SEIKO EPSON Chooses CoCreate Model Manager for CAD Data Management

Model Manager provides integrated CAD management from concept to final design

FORT COLLINS, Colo., and SINDELFINGEN, Germany - January 18, 2005 - CoCreate Software, Inc., a leading provider of collaboration and 3D CAD software, today announced that the Information Imaging Division of SEIKO EPSON has standardized on CoCreate's Model Manager as its CAD data management system.

As a fully integrated companion for Designer Modeling, Model Manager provides team members with CAD management capabilities that let them easily maintain several versions of their work, work with complex assemblies and work concurrently with others on the design team. With it, companies can enable true concurrent design. Teams easily find, load, reload, and store 3D parts and assemblies and 2D drawings. Model Manger includes versioning, modification history, shared parts and even project folders.

SEIKO EPSON used CoCreate's 3D CAD product, OneSpace Designer Modeling, to design the well-received Colorio printer series and the Colorio ProSelection PM and PX series. Due to the success of using 3D modeling to design these products, SEIKO EPSON further extended its commitment to CoCreate design products and standardized on CoCreate's Model Manager for their CAD management needs.

SEIKO EPSON sought a CAD management system that offered both performance and reliability. In addition, the company required a solution that would promote standardization and reuse of model components across assemblies. Model Manager met all of these needs and increased the efficiency of SEIKO EPSON's product development process.

"We need to maintain a flexible design environment to address customers' needs quickly and continuously provide more advanced products," said Ryuji Sawada, head of the I&I IS Support Department, Information Service & Support Office. "CoCreate's Model Manager gives us this support."

About CoCreate 

CoCreate develops 3D CAD and collaboration software for manufacturers and their project teams who need work done today, not tomorrow. Our mechanical CAD product, Designer Modeling, is for designers who need freedom to create and change 3D designs without misunderstandings or delay. Model Manager, a data management product, is for teams who can't afford to work on the wrong revision of a 3D CAD model or 2D drawing when creating assemblies. OneSpace.net collaboration software is for project teams who are overwhelmed by the complexity of a design process that stretches across sites, contractors, or outsourced teams. We help teams design products, manage CAD data, and share ideas so they can reach their time-to-market goals.

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