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ENOVIA Moves its Headquarters

ENOVIA will move to its new Global Headquarters. We have a new address and telephone numbers. We will be in the new location on Monday, June 14. Please make note of the info below.

ENOVIA Corp.
10330 David Taylor Drive
Charlotte, North Carolina 28262
Tel: 704-264-8800
Fax: 704-264-8888

On almost everyone's telephone number, the number last 4 digits of the number remain the same. Only the prefix changes from 944 to 264. For example, a current number is 704-944-8944 would become 704-264-8944.

Karl DAMHAVE
ENOVIA Corp.

Managing Product Configuration with SMARTEAM V5R13

David Segal, Product Manager, SMARTEAM Corp.

With V5R13, SMARTEAM has made significant advances in its configuration management offering, with product-centric views, advanced filtering, and instance modeling. These capabilities simplify complex product development for companies of all sizes by improving their ability to capture, reuse, and manipulate their product knowledge. Available across thick and thin clients (including to remote SMARTEAM users), the new capabilities give an organization better insight into the impact of engineering changes and other variables, facilitating critical, timely decisions related to the product's development.

New Product Views for BOM Configuration Management
As of SMARTEAM V5R13, users can manipulate the product structure from multiple product perspectives, with links to deeper levels of part information. Previously, SMARTEAM users could see a product as defined by its Documents or Parts. The entirely new Product entity enables companies to view and manage a product from a pure top-level Product perspective. Users can display each product according to the specific assemblies or configurations that comprise it under diverse circumstances. The new Product entity is a class unto itself, whereby users define sub-products and link them to the relevant parts. This linking creates the true structure of the product and its associated assemblies. Companies can use the Product perspective across multiple products to improve their understanding of the interrelatedness of parts across the company's product offering, enhancing decision-making through greater process visibility and facilitating a wide spectrum of enterprise and design activities.

SMARTEAM: A single point of control for managing different lifecycle views of a product's configuration

Working with Different BOMs
Accessed through the SMARTEAM user menu, Product Views let users view the product according to certain criteria, such as a predefined lifecycle state, and extract specific product structure subsets regarding user roles and requirements. SMARTEAM provides predefined views, including "As Designed" (by the engineering team), "As Built" (for a particular customer), and "As Maintained" (by the service department). SMARTEAM also enables customers to define product views to meet other needs, such as "As Estimated," "As Shipped," "As Packaged," and more. For each product, a user selects a particular product view and associates with it a certain structure for the parts. While at work, the user continues to define and manage the product information using the view of choice. By managing different product views, the organization achieves a better understanding of the product while maintaining product data integrity.

Advanced Filtering of the Product Structure
New unit effectivity capabilities join SMARTEAM's existing date effectivity functionality to provide advanced product structure filtering. Together, these capabilities enable engineers to capture precise design intent and produce different product configurations.

Specifically, the new Unit Effectivity feature enables engineers to define the structure of a product or group of products by assigning a unique code of alphanumeric values and/or ranges (e.g. E500; 1-10; 200) to each unit to be produced (expressed as objects in the product tree) and its links. The Date Effectivity feature enables engineers to define the time period (start and end date) during which an object is valid for use.

Unit and Date Effectivity support downstream manufacturing needs and other enterprise activities

Together, unit and date effectivity equip engineers with an effective tool for component tree filtering and for performing a full range of serialization activities (such as the definition of serial or numbers to Parts) that ultimately produce an exact product structure from a given product view. The resulting product structure serves downstream manufacturing needs, such as batch/lot tracking. As such, SMARTEAM's advanced filtering capabilities enrich the ERP/MRP system, which itself cannot create serialized structures.

By providing an integrated environment with ERP and MRP systems, SMARTEAM provides important enterprise flexibility and definition capabilities surrounding the product structure. SMARTEAM's advanced filtering capabilities provide further enterprise value by enabling organizations to view and compare diverse product configurations across a given product line.

Full Instance Modeling
SMARTEAM full-featured instance modeling capability helps companies -- particularly those with numerous product variations and dependence on many suppliers -- reuse existing product knowledge to optimize parts design and react to design changes quickly and resourcefully.

Instance modeling is the visual breakdown of a product's structure into a detailed picture of the multiple and varied instances of manufactured items with respect to the product. Organizations use instance modeling for different needs, such as the definition of substitute items, operation sequence (assembly order), and reference designators. SMARTEAM enables companies to catalog and reference not only a part's quantity but also provide an entirely additional level of detail about some or all of that quantity, with links to related information. This information can be important details with relevance somewhere along the product lifecycle, such as with an impact on engineering, manufacturing, and more.

Companies can use SMARTEAM to define whether an equivalent, alternative, or substitute item can be used for a given instance of an item, as well as define links to the substitute parts. For example, a designer can specify that 50 resistors of 220 ? can be of class 2 (tolerance 5%), whereas resistors R21-30 can be of class 3 (tolerance 10%).

SMARTEAM's instancing modeling supports highly refined specification definitions, including the ability to limit substitution of an item to a particular customer or vendor.

Apply Rules Once, Across the Board
Using SMARTEAM's configuration management capabilities equips manufacturers to comprehensively, in a single effort, apply filtering rules across all configurations of the product. This powerful capability reduces work and optimizes the development effort, while simplifying and reducing redundancies within the product model. By capitalizing on SMARTEAM as the single-source oracle of product knowledge and as a single pivot point for managing the product structure, manufacturers dramatically streamline product development, shortening time to market and more.

IBM Provides New Product Lifecycle Management Service To Lam Research Corporation

First-of-Its-Kind PLM Service Enables Flexibility As Marketplace Needs Fluctuate

IBM announced that Lam Research Corporation, a leading supplier of semiconductor fabrication equipment, is the first client ever to select a new, Web-based product lifecycle management (PLM) service from IBM to help improve efficiency in product lifecycle processes.

The service is the first utility offering of its kind for PLM. Under the terms of the agreement, IBM plans to provide Lam with a comprehensive network-based solution for managing and archiving product design documents and processes, including knowledge management and collaboration features, in a security-enhanced environment.

"The new on demand service from IBM will help Lam streamline processes and enable collaboration with our customers and suppliers," said Steve Newberry, Lam's president and COO. "Utilizing IBM's services will allow for faster realization of business value and maximum ROI on this IT investment, in addition to responsiveness and flexibility to move with the market."

IBM's new on demand PLM service facilitates standardization of design practices and enables collaboration throughout the Lam value chain, helping increase product quality, improve market responsiveness and lower cost of production. Lam will tap into the service on an as needed basis, paying only for the resources used. The service allows Lam to eliminate upfront capital expenditures and reduce deployment time, compared to a traditional implementation where Lam would install the infrastructure and manage the application in-house.

IBM also intends to offer this service to the member companies of the CapOneSource Alliance, of which Lam is a founding member. Member companies which contract with IBM for this on demand PLM service will have the opportunity to achieve savings and other benefits as a result of sharing the utility among multiple companies in the Alliance.

CapOneSource Alliance, LLC is a not-for-profit alliance of providers and consumers of common corporate services. Members and providers share in the vision of reducing costs and increasing productivity by aggregating demand for services through a single, highly capable supplier. The inspiration for CapOneSource began with an outsourcing initiative at Lam Research Corporation.

"By tapping into the IBM product lifecycle management service, Lam will have a method for streamlining processes that are vital to the company's success," said Marilyn Stemper, IBM Business Consulting Services Partner for Electronics Industry PLM.

With this service, IBM is combining e-business Hosting Services, with IBM Business Consulting Services, who have provided PLM strategy, and business process transformation and implementation services. This combination provides a comprehensive PLM on demand service for manufacturers around the world, and is a compelling proposition for any company that creates complex products with multiple parts, such as aerospace and defense, electronics, medical device, and semiconductor companies.

Specifically for Lam, this new IBM PLM service is being built on PTC Windchill's application software suite, including PDMLink and ProjectLink Version 7, and is expected to be utilized in late summer of 2004. IBM expects to offer a similar service for other PLM applications by year end.

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Christopher P. Sciacca
Strategic Communications, Manager
IBM Product Lifecycle Management

Intel's Enterprise Processor Plans: Positioning the Xeon Processor and the Itanium Processor
by Vernon Turner

Intel will ship an enhanced version of its Xeon processor in mid-2004. In addition to offering full native 32-bit performance, expanded on-chip cache capacity, new power management features, and faster front-side bus (FSB), this new Xeon processor will include Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T) to extend the physical and virtual address spaces for the Xeon family of processors.

Intel will offer two 64-bit processor product lines: Xeon processors with 64-bit extensions and Itanium processors. IDC believes that these two product lines will be differentiated and will coexist in the marketplace. While the processors both contain 64-bit registers and support larger address spaces, they differ in other areas and will be used to support different workloads.

The new Xeon processor will be especially useful for the large number of 32-bit applications that can be run with full native performance. ISVs and users with custom software can recompile their code to access more memory. At the same time, the Itanium processor offers a larger address space; larger caches; reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features; and higher performance from a new processor architecture: explicitly parallel instruction computing (EPIC).

Xeon and Itanium processors will be used to build smaller scale-out servers, and Itanium processors will be used to build larger scale-up servers. A scale-out architecture provides more capacity by adding a greater number of smaller servers, while a scale-up architecture provides more capability by adding a smaller number of larger servers. Workloads that do not share data extensively and can be decomposed and executed in parallel as independent subprocesses are best supported by a scale-out architecture. Workloads that do share data extensively but are inherently multitasked or can be decomposed into dependent parallel tasks are best supported by a scale-up architecture that calls for a more powerful server. For many applications and workloads, both scale-up and scale-out solutions will be technically viable and price/performance ratios will play the final role in IT decision making.

IDC believes that Intel's introduction of the Xeon processor with 64-bit extensions provides OEMs and their customers with an important new choice in a highly competitive market. The ability of servers to host both legacy 32-bit applications at native performance and new 64-bit applications will ease the path forward for IT organizations and their ISVs and accelerate migration to a 64-bit industry-standard platform.

Global Headquarters:
5 Speen Street
Framingham, MA 01701 USA
P.508.872.8200
F.508.935.4015
www.idc.com

Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/faq.htm
Testimonials - http://www.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/testimon.htm
Positioning Paper for Itanium and Xeon EM64T - ftp://download.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/4071_Intel_Xeon_rev3.pdf