CoCreate's WorkManager Selected by Raytheon Systems for ASTOR Project; Definitive Applications Named as Implementation Team for Project.Business Editors & High Tech Writers FORT COLLINS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2000 CoCreate Software Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company, today announced that WorkManager, CoCreate's distributed product-information and process-management solution, has been selected by Raytheon Systems Limited as the information-management system for the UK's Ministry of Defence Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) Project. The system will be linked to an existing U.S. system and will provide a Web-based 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. document-management system, integrating Raytheon, its subcontractors and the UK Ministry of Defence. The system uses WorkManager's Web Access Server, Distributed File Server and Global DataManager. WorkManager extends the traditional role of product-development management by permitting companies to capture, manage and share product information and to enhance the interaction between teams to further accelerate and improve the development process. WorkManager allows contractors to share data early in the project. The product's security features control access to documents, ensuring that only authorized users authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal can view, edit or create new files. The Workflow functionality further enhances the system by controlling the review cycles of documents based on the originator Originator A bank, savings and loan, or mortgage banker that initially made a mortgage loan that is part of a pool. Also, an investment bank that has worked with the issuer of a new securities offering from the beginning and is usually appointed manager of the underwriting and other parameters selected by the user. Workflow also manages the approval, release and revisioning of documents under full security control. To enable the partial replication In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. of metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. and files between the UK and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , WorkManager's Global DataManager and Distributed File Servers are being employed. "Due to the size of the ASTOR contract, we needed a global information-management system that could control and share a large number of documents among the contractors and publish the documents online to the customer," said Mike Payne, systems development manager for Raytheon Systems Limited. "After evaluating other leading products, we chose WorkManager because it met our needs and could be implemented quickly." As a result of proven experience with WorkManager and Raytheon System Limited, Definitive Applications was selected as the implementation team for the project. "Working with Raytheon on the ASTOR project has extended an already successful relationship with Raytheon," said Martin Miles, Product Data Management (PDM (1) (Product Data Management) An information system used to manage the data for a product as it passes from engineering to manufacturing. The data includes plans, geometric models, CAD drawings, images, NC programs as well as all related project data, notes and ) manager with Definitive Applications Ltd. "Raytheon's choice of WorkManager will bring some of today's most up-to-date PDM technology to this global project." About Raytheon Raytheon Systems Leading is a leading high technology company in the United Kingdom engaged in commercial and defense electronics. Areas of technology include defense systems integration; air traffic control radar; navigation systems A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. ; identification systems; ATC ATC Air Traffic Control ATC Average Total Cost ATC Certified Athletic Trainer ATC At the Center (Hartford, Maine retreat center) ATC Applied Technology Council ATC All Things Considered simulation; electronic systems design and manufacture; aircraft servicing and modification; and marine navigation and control systems. The company is a prime bidder for a number of UK Ministry of Defence programmes and recently received the contract for the ASTOR (Airborne Stand-Off Radar) programme. Information about Raytheon and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at www.raytheon.co.uk and www.raytheon.com. About CoCreate CoCreate Software 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 Shared space is a traffic engineering philosophy pioneered by the Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman. The approach relies on the principle that road users' behaviour is more likely to be affected by the street environment and design than by the traditional deployment of measures design. The software includes 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; ME10 for 2-D design, drafting and documentation; and WorkManager for distributed, product information and process management. CoCreate solutions are known for high quality, easy 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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