Ford Moving to Catia V5R2012

Ford Moving to Catia V5R2012

Document shows Ford's move to V5-6R2012

Purpose

The purpose of this letter is to provide early notification of the upcoming release of the Ford-specific

C3PNG CAD and Engineering software suite. This suite consists of Dassault Systemes CATIA V5,

Siemens PLM Teamcenter, 3rd party applications along with Ford Ancillary applications. This release is

identified as C3PNG CATIA V5 R22 Upgrade and is targeted for release during the Weekend of June

20-22, 2014 with First Customer Availability (FCA) of June 23rd 2014.

Background


The Key theme of this release is to improve end user efficiency and enable suppliers to stay in alignment

with the Ford Engineering Design Environment and Systems Engineering solution.

Please note that information in this letter is subject to change. Release of this product is contingent upon

Ford's acceptance of the product after testing. Final details will be contained in the “C3PNG CATIA V5

R22 Upgrade Release Letter” scheduled to be distributed prior to the release date.

Release Content


As part of our planning, and as we get closer to deployment of the C3PNG CATIA V5 R22 Upgrade, there

are some changes that will be taking place you need to begin preparing for. See below for details.

• Upgrade to CATIA V5-6 R2012(R22)

• Upgrade to Teamcenter Integration for CATIA (TCIC)

• Upgrade to Theorem CADverter (Expected Version 17.0)

• Upgrade to Q-Checker (Version 2.19.5)

• Upgrade to various Ford Ancillary Applications

• Ideas 6.3 will remain unchanged

• Only Windows 7 (64-bit client) hardware support for C3PNG applications

• Unix, Windows XP/ Vista Operating systems are not supported

Details on available update training will be provided in future communications.


Action Items


1. Carefully review the release content changes in this pre-release letter.

2. Assess your current H/W and S/W infrastructure to determine the extent of upgrade required at

your specific site.

3. Plan in advance for the release upgrade to meet the proposed timing and avoid business impact.

4. Ford Supplier Sites will be individually responsible for upgrading their C3PNG installation and

Clients in accordance with the Ford release weekend timing. Siemens PLM C3PNG Packages,

Communication Plan and Ford Business identified Supplier Prioritization will be provided to assist

Suppliers and Value Added Resources (VARs) with this task. Suppliers will be responsible to

work with Dassault Systemes per their own agreements.

***** Failure to take these actions may result in interruptions in your ability to transfer C3PNG data with

Ford. *****

If you have additional questions please contact:

gsieu@ford.com in Europe

cdxhelp@ford.com for North America and All other regions

 

Please check https://web.c3p.ford.com/ “Critical Notifications” and “What’s New” for all the latest C3PNG

News and updates.

 


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