New Optimization and Robust Design Functionality integrated inside CATIA V5 Leuven, Belgium - 18 July 2006 - At 2006 JCF in Tokyo, Noesis Solutions, the leading provider of Process Integration and Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization software, announced the official release of its PLM Optimization product, the most complete suite of design exploration, optimization and robust design tools integrated in the Dassault Systèmes CATIA V5 product family. NOESIS PLM Optimization CAA V5 Based builds on the CATIA V5 Knowledgeware Infrastructure with its Parametric Design functionality. It brings unprecedented power to CATIA designers and analysts alike, who wish to automatically generate new design alternatives to explore their design space, to identify designs with better functional performance and to ensure the robustness and reliability of their designs. “Our prime objective is to leverage the built-in parameterization power of CATIA V5,” says Mr. Hans Wynendaele, President and COO of Noesis Solutions. “PLM Optimization is integrated inside CATIA V5 and helps CATIA users avoid the traditional traps of ‘trial-and-error’ design. Our PLM Optimization product reduces the engineer’s time spent on manually modifying model parameters and then studying the results. PLM Optimization has the intelligence to automatically and smartly propose new designs that meet or exceed your design specifications. Early roll-outs at beta sites clearly demonstrated the value that PLM Optimization brings to our customers in terms of cutting product development time, delivering better performing products with higher quality at the lowest possible cost.” In addition, PLM Optimization pilots and manages CATIA simulation software and other CAA V5 Based products, such as ABAQUS for CATIA, Fluent for CATIA, LMS Virtual.Lab, OPTIS CAA V5 Based and others. PLM Optimization automates the exploration of the design space, and allows users to visualize and quickly explore their design space with design of experiment and response surface modeling techniques, and thus gain critical insight in the resulting designs. PLM Optimization guides the users towards better performing products using a combination of gradient methods for a quick analysis, or state-of-the-art genetic methods where multiple hills, valleys and saddles are anticipated in the design. The influence of parameter variability on the simulation results is assessed and optimized with Design for Six Sigma methods. PLM Optimization delivers a real return on investment, enabling CATIA V5 users to build better performing, more reliable, safer, and higher-quality products, while doing so much faster than ever before. About Noesis Solutions: Noesis Solutions, a subsidiary of LMS International, with headquarters in Leuven, Belgium, is a leading software provider for the Process Integration and Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization market, one of the fastest growing market segments in the mechanical design automation market. Noesis software products and services leverage existing investments in software and technology, enabling product designers and analysis engineers to build better performing, more reliable, safer, and higher-quality products, while doing so much faster than ever before. Noesis Solutions builds on the strong workflow automation and numerical optimization capabilities of its OPTIMUS product that supports engineers in automating their analysis processes, in quickly exploring multiple design options, and finding the most robust designs for product lifecycle quality. Noesis Solutions NV Peter van der Vooren Interleuvenlaan 70 B-3001 Leuven Tel. +32 (0) 16/38 43 78 Fax +32 (0) 16/38 45 05 peter.vanvooren@noesissolutions.com www.noesissolutions.com