3DEXPERIENCE platform supports industrial strategies

Today the internet is taking on an industrial dimension whereby new equipment, materials, autonomous robots and other technologies are transforming the way goods are produced. Industrial innovation must integrate multiple digital concepts to revolutionise existing processes and create a dynamic, holistic and more sustainable production model that results in a better consumer experience. Governments and companies around the world are recognising the industrial and economic potential in launching manufacturing automation and optimisation initiatives to revitalise industry by having these digital concepts at their core.

Both France and China have placed a strong focus on the use of digital platforms to accelerate industrial change through an integrated, end-to-end collaboration between people, information and ideas. 

“Beginning in 2012, the French government launched a wide range of reforms to help the country's industry take advantage of the digital revolution,” said Christophe Sirugue, French Minister of State for Industry.  “France's industrial base has come together in the ‘Industry of the Future’ alliance, to which the government has allocated a nine billion euro budget.  France's industry is open towards the world, and China is the best place to shed new light on our innovations.”

Dassault Systèmes is co-leader of France’s “Industry of the Future” alliance, and is also working closely with industry in China to digitally transform its manufacturing sector, currently the largest in the world. In addition to organising and hosting “Manufacturing in the Age of Experience,” the company is collaborating on projects involving the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with leading businesses aspiring to the “Made in China 2025” objectives. 

“Digital’s most visible value is to increase productivity and competitiveness, but its true power is the imagination.  Manufacturers that succeed will be those that will create a world which does not yet exist,” said Pascal Daloz, Executive Vice President, Brands and Corporate Development, Dassault Systèmes. 

“Dassault Systèmes provides 3DEXPERIENCE universes for collaboration and innovation to implement innovative strategies in supply and demand.  The digital factory is not only virtual, connected and automated, but is above all an execution system, where men’s skills are turned to innovation, performance, quality and continuous change. The virtual becomes constitutive of the products themselves. As a consequence, the value is migrating to the cloud services where data are a strategic asset for the industry to reinvent itself,” he added.

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Nowadays, consumers want products that are better, cheaper and more customised; they want experiences.  Not only must the right experience be delivered to the right person for the right price – the process of how products are designed and delivered must also change.  New technologies are scaling up personalised manufacturing strategies to a completely new level.  Models, supply chains and production processes must become faster, more integrated and more agile to meet consumer demand efficiently.

The Manufacturing in the Age of Experience event in Shanghai last year has united 3DEXPERIENCE platform user communities, industry thought leaders and Dassault Systèmes executives to exchange ideas, applications and expertise on the digital transformation taking place in industrial manufacturing operations. 

“Manufacturing in the Age of Experience” featured the “3DEXPERIENCE playground” where the HTC Vive Business Edition virtual reality system enabled a large-scale and flexible use of virtual reality with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform in an enterprise environment.  This included design reviews, production training or showrooming that can help accelerate the design cycle, reduce the number of mistakes or replace physical prototypes by virtual ones.

“The world of manufacturing has a new goal, across all markets: mass customisation and quick delivery to an on-demand generation of consumers, meaning that the fragmented manufacturing of yesteryear will simply not do anymore,” said Monica Menghini, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, Dassault Systèmes. 

“Complete synchronisation and integration of operations, modularity and predictive analytics will allow manufacturers to provide consumers with a personalised experience with which they can feel an emotional connection.  ‘Manufacturing in the Age of Experience’ offers a unique opportunity to explore how to achieve this with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform,” she added.

The event in Shanghai kicked off with a plenary session on virtualizing the industry value chain featuring presentations from three Dassault Systèmes brand leaders:  Guillaume Vendroux, CEO, DELMIA, Rob Van Egmond, CEO, QUINTIQ, and Morgan Zimmermann, CEO, EXALEAD.  Later, the event’s keynote, “How manufacturers must prepare for Industry 4.0,” was delivered by Moundir Rachidi, Director of the Operations practice for France, Leader of the Innovation Center for Operations project, Boston Consulting Group.