GM Expects to Double Design Productivity and Increase Development

   Product Data Management Functionality in UGS' i-Man Solution at Core of
                                  GM System

    CYPRESS, Calif., May 10 CIMdata, a worldwide strategic
consulting and research organization, reporting on its recent industry
conference held in Palm Springs, California, stated that General Motors
Corporation is expected to double its design productivity and increase product
development workflow by 70 percent, thanks to a collaborative product
development system being built around UGS' i-Man product lifecycle
management solution.

    Mr. Kirk Gutmann, Global Develop Product Information Officer at General
Motors, delivered the opening day keynote address at the recent CIMdata 2001
Conference where he shared his vision on how e-business will impact product
development and discussed various ways GM is benefiting from its use of
technology supplied by UGS, a leading developer of collaborative product
commerce software and services.

    According to the CIMdata cPDm Late-Breaking News, April 30, 2001, Gutmann
explained that the automotive industry is undergoing major shifts in its
business model. Cycle development time -- from concept to production -- is
being compressed significantly, going from 60-month lead times eight years
ago, to its present 18-month lead-time.  And vehicles are being manufactured
more on a global scale and designed increasingly through multiple engineering
sites around the world.

    "These changes in the automotive industry business model are driving
dramatic changes in systems, processes, and technology," said Gutmann.  "The
focus at GM is to enable companies throughout the supply chain and extended
enterprise to share information through a web-centric visualization approach.
Such technology allows engineers and others to work faster by readily
capturing and exchanging critical product development data."

    The CIMdata report also stated that, according to Gutmann GM's strategy
over the next 24 months is to use the Internet and a range of core
technologies such as PDM (product data management), portals, exchanges, and
visualization for engineers throughout the supply chain to work with a single
digital master model, and for non-specialists around the world to have easy
access to product definition data.  A major part of this plan is a new
peer-to-peer flow of data where suppliers could communicate and share data
directly with one another without having to go through the OEM.

    "The key to exchanging design data on thin clients throughout the
enterprise will be lightweight math models," said Gutmann.  "We are currently
working with Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and others around the world to make the
lightweight data format an industry standard, enabling companies to not only
share information but collaborate in real time."

    The GM collaborative system is being built around the PDM technology
within UGS' i-Man application and the standard lightweight data format is
enabled by UGS' Product Vision solution.  According to the CIMdata report, the
number of PDM users at GM is projected to jump from its present level of
13,500 to more than 30,000.

    "This global collaborative system allows GM to be very flexible, not only
in design development and confirmation, but in business relationships,
throughout the product development cycle," said Gutmann.  "This represents a
huge return for the company and is a critical investment in our future
position in the automotive industry."