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| CAD, CAM, CAE, design, technical drawing, drafting, delineation, visualization, manufacturing | ISSN 1442-2255 |
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EDS Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software Selected as Standard By World's Leading Provider for Flexible Packaging Machinery and EquipmentWINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG Places Significant Order for Unigraphics(R) NX And Teamcenter(R) Software and Services
PLANO, Texas and COLOGNE, Germany, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDS (NYSE:EDS) today announced the German company WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER (W&H) has placed an order for 170 seats of Unigraphics NX software, 170 seats of Teamcenter Engineering software and comprehensive consulting services. Financial terms were not disclosed. W&H is an international market leader in machinery and equipment for flexible packaging. The decision followed a four-month test phase between Unigraphics NX, EDS' world-class computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) software, and two competitive systems. W&H selected the EDS solution due to its functional superiority and clear data migration concept in addition to a high level of confidence in EDS and its people. W&H also selected Teamcenter Engineering, part of EDS' Teamcenter suite of integrated PLM software, due to its open solutions approach to product data management, which allows a close integration with W&H's existing business software environment. The implementation of EDS software and replacement of the currently used CAD system will start in early 2003. "We are proud to be selected as WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER's solution provider for product development and manufacturing," said Georg Wessels, EDS PLM Solutions president for Germany. "This is a significant move that reinforces our strong position in the machinery marketplace and particularly our success in Germany. It does credit not only to our people and technologies, but also to our 'Open by Design' strategy for integrating into the real world environment of our clients." About WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER German based WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER (D-49525 Lengerich), is an international market leader in machinery and equipment for flexible packaging. In addition to blown and cast film extrusion equipment, W&H's product portfolio encompasses flexographic and rotogravure printing presses, paper and plastic industrial sack, bag and carrier bag machines, as well as FFS (form- fill-seal) packaging systems. W&H defines itself as a supplier of complete systems, as expressed in the slogan, "single-source supplier." This phrase emphasizes the capacity to offer complete production lines (from resin or paper to completed packaging products), manufactured in-house. The company maintains its headquarters in Lengerich/Westphalia. To date, W&H retains its status as a family-owned company. With 2000 employees world- wide, 300 of these in development and design, the company achieved total overall sales in the group world-wide in 2001 of approximately US$ 340 million. W&H maintains its own sales subsidiaries in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and the U.S. as well as independent agencies in all five continents. 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 management consulting subsidiary, A.T. Kearney, serves the world's leading companies and governments in 60 countries. EDS reported revenues of $21.5 billion in 2002. The company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange.
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