#Geometric reports 24.6% rise in Q1 net profit

Geometric has posted a consolidated net profit of Rs19.2 crore in the quarter ended 30 June, up 24.6% from Rs.15.4 crore in the year-ago period. On a sequential basis, net profit rose 185.7% from Rs6.72 crore in the quarter ended 31 March.

Highlights for the quarter ended June 20, 2014 (Q1 FY15)

·         The Company recorded operating revenues of USD 44.96 Mn, as against revenues of USD     44.29 Mn in the previous quarter, and USD 46.45 Mn in the corresponding quarter last year
·         The Profit after tax rose 185.2% and 24.6% to INR 192.08 Mn from INR 67.35 Mn in Q4FY14 and INR 154.14 Mn in Q1FY14 respectively
·         Signed new deals worth USD 8.08 Mn
·         EPS for the quarter at INR 3.02
In Rupee terms, the Company closed the quarter with operating revenues of INR 2,688.45 Mn compared to revenues of INR 2,733.62 Mn in the last quarter and an increase of 3.3% from INR 2,602.75 Mn in Q1FY14. The EBITDA margins saw a healthy improvement from 10.4% in the previous quarter, and 15.6% in the same quarter last year, to 17.3% in Q1FY15. The Company’s EBITDA stood at INR 463.81 Mn, a rise of 63.6% and 13.9% from INR 283.47 Mn in the preceding quarter and INR 407.20 Mn in Q1FY14 respectively.

Mr. Manu Parpia, Managing Director & CEO said, “Our results reflect our continuing recovery driven by  growth in our automotive vertical, supported by a return to growth by the large industrial customer which had seen serious decline in revenues last year. We believe the momentum will continue over the next few quarters, and it is our desire to accelerate the growth. The next quarter result will reflect the impact of salary revisions, which are in line with the industry.”

The company had a total employee strength of over 4500 employees as of June 30, 2014, including its subsidiaries.

Geometric to preview CNC programming automation solution CAMWorks® 2015

Geometric software will preview its latest release of CNC programming automation solution, CAMWorks® 2015 in Chicago, Illinois between September 8 - 13, 2014.

In today’s environment, manufacturers need to be able to do more with less - less design time, program time, setup time and machining time. CAMWorks 2015 focuses on making the entire design to part cycle shorter.

Quicker Programming Time – CAMWorks 2015 has over a dozen enhancements focused on shortening the programming time. One example is the color based identification of complex surfaces making it easier and quicker to define features by avoiding the traditional chains and profiles methodology. CAMWorks 2015 has bolstered its ability to interpret non-prismatic surfaces on solid models as machinable entities automatically. This enhanced ability to leverage feature-based machining for complex requirements in combination with Intelligent Knowledge Base (TechDB™) allows end users to eliminate the routine elements in CNC programming and focus on their core expertise.

Quicker Setup Time – For a job shop, setup time is critical. With an integrated true G-code simulation, CAMWorks Virtual Machine, users can make sure that the costly process of dry-runs on the shopfloor are minimized with one-click verification. The use of G-code for verification is absolutely critical if you are dealing with sub-programs, macros, sub-spindle transfers, tail-stocks and steady rests.

Quicker Machining Time – On the other hand, for production shops, machining time is the key. Users need to makes sure that what they are machining is not only correct but most efficient. The ultra-high performance tool paths from CAMWorks VoluMill™, has enhanced capability to handle more complex geometries like multi-step irregular islands, that can be very difficult to address with trochoidal tool paths which a number of other systems try to use to address this critical challenge.

Geometric signs contract with #Volvo Cars

Geometric Ltd. today announced that it has signed an application maintenance contract with Volvo Cars, Sweden covering major applications from computer aided design (CAD) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) landscape.

Geometric has been partnering with Volvo Cars for their global engineering and manufacturing needs since 2010, and today extended its application maintenance services (AMS) engagement to include additional CAD and PLM applications for new product development and manufacturing engineering. Geometric will deploy its proven application maintenance services framework, AMS4E based on well-defined 4E methodology, which is designed to enable, ensure, enhance and evolve the targeted PLM, engineering IT and manufacturing IT applications to deliver value to Volvo. Geometric will also leverage its extensive understanding of Volvo’s product development IT landscape combined with its excellent ISV relationships and experience in PLM, to support Volvo’s new product development programs.


On signing the contract, Nitin Tappe, COO, Geometric Limited said, “We have a long standing relationship with Volvo, and work with them on several strategic projects. This contract is a testament to our commitment to deliver the best, and Volvo’s trust in our ability to consistently bring innovation to their CAD and PLM applications. We look forward to continuing to contribute to Volvo Cars success in the use of PLM and CAD technologies”.  

In addition to application maintenance, Geometric works with Volvo across multiple projects related to the design and development of complex and large scale CAD and PLM strategic initiatives, and provides offshore support through a dedicated delivery center in Chennai, India.

Geometric introduces CAMWorks® Virtual Machine at DieMould 2014

Geometric Limited (BSE: 532312, NSE: GEOMETRIC), a leader in advanced manufacturing software, will premier CAMWorks Virtual Machine along with the latest version of its programming solution, CAMWorks® 2014, at DIEMOULD INDIA 2014 in Mumbai, India from April 17-20, 2014.

CAMWorks Virtual Machine enables users to verify the true G-code, not only the CL data, and save precious shop floor time by checking on complex machine settings, sub-programs, canned cycles and work offsets in a virtual environment. This allows the user to preview the entire machining process and make any necessary changes or adjustments before the part goes to the shop floor, preventing time-consuming errors and costly collisions; thus, potentially saving hundreds of hours for our customers and ensuring manufacture of parts right the first time. In addition, it is integrated completely with CAMWorks, making it a single-click verification and easy to use.

Visitors at DieMould India will get an opportunity to connect with solutions experts and learn how they can minimize their delivery time with CAMWorks. CAMWorks’ feature-based machining enables die and mould industry users to automate significant portions of their CNC part programming, thus reducing programming time by as much as 90%. With CAMWorks VoluMill™, users can achieve machining time savings of up to 80% even in difficult to machine tool steels. This complete solution addresses the end-to-end needs for any CNC programming requirement of our customers.

“Our industry leading technology enables customers to significantly save programming time. Today, the die and mould industry is operating in an extremely competitive environment.” says Sameer Kondejkar, the head of Geometry Technology Solutions at Geometric. “By covering the entire value chain with reduced programming time, reduced setup time and reduced machining time, we help our customers stay ahead of the curve.”

About CAMWorks
CAMWorks, a parametric, solids-based CNC programming software system, brings in a revolutionary way to help machinists around the world to program fast and machine faster. CAMWorks significantly reduces programming time and removes the drudgery from CNC programming by using patented Feature Recognition technology in conjunction with full toolpath to solid-model associativity and knowledge-based machining. In addition to accelerated programming using CAMWorks, organizations can be assured of the most efficient toolpaths using CAMWorks VoluMill to reduce cycle times and maintain their competitive edge in the marketplace. CAMWorks is the first Gold Partner CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) solution designed to operate in SolidWorks®, one of the most widely used CAD packages. CAMWorks for Solid Edge® runs within Solid Edge leveraging synchronous technology. CAMWorks is also available as a standalone CAD/CAM package that includes CAMWorks Solids, an integrated solid modeler. For more information on CAMWorks, visit www.camworks.com.

About Geometric
Geometric (www.geometricglobal.com) is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.Geometric Limited (BSE: 532312, NSE: GEOMETRIC), a leader in advanced manufacturing software, will premier CAMWorks Virtual Machine along with the latest version of its programming solution, CAMWorks® 2014, at DIEMOULD INDIA 2014 in Mumbai, India from April 17-20, 2014.

CAMWorks Virtual Machine enables users to verify the true G-code, not only the CL data, and save precious shop floor time by checking on complex machine settings, sub-programs, canned cycles and work offsets in a virtual environment. This allows the user to preview the entire machining process and make any necessary changes or adjustments before the part goes to the shop floor, preventing time-consuming errors and costly collisions; thus, potentially saving hundreds of hours for our customers and ensuring manufacture of parts right the first time. In addition, it is integrated completely with CAMWorks, making it a single-click verification and easy to use.

Visitors at DieMould India will get an opportunity to connect with solutions experts and learn how they can minimize their delivery time with CAMWorks. CAMWorks’ feature-based machining enables die and mould industry users to automate significant portions of their CNC part programming, thus reducing programming time by as much as 90%. With CAMWorks VoluMill™, users can achieve machining time savings of up to 80% even in difficult to machine tool steels. This complete solution addresses the end-to-end needs for any CNC programming requirement of our customers.

“Our industry leading technology enables customers to significantly save programming time. Today, the die and mould industry is operating in an extremely competitive environment.” says Sameer Kondejkar, the head of Geometry Technology Solutions at Geometric. “By covering the entire value chain with reduced programming time, reduced setup time and reduced machining time, we help our customers stay ahead of the curve.”

About CAMWorks
CAMWorks, a parametric, solids-based CNC programming software system, brings in a revolutionary way to help machinists around the world to program fast and machine faster. CAMWorks significantly reduces programming time and removes the drudgery from CNC programming by using patented Feature Recognition technology in conjunction with full toolpath to solid-model associativity and knowledge-based machining. In addition to accelerated programming using CAMWorks, organizations can be assured of the most efficient toolpaths using CAMWorks VoluMill to reduce cycle times and maintain their competitive edge in the marketplace. CAMWorks is the first Gold Partner CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) solution designed to operate in SolidWorks®, one of the most widely used CAD packages. CAMWorks for Solid Edge® runs within Solid Edge leveraging synchronous technology. CAMWorks is also available as a standalone CAD/CAM package that includes CAMWorks Solids, an integrated solid modeler. For more information on CAMWorks, visit www.camworks.com.

About Geometric
Geometric (www.geometricglobal.com) is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.

Geometric to showcase customer success at SolidWorks World 2014

 Geometric Limited (BSE: 532312, NSE: GEOMETRIC), a leader in advanced manufacturing software, will showcase the latest version programming solution, CAMWorks 2014 along with customer success stories at SolidWorks World 2014 in San Diego, California from January 26-29, 2014. These success stories come from diverse industries such as medical, consumer and industrial production in the manufacturing arena.

The success stories include:
·         Millitnow.com, a division of NCAD Inc., a job shop out of Florida: The company uses ultra-high performance toolpath technology from CAMWorks to promise its customers a turn-around time of one - three days. NCAD Inc., is a unique company that provides comprehensive services, from concept to fully assembled product in one facility, without the need to outsource any aspect of the job. With the use of CAMWorks, NCAD has reduced their overall lead time by over 85% and reduced CNC programming time by more than 75%.


·         .decimal Inc., makers of customer radiation therapy devices, have been able to turn-around life-saving devices within 24 hours from receiving the order with an end-to-end integrated system designing parts in SolidWorks®, and machining using CAMWorks with the order processing and production runs being handled by the ERP system.


·         Catrike, a recumbent bike maker, has been the classic American dream. CAMWorks, integrated fully within SolidWorks, helped it transition to a technology savvy company that needed software that is easy-to-learn and reach the next level of production to keep up with increased demands.


Each of these companies have relied on their ability to respond quickly to the customer needs to create a niche for themselves in the manufacturing world, and CAMWorks has played a critical role in this success.

Visitors at SolidWorks World will also get an opportunity to meet with CAMWorks solutions experts to learn how they can minimize their delivery time with CAMWorks, the world’s first gold certified CAM product on SolidWorks. They will also see how they can fully simulate the G-code with the recently introduced CAMWorks Virtual Machine. This allows the user to preview the entire machining process and make any necessary changes or adjustments before the part goes to the shop floor, preventing time-consuming errors and costly collisions.

About CAMWorks
CAMWorks® is the first Gold Partner CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) solution designed exclusively to operate in SolidWorks. CAMWorks runs within SolidWorks, or as part of a cost‐effective CAD/CAM package that includes CAMWorks Solids, an integrated solid modeler. For more information on CAMWorks, visit www.camworks.com.

About Geometric
Geometric (www.geometricglobal.com) is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.

Listed on the Bombay and National stock exchanges in India, the company recorded consolidated revenues of Rupees 10.20 billion (US Dollars 187.57 million) for the year ended March 2013. It employs close to 4600 people across 13 global delivery locations in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Romania, India, and China. Geometric was assessed as CMMI 1.1 Level 5 for its software services and is ISO 9001:2008 certified for engineering operations. The company’s operations are also ISO 27001:2005 certified.

CAMWorks® becomes the first CAM solution to provide end-to-end seamless integration

 Geometric (BSE:532312,NSE:GEOMETRIC), a leader in developing advanced manufacturing software,  launches the 2014 version of its leading intuitive solids-based CNC programming solution, CAMWorks. With the addition of true G-code simulation, CAMWorks  is the most complete CAD/CAM solution fully integrated end-to-end solution from the initial part design, to creating a CNC program, to full machine simulation; thus, reducing data redundancy and saving valuable shopfloor time. Along with support for SolidWorks® 2014, CAMWorks® 2014 significantly accelerates design-to-part time improving productivity of CNC programmers with the addition of a number of enhancements including:

·         Turn feature definition enhancement: Turn profiles are now fully associated with the model they are extracted from. This makes them fully associative to the sketches, a first in the feature based machining world, making program changes very quick and efficient. Another addition that is particularly beneficial in mill-turn operations is the selection of turn profiles by specifying the angle at which the profile has to be extracted.

·         Toolpath simulation for an effective review: The tool vectors for the toolpaths can be viewed during Step-through simulation, making it easier to review 5-axis toolpaths. In addition, users can use a WIP (Work in Process) model as a start-up stock, when simulating sections of a toolpath, shortening the review time.



·         Increased automation in CNC programming: Addition of 39 APIs to the current suite that can help reduce repetitive activities and provide a solid foundation for users, who want to customize or automate their systems to accelerate CNC programming output.



·         Sub-spindle operations simplified: Increased flexibility in the sub-spindle operations with the addition of more pre-programmed routines that are configurable to the users’ need.

CAMworks has also introduced an iPad app for our mobility inclined users, of CAMWorksView App. This free app allows the users to view, review and annotate 3D Work-In-Process (WIP) models and assemblies, tool paths and relevant operation data on the go anywhere from the shopfloor to the design room without the need of an additional CAMWorks license. CAMWorksView is a high performance 3D CAM data viewer for iPad/iPhone/iPod.

Moreover, CAMWorks 2014 now provides  Mori-APT CL code for the DMG MORI SEIKI series of mill, turn, and mill-turn machines (NMV Series, NH(X) Series, NV(X) Series, NL(X) Series and NT Series machines). The APT-CL code from CAMWorks is certified to drive DMG MORI SEIKI machines using Manufacturing Suite Post Processor eliminating the need for custom post-processors.  This unique approach provides customers with a complete solution for their needs and ensures that they will be up and running with their machine-tool in the quickest time possible. Customers need to get Manufacturing Suite from DMG MORI SEIKI and the Mori-APT CL output addin is available from Geometric.



The company has also enhanced its video instructions set that serve as a useful reference guide for self-paced learning, to supplement the training needs.

About CAMWorks

CAMWorks, a parametric, solids-based CNC programming software system, brings in a revolutionary way to help machinists around the world to program fast and machine faster. CAMWorks significantly reduces programming time and removes the drudgery from CNC programming by using patented Feature Recognition technology in conjunction with full toolpath to solid-model associativity and knowledge-based machining. In addition to accelerated programming using CAMWorks, organizations can be assured of the most efficient toolpaths using CAMWorks VoluMill™ to reduce cycle times and maintain their competitive edge in the marketplace.

About Geometric

Geometric is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.

Listed on the Bombay and National stock exchanges in India, the company recorded consolidated revenues of Rupees 10.20 billion (US Dollars 187.57 million) for the year ended March 2013. It employs about 4500 people across 13 global delivery locations in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Romania, India, and China. Geometric was assessed as CMMI 1.1 Level 5 for its software services and is ISO 9001:2008 certified for engineering operations. The company’s operations are also ISO 27001:2005 certified.

For further details about Geometric’s products, please visit www.geometricglobal.com/products

Geometric Makes Equity Investment in Anark Corporation

Geometric Limited (BSE: 532312, NSE: GEOMETRIC), a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Global Engineering Services and Intellectual property led solutions, and Anark Corporation, a leading provider of automated 3D CAD visualization solutions, today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership with an equity investment by Geometric’s wholly owned subsidiary, Geometric Americas, Inc.  The agreement will further extend the companies’ capabilities to deliver a world class Model Based Enterprise (MBE) authoring and publishing solution, Anark Core MBEWeb, which is powered by Geometric’s Glovius®, an easy to use and customizable viewer application that enables downstream users to view high fidelity 3D data from anywhere, anytime.

The companies plan to expand their global sales and marketing collaboration and jointly target enterprise manufacturers within the aerospace, defense, automotive and industrial sectors. This will be achieved through development of a joint product roadmap that will focus on market needs and deliver a highly effective and cost efficient solution for publishing and consumption of 3D documents by users in manufacturing, inspection, and purchasing.


“This new phase of our strategic partnership with Geometric is a key supporting component of Anark’s long term growth strategy, as well as its vision of driving customer value via highly effective and cost efficient Model Based Enterprise solutions”, said Stephen Collins President and CEO of Anark Corporation. “The response by Geometric and Anark customers to MBEWeb has been resoundingly positive, and this extension of our technology collaboration with Geometric will provide us with greater resources and a strong channel and integration partner, who shares our commitment to empowering the Model Based Enterprise.”

“We are seeing an increasing need within our customer base for consumption of 3D product data by non-engineering departments, and introduced a multi-platform and extensible visualization solution, Glovius to address it. Our investment in Anark towards our joint solution for MBE will help us address this growing market more effectively”, said Manu Parpia, CEO of Geometric Limited. “We work closely with engineering teams of global manufacturers providing them with PLM and engineering solutions. The addition of this capability allows the downstream users in our customer organizations to access 3d data with ease”.

 About 3D MBE and MBEWeb:

3D MBE is a practice initially developed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in partnership with several of its key OEM suppliers that is now experiencing rapid adoption within both defense and commercial manufacturing organizations to enable:

·         Reuse of 3D Model Based Definition data (e.g. 3D Dimensions and Tolerances and other Product Manufacturing Information),



·         Elimination of costly and redundant 2D Drawings and 2D Technical Data Packages



·         Cost reduction of internal engineering activities by up to 30% as well as reduction of scrap and rework by nearly 19%



·         Affordable 3D MBE deployment solutions based on powerful, open and readily available industry standards like 3D PDF and 3D HTML


In the case of Anark Core MBEWeb, customers can publish and deliver 3D manufacturing documents through free industry standard HTML5 Browsers and the free Adobe Reader.

MBEWeb’s 3D HTML publishing capability using Geometric’s high-performance visualization technology, combined with Anark Core’s easy-to-use authoring user interface, subject matter experts in engineering, manufacturing, quality inspection, and purchasing can now easily create lightweight 3D HTML MBE documents for their in house (‘inside-the-firewall’) non-engineering users.

And since the same easy-to-use authoring environment can also be used to author and publish 3D PDF MBE documents in parallel with the 3D HTML MBE documents, these same subject matter experts have the additional flexibility to distribute lightweight 3D PDF manufacturing documents to their ‘outside-the-firewall’ tier 2, 3 and 4 external suppliers and/or customers—without any additional training or expertise.  These 3D PDF MBE documents are also free to view by downstream users through the ubiquitous free Adobe Reader.


About Glovius
Glovius is an extensible and customizable 3D viewer for Windows, and supports all leading 3D CAD formats. Glovius also has high performance viewer apps for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. The mobile apps are powered by cloud services, allowing you to visualize files directly in the browser.


About Anark
Anark Corporation (http://www.anark.com) provides powerful enterprise software and solutions to manufacturing organizations that need to cost-effectively utilize their 3D CAD data and manufacturing information for design collaboration, manufacturing work instructions, visualization, and technical documentation applications.

Anark has an unrivaled track record for delivering successful PLM and 3D visualization solutions for the industry's most demanding and innovative customers. Anark helps market leaders such as Boeing, Cessna, Pratt & Whitney, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins, Sikorsky, Ericsson, B&W, and the US Department of Defense unlock the potential of their 3D assets to save money, accelerate product development, and to collaborate and communicate more effectively and securely.

About Geometric

Geometric (www.geometricglobal.com) is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.

Listed on the Bombay and National stock exchanges in India, the company recorded consolidated revenues of Rupees 10.20 billion (US Dollars 187.57 million) for the year ended March 2013. It employs over 4600 people across 13 global delivery locations in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Romania, India, and China. Geometric was assessed as CMMI 1.1 Level 5 for its software services and is ISO 9001:2008 certified for engineering operations. The company’s operations are also ISO 27001:2005 certified.

Geometric to showcase its automation solutions at EMO 2013

Geometric Limited (BSE:532312,NSE:GEOMETRIC), a leader in developing advanced manufacturing software will preview the latest enhancements for DFMPro, its automated design validation tool and CAMWorks, its intuitive solids-based CNC programming solution at Booth # J09, Hall 25 at EMO 2013, Hanover, Germany from September 16-21, 2013. With the focus on providing customers with the most effective tools to reduce time to market, Geometric presents solutions that focus on reducing non-value add time right from the design stage to manufacturing process planning and final shop floor delivery.
Geometric will showcase its award-winning product DFMPro, a unique solution that identifies and enables designers to fix manufacturability related issues at the design stage itself. Today, design engineers spend around 30% or more time on rework due to an iterative product development process, which impacts costs and time to market. Organizations, typically, have manual design review processes, which include filling checklists, referring handbooks and one-to-one discussions that differ from department to department. Most of these manual checks are time consuming and error prone. DFMPro comes with global best practices in the area of manufacturability and assembly, along with a powerful framework to add an organization’s in-house best practices. This allows design engineers to save time on design reviews and rework, and utilize such time in creating innovative products.
Moving from design validation to toolpath validation, a key differentiation Geometric brings with its CAM solution, CAMWorks is the availability of true G-code machine simulation. The standard machine simulation technology prevalent in the market typically simulates based on CL data only. CAMWorks Virtual Machine Module goes beyond ‘look good’ simulation and allows users to create first-time-right NC programs for complex multi-tasking machines and simulate post processed G-code seamlessly within one system saving shop floor time and improving throughput.

EMO visitors will also get a chance to see CAMWorks VoluMill™ in action on a Haas milling machine at Geometric’s booth. This ultra-high performance toolpath has provided cycle time savings of as much as 80% while maintaining tool life. This has been made possible by maintaining uniform chip formation and superior heat dissipation.

About CAMWorks
CAMWorks, a parametric, solids based CNC programming software system, brings in a revolutionary way to help machinists around the world to program fast and machine faster. CAMWorks significantly reduces programming time and removes the drudgery from CNC programming by using patented Feature Recognition technology in conjunction with full toolpath to solid-model associativity and knowledge-based machining. Besides ease-of-programming using CAMWorks, organizations can be assured of the most efficient toolpaths using CAMWorks VoluMill to maintain their competitive edge in the marketplace.

About DFMPro
DFMPro is a design assistant solution for validating designs from manufacturing point of view right at the design stage. It automates manufacturability checks, which helps design and manufacturing engineers validate the design quickly. DFMPro assists identification of design areas that are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture, assemble and service. It works on the principle of ‘Right First Time’ by validating manufacturability guidelines right at the design stage. These guidelines can be easily configured as per organizational requirements in the form of rules. It also facilitates a collaborative design environment by generating reports, which are compact and easy to share.

About Geometric
Geometric is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.
Listed on the Bombay and National stock exchanges in India, the company recorded consolidated revenues of Rupees 10.20 billion (US Dollars 187.57 million) for the year ended March 2013. It employs over 4600 people across 13 global delivery locations in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Romania, India, and China. Geometric was assessed as CMMI 1.1 Level 5 for its software services and is ISO 9001

Geometric launches a standalone DFX validation solution

Geometric Limited (BSE: 532312, NSE: GEOMETRIC), a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Global Engineering Services, and Offshore Software Product Development (OSPD) solutions and technologies, today announced the launch of Geometric DFX,  a standalone application for carrying out DFX validation of product designs. Geometric DFX is powered by Geometric’s award-winning design for manufacturability solution DFMPro® and leverages the CGM 3D modeling kernel from Spatial Corp., a leading provider of 3D components for technical application development. Spatial’s 3D InterOp is also used to enable data reuse for native CATIA® V5 and other leading CAD formats.

DFX stands for Design for X where X represents various downstream process checks related to manufacturability, assembly, quality, warranty, penalty, serviceability, environment, reliability and so on. It is essential to incorporate various DFX guidelines early in the product development phase to reduce defects, cut down rework, eliminate waste, shorten time to market and save costs. Traditionally, organizations have been using manual DFX checks, which are time consuming and error prone. Geometric DFX addresses this problem by enabling designers to validate 3D CAD data using design rules based on global best practices for various downstream issues as listed above.

“Geometric DFX automates the process of DFX validation in a standalone package early during the design stage, thereby cutting down the long review process and identification of downstream issues. It improves the productivity of design and manufacturing engineers as well as enhances collaboration between them to reduce cost, improve quality and time to market”, said Mr. Sameer Kondejkar, Sr. Director and Head, Geometry Technology Solutions Business at Geometric.

Geometric DFX supports CAD formats from CATIA V5, Inventor® and others. Geometric DFX comes prepackaged with around 100 design rules based on global best practices and can be customized to add organization specific best practices too. The various manufacturing processes currently supported include machining, casting, injection molding, and sheet metal fabrication. Geometric DFX will benefit manufacturing companies in domains such as automotive, consumer durables, aerospace, high-tech, medical equipment, and contract electronics manufacturing.

For more information about the solution, please visit www.dfmpro.geometricglobal.com/dfx  

About Geometric:

Geometric (www.geometricglobal.com) is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.

Listed on the Bombay and National stock exchanges in India, the company recorded consolidated revenues of Rupees 10.20 billion (US Dollars 187.57 million) for the year ended March 2013. It employs over 4600 people across 13 global delivery locations in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Romania, India, and China. Geometric was assessed as CMMI 1.1 Level 5 for its software services and is ISO 9001:2008 certified for engineering operations. The company’s operations are also ISO 27001:2005 certified.Geometric Limited (BSE: 532312, NSE: GEOMETRIC), a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Global Engineering Services, and Offshore Software Product Development (OSPD) solutions and technologies, today announced the launch of Geometric DFX,  a standalone application for carrying out DFX validation of product designs. Geometric DFX is powered by Geometric’s award-winning design for manufacturability solution DFMPro® and leverages the CGM 3D modeling kernel from Spatial Corp., a leading provider of 3D components for technical application development. Spatial’s 3D InterOp is also used to enable data reuse for native CATIA® V5 and other leading CAD formats.

DFX stands for Design for X where X represents various downstream process checks related to manufacturability, assembly, quality, warranty, penalty, serviceability, environment, reliability and so on. It is essential to incorporate various DFX guidelines early in the product development phase to reduce defects, cut down rework, eliminate waste, shorten time to market and save costs. Traditionally, organizations have been using manual DFX checks, which are time consuming and error prone. Geometric DFX addresses this problem by enabling designers to validate 3D CAD data using design rules based on global best practices for various downstream issues as listed above.

“Geometric DFX automates the process of DFX validation in a standalone package early during the design stage, thereby cutting down the long review process and identification of downstream issues. It improves the productivity of design and manufacturing engineers as well as enhances collaboration between them to reduce cost, improve quality and time to market”, said Mr. Sameer Kondejkar, Sr. Director and Head, Geometry Technology Solutions Business at Geometric.

Geometric DFX supports CAD formats from CATIA V5, Inventor® and others. Geometric DFX comes prepackaged with around 100 design rules based on global best practices and can be customized to add organization specific best practices too. The various manufacturing processes currently supported include machining, casting, injection molding, and sheet metal fabrication. Geometric DFX will benefit manufacturing companies in domains such as automotive, consumer durables, aerospace, high-tech, medical equipment, and contract electronics manufacturing.

For more information about the solution, please visit www.dfmpro.geometricglobal.com/dfx  

About Geometric:

Geometric (www.geometricglobal.com) is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.

Listed on the Bombay and National stock exchanges in India, the company recorded consolidated revenues of Rupees 10.20 billion (US Dollars 187.57 million) for the year ended March 2013. It employs over 4600 people across 13 global delivery locations in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Romania, India, and China. Geometric was assessed as CMMI 1.1 Level 5 for its software services and is ISO 9001:2008 certified for engineering operations. The company’s operations are also ISO 27001:2005 certified.