CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

18 October 2004

Implementation Investments

American Science and Engineering, Inc. Adopts Enterprise PLM Solution from SMARTEAM and Avatech Solutions

Avatech Solutions, Inc. announced that American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E®) has chosen SMARTEAM as its enterprise product lifecycle management solution and Avatech as its system integrator. The comprehensive solution was chosen to integrate seamlessly with AS&E's corporate engineering applications and Oracle ERP system and will be used throughout the company by over 100 engineering, purchasing and manufacturing users in its Billerica, MA plant. The company expects to use the software to better manage changes as they affect vendors and product lines-helping to make AS&E more cost competitive and bring new designs to market faster.

"After fully researching the market and having had a previous good experience with Avatech, we are confident in their expertise and abilities as our PLM partner," said Ken Breur, Vice President of Operations. "We believe that the SMARTEAM solution will streamline changes at AS&E, making us more lean and responsive. In the security industry today, partnering with suppliers and working as a team is essential in getting to market faster with new innovations. SMARTEAM will help with this collaboration."

AS&E X-ray inspection systems are used by governments and corporations around the world to combat terrorism, drug and weapons smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud. AS&E's detection technologies can uncover dangerous and elusive threats, including explosives, plastic and metal weapons, and radioactive devices, such as dirty bombs and nuclear WMD. These X-ray systems are deployed worldwide at ports and borders, and military and high-threat facilities.

"Companies such as AS&E have made huge investments in design automation and enterprise resource planning systems and want to ensure that they can leverage their intellectual assets across the extended enterprise, generating efficiency and synergy," said Scotty Walsh, Avatech Solutions CEO. "SMARTEAM helps increase the value of PLM across the enterprise by helping organizations innovate, improve quality, and reduce both costs and product development times. This can help AS&E better respond to its customers' critical homeland security issues."

Avatech's product lifecycle management (PLM) streamlines design data management, improves workflow and enhances collaboration with suppliers and customers to optimize business processes. Avatech's SMARTEAM PLM solutions help companies create and manage their product-related intellectual capital, from the product's initial conception through its retirement.

American Science and Engineering, Inc. develops and manufactures state-of-the-art X-ray inspection systems for homeland security and other critical defense applications. AS&E's patented Z® Backscatter technology detects plastic explosives, illegal drugs, and other contraband, even when artfully concealed in complex backgrounds by terrorists and smugglers. AS&E's Shaped EnergyT X-ray inspection systems combine the material discrimination features of Z Backscatter imaging with the penetration capability of high-energy X-rays for dense cargoes, without the problems caused by excessive radiation. AS&E's High Energy Systems Division manufactures linear accelerators for a variety of applications including medical, scientific, security, electron beam curing and non-destructive testing. For more information on AS&E products and technologies, please visit http://www.as-e.com

 

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