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Toyota Selects EAI for Product Visualization

29 December 1998

Toyota Selects EAI as Its Preferred Product Visualization Solution Standard

        Toyota Motor Corporation Selects EAI's Solutions to Streamline
             Its Processes and Reduce Development Time and Costs

    AMES, Iowa, Dec. 29 -- Engineering Animation, Inc.
, today announced that Toyota Motor Corporation has selected
EAI's product visualization solutions for use throughout the product
development cycle to view and mark up various product drawings and related
documents.  EAI's solutions will be used by Toyota's enterprise product
information management to meet its goal of reducing product development time
and costs by enabling intuitive access to drawings, product specifications,
material specifications, work instructions and other product data and
associated documents quickly and easily.
    "The use of visual product data within one common visual environment will
considerably simplify the engineers' collaboration process and enhance
concurrent engineering with easy access and mark up of drawings and other
product documents," said General Manager of Toyota's Information Systems
Development Division, Mr. Yoshikazu Amano.  "EAI's solutions provide a single
visual environment that is tightly integrated into the product creation
process, which will allow Toyota Motor Corporation to easily access all of its
product information regardless of the source or platform and to electronically
share product information."
    "EAI is extremely pleased to have been selected by Toyota Motor
Corporation, Japan's leading automotive manufacturer, as its preferred product
visualization solution provider," said Matthew Rizai, EAI president and CEO.
"Technical and non-technical users at Toyota, extending from product and
process engineers to users in the product review process, will employ EAI's
solutions to streamline the development process, which will significantly
reduce product development time and costs."

    About EAI
    EAI is the leading producer of enterprise-wide visual process management,
collaboration and communication solutions.  EAI maintains its corporate
headquarters and technology center in Ames, Iowa, and has offices worldwide.