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

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(Business Wire)--
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.

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