I would also like to hear any comments on PRO\NC (good or bad). My workplace will be taking that same path later this summer and I have no idea what kind of transition there will be.
Todd Crosby Penn-Erie Div. Michael Senack wrote: > > Does anybody out there have any experience dealing with PRO/NC which is > PRO/E's manufacturing package. > Our company is sort of slowly heading down the road to PRO/NC and I would > like to get some feed back about it. > Thanks > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 1:00 PM > To: Lauzus, Frederick; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] Dead Product > > As far as IM concerned SDRC was the last cat holding the bag > and dropped it. > So they get the hammering. > > John > -----Original Message----- > From: Lauzus, Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Friday, June 09, 2000 11:29 AM > Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam] Dead Product > > >Give credit where credit is due. > > > >In my opinion, SDRC should not bear the brunt of the > resentment over the > >discontinuance of SmartCAM. SDRC has always sought after > the Fortune 500 > >companies as their target market. We should not be > surprised now when they > >turn their backs on the small to medium job shops, the > "little people", for > >they have always done so and probably always will. SDRC has > never had any > >hidden agenda, it was always clear that they would use any > technology they > >could glean from SmartCAM to bolster their faltering GenMac > product. The > >continued sale of SmartCAM and CAMMAND was an interim > measure until SDRC > >thought they had a marketable product of their own. > Development of SmartCAM > >and CAMAND would then be discontinued and all resource > devoted to the > >continued development of GenMac. > > > >So why do SmartCAM customers feel like they have been > betrayed? In a way > >they have, but not by SDRC. Thousands of SmartCAM users > have invested > >millions of dollars in software, training and software > maintenance fees. > >This investment was made in good faith that Point > Control/CAMAX would > >continue to support and develop SmartCAM as a product to > keep them > >competitive in the small to medium job shop market. > Needless to say, they > >took the money and ran. CAMAX Manufacturing Technologies > sold out for a sum > >of $30,000,000 to SDRC. > > > >F.Y.I. > >There actually was an attempt made to continue SmartCAM as > a viable > product. > >Shortly before SDRC made the official announcement of the > fate of SmartCAM, > >several members of the SmartCAM resellers council banded > together and > >offered to purchase the SmartCAM product line from SDRC, > but SDRC was > >unwilling to consider any such offer. You figure it out. > > > > > >============================================= > > Fred Lauzus, CAM Programming Coordinator > > High Steel Structures, Incorporated > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.highsteel.com > >============================================= > > >====================================================================== > >To find out more about this mailing list including how to > unsubscribe, > >send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >====================================================================== > > > > > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to > unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ====================================================================== > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
