CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 April 2007
Product News
Invention Machine Announces Availability of Goldfire InnovatorT 4.0
Invention Machine Corporation announced the latest version of its Goldfire InnovatorT software. Goldfire Innovator 4.0 includes significant enhancements to Invention Machine's semantic search technology, and is the first product to enable closed-loop design for innovation excellence by integrating design, quality planning and defect analysis, dramatically improving product quality, performance, and time to market for leading manufacturers around the world.
"Enterprises worldwide are under increasing pressure to deliver better-performing, higher-quality and more differentiated product offerings - faster - in order to sustain competitive advantage," said Mark E. Atkins, Chairman, President and CEO of Invention Machine. "Using Goldfire Innovator 4.0, manufacturers are able to raise returns on their Research and Development investments and improve both top- and bottom-line corporate performance by stimulating creative idea generation, increasing innovation and accelerating time-to-market of higher quality and more competitively differentiated products."
Goldfire Innovator 4.0 builds upon Invention Machine's Knowledge Enabled Innovation platform - first launched in early 2004 - and includes several key enhancements that deliver on the promise of closed-loop design. Goldfire Innovator is already being used by leading manufacturers across automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer goods, electronics, life sciences, industrial manufacturing and oil and chemicals, and this latest release will spur even greater improvements to their products and engineering processes.
Goldfire 4.0 Highlights
Automated Parts and Functions Finder
Goldfire Innovator 4.0 brings a new level of automation to the process of system analysis and understanding with the introduction of a patent-pending semantic technology that identifies and extracts mereological hierarchies. Mereology, the science of whole-part relationships, is fundamental to understanding any system, enabling the identification of functional relationships between entities (e.g. entity A performs what action on entity B, and what is the impact of that action).
Leveraging a corporation's content knowledge bases, as well as external data from the web and patents, Goldfire Innovator can further automate system analyses and modeling processes by recommending components known to be "part-of" a system as well as the functions and their associated parameters known to occur between a system's components. Acting like a virtual model library, Goldfire Innovator supplements a user's personal knowledge with the experience explicitly recorded in documents and thereby greatly enhances the value of design and analysis tasks while reducing the time and expertise required.
Quality-Driven Value Engineering Analysis (VEA) Design
With the introduction of quality-driven Value Engineering Analysis design, Goldfire Innovator 4.0 enables closed-loop design for innovation excellence. Building upon Goldfire Innovator's existing support for proven engineering processes such as Failure Modes Effects & Analysis (FMEA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA), release 4.0 closes the design loop by bringing quality analysis data into the design process. In this way, Goldfire Innovator improves product and process quality by tying the inherent 'value' of a design to the quality of the system.
Cross-Language Semantic Search
The 4.0 release of Goldfire Innovator provides a powerful cross-language search capability, enabling users to submit queries in English, French, German and/or Japanese and then identify targeted, semantically relevant answers across any of the four supported languages. This cross-language search capability builds upon Goldfire Innovator's strong foundation in semantic extraction. Where traditional search technologies provide vast quantities of inaccurate and irrelevant results, Goldfire Innovator's semantic technology is able to locate key concepts with pinpoint precision. With Goldfire Innovator's cross-language search, multi-national companies can now promote greater collaboration by accessing and sharing technical and patent content across languages, better leveraging knowledge and 'lessons learned' across internal design notes, customer service records, worldwide patent data and industry literature.
Goldfire Innovator 4.0 is available immediately. For more information, please contact Invention Machine at info@invention-machine.com , 1-617-305-9250 or, in the US and Canada, at 1-800-595-5500.
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