e-Vis(TM) from Unigraphics Solutions to Power Visual Collaboration for Covisint Automotive Exchange
18 October 2000
e-Vis(TM) from Unigraphics Solutions to Power Visual Collaboration for Covisint Automotive Exchange
Partnership Brings Secure, Internet-Enabled Visual Collaboration Solution
To World's Largest Business-To-Business (B2B) Exchange
ST. LOUIS and DETROIT, Oct. 18 Unigraphics Solutions Inc.
and its wholly owned subsidiary, Engineering Animation, Inc., the
leading developer of visual collaboration solutions for e-commerce, today
announce that Covisint, the global on-line automotive exchange formed by Ford,
DaimlerChrysler AG, General Motors, Nissan and Renault SA, has chosen e-Vis to
power its visual collaboration service. The agreement makes e-Vis an
important building block in Covisint's strategy to offer best-in-class
solutions that enhance real-time collaboration and information exchange
between automotive OEMs and their suppliers.
"EAI's partnership with Covisint unleashes the power of visual
collaboration for a wider automotive audience," says EAI president Robert
Nierman. "We are pleased to have been selected by Covisint to provide this
vital component of their product offering and are committed to working with
them to bring the benefits of visual collaboration to their customers."
Offered as a tightly integrated component of Covisint's collaborative
product design service, e-Vis provides Covisint subscribers with secure
collaboration capability to help unify their company's product development
community and bring better products to market faster and at lower cost.
Throughout the product development process -- from design and procurement to
engineering change and the manufacturing floor -- the e-Vis suite of
visualization, measurement and markup tools link people across organizational
and geographical boundaries to develop ideas and understand issues in less
time, with greater clarity. e-Vis interactive conferencing helps Covisint
users make decisions without travel or delay, bringing them together in real
time on the Internet, securely sharing their desktop applications and their
2-D and 3-D product data across Unix and Windows platforms.
EAI has an established history providing best-in-class visual
collaboration solutions to major automotive manufacturers and their suppliers.
Central to EAI's success has been its skill in integrating data from all of
the major CAD and PDM providers and visualizing and distributing it in support
of a company's business processes. At the core of EAI's offering is Direct
Model, the de facto standard for sharing geometry over the Internet. By
incorporating e-Vis, Covisint is harnessing the power of Direct Model to
efficiently represent, distribute and display the complex 3-D product data
that drives automotive manufacturing. EAI's new JtStreaming(TM) technology
enables even complex models to begin drawing in seconds with data delivery
optimized to provide only the parts of the assembly of interest to the viewer.
"EAI is a recognized leader in providing visualization solutions to the
auto industry," says Bob Matulka, Covisint Product Development Team.
"Covisint looks forward to working closely with EAI and Unigraphics Solutions
to accelerate the use of Internet-based visual collaboration across the supply
chain to develop new vehicles."
About Covisint
Announced in February 2000, Covisint is an automotive e-business trading
exchange being formed by DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors,
and Renault/Nissan. Covisint will provide original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs) and suppliers the ability to reduce costs in their respective supply
chains and bring efficiencies to their business operations. Covisint's
temporary headquarters are in Southfield, Mich., and it expects to establish
offices in Europe and Asia.
Since being announced in February, a number of automotive suppliers have
publicly expressed their support for Covisint. Those companies include: A.K.
Steel, ArvinMeritor, Autoliv, BASF, Dana Corporation, Delphi Automotive, Denso
International America, Dura, Ernie Green Corporation, Federal Mogul,
Flex-n-Gate, Freudenberg NOK, Johnson Controls, Inc., Lear Corporation, Magna
International, Plastech, Tower Automotive, Visteon and Yazaki International.
About EAI
Engineering Animation, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Unigraphics
Solutions, is the leader in Internet-enabled visual process management,
collaboration, analysis and communication solutions for extended manufacturing
enterprises. EAI's solutions, which include e-Vis ( http://www.e-vis.com ), Open
Enterprise Visualization and Virtual Factory, help manufacturing companies
drive down costs while improving business practices, efficiency, quality and
time-to-market.
About Unigraphics Solutions
Unigraphics Solutions Inc. is focused on improving the entire
product life cycle for design and manufacturing companies through the delivery
of software and consulting service solutions that address process and
productivity enhancements. Its CAD/CAM/CAE, product content management, CAID
and e-Business solutions are designed to promote collaborative product
commerce (CPC) through incorporation of today's most advanced technology and
intelligent use of the Internet. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, UGS
has been providing software solutions to engineering and manufacturing
companies for over 25 years and is the first company in its industry to earn
the ISO 9001/TickIT certification. Please contact UGS at (800) 498-5351 or
via the World Wide Web at http://www.ugsolutions.com .
Unigraphics Solutions, Parasolid, Solid Edge, Unigraphics, ProductVision,
iMAN, GRIP, managedServices, LightningStart, RAPIDiMAN, eVis and JtStreaming,
are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Unigraphics
Solutions Inc. or its wholly owned subsidiary Engineering Animation, Inc. All
other trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks belong to their
respective holders. The information within is subject to change without
notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Unigraphics
Solutions.
For more information, contact: Editorial, Jim Phelan of Unigraphics
Solutions, 314-344-5290, or phelan@ugsolutions.com; or Dan Jankowski of
Covisint, 810-575-4029, or pager, 800-428-1814.