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BANGALORE
DECEMBER 19, 2006
Autodesk and PTC announced a technology exchange agreement to expand
interoperability options for their customers and the manufacturing industry.
This agreement brings together two software leaders with the common goal of
facilitating software interoperability for organizations with multi-CAD
environments.
Today's manufacturers are under increased pressure to get high quality
products to market faster, with increased efficiencies and lower costs to the
consumer. As part of this effort, many have adopted a multi-CAD strategy,
either internally between departments or externally with partners and supply
chains. This interoperability agreement aims to decrease the overall effort and
costs that are commonly associated with supporting these environments. Autodesk
and PTC plan to provide customers with out-of-the-box integrations between their
solutions that will enable organizations to work more efficiently with the
product development strategies currently in place and the flexibility to adopt
future strategies.
"Interoperability continues to be a major challenge in manufacturing
sectors including aerospace, automotive, high technology and industrial
machinery," said Robert 'Buzz' Kross, VP of Manufacturing Solutions at
Autodesk. "We understand that our customers use a mix of products in their
workflow and providing them with the flexibility they need to get their jobs
done is our priority."
"PTC recognizes that manufacturers manage complex business processes
which often include heterogeneous design environments," said Brian
Shepherd, Divisional VP, Product Management at PTC. "We have chosen to
continue our focus on eliminating interoperability challenges so that customers
can place greater attention on the true value-added activities of product
development."
This agreement enables PTC to leverage Autodesk's RealDWG software
development toolkit and deliver solutions using Autodesk's DWG technology, so
that PTC's solutions will be interoperable with Autodesk Inventor 3D software
for the manufacturing industry and AutoCAD(r) software. Similarly, Autodesk can
utilize PTC's Granite 3D modeling and interoperability kernel to provide
enhanced integration with Pro/Engineer, PTC's integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE
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