SofTech's ProductCenter AutoVue Integrator Now
Available
SofTech Provides Seamless Integration to
AutoVue for the Immediate Benefit of Advanced
Collaboration
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TEWKSBURY, Mass. – May
20,
2004 - SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB: SOFT), a
leading provider of design-through-manufacturing
productivity solutions today announced its new
ProductCenter™ AutoVue Integrator is now shipping,
which pairs SofTech’s ProductCenter PLM (product
lifecycle management) solution with Cimmetry
System’s AutoVue® visualization and collaboration
technology. Integration of AutoVue technology with
ProductCenter PLM extends the collaboration
capabilities of ProductCenter, complementing its
document management, design integration,
configuration control, change management, and
enterprise integration capabilities.
“ Many people talk about the benefits of
collaboration but really don’t understand how to
put it into practice, especially among companies
with geographically dispersed product teams,”
states Jay Pappas, ProductCenter product manager.
“There are very valuable benefits to be gained by
tapping into the collective resources of your
extended product teams as early as possible.
ProductCenter and AutoVue support your ability to
do this with ease.”
ProductCenter PLM with AutoVue allows 'meeting
attendees' to collaborate online without need of a
face-to-face meeting. This solution facilitates
communication and collaboration between extended
product team members, as well as helps capture
those all-important lessons learned for future
efforts. During virtual online meetings attendees
can brainstorm, chat, apply sticky notes, explore,
and cooperatively mark-up 2D drawings, 3D models,
Office documents, ECAD PCB/IC layouts, and others
without need of the original authoring
application. In fact, over 450 different file
formats are supported. For added security
corporate extranets can also be put to use to plug
customers and suppliers into the information loop.
After the meeting, mark-ups can be then saved and
stored in ProductCenter and linked to the original
document for a detailed record of the product
history. The results of the virtual meeting can be
saved and become the basis for creating an
engineering change request or can be used to
clarify a design decision early in the design
process between engineering and a remote supplier.
The change request can also be launched for
processing via ProductCenter™ Workflow, shaving
considerable time off traditional review cycles.
About SofTech, Inc.
SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB: SOFT) provides
design-through-manufacturing productivity
solutions with its computer-aided design (CAD),
computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and product
lifecycle management (PLM) products including
CADRA®, DesignGateway™, Prospector™, and
ProductCenter™ (through SofTech’s Workgroup
Technology Division). SofTech’s solutions optimize
product lifecycle processes at the lowest cost by
fostering innovation, extended enterprise
collaboration, product quality improvements, and
compressed time-to-market cycles.
SofTech has more than 100,000 users benefiting
from its solutions, including Boeing, FlightSafety
International, General Electric Company, Goodrich
Turbine Fuel Technologies, Honeywell, Millipore
Corporation, Siemens, Sikorsky Aircraft, U.S.
Army, and Whirlpool Corporation.
Headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, SofTech
(www.softech.com)
has locations and distribution partners throughout
North America, Europe, and Asia.
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