2004 PTC/USER World Event-Americas Attracts Attendees From More
Than 20 Countries Around the Globe
Product Development Experts From the World's Leading Manufacturing Companies to
Present Winner of Annual PTC Design Award and Alliance Partner Award to be
Announced
NEEDHAM, Mass., June 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PTC (NASDAQ:PMTC), the
Product Development Company(TM) and PTC/USER, an independent, not-for-profit
corporation organized by PTC users, today announced that the annual PTC/USER
World Event-Americas, taking place June 13-16 in Nashville, will host customers
from more than 20 countries around the world, as PTC's influence on global
product development continues to grow. The event will feature more than 80
technical and business seminars, tutorials and demonstrations presented by
expert PTC users, partners and PTC staff. Highlights include a keynote session
presented by David Holden, team engineer with NASCAR's legendary Richard
Childress Racing and an exhibit hall with more than 90 demonstrations of the
latest tools and technologies from Industry Partners such as Adobe Systems, HP,
IBM, Intel, and Sun Microsystems.
At the event, PTC will provide corporate and technology updates from President
and CEO Dick Harrison and Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer
Jim Heppelmann. PTC will also announce the winners of the 12th annual PTC
Design Awards Competition and annual Global Alliance Partner Award.
With adoption of PTC's Product Development System (PDS) continuing to grow,
this year's event will provide users an opportunity to participate in hands-on
training and best practices sessions focused on key PTC solutions, including
the newest versions of PTC's design software, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire(TM) 2.0,
and new collaboration and control solution Windchill(R) 7.0. Pro/ENGINEER
Wildfire(TM) has achieved record customer adoption of an estimated 52% percent
since its introduction in February 2003. PTC has also achieved success with
Windchill(R) 7.0, growing the Windchill customer base by almost 15% in just six
months since its introduction.
"This year's PTC/USER event is coming in the midst of a lot of excitement and
focus on PTC and its newest product offerings," said Pierre Quesnel, president
of PTC/USER. "The latest releases of PTC's product design and PLM solutions are
enjoying strong customer adoption. Our event provides users the opportunity to
gather with peers, partners and PTC to learn and share tips, techniques and
best practices -- to help them maximize their PTC experience." At the end of the conference, PTC will announce the overall winner of the
twelfth Annual PTC Design Awards Competition, to be voted on by participants at
this year's event. More than 350 entries were submitted this year - and an
expert panel of independent judges have already selected category winners based
on several criteria, including the entries' comprehensive use of PTC solutions,
creativity and technical merit.
The eight individual category winners in the running for the overall PTC Design
Award are: -- Consumer: SQUARE 1 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT -- Sprung "Hat-Trick" In-line
Skate
-- Education, K-12: Mechanical Engineering School -- Locomotive GE -- 9 --
44CW
-- Education, College and University: University of Limerick -- Battleship
Bismarck
-- High-Tech Electronics: PLUG POWER L L C -- Plug Power GenCore 5T
-- High-Tech Electronics: Daktronics, Inc. -- Toyota Center Multi-Sided
Centerhung Display
-- Heavy Equipment: John Deere -- John Deere 3235 C LWFM
-- Life Sciences: Product Development Technologies -- Portable Lancing
Device
-- Transportation: BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS, INC. -- EVINRUDE 40-
90HP E-TEC Outboard Motor More information about the category winners and their design submissions is
available online at http://www.ptc.com/appserver/mkt/ptcawards/winners.jsp.
PTC will also be announcing the winner of its annual Global Alliance Partner
Award. The award recognizes one of the 73 global alliance partners that has
been an exemplar for promoting value in the Product Lifecycle Management market
place. The global alliance partner program is now in its sixth year of
creating an ecosystem of the extended PLM marketplace. The ecosystem supports
the strategic consulting, hardware and software platform, and applications
implementations of PTC's product development systems solutions.
About PTC PTC (NASDAQ:PMTC) develops, markets, and supports software solutions that help
manufacturers win with superior products. With a total commitment to product
development and product lifecycle management (PLM), the Company services more
than 35,000 customers worldwide. PTC is included in the S&P 500 and Russell
2000 indices. Further information on PTC is available at
http://www.ptc.com/index.htm.
About PTC/USER PTC/USER is the independent voice for users of software produced by PTC of
Needham, Massachusetts. PTC/USER is the sole entity recognized by PTC as the
official worldwide representative of its customers.
Except for the historical information contained herein, matters discussed in
this news release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those projected. Such risks include the ability of PTC to develop the
technologies necessary to deliver products and services that meet evolving
customer requirements and the success of PTC's customer satisfaction
initiatives in providing the foundation for long-term relationships and repeat
business, as well as those that are detailed from time to time in reports filed
by PTC with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including PTC's most
recent reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q.
Contact Information:
Maria Battaglia Kalley Thomas
PTC Global Public Relations Weber Shandwick Worldwide
617-233-4372 617-520-7240
DATASOURCE: PTC CONTACT: Maria Battaglia of PTC Global Public Relations, +1-617-233-4372, ; or Kalley Thomas of Weber Shandwick Worldwide, +1-617-520-7240, Web site: http://www.ptc.com/
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