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Autodesk Certifies SofTech's Latest ProductCenter Collaborative PDM Release
TEWKSBURY, Mass.--June 25, 2003--
ProductCenter(TM) is Certified for Autodesk Inventor(R) 7 and Extends Integrator Support for AutoCAD(R) 2004
SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB:SOFT), a leading provider of design-through-manufacturing productivity solutions, announced that its ProductCenter collaborative product data management (PDM) solution has been certified by Autodesk for Autodesk Inventor 7, and that it has also extended its ProductCenter(TM) AutoCAD Integrator to support Autodesk's newest release, AutoCAD 2004. ProductCenter integrates collaborative PDM for managing product data directly within Inventor and AutoCAD for improved document control. As a result, it improves design productivity while helping to smooth the transition of product designs to manufacturing through enhanced extended product team collaboration.
"SofTech's Workgroup Technology Division has supported Autodesk mechanical design solutions for a number of years, updating and obtaining Autodesk certification on its integrations to the newest releases to ensure interoperability with all the latest CAD tools," states Jay Pappas, SofTech ProductCenter product manager. ProductCenter Integrations are also offered for other leading CAD applications, including Pro/ENGINEER and SolidWorks, as well as other design support applications, such as Microsoft(R) Office and Adobe(R) FrameMaker easing the data exchange complexity found in mixed CAD environments.
"For companies looking to improve, ProductCenter offers the edge needed to take competitive product development to the next level," adds Pappas. "With our ten-plus years in the product data management market, ProductCenter flourishes with well thought out, comprehensive, and affordable collaborative PDM, tightly interwoven to your design environment through long standing associations with companies like Autodesk. ProductCenter is particularly adept at managing more comprehensive 3D models and assemblies, with capabilities far exceeding rudimentary document management add-ons that offer not much more than basic check-in and check-out functions."
The collaborative, integrated product environment facilitated with ProductCenter fosters earlier, closer communications cross-functionally, as well as with suppliers, customers, and partners. It integrates, links, and maximizes reuse of not just CAD files but also all related product information from product specifications to technical support manuals directly from the CAD desktop.
For added convenience and improved planning, the ProductCenter(TM) BOM Editor and BOM Import/Export capabilities allow direct extrapolation of BOMs directly from CAD models, providing earlier exposure to product definitions by all those that participate in product processes. ProductCenter(TM) Workflow, in turn, flawlessly executes the most complicated of approval processes -- or nearly any cyclical business process for that matter. The solution is proven in hundreds of companies worldwide; with flexibility to adapt to the way Autodesk customers design products, scalability to grow with their needs, and a very low cost of ownership.
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 data management (PDM) products including CADRA(R), DesignGateway(TM), Prospector(TM), and ProductCenter(TM) (through SofTech's Workgroup Technology Division). SofTech's solutions optimize product lifecycle management 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 throughout North America and Europe.
SofTech, CADRA, DesignGateway, ProductCenter and Prospector are trademarks or registered trademarks of SofTech, Inc., in the U.S. and/or other countries. SofTech is a trademark of SofTech, Inc. All other brands, logos, products or company names are the copyrights and/or trademarks of their respective holders.
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