Faurecia Selects VISTAGY Seat Design Environment

By DE Editors

VISTAGY, Inc. (Waltham, MA) announced that Faurecia (Nanterre, France), said to be the eighth-largest automotive supplier in the world, has purchased VISTAGY Seat Design Environment (SDE) for use in its engineering operations in the U.S. as well as northern and southern Europe.

While the initial purchase of SDE will be used to enhance the engineering of seat trim in automotive interiors, the companies plan to work together to improve software applications and related engineering methodologies for designing and manufacturing foam, seat assemblies, and entire automotive interiors.

The company says SDE is the first seat design software application that addresses the entire seat engineering process and is fully integrated into commercial CAD systems. With SDE, engineers can accurately capture all aspects of seat design, including trim cover, sew lines, attachments to foam and frame, and hardware data for airbags or heating systems. The software also performs conformance simulation and generates flat patterns from the 3D CAD model. Seat manufacturers can capture information and detail in one 3D model, make design changes quickly and early in the development process, and share information across distributed engineering teams working concurrently on seat systems.

For more information, visit Faurecia or VISTAGY, Inc.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.