Fiat Auto, and UGS, the supplier of software and services for collaborative product development, have signed a 5-year agreement under which UGS will implement its comprehensive engineering software technologies not only within Fiat Auto and Power Train, but also across the automaker's entire supply chain.
The agreement includes 500 seats of Unigraphics, UGS' integrated CAD/CAM/CAE application, to be used for digital product development, simulation and validation, 600 licenses of software from UGS' EAI division for Web-based visualisation and collaboration in the design and manufacturing stages and 1,500 licenses of i-Man, UGS' Internet-centric product life-cycle data management system. UGS' i-Man application will unify the management of product lifecycle and production process information by integrating the information currently resident in a variety of PDM (product data management) systems used by different Fiat departments.