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News Release from: Cimmetry Systems | Subject: Product Visualization Across Extended Enterprise
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 February 2005
Global product development cited
CIMdata has released a new product review paper entitled, "Product Visualization Across the Extended Enterprise".
Consulting and research firm, CIMdata has released a new product review paper entitled, "Product Visualization Across the Extended Enterprise" Co-authored by CIMdata President, Ed Miller and Senior CIMdata Consultant, John MacKrell, this paper explores the benefits of employing visualization and collaboration solutions across the extended enterprise using several real-life case scenarios
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The review paper also illustrates how AutoVue's visualization and collaboration solutions facilitate global product development by providing enterprises in all industries with the ability to view, print, markup and collaborate on all data types throughout their product definition processes.
"The AutoVue family of visualization and collaboration products from Cimmetry Systems is a very powerful set of solutions," said John MacKrell.
"It delivers a mix of capabilities that enables it to support review, analysis, approval, and verification activities on all kinds of product definition information throughout the extended enterprise of companies, their suppliers, partners, and customers".
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" Cimmetry has a track record of being attentive to customer needs and over the years has developed a line of robust visualization and collaboration applications to address the needs of product development and manufacturing organizations in industry segments as diverse as discrete manufacturing, high tech, AEC, and process plant design." AutoVue provides native viewing, printing, markup, digital mockup and real-time collaboration support for more than 450 engineering drawings, 2D CAD, 3D CAD parts and assemblies, PCB layouts and schematics and office documents without requiring the authoring applications.
AutoVue integrates seamlessly with several Document Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Data Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Workflow, ASPs and e-business Portals, either directly or via the Web.
AutoVue is available as a Desktop Edition as well as a Client-Server Edition for Windows or UNIX servers.
"AutoVue has far-reaching benefits for all stakeholders involved in the product lifecycle," said Pam Petropoulos, Marketing Manager at Cimmetry Systems.
"AutoVue's visualization and collaboration technologies are accessible and equally beneficial to the shop floor, design engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, suppliers, customers, sales and marketing, and provide all levels of an organization with the ability to apply their knowledge and expertise throughout the product lifecycle." "AutoVue's breadth of format support, intuitive user interface, on-line real-time collaborative features, digital mockup capabilities, design analysis features, and unified MCAD and EDA support, combine to deliver a powerful solution that should be high on any organization's visual-collaboration solution short list," concluded CIMdata's John MacKrell.
The position paper is available for download on the CIMdata website.
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