TranscenData Takes Product Data Interoperability to New Level

    MILFORD, Ohio--March 9, 2001--International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) announces the formation of TranscenData(TM) from the company's Product Data Interoperability (PDI) business.
    TranscenData will focus on providing global interoperability solutions across three distinct product and service lines: Engineering Supply Chain Integration, CAD, CAM, CAE Systems Integration, and Product Data Management Systems Integration. TranscenData will operate as an ITI business bringing to bear the product development and manufacturing process consulting expertise of ITI.
    "ITI's Product Data Interoperability business has a long heritage of pioneering solutions for CAD model quality, CAD model repair and healing, customer/supplier integration, native CAD API access, and more," said Bruce Jenkins, Executive Vice President of Daratech, Inc. (Cambridge, MA). "This new focus will help customers get the most from its expertise and capabilities in transcending interoperability issues throughout the extended enterprise and its supply chain."
    "Since 1985 we have concentrated on pioneering and developing software tools and related services to help users overcome interoperability obstacles. That path has proven to be very successful, enabling ITI to emerge as the recognized leader in the field," explained Don Hemmelgarn, President of ITI's TranscenData business. "But software tools alone are no longer sufficient. TranscenData leverages our breadth of CAD, CAM, PDM, ERP expertise with best-in-class software tools such that we can deliver effective implementation solutions and fast payback for our customers. We are elevating product data interoperability to a new level by forming strategic partnerships with customers to solve their specific product data interoperability needs on an ongoing basis."

    TranscenData

    TranscenData offers solutions in three distinct realms of product data interoperability:

        Engineering Supply Chain Integration
        Enabling the automation, tracking, and management of the
            process of sharing product data between OEMs and their
            suppliers, partners, and customers.

        CAD/CAM/CAE (C3) Systems Integration
        Enables effective exchange and sharing of CAD, CAM, CAE model
            data among upstream and downstream users.

        Product Data Management Systems Integration
        Enabling collaborative product commerce via the integration of
            enterprise applications with engineering PDM.

    About TranscenData

    ITI's TranscenData business provides interoperability solutions that enable companies to effectively exchange, reuse, and share engineering product data among diverse software applications used throughout a manufacturing enterprise and its supply chain. TranscenData solutions are aimed directly at reducing and eliminating non-value-added time and costs associated with reusing product data. TranscenData solutions are distributed worldwide through a combination of direct sales, resellers, and strategic vendor/OEM partners.
    www.transcendata.com

    TranscenData is a trademark of International TechneGroup Incorporated. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders.