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Amada, Selects Solid Edge to Sell as MCAD Solution for North American Customers

ST. LOUIS, MO - January 16, 2001 - Unigraphics Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UGS) today announces that Amada, a worldwide leader in machine tool manufacturing, has selected Solid Edge as its mechanical computer-aided design solution to sell into its large North American customer base through Amada America, Inc.

Recognized as the global expert in sheet metal technologies, Amada manufactures and sells fabricating machines to thousands of customers who produce goods in a wide range of industries, including aerospace, air conditioning, appliance, electronics, office equipment, restaurant equipment and telecommunications. Because these customers also need software tools to design and manufacture products, effective this month Amada will be offering Solid Edge as its solid modeling design software.

"Solid Edge, with its substantial lead in sheet metal design capabilities, is the most powerful and intuitive CAD package available and is exactly what our manufacturing customers are looking for," says Leo Wegner, Amada's North American software product manager. "Amada provides the best machines and software for manufacturing products and Solid Edge completes our offering by providing the best software to design those products."

More than 100 Amada sales representatives, backed by software specialists across North America, will sell Solid Edge to a wide range of customers, from large original equipment manufacturers to small and mid-sized companies. The Amada teams already sell their own specialized CAM software packages into its customer base.

"Solid Edge integrates perfectly with our high-end nesting, bending and unfolding packages and meets our most important goal: making our manufacturing customers the most productive companies in the world," says Wegner.

Productivity: The Solid Edge Advantage

Solid Edge is the proven design engineering solution that will reduce time to market by an achievable 50 percent using STREAM, an exclusive technology that accelerates the engineering process. Solid Edge provides advanced 3-D part modeling, large assembly design and powerful drafting, as well as process-specific features for sheet metal, plastics and tubing design.

Solid Edge is the ideal CAD solution for design engineers moving from 2-D drafting to 3-D solids-based design. With fully integrated 2-D and 3-D design functions, Solid Edge provides a risk-free path to solid modeling design techniques, while getting the most from existing 2-D CAD.

The Solid Edge Voyager Program includes more than 150 downstream engineering software applications in such disciplines as finite element analysis, manufacturing, kinematics and dynamics, electro-mechanical, rapid prototyping, standard parts, product data management, translation, view/redline/animation and hardware solutions.

Solid Edge is written for Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 98 and Windows 2000 operating systems, and is distributed in eight languages to customers around the world, including Boeing, Kaiser Optical, Alcoa, Volvo, L-3 Communications, Ohio State University, Yale University, University of Edinburgh, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, NASA, Royal Air Force, S&C Electric, Lincoln Electric, WMF, Electromagnetic Sciences, Liebert Corp., Kaeser Kompressoren, Prodrive, USSC Group, Seiko, Hyundai, Daikin and NEC.

About Amada America, Inc. 

Amada America, Inc. sells a full line of precision, sheet metal fabricating equipment including CNC turret punch presses, lasers, press brakes, shears, flexible manufacturing systems and software. Amada America has provided American industry with a steady stream of innovative, productivity enhancing sheet metal machines since its inception. Amada America, Inc. was established in Seattle, Washington in 1971 and has been located in California since 1973. Its company headquarters are located in Buena Park, California. Amada's territory consists of 11 regions, servicing all 50 states, in addition to Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia and the Caribbean. 

http://www.amada.com/

About Unigraphics Solutions

Unigraphics Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UGS) is focused on improving the entire product life cycle for design and manufacturing companies through the delivery of software and consulting service solutions that address process and productivity enhancements. Its open solutions for product design, manufacturing, visualization, data management and e-Business are designed to promote interoperability and collaborative product commerce (CPC) through incorporation of today's most advanced technology, emerging industry standards and intelligent use of the Internet. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, UGS has been providing software solutions to some of the world's most successful organizations for over 25 years and is the first company in its industry to earn the ISO 9001/TickIT certification.

http://www.solid-edge.com 

 

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