STEP Tools wins SBIR Award for Pipe Bending

[Martin Hardwick]

Dear All,

STEP Tools, Inc., the forerunner in developing STEP and STEP-NC software
solutions for the global marketplace, announced today it has been awarded
a $70,000 DoD SBIR (Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research)
Grant from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command. The STEP Tools' "Technology
for Shipbuilding Affordability" project provides the research and testing
groundwork to examine the technical merits of utilizing STEP-NC (the
manufacturing extension of the international STEP product data standard) for
manufacturing operations in the shipbuilding industry. STEP Tools will ascertain
how the ship building industry can best leverage STEP-NC technology to control
pipe bending and cutting, and estimate the economic benefits. The research will
also outline how to take advantage of the existing STEP standards for piping
systems and ship steel structures.

Please contact us if you any questions or suggestions, or if you would like to
contribute to the program. This is the first of many follow-on programs for
our very successful STEP-NC(Super Model) project.

You can find more information in our press room.

http://www.steptools.com/pressroom/press_releases.html

Martin Hardwick



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