NSF Grant Furthers Geomagic's Work to Transform Product Design & Development

Business Wire, Sept 2, 2008

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- The National Science Foundation has awarded Geomagic a Phase IIB grant to extend research into technologies that will have a profound impact on product design and development.

The latest grant comes on the heels of successful Phase I and Phase II projects aimed at giving designers the ability to easily create accurate digital representations of scanned physical parts.

Work on the Phase IIB grant has major implications in mechanical design applications. It addresses customer needs for automation, computational efficiency, and high-quality surfacing. The research will further extend the core technology found in Geomagic's recently introduced Fashion module, which captures the original design intent of a scanned physical object and transforms it into a CAD-ready surface model.

"These technologies are tearing down the walls between physical parts and their digital representations, speeding iterations of design, engineering, manufacturing and maintenance throughout the product life cycle," says Dr. Michael Facello, principal investigator for Geomagic's research. "The new software algorithms we are developing have the potential to reduce design cycles from months to days, improve quality through better analysis, shorten maintenance and repair cycles, dramatically reduce waste, and enable product customization on a mass scale."

About Geomagic

Geomagic (www.geomagic.com) simplifies digital shape sampling and processing (DSSP) for more than 7,000 professionals in industries such as automotive, aerospace, medical devices and consumer products. The company's products and services are used to enable mass customization with the same efficiency and cost as mass production, improve dental care with individually designed devices, speed time to market for consumer products, automate inspection for better quality in dramatically less time, increase safety for NASA shuttle missions, and optimize design for everything from racing cars to blimps. Geomagic has headquarters in Research Triangle Park, N.C., subsidiaries in Europe and Asia, and distributors worldwide.