Famotik Announces Support of OpenHSF Initiative, Recognized by Spatial and Tech Soft America.Business Editors & Technology Writers TOKYO, OAKLAND, Calif. & WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2002-- Leading Japanese Software Vendor to Promote Industry-wide Visual Interoperability Initiative Famotik, a leading supplier of CAD/CAM/CAE and PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design software solutions to the Japanese market, today announced its support of the OpenHSF Initiative for Visual Interoperability. The OpenHSF Initiative (www.openhsf.org) was launched by the leading 3D component suppliers, Spatial and Tech Soft America, to establish an open, common visualization format, for the efficient exchange of rich 2D/3D data between disparate applications. The OpenHSF Initiative quickly gained widespread support from such industry leaders as Dassault Systemes, PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. , SolidWorks, ANSYS ANSYS Analysis System , Mechanical Dynamics, CADKEY, Informative Graphics, Actify, Framework Technologies, industry analysts, and end-users such as Daimler-Chrysler. Introduced to the OpenHSF Initiative at the recent Daratech Summit, Famotik has announced their intention to support the HSF HSF Human Space Flight HSF Hispanic Scholarship Fund HSF Heat Shock Factor HSF HeatSink and Fan HSF Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (Fondation des maladies du coeur du Canada) HSF Heat Sink Fan format in its FTK/Watts and Engineering Service Portal applications as well as actively promote the goals of the OpenHSF Initiative. "Famotik is one of the leading software vendors serving the Japanese engineering marketplace, so we deeply understand the need for a common, rich format to help with the sharing of visual data through an enterprise. This is a critical element to successful PLM implementations," said Mike Arashiba, president, Famotik. "We were initially impressed with the strong commitment to OpenHSF shown by our partners at Dassault Systemes and, as a long-time partner of TSA TSA See tax-sheltered annuity (TSA). , we knew the HSF technology to be powerful. We look forward to being an integral part of the success of this open initiative in Japan." "It is an honor to have a company such as Famotik show such enthusiastic support for the OpenHSF Initiative. This announcement, which closely follows the support of Hitachi Zosen, indicates that the OpenHSF Initiative has great momentum in the Japanese market and can help to solve their issues of visual interoperability. This then expands the reach of visual interoperability throughout engineering enterprises and the marketplace," added Yanick Fluhmann, co-founder, Tech Soft America. "We are pleased to see support of the OpenHSF Initiative reaching a global scale," said Mike Payne, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Spatial. "Famotik is a welcome addition to the OpenHSF community and another representative of the many companies interested in contributing to the visual interoperability solution. The support OpenHSF is gathering is also a demonstration of the power of open solutions to provide positive results for the entire market." About the OpenHSF Initiative The OpenHSF Initiative supplies the complete solution for engineering visualization interoperability. It is an industry-wide effort to establish a common, open and robust format for sharing visualization data between users of disparate engineering applications through the publishing of the HOOPS Stream Format (HSF) specification. With the publication of the OpenHSF Specification document, the entire industry now has complete access to the robust HOOPS Stream Format (HSF), which allows for the intelligent, stream-capable sharing of visualization data between disparate engineering applications. The OpenHSF Advisory Council has been established to ensure the OpenHSF Specification continues to address the needs of the OpenHSF community and remains open and available to all interested parties. To find out more about the powerful HSF format, the OpenHSF Initiative and view sample streaming files, visit www.openhsf.org. About Famotik Founded in 1988, Famotik, Ltd. specializes in sales and service of a variety of 3D CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. products. Through its experiences in the manufacturing sector, Famotik recognized the need for collaborative environments, rather than individual packaged applications, that address the entire product life cycle. Famotik began using a unified methodology to build structures for knowledge management environments; collaborative engineering portals, including SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ; structures for technical design and manufacturing information portals, visualization environments; mobile Internet environments that include various media, and B to B environments. The collaborators/investors of the Famotik FTK/WATS enterprise, as well as resellers and customers, now exceed 120 companies, including HZS HZS Hogere ZeevaartSchool (Dutch type of maritime academy) HZS Hrvatski Zrakoplovni Savez (Croatian Aeronautical Federation) , TIS, ISID ISID Institute for Studies in Industrial Development ISID Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (Pakistan) ISID International Society of Interior Designers ISID International Society for Infectious Disease , Toyo Business Engineering, Hitachi, Sanyo, Fujitsu, Kubota Solid, Otsuka-Shokai, Yazaki, and Benic (Kawasaki HI). Ever since starting the FTK/WATS project, a key challenge has been finding a tool for 3D presentation. Famotik has recognized OpenHSF as the solution for its product and has decided to help it become the most popular format in the Japanese market. About Spatial Spatial Corp., a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY) (Euronext Paris #13065: DSY DSY Drum Storage Yard .PA) company, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components. Spatial develops, markets, and supports best-of-breed 3D components and services, to address the exponential requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and Business-to-Business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) applications. Spatial's component products for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability have been adopted by some of the world's most recognized software developers, manufacturers, research institutes, and universities. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, Spatial has offices in the U.S.A., Germany, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit Spatial's Web site at www.spatial.com or contact Spatial by email at info@spatial.com or by phone at 303/544-2900 or 800/767-5710. About Tech Soft America Tech Soft America (TSA) provides premier customer-driven development tools, consulting and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , enabling its partners to rapidly deliver world-class technical software. TSA develops the HOOPS 3D Application Framework, HOOPS Stream Toolkit and HOOPS Net Server, all components designed to dramatically simplify the design, development and maintenance of high-performance, interactive 2D and 3D applications built for PCs, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). workstations, Linux and the Web. HOOPS technology has been incorporated into over 125 commercial software applications, from such leaders as PTC, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , SolidWorks, Fluent, Tecoplan, Mechanical Dynamics, SPSS A statistical package from SPSS, Inc., Chicago (www.spss.com) that runs on PCs, most mainframes and minis and is used extensively in marketing research. It provides over 50 statistical processes, including regression analysis, correlation and analysis of variance. , and Minitab. The company maintains corporate headquarters in Oakland, California and can be reached at http://www.hoops3d.com. HOOPS is a registered trademark of Tech Soft. 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