In today's business world, manufacturers face tremendous pressure to retain business and win market share. They must innovate and speed time-to-market, while at the same time becoming more flexible, improving quality, reducing costs, and controlling investments.

In the past, manufacturing organizations have overlooked the potential of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to address these shared business challenges—PLM solutions are often seen as too complex and time consuming to deploy. CATIA PLM Express overcomes these misconceptions.

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.

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.

Equipment Product Engineer:

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.

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.

Review & 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.

Mechanical Product Engineer:

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.

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.


Discover the full capabilities of CATIA PLM Express and easily define a solution to solve your unique business challenges.

Download the Brochure
Copyright © 2002-2006 Dassault Systemes - All rights reserved / Privacy policy