Product Lifecycle Management © 2003 IBM Corporation  Customer Background –Designs, manufactures and distributes high- quality parts and products for pleasure boats –European leaders in magnetic compasses, boating safety equipment and life rafts –First marine company to integrate plastic and synthetic composites into parts production  Business Challenges −Needed to replace outdated CAD tools with a new CAD solution −Wanted to speed development and improve customer satisfaction −Tool needed to support integration of boat building requirements into product design, yield better integration of finished products, and help analyze costs of installation  Solution Implementation –18-month test period lead to selection of CATIA V5 running on NT platform  Benefits of the Solution –User-friendly, intuitive design tools –Powerful modeler –All information exchange now electronic –Improved collaboration with boat builders and innovation –Streamlined development, reducing design time by 50% –Improved customer satisfaction –Undertakes more projects CATIA V5 speeds development and spurs innovation at Plastimo

Product Lifecycle Management © 2003 IBM Corporation The Industry Plastimo designs, manufactures and distributes high-quality parts and products for pleasure boats and is the European leader in magnetic compasses, boating safety equipment and life rafts The Challenge Plastimo designers were frustrated with the company’s complicated, sluggish, decade-old CAD system. In seeking a replacement the company focused on finding a system that would help it win more business by allowing virtual prototyping and electronic collaboration with boatyards’ drawing offices. The Solution After 18 months of pilot tests, Plastimo chose CATIA V5 running on an NT platform. Designers hailed its user friendliness, intuitive design tools and powerful modeler, and production engineers use it to produce tooling. The marketing department also gets electronic access to the 3D product definition. Online collaboration with customers on optimized product definition is innovative in the field and helps to differentiate Plastimo’s offering. The Customer Benefits Plastimo now has the capacity to develop 10 products per year instead of three. Each customer inquiry can be answered with 10 preliminary studies rather than one. Design time is cut 50%. “What is incredible about CATIA is the ability it gives to progress from an idea to a 3D model in such a short time. It’s a revolution for every user because of the way the tool brings ideas to fruition so quickly.” -- Bernard Geneau, Product Development Manager, Plastimo CATIA V5 speeds development and spurs innovation at Plastimo

Product Lifecycle Management © 2003 IBM Corporation CATIA V5 speeds development, improving turnaround time and innovation “It’s a revolution for every user because of the way the tool brings ideas to fruition so quickly.” Bernard Geneau, Product Development Manager, Plastimo As a leading European producer of high-quality parts for pleasure boats, Plastimo needed to speed development and improve customer satisfaction. But its decade-old CAD tools were sluggish and complicated and limited integration with boat builders. Learn how CATIA V5 has helped Plastimo streamline development, drive innovation and improve collaboration with its customers.