BMW to use Dassault software for all engine development

Ralph Kisiel
Automotive News Europe
March 12, 2009 20:49 CET

BMW has consolidated all of its engine development on one digital software platform, software provider Dassault Systemes said.

The German automaker will use CATIA V5 computer-aided design software from Dassault to design all gasoline, diesel and hybrid engines.

"BMW can now streamline all its design and product development activities on a single platform that is easy to share with all its suppliers," Bruno Latchague, executive vice president at Dassault, said in a statement.

BMW had been using the CATIA software to design vehicles and diesel engines, but other software for gasoline engines, said Dassault spokeswoman Nancy Lesinski.

She added: "This enables the sophisticated design of cylinder head parts, for example, which BMW has mastered on its diesel engines, to be transferred and reused in the gasoline engine domain."

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