April 14, 2011 – Westford, MA, USA – Zuken today announced that Alignex has joined its North American network of  E³.WireWorks resellers.  Headquartered in Edina, MN, Alignex provides engineering solutions, services and consulting for manufacturers, architects, construction and engineering firms.  They offer software sales, installation, training and support throughout the upper Midwest including Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and western portions of Wisconsin and Illinois.

More and more often, today’s products have both mechanical and electrical content.  This creates a need for increased collaboration between electrical, fluid and mechanical design teams. Offering customers the ability to use E³.WireWorks in conjunction with SolidWorks allows mechanical, electrical, and fluid designers to work more closely together for better collaboration with fewer design errors, rework, and warranty issues while enabling companies to speed up the design process. E³.WireWorks’ easy out of the box integration with SolidWorks Premium Routing and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM makes it a perfect complement to offer customers to maximize their SolidWorks investment.

"Alignex is pleased to partner with Zuken to offer our customers world-class electrical and electronic engineering design tools.  Successful companies surround themselves with successful business partners.  The addition of E³.WireWorks addresses an increasing demand by our customers as they look to Alignex for additional ways to streamline product development," commented Steve Keinath, president of Alignex, Inc.

"We are pleased to welcome Alignex to the Zuken family of resellers," said Tony Cadwell, worldwide reseller manager for Zuken’s European and American operations. "The experience and knowledge of the Alignex staff is what truly sets them apart. Adding E³.WireWorks to their portfolio will now enable Alignex to offer a full solution to their customers, enhancing their commitment to understand, apply and deliver."

• For more information on E³.WireWorks please visit www.zuken.com/e3wireworks .
• For further details about Alignex visit www.alignex.com.

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About E³.WireWorks

E³.WireWorks is a Windows-based, modular, scalable and intuitive design system for wiring, harnesses, cable assemblies, and cabinet and panel layout. Its unique design approach stores circuit diagrams, cabinet and panel layouts, and nail board drawings in one multi-view project file. This keeps all drawings and the BOM automatically in sync, reducing errors, increasing quality and enabling engineering changes to be completed more efficiently. Its close integration with SolidWorks Premium Routing shares netlist, cable, and component data between E³.WireWorks and SolidWorks. It also returns routed segment and wire length information from SolidWorks to E³.WireWorks for manufacturing documentation. SolidWorks Enterprise PDM integration enables data management, workflow, and lifecycle control.

About Zuken

Zuken works globally with leading companies to optimize their electrical and electronic engineering design and related manufacturing processes through the provision of leading-edge software and consulting services. The company’s unique combination of proven experience, technological expertise and agility creates best in class solutions. Zuken’s transparent working practices and belief in integrity in all aspects of business produce long lasting and successful customer partnerships.

Zuken’s robust market position is reinforced by an established position in the industry with over 30 years experience, and solid financial foundations. As a stable multinational company, listed on Tier 1 of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Zuken is able to remain focused on being a long-term innovation and growth partner. The security of an investment by partnering with Zuken is further reinforced by the company’s people - the foundation of Zuken’s success. Coming from a wide range of industry sectors, specializing in many different disciplines and advanced technologies, Zuken’s people are able to relate to and understand each company’s unique requirements.

About Alignex

Alignex has been the premier SolidWorks Provider in the upper Midwest since 1997 and leading engineering technology provider for over 20 years. Alignex provides mechanical engineering software as well as contract mechanical design and analysis services throughout the Upper-Midwest including Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota as well as central and western areas of Wisconsin and western Illinois.

For more information contact :

Amy Clements, Zuken USA Inc

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