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16 November 2005
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UGS Global Seminars Highlight Examples of Real-world Manufacturers Creating Business Value through a Common Language for PLM
UGS Corp. announced "Innovation is a Team Sport" - a series of global seminars featuring manufacturing executives and industry analysts discussing how JT, the widely used open 3D data format, is serving as a common collaboration language for PLM that creates real business value in the global manufacturing industry.
Each event will showcase how organizations of all sizes can accelerate new product introduction and reduce development costs by creating JTT data format-enabled "global innovation networks" that synchronize the product innovation process throughout the supply chain.
"In today's global manufacturing environment, supply chains include a wide variety of organizations and can extend across multiple continents," said Dave Shirk, executive vice president, Global Marketing for UGS. "Studies have shown that as much as 60 percent of new product costs are external, and that 50 percent of product quality problems can be traced back to outsourced materials or services. Innovation is a Team Sport seminars will explain how by synchronizing PLM communications through an intelligent 'game plan,' costs go down, quality goes up and innovation thrives. UGS is excited to host these events and promote the benefits companies can gain by fostering global innovation networks."
Seminar Details
UGS will conduct Innovation is a Team Sport seminars in several cities throughout the world. Each half day event will include presentations from UGS, Aberdeen Group, and several world-class manufacturers, most of whom are members of the JT Open Program, a global initiative to promote the proliferation of JT as the PLM industry's standard 3D collaboration data format. Attendees will be presented with real-world discussions on some of the communication challenges associated with global product development as well as multiple examples of how companies are turning those challenges into competitive advantages.
UGS will initially conduct Innovation is a Team Sport seminars in three cities according to the following schedule:
• Detroit - Thursday, December 8, 2005
• London - Tuesday, January 17, 2006
• Frankfurt, Germany - Thursday, January 19, 2006
Detailed information about speakers attending the various events as well as enrollment information can be found at http://www.ugs.com/go/teamsport .
Enrollment is open to all interested parties. To ensure space availability, prospective attendees are encouraged to enroll as soon as possible at the web site above or by calling 1-800-498-5351.
The JT Open Program is an initiative driven by global leaders that view PLM as a competitive advantage and have adopted the 3D JT data format as a standard. JT is a common 3D data format for enabling product visualization and information sharing between PLM software applications. The functionality and lightweight nature of JT technology makes it possible to view and share product data, manufacturing information and interactive images worldwide, in real-time and throughout all phases of the product lifecycle.
Membership in JT Open is available to any and all end user corporations, independent software vendors (ISVs), academic institutions and non-profit industry organizations. Some of the current JT Open members include UGS, General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Siemens, Renault, Visteon, Caterpillar, Autoweb, Bowers & Wilkins, DENSO, Asahi Electronics, Adobe, Altair Engineering, Bentley, PTC, Alias, SGI, Theorem, Opticore, Polyplan, Landmark, Spicer, Realtime Technology and Actify as well as academic members Brigham Young University, Technical University Darmstadt, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Michigan.
In addition, many other companies that derive indirect value from the initiative participate as JT Open advocates. JT Open advocates include HP, Intel, Microsoft, SAP, Capgemini and Elysium.
Additional information about JT Open can be found at http://www.jtopen.com .
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