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Issue Date: June/July 2000

Design technology recognised in Technology Top 100 awards programme

1 June 2000

Awards focussing on the use of design technology are to be included in the Technology Top 100 programme for the first time this year. Autodesk, the design tools company, is sponsoring the two new awards.
Unlike other awards programmes that tend to view technology from an information technology viewpoint only, the Technology Top 100 programme embraces all South African companies that are either originators of technology or that use technology to gain competitive advantage.
President Mbeki will present the two Autodesk awards at the prestigious annual awards function in November. There is one award for the manufacturing sector and another for the built environment.
"The awards will go to the company in each sector which has been judged to have made the most effective use of computer-aided design (CAD) technology to promote innovation, design excellence and competitive advantage - for themselves and for South Africa," says Errol Ashwell, Managing Director of Autodesk Africa.
Adjudication criteria include use of CAD technology for conceptual design and design development - not just for design documentation or drafting.
Entrants must demonstrate that the successful implementation and use of CAD technology has led to at least four of the following: South Africa innovation, design excellence, competitive advantage, the creation of South African intellectual property value, increased productivity, reduced costs, increased quality, and export opportunities for products or services.
"Our involvement in the awards programme is a clear indication that the business community has recognised the commercial value of effective design technology," says Ashwell.
Industrial design specialist - and an efficient user of Autodesk software - Artec Product Design, was the winner of the Technology Top 100 Engineering Association Award in 1999. Artec received the award for being the company that had made the most substantial contribution to enhancing its customers' competitive advantage through the most effective product design.
Further information about the awards programme is available from Autodesk Africa on (011 318 2900.


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