| PLANO, Texas and WOLFURT, Austria
– April 21, 2004 - UGS PLM Solutions, the
product lifecycle management (PLM) subsidiary of EDS,
today announced Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group, the leading
global manufacturer of surface and aerial ropeway
transportation systems such as ski-lifts and cable
cars, has selected UGS PLM Solutions as its new technology
partner and standardized on Unigraphics® NX and Teamcenter®.
Doppelmayr/Garaventa conducted a comprehensive
evaluation of software from various PLM software providers
before selecting UGS PLM Solutions' Teamcenter to
implement design management, document management and
workflow management, and NX, a comprehensive portfolio
of software solutions for its end-to-end advanced
product development.
Doppelmayr/Garaventa expects UGS PLM Solutions’
software and services to maximize research and development
productivity and process innovation, strengthen collaborative
product development capabilities and reduce manufacturing
and development costs as well as product development
time.
“Doppelmayr/Garaventa is the market leader in providing
ropeway systems with maximum safety and comfort standards
to ensure client profitability. We needed a technology
provider with the ability to deliver best of breed
software and services to help achieve our goals of
reducing time to market and improving ROI.” said Hanno
Ulmer, CFO of Doppelmayr Holding AG. “After a thorough
evaluation process, UGS PLM Solutions’ superior technology
and services combined with its global presence and
clear understanding of our industry made it the best
choice in the market and a clear winner over the competition.”
“Doppelmayr/Garaventa’s decision to standardize
on UGS PLM Solutions’ Teamcenter and NX clearly demonstrates
the superiority of our technology,” said Jim Duncan,
executive vice president, UGS PLM Solutions EMEA.
“More and more worldwide industry leading companies
like Doppelmayr/Garaventa are recognizing the value
of NX’s knowledge driven design and Teamcenter’s ability
to leverage existing IT investments for fast implementation
and quick return-on-investment.”
About Teamcenter and NX
Teamcenter, the world’s most widely used product data
management solution, is a scalable, integrated solution
that allows manufacturers to design new products in
a communication environment that enables geographically
distributed data sharing for product lifecycle data.
Based on open standards, Teamcenter integrates with
each customer’s existing IT investment -- and the
systems of partners and suppliers -- further supporting
rapid implementation and adoption throughout the extended
enterprise.
Teamcenter brings together the collective knowledge
and insight of the enterprise in an open, collaborative
environment, so clients can make smarter product-related
decisions that lead to better and more cost-effective
products. Teamcenter creates an intellectual asset
management environment that elevates knowledge as
a corporate asset, uniting product knowledge with
process innovation to deliver business value throughout
the product lifecycle.
NX provides a comprehensive portfolio of CAD/CAM/CAE
software solutions for digital decision making founded
on a next-generation architecture and technologies
that uniquely address the driving business issues
in product development. NX allows clients to conceive,
design, engineer and validate discretely manufactured
products -- and capture their product definitions
-- in a fully digital environment.
About Doppelmayr
Doppelmayr/Garaventa is the name for reliability in
ropeways. The product of an ongoing policy of collaboration
with customers is an impressive portfolio of high-performance
transportation systems for winter and summer tourism
plus modern solutions for passenger transportation
in the urban environment. Doppelmayr/Garaventa leads
the way in ropeway technology - thanks to a combination
of ongoing innovation, the highest standards of workmanship
and an absolute commitment to safety. With their long
years of experience and dedication to customer requirements,
Doppelmayr/Garaventa are the market leaders worldwide.
Doppelmayr/Garaventa has subsidiaries, branches and
agents in over thirty countries of the world and to
date has built no fewer than 13.000 ropeways on five
continents. For more information on Doppelmayr/Garaventa’s
products and services, visit
www.doppelmayr.com or
www.garaventa.com.
About UGS PLM Solutions
UGS PLM Solutions, a leader in product data management,
collaboration and product design software and services
with 42,000 clients and more than 2.8 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. For more information
on UGS PLM Solutions products and services, visit
www.ugsplm.com.
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