think3 Extends PDM Capabilities and Adds Fully Integrated Design Automation to New thinkteam Software

think3 Also Announces New Version of Flagship 3D MCAD Product thinkdesign

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- think3, Inc. today unveiled a groundbreaking new version of thinkteam, the ready-to-use product data management solution that tightly integrates the design, engineering and manufacturing functions within a company. With thinkteam, think3 revolutionizes the role of product data management (PDM) software by extending its capabilities from data management to a more proactive order processing and design automation solution.

In conjunction with the launch of thinkteam 8.0, think3 is also announcing thinkdesign 8.0, a significant upgrade to its leading MCAD software, which is used by leading companies to design everything from heavy machinery and industrial equipment to sports cars and home accessories. Together thinkdesign and thinkteam offer a powerful, integrated and easy-to-use solution that spans the entire design-to-manufacture process.

With thinkteam, partners, suppliers and related internal groups, such as technical support, documentation, QA, and purchasing, can quickly get access to relevant product information without taxing the resources of the CAD team. thinkteam allows the capturing, organizing, automating and sharing of valuable product information, including standard components, documents, part numbers, bills of materials (BOM) and active projects. This gives development and manufacturing teams the ability to better manage their bills of materials and more effectively track design changes. The software is a powerful yet practical alternative to today's cumbersome PDM solutions, which are typically very expensive and can take months or years to implement.

At the core of the thinkteam solution is the Product Configurator, a revolutionary application that adds unprecedented automation capabilities to data management, order processing and product design. This product dramatically reduces time-to-market and improves design quality for semi-custom, design-to-order products such as complex machines and industrial equipment.

"The pressures on design teams today are incredible: design cycles are shorter, competitors are fierce, and the financial stakes of missing deadlines are staggering," said Joe Costello, chairman and CEO of think3. "By centralizing all the product, engineering, and administrative information in a system that can get accessed by other groups within the company, thinkteam helps design teams focus their energies where they need to be -- on world-class CAD design."

"After working with think3 for some time, it is very obvious to me that they are the true visionaries in the MCAD industry," said Giovanni Mazzon, engineering manager of MBF, a leading Italian producer of bottling machines. "think3 brings fresh thinking and a practical and customer-centric approach that is a welcome change."

Other Key thinkteam Features

thinkteam is comprised of these core modules:

- - Product Configurator -- automates the repetitive tasks involved in creating and managing product families. The system facilitates design reuse and can automatically create BOMs, 3D assembly models and 2D drawings, based on the user's specifications. Together with thinkdesign, the Product Configurator enables design teams to achieve substantial time savings and more effectively manage the mass customization of products.

- - Project Browser -- provides single user or workgroup visibility and access to any thinkdesign project. The extensive use of document thumbnails and previews allow users to easily get access to a project's content, components and status. Project Browser preserves the confidentiality of documents and substantially improves design collaboration.

- - WebTeam -- a ready to use option for thinkteam allows users to view and share product information with others via the Internet. WebTeam contains built-in security and data integrity features.

- - thinkparts Manager -- a tool for authoring corporate standard catalogs. Leveraging the power of the thinkteam database, engineering organizations can easily share, create and maintain a library of standards for use by their design teams.

thinkdesign 8.0-Delivering Mass 3D

It is estimated that only 15% of the world's mechanical CAD is done in 3D, due mostly to a lack of vision from CAD vendors in providing a clear and sensible transition from 2D design. With thinkdesign 8.0, think3 continues its "mass 3D" strategy, addressing the key requirements for customers doing mechanical, industrial machinery, and heavy machinery 3D CAD designs.

New features and an enhanced user interface make thinkdesign the best design environment in its class. Features have been added that ease the transition from 2D to 3D design and streamline the management of complex large assemblies.

Machine design customers will see significant enhancements to assembly, sheet metal, annotations, 2D drafting and the importing of 2D legacy data. In addition, thinkdesign now includes symbolic references, a new technology that allows a much higher reliability of parametric solid modeling as well as significant productivity gains.

Industrial design companies and mold makers will also benefit from the product improvements and from specific features for their complex design needs such as global shape modeling and parting plane associativity with parametric solid modeling. thinkdesign makes complex design easy, accurate and accessible to everyone.

Pricing and Availability

thinkteam is available immediately as a standalone Microsoft Windows application or fully integrated with thinkdesign, Microsoft Office, Autocad 2000 or Autodesk Mechanical Desktop. thinkdesign is available immediately for $1,995 per seat per year.

About think3, Inc.

think3 develops mechanical computer aided design (MCAD) and product data management (PDM) solutions for companies that design everything from sports cars and furniture to heavy machinery and industrial equipment. think3 is on a mission to revolutionize the $9 billion CAD and PDM markets by providing "mass 3D" design software that helps companies streamline business processes and deliver superior products to market faster. think3's more than 5,000 customers include leading companies in a broad range of industries, from machinery, automotive and aerospace to consumer products and fashion. Privately held, think3 is a global organization headquartered in California with offices throughout Europe, Asia and North America. 

www.think3.com

 

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