The company maintains corporate headquarters in Oakland,
California, and can be reached through www.com. MARLBOROUGH , Mass.

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"Proficiency's Collaboration Gateway
enables us to meet the requirements of our existing customers more efficiently
and also serve new customers more effectively because we are no longer tied to
a particular CAD format. We selected Proficiency because the Collaboration
Gateway offered the fastest and highest quality option for transforming our
processes.

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"As a supplier , effective collaboration with our customers, OEMs, and their
own suppliers during design and development is essential," explained Stefan
Ardelt, construction manager at SZAE. Brown, Proficiency's president and chief executive
officer.508.

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For more information visit the Simmetrix web site at
http://www.
By employing leading-edge technologies coupled with the close integration of
their partners, the company is able to consistently deliver innovative
products," said Trenton H.

About Proficiency
Proficiency brings interoperability to the enterprise.9868
(North America ) or +49 (0) 811-55526-0 (Europe).9868, x241
kenk@proficiency.

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Companies
such as Autodesk , SolidWorks, PTC, MSC. is a leading provider of OEM component technology, software
tools, and services for Simulation-Based Design and CAD/CAM integration.

HOOPS is a registered trademark.486.

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PRESS RELEASE Tech Soft America and Simmetrix Announce License Agreement and Strategic Partnership

Since
high-performance, reliable graphics are such a key part of our new offering
the market-proven HOOPS/3dAF was the obvious choice as our core graphics
engine. The Company's
award-winning Collaboration Gateway allows companies to effectively develop
and launch new products by providing critical design intelligence to all
constituents in the PLM continuum, including marketing, engineering,
manufacturing , and purchasing, in an immediately useable format, regardless of
the original system.

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Simmetrix also provides custom
Simulation-Based Design engineering solutions for manufacturing
corporations and advanced research and development services related to
simulation modeling and Simulation-Based Design . For more information on
Proficiency, please visit http://www.

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The two companies' component
libraries currently combine to serve a broad base of leading software
vendors developing products for CAD CAD /CAM/CAE applications. Simmetrix, founded in
1997, has offices in Clifton Park, NY, Plymouth, MI , and Clarkesville, GA. Previously, SZAE
hired external engineers to process orders from customers requiring design
models in other CAD systems.
Proficiency and Collaboration Gateway(TM) are trademarks of Proficiency,
Ltd.486.242.

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Salzgitter Automotive Engineering Deploys Proficiency's Collaboration Gateway

"Salzgitter is dedicated to value creation for their automotive customers. The Collaboration Gateway enables companies like
SZAE to exchange native parametric CAD models between Dassault Systemes '
CATIA(R) V4 and CATIA(R) V5, PTC's Pro/ENGINEER(R) and Pro/ENGINEER(R)
Wildfire(TM), and UGS ' Unigraphics(R) NX and I-deas(R) NX Series.

Corporate
Ken Klapproth
Proficiency , Inc.com

Agency Contact
Catherine Allen
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Tech Soft America (TSA),
the leading provider of graphics components to the CAD/CAM/CAE software
industry, and Simmetrix, the leading provider of component software for
simulation modeling and simulation-based design, today announced a
strategic partnership whereby TSA's HOOPS 3D Application Framework
(HOOPS/3dAF) will be integrated with Simmetrix technologies to create the
new Simmetrix 's Simulation Application Suite. In addition, the Collaboration Gateway gives SZAE
the option of re-using the company's legacy models, thus improving the return
on their design investment.

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"We are delighted that Salzgitter selected the Collaboration Gateway
as the solution to improve their enterprise interoperability process and
strengthen their relationships with OEMs and partners. This strategic product development innovation leads OEMs

and suppliers to significantly shorten design cycles, decrease time-to-market,
and lower design costs.

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About Simulation Application Suite

Simulation Application Suite is a customizable simulation application
builder based on Simmetrix ' established simulation component technology
(Simulation Modeling Suite) and the HOOPS 3D Application Framework coupled
with a python scripting environment that provides for extremely rapid
development of advanced simulation modeling applications and integration of
in-house analysis applications with 3D CAD data.

About Tech Soft America

Tech Soft America (TSA) provides premier customer driven development tools,
consulting and support services enabling its partners to rapidly deliver
world-class technical software. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.

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Simmetrix' flagship
product is the Simulation Modeling Suite, a comprehensive suite of
component software tools to support Simulation Modeling directly from solid
models providing problem definition, attribute management, and CAE results
management along with automatic mesh generation with support of mesh
curving, mesh adaptivity, and anisotropic boundary layer mesh generation., Proficiency, a global provider
of enterprise interoperability software, announced today that German -based
Salzgitter Automotive Engineering (SZAE), a company of the Salzgitter Group,
has deployed the Proficiency Collaboration Gateway(TM).

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TSA develops software component libraries
to over 175 organizations, including many of the leaders in CAD/CAM and CAE
software.
The Simmetrix tools enable automated creation and management of simulation
data suitable for finite element, finite volume , and boundary element
analysis directly from design data."
SZAE runs CATIA(R) V4 and V5 from Dassault Systemes."
The Proficiency Collaboration Gateway is a Web-based, feature-level CAD
interoperability software application that facilitates the sharing of product
design information, including features , history, constraints, assembly
structure, dimensions, and metadata, throughout the extended automotive
product lifecycle process.proficiency.

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We applaud their vision in the creation of this combined toolkit and
believe Simulation Application Suite is a powerful solution that will prove
invaluable to many developers of CAE applications.
Simmetrix' customers include simulation modeling software developers that
provide a broad range of analysis applications including mechanical,
electro-magnetic , fluids (CFD), and MEME simulation.

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The
combined solution will provide developers of CAE/Simulation applications
with a high-level scripting interface to quickly deliver customized
products containing a full range of CAD data import, advanced meshing and
powerful display capabilities.
The Tier 1 automotive supplier is using the Collaboration Gateway to
automate the exchange of native models between various mechanical CAD systems
and improve the efficiency of the collaborative design process between its OEM
clients and their suppliers, including Audi AG, BMW AG, DaimlerChrysler AG,
Adam Opel AG and Volkswagen AG. With Proficiency's Collaboration Gateway, SZAE
can now deliver native data in any format, regardless of the original system
used to create the design.
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Added Ron Fritz, Managing Partner of TSA, "We're enthusiastic about
HOOPS/3dAF's inclusion within this latest Simmetrix offering .com or call +1.

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Joe Walsh, VP Business Development for Simmetrix noted, "Our work with such
a wide array of CAE/Simulation providers has demonstrated that there is an
important class of commercial and in-house developers who may have advanced
solver codes, or need for specific vertical solutions but not enough
development resources to create their own commercial-grade pre or post
processor. The Simulation Application Suite solves that problem , enabling
even the smallest development teams to easily deploy a rich solution.

About Simmetrix

Simmetrix, Inc.

A CAD system might be as simple as a computerized drafting tool or as complex as a parametric mechanical constraint system, a routing and layout software for integrated electronic circuits, or an architectural program that knows about the physical and spatial properties of constructive elements in a building.

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The Simulation Application Suite, developed and marketed by Simmetrix ,
combines the power of the Simmetrix components for CAD data access, meshing
and simulation with the high-performance graphics of TSA's HOOPS/3dAF.Software, Fluent, Bentley, Mitutoyo,
KubotekUSA , Proficiency and over 175 others license HOOPS technology to
help them build better more compelling engineering software products while
reducing R&D costs, time and headaches.

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Our
respective component technologies are used together in quite a number of
applications today and have proven themselves to be highly complementary.

About HOOPS 3D Application Framework

HOOPS 3D Application Framework (HOOPS/3dAF) is an extensible, high-level
component that dramatically simplifies the design , development and
maintenance of high-performance, interactive 2D/3D applications for
Windows, UNIX, LINUX, MAC OS X, Windows CE devices or the Web.
Proficiency's customers include global automotive, aerospace/defense and
heavy equipment companies such as The Ford Motor Company, Boeing , and European
Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).com