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29 November 2005

Product News

UGS and Synapsis Technology Launch Integrated Software Solutions Enabling Companies to Manage Growing Environmental Compliance Requirements

UGS Corp . announces a software development and marketing relationship with Synapsis Technology Inc. through which the companies will offer a comprehensive set of solutions to assist companies in the automotive and high tech electronics industries to comply with a significantly increased set of environmental regulations.

The new joint solutions integrate EMARST (Environmental Materials Aggregation and Reporting System) software, Synapsis' solution for environmental material and hazardous substance reporting, with Teamcenter® software, UGS' digital lifecycle management solution. They are designed to meet the growing need for technology solutions to address compliance.

"The relatively recent enactment of several environmental regulations regarding the material content for automotive, electronic and electrical products has created a daunting information management and reporting project for thousands of manufacturers worldwide," said Lonnie Gillihan, president of Synapsis Technology Inc. "UGS' Teamcenter products enriched with the accurate and timely compliance data generated in Synapsis' EMARS, provides the necessary view to design and supply chain engineering for realizing true design for the environment."

The integrated Teamcenter and EMARS solutions enable organizations to efficiently manage and report on their compliance with several recently enacted and impending environmental regulations primarily affecting the automotive and high tech electronics industries.

WEEE imposes on producers of electrical and electronic equipment legal responsibility for financing the treatment, recycling and recovery of consumer electronic goods.

ELV (End of Life Vehicle) is a directive adopted by the European Commission which aims at making vehicle dismantling and recycling more environmentally friendly. ELV sets clear quantified targets for reuse, recycling and recovery of vehicles and their components.

RoHS dictates certain consumer electronic goods marketed within the EU may not contain more than the permitted levels of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, PBBs or PBDEs.

The joint solution includes several features designed to address the specific requirements of these regulations.

•  Data collection, verification and management

•  Component qualification and exemption management

•  Product qualification and reporting

•  Product bill-of-materials (BOM) aggregation across multiple sourced components

•  Compliance Validation - the ability to compare a BOM with a particular industry standard

•  Data Exchange and Reporting

•  Design for Compliance - the ability to select product components based on material content and their ability to comply with regional standards.

"Without the right tools, compliance with new and existing regulatory requirements can drive significant complexity and cost into the product innovation process," said Chuck Grindstaff, executive vice president of Products, UGS. "Companies need the ability to implement new, lean and efficient techniques that take environmental issues into account early and throughout a product's lifecycle. The UGS and Synapsis offerings combine production proven tools into solutions to do just that - enable 'Design for Compliance.' The result is that qualification, exemption, validation and reporting are integrated into the process of innovation, enabling another dimension for competitive advantage while producing environmentally friendly and compliant products."

The integrated Teamcenter and EMARS solutions are available today through UGS and Synapsis Technology, Inc.

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