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SofTech Announces ProductCenter No Sweat PLM™ Pilot Program
Eases the PLM Selection Process and Streamlines PLM Deployment for Even Quicker Business BenefitTEWKSBURY, Mass. — November 18, 2003 — SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB: SOFT), a leading provider of design-through-manufacturing productivity solutions, announced a new ProductCenter™ program to help companies involved in the selection of a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution to eliminate the uncertainty of selecting the right solution. PLM solutions can offer companies tremendous benefits such as reducing time to market, improving quality, and increasing profits. However, with the sheer number and quality of the solutions available today, PLM decision-making is wrought with risk and uncertainty. The program, called the ProductCenter No Sweat PLM™ Pilot, is designed to provide a very low-risk alternative for companies to evaluate, implement, and jumpstart PLM productivity.
The way the program works is that SofTech Professional Services will spend one week on site at a company to implement a ProductCenter pilot. In just one week, a live ProductCenter PLM pilot will be running using the company’s actual product data onsite in their own environment. The pilot will be tailored to company’s requirements to include actual PLM functionality such as: vaulting and viewing product data; directly managing multi-CAD files from applications, such as Pro/ENGINEER®, SolidWorks®, Inventor®, AutoCAD®, and CADRA®; automating the engineering change and engineering bills of material processes; and other enterprise collaboration operations.
“Companies are all too familiar with the horror stories of PLM taking months or even years to implement, being riddled with problems and once installed, never adequately addressing their product lifecycle needs,” states Jean Croteau, SofTech vice president of operations. “With the No Sweat PLM™ Pilot program, we’re able to more quickly and easily prove the benefits of ProductCenter to prospective companies, as nothing demonstrates production PLM capabilities faster than a live implementation in the company’s environment using their data. The program facilitates no sweat decision making, no sweat deployment, and no sweat PLM ownership — helping companies avoid these obstacles and more rapidly achieve a successful PLM solution.”
SofTech is able to offer this program due to some key differentiators of the ProductCenter PLM solution that make successful achievement of a pilot in just one week and fast, on-target deployments possible:
- Ten-year history of successful, fast PLM deployments for quick return on investment.
- Ease-of-use with rapid user acceptance and quicker business benefit.
- Comprehensive out-of-the-box capabilities without heavy customization.
- Price competitiveness with flexible concurrent licensing and low cost of ownership.
- Modular and extendable to adapt and grow from workgroup to extended enterprises.
For additional information on the ProductCenter No Sweat PLM™ Pilot program contact SofTech at (978) 513-2700 ext. 222 or visit the SofTech web site at www.softech.com for more details.
About SofTech, Inc.
SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB: SOFT) provides design-through-manufacturing productivity solutions with its computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) products including CADRA®, DesignGateway™, Prospector™, and ProductCenter™ (through SofTech’s Workgroup Technology Division). SofTech’s solutions optimize product lifecycle processes at the lowest cost by fostering innovation, extended enterprise collaboration, product quality improvements, and compressed time-to-market cycles.
SofTech has more than 100,000 users benefiting from its solutions, including Boeing, FlightSafety International, General Electric Company, Goodrich Turbine Fuel Technologies, Honeywell, Millipore Corporation, Siemens, Sikorsky Aircraft, U.S. Army, and Whirlpool Corporation.
Headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, SofTech (www.softech.com) has locations and distribution partners throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
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