In a recent post, we detailed SolidWorks’ recently unveiled 3DExperience.Works portfolio, which brings together cross-industry applications on one platform, called the 3DExperience platform. That platform was created after Dassault Systèmes (which owns SolidWorks) acquired IQMS, an enterprise resource planning software company, late last year.

We’ll give a bit more background on IQMS and what the integration means for SolidWorks.

IQMS develops both its ERP and its manufacturing execution systems (MES) for the automotive, medical, packaging, consumer goods and other markets.

Now its software products have been renamed Delmia.Works, or, alternately, Delmia, powered by the 3DExperience platform. The company’s offerings are aimed at mid-market manufacturers.

The acquisition takes Dassault Systèmes’ offerings from design to business and manufacturing processes, said Manish Kumar, Dassault Systèmes’ vice president for SolidWorks research and design.

“This seamless business loop brings IQMS and SolidWorks together,” he said. “Before, they inhabited two separate worlds that didn’t talk together. Now, everything is being driven by the 3DExperience platform. Everything is connected.”

In fact, SolidWorks World, held in February 2019 in Dallas, is to be renamed 3DExperience World and will be held in 2020 in Nashville.

 

In 2013, IQMS announced integration with SolidWorks. The acquisition takes that integration even further by targeting midsize manufacturers who are SolidWorks customers. Those customers will now be able to carry out both manufacturing (ERP) and engineering processes on the same, integrated, software platform.

“We must no longer think of industry as a set of means of production, but as a process of value creation,” said Bernard Charlès, chief executive officer at Dassault Système. “This applies not only to disruptive startups and established corporations, but also to the hundreds of thousands of mainstream manufacturers that produce parts integral to the development of new consumer experiences.”

Today’s manufacturing ERP mid-market is estimated at $5 billion, with a 7 to 8 percent annual growth rate through 2023, according to Charlès.

The world’s 250,000 small and midsized manufacturers must adopt and optimize new ways of producing and doing business through digital transformation in order to innovate and accelerate their growth in an increasingly competitive, global marketplace, he said.

“For years, our business has been committed to maximizing our manufacturing customers’ success by delivering a comprehensive manufacturing ERP system built specifically for the mid-market manufacturers,” said Gary Nemmers, chief executive officer at IQMS. “As part of Dassault Systèmes, we can take the next steps in providing customers with new approaches to achieving operational efficiency and effectiveness and do so with a global reach.”

IQMS’s solutions are used by 1,000 customers based primarily in the United States whose 2,000 manufacturing facilities in 20 countries produce for the automotive, industrial equipment, medical device, consumer goods, and consumer packaged goods industries, he said.

In a recent post, we detailed SolidWorks’ recently unveiled 3DExperience.Works portfolio, which brings together cross-industry applications on one platform, called the 3DExperience platform. That platform was created after Dassault Systèmes (which owns SolidWorks) acquired IQMS, an enterprise resource planning software company, late last year.

IQMS develops both its ERP and its manufacturing execution systems (MES) for the automotive, medical, packaging, consumer goods and other markets.

The company’s offerings are aimed at mid-market manufacturers and its software products have been renamed Delmia.Works, or, alternately, Delmia, powered by the 3DExperience platform.

The acquisition takes Dassault Systèmes’ offerings from design to business and manufacturing processes, said Manish Kumar, Dassault Systèmes’ vice president for SolidWorks research and design.

In 2013, IQMS announced integration with SolidWorks. The acquisition takes that integration even further by targeting midsize manufacturers who are SolidWorks customers. Those customers will now be able to carry out both manufacturing (ERP) and engineering processes on the same, integrated, software platform.

It has already been the case that SolidWorks users can link parts, tools and other assembly file details and configurations to create engineering change orders and cross-populate the inventory, bills of material. project management and preventative maintenance modules for increased productivity and to elimination of data inconsistency. With the help of a SolidWorks add-in, users could also check documents in and out of a document control system to avoid overwriting changes, create workflows to ensure that sign-offs occur in a timely manner, manage document libraries, view and print SolidWorks PDFs and track document history.

“We must no longer think of industry as a set of means of production, but as a process of value creation,” said Bernard Charlès, chief executive officer at Dassault Système. “This applies not only to disruptive startups and established corporations, but also to the hundreds of thousands of mainstream manufacturers that produce parts integral to the development of new consumer experiences.”