Invention Machine Announces Availability of Goldfire Innovator(TM) 4.0.Enhanced Semantic Knowledge Retrieval and Unique Closed-Loop Design Capabilities Drive Innovation Excellence BOSTON -- Invention Machine Corporation, the leading provider of software that accelerates product innovation, today announced the latest version of its Goldfire Innovator[TM] software. Goldfire Innovator 4.0 includes significant enhancements to Invention Machine's market-leading semantic search Semantic Search attempts to augment and improve traditional Research Searches by leveraging XML and RDF data from semantic networks to disambiguate semantic search queries and web text in order to increase relevancy of results. technology, and is the first product to enable closed-loop design for innovation excellence by integrating design, quality planning and defect analysis (programming) defect analysis - Using defects as data for continuous quality improvement. Defect analysis generally seeks to classify defects into categories and identify possible causes in order to direct process improvement efforts. , dramatically improving product quality, performance, and time to market for leading manufacturers around the world. "Enterprises worldwide are under increasing pressure to deliver better-performing, higher-quality and more differentiated product offerings - faster - in order to sustain competitive advantage, " said Mark E. Atkins, Chairman, President and 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. of Invention Machine. "Using Goldfire Innovator 4.0, manufacturers are able to raise returns on their Research and Development investments and improve both top- and bottom-line corporate performance by stimulating creative idea generation, increasing innovation and accelerating time-to-market of higher quality and more competitively differentiated products." Goldfire Innovator 4.0 builds upon Invention Machine's unique Knowledge Enabled Innovation platform - first launched in early 2004 - and includes several key enhancements that deliver on the promise of closed-loop design. Goldfire Innovator is already being used by leading manufacturers across automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and , electronics, life sciences, industrial manufacturing and oil and chemicals, and this latest release will spur even greater improvements to their products and engineering processes. "Innovation is top of mind for manufacturers around the world", said Gisela Wilson, Director of IDC's Product Lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Management Service, "but with increased global competition, development outsourcing trends, and cost containment cost containment, n the features of a dental benefits program or of the administration of the program designed to reduce or eliminate certain charges to the plan. pressures, companies are struggling to come up with truly innovative ideas that will spur revenue growth. Closing the product innovation loop, and infusing it with corporate and market knowledge, is a promising step towards improving companies' innovation time to market and effectiveness." Goldfire 4.0 Highlights Automated Parts and Functions Finder Goldfire Innovator 4.0 brings a new level of automation to the process of system analysis and understanding with the introduction of a patent-pending semantic technology In software, semantic technology encode meanings separately from data and content files, and separately from application code. This enables machines as well as people to understand, share and reason with them at execution time. that identifies and extracts mereological hierarchies. Mereology mereology Branch of logic, founded by Stanislaw Lesniewski, that studies class expressions and the relations between parts and wholes. It rejects the hierarchy of sets generated in set theory through the member-of relation and instead proposes a part-whole relationship. , the science of whole-part relationships, is fundamental to understanding any system, enabling the identification of functional relationships between entities (e.g. entity A performs what action on entity B, and what is the impact of that action). Leveraging a corporation's content knowledge bases, as well as external data from the web and patents, Goldfire Innovator can further automate system analyses and modeling processes by recommending components known to be "part-of" a system as well as the functions and their associated parameters known to occur between a system's components. Acting like a virtual model library, Goldfire Innovator supplements a user's personal knowledge with the experience explicitly recorded in documents and thereby greatly enhances the value of design and analysis tasks while reducing the time and expertise required. Quality-Driven Value Engineering Analysis (VEA VEA Virginia Education Association VEA Virtual Environment Architecture VEA Value Engineering Analysis VEA video encryption algorithm VEA Value Efficiency Analysis VEA Vida Ecología y Ambiente (Spanish, Guatemala) ) Design With the introduction of quality-driven Value Engineering Analysis design, Goldfire Innovator 4.0 enables closed-loop design for innovation excellence. Building upon Goldfire Innovator's existing support for proven engineering processes such as Failure Modes Effects & Analysis (FMEA FMEA Fehler-Möglichkeiten & -einfluss Analyse (German: Failure Mode & Effect Analysis) FMEA Failure Modes & Effects Analysis FMEA Florida Music Educators Association FMEA Florida Municipal Electric Association ) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. ), release 4.0 closes the design loop by bringing quality analysis data into the design process. In this way, Goldfire Innovator improves product and process quality by tying the inherent 'value' of a design to the quality of the system. Cross-Language Semantic Search The 4.0 release of Goldfire Innovator provides a powerful and unique cross-language search capability, enabling users to submit queries in English, French, German and/or Japanese and then identify targeted, semantically relevant answers across any of the four supported languages. This cross-language search capability builds upon Goldfire Innovator's strong foundation in semantic extraction. Where traditional search technologies provide vast quantities of inaccurate and irrelevant results, Goldfire Innovator's semantic technology is able to locate key concepts with pinpoint precision. With Goldfire Innovator's cross-language search, multi-national companies can now promote greater collaboration by accessing and sharing technical and patent content across languages, better leveraging knowledge and 'lessons learned' across internal design notes, customer service records, worldwide patent data and industry literature. Goldfire Innovator 4.0 is available immediately. For more information, please contact Invention Machine at info@invention-machine.com, 1-617-305-9250 or, in the US and Canada, at 1-800-595-5500. About Invention Machine Invention Machine Corporation is the leading provider of solutions that enable global 2000 manufacturers to accelerate and expand idea generation, increasing innovation and accelerating time to market of higher quality products. More than 1200 leading manufacturers use Invention Machine's solutions to raise returns on their R&D investments, improve design and production processes across the product lifecycle, and continually fuel product pipelines with innovative products. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New , Invention Machine has offices in the UK, France, Germany and Japan and distribution partners throughout Europe and Asia-Pacific. Invention Machine supports Global 2000 customers worldwide including Delphi, HP, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. , Renault, Samsung, Saipem, Shell, ST Microelectronics, and Whirlpool whirlpool, revolving current in an ocean, river, or lake. It may be caused by the configuration of the shore, irregularities in the bottom of the body of water, the meeting of opposing currents or tides, or the action of the wind upon the water. . For additional information, please visit www.invention-machine.com. |
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