Eigner and Spicer Sign OEM Partnership to Create Superior PLM Solutions

Eigner PLM to include Spicer ViewCafe as embedded document viewing, markup, and collaborative review tool.

Waltham, MA, and Kitchener, ON - June 11, 2002 - Eigner, a leading developer of precision product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, and Spicer Corporation, a worldwide supplier of powerful and easy-to-use document viewing software, today announced an extension of their eight-year partnership with an OEM agreement that makes Spicer ViewCafe an embedded viewing, markup, and collaborative review tool for Eigner PLM.

"As product complexity continues to increase so does the need to securely manage, distribute, and collaborate on a significant number of document formats -- such as CAD, raster, and text -- that are used to describe and communicate product intent. Furthermore, providing access to this rich product information to anyone in the extended enterprise with which to communicate and manage product changes becomes more critical as products are developed across globally distributed teams and with suppliers, partners and customers," said Frank Azzolino, president and CEO of Eigner. "Eigner's PLM Solutions, including secure product data management, requirements management and change management capabilities, combined with Spicer's superior enterprise-wide visualization capabilities -- with broad support for multiple graphics and document formats, integrated markup, and printing -- delivers an easy-to-use solution for manufacturers to address their enterprise-wide visualization needs."

"We are extremely pleased and proud to be working closely with Eigner as a provider of a tightly integrated viewing solution for Eigner PLM," said Steve Spicer, President and CEO of Spicer Corporation. "ViewCafe gives Eigner PLM users the optimum combination of progressive Web technologies, performance, and ease-of-use for accelerating product development, maximizing productivity, and sharing mission-critical data with colleagues and business partners. By understanding the business process needs of our customers, we have carefully directed ViewCafe's evolution to provide complementary tools for highly focused product lifecycle management solutions such as Eigner PLM."

Built on single data model, Eigner's PLM solutions enable manufacturers to manage complex product engineering activities across organizations, suppliers, and customers. Organizations can manage highly sophisticated product content including customer requirements, items, bills-of-material (BOMs), CAD formats, supporting documentation and service histories. With Eigner's business process modeling capabilities, manufacturers can eliminate manual, disjointed, non-value-added tasks by automating critical processes - such as design project management, BOM synchronization, product change management, and advanced configuration management -- using common, industry-accepted practices. Eigner minimizes the need to recreate key technical product information for use by suppliers, customers, marketing sales, and service.

Spicer ViewCafe enhances Eigner PLM solutions with robust Java-powered thin client document viewing, markup and collaborative review capabilities for over 200 formats such as 2D/3D CAD, vector, raster, hybrid, and office formats such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Adobe PDF. With ViewCafe's intuitive user interface, both technical and non-technical Eigner PLM users can easily access, view, and review documents from the Eigner PLM file repository with co-workers and globally distributed design teams. Fully scalable, with 100% pure Java architecture, ViewCafe is fully platform independent and offers additional benefits such as full resolution printing, ISO-compliant print banners, and client-side caching of the Java applet.

About Spicer Corporation 

Spicer Corporation is a worldwide supplier of cutting edge client-and server-based software applications that enable the visual access, collaborative review and distribution of data throughout an organization and with business partners.

Web-based and desktop applications enable users to view, markup and edit over 200 industry-standard file formats including 2D/3D CAD, raster, vector, hybrid, and office formats such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files.

Superior performance, interoperable functionality among products, and low total cost of ownership makes Spicer Enterprise Viewing Solutions the preferred choice of end users, VARs, system integrators, and OEMs. Spicer's family of products includes Imagenation? for Windows, and UNIX, ViewCafe, Image aoX, BatchCon and DocuJet. 

www.spicer.com

About Eigner 

Eigner is a global provider of precision product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions that allow engineering data to be used throughout the extended enterprise to improve the operational efficiencies of the entire product lifecycle, enabling organizations to capture customer requirements, focus on innovative product design, participate in collaborative development, ensure precision manufacture of quality complex products, and better manage product maintenance and service. Founded in 1985, Eigner has more than 800 customers worldwide in a wide range of markets, including aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, high tech, machinery, medical and heavy equipment. With headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts, and Karlsruhe, Germany, Eigner operates worldwide through branch offices and subsidiaries in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Benelux, Italy, and North America.

 

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