"Alibre Experience" Shows Manufacturers How to Quickly Cut Engineering Costs And Increase Design Productivity.

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RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2001

Alibre today announced the immediate availability of the Alibre Experience, a program that allows manufacturers to explore Alibre Design, a real-time interactive mechanical design and data-sharing platform, and realize its immediate business value in their working environment. Offered at no cost, the Alibre Experience is designed for engineers and managers to quickly exploit opportunities in their organization to reduce new product development costs and increase engineering productivity.

The Alibre Experience is customized for each participant, drawing from the following activities:

- A live Web-based introduction to Alibre Design.

- Consultation with Alibre engineers to identify high-value target projects.

- Remotely managed installation of Alibre Design on multiple systems.

- Data exchange assistance with other CAD/PDM environments.

- Online and phone support during the Experience.

- Use of Alibre Design and secure servers during the Experience.

- An opportunity to purchase client bundles of Alibre Design that include
continued free access to secure Alibre servers, a value of $25,000.

"The current economic environment demands that manufacturers act immediately to streamline their organization and processes," said Alibre CEO J. Paul Grayson. "The Alibre Experience lets us do more than show-and-tell--we're putting the live solution into manufacturers' hands immediately. Once low-cost, lightweight CAD for the Internet is truly experienced, the risks to manufacturers of limiting the reach of their legacy CAD and PDM systems to first-tier suppliers become obvious."

For example, a Fortune 50 manufacturer that recently completed the Alibre Experience estimated that it would save over $2 million in the first year by deploying 50 seats of Alibre Design for an outsourcing project with a group of international suppliers. Even more dramatically, it estimated that it would be able to begin the project 4-5 months sooner.

Numerous industry publications and analyst firms, including AMR Research, have recognized Alibre Design. According to Michael Burkett of AMR Research, "Alibre is helping original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers modify complex designs online, and then immediately use the electronic model within the suppliers' manufacturing process. The value Alibre provides is to allow OEMs and their suppliers to share design geometry between different systems, speeding the ramp to volume of New Product Introduction (NPI)."

Alibre Design is the only low-cost lightweight mechanical design application that enables users to work together in real-time over the Internet--securely sharing, generating, and modifying precise 3D design data. The complete application is easily deployed and maintained via the Web, making it possible for manufacturers to extend their CAD and PDM resources to all of their internal and external design partners.

About Alibre Inc.

Alibre Inc. offers an interactive mechanical design application and data-sharing platform, built for the Internet, that enables manufacturers to extend the realms of their CAD and PDM resources to all tiers of their supply chains. The online, CAD-neutral environment of Alibre Design enables manufacturers to securely share precise design data with suppliers--driving quality, improving productivity, shortening manufacturing cycles and reducing costs. Simple, Web-based delivery allows manufacturers to easily deploy the lightweight, low-cost application among any number of suppliers. Founded in 1997, Alibre is privately funded and based in Richardson, Texas. For more information, visit www.alibre.com or call [phone].

Alibre and Alibre Design are trademarks of Alibre Inc.