Case Study: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. accelerates watch development and cuts development time and costs with Dassault Systemes' SolidWorks and ENOVIA SmarTeam

Accelerating watch development and engineering with SolidWorks and ENOVIA SmarTeam

Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. needed to shorten time-to-market and modernize its development process by moving from 2D to 3D CAD, introducing concurrent design, and establishing centralized design data management. To meet these challenges, Citizen turned to Dassault Systemes, adopting SolidWorks 3D CAD and ENOVIA SmarTeam PDM to support collaborative, concurrent engineering across design and manufacturing teams.

Dassault Systemes implemented SolidWorks (27 seats) and ENOVIA SmarTeam (25 seats) to enable check-in/check-out collaboration, centralized secure data management, and virtual prototyping (with COSMOSWorks), setting the stage for CAD–CAM integration. The deployment accelerated collaboration and reduced development effort—Citizen reported faster development cycles, produced 30 additional products after the initial project, and targeted a 30% reduction in development time and costs thanks to Dassault Systemes’ solutions.

Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.

Masayuki Watanabe

Asst. Mgr., Watch Business Control Center