The new partnership is intended to benefit nearly 10 million users worldwide in its attempt to address the growing need for manufacturers to build products faster, more efficiently and with higher quality.
It will encourage the companies to utilize UGS’ JT and Autodesk’s Design Web Format (DWF), two open formats for sharing digital product design, engineering and manufacturing data, to facilitate interoperability between applications without disrupting existing users’ investment in design data.
Further to the agreement, Autodesk will become a member of UGS’ JT Open Program, a global initiative to support JT, while UGS will join the Autodesk Developer Network and become a DWF Developer partner.
Tony Affuso, CEO of UGS, said: By combining technology strengths and leveraging the widespread adoption of our data formats, UGS and Autodesk will help customers – and the product lifecycle management industry at large – advance to a higher level of manufacturing productivity.
