CoCreate Announces Breaking Point: An Automotive Supplier Event
Profiting From Collaborative Design and Product Development
FORT COLLINS, Colo. and SINDELFINGEN, Germany, April 6 -- CoCreate Software, Inc., a leading provider of flexible CAD and collaborative PLM software applications, today announced Breaking Point: An Automotive Supplier Event, profiting from collaborative design and product development.
Today's automotive suppliers are being stressed to the limit.
* Price and profit pressures threaten already slim margins.
* Project schedules place near-impossible demands on timelines.
* Project complexity involving other parts of the world continues to
grow.
Each of these issues has led to dramatic changes in every tier of the automotive industry -- from the largest OEMs to the smallest suppliers. And with the supply chain taking on more design and financial responsibility, there's little relief in sight.
Automotive companies that emerge as leaders in the fast-changing supply chain will reap significant rewards; in most cases, these will be companies that realize the benefits modern collaborative design can offer. With effective collaborative design, companies can:
* Avoid the price and profit squeeze by taking an active part in the
design process and shaping products for their manufacturing processes.
* Master complexity and operate globally through a virtual footprint.
* Compress a project schedule by easily coordinating project team
efforts without travel or misunderstandings.
To register for this no-cost event visit: http://www.cocreate.com/auto_landing.cfm
When: Where:
Tuesday, May 17th Microsoft Facility
Two session times available Southfield Town Center
AM session: 9:00 - 11:00 am, or 1000 Town Center Dr., Suite 1930
PM session: 1:00 - 3:00 pm Southfield, MI 48075
Featured Speakers:
* David E. Cole, Chairman of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR).
Formerly Director of the Office for the Study of Automotive
Transportation (OSAT) at the University of Michigan Transportation
Research Institute. He has worked extensively on internal combustion
engines, vehicle design and overall automotive industry trends. Dr.
Cole's recent research has focused on strategic issues related to the
restructuring of the North American industry and trends in
globalization, technology, market factors and human resource
requirements.
* Jon Pecaro, Engineering Manager, Trelleborg Automotive Americas.
Trelleborg is a world leader in the development and manufacturing of
polymer based components and systems used for noise and vibration
damping for passenger car, light truck, heavy truck, rail, marine and
industrial applications. Trelleborg has used CoCreate's OneSpace.net
software to help them streamline engineering processes, reduce costs
and leverage their global manufacturing capacity.
* Industry leaders from Microsoft and CoCreate Software.
About CoCreate
CoCreate's flexible CAD and collaborative PLM applications enable manufacturers to take advantage of changes within their supply chains and markets. Our software provides the competitive advantage manufacturers need to quickly adapt to new opportunities and gain sustainable top line growth.
Our mechanical CAD product, Designer Modeling, is for designers who need freedom to create and change 3D designs without misunderstandings or delay. Model Manager, a data management product, is for teams who can't afford to work on the wrong revision of a 3D CAD model or 2D drawing when creating assemblies. OneSpace.net collaboration software is for project teams who are overwhelmed by the complexity of a design process that stretches across sites, contractors, or outsourced teams.
We help teams design products, manage CAD data, and share ideas so they can reach their time-to-market goals.
CoCreate can be found in more than 30 countries and on the Web at http://www.cocreate.com/.
CoCreate is a trademark of CoCreate Software GmbH & Co. KG. CONTACT: Todd Black CoCreate Software, Inc. North America 970.267.8120 todd_black@cocreate.com Reiko Tai CoCreate Software Company, Japan/Asia-Pacific +81.42.352.5938 Reiko_tai@cocreate.com Thomas Roser CoCreate Software GmbH & Co. KG, Europe +49.7031.951.2208 thomas_roser@cocreate.com