MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG Replaces Incumbent PDM System with UGS Teamcenter and NX Solutions in its Sheetfed Press Segment


MAN Roland selected UGS over CATIA following an extensive evaluation process; company cited enhanced functionality, efficiency and financial benefits as key determining factors

PLANO, Texas and COLOGNE, Germany - UGS Corp., a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced that MAN Roland, the world's second largest printing systems manufacturer, will replace CATIA®, which it has used for 20 years, with UGS' Teamcenter® and NX® software in its location in Offenbach, Germany. MAN Roland chose the UGS technology in December 2006 and plans to implement Teamcenter in 2007 and NX in 2008.

MAN Roland will use Teamcenter, UGS' digital lifecycle management solution, as its product data management (PDM) platform for its design database, which is a significant source of information for the company.

In addition, following pilot programs which included extensive competitive evaluations, MAN Roland also selected NX, UGS' digital product development solution, as its computer-aided design (CAD) platform for sheetfed offset presses. The company also uses data migration tools from UGS to convert high quality construction data in an effort to reduce the time spent on post-editing by design engineers.

"As a result of our involvement with UGS, we are convinced one hundred percent that the Teamcenter solution is the clear leader in product data management," said Dieter Callies, expert for CAD, PDM and PLM in the sheet sector at MAN Roland. "Teamcenter allows us to work on the printing machine's entire product structure in real-time across multiple disciplines. Combining this capability with NX will allow us to further enhance efficiency and be more cost-effective."

"With MAN Roland we have won one of the most important customers in the printing industry and thus considerably increased our market share in this segment," said Paul Vogel, senior vice president and managing director, Europe, Middle East and Africa, UGS. "The openness of our solutions provides flexibility to our customers and helps them to adapt quickly to the demands of their customers in a highly competitive market."

About MAN Roland

MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG is the world's second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world's market leader in web offset printing. MAN Roland operates out of Offenbach, Augsburg, and Plauen in Germany. It employs a staff of almost 9,000 and has annual sales of EUR 1.7 billion, with an export share of 83%. Web and sheetfed offset presses as well as digital printing systems are the major product lines for publishing, commercial, and packaging printing. The field of business ranges from small-format sheetfed presses to production systems for newspaper printing in runs of millions. For more information on MAN Roland, please visit www.man-roland.de.

About UGS

UGS is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 4.3 million licensed seats and 47,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, UGS' vision is to enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate through global innovation networks to deliver world-class products and services while leveraging UGS' open enterprise solutions, fulfilling the mission of enabling them to transform their process of innovation. For more information on UGS products and services, visit ugs.com.

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