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7 June 2007

Implementation Investments

Furniture Company Hjellegjerde Chooses the PDM-system ENOVIA SmarTeam From Technia

Technia has signed an agreement with the furniture company Hjellegerde in Norway concerning a delivery of a PDM-solution based on the PDM system ENOVIA SmarTeam. With help of Technia and ENOVIA SmarTeam Hjellegerde wants to establish a collaboration platform where all the company's product-related information will be put into one single place in order for it to be used across the whole organization, from research and development to production of their successful furniture collections. With this agreement Technia enters a new market - the furniture industry.

Hjellegjerde® has furnishing traditions going back to 1941 and is headquartered in the municipality of Sykkylven in Møre & Romsdal. The company has developed from being primarily a producer of sofa and chair ranges to currently also include reclining chair concepts with a more international market potential. After several decades of strong industrial development, Hjellegjerde® is today one of Scandinavia's leading furnishing groups, with a market spread across three continents. Over 70 per cent of current sales go for export. The company was listed on the stock exchange in 1997.

Under the brand Fjords, Hjellegjerde has experienced great international success, and with the PDM solution from Technia they will make their production processes more efficient - the processes that manage a large number of different variants of furniture in the collection. Hjellegerde has become increasingly an international business and the need for an effective way of managing the product information becomes more obvious.

The PDM solution ENOVIA SmarTeam from Dassault Systémes will work as a collaboration platform between developers and the production and it will enable faster and better collaboration between different environments and resources at sites in different parts the world. ENOVIA SmarTeam handles product data in a safe way and make it available for all involved. ENOVIA SmarTeam will handle everything from the 3D-CAD data - sketches, requirement documents, brochures etc - and will combine that to complete product documentation that will work as basis for the production. The first step will be to integrate the 3D-CAD data from SolidWorks and other product-related information into the PDM solution.

"We have chosen SmarTeam because we need to have a system that the business will be able to grow with, and at the same time we solved the short-time problem with the management of CAD-data. We look forward to a fruitful cooperation with Technia that we know has a deep PLM knowledge and competence", says Odd Drotninghaug, R&D manager, Hjellegjerde.

"PDM/PLM has become more mature and is now suitable for enterprises in the size of Hjellegjerde. It is pleasant to see that the small and midsize enterprises can get benefits from a PDM/PLM system without going to big investments. We look forward to a long-term partnership with Hjellegjerde and it will be interesting to work in and learn about the furniture industry as well. This is a key win for Technia and it will help us to take a strong position in the furniture industry", says Tore Brathaug, Director at Technia AS.

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