JLR agrees product development partnership
Warwickshire manufacturing giant Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has entered into a strategic partnership with Paris-based Dassault Systemes, which produces 3D and 'Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)' solutions. JLR said the agreement would help transform product development processes.
Through the deal, JLR will have access to Dassault Systemes’ advanced digital 3D simulation and development tools. The two companies will work together to develop product creation solutions.
The partnership was agreed between Dassault Systèmes’ president Bernard Charlès and JLR’s chief executive Ralf Speth.
JLR will deploy Dassault Systèmes’ V6 solutions for PLM, which is the process which drives and controls all vehicle creation processes.
Dassault Systèmes was chosen by JLR as its preferred partner in the PLM field following an 18 month evaluation period.
In addition to supplying existing system programmes, development engineers from Dassault Systèmesand Jaguar Land Rover will work together on new processes and solutions that they say will “provide the combination of simplification and specialization required to create new generations of premium vehicles”.
