This article was based on ’s exclusive interview with the man responsible for bringing the project to the Daimler board, Professor Alfred Katzenbach. Watch the full video interview from to learn more about Daimler’s change to NX CAD. A change such as this is only possible with a major CAD overhaul like the one they are wrapping up. Daimler determined best practices based on real parts in production for 250 unique business cases, made videos, and created a reference library for users. “We were able to establish new, more effective and commonly used ways of doing things,” Professor Katzenbach says. They seized this opportunity to get their more than 6,000 users on the same page. Furthermore, the problems Daimler has run into are mainly ones of culture: It’s human nature to resist change, and there are always some late adopters.ĭaimler has seen some unexpected benefits from changing CAD systems as well. While there have been some challenges, Professor Katzenbach assures us that a project of this size will always have its difficulties, even if you stay with the same CAD solution and change versions. Four years after Daimler announced their decision to switch from CATIA to NX CAD, the project is nearly complete. ![]() Daimler decided when the next opportunity presented itself-in other words, at the next version upgrade-they would look for and select the best CAD solution for the company. “Such an upgrade is like a change of systems,” Professor Katzenbach says. The decision to consider other CAD systems started before, though, when Daimler upgraded their software version from CATIA V4 to CATIA V5. Really, all of those three things together made the difference.” ![]() “The capabilities of NX meets their needs, the ability to integrate with Teamcenter, and the future vision that we have. “Daimler chose because it can do the job most effectively compared to the competition,” Siemens PLM CEO Chuck Grindstaff says. When key users ran process scenarios in both CAD solutions, “it became obvious which way we wanted to go,” Professor Katzenbach says. After all, they are the ones who will be working with the software on a daily basis. The users play a big role in the decision making process too. Had Daimler chosen CATIA, they would have had to run the two systems-Siemens PLM’s Teamcenter and Dassault Systèmes’ ENOVIA-in parallel, costing them twice as much.īut contrary to what the song says, it’s not just all about the Benjamins. Teamcenter is-and has been-the backbone of Daimler’s product lifecycle management (PLM) and product data management (PDM) for some time. “With ENOVIA V6 as it is today, it would not be possible to support the sophisticated technological processes that we have in Daimler,” says Professor Alfred Katzenbach, former director of IT Management in Mercedes-Benz R&D department, in an exclusive interview with. A big problem for Daimler was CATIA V6 forces users to adopt their PLMPDM system ENOVIA V6. Like any major decision one is faced with, multiple factors were at play here. ![]() So why did Daimler Mercedes choose Siemens PLM’s NX over Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA? It’s not every day an OEM with more than 6,000 users migrates to a new CAD solution, and there are plenty of risks involved. Changing CAD systems is a huge undertaking for a company of Daimler’s magnitude.
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