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Alibaba Group
Alibaba Group Brings Product Design onto Dassault Systemes
Alibaba Group, a consumer discretionary organization in China, uses SOLIDWORKS from Dassault Systemes to support engineering design for design engineers.
Design engineers at Alibaba Group review product design in SOLIDWORKS rather than in personal files.
“Inside Alibaba Group, engineering design used to depend on whoever still had the latest file.”
“Design engineers needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.”
Independent write-up. Figures come from public sources or are illustrative.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Product design can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for product design |
| Capability | Engineering design stays visible to adjacent teams through SOLIDWORKS |
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Inside Alibaba Group, engineering design used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in consumer discretionary groups working out of China. Design engineers needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Alibaba Group uses SOLIDWORKS from Dassault Systemes as the working layer for product design. Dassault Systemes builds 3DEXPERIENCE applications for product design, simulation, and manufacturing operations across industrial companies. The practical change is simple: engineering design has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Alibaba Group gets from Dassault Systemes is a durable place to run engineering design and a way for design engineers to see the same product design at the same time.
