CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 January 2005
Product News
Invention Machine Announces Availability of Goldfire Innovator 2.0
Invention Machine Corporation ( http://www.invention-machine.com ), announced the availability of the next release of its flagship product, Goldfire InnovatorT .
Goldfire Innovator is an integrated software environment that brings a structured process to inventive problem-solving, providing engineers, researchers and technical personnel with easy-to-use problem definition and analysis capabilities combined with solution-generating methodologies and precision access to world-wide technical knowledge. The software enables users to systematically tackle engineering problems across a product's lifecyclereducing the delivery time for new product innovations, rapidly resolving problems in existing products and continuously improving production processes.
• Goldfire Innovator 2.0 brings several new features and enhancements that help to increase productivity in the areas of inventive problem-solving, idea generation and information access:
• Goldfire Innovator 2.0 includes a new Collaboration Repository which enables greater coordination and communication among team members via centralized access to Goldfire Innovator project files, reports, and workflows. The Repository manages private and shared libraries and provides version control and access authorization. The Collaboration Repository further promotes productivity and standards and facilitates workflow and shared model re-use.
• Goldfire Innovator 2.0 supports hierarchical device modelingenabling users to analyze and represent complex systems and to delegate design problems across a team.
• Users can now browse the full content of corporate and personal Knowledge Bases by categories. Goldfire Innovator 2.0 leverages Invention Machines patented semantic technologies to automate creation of a taxonomy structure, or knowledge index, that automatically groups similar types of knowledge together into 'like' categories. This visualization of information dramatically reduces the amount of time users spend looking for relevant information from Internet or Intranet sites, networked drives, or their own computer.
• Goldfire Innovator 2.0 further accelerates productivity and "time-to-ideation" by enabling automatic summarization of documents in personal Knowledge Bases, expanding e-mail capabilities to facilitate data exchange among colleagues, and providing access to Goldfire Innovator's Knowledge Search from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Internet Explorer applications.
"Goldfire Innovator is the only innovation process software that combines proven innovation methodologies, disciplines and tools; precision research and information access capabilities; and critical cross-disciplinary patent and scientific content," said Mark E. Atkins, Chairman, President and CEO of Invention Machine.
Goldfire Innovator customers include Caterpillar, Samsung, Whirlpool, Baker Hughes, Shell, GKN, Amcor, and Hexcel among others. Companies using Goldfire Innovator benefit from: greater conversion rates of ideas to products; better products, designed with an eye towards competition; streamlined manufacturing processes; and faster time-to-marketall at lower cost.
Goldfire Innovator 2.0 is available immediately. For information on pricing, please contact Invention Machine at info@invention-machine.com .
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