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October 5, 2001 Purdue University and Dassault Systèmes partner WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Dassault Systèmes announced Friday (10/5) it has provided ENOVIA software solutions and technical support for a new digital enterprise laboratory for Purdue University's School of Technology. Download Photo Here Photo caption below Purdue President Martin C. Jischke thanked Dassault Systèmes and other partners for expanding their relationship with the School of Technology and welcomed industry speakers, faculty, Indiana business executives and students to a forum on digital enterprise. "Industry partnerships with companies such as Dassault Systèmes are key to technological advancement and preparing our next generation of graduates to be leaders in the emerging digital economy," Jischke said. Curt Overpeck, director of Purdue's Digital Enterprise Center, said, "This is the beginning of a series of interdisciplinary labs, not just for the School of Technology, but also for to students all across campus for project-based learning in partnership with industry." As part of the Digital Enterprise Center expansion, executives from Dassault Systèmes, ENOVIA and other leading companies took part in the forum. The event was part of the university's yearlong Discover Purdue activities. Forum speakers were: • Joel R. Lemke, ENOVIA chief executive officer and Purdue alumnus. • J. Bruce Harreld, IBM senior vice president of strategy and Purdue alumnus. • David O. Swain, Boeing Co. senior vice president of engineering and technology and Purdue alumnus. • Bradley A. Lontz, Cummins Inc., director of e-Business Program Office and Purdue alumnus. • Frank Borovsky, e-business director, Honeywell Aircraft Landing Systems. The Digital Enterprise Center is a $6 million applied-research facility located in the Knoy Hall of Technology on the university's West Lafayette campus. The center, which opened in June 2000 with one laboratory, now has four labs. The Purdue center's goal is to produce graduates who are intimately familiar with state-of-the-practice information-technology solutions and who can work on group projects that are brought to the school through its corporate partnerships. Dassault Systèmes is providing software and technical support for a product lifecycle management laboratory. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enables collaboration to occur during new product design or design modification to address manufacturing issues or customer requests for modification. "We are extremely pleased to be part of the partnership with Purdue, each of us leaders in our respective domains," Lemke said. "The next generation of product will be centered on innovation and will require future leaders to understand the significant changes in the enterprise in order to achieve this level of innovation. Together, we will move to the next phases of this vision of the digital enterprise." Lemke said PLM promises to reduce the time to market of new products. The Internet-based technology allows industry to share research and development information with its partners and people to collaborate regardless of their physical location. Several projects underway at the Purdue Digital Enterprise Center investigate the functionality provided by the ENOVIA Portal Solutions. ENOVIA Portal Solutions, together with CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA 3dCom and ENOVIA DMU Navigator deploy possible scenarios where the Dassault Systèmes solutions shows the strength of PLM and at the same time introduce the SmarTeam suite from SmarTeam Inc., to increase the flexibility of the center. Gary R. Bertoline, professor and department head of computer graphics technology, said, "This technology gives our students the opportunity to learn to support design and manufacture of products through graphic simulation." Purdue's School of Technology produces more bachelor of science graduates than any other technology school in the nation. Writer: J. Michael Lillich, (765) 494-2077, mlillich@purdue.edu Sources: Martin C. Jischke, (765) 494-9708 Anthony Maréchal, Dassault Systèmes media contact, + 33 1 55 49 84 21, anthony_marechal@ds-fr.com Curt Overpeck, (765) 496-2953, caoverpeck@tech.purdue.edu Gary R. Bertoline, (765) 494-4585, grbertol@tech.purdue.edu Related Web sites: Computer graphics technology department home page Computer technology department home page PHOTO CAPTION: Leah Schlosser, a senior computer technology major from Plymouth, Ind., is in "class" at one of the new e-business infrastructure laboratories in Knoy Hall at Purdue's School of Technology. (News Service photo by David Umberger.) A publication-quality photograph is available at the News Service ftp site. Photo ID: overpeck.dec.jpeg Download Photo Here Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu To the Purdue News and Photos Page