Company Highlights Technologies for Streamlining Design Collaboration

Company Highlights Technologies for Streamlining Design Collaboration

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today kicked off activities at the National Design Engineering Show and Conference, part of National Manufacturing Week in Chicago. Adobe and its partners are demonstrating solutions to help organizations streamline document- and forms-based design collaboration and field service management processes.

In its exhibit (Booth 3615 at McCormick Place Complex), Adobe will demonstrate solutions based on its Adobe® Acrobat® 7.0 desktop and Adobe LiveCycle™ server software lines. By employing Adobe technology, in conjunction with that of its partners, manufacturing organizations can more securely and effectively involve suppliers and partners early in the design collaboration process. In addition, they can better empower service channels with mobile and off-line processing capabilities for field service management.

“As aerospace, automotive and electronics companies work to address critical issues such as increasing supply chain complexity, shrinking product lifecycles and compliance requirements, the ability to effectively harness technology is of heightened importance,” said Eugene Lee, vice president of marketing, Intelligent Documents Business Unit. “Adobe and its partners are helping manufacturing organizations automate and simplify key document- and forms-based processes that have traditionally been slowed by the inefficiencies of paper.”

Adobe partners Agile Software Corporation, Right Hemisphere and Navisware will appear in Adobe theater presentations each day. Agile, a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, will illustrate how Agile solutions utilize Adobe software to address critical documentation, version-control and forms-based information management requirements across the extended supply network. Agile PLM solutions use Acrobat, Adobe LiveCycle Designer, Adobe LiveCycle Forms, and Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions to enable PDF conversion from everyday document creation programs, allow users to collaborate on PDF files with review and markup tools, manage product record information with electronic forms, and sign-off on final documents.

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