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Have you ever thought your current design-to-manufacturing process is slow, tedious, sequential and non-collaborative? Or wondered if there was a more effective way of doing things that would enable you to keep abreast of increasing customer demands in the complexity, performance and quality of your composite products?

If you thought – Yes, to either then perhaps you need a new approach?

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Composite Engineering capabilities delivered by the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform and CATIA

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform, together with CATIA provides a Composite Engineering capability that delivers a collaborative & efficient means to improve your composite engineering and manufacturing process.

CATIA Composite Engineering consists of several ‘roles’ as per below. Each ‘role’ is focussed on a specific function within the design-to-manufacturing process yet work together to provide a seamless process from Design to Analysis to Manufacturing – within a single platform:

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CATIA Composite Engineering RolesOn CloudOn Premise
Composites DesignerYY
Composites Braiding DesignerYY
Composites Designer & ManufacturerYY
Composites EngineerYY
Composites Forming DesignerY
Composites Laser Projection OperatorYY
Composites ManufacturerYY

Key benefits of CATIA Composites Engineering

  • Create any type of 3D part, from rough 3D sketches to fully detailed industrial assemblies.
  • Unbreakable relational design – a new way to manage links between objects and related behaviors in configured assemblies.
  • Enables a smooth evolution from 2D- to 3D-based design methodologies.
  • Productive and consistent drawing update removes the need for additional user operations.
  • Process-oriented tools capture the manufacturing process intent in the early stages of design.
  • A wide range of applications for tooling design, for generic tooling also to mould and die.
  • Advanced technologies for mechanical surfacing, based on a powerful specification-driven modelling approach.

CATIA Composite Engineering Roles

Composites Designer

A single integrated platform, to efficiently manage composites design on complex surfaces:

  • Uses industry-proven design approaches.
  • Provides ply modelling tools based on associative 3D features.
  • Efficient management of composite design on complex surfaces.
  • Optimise the performances and weight by designing in the context of analysis.
  • Predict the behaviour of the part within the design environment.
  • Create drawings with generative view style and annotation templates.

Composites Braiding Designer

Accelerate the design of composites parts by simulating the braiding manufacturing process:

  • Provides ply modelling tools based on associative 3D features.
  • Uses optimised braiding machine parameters and material parameters to meet mechanical requirements.
  • Enables advanced braiding producibility analysis.
  • Predict and visualise fibre paths on complex surfaces using an advanced simulation environment.
  • Provides automatic mandrel shape generation without physical prototyping.
  • Control mesh parameters during mandrel shape generation and simulation.

Composites Designer & Manufacturer

Design composites parts – combining Composites Design and Composites Manufacturing Preparation apps:

  • Industry-proven design approaches.
  • Ply modelling tools based on associative 3D features.
  • Complex surface modelling tools.
  • Best-in-class solid and IML.
  • Advanced Producibility Analysis.
  • Knowledge design automation.
  • Associative engineering drawings.
  • Engineering deliverables and DMU integration.
  • Incorporate manufacturing constraints early in the process.
  • Best in class producibility analysis and flat pattern generation.
  • Output to major shopfloor systems.
  • High level of knowledge and automation.
  • Associative shopfloor documentation.
  • Engineering deliverables and DMU integration.

Composites Engineer

A complete solution for composites parts – combining Composites Designer and Manufacturer roles:

  • Industry-proven design approaches.
  • Ply modelling tools based on associative 3D features.
  • Complex surface modelling tools.
  • Best-in-class solid and IML.
  • Advanced Producibility Analysis.
  • Associative engineering drawings.
  • Engineering deliverables and DMU integration.
  • Incorporate manufacturing constraints early in the process.
  • Best in class producibility analysis and flat pattern generation.
  • Output to major shopfloor systems.
  • High level of knowledge and automation.
  • Associative shopfloor documentation.

Composites Forming Designer

Accelerate the design of composites parts from preliminary design to manufacturing for parts produced by the forming process:

  • Accelerates the development of Composites parts made by forming by validating the manufacturing process of parametrised and associative parts editable with GSD tools.
  • Automates simulations and predicts composite material behaviour, such as wrinkling, during manufacture.
  • Supports multiple material types to facilitate comparison.
  • Provides unmatched integration with downstream structural analysis.
  • Provides clear presentation of the forming simulation results.

Composites Laser Projection Operator

Generate and edit laser projection files to the shop floor:

  • Allows downstream activities for traditional hand lay-up.
  • Enables composite manufacturing preparation associativity.
  • Provides a link between composites laser projection data and industrial laser projector systems.
  • Provides customizable laser projection.
  • Generate outputs for Laser Projection.
  • Minimize development costs and prototyping, avoiding trial and error.
  • Permits visualisation of the laser normal vectors.

Composites Manufacturer

Process-oriented applications ensure compliance with analysis before production of complex composites:

  • Incorporate manufacturing constraints early in the process.
  • Provides best in class producibility analysis and flat pattern generation.
  • Automate flat pattern generation.
  • Output to major shop floor systems.
  • Provides a high level of knowledge and automation.
  • Enables associative shop floor documentation.
  • Provides designers to capture the assembly information within the design environment.

  • "We’ve really appreciated Majenta’s consultancy – they’ve been liaising with some of the large contractors who are now relatively advanced in BIM for help and feedback on what we’ve done and their response has been very positive."

    Chris Hinton

    Senior Technical Specialist
    University of Cambridge

  • "The technical guys at Majenta Solutions have become our user-friendly interface; they really understand both Jaguar, our major client, and Ford."

    Ian Blundell

    CAD Manager
    EATON Vehicle Group

  • "Majenta has supported us for many years, they have a positive approach to business, a great team and experience in the manufacturing sector that is second to none."

    Russell Ward

    Saint-Gobain

  • "We have had a close working relationship with Majenta for many years and fully rely on their knowledge, expertise and professionalism to support our busy CAD environment."

    Jason Diggle

    Application Support Analyst
    Wartsila Water Systems Ltd

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