CATIA-CADAM Solutions Versions 4 & 5 are the leading CAD/CAM/CAE systems in the marketplace.

CATIA supports digital design processes from concept to reality in most of the manufacturing industries, as evidenced by numerous Digital Mock-Up realisations. It offers unique design flexibility, which can accommodate even the most sophisticated product designs, involving hybrid-modelling techniques, whilst preserving the ability to make late engineering changes.

CATIA delivers the largest process-oriented application portfolio supporting best concurrent engineering practices to optimise design productivity, shorten design cycles while improving product quality and reducing design cost.

Electrical Distribution design through CATIA E3D allows for intelligent links between the 2D & 3D environments of circuits and geometry. Utilising 2D circuit generation software such as Mentor Graphics L Cable, the combined 3D geometry data from CATIA may be linked to the circuit schematics allowing for robust data export into a wiring harness drawing package such as Mentor Graphics Capital Harness (CAP-H).

The process assists in maintaining change control from a circuit led perspective whilst ensuring that any change ultimately cascades into the wiring harness drawing required for board design.

The POWER 275 incorporates the POWER4+ microprocessor, which showcases the latest innovations in copper and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) chip technology from IBM. Further benefits include:

• exceptional performance for high-end design and analysis applications.
• memory and storage options for demanding engineering environments.
• self-managing autonomic features for enhanced manageability and availability.