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 May 17, 2006
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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ENCLOSURES:
Dassault Systemes S.A. is furnishing under cover of Form 6-K a press release dated May 17, 2006, announcing the Ford Motor Company's adoption of CATIA V5.
Ford Motor
Company’s Adoption of CATIA V5
Increases Product
Development Efficiency
Ford Fusion virtual build development time shortened
Paris, France, and Auburn Hills, Mich., USA, May 17, 2006 – IBM and Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), world leaders in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), today announced that CATIA V5 played a crucial role in increasing product development efficiency on the Ford Fusion program at Ford Motor Company. CATIA V5, supporting collaborative virtual product development, was used on the Body-in-White (BIW) development of the Ford Fusion, helping Ford reduce its overall digital development time. CATIA V5 continues to enable innovation in Ford’s product development process by providing mature, highly reliable data much earlier in the vehicle design process.
“CATIA V5 doesn’t just create parts. It creates those parts in the context of each other, taking into consideration all the surrounding design and engineering intent. Our customers are benefiting from exceptional maturity of data very early in the process,” said Joel Lemke, president, Dassault Systèmes Americas Corp. and recently appointed CEO of ENOVIA. “CATIA’s ability to quickly adapt a design for other vehicles on the same platform is critical to making gains in an overall corporate product development process, and is a real, measurable through-put improvement that is directly contributing to Ford’s goal of driving cost out of the system and ensuring quality.”
Ford launched CATIA V5 in 2003 and used it for Body-in-White development of the Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan and Lincoln Zephyr vehicle programs. Leveraging CATIA V5 enabled Ford to take a top-down, functional approach to BIW geometric modeling. This included product & process associativity and integration. The deployment of CATIA V5 within the context of the associative design process yielded a significant reduction of geometric modeling time. This reduction was accomplished while delivering greater design fidelity and completeness earlier in the product development process. All the system/component geometric relationships–including detailed transitions, blends, and fillets–were delivered earlier and maintained throughout all of the subsequent design iterations.
CATIA V5 was instrumental in maintaining the cross-vehicle system relationships supporting associated brands, such as the Lincoln Zephyr and the Mercury Milan. Changes to system specifications are now automatically propagated to the detailed design level across several disciplines, including CAE and manufacturing.
Ford’s success with CATIA V5 further strengthens Dassault Systèmes’ and IBM’s position within the automotive community. “We are very pleased that Dassault Systèmes could help Ford achieve real, measurable improvement in data quality and delivery on the Fusion project. We look forward to expanded contributions in the Ford system,” added Lemke. Dassault Systèmes was named the leading provider of PLM software services and sales in 2005 by independent industry analyst firm Daratech.
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About IBM
IBM is the world’s
largest technological company, providing leadership and innovation throughout the world
for more than 80 years. IBM is the largest supplier of “hardware”, “software” and
Information Technology services, and pioneered the development and implementation of On
Demand Business. IBM Sales & Distribution, which supports more than a dozen key
industries worldwide, works with companies of all sizes around the world to deploy the
full range of IBM technologies. The fastest way to get more information about IBM is
through the IBM home page at http://www.ibm.com. To know more about IBM PLM
solutions, visit: http://www.ibm.com/solutions/plm
About Dassault Systèmes
As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, the Dassault Systèmes
group brings value to more than 90,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D
software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application
software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the
entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance. The Dassault Systèmes
portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product – SolidWorks for 3D
mechanical design – DELMIA for virtual production – SIMULIA for virtual testing
and ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, including ENOVIA VPLM, ENOVIA
MatrixOne and ENOVIA SmarTeam. Dassault Systèmes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY)
and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com
CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA and SolidWorks are registered trademarks of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.
| IBM Press Contacts: | Dassault Systemes Press Contacts: | ||
| Zohra Dali | Derek Lane (Americas) | ||
| +33 6 71 92 71 87 | +1(818) 673-2243 | ||
| zohradali@fr.ibm.com | derek_lane@ds-us.com | ||
| Anthony Maréchal | |||
| 01 55 49 84 21 | |||
| anthony_marechal@ds-fr.com | |||
| Mikiko Igarashi (AP) | |||
| +81-3-5442-4138 | |||
| mikiko_igarashi@ds-jp.com | |||
| Financial Dynamics : | |||
| Nelly Dimey: +33 1 47 03 68 19 | |||
| Pierre Mas: +33 1 47 03 68 14 | |||
| Nelly.Dimey@fd.com / pierre.mas@fd.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. |
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| Date: May 17, 2006 | By: | /s/ Thibault de Tersant |
| Name: | Thibault de Tersant | |
| Title: | Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration | |