V5 PLM Express

Designed specifically for small and medium sized businesses, CATIA PLM Express is mapped to industry and job-related needs enabling companies to easily take the first steps toward achieving business transformation. Rapidly and easily define the solution that matches your business needs and immediately reduce deployment time and improve return on investment-critical efficiencies for all businesses, regardless of industry.

Organized into six common job-related roles, CATIA PLM Express delivers all the functionality and benefits your organization is used to experiencing in CATIA and is engineered to address specific business needs and organizational definitions.

Mechanical Product Design

Utilize a powerful spec-driven modeling approach to create any type of mechanical shape, promoting concurrent engineering between styling and mechanical shape design. Ultra-fast functional modeling adds to dramatic time savings and ensures that products are designed right the first time.

• CATIA Team PLM – CAT
• Mechanical Product Creation – MCE
• Fabricated Product Creation – FPE
• Molded Product Creation – MPE
• Mold Tooling Creation – MTE
• Jig and Tolling Creation – JTE
• Mechanical Shape Design – HDX
• Mechanical Shape Optimization – HCX
• Molded Product Design for Manuf – MPX
• 3D Master – FTX
• Body and Skin Templates – BTX
• Composites Design – CPX

Styled Product Engineer

Work concurrently on style and engineering or perform simulation of a product’s appearance for quick style validation. Quickly capture physical prototype shapes and utilize integrated styling process to quickly launch new ideas into the marketplace.

• CATIA Team PLM – CAT
• Concept Product Creation – CRE
• Reverse Engineering – REE
• Freestyle Shape Design – FSX
• Realistic Dynamic Rendering – RRX

Equipment Product Design

Easily define equipment and visualize a complete virtual product, reflecting both mechanical components and other systems such as fluid and electrical. Experience realistic simulation in an integrated environment to reduce design time and increase the quality of large scale systems.

• CATIA Team PLM – CAT
• Electrical 3D Design – EDE
• Piping Schematic to Design – PIE
• HVAC Schematic to Design – HVE
• Tubing Schematic to Design – TUE
• Flexible PCB Design – CBE
• Electrical Wire Harness Design – WHX
• Electrical Wire Harness Flattening – HFX

Manufacturer Engineer

CATIA PLM Express offers an easy-to-use and innovative NC programming and machining simulation solution, fully immersed within the design environment. Significantly reduce overall manufacturing process time while ensuring maximum product quality and efficiency.

• CATIA Team PLM – CAT
• Lathe & Prismatic Machining – LPE
• Surface Machining – SGE
• Multi-Axis Machining – MME
• Adv. Multi-Axis & Pocket Machining – AME
• NC Machining Verification – NVX
• Machine Tool Simulation – MTX
• Machine Tool builder – MBX
• Composites Manufacturing Preparation -
  CGX

Review and Optimize Engineer

Optimize product packaging, strength, and ergonomics while performing more complete product assessments earlier in the design process. Make quick and efficient decisions with advanced collaborative reviews—driving to ultimate product optimization.

• CATIA Team PLM – CAT
• Generative Structural Analysis – GAE
• Knowledge Advisor – KAE
• Collaborative Product Review
• Technological Specification Review – TRE
• FEM and Structural Analysis – FAX
• Knowledge Expert and Eng Optimization – KOX
• Human Builder and Simulation – HSX
• Animated Product Review – PRX

Layout Engineer

Leverage integrated 2D/3D technologies to achieve easy and rapid iterations-drive toward conceptual design while concurrently activating detailed design. Generate templates to capture optimized design methodologies and enable re-use, design agility, and, ultimately, productivity.

• CATIA Team PLM – CAT
• 3D Layout and Annotations – LOE
• Knowledge Templates – PKE
• Structure and Steel Layout – SSE
• Accomodation Layout – ACX
• Structure Concept to Design – SDX
• Electrical Cable Layout – ECX