SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Report on Form 6-K dated February 13, 2003
Commission File No. 0-28578
DASSAULT SYSTEMES S.A.
(Name of Registrant)
9, Quai Marcel Dassault, B.P. 310, 92156 Suresnes Cedex, France
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
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ENCLOSURE:
Dassault Systemes S.A. (the "Company") is furnishing under cover of Form 6-K, a
press release dated February 13, 2003, announcing that Delmia Corp., a Dassault
Systemes company, announced that Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (SWS), a leading
wire harness manufacturer, has reduced product development cycles by using
DELMIA's ENVISION(R) and QUEST(R) solutions.
DELMIA Solutions Help Sumitomo Wiring Systems
Slash Product Development Time by 67%
Company's Virtual Visual Assembly System Cuts Product
Development Cycles, Improves Internal Collaboration
Yokohama, Japan -- February 13, 2003 -- Delmia Corp., a Dassault Systemes
company (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), today announced that
Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (SWS), a leading wire harness manufacturer, has
reduced product development cycles by using DELMIA's ENVISION(R) and QUEST(R)
solutions to simulate the manual assembly of its products. By implementing
Delmia Corp.'s digital manufacturing solutions and increasing collaboration with
car manufacturers, SWS has decreased its overall development time by 67 percent.
In 1998, SWS launched its virtual Visual Assembling System (VAS), with DELMIA's
ENVISION and QUEST at the core of the system, to facilitate concurrent
engineering among design, production engineering, and manufacturing divisions. A
car's wire harness consists of approximately 4,000 parts. The assembly process
is done manually and is difficult to optimize. In the past, SWS used a physical
mock-up methodology to define, validate, and optimize the assembly process.
However, due to time and cost constraints, it was difficult to cover the entire
production operation and integrate all design and production change
requirements.
Today, the Virtual Assembly System at SWS helps the company condense development
cycles, detect early assembly problems during development, and accelerate
production ramp-up times. VAS also conducts many virtual iterations of the
company's wire harness development, including design, assembly, and production
flow. The SWS production engineering department utilizes ENVISION to check
interferences between jigs and wires, validate wire harness assembly layouts
while considering operators' workability, and check twists and lengths of wires
where harnesses are built into vehicles. Moreover, with QUEST, SWS optimizes
line development by modeling the layout of the entire factory and virtually
simulating the production flow before the factory is built.
"Through several development projects using VAS, we clearly see the
effectiveness of Delmia Corp.'s digital manufacturing solutions," said Koichi
Sakakura, project leader for VAS Development Group in SWS's production,
engineering, and development department. "SWS intends to expand its concurrent
engineering efforts by heavily using 3D data and strengthening collaboration
between the design and production departments. Moreover, this system enables
employees to share and utilize knowledge more efficiently, and reinforces our
strong relationships with car manufacturers."
"The successful deployment of DELMIA ENVISION and QUEST at SWS is a meaningful
case study," said Bertrand Saint-Martin, president of Delmia Japan, Ltd. "Since
wire harnesses at SWS are assembled manually, this process was not simulated
with digital manufacturing tools. This success story proves that DELMIA's
solutions can now address a wider range of processes, enabling our customers to
further decrease development cycles."
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About Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. (SWS), established in 1917, is a major
manufacturer of wire harnesses for automobiles and for office equipment
industries. SWS's wire harness production for motor vehicles and office
equipment accounted for 95 percent of its fiscal 1999 revenues; electric wire
and cables, 5%. The company has 31 consolidated subsidiaries, 15 in Japan, three
each in Brazil and India, two each in Australia and China, and one each in
Canada, Indonesia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Singapore and the United
States. Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. is the major shareholder with 52.5%
share of issued stock. Information about Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. is
available at http://www.sws.co.jp/index_e.html.
About Delmia Corp.
Delmia Corp., a Dassault Systemes company (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris:
#13065, DSY.PA), is the leading provider of lean digital manufacturing
solutions, focused mainly on software that can be used to streamline
manufacturing processes. DELMIA serves industries where the optimization of
manufacturing processes is critical, including automotive, aerospace,
fabrication and assembly, electrical and electronics, consumer goods, plant, and
shipbuilding sectors. Information about DELMIA is available at
http://www.delmia.com.
About Dassault Systemes
As world leader in three-dimensional product lifecycle management (PLM)
solutions, the Dassault Systemes group brings value to more than 55,000
customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981,
Dassault Systemes develops and markets PLM application software and services
that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire life
cycle of products from conception to retirement. Its offering includes
integrated PLM solutions for product development (CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA,
SMARTEAM), general-use 3D solutions (SolidWorks), and 3D components (SPATIAL).
Dassault Systemes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065,
DSY.PA) stock exchanges. Information about Dassault Systemes is available at
http://www.3ds.com.
Delmia Press Contact: Delmia Press Contact:
Toyohiko Soda Peter Schmitt
+81 45 470 8298 + 1 248 267 9696
Toyohiko_SODA@delmia.jp peter_schmitt@delmia.com
Dassault Systemes Press Contact:
Anthony Marechal
+ 33 1 55 49 84 21
anthony_marechal@ds-fr.com
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
DASSAULT SYSTEMES S.A.
Date: February 13, 2003 By: /s/ Thibault de Tersant
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Name: Thibault de Tersant
Title: Chief Financial Officer,
Executive Vice President