Standing Up Design Automation Inside an Existing CATIA and PLM Stack
An aerospace supplier wants design automation but cannot move off its established CATIA and Teamcenter environment, where certification evidence lives.
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The challenge
Any tool that requires exporting geometry out of the certified environment is a non-starter.
Design automation pilots have previously failed because they lived beside the real workflow rather than inside it.
Certification requires that every design decision remain traceable to an accountable engineer.
How Shilpa solves it
In-Stack Deployment
Shilpa runs against the existing CATIA and Teamcenter environment rather than requiring geometry to leave it.
Workflow Embedding
Generation and checking appear inside the engineer's normal task flow, not in a separate application.
Attribution Preservation
Every generated element carries the engineer who accepted it, preserving the accountability certification requires.
Incremental Scope
Automation starts on one bounded part family and widens only after that family is proven.
Evidence Continuity
Design history and approval remain in the PLM system of record throughout.
The outcome
Design automation running inside the certified environment rather than beside it.
Engineer accountability preserved on every generated element.
Adoption on a bounded family before any wider commitment.
Representative scenario: a modelled industry situation showing how this accelerator applies. Figures are projections, not a named client result.
Capabilities used
Every accelerator is assembled from the same capability layer, so a workflow you adopt here shares its foundation with the rest of the portfolio.
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