CoCreate and 100% Solution Alliance to Provide Collaborative Engineering for the Virtual Corporation.High Tech Writers FORT COLLINS, Colo. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000 -- Agreement Facilitates Real-time, CAD-independent, 3-D Design Among Specialized Design, Engineering and Manufacturing Companies CoCreate Software Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company, and 100% Solution Alliance, Inc. today announced that 100% Solution Alliance and its member companies have been signed as certified See certification. members of CoCreate's Engineering E-Services Partner Program (EESP EESP Enterprise Extended Services Portal EESP Exclusive Employment Search Program (Canadian law firm service) EESP Energy Engineer Starters Program ). In addition, CoCreate's OneSpace software solution has been chosen as the online-design-collaboration backbone for 100% Solution Alliance. CoCreate's award-winning OneSpace collaboration technology is the industry's first CAD-independent, 3-D collaboration solution that enables all members of a mechanical-design team to interact with a geometric model A geometric model describes the shape of a physical or mathematical object by means of geometric concepts. Geometric model(l)ing is the construction or use of geometric models. in real time over the Internet. OneSpace allows distributed team members -- including customers, suppliers and decentralized de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. companies' various divisions -- to share design information and work simultaneously on a model for rapid resolution of design conflicts or discussion of alternative production options. CoCreate's EESP allows companies to locate and connect with valuable engineering services, regardless of geographic location. Because the members of the EESP are certified with OneSpace, their customers can securely outsource engineering activities to them and work with them over the Web in real time to make decisions and solve complex issues in a timely and cost-effective manner. The agreement represents an expansion of business for CoCreate into the independent design, engineering and manufacturing marketplace, and the anticipated extension of OneSpace into 100% Solution Alliance members' customer-base. 100% Solution Alliance, a consortium of companies offering design and manufacturing services, will use OneSpace as the infrastructure to host collaboration sessions among its members and customers. "OneSpace gives our industrial-design, mechanical-engineering, electronics-engineering, software-development, finite-element-analysis, tooling-design and contract-manufacturing members collaborative Web-based connectivity and a seamlessly integrated product-development solution for their customers," said Mike Sullivan, marketing director for the 100% Solution Alliance. "The fact that we can bring our customers into design collaboration sessions for immediate feedback and revision-level control of documentation is an approach that will accelerate time-to-market, limit costly revisions and reduce production costs." "We are delighted that 100% Solution Alliance, Inc. has positioned CoCreate's OneSpace as the design collaboration backbone of its $1 billion organization," said Tilman Schad, president and chief executive officer for CoCreate. "The across-the-board commitment of the 100% Solution Alliance members to shared engineering, accelerated time to market and reduction of tasks will provide bottom-line benefits for their customers. The members of the 100% Solution Alliance have an impressive list of clients, including Baxter, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , The Coleman Company This article is about the Coleman Company, suppliers of recreational equipment. For other uses of the word Coleman, see Coleman (disambiguation) Coleman Company, Inc. is a company that makes camping gear. It was founded by W. C. , Compaq, Dell, EFI See UEFI. EFI - Extensible Firmware Interface , Guidant, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. 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Zircon is widespread as an accessory mineral in acid igneous rocks; it also occurs in metamorphic rocks and, fairly often, in detrital deposits. . This list will be expanded and supported through this relationship. This is truly a team effort to continue providing creative, technology-driven solutions that enhance the success of our customers." About 100% Solution Alliance, Inc. 100% Solution Alliance, Inc. is an organization of design, engineering and manufacturing companies with corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . The new company was formed to provide both business development and project management services for its members which include:
- Design Partners, Inc. -- Concord, CA -- Industrial
Design/Prototyping
- Fusion Design, Inc. -- Campbell, CA -- Mechanical Engineering
- NekoMedia, Inc. -- Sausalito, CA -- eCommerce Database
Engineering, Hosting
- Pacific Consultants LLC -- Mountain View, CA -- Electronics/SW
Engineering, FEA Analysis
- Pemstar, Inc. -- Rochester, MN/San Jose CA -- EMS Contract
Manufacturing
- Trend Technologies, Inc. -- San Jose, CA -- Tool Design, Metal
Fab/Injection Molding
- SMP Technologies -- Campbell, CA -- MEMS Design --
(Microelectromechanical Systems)
- Bronson & Bratton Inc. -- Burr Ridge, IL -- tungsten
carbide/ceramic tools, dies, wear parts)
The 100% Solution Alliance provides the "brick-and-mortar" product development and manufacturing infrastructure for the virtual corporation. Customers include first-to-market start-ups and divisions of large OEMs who require accelerated time-to-market, a central point of contact and, importantly, senior level design, engineering, tooling design and manufacturing resources that have the expertise and experience in turning product ideas into marketable commodities. The shared objectives of alliance members are to streamline and accelerate every step of the product development process from "napkin napkin See Sanitary napkin. to market." The on-line design collaboration and 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 backbone of the 100% Solution Alliance is provided by CoCreate's (a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company) OneSpace Software. Information about 100% Solution Alliance, Inc. and its members can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.100percentsolution.com. 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 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, 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. Information about CoCreate's Engineering E-Services Partner Program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.cocoreate.com/goeesp. |
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