think3 announces its success story with GE Lighting India.

December 22, 2009 /India PRwire/ -- think3 announces its success story with GE Lighting India. GE Lighting a division of GE Consumer and Industrial provides state-of-the-art technology, ranging from incandescent to speciality products. It has been GE's vision ever since its inception in 1878 to meet the highest levels of international standards in products and processes. Team India, takes this initiative one step further with the establishment of LTDC (Light Technology & Design Center) at Bangalore. The tech center focuses on new design of lighting fixtures, with its state of art testing facility to test newly developed fixtures, and today its one stop solution to all the lighting requirements of Indian market. To design its product on fixtures GE Lighting opted for ThinkDesign Styling and have designed indoor and outdoor lighting products on ThinkDesign.

"LTDC has SOLID EDGE as its main design platform. In addition to this think3's ThinkDesign is used in new concepts with intricate surface features. GE Lighting decided to go with ThinkDesign because think3's CAD solution has benefits of both parametric and feature based software's. ThinkDesign Styling is really handy while initial modeling and also while editing in later part of design stages". Quotes Mr. Maruti and Mr. Nitin, Design Team at LTDC.

"GE Lighting is one of our oldest customers in India and we are happy that the client has found ThinkDesign Styling quite useful while designing its products. We look forward for more such associations with our customers and delight them with think3's innovative CAD and PLM technology" states Mr. Vignesh Kumar Padmanabhan- Head South Asia Sales.

GE Lighting used ThinkDesign Styling to design ORANE, GLITRA, STEALTH and OPTYLANE products. Think3's CAD solution enabled optimum management of all steps in the modification of surfaces. ThinkDesign Styling offers an innovative approach to design. With its Target Driven Design, it frees users from the technological constraints of traditional design systems. ThinkDesign Styling's rich capabilities include powerful tools such as Global Shape Modeling, capping, blending curves and blending shapes, associative global sweep, as well as dynamic morphing, automotive grid and rendering. The designer would save 70-80% of his design time on design Iterations and Modifications. This is the speed at which thinkDesign works for its advanced GSM technology.

Think3's Global Shape Modeling (GSM³), provides designers with a very high level of technological innovation ensuring unrivalled ease of use. Currently, this is the only creation and modification tool that enables users to make changes in a quick and accurate way in any stage of the design process, accelerating interactions with unlimited creativity and eliminating the need of rebuilding models.

ORANE is basically outdoor city beautification product with its unique shape compared to its existing competitor's products, it stands out from the crowd. "Using ThinkDesign was very helpful in modeling initial concept models" states Mr. Maruti and Mr. Nitin, GE LTDC Design Team.

GILTRA belongs to ORANE family, but is outdoor wall mount city beautification product. Initial concept models have been designed using ThinkDesign and the aesthetic look is impressive.

STEALTH is an indoor commercial fixture for office interior. This product has been designed and detailed completely on ThinkDesign. ThinkDesign's surface modeling features turned out to be very impressive.

OPTYLANE is mid range outdoor street lighting system. The design of this product has been carried out on ThinkDesign, even detailed drawings have been made using ThinkDesign. "This project was a very good exercise to explore the capabilities of the software" quotes Design Team, GE Lighting.

For more information about think3, contact Kavita Aroor, Business Development & Marketing Manager, kavita@think3.com, tel.+91(0)80 9880179882.

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Notes to Editor

Information About GE Lighting India:

GE Lighting is a division of GE Consumer and Industrial that provides a broad range of products and services throughout the world, including appliances, lighting and industrial products; factory automation systems; plastics, silicones and quartz products; security and sensors technology, and equipment financing, management and operating services.

Information about think3, Inc.

Think3 has been operating in the ICT sector for 30 years and provides the only technology that links three separate design areas: the concept, its development and the finished product. In this way, think3 enables thousands of company customers to innovate, to compete and to rise to the challenges of global markets, thanks to the integration of processes, which helps to accelerate time to market and to reduce costs.

Think3 boasts a consolidated presence across Europe, the US and Asia. The company has also secured a strong presence in China following joint venture deal sealed with Beijing Extech Science & Technology Co. Ltd to create EXTECH, a brand new company based in Beijing, with offices across the country. In the rest of the world, think3 is present throughout its network of selected VARs (Value Added Resellers).

All this means that think3 can count among its customers some of the most significant enterprises in the industrial market.

For more information visit our site at www.think3.com

For more information, please contact:
Kavita Aroor (Business Development and Marketing Manager- India) (M) 9880179882