Salzgitter Automotive Engineering Deploys Proficiency's Collaboration Gateway
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., June 20 -- Proficiency, a global provider of enterprise interoperability software, announced today that German-based Salzgitter Automotive Engineering (SZAE), a company of the Salzgitter Group, has deployed the Proficiency Collaboration Gateway(TM).
The Tier 1 automotive supplier is using the Collaboration Gateway to automate the exchange of native models between various mechanical CAD systems and improve the efficiency of the collaborative design process between its OEM clients and their suppliers, including Audi AG, BMW AG, DaimlerChrysler AG, Adam Opel AG and Volkswagen AG.
"As a supplier, effective collaboration with our customers, OEMs, and their own suppliers during design and development is essential," explained Stefan Ardelt, construction manager at SZAE. "Proficiency's Collaboration Gateway enables us to meet the requirements of our existing customers more efficiently and also serve new customers more effectively because we are no longer tied to a particular CAD format. We selected Proficiency because the Collaboration Gateway offered the fastest and highest quality option for transforming our processes."
SZAE runs CATIA(R) V4 and V5 from Dassault Systemes. Previously, SZAE hired external engineers to process orders from customers requiring design models in other CAD systems. With Proficiency's Collaboration Gateway, SZAE can now deliver native data in any format, regardless of the original system used to create the design. In addition, the Collaboration Gateway gives SZAE the option of re-using the company's legacy models, thus improving the return on their design investment.
"Salzgitter is dedicated to value creation for their automotive customers. By employing leading-edge technologies coupled with the close integration of their partners, the company is able to consistently deliver innovative products," said Trenton H. Brown, Proficiency's president and chief executive officer. "We are delighted that Salzgitter selected the Collaboration Gateway as the solution to improve their enterprise interoperability process and strengthen their relationships with OEMs and partners."
The Proficiency Collaboration Gateway is a Web-based, feature-level CAD interoperability software application that facilitates the sharing of product design information, including features, history, constraints, assembly structure, dimensions, and metadata, throughout the extended automotive product lifecycle process. The Collaboration Gateway enables companies like SZAE to exchange native parametric CAD models between Dassault Systemes' CATIA(R) V4 and CATIA(R) V5, PTC's Pro/ENGINEER(R) and Pro/ENGINEER(R) Wildfire(TM), and UGS' Unigraphics(R) NX and I-deas(R) NX Series.
About Proficiency
Proficiency brings interoperability to the enterprise. The Company's award-winning Collaboration Gateway allows companies to effectively develop and launch new products by providing critical design intelligence to all constituents in the PLM continuum, including marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing, in an immediately useable format, regardless of the original system. This strategic product development innovation leads OEMs
and suppliers to significantly shorten design cycles, decrease time-to-market, and lower design costs.
Proficiency's customers include global automotive, aerospace/defense and heavy equipment companies such as The Ford Motor Company, Boeing, and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS). For more information on Proficiency, please visit http://www.proficiency.com/ or call +1.508.486.9868 (North America) or +49 (0) 811-55526-0 (Europe).
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Corporate Ken Klapproth Proficiency, Inc. +1 508.486.9868, x241 kenk@proficiency.com Agency Contact Catherine Allen SHIFT Communications +1 617.242.7325, x227 catherine@shiftcomm.com