News For The CADKEY /DataCAD User September/October 1990 3-D WORLD Volume 4, Number 5 Annual Subscription: $29.95 Parmenter Systems and CAD KEY Create a Corporation with an Expanded Vision into the Future! " elM Strategy "As the key component of ------------~ Parmenter's thrust," Ted continued, "CADKEY will become the foundation around which Parmenter will build its effort to deliver productivity tools for the design, manufacturing, and NEIC industries." Software productivity tools for the 1990's include not only computer-aided design and manufacture, but also manufacturing controls, assembly automation, material and manufacturing requirements planning (MRPIMRPII), and even business requirements planning. Computer integration of all of Left to right: Dewey Manzer, Ted Joseph, Livingston Davies, and Dick Torborg. these discrete functionalities will make such an environment Livingston Davies and Peter Board of Directors. Smith, co-founders of CADKEY, possible. INC. and Theodore R. Joseph and The announcement of the "CADKEY has always been a Deward F. Manzer, co-founders Parmenter-CADKEY alliance of Parmenter Systems, Inc., leader in such specialties as followed record sales and profits (Continued on page 2) announced on July 11,1990, for CADKEY's preceding quarter. their plans to merge the two CADKEY's domestic sales grew IN THIS ISSUE: companies in an alliance that will 47% relative to the same quarter produce a corporation with the in 1989, while international sales c:> Who and What are financial and technological grew 75%, and Educational Sales Parmenter Systems? muscle to provide integrated increased 166%. Ted Joseph, c:> DataCAD's Role in microcomputer-based Chairman and CEO of Parmenter CADKEY's New Plans manufacturing systems for the Systems, stated that one specific c:> DataCAD (V. 4.0) = En- mechanical, manufacturing and objective for the unified hanced Productivity Tool NE/C markets of the 1990's and companies is to achieve $100-200 c:> Oil Pipeline in Zimbabwe beyond. CADKEY will retain its million in sales revenues within c:> NIST and Industry Work identity within Parmenter five years, with 50% of the Together for Automated Systems. "This alliance will give revenues coming from Quality Inspection us the finances to grow more international sales. "Parmenter 0 CAD That's Child's Play rapidly, into an international Systems' goal is to become a c:> Note from Tech Support presence in the PC-based and major product and systems firm 0 Trade Show Update workstation-based manufac­ on a global scale, focusing on c:> CADKEY I DataCAD turing arena, than we could have strategic applications based on Training Dates done on our own," said Peter PC's and workstations," Ted c:> Third-Party News Smith, Chairman of CADKEY's Joseph said. Parmenter and CADKEV mainframe systems, while still areas of the aircraft industry (Continued from page 1) meeting the increasingly (airframes, propellers, etc.) complex needs of the computer­ whose businesses were advanced networking, systems integrated enterprise. successful in their own right, integration, data base Integrating software notably Chance Vought (Vought management, data transfer and functionalities across the Aircraft Corp.), William Boeing diverse hardware platforms," spectrum of design, engineering, (Boeing Airplane Co. ), and Igor said Livingston Davies, manufacturing, and AlEIC Sikorsky (Sikorsky Aero President of CADKEY. "Our industries is the critical path for Engineering Corp.), led to a union with Parmenter will the 1990's. series of mergers that produced enable us to accelerate United Aircraft and Transport dramatically our growth in these Corporation. They successfully areas. It will have immediate Recollection of an achieved their goal of benefits throughout CADKEY's Intriguing Corporate establishing an aviation group, dealer and user community. under a single management, that Parmenter's financial resources, History could design and produce all the coupled with CADKEY's equipment needed for large, fast, technological resources, will Peter explained how the safe, mail-service, and enable us to improve and potential created by the financial passenger-service airplanes, and broaden current product lines, and technological union of then operate them through its develop broader workstation Parmenter and CADKEY own airline. applications, and initiate corresponds to his and innovative software solutions for Livingston's original vision for the system-integration needs of CADKEY when they founded the The Engine for the our customers." company in 1982. He referred to Com puter-Integ rated the fact that both Livingston and Both Ted and Livingston he had previously worked at Enterprise confirmed that Parmenter and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in East CADKEY would be actively Hartford, Connecticut. "This "CADKEY and DataCAD looking for future strategic development between Parmenter products are the best engine for technologies to expand the and CADKEY is similar to the the computer-integrated integrated-solution capabilities of way in which Frederick enterprise," Peter continued, this alliance. "We have real Rentschler developed Pratt & paraphrasing Frederick synergies here," added Deward Whitney into United Aircraft, Rentschler. "As the cornerstone Manzer, President and COO of which later became United of the Parmenter initiative, we Parmenter Systems. Technologies Corporation," he shall playa key role in said. determining the direction of Peter Smith noted that the future, strategic, complementary critical element in the computer In 1925, Frederick B. Rentschler acquisitions. We shall be industry has shifted from founded Pratt & Whitney extending our leadership hardware to software. Future Aircraft Company on the firm position in that new and evolving trends of worldwide business and conviction that the best airplanes computer environment." manufacturing operations will could be designed only around continue to see PC-based and the best engine. In 1928, It is also interesting to note that workstation-based solutions conversations among Rentschler the development of this supplant minicomputer and and personal friends in various relationship between CADKEY, INC. and Parmenter Systems bears another resemblance to QUIZ: Which Input method offers greater productivity? what Frederick Rentschler CLICK • CLICK • accomplished: a group of friends building an expanded enterprise. MOUSE CLICK • DONE Livingston Davies first became acquainted with Deward Manzer in 1989, during a conversation N CLICK • DONE with a mutual friend, Dick ! PIK-FAST ! Torborg of Newtonville, Massachusetts. Dick, a long­ answer: ..=:: PIK-FAST™ DIGITIZER TEMPLATE time friend of Livingston and JENSEN PROPERTIES, [NC. • P. O. BOX 470368 • TULSA, OK 74147 Peter, and more recently a TEL: 1-(918) 627-5770 • FAX: 1-(918) 663-4939 (Continued on page 3) 2 Parmenter and CADKEY growth of Pratt & Whitney Who and What Are (Continued from page 2) Aircraft Company came from The Pratt & Whitney Story, a book Parmenter Systems? business associate of Dewey, is containing considerable first-hand Early in 1990, Theodore R. now an advisor to Parmenter documentation, published in 1950, to Joseph and Deward F. Manzer Systems. commemorate the 25th anniversary founded Parmenter Systems, Inc. of the Pratt & Whitney Division of in Wellesley, Massachusetts, as a Finalization of the financial and United Aircraft Corporation. technological arrangements corporation with very strong between CADKEY and The Editor wishes to thank financial resources and with a Parmenter Systems, both Frederick Glike, a Reference mission. The mission is to help privately held companies, is Librarian at the Mary Cheney Public manufacturing companies to expected to take place in the Library in Manchester, Connecticut, optimize their use of PC-based next three months. for his diligent assistance in and workstation-based obtaining the information about information systems through Editor's Note: Information about Frederick Rentschler and Pratt & products and systems that bring Frederick B. Rentschler and the Whitney Aircraft Company. about company-wide integration. Ted Joseph is Parmenter's ~ounces Chairman and Chief Executive HLB Officer. Dewey Manzer is the ~ company's President and Chief TECHNOLOGY ezFon ts ~ Operating Officer. ~ 15 typefaces for CADKEY < "The name, Parmenter, comes $ 29.95 per ezFont or 9- from a playground on Oakland , $299.00 for FontPac I, Avenue in Brockton, all 15 fonts! O¢! Massachusetts, near my home .acU'..L where I grew up," Ted Joseph ..rOd" ~ ~ said. "I had a lot of fun there, P.O. 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