TOLLAND, Conn. — May 16, 2011 — Gerber Technology, a business unit of Gerber Scientific, Inc.
(NYSE: GRB), announces the release of YuniquePLM™ v4.0 software, the next generation of its product
lifecycle management system designed to help brand owners and retailers bring products to market
faster. YuniquePLM remains the benchmark for ease of use among PLM systems, delivering an enhanced
user interface with personalized home pages, mass edit capability, local language support and the
ability to use data and images from Gerber’s AccuMark system to populate tech packs in YuniquePLM.
YuniquePLM v4.0 enables the system’s home page to be configured according to individual roles
and responsibilities using a personal task list and dashboards. This enables users to quickly
understand a project’s status and visualize what next steps are required. With enhanced local
language functionality, users navigate the system in their chosen language.
In addition, the batch and flash edit capabilities and mass find and replace functionality
enable users to perform changes across multiple styles or portions of styles simultaneously.
Bill Brewster, president of Gerber Technology’s Software Solutions business, said, “We
continue to invest and innovate in the YuniquePLM platform to enhance the user experience and to
deliver improved collaboration for our users at every point. Our system is proven to have the
highest end user adoption rates because we base our continuous improvement efforts on a combination
of industry best practices and cutting edge thinking cultivated by decades of experience in the
industry.”
YuniquePLM v4.0 also enables users to transfer historical data and images from Gerber’s
webPDM™ systems and use data and images from Gerber’s AccuMark pattern design, grading and marking
system to populate tech packs in YuniquePLM. In addition, it provides powerful new measurement and
process functionality and makes it even easier to associate images with text to visually
communicate instructions to colleagues and supply chain partners.
Elizabeth King, executive director of Software Product Management at Gerber Technology,
explains, “With the launch of version 4.0, Gerber has succeeded, once again, in trimming valuable
time from the product development process. Now, users can take information, like material yield
calculations, directly from their AccuMark CAD system and use it to create tech packs in
YuniquePLM. As a result, costing estimates are much more accurate and, by sharing data between
AccuMark and YuniquePLM, users minimize errors and redundant work.”
With this release and the release of a powerful software conversion tool from Gerber known as
Yunify™, existing users of Gerber’s webPDM software are able to quickly and accurately transfer
their historical data and images into YuniquePLM enabling them to take advantage of the enhanced
functionality, mobility, scalability and powerful business intelligence that YuniquePLM
offers.
Among other functionality, the release of YuniquePLM 4.0 offers users the ability to:
• Use different measurements for positive and negative tolerances. Oftentimes it may be
acceptable for a garment to be a bit large rather than too small or tight.
• Create a base size for grading. Grade using the “relative” grading method. Designate
alternate sizes to be the base as required.
• Enter measurements as either imperial or metric. The system calculates the opposite and
allows users to toggle between the two.
• Manage multiple pages of the same type such as “before wash” and “after wash” measurements
or “construction details” and “packaging details” as well as endless other options.
• Quickly create measurement specs using fractional “hot keys.” This reduces data entry time
by as much as 50 percent.
• Using the new Process Details structure, combine detailed text with images to illustrate
specific processes within your operation.
Posted on May 24, 2011
Source: Gerber Technology
