CAVA -
CATIA V5 Solutions for Car Design and Legal Compliance
Joint Project
"CATIA V5 - Automotive Extensions - Vehicle Architecture" (CAVA) resulted from a common venture of
Transcat PLM and the German car manufacturers.
International rules, norms and standards are provided during the entire design process - from the
concept phase to the homologation. CAVA is a feature-based and associative technology integrated
with CATIA V5.
Legal Compliance
The task of complying with international regulations, norms and standards does not only affect OEMs. Approximately 70% of development activity rests increasingly with suppliers. Both, OEMs and
supplier, will benefit from the CAVA functionality, which simplifies the vehicle concept tasks
dramatically.
By integrating the CAVA elements tightly inside the feature based architecture of CATIA V5, they can
also be applied across the whole development process, even with international data exchange.
Design Integration
CAVA products offer a complete set of easy to use features covering rear view mirror, viewing fields,
security belts, underfloor clearances, lamp positions, pedestrian protection, and much more. Each
function contains the different values and settings that are determined by local authorities and
described in norms like: ECE, EWG, SAE, FMVSS and others. These pre-configured standards are
built into CAVA and can easily be administered and extended to company-specific settings.
Supply Chain Integration
The CAVA architecture supports the entire process chain including the data created by the embedded
supply chain. Through a tight integration to CATIA V5, CAVA features can be automatically
interchanged with the CATIA data so that suppliers and OEMs can use these features throughout the
design process.