EDS Technologies Ties-Up with ICEM Targeting Automotive & Aerospace Industry

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

EDS Technologies Pvt. Ltd, India's largest Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions and 3D Visual Simulation provider, with its headquarters in Bangalore, today announced a tie-up with ICEM, a Dassault Systèmes company, to enhance its PLM portfolio with "ICEM Shape Design" solutions, to address the shape design and styling market. This association will help EDS Technologies to extend its CATIA leadership to the broad and highly diversified styling communities.

Richard Brown, Regional Business Development Manager at ICEM stated that, "This appointment is part of our overall strategy for extending ICEM's reach further into our traditional areas of automotive concept development and Class A surfacing as well as integrating ICEM Shape Design into our customers' PLM processes. We were looking for a partner that could complement our understanding of the complex workflows within the automotive industry and offers the high quality technical and customer support we demand. EDS Technologies matches that requirement perfectly".

"ICEM Shape Design" software suite offers highly intuitive tools to easily create, validate and modify any type of surfaces, from freeform surfaces to mechanical shapes. Its extensive set of functionalities, with high quality rendering, will bring virtual creation to reality. "ICEM Shape Design" provides breakthrough technology enabling users to produce world-class aesthetic products. Acknowledged as the premier system for the creation and development of Class A surfaces, ICEM products bridge the demands of aesthetic designers and production engineers from visualization, right up to tool and die designers.

The "ICEM Shape Design" software suite, based on Dassault Systèmes CAA V5 architecture is a fully integrated component of a PLM system environment. As a result, a seamless workflow of design data is created from initial surface model to final design approval, whilst allowing visibility to all associated manufacturing functions. Additionally, "ICEM Shape Design" comprehensively addresses the needs of customers who require a standalone solution for shape and surface development. Aesthetics and design quality create emotions and are key contributors to product success and brand recognition.

"The automotive industry has spearheaded putting aesthetics at the heart of the engineering process. One of the most critical steps is the 'Class A Surface' process, which creates perfect surfaces from styling sketches. With ICEM's unique set of technologies and expertise in this domain combined with EDST's recognized leadership in 3D and PLM, customers will benefit from a new level of integrated process performance from styling concepts to final shape", said S Senthil, President, EDS Technologies.

About EDS Technologies
EDS Technologies Pvt. Ltd, established in 1995, is the largest PLM Solutions and Real Time 3D Visual Simulation provider in India, with its head quarters in Bangalore, and having presence in Gurgaon, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad. EDST is staffed with over 100 skilled professionals with industry experience supporting customer requirements across the country.

EDS Tech, the leading partner of IBM/Dassault Systemes plays a vital role in implementing Dassault PLM Solutions, in India across various industry segments. The company is supporting more than 2000 CATIA licenses across India for more than 600 customer sites over the past 8 years. EDST has met with considerable success in executing the PLM needs of Automotive, Aerospace, Manufacturing clients and their suppliers in India

For more information, visit http://www.edstechnologies.com/

About ICEM
With its headquarters in the UK, ICEM is the leading worldwide developer of advanced surface modeling, design and visualization software. ICEM software is a key component of the product lifecycle management (PLM) software environments of many of the world's leading automotive and aerospace manufacturers and their suppliers.

With a worldwide network of sales and support offices and specialist distributors, ICEM's principal market sector is the worldwide automotive industry. Here it includes most of the leading manufacturers among its customers, including the Ford Motor Company, DaimlerChrysler Group, Volkswagen Audi Group, Porsche, BMW, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Renault and Nissan.

For more information see http://www.icem.com/

Source: EDS Technologies (Business Wire India)

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