Case Study: Motive Industries designs futuristic cars 50% faster with Dassault Systemes' CATIA

Designs futuristic cars 50% faster with CATIA

Motive Industries, a Canadian specialty design and engineering firm that develops cutting‑edge vehicles, faced the challenge of turning designer concepts into manufacturable products more quickly and with fewer resources. To streamline the workflow from freeform surface design to parametric solid engineering, Motive Industries adopted Dassault Systemes’ CATIA solution.

Using Dassault Systemes’ CATIA (including CATIA Composites Design) in a single 3D environment with knowledge‑based design, Motive Industries consolidated surface and solid modeling, automated parameter updates, and accelerated composite part design. The result: overall design and engineering time fell by as much as 50% versus traditional methods (with 25–35% from the unified environment, an additional 10–15% from knowledge‑based design) and up to 80% time savings for structural composites, enabling a small team to accomplish what would previously have required many more people.

Motive Industries

Nathan Armstrong

President