Product Lifecycle Management © 2003 IBM Corporation GRUPO DOVER SISTEMA DE TROQUELES  Customer Background –Grupo Dover Sistema de Troqueles, a Barcelona-based producer of automotive stamping dies, serves European and South American customers including Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, Seat and Skoda. –Dover works with clients to improve the safety and comfort of automobiles and considers itself the overall technology and quality leader of the market.  Business Challenges –Existing CAD systems’ limitations did not allow CAD data to be shared among departments. –Each group worked with different representations of the same design, making problems and errors difficult to detect and solve. –Dover wanted a full 3D system offering solids and surfaces as well as complete process coverage. –OEMs were making the move to CATIA V5.  Solution Implementation –50 seats of CATIA V5, including 35 for design and 15 for manufacturing –ENOVIA 3Dcom installed throughout the company for access and interrogation of CATIA V5 data –One CATIA model acts as master and feeds data across departments –Designers and engineers work from same design representation –Software and support from IBM Business Partner Gedas Iberia, s.a.  Benefits of Solution –Common data format across company –Design time reduced by up to 60% –Eliminates errors and improves quality –Dover can pass on development savings to customers –New manufacturing technology driven by CATIA V5 –CATIA V5 experience gains business with OEMs

Product Lifecycle Management © 2003 IBM Corporation CATIA V5 cuts design time at Dover by up to 60%, eliminates errors and increases quality  The Industry Grupo Dover Sistema de Troqueles produces automotive stamping dies for European and South American customers including Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, Seat and Skoda. The Barcelona-based company works with clients to improve the safety, quality and comfort of vehicles.  The Challenge The limitations of Dover’s existing CAD system did not allow different departments within the organisation to share the same CAD data, causing each group to work with different representations of the same design and making problems and errors difficult to detect and solve.  The Solution Dover chose 50 seats of CATIA V5 to standardise CAD data across its different departments. It also is implementing ENOVIA 3Dcom throughout the company to provide an access interrogation capability for CATIA V5 data. Software and support are provided by IBM Business Partner Gedas Iberia, s.a.  The Customer Benefits Since converting to CATIA V5, Dover has reduced design time for stamping dies by up to 60% while eliminating errors and increasing quality. “From the time we receive the customer orde, to the time of the customer pressing panels, we all speak one common language – CATIA V5. We can eliminate errors and offer a higher quality design. Now we create just one CATIA mode,l which acts as a master and feeds information to all departments.” – Fransico Cara, Chief Engineer, Grupo Dover Sistema de Troqueles

Product Lifecycle Management © 2003 IBM Corporation Design variations slow development Grupo Dover Sistema de Troqueles is a leading producer of automotive stamping dies for European and South American OEMs including Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, Seat and Skoda. Its market- leading reputation relies on providing high-quality dies to help OEMs improve the safety, comfort and quality of vehicles. With the capacity to work on more than 100 dies simultaneously, the challenge of working with multiple versions of every die design slowed development and introduced errors. “We were creating CAD data for the design department which could not be used on the shop floor,” explained Chief Engineer Francisco Cara. “This led to major problems. Errors were hard to detect and to solve.” Dover wanted a full 3D system offering the ability to work with solids and surfaces as well as providing complete process coverage. In addition, it recognised its OEM customers were making the transition to CATIA V5 and that adopting it early could provide additional competitive advantage. “Based on our experience we are able to confirm that CATIA V5 is the most perfect and innovative system to be found on the market. It has the best performance and I honestly believe CATIA V5 is the jewel in the crown of contemporary CAD/CAM systems.” Oscar Tobia, General Manager and co-founder, Grupo Dover Sistema de Troqueles GRUPO DOVER SISTEMA DE TROQUELES