Dassault Systèmes - Fashion Company Profile
Dassault Systèmes is the French software company behind CATIA and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, filed here - under the directory's own 'dessault' folder spelling - for its product lifecycle management tools used by fashion and consumer-goods companies. Founded in 1981 out of Dassault Aviation's design software work, it is now one of Europe's largest technology companies.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - a global 3D design and product lifecycle management software company; its fashion customers use its PLM and 3D tools for design and development
- Type
- Public - Euronext Paris: DSY
- Headquarters
- Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
- Founded
- 1981, in France, as a spin-off from Dassault Aviation
Company Profile
A business-to-business software company carries no shop box: its fashion relevance is the design, engineering and PLM record set out below - from CADAM and CATIA through ENOVIA, DELMIA and SIMULIA - kept in full on the history page.
The offices as recorded date the profile and are preserved as its record: Europe, Middle East and Africa headquarters at 9, quai Marcel Dassault, BP 310, 92156 Suresnes Cedex, France; the Americas office, Dassault Systèmes of America Corp., at 6320 Canoga Avenue, Trillium East Tower, Woodland Hills, CA 91367-2526, United States; and Asia-Pacific, Dassault Systèmes Kabushiki Kaisha, in Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. A company whose products are software platforms is filed here among clothing companies because the fashion industry runs on those platforms - design, development, sourcing and manufacturing coordinated in 3D long before a physical sample exists.
Dassault Systèmes History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Dassault Systèmes History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
What does Dassault Systèmes make, and when was it created?
3D design and product lifecycle management (PLM) software - created in 1981 by Avions Marcel Dassault to develop new generations of CATIA, providing a 3D view of a product's lifecycle from creation to maintenance, including manufacturing and recycling, in the historical record.
What are CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA and SIMULIA in this timeline?
CATIA is the founding 3D design application (Version 1 in 1982); ENOVIA is the PLM and product data brand built from IBM's PDM assets (1998) and MatrixOne (2006); DELMIA is the digital manufacturing line launched in 2000; SIMULIA is the simulation platform unveiled with the ABAQUS acquisition in 2005 - all in the historical timeline.
Why is a software company in a fashion company directory?
Because fashion and apparel companies use PLM to manage product design, development and sourcing; this page's preserved routes lead to the Apparel Search apparel industry software guide and its PLM guide, where the company's relevance to fashion is filed.
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