Engineous Software Unveils New Version of Software with Design for Six Sigma
DETROIT & CARY, N.C.--May 17, 2001--Engineous Software, provider of the award-winning integration, automation and design improvement software iSIGHT, announced yesterday at the 2001 International iSIGHT Automotive Industry Conference in Detroit the release of iSIGHT 6.0, the latest version of its software solution.
The program is the first of its kind to provide engineers with Design for Six Sigma capabilities.
"As competition increases, more and more companies are implementing Six Sigma throughout the enterprise," says Dennis Nagy, CEO and President of Engineous. "We've always focused on helping customers get better products to market faster, but with iSIGHT 6.0, companies have an unprecedented ability to improve product quality by incorporating Six Sigma standards into their design process."
iSIGHT's Six Sigma Robust Design module provides a single interface to develop robust and reliable designs that meet quality constraints on Sigma levels.
"Six Sigma has proven to be the most significant business transformation process in the last decade," says the co-author of The Six Sigma Way, Roland Cavanagh. "By understanding the customer's CTQs (Critical to Quality) and creating designs and processes to meet them, Engineous has made it possible to delight the customer and improve profitability simultaneously."
iSIGHT 6.0 also features an MS/Excel add-on that allows engineers to integrate spreadsheets directly into iSIGHT from MS/Excel, as well as a direct interface to Insightful's S-PLUS, which provides enhanced visualization and statistical post-processing capabilities.
"Insightful and Engineous are excited about extending our strategic collaboration with iSIGHT 6.0," says Insightful CEO Shawn Javid. "By combining our powerful visualization capabilities with iSIGHT's robust automation and optimization framework, we offer engineers superior design decision support."
iSIGHT 6.0's new features expand upon a comprehensive suite of tools currently offered within iSIGHT. Features used by design engineers include a graphical process integration and automation protocol, data visualization and analysis and design study methods for optimization, approximations and statistical quality assessment.
Over 125 of the world's leading manufacturers use Engineous' solutions, which include iSIGHT and related professional consulting services, to automate and integrate their existing simulation programs to create optimum product designs.
"Daratech believes a new era is opening in which simulation and virtual prototyping are winning recognition as far more than point solutions for analyzing critical components or product failures," says Bruce Jenkins, industry analyst and executive vice president of Daratech, Inc. "In our view, Engineous is poised to accelerate this revolution through step-function improvements in the power and efficiency with which these tools are applied, helping users move beyond analysis into design exploration and auto-optimization."
ABOUT ENGINEOUS SOFTWARE
Engineous Software, Inc. is a provider of engineering design improvement software solutions and services. The company's flagship product, iSIGHT, enables organizations to explore more design alternatives in less time using their existing engineering design tools. As a result, iSIGHT helps organizations reduce production costs, decrease time-to-market and create innovative design alternatives.
Engineous' customers include leading Fortune 500 companies such as DaimlerChrysler, General Electric, Hitachi, Ford Motor Company, UTC/Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, TRW, York International and General Motors. Investors in the privately held company include Intel 64 Fund, Idanta Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners, GE Investments and Wachovia Capital Associates. Founded in 1996, Engineous operates numerous sales offices in the US, as well as wholly owned subsidiaries in Japan and Europe and a branch office in Korea. For more information on Engineous and its products and services, visit www.engineous.com.