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30 April 2007

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UGS Shows Mid-Sized Manufacturers how to Improve New Product Development Processes Through PLM

UGS Corp. announced the expansion of its "Fast Track to PLM" SMB educational seminar series to help mid-size manufacturers understand how to improve their new product development (NPD) processes by implementing a PLM strategy.

"Mid-sized manufacturers need to streamline their new product development processes to get the right products to market faster," said Bruce Boes, vice president of UGS Velocity Series Marketing, UGS. "To do this, they must evaluate their new product development practices in three distinctive areas: process management, product development and manufacturing engineering. Our successful 'Fast Track to PLM' program offers attendees a tangible view of how they can improve these areas by implementing PLM. We are the only company that has effectively delivered an integrated CAD, CAM, CAE and cPDM solution from a single supplier, tailored specifically to the needs of mid-sized manufacturers."

At the heart of the new product development program are results from a recent survey of Manufacturing Business Technology magazine's readership that gauges new product development challenges and solutions as a means to improving:

•  Process management: establishing consistency and repeatability.

•  Product development: beating the competition to market with the right product.

•  Manufacturing engineering: speeding production, and synchronizing suppliers.

The results of this survey can be seen in a new webcast, now available at http://www.ugs.com/mbt that looks at the balance between agility, structure and focus, including the perspective of UGS customer Razor USA LLC, makers of the popular Razor® Scooter. Razor was able to transform its product development processes and bring two to three times as many new products to market each year with their use of Solid Edge®, the CAD component of the UGS Velocity SeriesT portfolio.

For more information or to obtain a list of available webinars on New Product Development visit UGS' SMB Center at http://www.ugs.com/smb .

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