D-M-E Company Selects NetVendor's EMBRACE 5.0 as its Design Collaboration Solution of Choice

D-M-E Becomes the First Customer to License the Newest Version of EMBRACE Collaborative Workspace(TM)

ATLANTA - November 12, 2002 - /PRNewswire/ -- NetVendor(TM), a leading provider of collaboration software for the manufacturing and engineering industries,

today announced that D-M-E Company, a global supplier of mold technologies, has selected the newly released EMBRACE Collaborative Workspace 5.0 to reap the benefits of online collaboration through a project collaboration extranet.

D-M-E is a manufacturer and distributor of materials, components and technologies that are used in the manufacture and operation of molds for the plastics and die casting industries. D-M-E selected NetVendor's EMBRACE software to serve as the technology infrastructure for both communication and collaboration, which will enable further improvements to their many workflow processes, including product development. D-M-E determined that products could be brought to market more quickly and efficiently and product development processes could be significantly advanced through an EMBRACE- powered project collaboration extranet.

"EMBRACE will serve as a single source for project information concerning product development at D-M-E," said Larry Navarre, director of business development, D-M-E Company. "In particular, the features inherent to the Process Director component of EMBRACE will enable D-M-E to collect statistics, review information, manage exceptions, highlight delays and advance 'tasks' through automated workflow."

Within D-M-E there are three distinct issues that EMBRACE is targeted to amend: global integration, cycle time and process efficiency. EMBRACE will bring D-M-E's globally dispersed development centers together through an online interactive workspace to enable international collaboration on the product development process in real time, which will ensure faster global acceptance of new product introductions. D-M-E also plans to use EMBRACE to direct administrative and logistical tasks required for product development and introduction, thereby assisting the project teams to generate more new products quickly and to explore new revenue streams.

EMBRACE's Process Director enhances process efficiencies by streamlining key business processes and efficiently routing tasks, documents and information between people and systems. Process Director's four innovative tools -- Task Manager, Process Manager, Process Administrator and Process Designer -- allow managers to analyze how work is performed and make real-time adjustments as needed.

"We are very pleased that D-M-E Company has become an early adopter of EMBRACE 5.0," said Leigh Orlov, senior vice president of worldwide operations, NetVendor. "D-M-E Company has a reputation for delivering the highest quality products and services to its customers around the globe.

Their deployment of EMBRACE will allow them to gain a real competitive advantage by facilitating increased innovation, while reducing costs and ensuring that they adhere to their quality standards."

Beyond serving as a secure document library, EMBRACE is a feature-rich document management system with innovative collaboration tools bringing users around the globe together by enabling them to view, redline and conduct real- time meetings around documents and files. Fast, detailed zooming, rotation, 3D pan, non-native viewing, and 3D cross-section are among the application's numerous capabilities. With EMBRACE technology, D-M-E participants can securely organize, edit and share documents such as 2 and 3D CAD, and various office and graphics packages using NetVendor's robust, web-based collaboration solution.

"While evaluating EMBRACE for product development, we have come to learn how this infrastructure can be leveraged across our business," said Navarre. "We have identified about 30 business processes that could benefit from EMBRACE and are already implementing several quick-hit opportunities.

We have pretty much expended the benefits of e-mail and intranets.

EMBRACE will elevate us to a new level of capability for enterprise collaboration."

EMBRACE Collaborative Workspace effectively captures both structured and unstructured communication throughout the enterprise, improving efficiencies, reducing costs and decreasing the time and effort needed to drive product to market.

About NetVendor Inc.

NetVendor is a leading provider of collaboration software, offering state- of-the-art document management solutions to the engineering and manufacturing industries. NetVendor's EMBRACE Collaborative Workspace helps companies reduce costs and automate business processes by enabling workflow, document management and engineering collaboration through one, immediately deployable software solution.

Founded in 1996, NetVendor is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. 

www.netvendor.com

About D-M-E Company

Founded in 1942, D-M-E Company is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of mold tooling, mold components, hot runner systems, and electronic controls for the plastics industry. A subsidiary of Milacron Inc., D-M-E Company also manufactures and sells standard tooling for the die casting industry.

 

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