Ford Motor Company selects Elysium for Global CAD Interoperability

SOUTHFIELD, MI August 13, 2004 -- Elysium Inc., a leading global provider of digital design data exchange software, today announced that Ford Motor Company has selected Elysium to enable a global CAD vision throughout all of Ford and its subsidiaries based on the Teamcenter® product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio from UGS, a leading global provider of PLM software and services.

"Globally dispersed and culturally diverse customers require the flexibility of a multi-CAD vision for PLM," said Steve Bashada, vice president of Teamcenter applications, UGS. "Teamcenter leads the industry with the depth and breadth of our CAD integrations, which enable an extended enterprise to leverage existing investments in CAD systems and data. Our relationship with Elysium further extends Teamcenter's multi-CAD capabilities to meet the business requirements of manufacturers worldwide."

Elysium is supplying and implementing CADporter™ software to translate CAD model geometry and CADpdm™ software to control updating and versioning, and manipulate attributes within the CAD file. Model geometry and the associated PDM metadata are extracted from the original CAD system where it can be completely defined in the target system including metadata consistent with the originating system. This combination of software enables UGS' Teamcenter, the corporate PLM standard at Ford, to manage and distribute complete primary and secondary CAD data for any part or assembly throughout Ford's extended enterprise. Ford Motor Company currently utilizes UGS' I-deas® and Dassault's Catia V4 and Catia V5 CAD systems.

"The ability to translate CAD model geometry has become almost common-place in industry," said Ken Tashiro, VP and COO, Elysium Inc. "Now we are seeing that product data management consistency is required to ensure that everyone involved in a project is referring to the same set of data. Not only is the CAD data required, but also the metadata and product structure has to be accurate and up-to-date."

Elysium's intellect enables an environment where any CAD data is available to the user in the native format. The company has been developing advanced translation tools for PDM attribute and metadata for the last 2 years, in concert with its robust 3D geometry data translation technologies.

Elysium is a Foundation Partner in the global UGS Partner Program.

About Elysium Inc.
Founded in 1984, Elysium bridges the gap between CAD systems and enables PDM and product structure synchronization with its industry-leading technologies. Elysium's CADporter, CADdoctor, and CADserver software products enable the translation of all geometry from one CAD system to another with the industry's highest success rate. Platforms supported include, ABAQUS/CAE, ACIS, CATIA, Inventor, NX (I-deas and Unigraphics), Metrix Build!IT, One Space Designer, Horizon, JT, Parasolid, Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks, and other major MCAD products. Elysium has successful partnerships with several major software companies including ABAQUS, Autodesk, CoCreate, UGS, Maya Metrix, PTC, SmarTeam, SolidWorks, and Spatial. Elysium is a member of the AIAG and a sponsor of Renault F1 Team.

For additional information about Elysium's products and services, please visit www.elysiuminc.com.

CADporter, CADserver, CADdoctor, CADpdm, and CADfeature are trademarks of Elysium Co., Ltd. and Elysium Inc. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Company Contact:
Leanne Olsgaard
Elysium Inc.
+1 (248) 799-9800
leanne.olsgaard@elysiuminc.com

Press Contact:
Ken Feitz
Strategic Reach PR
+1 (303) 487-7406
ken@strategicreachpr.com





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