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| CAD, CAM, CAE, design, technical drawing, drafting, delineation, visualization, manufacturing | ISSN 1442-2255 |
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UGS PLM Solutions Launches New Solid Edge® Integrated Mold Tooling ApplicationNew promotional packaged solution for Solid Edge Version 15 offers full range of features allowing mold designers to design with insight
PLANO, Texas - Feb 24 2004 – UGS PLM Solutions, the product lifecycle management subsidiary of EDS, today announced its new Solid Edge® Mold Tooling application for plastic mold suppliers servicing the consumer products and other plastics-dependent industries. The new application, built on Solid Edge Version 15, is scheduled to ship this quarter. In March 2003, Solid Edge Version 14 delivered Rapid Blue, a sophisticated and flexible shape creation software, launching the award-winning mainstream computer-aided design (CAD) application squarely into the heart of the consumer products industry. With sophisticated features, developed specifically to ease the design of complex shapes prevalent in consumer products, Solid Edge is already used by many companies in this and related industries. In December 2003, Solid Edge Version 15 extended the capabilities with new functionality specifically for mold design. Draft face analysis enables users to graphically analyze a model to ensure that it will be able to be ejected from a mold, while new automatic parting-line and surface commands can be used to generate associative mold cores and cavities. Today, Solid Edge complements these core capabilities, introducing a new mold tooling option to establish a powerful, step-by-step process workflow for the design of multi-core, multi-cavity plastic injection molds. Solid Edge users can select mold bases and associated components from a complete library of various standards (DME, Hasco, Futuba, LKM, Misumi) and use the mold cores and cavities created directly from Solid Edge-created parts. "Our automated workflow makes it fast and easy to add standard mold features and components to the design, including ejector pins, runners, steps, gates and catalog parts such as screws, bushings, guide pins and interlocks," said Dan Staples, director of the Solid Edge business unit for UGS PLM Solutions. "Combined with Solid Edge’s excellent shape creation, surface import, clean up and healing capabilities and best-in-class drafting, Solid Edge Mold Design customers now enjoy a complete solution allowing them to Design with Insight." Supporting the new application is a Solid Edge promotional package for mold design. Priced at $9,995 (U.S. list), the comprehensive promotional package includes:
The package is available through June 30, and may be ordered now. "The outstanding success of Rapid Blue shape creation capabilities has generated tremendous interest in a mold design application for Solid Edge especially in Asia, Eastern Europe, the Iberian peninsula and Canada where mold design is a growing part of a supplier-oriented business model," said Bruce Boes, vice president of Solid Edge marketing and business strategy. "The new Solid Edge Mold Tooling application, combined with the burgeoning Solid Edge Voyager B2B supplier program that allows access to the many Solid Edge suppliers of design and manufacturing services around the world, provides better service to all of our customers worldwide." Industry comments "As competition increases, mold makers must find new ways to maintain profitability," said Carlos Leitao of CadFlow Lda. "Solid Edge Mold Tooling increases productivity levels by turning Solid Edge into a powerful mold-oriented tool. It helps keep schedules short and maintain margin levels." "The new (mold tooling) add-on will offer a step-by-step workflow for the design of plastic injection molds that takes a step ahead of what similar mainstream solutions offer today," wrote David Cohn in his December 2003 review of Solid Edge in the Engineering Automation Report newsletter. The Solution Solid Edge from UGS PLM Solutions 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, and Volvo. The Solid Edge Voyager Program includes almost 200 integrated engineering software applications and computer hardware solutions. About UGS PLM Solutions UGS PLM Solutions, a leader in product data management, collaboration and product design software and services with 41,000 clients and more than 2.6 million seats of technology operating in the market, is the product lifecycle management (PLM) subsidiary of EDS. The company works collaboratively with its clients to create solutions enabling them to transform their process of innovation and thus begin to capture the promise of PLM. The integration of the former operations of companies including Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC), Engineering Animation Inc. (EAI) and UGS, UGS PLM Solutions has created some of the leading design, collaboration and product data management technologies that ultimately formed the foundation of the PLM industry. Today, the company is a family of one, building on three decades of leadership in continuing to be a pioneer in PLM. About EDS EDS, the world's most experienced outsourcing services company, delivers superior returns to clients through its cost-effective, high-value services model. EDS’ core portfolio comprises information-technology and business process outsourcing services, as well as information-technology transformation services. EDS’ two complementary, subsidiary businesses are A.T. Kearney, one of the world's leading high-value management consultancies, and UGS PLM Solutions, a leader in product data management, collaboration and product design software. With 2003 revenue of $21.5 billion, EDS is ranked 80th on the Fortune 500. The company’s stock is traded on the New York (NYSE: EDS) and London stock exchanges. eds.com
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