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3DVIA Composer orders from ibruk AS and Planmeca Oy strengthens Technia’s role as solution provider for technical documentation

April 1, 2009 | Technia press release

Technia, one of the leading suppliers in Europe of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions, recently received orders from ibruk in Norway and Planmeca in Finland for a design solution, based on 3DVIA Composer from Dassault Systèmes. 3DVIA Composer is focused on helping companies create and maintain their product documentation, including illustrations for user manuals, animations for training materials, information for field service repair instructions, assembly instructions or anything else that helps to describe and document the company’s products and processes. With these orders Technia continues the expansion of its new offering “Design Solutions” that is focusing on 3D services and products, which also complements Technia’s other offering in the PLM area.

ibruk is an expansive consulting company, that provides user manuals, documentation and e-learning solutions for industrial companies globally. ibruk’s goal is to offer effective technical writing and training solutions for customers worldwide. The company focuses on the customer’s optimal utility value to provide user-friendly and cost-effective technical writing solutions that guarantee easy training. ibruk services clients across the world and have some of the most leading companies and brands as their customers.

Finnish Planmeca Oy is the largest privately held company in the dental equipment market and the third largest company in the field. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Planmeca designs, manufactures, and markets high-tech dental equipment suitable for private clinics and teaching environment.

“With 3DVIA Composer the documentation process is faster and the quality of the documentation is better than with traditional techniques. And the documentation staff can manipulate and finalize main assemblies without usage of complex CAD authoring tool and without the R&D department’s involvement. We selected 3DVIA Composer and Technia to be able to enhance technical documentation quality and to be able to manage and complete main assemblies without heavy 3D CAD tool”, says Seppo Jänkävaara, Project Manager, Planmeca Oy.

With 3DVIA Composer we can now handle most CAD geometry and refine the data to our customer’s needs. 3DVIA Composer fits excellent with our solutions such as e-learning and interactive user manuals. Together with our knowledge it brings real customer value”, says Stein Tore Johnsen, ibruk AS.

“Technia constantly continue to widen our offering in the PLM area. It is now exciting to see that our new Design Solution offering, with 3DVIA Composer in the product portfolio, is giving results. The orders from ibruk and Planmeca prove our position as a total PLM solution Partner and that we made the right decision to expand our PLM offering with Design Solutions”, says Johan Schenning, Director Design Solutions, Technia AB.

For more information, please contact:

Johan Schenning, Director Design Solutions, Technia AB
Tel: +46 733 772468
E-mail: johan.schenning@technia.com

Stein Tore Johnsen, General Manager, ibruk AS
Tel: +47 920 79 000
E-mail: Steintj@ibruk.no

Seppo Jänkävaara, Project Manager, Planmeca
Tel +358 20 7795 500
E-mail: seppo.jankavaara@planmeca.com

Ibruk AS

ibruk was established under the name Bruksanvisninger.com in 1999. Our goal was to use newer tools and methods to create better manuals for industrial purposes. Kongsberg, with its unique industrial surroundings, was a greatful place to start. Many companies, especially in Kongsberg, have contributed to our expansion. Kongsberg Automotive was our first customer to go for the Instant Training concept with use of videos in repair procedures. Thank you for your reliance. Knowledge amongst our employees is our highest priority. Special demands are set for information designers who act as the connection between the producer’s technical staff and the customer’s operator. All of our employees have a technical background combined with a sense of presentations and pedagogics. ibruk provides monthly coursing and updating of all employees, and look at knowledge as one of our most important  competitive advantage. For more information, please visit www.ibruk.no

About Planmeca

For more information please visit www.planmeca.com

About Technia

Technia is a world-class supplier of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions for the creation and management of product information throughout the entire product lifecycle. Technia has about 160 employees and is a part of the AddNode group (listed at the OMX Nordic List, Small Cap). The company is a strategic partner to more than 200 Nordic companies and has offices in Sweden, Finland and Norway. Technias customer list includes: BT Products, Ericsson, Elcoteq, Electrolux, ESAB, Forsmark, GE Healthcare, Haglöfs, Komatsu Forest, Marioff, Metso Paper, Mölnlycke Health Care, Nokia, Oticon, Proximion, Scania, Seco Tools, Sectra Mamea, Skanska, Sony Ericsson and SSAB. For more information about Technia, please visit www.technia.com.

About Dassault Systèmes

As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences.  Dassault Systèmes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com 

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