"The enormous competitive pressures on industry today are inspiring the world's leading manufacturers to pursue new ways to design and test products, and Silicon Graphics is excited to be working with IBM and Dassault to fuel this virtual retooling," said Tom Jermoluk, Silicon Graphics' president and chief operating officer. "By trading costly physical models for realistic virtual prototypes, these companies can test new designs using Silicon Graphics' powerful 3D visualization and real-time fly-through capabilities."Joe A. Red, manager of Integrated Product Development for Computer Sciences Corporation and CATIA development strategies manager of the CATIA Operator Exchange said, "I am delighted that CATIA will soon be available on Silicon Graphics systems. Silicon Graphics' proven graphics processing and visualization capabilities combined with CATIA's ability to quickly define complex products provides a synergistic design solution. Add to this the analysis packages supported in the SiliconWorks solution set, and the result is a powerful collaborative engineering environment.""IBM and Dassault's commitment to open CATIA to multivendor hardware platforms like Silicon Graphics was a major prerequisite for our decision to use CATIA for car body design and car manufacturing," said Dr. Trac Tang, corporate director, Information Systems for Product Development for Volkswagen AG. "The availability of CATIA on Silicon Graphics workstations supports our efforts to re-engineer and optimize our internal process chains with a system of broad application scope, based on a restructured open architecture."
Dataquest's 1994 report on worldwide workstation vendors recognized Silicon Graphics as the industry's fastest growing CAD workstation company. With the addition of CATIA software, Silicon Graphics customers will soon have available the richest complement of hardware and software for mechanical design.
The high-end graphics, texturing and visualization characteristics of the SiliconWorks solution set have allowed Silicon Graphics to redefine the workplace in the aerospace and automotive industries. SiliconWorks combines powerful third-party applications with Silicon Graphics' visual computing systems and advanced software tools in a single, integrated, collaborative environment to offer manufacturing companies data that is easier to access, change, comprehend and share.
The combination of the CATIA software family and Silicon Graphics' line of binary compatible systems opens an entirely new dimension of collaboration to manufacturers, enabling their suppliers, their contractors and their global offices to streamline the entire course of product development, from concept through digital prototyping and product analysis. The Silicon Graphics design environment includes fully integrated digital media, fast interactive graphics on all systems, in addition to high-end visualization, rich network server solutions and multiprocessing supercomputing technology. Manufacturers will be able to standardize on a single UNIX(r) workstation platform with the flexibility to coexist with current CATIA environments.
CATIA is designed and developed by Dassault Systemes, Paris, France. CATIA is marketed, sold and supported worldwide by IBM.
Silicon Graphics, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of high-performance visual computing systems. The company delivers interactive three-dimensional graphics, digital media and multiprocessing supercomputing technologies to technical, scientific and creative professionals. Its subsidiary, MIPS Technologies, Inc., designs and licenses the industry's leading RISC processor technology for the computer systems and embedded control markets. Silicon Graphics has offices worldwide and headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark, and SiliconWorks is a trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies, Inc. CATIA is a registered trademark of Dassault Systemes. UNIX is a registered trademark of X/Open Company, Ltd.
