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A Cyon Research White Paper
Title: An Examination of UGS’ Repeatable Digital Validation (RDV) Framework
Cyon Research, has coined a new term: "RAVDA" - Rapid Analysis and Validation of Design Alternatives -

to describe the technological framework necessitated by the enormous recent growth in product complexity and variation. It's much more than just CAD, CAE, PDM, and ERP; it's a different way of looking at the huge numbers of part and design alternative combinations to accommodate the shrinking time-to-market timeframes imposed by global competition.

The Cyon Research whitepaper examines UGS' Repeatable Digital Validation (RDV) in the RAVDA context.

RDV is a process that unites a number of tools to address the RAVDA challenge. UGS is clearly making important strides in tackling the job of digital validation with its RDV solution. By harnessing a variety of powerful technologies, UGS has brought forward an important part of everyone's ultimate vision for the design process: an overall model that is updated at every step and continuously available to design teams.

Read the Cyon Research white paper about RAVDA and RDV.

XpresReview - A New Productivity Solution for Collaborative Design Reviews
Product design reviews have become a global collaborative affair and often a major bottleneck in the overall design cycle. UGS has responded to the growing need for OEMs and their suppliers to exchange information with a new solution for design reviews - XpresReview.

Teamcenter Visualization Concept - Is it real or is it Concept?
Teamcenter Visualization Concept allows you to do real-world product validation without waiting for the real-world products to be built.

A New Age for Sheet Metal Design in NX
The introduction of the NX Sheet Metal product marks the beginning of a new direction for sheet metal design in NX. The “best of class” usability seen in Solid Edge has now been brought into NX with an entirely new sheet metal application.

Program Execution Management with Teamcenter
Project and Program Management ("PPM") with most tools available today is very capable in supporting planning and re-planning activities. What's been missing is the dimension most likely to reinvigorate the way your organization thinks about projects -- execution and performance management. Come to PLM World to learn about the managing the execution of programs with Teamcenter . . .

Teamcenter Visualization Publish Gets a “Rewrite”!
If you haven’t seen Teamcenter Visualization Publish in a while, wait ‘til you see the 2005 release! With the help of extensive customer input and attention to their technical publication processes, Visualization Publish promises to be the next addition to your JT-enabled visualization pipeline.

Managing Compliance with Teamcenter
Companies use Teamcenter for compliance in several areas – ISO, Department of Defense (DoD), FDA, CMII, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Environmental. Teamcenter delivers a number of out-of-the-box certified compliant solutions. Our newest development initiatives are in the area Environmental Compliance. Come to PLM World to learn about these initiatives and our solution for complying with the evolving Environmental regulation in the Automotive, High Tech and Electronic Industries . . .

PLM Vis - custom visualization for the advancement of in-house processes
In-house processes reflect a company. They are the extra touches that have been implemented to differentiate oneself from the competition. Engineering companies develop their own methods of working that contribute to quality control, ease communications between departments, shave precious production minutes, or enable Management to keep a finger on the pulse. In-house processes evolve and suit a way or working that off-the-shelf applications can never fully support.

Viewing CAE Data Using The JT Format
Recently UGS announced the availability of JT2Go, a lightweight JT format viewer. This is exciting news for CAE users, both NX Version 3 Scenario for Structures and I-deas NX Series Version 11m2 have the ability to generate JT files from their post processors. These files can then be directly viewed, rotated, zoomed and panned in JT2Go. Because the JT format creates compact files for viewing, it isn’t a replacement for a full function post processor. At this time color bars are not supported, expect to see them in future releases

UGS University News
PLM Knowledge 21 Volume 3 Issue 1.

I-deas to NX Transition Sessions – A validation of process at PLM World 2005
A valuable, but limited opportunity for Ideas Users planning NX Transition at 2005 PLM World Conference

Teamcenter Requirements Focus Session at PLM World
A Teamcenter Requirements focus session has been added due to a number of requests from PLM World citizens.