Thales Alenia Space takes off on PLM

LE BOURGET, FRANCE: Dassault Systèmes announced today that Thales Alenia Space, an European designer and manufacturer of satellites for telecommunications, defense, navigation and Earth observation, has successfully deployed its PLM solutions to support key mechanical design processes of its space programs.

Thales Alenia Space has unified its mechanical engineering processes by standardizing its disparate and heterogeneous solutions around CATIA and ENOVIA, as a single environment to improve real-time collaborative engineering. As a first step in this transformation, Thales Alenia Space has deployed ENOVIA, CATIA, 3DLive and 3DVIA Composer within its different sites in France and in Italy. Future phases will include sites in Spain and Belgium, as well as partners’ sites around the world.

As per the press release, Thales Alenia Space chose Dassault Systèmes’ PLM solutions to reduce overall development time and improve global engineering efficiency, by rationalizing its tools and improving the quality of its processes throughout the product lifecycle, from engineering to manufacturing. Partners and suppliers communities can access the company’s PLM platform to enable real-time collaboration. Relying on a unique 3D digital mockup, all users in the extended enterprise, engineers and non-engineers alike, are able to access the most up-to-date data in an open yet secure environment.

“Enabling collaboration between our employees and partners at all levels of the engineering process will open up new possibilities for innovation and excellence that we are confident we will be able to achieve with the Dassault Systèmes solutions,” said Michel Fiat, Vice President Operations, Thales Alenia Space.