OREANDA-NEWS. On 23 June 2009 was announced, that at the Paris Le Bourget Air Show, Mr. Dmytro Kiva, General Designer of ANTONOV ASTC (Ukraine), and Mr. Bernard Charles, President of Dassault Systemes S.A.S (France), signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Strategic Partnership for the implementation of Product Lifecycle Management Solutions. The main direction of the long-term cooperation between the companies is implementation of up-to-date information technologies aimed at Product Lifecycle Management in the process of ANTONOV aircraft creation. Owing to this agreement, the Ukrainian specialists will gain the full access to the best know-how in the aviation industry, in particularly related to computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and enterprise resources management (ERP).

For effective realization of the interaction, the working group will be established. It will include the Executivea from both ANTONOV and Dassault.

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1) Dassault Systemes (DS), the world leader in the field of 3D and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions, provides increase of profits for more than 100,000 customers from 80 countries. Since 1981 DS is engaged in development and sale of PLM software and services providing effective work of production process and allowing to follow the product lifecycle from the stage of its creation to the 3D utilization.

Portfolio of DS’ solutions includes: CATIA for a product virtual design; SolidWorks for 3D design; DELMIA for virtual production; SIMULIA for virtual tests; ENOVIA for interaction and management of business processes and the product lifecycle; 3DVIA for creation of virtual consumption experience. CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, SolidWorks and 3D VIA are registered trademarks of Dassault Systemes and its subsidiaries in USA and other countries.

2) ANTONOV Aeronautical Scientific/Technical Complex was founded in 1946 by Oleg Antonov, the eminent aircraft designer. Since then, more than one hundred types and modifications of aircraft of various classes and purposes have been designed.

Nowadays the ANTONOV Complex continues to be engaged in designing and building new aircraft prototypes as well as modifications of earlier designs, the provision of operational and product support and engineering work on extending the service life of existing aircraft. It also provides services such as basic and conversion training for flight and maintenance crews and international air charter transportation, particularly of outsize cargoes. On-site training of local personnel is available to ensure their mastery of their chosen aircraft. ANTONOV also participates in international cooperation in the field of aircraft and equipment design and manufacture.

3) Cooperation between ANTONOV and DS was started in 2002. That time, the initial joint scientific research project “Design of aggregates of medium-range aircraft based on CATIA V5R8” was realized.

Since 2002, intensive works on creation of a fundamentally new system for development of ANTONOV aircraft on the basis of management on all stages of the aircraft lifecycle with implementation of computer-aided technologies, are in progress. DS - CATIA V5/ENOVIA is used as the basic solution for this technology.