CoCreate's SolidDesigner Chosen as Standard 3-D Design Solution for Canon's Business Machine Development.FORT COLLINS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1999-- CoCreate (CoCreate Software Inc., Fort Collins, CO, www.cocreate.com) A software company specializing in mechanical CAD (MCAD), data management and project team collaboration software. Established in 1985 as the Mechanical Design Division of Hewlett-Packard, CoCreate adopted its present name in Software Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard See HP. Hewlett-Packard - (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and Company, today announced that Tokyo-based Canon Inc. has made a strategic decision to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. on CoCreate's 3-D solid modeling solution, SolidDesigner, for Canon's office machine products. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Canon, SolidDesigner will be used for the design of its office machine products, which account for 1,300 billion yen in revenue for Canon. This relationship will build on the more than 200 seats of SolidDesigner that Canon currently has installed and in regular use across its laser-printer and BubbleJet Noun 1. bubblejet - a kind of ink-jet printer bubble jet printer, bubble-jet printer ink-jet printer - a printer that produces characters by projecting electrically charged droplets of ink divisions. These divisions have succeeded in reducing time to market and developing more innovative products using SolidDesigner. After evaluating several different 3-D systems, Canon said it chose SolidDesigner because of its ease of use, dynamic modeling approach and CoCreate's outstanding support program in Japan. With SolidDesigner, Canon found that new engineers could easily handle design changes and be up to speed and fully contributing within three to five days. Additionally, with SolidDesigner, Canon's engineers were able to seamlessly move from the trial stage to a full 3-D deployment. The business result for Canon is better products faster. "Our engineers loved SolidDesigner's dynamic modeling technology," said Takashi Takashi is a Japanese given name. People named Takashi include:
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"Our experience with SolidDesigner during the past 18 months has been overwhelmingly positive," said Masanori Nakmoto, vice president of worldwide IT for Canon. "One of our leading products, the BubbleJet F600 series, was designed in very short time with SolidDesigner. What made this project particularly impressive was that we were able to practice collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. , incorporating feedback from several different internal and external team members. With the dynamic modeling technology of SolidDesigner, we could quickly develop revised designs, even if the design was originally developed by someone else, which allowed us to incorporate more innovative features and meet aggressive delivery schedules." "Canon's selection of SolidDesigner as their standard design system is a strong endorsement for CoCreate," said Tilman Schad, CoCreate's president and chief executive officer. "CoCreate is proud to work closely with a world-class organization like Canon. Since its introduction, SolidDesigner has been targeted at the electronics and machinery market segments. We understand the unique needs of electrical and machinery manufacturers and have delivered a best-in-class product development solution." About CoCreate CoCreate Inc. is a software subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company. It develops mechanical computer-aided-design and product-data-management software that supports the concept of shared-space design. The software includes WorkManager for product-data and workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. management; OneSpace for distributed, collaborative product development Collaborative Product Development (Collaborative Product Design) (CPD) is a business strategy, work process and collection of software applications that facilitates different organizations to work together on the development of a product. ; SolidDesigner for product modeling design; and ME10 for 2-D design, drafting and documentation. CoCreate solutions are known for high quality, ease of use, customization and support of industry standards. They are available in 10 languages and are installed on more than 120,000 systems in design, engineering and manufacturing organizations worldwide. Information about CoCreate Software Inc. and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.cocreate.com. |
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