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Overview

UGS has an extensive, proven record of leveraging decades of industry-specific manufacturing expertise to develop process solutions that transform the world's leading manufacturers. UGS offers the Tecnomatix suite of best-in-class digital manufacturing applications and production expertise, covering manufacturing engineering through shop floor execution. These solutions are connected together, to legacy systems and to the extended enterprise by an open manufacturing backbone. Tecnomatix is the leading digital manufacturing solution based on technology, market share, industry experience, and world-class customers served. Tecnomatix brochure

Size and Scope:

• UGS has 46,000 customers and nearly 4 million licensed seats of its technology in use globally.
• UGS operates in 24 countries and has a workforce of 6,300 people.
• UGS manages or creates more than 40 percent of the world's 3D data.
• 25 percent of all 3D product data is represented using Parasolid®, a UGS product.
• UGS is the leading vendor of product development solutions in automotive OEMs with 150,000 seats.
• 27 of the top 30 automotive OEMs each have more than 100 seats of UGS' software.
• 19 of Global 50 and Fortune 100 companies use UGS' solutions.
• Among companies with more than 1,000 PDM seats, 90 percent are using UGS solutions (Teamcenter®).
• UGS is the CAD market leader in China and emerging Asian markets.
• The top 20 auto suppliers all use UGS' CAD/CAM/CAE solutions (NX).
• 60 percent of UGS' installed seats manage Multi-CAD data, meaning that UGS manages more of its competitors' data than its own.
• UGS'Solid Edge® has more than 260 resellers worldwide - an increase of 17 percent over the previous year.
• UGS provided academic, institutional and community development opportunities through more than $2 billion in software grants in 2003.
• UGS is the only PLM company investing in industry toolkits, application software and services.
• UGS implemented the world's largest global product development (GM).

Proof Points:

• A leading international computer company worked with UGS to adopt product lifecycle management(PLM) and reduced its workload by 50 percent. UGS helped one of the biggest manufacturers in aeronautics and renewable energy products to deploy UGS’ solutions and cut its design errors by 88 percent.
• Only a few years ago, an international builder of customer machines needed 52 weeks to go from purchase order to machine delivery. Now that the company uses UGS software, its lead time is 16 weeks.
• One of Chinas leading manufacturing companies uses UGS’ solutions to design large assemblies comprised of up to 10,000 parts; UGS has reduced its engineering changes by 70 percent.
• A leading women’s fashion chain is using UGS software to compress its "time-to-profits" by linking buyers, designers and supply chain partners in a web-based environment that will reduce the time needed to take a design from initial sketch to finished item (excluding shipping times) by up to 30 percent.