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AMSEC LLC Chooses SofTech ProductCenter PLM for U.S. Navy Logistics Information Management Solution
Cites ProductCenter’s Configuration Management, Scalability, Performance, and Flexibility as Key in Selection CriteriaTEWKSBURY, Mass. — October 18, 2004 — SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB: SOFT), a leading provider of design-through-manufacturing productivity solutions, announced that its ProductCenter™ PLM (product lifecycle management) solution was chosen by Virginia-based AMSEC LLC as a key component in the Technical Data Knowledge Management (TDKM) program for the U.S. Navy. AMSEC LLC, a full service supplier to the commercial and Navy maritime industry, is the prime contractor on this program.
The evaluation process to choose a PLM solution for this program was conducted by system integrator Data Management Systems, Inc. (DMSi). DMSi’s role in the TDKM program as a subcontractor to AMSEC LLC is to aggregate various sources of technical documentation into a central repository in ProductCenter for management of revisions and updates.
“The TDKM system will standardize and improve the efficiency, timeliness, and accuracy of the transmission of technical support and maintenance documentation to our U.S. Navy ships, enhancing the fleet’s readiness,” states Dana McKnight, AMSEC LLC program manager. “When a ship pulls into port and logs into the system, revision levels of on-board documentation will be compared in ProductCenter and then updated to the latest information specific to that vessel, keeping the ship current.”
As to why ProductCenter was selected for this program, David Giusto, president of DMSi, commented, “We had originally gone down the path of a JAVA-based content management solution but soon realized that it wasn’t enough. We needed a more comprehensive solution with in-depth configuration management capabilities like ProductCenter. It needed to deliver much faster performance for the very large volumes of information the system would handle. ProductCenter gave us the capability to manage more complex configurations, the performance, along with programming ease and flexibility.”
About AMSEC LLC
AMSEC is a Limited Liability Company (LLC) jointly owned by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN). AMSEC LLC is a full service supplier to the commercial and Navy maritime industry, providing naval architecture and marine engineering, combat and electronic systems engineering, naval ship systems assessments, maintenance engineering and program development, shipyard industrial engineering and complete logistics services from technical manual development to provisioning documents, spare parts management and training.
About Document Management Systems, Inc. (DMSI)
Document Management Solutions, Inc. (DMSi) offers a full range of consulting, integration, optimization and training services for professionals challenged with designing and implementing XML based content management solutions. DMSi consultants each have over a decade of experience helping clients develop real-world solutions to real-world problems. Working with structured markup languages such as SGML and XML, DMSi implements commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, and provides the necessary middleware, integration, training and support services to get your staff up and running — quickly. More information is available at www.dmsi-world.com.
About SofTech, Inc.
SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB: SOFT) provides design-through-manufacturing productivity solutions with its computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) products including CADRA®, DesignGateway™, Prospector™, and ProductCenter™ (through SofTech’s Workgroup Technology Division). SofTech’s solutions optimize product lifecycle processes at the lowest cost by fostering innovation, extended enterprise collaboration, product quality improvements, and compressed time-to-market cycles.
SofTech has more than 100,000 users benefiting from its solutions, including Boeing, FlightSafety International, General Electric Company, Goodrich Turbine Fuel Technologies, Honeywell, Millipore Corporation, Siemens, Sikorsky Aircraft, U.S. Army, and Whirlpool Corporation.
Headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, SofTech (www.softech.com) has locations and distribution partners throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
SofTech, CADRA, DesignGateway, ProductCenter and Prospector are trademarks of SofTech, Inc. All other products or company references are the property of their respective holders.
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