By Start Staff
Start Magazine
March, 2005

End-user spending on product-lifecycle management (PLM) software and services is expected to grow 10% in 2005, topping $10.5 billion, predicts Daratech Inc. www.daratech.com, Cambridge, Mass.

Looking to cut down the new product development cycle and streamline its processes for materials management across the company, ReliOn, www.relion.com, Spokane, Wash., began using PLM software from Omnify Software, www.omnifysoft.com, to reduce the new product development cycle and streamline its processes for materials management across the company.

Brian Sossaman, manager of information technology at ReliOn says, “Omnify PLM is a great collaboration tool for our communications needs. We are now able to streamline our data management across the entire company, as well as with our outside contract manufacturers. Omnify’s open architecture enabled us to seamlessly integrate with our existing systems, while providing a robust out-of-the-box solution that can handle customized reporting, manage all part data, new part requests, and bills of materials.”

Manufacturers in every vertical can benefit from Autodesk Inc.’s, www.autodesk.com, San Rafael, Calif., new PLM software that’s designed to make manufacturers lives a whole lot easier in terms of 3D design ease. The software is meant to enable manufacturers to better create, manage, and share design information. It will also help companies add 3D design at their own pace and will help them leverage their design data throughout the manufacturing process. The software also offers a new functional design concept that allows engineers to avoid “over-engineering” and improve product quality.

Robert Kross, vice president of Autodesk’s manufacturing division says, “With this comprehensive solution, our customers can address their most pressing business requirements. The new functional design capabilities within Autodesk Inventor software give 2D users a dramatically more intuitive way to design in 3D so they can accelerate product development cycles. Our solution also provides them with a practical approach to deploy PLM in order to manage their design information and automate processes for greatly improved cross-functional productivity.”

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