ProtoMarket.com Partners with ITI: Enables Marketplace with CAD Translation and Repair Services

From: Vanessa Newkirk (vanessan@protomarket.com)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 00:19:56 EET


For Immediate Release

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ProtoMarket.com Partners with ITI: Enables Marketplace with CAD Translation
and Repair Services

Chicago, November 30, 2000: ProtoMarket.com, the first and largest online
marketplace for the Rapid Manufacturing industry, today announced a
partnership with ITI (International TechneGroup Incorporated), the leading
global provider of product data interoperability solutions. Because fast,
reliable and accurate electronic exchange of CAD files between designers and
manufacturers is so crucial to the success of the marketplace, any errors
can mean costly delays. ITI has developed a host of solutions to this
problem with superior software and methodologies for converting CAD data
from one format to another, and repair tools that identify and correct
errors. Under this partnership, ProtoMarket.com will offer manned
translation and repair services, under the name ProtoMarket Translator for
use on their website.

According to ProtoMarket President & CEO, Jeff Katz, "Using Translator will
enable our customers to significantly reduce or eliminate costly and
time-consuming CAD model rework. It will also allow our members to do
business with a wider variety of partners. No other service can
accommodate more file types, and the fact that live CAD operators check and
repair each file should deliver consistently superior results. ITI is the
recognized leader in this field, and we are excited to be able to take
advantage of their experience and technical excellence.”

“ProtoMarket.com is a leading example of how the Internet can be put to work
as a valuable resource to deliver practical tools and services to
manufacturers throughout industry,” explained ITI’s Don Hemmelgarn, Sr. Vice
President and General Manager of the company’s Product Data Interoperability
business. “We are pleased to collaborate with ProtoMarket.com to deliver
proven and reliable CAD model translation and repair solutions to
manufacturers of all types and sizes. Through this offering downstream CAD
model users can be assured of getting the clean, translated CAD model that
they need when they need it.”

ProtoMarket is already a leader in secure online CAD file transfer, using
advanced 128-bit SSL encryption technology. With the addition of
Translator to ProtoMarket’s site, customers who need to fix defective CAD
models or translate files from one CAD system to another can upload their
files with confidence that the data will be secure, and that experienced
technicians will personally manage the translation.

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About ProtoMarket.com

Launched in March of 2000, ProtoMarket is an electronic marketplace that
matches buyers and sellers of contract manufacturing services. The
marketplace matches the procurement needs of buyers with highly qualified,
specialized vendors using a web-based application specifically designed to
deliver high-speed procurement over a secure platform. The service is
focused on the rapid prototyping/tooling, casting, CNC-machining and tooling
markets. ProtoMarket.com is also forming strategic alliances to offer a
number of additional value-added services for the design engineering and
manufacturing community. For more information, visit ProtoMarket’s website
at http://www.protomarket.com or contact ProtoMarket.com Customer Service at
customerservice@protomarket.com.

ProtoMarket.com Media Contact:
Vanessa Newkirk
Marketing/PR Manager
773-477-7374 x 204
vanessan@protomarket.com

About ITI
Founded in 1983, ITI is the world's leading provider of product data
interoperability solutions. They provide software tools and services
enabling companies to effectively exchange, reuse, and share CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM
and related engineering data among diverse software applications used
throughout a manufacturing enterprise and it's supply chain. ITI's PDI
solutions are aimed directly at reducing and eliminating non-value-added
costs associated with data re-work. ITI applies this experience and
expertise to deliver unmatched data translation results. Read more about
ITI's complete Product Data Interoperability tools and services by visiting
www.iti-oh.com/pdi.

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