NIIT4CAD Project: Consortium
Exel – Italy
Exel is a global provider of hardware and software solutions for industrial automation and control. It has thousands of customers around the world and strongly collaborates with external partners, like computer graphics modules and low level hardware programming.
Project Contribution: Development of new CAD tools and functions to greatly improve the work of industrial designers, integrating the technologies developed by the other partners.
University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum – Italy
The expertise of the University of Bologna is in computer aided design respectively in mathematical curve and surface representations for geometric modelling, and in wireless technologies (smart sensors, actuators, smart objects) for natural interaction brought to CAD domain of application. Mathematicians and engineers teams will contribute their jointly acquired knowledge on the design of interfaces based on wireless devices and subdivision surfaces of CAD quality.
Project Contribution: geometric Kernel and technological know-how on HCI.
University of Valenciennes – France
The expertise of the University of Valenciennes LAMAV-CGAO (www.univ-valenciennes.fr/lamav/cgao) and LAMIH-MCSIB (http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/LAMIH/) teams is in computer aided geometric design respectively in automatic modeling and control of industrial systems. They will contribute their jointly acquired knowledge (within the interdisciplinary 2007-2009 project “CAD, constraints and virtual reality” financed by the University of Valenciennes) on the use of haptic interfaces for CAD.
Project Contribution: geometric Kernel and technological know-how on HCI.
Alessi – Italy
Alessi is a world-known firm of household appliances focused on design content. In particular it is focused on design and production or household items, goods and accessories by cutting, drawing, annealing, welding, electropolishing, washing, assembling, packing.
Project Contribution: Collection and assessment of design requirements in a conventional CAD system, Proposal for new methods and tools to support design, Support and validation in the development of new technologies for CAD, Verification Strategy and design demonstration to assess the benefit introduced in the CAD system.
DPT – France
DPT is a European company that was founded by a multi-function team with a vast experience in the global CAD/CAM market gained by working at companies such as think3, MATRA Datavision, PTC and Dassault Systemes. Their vision is to provide CAD users powerful digital prototyping solutions. DPT has 3 principle product families. One is a plug-in for CAD systems to provide High Quality shaping and modelling tools known as Design Power Tools. The second one is Power PLM, an application that helps companies of all sizes to manage information, resources and processes through an easy, Cloud-based information management system. The third one is the think3 family of solutions that includes ThinkDesign.
Project Contribution: provide a framework where to develop the project applications on shape modeling and reverse engineering.
Golliat et Didier – France
Golliat et Didier was a fifty years old jewels handcrafting company based in the center of the french first jewels production place – Lyon.
Project Contribution in the first phase of the project: Collection and assessment of design requirements in a conventional CAD system, Proposal for new methods and tools to support design, Support and validation.
Think3 – Italy
Founded in 1979 as Cad.Lab, think3 today is one of the leading world-wide players in the CAD and PLM market. For 30 years, think3 has assisted manufacturing companies with unique technical solutions and customer support services designed to help producers optimize the entire product development process, and help industrial designers to create better, more innovative products.
Year in and year out think3 has innovated and evolved to become a multinational corporation with bases in Europe, Japan and India . It can also boast a world-wide network of selected resellers. Opening operations in emerging markets, confirms the company’s mission to maintain its leading role in the CAD and PLM market.
Thanks to an experienced, international R&D team working at sites in Italy, France, India, think3 represents the new global approach to design technology, speaking the same language as designers, technicians and producers.
think3 provides the only technology which covers the entire product life cycle, from ideation, through development and finished product and on to end of life. This type of process integration reduces time-to-market and costs and means that think3 can offer its industrial customers the opportunity to innovate, compete and face the challenges of the global market.
