UNO MINDA Group Adopts Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to Drive Its New Product Development Process

by Shrutee K/DNS

India— Mar 27, 2018 — Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) announced that UNO MINDA Group, a leading Tier 1 supplier of proprietary automotive solutions to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), has adopted Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform to drive its new product development process and improve business efficiency. The UNO MINDA Group aims to improve product quality, reliability and cross-functional team collaboration, hence delivering product innovation and meeting aggressive growth targets for the company. The adoption of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will enable UNO MINDA Group to integrate data and systems across the engineering and manufacturing value chain, reduce new product development time, and improve operational efficiencies and product reliability, thereby positively impacting market share.

Over the last decade, the Indian automotive components industry has scaled three times and the industry is expected to register a turnover of over US$ 100 billion by 2020*. Looking at this growth potential; meeting and exceeding rising demands in technology, cost and quality is the biggest challenge for automotive suppliers today. UNO MINDA, being a technology leader in the auto components industry, is looking forward to addressing these challenges. For this, Dassault Systèmes’ local partner, CSM Software, conducted a value assessment that detailed a clear roadmap for the deployment and adoption of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform across the group over the next three years.

“At UNO MINDA Group, market leadership begins with understanding the customer requirements and turning these requirements into products as quickly as possible, keeping quality and cost at the forefront,” said Naveesh Garg, Chief Strategy & Technology Officer, UNO MINDA Group. “Since agility is the key to delivering the latest products to our customers, we are embarking on a new initiative named ‘Enterprise PLM Journey’ by adopting the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This deployment is completely aligned with the long-term focus of the group to develop new capabilities and solution addressing Electrical and Mechatronics domains.”

“Global automotive suppliers from India, pursuing new opportunities, want to ensure that they can satisfy customer requirements and still deliver profitable results aligned with their existing resources and capabilities,” said Samson Khaou, Managing Director India, Dassault Systèmes. “Dassault Systèmes has a strong presence in the automotive OEM and supplier ecosystem in India, through our direct and partner networks. Deployment of the ‘Bid to Win’ industry solution experience based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform at UNO MINDA Group through our partner CSM Software will create a new benchmark for the auto component industry and its way forward in India.”

Mr. VS Mahadevan, Chief Executive Officer and Director, CSM Software said:  “UNO MINDA’s decision to adopt Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a natural and significant progression of CSM’s valued relationship with them. As an industry leading Automotive Supplier, this adoption will not only directly benefit the UNO MINDA group, but also the entire ecosystem they operate in.”

About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations.  Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported.  Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world.  The group brings value to over 220,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries.  For more information, visit www.3ds.com.

3DEXPERIENCE, the Compass logo and the 3DS logo, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, ENOVIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA, GEOVIA, EXALEAD, 3D VIA, BIOVIA, NETVIBES and 3DEXCITE are registered trademarks of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.

About UNO MINDA

UNO MINDA, a technology leader in Auto Components Industry is a leading supplier of proprietary automotive solutions to OEMs as Tier-1. It manufactures automobile components for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). It is a ₹ 56 billion (US$ 875 million) Group as in 2016-17 and is rapidly expanding with increased market share across all its product lines.

The Group is a global player in the automotive sector with overseas manufacturing facilities in Indonesia, Vietnam, Spain, Mexico, Morocco & Colombia as well as Design Offices in Taiwan, Japan & Spain. It has over 50 manufacturing plants globally and has JVs/Technical Agreements with world renowned manufactures from Japan, Italy and Taiwan. Its endeavour is to deliver high technology and quality products to its valued customers globally. www.mindagroup.com

About CSM Software: CSM Software, established in 1992, is a leading Engineering Software solutions and services group providing best-in-class software and solutions to the Indian engineering industry, in partnership with Dassault Systèmes. CSM also provides engineering services for global companies in USA and Europe from their engineering centre in Bangalore, India. CSM Software became a SOLIZE Group company in 2016. Solize is a leading Japanese engineering and consultancy group in the field of product development primarily focusing on the automotive industry covering design, analysis, MBD, prototyping by additive manufacturing.