Product Lifecycle Management

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

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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.
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CATIA V5 gave Garrett the collaborative power it needed

while simplifying the training process and reducing
infrastructure costs.
 The Industry
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,

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California, employs 6,000 people in 14 countries.

 The Challenge
Garrett 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 Solution
Garrett 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 Benefits
CATIA 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
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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 “In the

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