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News Release from: Siemens PLM Software
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Team on 09 December 2005
UGS Sponsors First PACE 2006 Project
Teamcenter product lifecycle management software provides collaboration infrastructure for global academic partners and corporate sponsors involved in ground-breaking initiative.
UGS, a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, has announced its sponsorship of the PACE (Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education) 2006 Vehicle Collaboration Project The PACE 2006 Vehicle Collaboration Project is a first-of-its-kind partnership between the corporate and academic sectors to use commercial PLM software to conceptualise and develop a ground-breaking vehicle that provides students with real-world experience in New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI)
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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This is the first global design engineering course with a real-time web collaboration tool used on a common vehicle platform for credit bearing curriculum in several countries.
In cooperation with co-sponsors General Motors (GM), EDS and Sun Microsystems, UGS is providing Teamcenter software, the world's most widely used PLM portfolio, to support the collaboration of 14 universities worldwide on the NPDI initiative.
"We are offering our students a real taste of tomorrow's engineering environment today by providing them with this unique opportunity to learn and experience true multidisciplinary global product design," said Dr Jan Helge Bohn, associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech; and Director, Virginia Tech Computer-Aided Design Laboratory.
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"We have more than 110 mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and industrial designers engaged across Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, South Korea, Sweden, and the United States (US), all working together with GM designers and engineers using state-of-the-art collaborative design and engineering software and hardware to design a new family of low cost, sporty and fuel efficient vehicles".
"Truly, we are educating tomorrow's global engineering leaders today!" Teamcenter provides the engineering process management and collaboration environment to support the PACE 2006 Vehicle Collaboration Project participants around the world.
Teamcenter's Web access, along with its Windows-based collaboration environment, supports the innovative processes required by the program.
"Teamcenter simplifies the learning curve of a PLM system for our students by offering a familiar Windows desktop environment," said Dr C Greg Jensen, associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University.
"We have organised collaboration among the 14 universities around the functional areas of the vehicle design".
"Teamcenter provides a collaborative work environment where we can share component designs and discuss work-in-process in real-time via the Internet, without incurring the costly expense of international telephone and travel costs".
"Without the Teamcenter PLM technology, a project of this scope would be cost-prohibitive in the academic sector." Project collaboration among the 14 universities, worldwide, has been organised around the functional areas of vehicle design.
"UGS is a proud sponsor of the PACE 2006 Vehicle Collaboration Project," said Ed Arlin, executive vice president, Global GM and Daimler Chrysler Accounts for UGS.
"Together with our partners GM, EDS and Sun Microsystems, we are advancing the education of promising young engineers around the world, transforming the process of innovation in academia, as well as the corporate sector.".
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