Kfar Saba, Israel - March 16, 2004
- SmarTeam Corporation Ltd., a Dassault Systèmes
company (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA)
today announced that leading industrial equipment supplier
Miki Pulley has completed the first phase of a major business
process reform based on SMARTEAM Product Lifecycle Management.
A global provider of power transmissions to all industry
sectors, with a 100,000-strong product portfolio, Miki
Pulley is using SMARTEAM to drive enterprise-level collaboration
by managing the company’s design, manufacturing, and project
data, enabling collaborative design across dispersed sites
and departments, and bolstering communication between
its sales force and technical teams. The first phase of
the implementation spans all manufacturing sites and five
affiliate companies in Japan.
Miki Pulley initially focused on deploying SMARTEAM best
practice business processes to enable engineering, manufacturing,
sales teams to rapidly and flexibly meet aggressive build-to-order
targets, while maintaining high standards for quality
products. The company realized early on that SMARTEAM’s
robust multiCAx, web and document management capabilities
could also help reduce costs and address safety, environmental
and other issues, including ISO14000 compliance.
“Our products are marked by flexibility with regard to
client specifications,“ said Hirohide Hirayama, Technical
Systems group, Miki Pulley. “We are using SMARTEAM to
accomplish innovative business processes so that we can
better meet the requirements of individual OEM customers.
SMARTEAM streamlines our work and enables us to capture
and reuse company knowledge, driving efficient use of
our assets.”
Sales teams make daily use of SMARTEAM’s Web environment,
staying on top of customer requests by checking for design
and specification updates and communicating daily with
their technical colleagues by means of tight linkage with
their Lotus Notes database and email system.
“Miki Pulley selected SMARTEAM to gain fast PLM results
in process efficiency and team productivity, along with
robust scalability,” said Avichay Nissenbaum, EVP, Marketing
& Business Development, SmarTeam Corporation. “They now
have in place a solid enterprise knowledge system with
enormous potential to meet their growing needs.”
Miki Pulley aims to expand their SMARTEAM PLM solution
to handle emerging standardization and resource management
needs. Under evaluation are plans to extend its reach
to its worldwide operations and suppliers.
About Miki Pulley
Miki Pulley Co., Ltd. is a comprehensive manufacturer
of power transmission and motion control equipment, recognized
for its industry expertise and extensive product line.
With its core product, Stepless variable speed drives,
Miki Pulley gained recognition as an innovator in industrial
automation in Japan and beyond, even before the period
of high economic growth. Today, Miki Pulley manufactures
a wide variety of industrial equipment across different
sectors, including machine tools, semiconductor equipment,
food machinery, packaging machinery, textile machinery,
printers, construction machinery, farm machinery, and
ships and vessels. Products include speed changers and
reducers, which enjoy a majority share of the market,
electromagnetic clutches & brakes, couplings, friction
joints and controllers, and more. Miki Pulley has cooperative
agreements with technical and sales organizations worldwide.
For more information, visit
http://www.mikipulley.com.
About SmarTeam
SmarTeam develops, markets, and supports rapidly implemented,
yet totally customizable, product lifecycle collaboration
solutions that drive efficiency, quality and responsiveness
for customer-centric organizations and their value chains.
Founded in 1995, SmarTeam is one of the fastest-growing
companies in the PLM market, with more than 3,000 customers
worldwide. Its broad solutions portfolio enables manufacturing
organizations and their suppliers and customers to efficiently
manage and leverage product knowledge and business processes
from concept through maintenance. SMARTEAM solutions help
companies of all sizes gain improvements in product quality,
reduce costs, expedite project turnaround, comply with
industry standards, and shorten time-to-market. SMARTEAM
is a Dassault Systèmes and IBM PLM solution and is delivered
by world-class resellers on every continent.About
Dassault Systèmes
As world leader in PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)
solutions, the Dassault Systèmes group brings value to
more than 70,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer
in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes
develops and markets PLM application software and services
that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision
of the entire life cycle of products from conception to
maintenance. Its offering includes integrated PLM solutions
for product development (CATIA®, DELMIA™, ENOVIA®, SMARTEAM®),
mainstream product design tools (SolidWorks®), and 3D
components (ACIS®) from Spatial Corp. Dassault Systèmes
is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065,
DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit
http://www.3ds.com
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