PTC Announces Winners of PTC Awards Competition
NEEDHAM, Mass., June 21, 2001 - PTC (NASDAQ: PMTC), the product development company, today announced the winners of the ninth annual PTC Awards Competition awarded at the 2001 PTC/USER International Conference in Reno, Nev. The John Deere Worldwide Commercial and Consumer Equipment Division design of its 2002 LT Lawn Tractor received the Dr. Samuel P. Geisberg Award, named for PTC's founder, for the Best Overall entry. The John Deere design was judged the overall winner among more than 350 entries, submitted from dozens of countries.
The PTC Awards Competition is an international forum for PTC customers to display their successful achievements using PTC solutions. Awards are given in each of eight industry categories: aerospace, consumer products, education, electronics, heavy equipment, industrial equipment, medical equipment, and transportation.
Capturing both the Best Overall and Consumer Products industry awards the John Deere 2002 LT Series Lawn Tractor, a second-generation design, incorporates customer-driven design improvements while maintaining a competitive price position in the marketplace.
Development of the John Deere design was truly a collaborative effort, using Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/INTRALINK and Pro/MECHANICA to quickly design, analyze, and implement the features customers requested.
"Once again the entries in the PTC Awards Competition truly exemplify the creative and innovative ways our customers have been able to decrease time to market by using PTC's solutions," said C. Richard Harrison, president and CEO, PTC. "With the widespread popularity of PTC's software solutions, this contest illustrates some of the best uses of product development software anywhere, along with showcasing world class product design and products that characterize the best engineering in the world."
A panel of expert judges including Paul Teague, Ben Ames and Louise Elliott of Design News and Phil LoPiccolo of Computer Graphics World performed the first round of judging. Finalists in the competition were also judged by participants at the PTC/USER Conference and online. Decisions were based on the entries' comprehensive use of PTC products, creativity, and technical merit. Submissions were also evaluated on the benefits each design or design process has provided to the entrant's company. Individual winners were selected in each industry category.
Individual category winners for the PTC Awards Competition 2001 included:
- Aerospace: Weber Aircraft (Gainesville, Texas ) - 7170 Business Class Passenger Seat
- Consumer Products: John Deere Worldwide Commercial and Consumer Equipment Division (Horicon, Wis.) - 2002 LT Lawn Tractor
- Education: Mechanical Engineering Department, Kasetsart University (Bangkok, Thailand) - Excavator
- Electronics: Lunar Design (Palo Alto,Calif.) - Hewlett Packard Monitors
- Heavy Equipment: Korvan Industries Inc. (Lynden, Wash.) - Orange Harvester 6000P2
- Industrial Equipment: CADB Turbopump Division (Voronezh, Russia) - Centryfugal Pulp Pump
- Medical Equipment: ProFICIENT Engineering Services, Inc. (Corinth, Texas) - Prosthetic Foot Shell
- Transportation: Group Lotus Plc (Norwich, UK) - Lotus Elise 2000
All of the eight winning entries can be viewed at http://www.ptc.com/award/2001/winners/international.htm
Also, screen savers from past award winners are available at http://www.ptc.com/go/awards/index.htm#screensavers and will be updated with this year's winners in the coming weeks.
This year's PTC/USER International Conference also announced the winners of the first-ever Innovation Awards competition. The submissions were judged on a product's creativity, appearance, usefulness, and how the contestants used PTC behavioral modeling and surfacing products to design and manufacture their product. The competition has two categories: Innovation in Aesthetics and Innovation in Function. The winners are:
- Innovation in Aesthetics - V & V Design (Mumbai, India) - MP3/CD Diskman
- Innovation in Function - HE Microwave Division of Delphi Automotive (Tuscon, Ariz.) - Radar Modular Test Fixture
PTC/USER, the independent voice of PTC customers, has been recently renamed. Formerly Pro/USER, the new name reflects the organization's continued commitment to treat PTC users as a community of customers and to increase focus around not only the MCAD offerings from PTC, but to include Windchill Solutions as well. The new name addresses PTC's entire suite of solutions offerings.
About PTC
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) develops, markets, and supports software solutions that help manufacturers get superior products to market before their competitors. PTC is the world's largest software company with a total commitment to product development. The company services more than 30,000 customers worldwide. Further information on PTC is available at http://www.ptc.com.
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