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News Release from: Actify | Subject: SpinFire 5.0
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 September 2002
Scalable solution for CAD access and
visualisation
The SpinFire 5.0 product family provides the first scalable solution enabling companies to host, share and manage product design information securely, regardless of the CAD file type.
The SpinFire 5.0 product family provides the first scalable solution enabling companies to host, share and manage product design information securely, regardless of the CAD file type, across an entire enterprise via the corporate network and Internet SpinFire empowers organisations to distribute design information simply and effectively while controlling access to designs by individual users, departments, suppliers and customers
The SpinFire 5.0 product family includes SpinFire Enterprise (server); SpinFire Professional (client); SpinFire CAD Importers (convert and compress native CAD files into.3D format); SpinFire Viewer (allows guests and non-CAD users to view.3D files); and SpinFire SDK (integration toolkit).
SpinFire Enterprise deploys as a cost-effective standalone server-based solution or integrates with a company's existing PLM, PDM, ERP or EDM environment.
The solution scales easily from a single server configuration to multiple servers without requiring complex network or firewall configurations.
"SpinFire Enterprise delivers the design access and visualisation components that are an essential first step to product lifecycle management", says Mike Walsh, president and CEO of Actify.
"The server is easy to deploy, easy to use and produces an ROI that is realised in months rather than years".
A winner of Cadence Magazine's Editors' Choice Award, SpinFire Professional serves as the desktop client to the SpinFire Enterprise server and allows users to interactively view, measure and mark up CAD designs.
SpinFire Professional features a standard Windows interface that is easy to use and requires no specialised training or CAD experience.
The multilingual SpinFire Professional supports English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Thai and Korean.
The SpinFire solution enables everyone in product design, procurement, manufacturing, sales and service to access design information and related documents without requiring a CAD system.
Companies realise cost savings and productivity gains in such processes as design review, quoting, estimation, procurement, RFQ response, retooling, sales and marketing, and service and repair.
"Our mission is to make CAD data accessible and understandable to everyone involved in the product lifecycle", says Walsh.
"SpinFire Enterprise enables companies to leverage the value of their CAD data by making product designs more accessible to a larger audience, improving communication, increasing productivity and cutting costs".
SpinFire converts large CAD models and drawings into compact.3D file formats that distribute as easily as sending email.
The server's advanced security features allow the.3D files, which can be compressed to just 10% of the CAD file's original size, to be shared worldwide without IT issues like firewalls and email size limitations.
SpinFire Enterprise's Share Tracking feature helps to shorten the product review cycle by monitoring and recording exactly when files have been shared, opened and reviewed.
(This was Engineeringtalk's Top Story on 18 September 2002).
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