UGS recently announced that John Crane, a leader in engineered sealing solutions, had purchased 300 licences of Solid Edge to accomplish its worldwide mechanical computer-aided design (CAD) work.

Solid Edge replaces John Crane's previous 2D CAD system and was selected after a thorough evaluation of five systems. The company cited Solid Edge's ease-of-use and technical support as the deciding selection factors.

"Support was a big issue for us," says Joe Haas, Engineering Manager, John Crane. "Only Solid Edge offered support from both corporate-based and reseller sources. Solid Edge also proved easiest to use and provides the highest levels of functionality. Another factor in the selection was that Solid Edge was industry-tested and proven, as opposed to some of the other systems we evaluated."

A multidiscipline international team at John Crane selected Solid Edge for implementation in major engineering and manufacturing sites across North America, South America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia/Pacific.

Machinery design productivity

Solid Edge is the proven design engineering solution that can reduce time-to-market by using STREAM, an exclusive technology that accelerates the engineering process. Solid Edge directly addresses the practical aspects of design engineering with powerful CAD functions that are easy-to-learn and use.

The Solid Edge Voyager Program includes more than 150 downstream engineering software applications in such disciplines as finite element analysis, manufacturing, kinematics and dynamics, electromechanical, rapid prototyping, standard parts, product data management, translation, view/redline/animation and hardware solutions.

Written for Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows ME operating systems, Solid Edge is distributed in eight languages to customers around the world, including Boeing, Kaiser Optical, Alcoa, Volvo, L-3 Communications, Ohio State University, Yale University, University of Edinburgh, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, NASA and the Royal Air Force.

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