CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 October 2005
CIMdata News
CIMdata in the News: "UGS, Adobe Tighten Design Document Ties"
As part of a universal effort to facilitate design collaboration, UGS and other PLM and CAD companies have for years offered various tools, including visualization software, to promote the exchange of product design data beyond the engineering group to non-technical constituencies like marketing or manufacturing. But visualization software and even some of the lightweight CAD collaboration and viewing tools are still more oriented to individuals with an engineering bias and knowledge of CAD functionality, whereas the PDF format has mainstream appeal.
"This greatly expands the ability of a lot of different people to have access and participate in using this type of information without having to train people," explained Ken Amann, director of research for CIMdata Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI), a market-research firm focused on PLM and CAD issues. "Instead of having a proprietary visualization tool, now you can get the information and visualize it in the context of a document that people are used to working with."
For the entire article, please see UGS, Adobe Tighten Design Document Ties , (Managing Automation Online, October 24, 2005), by Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor.
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