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MILFORD, OH; JULY 16, 2001 --- Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) has selected ITI TranscenData to provide product data interoperability solutions. Kodak's Mechanical and Systems Engineering organization will employ ITI TranscenData's DEXcenter™ (Data Exchange Center) to share and exchange product data. The DEXcenter is an Intranet-based product data exchange management center. DEXcenters enable leading OEM and Tier 1 suppliers to centralize, organize, control, and manage the flow of product data between a variety of departments, customers and suppliers regardless of that data's type, source, or destination.
"At Kodak, we are always working to improve engineering processes; the ITI TranscenData DEXcenter will help us streamline our processes for translating CAD files from one system to another," said David Sherburne, Unit Director, Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Eastman Kodak Company. "It automates the procedure for moving files internally and externally so that necessary design detail can be accessed by all organizations involved, thereby improving our time to market."
"The DEXcenter solution will enable Kodak to make more efficient use of CAD models throughout design and manufacturing while slashing time and cost associated with CAD model rework and transmission," explained Tom Makoski, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ITI TranscenData. "This relationship fully leverages the strengths of both organizations enabling Kodak to focus resources and activities on sustaining its position as a world leading provider of imaging products and services while allowing ITI TranscenData to focus on delivering product data interoperability solutions. Needless to say, we are very pleased to have been entrusted with Kodak's interoperability success."
About DEX Center
The DEXcenter is a collection of translators and data exchange tools pulled
together into a customized, organized, secure data integration environment. A
variety of tools (commercial or customized) may be plugged in to the DEXcenter
to provide the optimum translation path between dissimilar CAD, CAM, CAE and
PDM software applications. Additionally, the DEX Center can include such
functions as CAD model repair and healing, CAD model quality, and more. Data
passing through the DEXcenter is checked for quality, repaired, and prepared
for the target system. Much of the process can be automated to reduce
customer/supplier integration to the push of a button.
DEXcenter capabilities may include:
About Eastman Kodak Company
Kodak is the world's leader in helping people and businesses take, share, store
and print pictures -- traditional or digital. Kodak's sales last year of nearly
$14 billion were divided between consumer and commercial products and services,
such as professional and consumer digital cameras, laser imagers for
radiologists, photographic films for professionals and amateurs, digital
services for cinematographers, high-speed document scanners and aerial images.
Kodak is a leading participant in infoimaging, a $225 billion industry created
by the convergence of images and information technology. Infoimaging unites
three closely related imaging markets -- devices, infrastructure and services /
media -- that enable people to more easily use images as a fast and effective
way to share pictures as information, entertainment or memories.
About ITI TranscenData
ITI TranscenData is the product data interoperability business within
International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI). ITI TranscenData provides
interoperability solutions that enable companies to effectively exchange,
reuse, and share engineering product data among diverse software applications
used throughout a manufacturing enterprise and it's supply chain. ITI
TranscenData solutions are aimed directly at reducing and eliminating
non-value-added time and costs associated with reusing product data. ITI
TranscenData solutions are distributed worldwide through a combination of
direct sales, resellers, and strategic vendor/OEM partners.