IronCAD, LLC Launches IronCAD in India

IronCAD LLC and HOPE Technologies successfully launch IronCAD in 5 cities throughout India

ATLANTA, GA., January 15, 2004 - IronCAD LLC, a leading provider of Innovative Design Solutions, today announced the successful launch of IronCAD® version 6 throughout India. The launch, done in conjunction with HOPE Technologies LTD. (HOPE), was completed in 5 cities from December 8th through December 13th. The cities that participated in the launch were Bangalore, Hyderbad, Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi. More than 300 attendees representing over 150 companies attended the launches.

“We could not have asked for a more successful launch of IronCAD 6.0 in India,” says Steve McGuinness, Director of International Sales, “The turnout in all 5 cities was excellent and the attendees were extremely excited about the productivity improvements they will gain with IronCAD.”

A major highlight of the road show was a presentation by Alpump Pvt Ltd, the first IronCAD 6.0 customer in India, who demonstrated that with only 2 days training they were able to create new designs that were ready for manufacturing in only 3 hours. “Using IRONCAD has helped us to experience a cycle time reduction of over 35% as compared to our old 2D-CAD methodology. The key features of IRONCAD like functional 3D Modeling, optional parametric approach, on the fly part catalogue library creation, simultaneous motion and animation creation helped us dramatically improve our productivity,”- Dr. B ShivKumar, CMD, Alpump.

“HOPE has worked with many CAD applications over the years, but never have we seen such a response to a new product as we saw with IronCAD,” says Ayush N, HOPE’s Country Manager for IronCAD Sales: “HOPE has prided itself in past years by providing the worlds best solutions and unparalleled excellence in support, IronCAD will allow us to continue these traditions well into the future.”

The relationship between IronCAD LLC and HOPE is part of IronCAD LLC’s ongoing strategy to locate and recruit the best resellers available in the market today. With partners throughout Europe and Asia continually joining their reseller program, IronCAD LLC is able to provide the best sales and support solutions to their customers. For more information on IronCAD LLC’s reseller program go to http://www.ironcad.com or contact Steve McGuinness at smcguinness@ironcad.com.

About IronCAD, LLC
Based in Atlanta, GA, IronCAD, LLC is a leading provider of Innovative Design Solutions that deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction and productivity. Its flagship product, IronCAD, and the other members of InnovationSuite, provide a fully integrated design and information management environment that encourages creativity, productivity and teamwork with award winning 3D design and collaboration solutions managed through a Web-based Engineering Data Management (EDM) system. Components of InnovationSuite (IronCAD, Inovate and TeamVault), are used by customers throughout the world, including, Cisco Systems, Cummins Engine, Electrolux, Ericsson, John Deere, Eastman Kodak, Eaton Corporation, Fleetwood Enterprises, Greenheck, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Intel, Lucent, Raytheon, Robert Bosch, Skyline Exhibits, Visteon, Volvo, and Xerox. For additional information, please contact IronCAD, LLC at 1-800-339-7304 or www.ironcad.com .

About Hope Technologies
HOPE Technologies Limited is a Global Consultancy and Services Company in CAD/CAM, GIS and Multimedia Technologies. We provide solutions to domestic & international clients through our 6 regional offices spread across the country and our development centers /STP Units at Delhi and Bangalore. In a short span of 10 years HOPE has mastered a leadership position in the design automation market, incorporating systems integration expertise and consultative roles. Through relationships with world leaders in this field, HOPE has introduced cutting edge technologies for Indian Industries. HOPE’s endeavors continue to gain new heights and cover newer grounds. HOPE’s greatest assets have been their dedicated manpower, which believes in “Value Through Relationship”, and their customers (the who's who of the Indian Manufacturing and Design Industry) vouch for their service and support. For additional information please contact HOPE Technologies Limited at +91-11-51609237 to 39 or www.hopeindia.com.