2001 | September | |
EDS repurchased its 14% stake in UGS, acquired 100% of SDRC and merged UGS and SDRC together to form its PLM Solutions line of business, which the company launched on October 1, 2001 as EDS PLM Solutions. | ||
2003 | June | |
EDS announced it was categorizing PLM Solutions as a complementary subsidiary business rather than a line of business. | ||
2003 | November | |
EDS announced it was changing the name from PLM Solutions to UGS PLM Solutions. | ||
2004 | May | |
The private equity group of Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners and Warburg Pincus acquires UGS PLM Solutions and changes its name to UGS. | ||
August | ||
UGS relocates from the EDS campus to a new site in Plano, Texas. | ||
2007 | January | |
Siemens announces its intent to acquire UGS for $3.5 billion and make it part of the company's Automation and Drives (A&D) division. | ||
2007 | May | |
Siemens' acquisition of UGS closes and the company's headquarters remain in Plano, Texas. | ||
October | ||
Company's name changes to Siemens PLM Software. | ||
1963 | A small software company called United Computing is founded above a hair salon in Torrance, Calif. | |
1969 | United Computing produces its first commercial product, UNIAPT. It's one of the world's first end-user CAM products. | |
1973 | United Computing purchases the ADAM software code from MCS, a company run by CAD/CAM pioneer Pat Hanratty. The code becomes the foundation for a new product - UNI-GRAPHICS. | |
1975 | UNI-GRAPHICS becomes Unigraphics and the first system is sold. | |
1976 | McDonnell Douglas Corporation acquires United Computing, along with its Unigraphics product. United Computing becomes the CAD/CAM division of McDonnell Douglas Automation; a Unigraphics Group was part of the CAD/CAM division, as well. | |
1980 | Unigraphics releases its first true 3D modeling version. | |
1981 | St. Louis, Mo., already home to McDonnell Douglas, becomes the new headquarters of the rapidly growing Unigraphics group. Over the next decade, McDonnell Douglas Automation evolves into McDonnell Douglas Systems Integration (MDSI); Unigraphics is one of its many lines. | |
1988 | MDSI purchases Shape Data, producer of the solid-modeling kernel technology Parasolid. | |
1990 | The first release of a product data management system called Information Manager, or I-Man, hits the market. | |
1991 | EDS Corporation acquires MDSI. The Unigraphics division operates as EDS Unigraphics | |
1995 | Unigraphics starts openly licensing Parasolid to other OEM software developers. The move soon makes Parasolid the industry standard for precise geometric modeling kernels. | |
1997 | EDS sets up its Unigraphics division as a wholly-owned subsidiary called Unigraphics Solutions. | |
1998 | EDS sells a 14 percent minority stake in Unigraphics Solutions through an IPO, trading under the symbol UGS. | |
Unigraphics Solutions acquires the Solid Edge mid-range CAD product from Intergraph Corporation and establishes Parasolid as the common geometry foundation for its mid-range and high-end CAD solutions. | ||
1999 | Unigraphics Solutions acquires dCADE and Applicon. Business Week magazine puts Unigraphics Solutions among the world's top 10 software companies. | |
2000 | Tony Affuso becomes president and Unigraphics Solutions acquires Engineering Animation, adding powerful visualization and collaboration tools to its offering. | |
2001 | Unigraphics Solutions changes its name to UGS to reflect the company's broader offering of "collaborative product commerce" solutions. | |
1967 | Researchers from the University of Cincinnati form SDRC and build a dynamic prediction analysis for a local machine tools manufacturer. The software is voted Best Software for MCAE in 1968. | |
1972 | SDRC's Superb finite element software is introduced. It remains the leading Finite Element Solver until 1985, when it's replaced by the Model Solution application developed with input from NASA. | |
1975 | SDRC introduces Modal Plus, the first modal testing and analysis program. Work also begins on Supertab, an interactive finite element modeling system to work with Superb. | |
1982 | SDRC releases I-DEAS, its flagship CAD/CAM/CAE software. It includes the first automatic mesh generation system, Triaquamesh, based on the first NURBS-based modeler. | |
1987 | SDRC goes public in September 1987 | |
1992 | Together SDRC and Control Data Systems form Metaphase Technologies to develop and market Product Data Management software. | |
1993 | SDRC releases the I-DEAS Master Series that includes the Dynamic Navigator, an intuitive application to facilitate design functionality that is now the industry standard. | |
1995 | Ford Motor Company selects I-DEAS as its corporate standard. | |
1998 | Nissan signs a multi-year, $100 million deal with SDRC. | |
2000 | The company acquires Sherpa, expanding its PDM user base to more than 340,000 users. | |
2001 | SDRC acquires Inovie, a company offering Web-based, peer-to-peer collaboration project management software. In turn, EDS acquires SDRC. | |
