What were the operational and sustainability benefits of working with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?
Co-designing the Cassio 330 with Dassault Systèmes allowed us to optimize the aerodynamics while making something beautiful. The Cassio 330 brings safe, eco-friendly flight to connect communities. The use of immersive virtual modeling ensured that the design was both aesthetically pleasing and carbon efficient.
How did Dassault Systèmes’ DesignStudio contribute to defining your brand identity?
Through the VR experience solution provided by Dassault Systèmes, we were able to showcase to our clients and stakeholders the interior and exterior design of the Cassio 330. This was a crucial milestone in demonstrating how our product will reflect our brand and the unique value proposition of our innovative aircraft.
LESS GHG EMISSIONS BY THE CASSIO 330 IN FULL HYBRID MODE