Turbochargers manufacturer has smooth ride with CATIA V5

1. Turbochargers manufacturer has smooth ride with CATIA V5 • Customer background • Garrett Engine Boosting Systems, part of Honeywell International’s transportation and power systems division, manufactures turbochargers for automotive and commercial vehicle makers worldwide. The company, based in Torrance, California, employs 6,000 people in 14 countries. • Business challenges • Collaborating with customers and design teams distributed worldwide, which often share projects to maximise design efficiency. • Reducing infrastructure and maintenance costs and simplifying training. • Reducing cycle times and costs. • Solution implementation • CATIA V5 on the Windows 2000 Professional platform (9 seats) • A wide variety of CATIA modules, including Generative Shape Design, FreeStyle Shaper, Generative Shape Optimiser and Knowledgeware. • Benefits of the solution • Ability to work in native data supplied by OEM customers. • Ability for Garrett design teams to collaborate with OEMs and each other over the corporate wide area network (WAN). • Reduced infrastructure and maintenance costs. • Reduced training costs due to elimination of need to train users in UNIX.

2. CATIA V5 gave Garrett the collaborative power it needed while simplifying the training process and reducing infrastructure costs. • The IndustryGarrett Engine Boosting Systems, part of Honeywell International’s transportation and power systems division, manufactures turbochargers for automotive and commercial vehicle makers worldwide. The company, based in Torrance, California, employs 6,000 people in 14 countries. • The ChallengeGarrett wanted to improve the collaborative capabilities of its design teams, which are spread around the world, with each other and with customers. It also wanted to simplify the training process and reduce the infrastructure costs required to support its UNIX-based CATIA V4 system. • The SolutionGarrett is migrating to nine seats of CATIA V5 on a Windows 2000 Professional platform. Garrett runs CATIA V4 and V5 in parallel, and all new projects are created in V5. Digital mock-up capabilities are used to establish optimum configurations and orientations and to verify fit. Collaboration is achieved across the company’s wide area network (WAN). • The Customer BenefitsCATIA allows Garrett to work with native data provided by its OEM customers and to quickly create new iterations as a design evolves. Designers say V5 is easy to learn and to use. “In the experience of the team here, CATIA is the best design software available.” – Mike Howard, Engineering Technical Specialist, Garrett Engine Boosting Systems

3. CATIA allows Garrett to work with native data supplied by its customers and to quickly create new iterations as a design evolves. Garrett Engine Boosting Systems, part of Honeywell International’s transportation and power systems division, manufactures turbochargers for automotive and commercial vehicle makers worldwide. The company, based in Torrance, California, employs 6,000 people in 14 countries. Its customers include auto manufacturers from Audi to Volkswagen, as well as commercial vehicle makers International Truck Company, Freightliner, Volvo Truck, Scania, DAF and Caterpillar. When IBM and Dassault Systemes introduced CATIA V5, Garrett was among the first to take advantage of the technology's advanced collaboration and surface design capabilities. Garrett now has nine seats of CATIA V5, which it uses for all new projects and runs in parallel with its V4 system. “In the experience of the team here, CATIA is the best design software available.” Mike Howard, Engineering Technical Specialist, Garrett Engine Boosting Systems