CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
26 January 2005
Implementation Investments
Lighting Industry Leader Artemide Standardizes on UGS' Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions
UGS announced that Artemide, an international leader in the lighting industry, will implement UGS' TeamcenterT and NXT products as its corporate standards for PLM and digital product development.
Artemide will deploy Teamcenter to integrate and manage product information generated internally and by its customers. The company will use NX, UGS' digital product development solution, for product design, engineering and manufacturing.
"The need to reduce design times and to develop designs simultaneously in different technical offices-as well as to make faster and faster changes-have led the company to adopt a reliable and popular system such as UGS' software," explained Paolo Leoni, design department manager at Artemide Group. "Our existing system did not deliver enough reliability and potential according to our expectations. The need to deploy software allowing utmost modeling freedom, widely recognized on the market and used by most mold makers, has led us to choose UGS' NX."
"We develop more and more complex projects in terms of design, getting closer and closer to the limit of being able to incorporate the basic components. Employing UGS' software, we expect to edit geometry and relative component positions much more quickly, so as to evaluate the visual impact and possibly repeat laboratory tests. Another element we expect to improve is the chance of interfacing our enterprise resource planning system," added Leoni.
"We are pleased that an industry leading Italian lighting company such as Artemide has chosen our PLM solutions," said Gian Cristoforo Bozano, Country Manager of UGS Italy. "Industry leading companies like Artemide are recognizing the value of NX and Teamcenter's ability to optimize production processes and further accelerate time-to-market."
The Artemide Group was founded by Ernesto Gismondi and Sergio Mazza in 1959. Today, the Group has 16 fully or partially owned subsidiaries and 42 exclusive distributors all around the world. It also has three R&D Centers in Italy, France and Germany, with product design and engineering offices and laboratories for technical compliance tests and self-certification, together with several production facilities using state-of-the-art processes in Italy, France, Germany, the U.S., Hungary and the Czech Republic. The production organization of the Artemide Group also offers great competence in the processing of traditional materials such as glass, but also advanced innovation for recent materials such as titanium.
The Artemide Group has recently acquired several companies, strengthening its international leading position and further diversifying its offer. For more information on the Artemide Group, visit http://www.artemide.it .
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