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News Release from: TranscenData Europe | Subject: CADfix
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2004
Early fix for CAD data interoperability
Unilever has chosen CADfix from ITI TranscenData to help solve its CAD data interoperability issues at R and D Port Sunlight.
Unilever has chosen CADfix from ITI TranscenData to help solve its CAD data interoperability issues at R and D Port Sunlight As the leading engineering data interoperability tool, CADfix is expected to be enhancing Unilever's file sharing capability as CAD data moves between company departments, suppliers and design agencies
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Unilever is aiming for seamless global development, without barriers, and CADfix is seen as a key tool for achieving this goal.
Richard Parker, Unilever's Packaging Design Technology Centre Manager, comments: "Although we have only been using it for a few weeks, we have already achieved very favourable results using CADfix.
Files which we had given up on have become workable, and we are significantly reducing the time some of our CAD operators spend repairing data".
Unilever has a centre of excellence for packaging design technology at its packaging site in Port Sunlight.
Currently, this department handles CAD data traffic relating to some of the key innovation projects, working with the key global technical centres to find new ways to repair and translate the data from all types of CAD systems, generated from different Unilever departments, suppliers and design agencies.
CADfix is already helping to speed up this process, but eventually should enable the company to deploy this function to a global network of CAD capabilities.
In time, it is anticipated that packaging departments across the world will be able to seamlessly send and accept CAD files, thus speeding up the design process.
John Meaney, Director of Sales and Marketing for TranscenData Europe comments: "Unilever is moving towards a global strategy for the transfer of CAD data, which requires a powerful but intuitive interoperability tool that can be used by a wide range of engineers and designers.
CADfix offers the high level of capability required for such a task, with an easy-to-use interface to meet the needs of the first time or infrequent user, helping Unilever to turn its vision into a reality".
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