CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
1 April 2009
Implementation Investments
3DVIA Composer Orders From ibruk AS and Planmeca Oy Strengthens Technia’s Role as Solution Provider for Technical Documentation
Technia recently received orders from ibruk in Norway and Planmeca in Finland for a design solution, based on 3DVIA Composer from Dassault Systèmes. 3DVIA Composer is focused on helping companies create and maintain their product documentation, including illustrations for user manuals, animations for training materials, information for field service repair instructions, assembly instructions or anything else that helps to describe and document the company’s products and processes. With these orders Technia continues the expansion of its new offering “Design Solutions” that is focusing on 3D services and products, which also complements Technia’s other offering in the PLM area.
ibruk is an expansive consulting company, that provides user manuals, documentation and e-learning solutions for industrial companies globally. ibruk’s goal is to offer effective technical writing and training solutions for customers worldwide. The company focuses on the customer’s optimal utility value to provide user-friendly and cost-effective technical writing solutions that guarantee easy training. ibruk services clients across the world and have some of the most leading companies and brands as their customers.
Finnish Planmeca Oy is the largest privately held company in the dental equipment market and the third largest company in the field. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Planmeca designs, manufactures, and markets high-tech dental equipment suitable for private clinics and teaching environment.
“With 3DVIA Composer the documentation process is faster and the quality of the documentation is better than with traditional techniques. And the documentation staff can manipulate and finalize main assemblies without usage of complex CAD authoring tool and without the R&D department’s involvement. We selected 3DVIA Composer and Technia to be able to enhance technical documentation quality and to be able to manage and complete main assemblies without heavy 3D CAD tool”, says Seppo Jänkävaara, Project Manager, Planmeca Oy.
With 3DVIA Composer we can now handle most CAD geometry and refine the data to our customer’s needs. 3DVIA Composer fits excellent with our solutions such as e-learning and interactive user manuals. Together with our knowledge it brings real customer value”, says Stein Tore Johnsen, ibruk AS.
“Technia constantly continue to widen our offering in the PLM area. It is now exciting to see that our new Design Solution offering, with 3DVIA Composer in the product portfolio, is giving results. The orders from ibruk and Planmeca prove our position as a total PLM solution Partner and that we made the right decision to expand our PLM offering with Design Solutions”, says Johan Schenning, Director Design Solutions, Technia AB.
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