Concentra announces 1996 Heide Cup Award winner; Marley Cooling Tower demonstrates sales engineering automation excellence.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 1996--Concentra Corporation (Nasdaq:CTRA CTRA Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association CTRA College Terrace Residents' Association CTRA Canadian Telecommunications Resellers Alliance CTRA Committee To Restore America ), a leading supplier of sales and engineering automation software solutions, announced today that Marley Cooling Tower, a division of United Dominion, is the recipient of the 1996 Concentra Heide Cup Award. Instituted in 1990, the Concentra Heide Cup is an annual award that recognizes the best engineering automation application developed using The ICAD ICAD International Community for Auditory Display ICAD Individual Chemical Agent Detector ICAD Institute of Community and Area Development ICAD Individual Channel Analysis and Design ICAD Integrated Computer Aided Design ICAD Iowa City Area Development Group, Inc. System (tm). Application submissions are judged based on technical ingenuity and on their ability to demonstrate quantifiable and qualitative business benefits to the customer organization, such as return on investment, reduction in cycle time, reduction in person hours, cost savings and improved product quality. Former winners include The Harris Corporation Harris Corporation NYSE: HRS is an international communications equipment company that produces wireless equipment, electronic systems, and both terrestrial and spaceborne antennas for use in the government, defense, and commercial sectors. in 1990 for satellite antenna design; Dow Corning Dow Corning is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA. Dow Corning specializes in silicon and silicone-based technology, offering more than 7,000 products and services. Dow Corning is equally owned by The Dow Chemical Company and Corning, Inc. Wright in 1991 for custom hip implant design; Pratt & Whitney in 1992 for preliminary design of jet engine nacelles; The Boeing Company in 1993 for generative tooling on the 777; Caradon Everest Ltd in 1994 for custom window configuration and design; and The Boeing Company in 1995 for airframe structure design for the 777 and next generation 737. In a field of stiff competition from Boeing 777, Boeing Helicopter, GM Truck, GM Powertrain GM Powertrain Europe is a company created by General Motors to develop engines and transmission for the GM group. It was known as Fiat-GM Powertrain until the termination of the GM and Fiat merger talks, and earlier as Opel Powertrain. , Textron, and Delphi Saginaw, Marley Cooling Tower was able to steal the cup with a sales and engineering design application that configures engineered-to-order cooling towers and produces proposals complete with price quotes, technical information and general arrangement drawings. Upon receipt of an order, the system also configures the product, executes engineering design, produces component fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. details that can be directly downloaded to NC-controlled manufacturing centers, assembly drawings and instructions, and accurate bills of material. Bob Glauz, Engineering Automation Coordinator for Marley Cooling Tower, explained, "The ICAD System was integrated into our technology architecture with several interface points. A PC-based Windows user interface allows remote order definition that can be imported directly into The ICAD System. Drawings are output to AutoCAD, bills are output to our MRP (Material Requirements Planning) An information system that determines what assemblies must be built and what materials must be procured in order to build a unit of equipment by a certain date. system, and fabrication details are output to our NC programming system." To achieve this, Marley worked with one of Concentra's preferred technology implementers and assembled a project team that consisted of highly proficient knowledge-based engineering Knowledge-based engineering (KBE) is a discipline with roots in computer-aided design (CAD) and knowledge-based systems but has several definitions and roles depending upon the context. developers, and product and process experts. By codifying their sales, engineering, manufacturing and assembly knowledge into a generative model A generative model is a model for randomly generating observed data, typically given some hidden parameters. It defines a joint probability distribution over observation and label sequences. Generative models are used in machine learning for either modeling data directly (i.e. , Marley was able to reduce configuration cycle time by 50%, reduce lead times from customer contact to completed order from six weeks to two, and increase sales throughput by 30% with no additional engineering resource. Joe Whalen Joe Whalen (1916-1994) was an American tennis player in the 1930s who won a number of championships; he was originally from Millinocket, Maine but grew up in Miami, Florida. His most significant championship win was the 1936 United States Pro Championship. , Vice President of Factory Assembled Products for Marley Cooling Tower said, "Today, when we quote an order, we are confident that the proposal will be complete and accurate. We can rely on the accuracy of the material requirements so that we will manufacture and ship the right parts, in the right quantity and in the right sequence; that the field assembly instructions and drawings will be correct -- all resulting in a product that will be built as quoted and with no delays. And we have liberated our critical engineering resources from most of the process so they can focus on product maintenance and new product development while still providing the level of engineering customization demanded by our customers." Larry Rosenfeld, chairman and chief executive officer of Concentra added, "Marley Cooling Tower is a forward-thinking company that clearly demonstrated a business vision, found the right enabling technology, and performed a well-planned implementation. They recognized that mass customization is essentially an information management problem, and that information must be managed from first customer contact through the entire order processing, manufacturing and delivery cycle to get the kind of results that companies today need to remain competitive. We're proud to add Marley's name to the list of world class manufacturers who've won the Concentra Heide Cup." About United Dominion Industries & Marley Cooling Tower United Dominion is a diversified manufacturing company providing proprietary engineered products for customers worldwide. It has 11,000 employees at 60 operating locations in 15 countries. Marley Cooling Tower, a United Dominion company headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas Overland Park is the second most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is located in Johnson County, a satellite city of Kansas City, and is near Olathe, Lenexa, Prairie Village and Leawood. In 2006, the estimated population is 167,500. , designs, manufactures and markets water cooling Water cooling is a method of heat removal from components. As opposed to air cooling, water is used as the heat transmitter. Water cooling is commonly used for cooling internal combustion engines in automobiles and electrical generators. towers for power generation, industrial, refrigeration refrigeration, process for drawing heat from substances to lower their temperature, often for purposes of preservation. Refrigeration in its modern, portable form also depends on insulating materials that are thin yet effective. and HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) In the home or small office with a handful of computers, HVAC is more for human comfort than the machines. In large datacenters, a humidity-free room with a steady, cool temperature is essential for the trouble-free markets throughout the world. For more information, contact The Marley Cooling Tower Company, 7401 West 129th Street, Overland Park, KS 66213, Tel: 913-664-7400, info@marleyct.com, or http://www.marleyct.com. About Concentra Concentra Corporation is a leading provider of sales and engineering automation software solutions. Using Concentra's software, market-leading companies worldwide in the aerospace, automotive, industrial equipment and construction industries are creating product designs and configurations in minutes, not months. Headquartered in Massachusetts, the company operates from offices across the US, Europe and Asia. For more information, contact Concentra Corporation, 21 North Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803-3301, Tel: (617) 229-4600, Fax: (617) 229-4700, info@concentra.com, or http://www.concentra.com. CONTACT: Concentra Corporation Janet Page, 617-229-4669 info@concentra.com |
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