New name for FEGS reflects completed restructuring

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Nov 6, 2001

After 23 years FEGS has now been renamed TranscenData Europe Limited, and the Oakington office has become the European headquarters for the new organisation

The restructuring process at FEGS's parent company, International TechneGroup (ITI), has been completed with the formal rebranding of the Product Data Interoperability (PDI) group as a new business unit called TranscenData.

The move means that after 23 years FEGS has now been renamed TranscenData Europe Limited, and the Oakington office has become the European headquarters for the new organisation.

As a result, TranscenData Europe's customers will have access to a wider range of data interoperability tools, complementing the core CADfix solution.

The formation of TranscenData was designed to enable ITI to refocus its range of data interoperability products - including CADfix - into a series of three solution lines, each incorporating products, services and strategic partnerships.

"TranscenData solutions overcome challenging data interoperability problems, thereby raising the value of a customer's engineering product data," says Don Hemmelgarn, President of the TranscenData division of ITI.

"With the launch of TranscenData Europe we will offer our full range of interoperability solutions to customers across Europe." CADfix, the product data translation, healing and repair tool that has been the main focus of FEGS's business since it was developed in the mid 1990s, will now form part of TranscenData's CAD/CAM/CAE (C3) Systems Integration unit.

It will be offered in parallel with ITI's other solutions, including CADIQ (for model data integrity and quality testing), IGESworks (for 2D and 3D IGES file flavouring), DEXcenter (automated CAD model translation and exchange), PDElib (translator developer toolkit) and CADscript (providing multi CAD, platform independent programming interfaces).

John Meaney, head of sales and marketing at TranscenData Europe comments: "TranscenData's range of effective interoperability software offers engineers today a distinct competitive advantage.

Reading, writing and transforming non-native data will no longer be a headache as we have a solution readily available for all problems encountered." TranscenData will be offering these products not only as packaged, stand-alone tools, but also as components in more comprehensive tailor-made solutions.

Using the power of DEXcenter, TranscenData will work with its customers to deliver automated solutions to common interoperability problems and to promote best practice data exchange methods and management across enterprises and into the supply chain.

This consultancy-based offering will form the core of TranscenData's new Engineering Supply Chain Integration unit.

In addition, TranscenData will continue to forge partnerships with other software vendors to enable more customers to take advantage of its powerful interoperability technology.

This will mean more OEM deals with CAD/CAM/CAE and PDM software suppliers who need data import and export tools; although many of the users may not know it, TranscenData's technology is already in use in a huge and growing number of software installations.

Geoff Butlin, founder of FEGS and now CEO of TranscenData Europe concludes: "For TranscenData Europe this marks the beginning of a new and exciting era.

The success that FEGS has seen over the past 23 years and the impact that CADfix continues to have on the CAD/CAM/CAE industry both point to interesting times ahead for TranscenData Europe.".