【转帖】About Unigraphics® NX

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FOR RELEASE: Tuesday, February 26, 2002
EDS Launches Unigraphics[$reg] NX
New NX Architecture Will Accelerate Unification of the Two Industry Leading CAD/CAM/CAE Products From EDS PLM Solutions  
NEW YORK – EDS today launched Unigraphics[$reg] NX, the next generation product lifecycle management (PLM) authoring tool.  
  
Unigraphics NX represents the first merging of capabilities of both premier CAD/CAM/CAE solutions from EDS PLM Solutions, the company announced at the Daratech SUMMIT 2002 in New York, February 25-27. This merging has been made possible through an innovative new software architectural foundation.  
  
“Unigraphics NX delivers a new PLM-enabled architecture based on the latest industry standards,” said Tony Affuso, president, EDS PLM Solutions. “What’s unique and exciting is that, in conjunction with our leading customers, we’ve been able to design and implement this state-of-the-art architecture in a way that immediately brings forward and enhances all the Unigraphics applications without compromise.”  
  
Built for the future
The foundation of Unigraphics NX consists of:
  
A core platform built on industry standards that power knowledge-enabled applications. This innovative architectural design allows users to move beyond simple process automation to a new level of reuse and innovation. This technology enables quick and easy develOPMent of engineering process-specific applications, which helps reduce cycle times by automating repeatable segments of the engineering process.
  
A new user interaction model specifically designed to support highly productive process-oriented workflows. Through streamlined model creation, standard parts and features can be easily added to the model through a simple drag and drop method. The intelligence of the software, including a next generation of Dynamic Navigator[$#8482] technology, infers the correct action to take giving the user an opportunity to concur or alter the inference. Visual, desktop-integrated palettes offer commonly used objects as model and drawing templates, standard parts, and knowledge features -- all facilitating reuse of data.  
  
The NX Gateway provides a new level of interoperability for associative integration. Built on PLM XML, a rich W3C XML object definition, the NX gateway provides associative interoperability, enabling organizations using EDS CAD/CAM/CAE applications or third party applications to directly exchange and reuse design information. This interoperability reduces data exchange costs and associated data integrity problems. The next series of I-deas products will provide customers with enhanced functionality delivered on the embedded NX Gateway.
  
A foundation of industry standards including: T.120 for standards and protocols for real time design collaboration; PLM XML for accurate and open interoperability; JT for visualization and interrogation; and SOAP for network addressable knowledge services and integration with other industry web services. The result is a set of NX shared services & open adaptors designed to address the entire span of integration needs from design and knowledge collaboration to enterprise application integration.  
  
Availability
Unigraphics NX will be available in Q3, 2002.

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