CoCreate Signs Visualize as Engineering E-services Partner.FORT COLLINS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 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 Visualize, a Chicago-based mechanical-engineering firm specializing in product-development consulting, has joined CoCreate's engineering e-services partner program. Through its award-winning OneSpace solution, CoCreate now offers a wide portfolio of collaborative product-design services via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . OneSpace provides the infrastructure for companies and their expanded design chains to connect in real time, regardless of geographic boundaries. Visualize complements CoCreate's engineering e-services program with expertise in product development and manufacturing processes. The CoCreate and Visualize alliance offers manufacturing companies the flexibility and agility to easily outsource core product-development activities via the Web. Today businesses -- both large and small -- are challenged with responding quickly to rapidly changing market needs. Many companies are addressing this challenge by outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. core business functions in order to leverage specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. expertise. Using Web technology, CoCreate offers companies a portfolio of engineering e-services, enabling them to easily engage this kind of expertise in such areas as design, manufacturing, materials and analysis. In April, CoCreate announced assisted-collaboration service, an innovative Internet-based service for product development. CoCreate's e-service partner program will directly complement this service by offering a broad range of manufacturing and engineering expertise that will maximize the benefits to customers as they solve complex product and time-to-market issues. "Our customers come to us looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a fast response to critical design challenges," said Mike Pelland, president and chief executive officer of Visualize. "CoCreate's OneSpace allows us to leverage our expertise in product development -- via the Web and in real time -- to successfully meet our clients needs. So, for our clients, this actually makes us a transparent extension of their team. "We have already seen successes. We were recently able to take a new product from concept to tooling in just three weeks. This same project would have taken the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and more than ten weeks to complete internally." 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; ME10 for 2-D design, drafting and documentation; and 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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