ACTIFY'S VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY PROVING VALUABLE TO
AUTOMOTIVE
INDUSTRY
Two New Customers, Lear Corporation and Magna International
Inc., Solidify Actify's Role as the Visualization Technology
of Choice for the Automotive Industry
San Francisco, CA – December 14, 2004 – Actify
Inc., the worldwide leader in client-server design visualization
and collaboration solutions for the high technology, automotive,
aerospace, industrial automation and discrete manufacturing industries,
today announced that it has solidified its position as the visualization
technology of choice for the automotive industry through the recent
addition of both Lear Corporation (NYSE: LEA) and Magna International
as Actify customers. These companies add to Actify's growing
customer list that already includes Daimler Chrysler, Ford, Volkswagon,
Volvo, General Motors and Mitsubishi Motors. Through these customer
engagements, Actify is playing a pivotal role in helping the automotive
industry communicate 2D and 3D CAD designs throughout the enterprise.
Traditionally, both Lear Corporation and Magna International
have been limited to communicating CAD designs and design data
through the distribution of two dimensional hard copy drawings
and documents. With both companies having over 200 design and manufacturing
facilities globally, it became clear to them that digital design
communication was a much more effective way to share designs than
the traditional paper method they were employing. By adopting SpinFire
Professional 2004v2 both Lear and Magna will immediately benefit
from a streamlined digital design communication process whereby
2D and 3D CAD designs and data are much easier for knowledge workers
to share both internally and throughout the supply chain, ultimately
saving time, money and bringing products to market faster.
"As Magna is known for its innovative technology and product
design for automotive systems and components, we found that in
order to keep up with the demand for our products we needed a system
that would help streamline the communication of digital designs
throughout our enterprise on a global scale,” said Ron Keyser,
vice president of Operations for Magna Services Inc. “Plus,
with over 48 development centers and thousands of individuals needing
to access a multitude of files created in many different formats,
the ability for non-technical users to view current 3-D CAD data
is crucial to our success."
Actify’s suite of products are designed to enable easy
and secure access, communication and distribution of multiple 2D/3D
CAD file formats and related design documents throughout global
enterprises and worldwide supply chains, without requiring access
to native CAD systems. This streamlines the communication process
and allows for paperless distribution of complex design data, ultimately
increasing productivity and cutting costs.
"We are seeing an industry trend occurring whereby large
automotive manufacturers are encouraging OEMs and suppliers to
standardize on one digital design communications tool,” said
Randy Ochs, president and CEO of Actify. “The adoption of
our products throughout the automotive industry demonstrates the
value automotive manufacturers see in leveraging one, single digital
design communication tool to share CAD files on an enterprise-wide
scale. Actify is rapidly becoming the standard visualization tool
for the automotive industry."
Lear Corporation is the world's largest automotive interior
systems supplier that focuses on integrating complete automotive
interiors, including seat systems, interior trim and electrical
systems. Lear has more than 110,000 employees at 280 facilities
located in 34 countries.
Magna is a global supplier of technologically advanced automotive
systems, components and complete modules. The company employs
approximately 81,000 people at 219 manufacturing divisions and
49 product development and engineering centers throughout North
and South America, Mexico, Europe and Asia.
About Actify Inc.
Founded in 1996, Actify Inc. is a privately held, award-winning
global leader of client/server CAD visualization solutions.
Actify's SpinFire product line provides the lowest
total cost of ownership with the highest scalability across
manufacturing industries and through their supply chains.
The Actify SpinFire solution is sold through authorized
distributors and Value Added Resellers in North America,
Europe and Asia Pacific. Actify is headquartered in San
Francisco, California. For more information please visit
www.actify.com or call 415.227.3800.
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