ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Biovia focused on segment of product life-cycle management market addressing science-based topics


In China, Dassault points to modeling of materials as competitive advantage


Brett Brune Editor in Chief


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ne way Dassault Systèmes is addressing the design doldrums in additive manufacturing is by off ering up modeling of materials, as well as products, for fi rms working to 3D print products, Pascal Daloz, executive VP for brands and corporate development at the French software fi rm, said at Manufacturing in the Age of Experi- ence. His fi rm hosted the November event in Shanghai.


A report Smart Manufacturing published in November


explored a unique time in the history of manufacturing in which build capacity has advanced beyond design capac- ity. That report quotes another Dassault executive, along with many other experts, on the nitty-gritty details of how to address the fact that the limits of current CAD and CAE tools and an outdated fi le format are holding manufactur- ers back.


Smart Manufacturing sought details about Dassault’s


broader strategy to address the issue of design lag from executives the fi rm gathered at a press event in Shanghai. To design really innovative products, such as a


prototype of a baby’s heart for a surgeon to practice on, Dassault four years ago acquired a company called Accelerys, turning it into a business unit called Biovia, Daloz said. It’s focused on the segment of the product life-cycle management market addressing science- based topics. “I think we did something unique,” he said. “Inside Biovia, we have material science capabilities. We have the


unique environment to do modeling of the organic and inorganic materials, as well as the products.” Now, in additive, you “need to do optimization at a dif-


ferent scale. You need to do the optimization at the micro [atomic], meso [parts] and macro [products] levels,” Daloz added in an interview. Dassault stands out as being able to “modelize and


simulate starting at the atomic level to the full product,” he asserted at the press event, adding that neither Autodesk nor PTC nor Siemens has this capability. “So to a certain extent, we have anticipated this in-


dustry transformation,” which it saw coming in a surge in composites development a decade ago, he said. Dassault adjusted fi rst by dramatically changing its


Catia 3D modeling software to be able to handle “a multi- scale model in a unifi ed environment,” Daloz added.


Firm trumpets digital creds As the conference in Shanghai was drawing to a close, Dassault told the press it is uniquely positioned


March 2017


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