CoCreate Solutions Set Standard for Panasonic Copier, Fax and Printer Businesses.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FORT COLLINS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2000 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 its SolidDesigner 3-D modeling solution has been fully deployed at Tokyo-based Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems (MGCS MGCS Managing Goals and Careers for Success MGCS Micron Government Computer Systems, Inc. MGCS Missile Guidance and Control System ), a subsidiary of the Matsuhita Electric Industrial Group, in its product-development process for designing world-famous Panasonic brand copiers, fax machines and color printers A printer that prints in color using three (CMY) or four (CMYK) colors of ink, toner or dye. Four color ribbons have been used in dot matrix printers, but these are rare today. See color laser printer and printer. . 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. MGCS, to achieve shorter time to market and stay ahead of competitors in the highly competitive copier business, its Office Equipment Division decided to invest in a 3-D approach that would speed up its product-development process. The Office Equipment Division, which makes Panasonic high-performance business copiers and color printers, was able to implement SolidDesigner and take full advantage of its 3-D modeling processes in just four months. "Our former 3-D CAD CAD: see computer-aided design. (Computer-Aided Design) Using computers to design products. CAD systems are high-speed workstations or desktop computers with CAD software. software was very complicated, so only some of our designers used it, and we couldn't realize the full benefit of its capabilities," said Takeshi Tanaka, senior coordinator for MGCS's Information Systems Department. "After only two days of SolidDesigner demonstrations and evaluation, I was fully convinced that SolidDesigner was the right choice for us. It is 3-D CAD software that is easy for mechanical designers to use." According to MGCS, a key reason for choosing SolidDesigner was its dynamic modeling environment, which allows design revisions that are not constrained con·strain tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains 1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force. 2. by previous design assumptions. "SolidDesigner's dynamic modeling technology allows the easy modification of 3-D models. This feature is very practical and useful for our design work," said Tanaka. Commenting on the improvements between the new 3-D process and the prior 2-D process, Tanaka noted that MGCS achieved 66 percent reduction in prototyping time, a 25 percent reduction in mold-design time, and a total reduction in the entire design phase of 25 percent. With SolidDesigner being fully deployed in the Office Equipment Division, CoCreate solutions are now the standard solution in MGCS's major product development sections, including the Graphic Communication Products Division for commercial fax machines, the Personal Communication Products Division for personal fax machines, and the System Integration Division for fax systems for newspaper businesses. "We are very pleased that a leading company such as MGCS selected SolidDesigner," said Shiode Izumi, president and chief executive officer of CoCreate Software, Japan. "We are extremely proud that CoCreate's solution can really help to improve the product-development process for Panasonic's innovative products." Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems is a subsidiary of Masushita Electrical Industrial Co., a world-leading electronics company well-known for its Panasonic brand products. For 55 years MGCS has remained at the forefront of facsimile and office-equipment development by exploiting the company's leading-edge imaging technologies. MGCS is a global operation, and its major products include digital copiers; the Hyper A Greek work meaning "above" or "more than." It is used as a prefix to technical concepts and products to convey a more advanced or more automatic capability. Document System, a document management solution; and various fax machines, such as Internet fax Using the Internet to send faxes. Fax servers accept an incoming fax message and route it to a fax server in the same locality as the destination fax machine. The fax server then makes a local telephone call to send the fax. , laser fax, fax copier and inkjet fax. About CoCreate CoCreate Software 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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