Latest Release: Seat Design Environment 2011

Enhance the Automatic Generation of Engineering and Manufacturing Documentation

In today’s highly competitive automotive market the onus is on seat cover manufacturers to get to market quickly and on budget. Seat Design Environment (SDE) 2011 empowers OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to do just that: First, by enabling them to more efficiently create the engineering and manufacturing documents and data that are needed to fully define seat trim covers with commercial 3D CAD systems; and second, by providing an improved user interface that matches the processes and approach used by engineers to produce seat trim covers.

This product release continues the progress SDE has made in revolutionizing the way seat trim covers are designed and manufactured by further streamlining seat trim engineering and manufacturing processes and, ultimately, enhancing our customers’ competitiveness.

Nicolas Michot, manager of the R&D Seat Division and senior trim expert at Faurecia, the world's sixth largest automotive supplier, agrees: "The enhanced generation of documentation and the improved user interface of SDE 2011 have helped us streamline our seat trim development process. As a result, we're able to keep costs down and improve our ability to get product to market."

Not only does SDE 2011 feature an improved interface that better supports the processes and approach used by design and manufacturing engineers to produce seat covers, it also extends the global reach of SDE by introducing a Japanese interface.

The enhanced documentation features include:

• Patterns and attachments that have call-out numbers that correspond to the reference table, making it easier to view as well as to include more data
• Improved representation and highlighting of elastics and zippers, the pieces they’re assigned to, and a description of the operation
• An increased amount of data that can be exported to engineering drawings and reports, such as special instructions
• Additional materials and notes tables (for special instructions)
• Flexible labeling of sew lines in engineering drawings so the instructions can either be labeled individually or provided as standard instructions
• An additional step of instructions in the sew report.

The improved user interface includes:

• Consolidation of menus
• Easier access to commonly used functions
• And a more aesthetically pleasing look.

For more information, please download the new release flyer