Renault has become the first major motor manufacturer to purchase the new Surface Studio 9 and associated development services from Alias/Wavefront, a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics. Renault has bought 60 seats of Surface Studio 9 as the software solution for its `Plan de Forme`, which creates all release surfaces for the exterior and interior of all Renaults vehicles.
Surface Studio 9, with Auto Studio 9 and Alias Studio Paint 9, now provides the most complete suite of tools for creating surface models that meet the stringent standards of quality, accuracy and precision engineers and manufacturing professionals demand. It offers world-class advanced free form modelling and Class-A surfacing capabilities with real-time surface diagnostics and raw data processing technology.
"Renault`s investment in Surface Studio, after more than six years of using Alias/Wavefront products, is an important validation that Alias/Wavefront has achieved their goal of building a highly successful solution that takes customers from conceptual design right through to manufacturing," says Vaughan Wooler, MD of Silicon Graphics sub-Saharan Africa. "
Jacky Leconte, Plan de Forme department manager at Renault Industrial Design, enthusiastically explains, "Surface Studio is the ideal solution for our needs. Its development was strongly influenced by the input of users and it will help us to achieve our goal of shortening our development process."
Renault`s industrial designers and digital modellers have become dependent on the speed, flexibility and quality of Alias/Wavefront`s products. By using the complete family of Alias Studio products, Renault now has a continuous and homogeneous software solution from conceptual design to the release of surfaces created by Plan de Forme for industrial manufacturing.
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