【转帖】About Unigraphics® NX

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.

FOR RELEASE: Thursday, May 2, 2002
EDS Unigraphics[$reg] NX Next Generation MCAD Software Successfully Completes Customer Testing Phase
Customers Respond Enthusiastically To Total Product Engineering Benefits From Unigraphics NX Technology
PLANO, Texas -- EDS today announced that Unigraphics[$reg] NX, the next generation of mechanical computer-aided design software (MCAD) for product development, successfully completed comprehensive customer testing and will start shipping in August.  
  
Unigraphics NX represents the next step in merging the best capabilities of both the Unigraphics and I-deas[$reg] premier CAD/CAM/CAE solutions developed by EDS PLM Solutions. Combining the strengths of both products through the innovative new NX architecture extensions to the Unigraphics core software foundation provides enhanced capabilities to digitally model and validate products and their production processes.  
  
Customers cited several areas of productivity benefits within the merged and new capabilities in Unigraphics NX, as follows:  
  
New User Interaction Model delivers streamlined process for major productivity gains -- Unigraphics NX contains a new user-interaction model specifically designed to support highly productive process-oriented workflows. For example, customers testing Unigraphics NX praised faster model creation tools such as the ability to add standard parts and features to a model through a simple drag and drop method.  
“Unigraphics NX is streamlined. Its functionality is enhanced, but most impressive are new usability features that create design shortcuts across our processes,” said Mike Kozai, CAD application specialist at Husky Injection Molding Systems in Bolton, Ontario. “We will be able to do some common routine design functions three times faster now.”  
  
Increased productivity through knowledge enabled applications -- The fully embedded knowledge core in Unigraphics NX turns models into a central repository for all production definition information including critically important engineering specifications. Teamcenter[$auml] Engineering software is tightly integrated with Unigraphics NX to effectively store and retrieve information for managing knowledge in a controlled environment.  
“We work in a very competitive market. In order to shorten design cycles, we need to innovatively leverage our product knowledge,” said Jim DeMercurio, senior project engineer in the Knowledge Management group at General Motors. “Unigraphics NX Knowledge Fusion works well for us because it successfully combines process engineering and technology. This new functionality allows us to rapidly implement and deploy GM knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned to the user community.”  
  
Innovative Open NX Architecture for PLM
Unigraphics NX delivers a product lifecycle management (PLM)-enabled architecture based on the latest PLM Open industry standards.  
  
PLM XML provides for integration with other PLM applications for visualization, collaboration, knowledge sharing and product data management.  
  
NX Gateway supports associative interoperability allowing EDS digital authoring tools such as Unigraphics, I-deas, Solid Edge[$reg], FEMAP and Imageware to directly exchange and reuse design information.  
“I am very impressed with the merged technologies of I-deas and Unigraphics and especially the NX Gateway between the systems,” said Anthony Carpenter, CAD system manager at Air International Group Ltd. in Melbourne, Australia. “Unigraphics NX allows us to easily and quickly share accurate geometry between the two systems without having to use traditional translator software.”  
  
Unigraphics NX Enhances Customer Value Through Total Product Engineering
More than an integrated CAD, CAE, and CAM solution, Unigraphics NX delivers the value of Total Product Engineering to bring strategic advantage that will help develop and manufacture higher-quality products faster and at lower cost. Unigraphics NX delivers industry-leading technologies that can significantly increase individual and departmental productivity in design, simulation, and manufacturing; all in an integrated, associative digital environment that addresses the entire product development cycle. Unigraphics NX is complemented by unmatched EDS PLM Solutions collaboration technologies and a PLM Open architecture that facilitates innovation across the extended development team and to customers and suppliers -- regardless of the tools they are using.  
  
“This integration of best-in-class design, analysis and manufacturing applications is a great leap forward toward enabling our product development vision,” said Blair Jackson, CAD supervisor at Goodrich Corporation in Troy, Ohio. “EDS has quickly delivered Unigraphics and I-deas interoperability.”  
  
“Our goal is to provide our customers with the most advanced tools and processes available to support their total product engineering requirements,” said Chuck Grindstaff, president, PLM Products, EDS PLM Solutions. “Unigraphics NX provides a proven strategic advantage by effectively leveraging the best applications of both Unigraphics and I-deas, built on a new PLM-enabled architecture, that uniquely enables total product engineering.”  
  
About EDS
EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, implementation, business transformation and operational solutions for clients managing the business and technology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together the world’s best technologies to address critical client business imperatives. It helps clients eliminate boundaries, collaborate in new ways, establish their customers’ trust and continuously seek improvement. EDS, with its management consulting subsidiary, A.T. Kearney, serves the world’s leading companies and governments in 60 countries. EDS reported revenues of $21.5 billion in 2001. The company’s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: EDS) and the London Stock Exchange.  
  
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