CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
16 April 2007
Product News
PTC Introduces Pro/ENGINEER® Packages That Provide Unmatched Scalability; Flexible options, powerful capabilities accommodate growth and increasing product complexity
PTC announced new packages of its flagship Pro/ENGINEER 3D integrated CAD/CAM/CAE software. This announcement deepens the company's commitment to provide customers, large and small, with a flexible set of Pro/ENGINEER packages to support their evolving product development needs. PTC's approach to Pro/ENGINEER - combining ease-of-use with powerful functionality on a single platform - is embodied in this set of scalable packages, meeting the cost and functional requirements of all companies and users, whether their product development environment is globally distributed or centrally located.
PTC's set of scalable packages provides the flexibility to expand capabilities to accommodate growth and increasing product development complexity - a growing trend even with small companies. The scalability of Pro/ENGINEER and the flexibility offered by the packages creates a value proposition for organizations that would prefer to make technology investments priced and packaged according to their current business needs with limitless upward potential to support the evolution of their business over years to come. PTC's competitively priced, easy to use, upgradeable packages represent the most comprehensive range of package options on the market today:
Pro/ENGINEER® Foundation XE - embodies PTC's essential 3D CAD solution offering a robust 3D product design toolset that is the core of the industry's only scalable product development platform.
Pro/ENGINEER® Advanced SE - extends the Pro/ENGINEER Foundation XE offering with the addition of hosted data management capabilities to manage increasing product complexity.
Pro/ENGINEER® Advanced XE - expands the features of the Pro/ENGINEER Foundation XE package with the choice of a high performance add-on design module and data management solutions enabling growing companies to control and manage information across product development teams.
Pro/ENGINEER® Enterprise SE - enhances product development initiatives with a set of high performance design modules and data management solutions in addition to providing collaboration and project management capabilities to seamlessly connect the extended supply chain.
Pro/ENGINEER® Enterprise XE - delivers an extensive product development solution, including simulation and analysis, engineering calculations, enterprise visualization and technical documentation authoring capabilities designed to solve the complex needs of today's globally dispersed development teams.
Since 1975, DAB Pumps has been designing and constructing motor-driven pumps to meet the highest quality and flexible demands of their customers. DAB now offers more than 1000 different catalogued models and sells more than 1,500,000 motor-driven pumps each year. To keep pace with this growth the company needed a flexible and scaleable product development solution. "PTC's Pro/ENGINEER package suite provides DAB with the powerful design and data management capabilities required to meet our increasing demands," said Enrico Pana, information technology manager, DAB Pumps. "More importantly, it enables us to leverage our technology investment without being forced to exceed our current needs or sacrifice functionality. We can add additional capabilities as we need them, without having to change our CAD platform."
"PTC recognizes that while customers may face different challenges based upon company size and level of product development complexity, they also share some similar concerns in achieving success with their product development initiatives," said Michael Campbell, vice president, product management, MCAD, PTC. "They need high quality, cost effective and powerful solutions that grow with their businesses. The new set of Pro/ENGINEER packages provides a completely scaleable solution with unmatched capabilities to meet the needs of any sized company."
Availability
The new packages of Pro/ENGINEER are available immediately. For additional details please visit on http://www.ptc.com/go/anysize .
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