CATIA use in Automotive Industry:
CATIA can be applied to a wide variety of industries, from aerospace and defense, automotive, and industrial equipment, to high tech, shipbuilding, consumer goods, plant design, consumer packaged goods, life sciences, architecture and construction, process power and petroleum, and services. CATIA V4, CATIA V5, Pro/ENGINEER, NX (formerly Uni-graphics), and Solid Works are the dominant systems.
Many automotive companies use CATIA to varying degrees, including BMW, Porsche, Daimler AG, McLaren Automotive, Chrysler, Honda, Audi, Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen, SEAT, Skoda, Bentley Motors Limited, Volvo, Fiat, Benteler International, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Renault, Toyota,Ford, Scania, Hyundai, Skoda Auto, Tesla Motors, Rolls-Royce Motors, Valmet Automotive, Proton, Elba, Tata motors and Mahindra & Mahindra Limited. Goodyear uses it in making tires for automotive and aerospace and also uses a customized CATIA for its design and development. Many automotive companies use CATIA for car structures – door beams, IP supports, bumper beams, roof rails, side rails, body components because of CATIA's capabilities in Computer representation of surfaces. Bombardier Transportation of Canada is using this software to design its entire fleet of Train engines and coaches. Webasto uses CATIA to design its roof..Their are many uses of CATIA in automotive industry. Ford Motors uses mostly CATIA V5 and V4 version of CATIA.
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