Throughout the development stage, new car design must comply with legislation and guidelines in the countries where they are licensed. In a joint venture with German car manufacturers, Transcat has developed a solution to these demands - fully integrated into CATIA V5. CAVA is now available throughout the world as a V5 AddOn product.

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.

CAVA products offer the user new V5 CAVA features via intuitive menu operations, which correspond to the V5 feature in terms of handling. These features display the requisite standards information geometrically within CATIA V5 and are saved on CATPart levels. The feature-based architecture also includes associative architecture, i.e. changes in data input prompt an update of the CAVA data. When non-compliance occurs, the user receives the relevant advice. Typical international standards, such as ECE, EEC, FMVSS, SAE, are included but also company-specific standards can be easily incorporated.