siemens plm - Siemens Plm Software Purchases Rulestream Engineer-To- Order (ETO) Software Technology and Brand Assets

Siemens PLM Software, a business assemblage of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a arch all-around provider of artefact lifecycle administration (PLM) software and services, today appear the acquirement of the Rulestream® software technology and casting assets, a arch engineer-to-order (ETO) software appliance for streamlining the business processes associated with custom-built products. Siemens PLM Software will action the band-aid to its barter beneath the Rulestream casting name and accept abounding albatross for advancing software development and support.
“For added than eight years, Rulestream software has active able ability abduction and reclaim to advice companies rapidly architect articles to chump specification. They accept accomplished greater engineering throughput, college sales win rates, bigger allowance security, beneath advance times and lower costs,” said Chuck Grindstaff, controlling carnality admiral of Products and arch technology administrator of Siemens PLM Software. “The Rulestream technology’s adeptness to abetment in accompanying accretion revenues and blurred operating costs makes it a acute band-aid for the marketplace. As the newest affiliate of our artefact family, it will serve as an ideal accompaniment to our absolute apartment of artefact development and lifecycle offerings.”
A absolute approach
ETO business processes are active by a ample and growing amount of accomplishment industry segments, including ability generation, HVAC, aqueous breeze technologies, abundant equipment, machinery, and the automotive and aerospace accumulation base. The accretion appeal for customized or customer-specific artefact configurations creates a accepted set of challenges for these companies. There is connected aggressive burden for ETO manufacturers to access the number, accurateness and win amount of their bids, while abbreviation adjustment engineering advance time and optimizing ability appliance in manufacturing.
Rulestream addresses the different challenges faced by ETO manufacturers with a absolute band-aid spanning sales, engineering and manufacturing. By capturing engineering ability and application it to automate key business processes above the enterprise, Rulestream streamlines the “inquiry to quote” and “order to release” processes for even the a lot of circuitous products, so manufacturers can advertise according to their engineering and accomplishment capabilities.
“We charge to appear abutting to a final architecture bound to advance proposals and abduction new business while ciphering our costs accurately,” said Kip Alexander, chief technology manager, The Babcock and Wilcox Company. “With Rulestream we are able to do this, abbreviation angle development from weeks to days. It allows our engineers to abode architecture constraints in an automated appearance and adapt final designs in one-tenth of the time.”
Building chump value
Through advancing software enhancements and support, Siemens PLM Software will abide to body business amount for both accepted and approaching Rulestream customers. The aggregation aswell affairs to deeply accommodate Rulestream with NX™ software, its agenda artefact development offering, and Teamcenter® software, its agenda lifecycle administration portfolio. The accession of Rulestream to the Siemens PLM Software artefact band will reinforce and augment the investments fabricated in Rules Based Design and Knowledge Based Engineering through the NX and Teamcenter appliance suites.
“Today’s advertisement is acceptable account for companies employing ETO business practices and/or architecture custom products.” said Ed Miller, president, CIMdata. “Siemens PLM Software’s top above acceptability for artefact development alternating with its accessible access to accomplishing business should advice enhance the bazaar cachet of Rulestream. The band-aid fits accurately into the Siemens PLM Software artefact mix and should accredit a different amount hypothesis for its customers.”
Terms of the transaction appear today were not disclosed. Rulestream is accessible anon from Siemens PLM Software. For added information, amuse appointment www.siemens.com/plm/rulestream, or acquaintance your bounded Siemens PLM Software sales office.

About Siemens PLM Software
Siemens PLM Software, a business assemblage of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a arch all-around provider of artefact lifecycle administration (PLM) software and casework with about six actor accountant seats and 56,000 barter worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies to bear accessible solutions that advice them about-face added account into acknowledged products. For added advice on Siemens PLM Software articles and services, appointment www.siemens.com/plm.
About the Siemens Industry Automation Division
The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany) is a common baton in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage switchgear and automated software. Its portfolio ranges from accepted articles for the accomplishment and action industries to solutions for accomplished automated sectors that beset the automation of absolute auto assembly accessories and actinic plants. As a arch software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the absolute amount added alternation of manufacturers – from artefact architecture and development to production, sales and a advanced ambit of aliment services. With about 42,900 advisers common Siemens Industry Automation accomplished in budgetary year 2008 absolute sales of EUR8.7 billion.

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