From: Pierre duPont Subject: ANNOUNCE: Division & EDS Unigraphics Virtual Prototyping products Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 11:43:34 +-100 Message-ID: <01BB8DC3.A8536F40@dialin-ppp.division.co.uk> ---------- From: Larry Nolan[SMTP:nolanl@edsug.com] Sent: 16 August 1996 12:43 EDS Unigraphics selects Division Software for Virtual Prototyping Applications SAINT LOUIS, August 16, 1996 -- EDS Unigraphics and Division today announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to be used as a basis for an agreement under which EDS Unigraphics will offer virtual prototyping products based on Division software. The products will allow Unigraphics customers to create full-scale, 3D virtual prototypes of CAD designs. Users can navigate through and interact with designs in real time to assess assembly, operation and maintenance issues early in the design process. EDS Unigraphics' product offerings will combine Division's dVISE virtual reality authoring software with Unigraphics CAD modeling and data management facilities. Using the new products, customers will be able to take the next step in virtual product development by allowing designers, management, marketing teams and suppliers to work collaboratively on a design, from its conception to the end of its lifecycle. Virtual prototyping using Division software will bring the following benefits to Unigraphics customers: o allow remote engineering teams to collaborate on design reviews conducted in fully immersive, interactive VR environments; o provide tools that check for potential design problems, such as components that would be difficult to access, assembly sequences that would be impossible to complete, or the coordinated operation of multiple assemblies that might occur during assembly or servicing of the finished product; o a fully immersive virtual reality capability for viewing and interacting with Unigraphics designs. EDS Unigraphics products based on Division software will be available on UNIX workstations and Intel PCs running Microsoft Windows NT. Division (http://www.division.com) specializes in providing virtual reality technology, products and services for advanced engineering, design and training applications. The company has U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. Division also has U.S. offices in San Diego, Calif., and Detroit, Mich., as well as offices and distributors worldwide. Division customers include Ford Motor Co., Bechtel, McDonnell Douglas, NASA, DoD, Glaxo Wellcome, Matsushita, GEC, British Telecom, GTE and Sandia National Labs. EDS Unigraphics(http://www.ug.eds.com) develops, markets, sells, implements and supports mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE and PDM software and services designed to improve its clients' total product development processes. Offerings include Unigraphics for design-through-manufacture applications, IMAN for work group and enterprise-wide product data management, and product-related services, including computing and communications, systems support and management, best practice consulting, and training. EDS Unigraphics also provides Parasolid(tm), the world's leading, high-precision boundary-representation solid modeler serving mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE applications. EDS(NYSE:EDS) is a leader in the global information services industry. The company's more than 95,000 employees specialize in applying a range of ideas and technologies to help business and government customers improve their economics, products, services and customer relationships. EDS, which serves customers in 42 countries, reported revenues of $12.4 billion in 1995. EDS can be visited via the internet at http://www.eds.com. ----- Contact: Pierre duPont, Division, +44 1454 615554 http://www.division.com, email:pierre@division.co.uk [MODERATOR'S NOTE: Commercial postings are offered on this newsgroup as a public service. Their appearance here does not indicate endorsement by the moderators or by the USENET or its administrators.]