Privately-owned Boulder, Colorado-based Cadis Inc has launched its Cadis-PMX Parts Management Expert database and classification system for tracking the design, development, manufacture and management of parts. The database system is designed around a part’s attributes rather than the part numbers. The Cadis-PMX system captures a customer’s manufacturing requirements planning or computer-aided design part files into its classification system. Cadis Inc has 55 employees, opened its first European office in London in October 1995 and claims to have 20 Fortune 500 companies among its customers, including Beaverton, Oregon-based Tektronix Inc, General Electric Co Inc, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co, former IBM Corp low-end printer, typewriter and keyboards subsidiary Lexmark International Group Inc and Ingersoll-Rand Corp. Prices for the Cadis-PMX database start from around $120,000 and it is up on Sun Microsystems Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corp, X11/Motif clients and Windows and most Unix server systems. Cadis is also developing Cadis Krakatoa, its World Wide Web publishing and access control software package written in Java, which it says is due to ship at the end of March. The company claims it has already got National Semiconductor Corp signed up to take Cadis Krakatoa, and has others interested.
