Invention Machine Corporation
(www.invention-machine.com), the leading provider of software that
accelerates the innovation process, today announced GKN Aerospace's
extended deployment of Invention Machine's flagship solution, Goldfire
Innovator(TM). Goldfire Innovator enables product development
engineers, scientists and researchers to capture and leverage
technical knowledge to conceive more and better ideas. Accelerated
knowledge discovery and ideation empowers companies to continuously
fuel product pipelines with better-performing, more competitive and
more cost-effective products.
GKN Aerospace, with more than 600 engineers worldwide, is arming
its global network of Technology Gatekeepers, the key drivers of
innovation at GKN Aerospace, with Goldfire Innovator. Goldfire
Innovator brings structure and predictability to the innovation and
product development processes - providing innovation workers with
technical knowledge for concept discovery and tools and methodologies
for structured idea-generation and inventive problem-solving. Goldfire
Innovator also enables GKN Aerospace's innovation workers to access,
share and leverage technical knowledge and lessons learned across both
internal engineering knowledge sources and external cross-disciplinary
content sources, such as worldwide patents and Invention Machine's
proprietary database of scientific phenomenon.
"Because the Technology Gatekeepers interact with customers on a
regular basis and also influence research activity, they have a
pivotal role in directing the development of solutions that the market
is looking for," said Dan Ninan, Technology Manager, GKN Aerospace.
"Goldfire Innovator is the ideal tool to help them in their role
because it guides them in clearly identifying and stating technical
problems, steers them through a structured innovation process which
challenges traditional modes of thinking and its semantic engine also
pinpoints relevant information stored in websites, patents, a
comprehensive scientific effects database and in GKN Aerospace's own
digital files."
"Across the globe, companies are under increasing pressure to
deliver better-performing and more competitively differentiated
product offerings to sustain a competitive advantage," said Mark E.
Atkins, Chairman, President and CEO of Invention Machine Corporation.
"With Goldfire Innovator, companies can better leverage technical
knowledge -- promoting knowledge-enabled engineering, systematically
conceiving new products and processes, and more rapidly accelerating
the introduction of innovative products."
For information on Goldfire Innovator, please contact
info@invention-machine.com or visit www.inventionmachine. com.
About GKN Aerospace
GKN Aerospace is part of GKN plc, an engineering company in the
automotive and aerospace market sectors. GKN Aerospace Services is
recognized as one of the world leaders in primary composite and light-
weight metallic structures for commercial and military aircraft,
helicopters and space vehicles. With over 40 years experience in the
design and manufacture of high performance materials, the company has
a continuing commitment to development work in design, manufacturing
processes, materials and tooling methods.
About Invention Machine
Invention Machine Corporation is the leading provider of
enterprise software and services that promote knowledge-enabled
engineering and systematize product idea generation to accelerate and
bring greater efficiency and predictability to product innovation.
Invention Machine's solutions empower product development engineers,
scientists and researchers with technical knowledge for concept
discovery and tools and methodologies for structured idea-generation
and inventive problem-solving, helping manufacturers rapidly convert
ideas into concepts for new and improved, better-performing, more
competitively differentiated, and more cost-effective products.
For more than a decade, leading companies have used Invention
Machine's solutions to raise returns on their R&D investments, improve
design and production processes across the product lifecycle, and
continually fuel product pipelines with innovative products.
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Invention Machine has offices
in the UK, France and Germany and distribution partners throughout
Europe and Asia-Pacific. Invention Machine supports Global 2000
customers worldwide including such companies as Delphi, HP, NEC,
Northrop Grumman, Renault, Samsung, Saipem, Shell, ST
Microelectronics, and Whirlpool. For additional information, please
visit www.invention-machine.com.
