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UGS, HP and Intel Drive PLM to Mid-Market Manufacturers in Asia

UGS Corp., a provider of product life cycle management (PLM) software and services, has launched Velocity Series Consortium, an Asia Pacific initiative aimed at stimulating the use of PLM technology among small to mid-size manufacturing companies. UGS, along with consortium partners HP and Intel will help these companies drive innovation using PLM software running on efficient, optimised hardware and networking platforms.

The UGS Velocity Series portfolio includes the UGS software products, Solid Edge, Femap, NX CAM Express, and Teamcenter Express, for digital product design, analysis, manufacturing process and data management respectively.

UGS said Velocity Series Consortium is launching a number of initiatives aimed at making PLM technology easier for the mid-market companies, which have limited technology budgets, to acquire, deploy and support.

The acquisition costs for PLM solutions is expected to be lowered by the Consortium through software and hardware pricing offers targeted at mid-market manufacturers as well as large OEMs that want to lower the cost of adopting PLM solutions for their suppliers. The Consortium plans to further ease PLM acquisition costs with funding for proof-of-concept trials for qualifying mid-market enterprises and will emphasize low total cost of ownership by supplying solutions which are rapidly deployable and preconfigured with the industry’s best practices.

UGS along with HP worked are to ensure that entire software suite of UGS Velocity Series would support the new Intel-based HP workstation as 32-bit applications immediately, and have collaborated to ensure future releases of 64-bit extensions. The companies’ development relationship also continues to provide ongoing certification, tuning and support of HP products.


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