Francis Bernard

<< Part 8 In 1984, I hired a young engineer called Bernard Charles. He started to work in the R&D

<< Part 7 In 1986 we had a great success: Boeing made the decision to use CATIA. And this success

<< Part 6 As for CATIA, we needed to give a name to our new company, at that time a

<< Part 5 Dassault Systemes In early 1981, Dassault Aviation took the decision to diversify into the CAD/CAM technologies and

<< Part 4 At the end of 1980, the CATIA rumor reached the very top of the company and Marcel

<< Part 3 In 1977, with the full support of my management, I decided to launch the rewrite all our

<< Part 2 In the late 60’s, we installed the first Numerical Control (NC) machines in the manufacturing plants. These

<< Part 1 Dassault Aviation If you were an ambitious engineer in the 60’s the best place for you to

Recently I had the good fortune of getting to know Francis Bernard, better known as the “Father of CATIA”. I