UGS Introduces NX Managed Development Environment

By DE Editors

UGS (Plano, TX; ugs.com) has announced the NX Managed Development Environment will among the new capabilities and enhancements available in the upcoming release of NX 3. The NX Managed Development Environment leverages the combined strengths of NX and the company's Teamcenter portfolio of PLM solutions to provide an enhanced foundation for digital product development.
NX Managed Development Environment manages a broad spectrum of data, including MCAD; drawings, documents, and spreadsheets, simulation scenarios, test data and results, NC data and associated tooling information, embedded knowledge, and validation solutions. It will enable companies to scale to engineering process management by streamlining critical processes and workflows with fully integrated, synchronized management of all product data and process knowledge. As a result companies can eliminate waste and significantly improve product quality - the critical components of lean design and design for Six Sigma initiatives.

The NX Managed Development Environment provides the power to synchronize multi-site, internal, and external product design teams. It manages workflow processes such as change management, and integrates suppliers, other business systems, and teams for data sharing. It also creates a collaborative environment for more rapid evaluation of significantly more what-if alternatives.

The NX Managed Development Environment system transparently manages processes and workflows in context, working behind the scenes to facilitate collaboration and manage the data whatever its source. And it captures best practices and engineering processes, regulatory compliance standards, and functional requirements for repeated use.

NX Managed Development Environment will be available with the release of UGS NX 3 in the third quarter of 2004. Contact the company for further details.