CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
1 February 2007
Implementation Investments
Breeze Eastern, a Division of Transtechnology Corporation, Selects 3D_Evolution® To Translate New Project for AIRBUS
Translation Technologies announced that Breeze-Eastern, located in Union New Jersey has purchased a 3D_Evolution®, CT Core Technologies GmbH's premier direct translator. Breeze-Eastern was awarded a $40 million dollar contract from AirBus in April of 2006. The contract included the design and manufacture of a new cargo winch, overhead crane, and rescue winch for the new A400M military cargo airplane.
Breeze-Eastern utilizes Pro/ENGINEER WildFire for all of their in-house product design activities and AIRBUS uses CATIA V5 as their primary design system. Paul Lombardino, Principle Engineer at Breeze-Eastern said, "we wanted to compete for this large contract but the different CAD systems used by the two companies could have been a problem. Translation Technologies had been doing most of our translation work out of their Service Center in Spokane, WA and has always delivered high quality translations quickly. It seemed natural to go to them to solve our in-house data translation requirements."
3D_Evolution® is a premier direct translator and healing system. It is capable of handling assemblies and complex geometries, 3D_Evolution®. The system is reliable and simple to use. A majority of models translate automatically in batch mode without any geometric or topological errors. For the problematic models, 3D_Evolution® has a powerful and intuitive interactive mode. In interactive mode, 3D_Evolution® makes it possible to visually control the model's topology errors and warnings, allowing the user to complete a quick and easy analysis of the model quality. The global and local healing capabilities of 3D_Evolution® help the user to translate even the most complex and problematic models into target models that are solid, stable, and of high quality.
Mr. Lombardino went on to say, "when it comes to CAD data translation issues, we believe in the systems and experts at Translation Technologies, their working knowledge of translation problems and solutions coupled with their World-class customer service made them the right choice for Breeze-Eastern and this highly visible project." Tim Boden, Director of Sales and Marketing for Translation Technologies stated, "we are very proud of our relationship with Breeze-Eastern as well as the selection of 3D_Evolution® for their CAD data translation solution. We are extremely confident in this translator's ability to consistently deliver useable solid models." He went on to say, "once again we proved first to Breeze- Eastern the quality of our software solutions instead of just selling them software and then trying to explain why it doesn't work properly on a particular model."
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