Case Corporation Selects Workgroup Technology's CMS for Enterprise-Wide PDM Implementation; Contract in Excess of $1.5 Million.

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 1996--Workgroup Technology Corporation (Nasdaq National Market Symbol: WKGP) today announced an agreement with CASE Corporation for an enterprise license of Workgroup Technology's CMS product data management (PDM) software and services worth more than $1.5 million.

CASE Corporation is a leading worldwide designer, manufacturer and distributor of agricultural and construction equipment. The company plans to use CMS to manage all the information related to the product lifecycle of its tractors, implements, harvesting equipment, skid steers, loader/backhoes and excavators. CMS will manage CASE's computer-aided designs including Pro/ENGINEER, technical specifications, scanned images, product structures, regulatory procedures, and all other product data.

"We chose CMS because it offered CASE the best of both worlds," said Jim Hatch, CIO, CASE Corporation. "CMS provides the best solution for enterprise-wide product data management while providing highly effective local integration and management of world class design and analysis tools such as the Pro/ENGINEER suite. After an extensive evaluation of all major competitive PDM products, we found that CMS best met CASE's commitments to product excellence, superior price performance and low risk, rapid deployment."

"By selecting CMS, CASE has expressed its confidence in Workgroup Technology to fulfill its product data management needs on a worldwide enterprise level," said James Carney, president and CEO of Workgroup Technology Corporation. "This contract is further testimony that customers support our strategy of providing a scalable enterprise product data management solution that is tightly integrated with best in class desk top automation tools."

CMS will be used by CASE Corporation to manage agricultural and construction equipment product data, ensuring a high level of quality and consistency of information throughout the enterprise. Currently, CASE has many repositories where product information is kept, making it time consuming and difficult to gather and identify product configurations. CMS will provide CASE with a single repository for all design information and product definition configurations. This will enable users all over the world to obtain the most up to date and accurate information when they need it.

In addition, many product groups within CASE share information and incorporate parts of one product into another. With CMS, users will have controlled, immediate access to design information and be able to share ideas and information with increased levels of quality and consistency among shared resources. CASE expects CMS to improve design cycle times significantly.

CASE Corporation, with net sales of nearly $5 billion in 1995 sells its products through a network of approximately 4,100 independent dealers and distributors in more than 150 countries. The Workgroup Technology contract calls for the deployment of the CMS product suite across the worldwide development and manufacturing sites of CASE Corporation.

Founded in 1992, Workgroup Technology Corporation (Nasdaq National Market Symbol: WKGP) is the leading producer of out-of-the-box product data management (PDM) and workflow systems for engineering and manufacturing environments. The Company's CMS product line provides process and data management capabilities for workgroups of all sizes. Based in Lexington, MA, the Company differentiates itself on the basis of its easy-to-use, "out-of-the-box" products; the unique ability to tightly integrate its CMS product with best in class desk top automation tools and a scalable and phased product implementation approach. The CMS product line is in use at more than 300 customer sites worldwide, including major manufacturers such as Allied Signal, Apple, AT&T, Cisco Systems, Eaton Corporation, General Electric, Sun MicroSystems and Whirlpool.

Workgroup Technology Corporation's CMS products are available on Hewlett-Packard, Digital, IBM, Silicon Graphics and Sun MicroSystems, Unix servers, with Unix, Windows, MacOS and Web clients, and are used by thousands worldwide in a variety of industries, including, aerospace, automotive, process and discrete manufacturing, electronics, computers, medical products and utilities. Workgroup Technology's Web site is located at www.workgroup.com. -0-

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