Processia’s role will be key during the design and development stage: their comprehensive suite of services can streamline and harmonise a variety of separate production processes to improve productivity and efficiency.

And, for 2010, Processia’s contribution to Vodafone McLaren Mercedes will be particularly timely.

As Formula 1 looks for more ways to reduce costs and improve efficiency, Processia’s ability to streamline and integrate existing design and production information will enable the team to operate more rapidly and harmoniously – while simultaneously saving money.

Jonathan Neale, McLaren Racing’s managing director, added: “In a Formula 1 team, you’re always looking at ways to increase productivity, reduce  production time and lower costs, while improving lap time.

“Our relationship with Processia Solutions enables us to not only manage the many and varied needs of a Formula 1 race team in an efficient way, but also helps us to improve and streamline many of those methods – which provides us with a competitive advantage.”

Processia’s partnership with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes will also act as a showcase for the firm’s establishment in the United Kingdom and Europe.

“Our involvement with the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team marks a major milestone in the implementation of Processia Solutions throughout Europe,” said Processia’s vice-president Vincent Fraser. “We’re delighted to be able to showcase our expertise in product lifecycle management within Formula 1 – one of the toughest, most demanding and unforgiving environments in the world.

“This relationship will also clearly demonstrate that success in Formula 1 needn’t come at the highest cost, but through working in the most efficient and elegant way. “And our partnership with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes showcases that perfectly.”

About Processia Solutions
Processia Solutions is a leader in the field of product lifecycle management (PLM) integration and optimisation in North America and Europe. Processia’s services are used by different industries (aerospace, automotive, transportation and others) with a comprehensive suite of services that includes business consulting, solution design, software development, application integration/SOA and full implementation services. Processia Solutions is a business partner of Dassault Systèmes and Aras Corp.

http://www.processia.com/

About Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
New Zealand racing driver Bruce McLaren founded the McLaren team in 1963. It entered its first grand prix in 1966 and won its first Formula 1 race in 1968. More than 40 years and 164 grand prix victories later, McLaren is still renowned as one of the sport’s most successful competitors and as one of the world’s most illustrious high-technology brands.

The McLaren Group has grown to encompass much more than just racing. It houses a cutting-edge electronics division that not only services the entire Formula 1 grid, but also many racing series across the globe. McLaren Applied Technologies creates cutting-edge solutions for modern  industry while McLaren Automotive not only produced the 1990s’ original supercar, the F1, and the unique Mercedes-Benz SLR but has recently unveiled the prototype of its newest vehicle – the MP4-12C.

The team kicks off its 2010 campaign with a stunning driver pairing: 2009 world champion Jenson Button and 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton. It is the first time since 1989 – when it ran Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna – that the team has fielded a joint-world champion driver line-up, and marks the first time in Formula 1 history that the sport’s two most recent world champions have been partnered together.

How do we turn what customers expect into innovations that do more than they imagined?
The Siemens answer: PLM software for small businesses to improve customer responsiveness

PLM is no longer the exclusive domain of big business. The SMB is now seeing PLM as a genuine opportunity to gain the competitive advantage.

This webinar will show you how moving to a PLM solution can help you to exceed your customers expectations. We will also introduce you to the Velocity Series of PLM solutions design specifically for the needs of SMBs… and we will discuss how implementing Velocity Series has helped other companies exceed customer expectations.

For more information, visit the MarketKey website or alternatively register here.

MarketKey has announced the launch of the PLM Webinar Series 2009, a 6 part free-to-attend webinar series offering insight into the PLM space from leading analysts, vendors and thought leaders with a view to further understanding the commercial benefits of Product Lifecycle Management.

The first two sessions take place in June with 4 further sessions scheduled for later in the year.

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SESSION 1 – On June 3rd, CIMdata President, Ed Miller, will deliver the opening session titled ‘Using PLM to Succeed in the Downturn‘.

At a time of economic instability, the session will explain how PLM can improve your business processes, eliminate waste and crucially, maintain innovation through this difficult period.  Attendees will learn why PLM is not a luxury that should be cut when a recession strikes, but a necessity to compete and succeed during a recession.  For more information visit the MarketKey Website or alternatively register here.

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SESSION 2 – On June 10, Bruce Boes, VP of Global Velocity Marketing at Siemens PLM, will lead the session ‘Delivering the PLM Benefit to the SMB‘

How do we turn what customers expect into innovations that do more than they imagined?
The Siemens answer: PLM software for small businesses to improve customer responsiveness

PLM is no longer the exclusive domain of big business.  The SMB is now seeing PLM as a genuine opportunity to gain the competitive advantage.

This webinar will show you how moving to a PLM solution can help you to exceed your customers expectations.  We will also introduce you to the Velocity Series of PLM solutions design specifically for the needs of SMBs… and we will discuss how implementing Velocity Series has helped other companies exceed customer expectations.

For more information, visit the MarketKey website or alternatively register here.

If you require any additional information regarding the MarketKey PLM Webinar Series or any other MarketKey webinars, please contact us at info@marketkey.co.uk.

The 2009 PLM Summit North America, the only independent PLM Summit on the continent, brings together a variety of world class and cross-industry specialists to explore the dynamic strategies, benchmark the latest technologies and analyze the cutting edge business practices that will ensure you are able to maximize the ROI from your PLM investment.

In today’s economy it is imperative that companies who wish to remain profitable and competitive look at PLM as an enterprise wide business improvement process. Join us at this premier conference and networking event designed specifically for senior IT, Engineering and Business Strategy Executives. The 2009 PLM Summit features in-depth case studies and interactive sessions from world class PLM practitioners designed to help you develop and deliver innovative products in an increasingly competitive and complex global environment.

Hot Topics at PLM North America 2009

The goal of PLM is open innovation – follow our roadmap and ensure you are heading down the right path to success!

PLM in A Down Economy:  Develop strategies to maximize the ROI of your investment and ensure you maintain competitive advantage
Moving towards a cohesive definition:  Make sure you are getting the most out of your conference experience by developing a clear understanding of how companies organized around PLM and  increase the benefit of on site networking by speaking the same language as other top practitioners
Advanced Technical Case Studies: Learn from in-depth case studies in Mechatronics and Digital Factory and how these strategies can help you drive efficiency and streamline product development
Advanced Business Strategy Case Studies:  In depth case studies on performance driven PLM and Product Portfolio Management (PPM) will help you ensure visibility across the entire product lifecycle
Knowledge Drive Product Development: Take your PLM investment to the next level by embracing the concepts of lean and ensuring a more successful product launch
Integration: Overcoming the integration barrier and ensuring a profitable PLM strategy

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With the ability to analyze every phase of a product’s existence, IBM will ensure the design be environmentally friendly from the beginning. This includes considering the materials used to make and package it, the energy needed to produce it, transport and use it, and designing it to be refurbished or recycled when it’s no longer useable.

“The days of using inordinate amounts of energy, toxic chemicals and wasteful packaging to create throwaway products that just get tossed in the landfill are coming to an end,” said Mark Wilterding, IBM’s global leader for product lifecycle management consulting.

“Governments, environmental advocacy groups, and most of all consumers are demanding that companies do better, and designing a product from the start to be eco-friendly throughout its lifetime is the most effective way to do that.”

Full press release at CSRwire.

Customers include Nordic Windpower Ltd., Sunlink Corporation, and Free Source Energies LLC.  Nordic Windpower implemented Arena PLM to accelerate the domestic and international rollout of its advanced wind turbines. The company says that the software has helped it achieve product launch goals, ensure product data integrity and collaborate with worldwide contract manufacturing partners.

“We’re trying to make clean, sustainable wind power a more viable alternative by reducing its cost,” says Greg Mead, vice president of manufacturing and operations at Nordic Windpower. “Using Arena PLM, we can do it faster. Arena PLM streamlines processes and eliminates costly mistakes before they occur. We pass these lower costs on to our customers and ultimately will be able to expand production, distribution and global use of this renewable energy source.”

Napier Turbochargers began manufacturing turbochargers in 1947. However, the Napier name goes back to the early 1800s and in its history it has been behind such achievements as a series of land, air and water speed world records and the famous Napier Railton racing car of 1933. Today, Napier is one of the largest independent manufacturers in the world of large axial turbochargers for use in the marine, power generation and rail traction industries.

“The PLM solution that Majenta PLM is supplying and is helping us to implement will help to ensure that the right product information is at the right place at the right time”, said Andy Thacker, managing director, Napier Turbochargers Limited. “It is therefore crucial to the continued development of our range of products and to the success of the ambitious growth plans we have in each of our markets, where we are already recognized as a leading supplier.”

“Napier is renowned as an innovative company with an excellent suite of products delivering high technical performance,” he added. “I am pleased that the business has been acquired by a shareholder that is committed to investing further in R&D to maintain its technology and in the expansion of the business to meet customer demand”.

Trevor Stapleton, sales director, Majenta PLM, stated, “The Napier heritage includes such world-famous achievements as a series of land speed, air speed and water speed world records in the late 1920s and early 1930’s that culminated in the land speed record of 394.196 mph set in 1947. We are therefore delighted to be selected by the modern-day descendent, Napier Turbochargers Ltd, to provide and support the technology that will help the company build on its heritage and on its much more recent successes”.

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• Nand K. Kochhar, Executive Technical Leader, Global CAE, Ford Motor Company
• Terry Swack, Co-founder & CEO, Sustainable Minds
• Giovanni Greco, Director, Engineering, Sea Ray
• Chad Jackson, Aberdeen Group
• Kenneth Amann, Director of Research, CIMdata, Inc.

The two day conference has become one of the leading PLM technology events and attracts over 400 indutry professionals from a diverse cross-section of industry verticals.   Industry professionals can attend the event free of charge.

2008 Sponsors include:

Gold Sponsors:

• Intel
• nCode International
• Sun Microsystems

Event Sponsors:

• CEI
• Magna Powertrain, ECS
• EM Software & Systems (USA)
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM
• Metacomp Technologies
• Moldflow (Autodesk, Inc.)
• Penguin Computing
• Safe Technology
• Software Cradle

For more information, visit the event website.

About HyperWorks

Built upon a foundation of design optimization, performance data management and process automation, HyperWorks is an enterprise simulation platform for rapid design-exploration and decision-making. As the most comprehensive, open-architecture CAE solution in the industry, HyperWorks includes best-in-class modeling, analysis, visualization and data management solutions for linear, nonlinear, structural optimization, fluid-structure interaction and multi-body dynamics applications. For more information, please visit http://www.altairhyperworks.com .

About Altair

Altair Engineering, Inc. empowers client innovation and decision-making through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization of business and engineering information. Privately held with
more than 1,400 employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 20-year-plus track record for enterprise analytics, product development and advanced computing, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of industries. To learn more, please visit http://www.altair.com .