Ortems S.A.S.

Ortems S.A.S company. – one of developers of technologies of the optimized production planning. The head office is located to Lyon (France). The Ortems system offered by the company is used by leading enterprises food, electrotechnical, petrochemical, metallurgical, machine-building, pharmaceutical, defense and other industries.

Expansion of ORTEMS Agile Manufacturing suite is the main international vector of growth thanks to several large implementing solutions ORTEMS APS as key addition to ERP systems. In 2013 solutions of ORTEMS were deployed at the plants worldwide by such companies as: Prysmian, Merck, Nexans, Sidel, Eckes Granini, Materis and other enterprises which are successfully using ORTEMS in the headquarters and replicating the solution on the plants in Germany, Austria, Colombia, the USA, Malaysia, China, Switzerland, Belgium.

History

2016: Dassault Systèmes purchased Ortems

On June 16, 2016 the Dassault Systèmes company announced contract signature on purchase of a controlling stake of Ortems company.

Acquisition of Ortems company will allow Dassault Systèmes to expand possibilities of platform 3DEXPERIENCE and to propose to customers industry solutions for production management, chains of deliveries and production. It becomes possible due to development of instruments of the general and calendar production planning, due to expansion of functionality of the DELMIA Quintiq tools for planning and optimization of supply chains that will allow to plan, to implement and optimize global production operations in the industry.

It is supposed that the solutions Ortems will serve as addition to the applications presented at the market under the Dassault Systèmes DELMIA brand including for the DELMIA Apriso application which represents the unified solution for all users working with digital production, management of production operations, planning of logistic chains and transactions in supply chains and uses a uniform reference data model as a basis.

The solutions Agile Manufacturing and PlannerOne developed by Ortems company are applied to management of production operations at intellectual factories where it is high - synchronized production IT systems provide communication between virtual model and physical production.

Today art of production means need to invent and reinterpret constantly. To make it possible, expanded platforms are necessary for implementation of innovations and for joint work which would allow to integrate better minds, ideas and solutions and provided a convenient information access. Only it is slightly more, than in a decade, specialists of Ortems managed to create the whole ecosystem which includes technologies, customers and partners in this specialized segment for large and medium-sized enterprises. We are glad to see the solutions Ortems as a part of platform 3DEXPERIENCE, with their help we intend to add and expand the production solutions Dassault Systèmes for our customers. Bernard Sharles (Bernard Charlès), president and chief executive officer of Dassault Systèmes

Today the companies occupied both in discrete and in serial production face a number of the problems caused by globalization and try to save competitive advantage in global market due to digital transformation. – Having become a part of Dassault Systèmes, we will be able to present at the market a unique solution portfolio for management of production operations which will cover as development of technology processes and production organization directly in workshop, and planning of logistics chains in the conditions of global industrial production. Manufacturing companies will be able instantly to react to constantly changing requirements of the customers, implementing the adaptive and balanced production strategy at more flexible, connected to network intellectual enterprises. René Desvignes, president and chief executive officer of Ortems

Three years ago the Airbus Helicopters company selected the solution Ortems as an internal system for production planning taking into account restrictions. – After a number of projects based on the same application in different functional spheres, the solution Ortems was completely integrated in our information systems which are closely connected with the ERP system from SAP. Soon the software of Ortems will become the uniform tool for the solution of all our tasks concerning planning optimization of sales and operations planning and finishing with operational production planning. Xavier Mathias, the director of production applications and solutions for management of logistics chains in Airbus Helicopters

The deal on acquisition of Ortems was closed on May 31, 2016.