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North American Lighting Selects e-Parcel for CAD Data Delivery

28 July 1999

North American Lighting Selects e-Parcel for CAD Data Delivery

    NEWTON, Mass.--July 28, 1999--North American Lighting (NAL) Inc., North America's #1 supplier of automotive headlamp and taillamp assemblies, together with e-Parcel, LLC, the industry leader in customized software solutions for mission critical data deployment over the Internet, announced today that NAL has been using e-Parcel(TM) Delivery Service for delivering CAD data over the Internet.
    NAL headquartered in Flora, Illinois, manufactures exterior automotive lighting. NAL uses e-Parcel to send and receive large CAD data for its injection molding designs between its production facilities in Flora and Salem, Illinois, and Koito in Japan.
    "e-Parcel provides a no-maintenance, no-nonsense, outsourced data delivery service which lets us exchange large CAD data overseas in minutes instead of days as with couriered CD-ROMs," said Angie Lampley, Technical Services Manager, North American Lighting Inc. "This helps us reduce our production time which means it saves us money and increases productivity."
    "We are pleased to be the outsourced data delivery solution for North American Lighting," said Hiroshi Kobata, President & CEO of e-Parcel, LLC. "e-Parcel is continuing to expand into the CAD data market to meet its large and confidential data delivery needs."
    e-Parcel provides "e-Parcel(TM) Delivery Service", the industry-leading outsourced Internet data delivery service. With e-Parcel individual users and corporations can resolve the problems of email, FTP, and web-based delivery mechanisms. e-Parcel delivers data of any size and type with automatic sender and recipient authentication, data compression and encryption. Delivery tracking is real-time and displays whether the recipient is on or offline. The tracking also provides date and time stamps as well as confirmation that the data was successfully delivered, opened and moved. In addition, e-Parcel deliveries are interruptible. This means that even if your connection to the Internet is disconnected, re-establishing the connection will automatically resume your delivery from the point of the interruption.

    North American Lighting Inc., founded in 1983, is the North America's #1 manufacturer supplier of automotive headlamp and taillamp assemblies. NAL is owned by Koito Manufacturing Co. Ltd., the world's largest manufacturer of automotive lighting equipment.

    e-Parcel, LLC, is the industry leader in customized software solutions for mission critical data deployment with over 20,000 corporate customers worldwide and partnerships with Compaq, Toyota, Hakuhodo, and Dai Nippon Printing.
    e-Parcel was founded in 1996 as a Division of Mitsubishi and was spun off in April of 1998 and is privately owned.
    Products and services provided by e-Parcel include e-Parcel(TM) Delivery Service -- secure and reliable data delivery over the internet, e-Parcel(R) SmartLoad/Agent -- agent/server software, e-Parcel(R) Smart Consultant -- remote control and screen emulation software, e-Parcel(R) Enterprise Solutions -- customized data delivery, e-commerce and e-logistics solutions.
    e-Parcel competes in the online delivery market along with Tumbleweed Communications, UPS Document Exchange, docSpace, and Pitney Bowes and is the only company focusing on directly delivering any type of data straight to the desktop.
    For more information visit: http://www.e-Parcel.com or contact Marketing@e-Parcel.com .

    Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. For further editorial information, contact: Toby Tsuchida, Marketing Manager, e-Parcel, LLC, Suite 300, Newton, MA 02458 Tel 617-964-5566, Fax 617-964-2277.

    e-Parcel is a registered trademark of e-Parcel, LLC. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 1999 e-Parcel, LLC. All rights reserved.