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Needham, MA - March 9, 2004 - PTC®
(Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced that FCI, a company of
the Areva Group specializing in connectors and interconnect
systems, has selected PTC’s Windchill PDMLink™ and Windchill
ProjectLink™ solutions to complete its product development
system. FCI Automotive, one of FCI’s divisions, already
uses PTC’s Pro/ENGINEER®. The agreement was finalized
in PTC’s fiscal 2004 first quarter ending January 3, 2004.
By providing a single source of data for FCI’sits 14
design departments throughout the world, Windchill PDMLink
will enable FCI to improve its “Design Anywhere and Build
Anywhere” business initiative. Designers will be able
to easily access the right data at the right time while
facilitating concurrent engineering.
Windchill ProjectLink will support and automate FCI's
PACE® (Product And Cycle-time Excellence) process. Global
teams will be able to more effectively collaborate and
execute on projects by having easy access to all the latest
corporate templates, project files, and plan information.
With the adoption of PTC’s Product Development System,
FCI expects to accelerate time-to-market for its connectors
while reducing costs for product development and promoting
technological innovation.
“The addition of Windchill completes our Product Development
System, which is a key element in the development of FCI
Automotive’s IT infrastructure. The Product Development
System represents a single development platform for all
activities during the product lifecycle. Engineers
will be able to create accurate product models, collaborate
with co-workers around the world on the development of
products, and control the process to drive consensus on
designs sooner,” says Marc Moulinier, VP and General Manager
of FCI Automotive.
Since 1994, FCI has deployed 450 licenses of Pro/ENGINEER
throughout its entire design and manufacturing process
for connectors and tooling.
“FCI, by combining the two market-leading product development
solutions, Windchill and Pro/ENGINEER, into an integral
product development system, can now realize the benefits
of true product lifecycle management” says PTC Executive
Vice President and Chief Product Officer James Heppelmann.
PTC’s product development system enables companies
like FCI to more easily implement product lifecycle management
(PLM), while meeting the increasingly complex challenges
of product development. This system consists of an interoperable
architecture that enables seamless integration with heterogeneous
CAD systems, powerful federation capabilities for maintaining
data in a mixed system environment, standards-based integration
using commercial enterprise application integration (EAI)
technology, and a Web services infrastructure.
About FCI
Created in 1989, FCI - an Areva Group company - rapidly
secured its place among the world’s top three manufacturers
of connectors and interconnect systems. With a turnover
of 1.34 billion Euros in 2003, FCI currently operates
in 18 countries where it covers the following markets:
communications, data, consumer, industrial, automotive,
and electrical power interconnect. The company employs
12,500 staff worldwide.
For more information:
www.fciconnect.com
About PTC
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) develops, markets, and supports software
solutions that help manufacturers win with superior products.
PTC is the world’s largest software company with a total
commitment to product development. The company services
more than 33,000 customers worldwide. Further information
on PTC is available at
http://www.ptc.com.
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