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23 March 2011 ,
Written by Dhruv Tanwar
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Dassault Systèmes has acquired Intercim LLC, maker of manufacturing and production operations management software for advanced and highly regulated industries, for $36.5 million. The acquisition is viewed as part of the company's strategy to expand its DELMIA footprint in digital manufacturing and production to a community of new users on the shop floor. The company said the platform now enables customers to demonstrate what they have built was exactly what they had planned to build, and use this conformity information for certification purposes. This allows Dassault Systèmes to define a new step for PLM, delivering digital continuity from engineering to the real factory operations, the company said in a statement. Conventional solutions typically use paper-based processes to manage and track shop floor operations with very little real-time visibility between manufacturing personnel and engineers.
“The combining values of DELMIA and Intercim bring together the factory communities with the manufacturing and product engineers, for an immediate common understanding of the products being built with their potential non-conformance and deviations,” the company's statement read. |