Emerson Motor Technologies Purchases Solid Edge From EDS

Ease-of-Use, Reduced Costs and Meeting New Corporate e-Engineering Initiative Cited in Selection

PLANO, Texas - August 20, 2002 -  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDS (NYSE:EDS) today announced the selection of its Solid Edge(R) computer-aided design (CAD) software by Emerson Motor Technologies, a business unit of St. Louis-based Emerson. Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.

Emerson Motors purchased 34 licenses of Solid Edge as part of a corporate-wide effort to streamline technology deployment across Emerson's worldwide footprint and boost productivity. Emerson cited ease-of-use and low cost of ownership as critical factors in its choice of Solid Edge.

"We are adopting Solid Edge as a means to consolidate CAD resources, reduce costs and enhance design capability," said Ted Peachee, chief technology officer for Emerson Motor Technologies. "Implementing Solid Edge carries additional benefits because it is either already in use or being adopted across other Emerson divisions. For example, in a case where a sister company is using our motors, the ability to transfer Solid Edge design files back and forth provides significant advantage."

Among other Emerson divisions using Solid Edge are Liebert, Buehler, Ridge Tool Company, White-Rodgers and Therm-O-Disc. Emerson Motor Technologies plans to use Solid Edge at sites in the United States, Mexico and China.

In April, EDS announced that Emerson had selected Solid Edge for CAD and Teamcenter(TM) product lifecycle management software as part of the company's global e-engineering initiative designed to implement common technologies across the company. The selection followed a comprehensive, year-long evaluation of multiple systems. The cross-divisional selection team's goal was to leverage Emerson's global engineering resources to provide such benefits as increased productivity, reduced time-to-market and enhance processes in Emerson's engineering services organization.

The Solution

Solid Edge (http://www.solidedge.com/) from EDS is powerful 3D CAD software that allows manufacturing companies to Design with Insight and to reduce time to market, improve quality and lower cost. The exclusive Solid Edge Insight technology embeds design management capabilities directly within CAD, providing insight into design intent to the entire organization and enhancing collaboration. Insight, complemented by Solid Edge's superior core modeling and process workflows, has reduced Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) and their related rework by 50 percent or more. The extensive Solid Edge user community is comprised of designers at thousands of companies worldwide, including Alcoa, NEC Engineering, Ricoh, and Volvo.

The Solid Edge Voyager Program includes 160 integrated engineering software applications and computer hardware solutions.

About Emerson and Emerson Motor Technologies

St. Louis-based Emerson (http://www.gotoemerson.com/) is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers in process control; electronics and telecommunications; industrial automation; heating, ventilating and air conditioning; and appliances and tools. Sales in fiscal 2001 were $15.5 billion. Emerson Motor Technologies, a business of Emerson, is the global leader in the design and manufacture of electrical motors, manufacturing more than 320,000 units each day. 

http://www.emersonmotors.com/ 

About EDS

EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, implementation, business transformation and operational solutions for clients managing the business and technology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together the world's best technologies to address critical client business imperatives. It helps clients eliminate boundaries, collaborate in new ways, establish their customers' trust and continuously seek improvement. EDS, with its subsidiaries, serves the world's leading companies and governments in 60 countries. EDS reported revenues of $21.5 billion in 2001. The company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. 

http://www.eds.com/ 

 

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