CATIA and german automotive industry

[TiagoFigueiredo]

Hello everyone,

I don't know if it is the proper location for this thread, but I will put it right here...

I see that there is some pushing by Siemens, and NX for that industry start using it. I have talk to one person that has inside contacts in daimler, and he told me that the introducing of NX in Daimler, is not being very peaceful. According to him worst than expected. I have been a user of NX until a few months ago, and is very visible that lots of things are been working in NX, since Daimler started to use it. Now i'm using Catia and I am wondering, if the German industry will start using NX, instead of common use of Catia.
He have told me as well that in tooling construction it has been a nightmare the use of NX. First there is no automation created for NX, and there isn't a proper library for it, second it's more heavy and less stable, and third there is not much people with know how of using it. I'm a tool engineer and i would like to understand what can happens in the future, should I invest all of my energies in learning Catia, and make the proper automation of my work, or should I left Catia and keep working with NX?

Can VW, Audi or BMW start working with NX in a near future?

 

[jmarkus]

I think all the issues you mention have more to do with the fact that Daimler had an established based of users, automation routines and techniques for CATIA and now they need to bring everything over to NX. Not an easy task.

However, NX has just as many options for automating routines, creating libraries, etc. It's pretty much a "dog fight" these days between who Siemens can win over and who Dassault can win over (or retain). I think Dassault shot themselves in the foot with CATIA V6 and a lot of the churn in the industry is because of that.

In my opinion, if you can, you should learn both. They are certainly the big players and are around to stay. I wouldn't be surprised if down the road another manufacturer/OEM decides to switch back again...despite the huge costs (and headaches) of doing so.

Just my 2 cents.
Jeff