Emergent to Provide ‘Knowledge Connectors’ Through Siemens PLM Partnership

DETROIT--Emergent Systems, the market leader in Engineering Knowledge Management, today announced it has entered into a partnership agreement with Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services. Emergent Systems joins the Siemens Solution Partner Program as a Software and Technology Partner to provide clients within the Siemens PLM Software user community with the best in class solution for Enterprise Engineering Knowledge Management.

Under the terms of the agreement Emergent Systems will market its ‘Connector’ applications which enable the flow of technical know-how from Emergent’s Engineering Knowledge Management solution into NX™ software and TeamcenterŽ software, Siemens PLM Software’s flagship applications for digital product development and digital lifecycle management respectively. The result is a line of ‘Knowledge Enabled’ engineering tools available to customers starting in the third quarter of 2009.

"The current economic realities facing engineering leadership demand an innovative approach to all phases of engineering,” said Jeff Moffa, VP at Emergent Systems. “This manifest imperative reaches beyond the need for incremental improvement; required is a fundamental and game changing approach to engineering, a change that produces significant increases in both product quality and engineering process efficiency.

“The cornerstone of the Siemens PLM Software and Emergent Systems’ technology combination is the ability to retain and dynamically deliver engineering ‘know-how’ into engineering processes where it is integrated into the fabric of individual engineering workflows. Integrated ‘Know-how’ leads to the game changing benefits of higher engineering productivity, and higher quality products.”

Emergent’s Enterprise Engineering Knowledge Management solution, E2ks, represents a new approach and technology for managing technical know-how across the Enterprise. The solution enables the elicitation and formalization of ‘tribal knowledge’ into re-useable, actionable, executable, and measurable ‘Enterprise Technical Memory’. As a result, the solution represents an excellent complement to the knowledge-enabled logic found in Siemens PLM Software’s NX Knowledge Fusion application.

"Siemens PLM Software is pleased to partner with Emergent Systems as part of our ongoing effort to provide high value technologies to our customers," said Rich Ramsey, vice president of Partner and Components Marketing, Siemens PLM Software. "By further expanding upon our existing knowledge-based solutions, this partnership will help our customers incorporate more engineering knowledge into their product development processes."

About Emergent Systems

Emergent Systems is a provider of cutting-edge Engineering Knowledge Management and Knowledge Based Engineering technology. For more information about Emergent Systems, visit www.Emergentks.com.