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PTC is the leading supplier of CAD/CAM/CAE software tools used to automate the development of
a product from its design concept through production. More than 24,000 companies worldwide use
PTC’s integrated software technologies to reduce time to market, improve engineering processes,
and optimize product quality.
Pro/ENGINEER
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, PTC’s leading software application, is a highly advanced product development
software tool that supports collaborative product commerce in the areas of industrial design,
mechanical design, functional simulation, and manufacturing. Through the use of Pro/ENGINEER
on Compaq Professional Workstations, multiple disciplines within a company can contribute
simultaneously to a single product model, thereby reducing the company’s overall time to market.
Compaq is the leading supplier (#1) of workstations to PTC customers - as announced on
December 2, 1999. Compaq also has nearly twice the Windows NT and Windows 2000 market share
of its nearest competitor, according to PTC’s new license registrations for the MCAD market.
Compaq has achieved this level of market acceptance as a result of the following:
Leading Performance -
Compaq workstations provide leadership performance technology at
competitive prices, enabling engineering managers to achieve shorter development times through
higher engineering productivity. This, coupled with Compaq’s leadership in graphics, allows
engineers to easily see and understand their designs, check out fresh ideas and concepts, test and
analyze these concepts, share them for review, and convert them to cost-effective designs with
documentation for production.
Compaq Engineering Excellence -
With Compaq’s intensive engineering efforts, Compaq’s
workstation family can consistently offer the latest Intel and graphics technology, and be the first
to market with new products while providing high quality and reliability. In one recent example,
Compaq shipped the Intense 3D Wildcat graphics technology over 3 months ahead of the
competition. In another example, Compaq announced new workstation products, and took orders on
the same day Intel announced the availability of its new chip.
Award Winning Design -
Compaq workstations consistently win awards for their performance. One
of the recent awards was Bench99, sponsored by Connect Press Inc. the publishers of
ProE The
Magazine
. Compaq won in the categories of the fastest Windows NT workstation, the fastest CPU
and the best price/performance. Leading workstation vendors submitted a combined total of 21
systems.
Technology Change Protection -
With technology changing rapidly, hardware vendors must not
only keep pace, but do so in a way that provides quality Pro/ENGINEER solutions. Compaq
maintains a technical lab at PTC in Waltham, where we test our new workstations with
Pro/ENGINEER regression tests well before they make it into customer’s hands. Compaq tests new
PTC applications on older hardware so that customers are not required to upgrade their Compaq
systems when they want to implement the newest versions of Pro/ENGINEER.
Specific PTC Solutions -
Compaq Workstations also have many unique features that help
Pro/ENGINEER users, such as the largest available internal memory for Intel-based machines (4
Gbytes). Needed by some customers to handle large assemblies, this memory option significantly
speeds up model manipulation by allowing the model and Pro/ENGINEER software to be memory
resident. Engineering departments are finding this to be more of a requirement as model sizes
increase during the development cycle.
Another feature gaining in popularity is that Compaq workstations can be used with dual screens.
