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Geometric’s DFMPro recognized as a top innovation at Innovations 2010
Mumbai, India, February 4, 2010: Geometric Limited (BSE: 532312, NSE: GEOMETRIC), a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Engineering Services and Offshore Product Development (OPD) solutions and technologies, today announced that its automated design for manufacturing product, DFMPro was awarded as a top innovation in science and technology at Innovations 2010.

Innovations is an annual event conducted by the Pune Chapter of IIT Bombay Alumni Association to recognize novel ideas in science and technology. This year, twelve top innovations across the country were selected for the Innovations 2010 award spanning across medicine, agriculture, engineering technology (mechanical, electronic, chemical), and IT products.

On receiving the accolade, Mr. Bhaskar Sinha, Product Manager, DFMPro said, “Our focus at Geometric has always been to constantly innovate to help our customers to improve productivity, improve quality, and reduce cost. We are honored to be recognized as the top innovators for the second time at the event”.

Innovations 2010 event was held in January at Pune, India, where all the winning entries, including DFMPro, were also showcased.

About DFMPro

DFMPro is an easy-to-use design for manufacturability (DFM) tool for designers and manufacturing engineers that is seamlessly integrated into leading CAD platforms like SolidWorks® and Pro/ENGINEER®. It facilitates upstream manufacturability validation and identification of areas of a design that are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture. For more information on DFMPro, please visit www.dfmpro.com.

About Innovations

Innovations is an annual conference to showcase new ideas from across the country. It is hosted by the IIT-Bombay Alumni Association, Pune Chapter in January every year, with the aim of helping innovators and entrepreneurs of India to create and expand the ecosystem around them. Innovations 2010 is the fourth event organized by the association and it showcased select innovators to an elite gathering of VCs and experts. For more information, please visit http://www.innovations-pune.com

About Geometric

Geometric ( www.geometricglobal.com) is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services and Digital Technology solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.

Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Geometric was incorporated in 1994 and is listed on the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges. The company recorded consolidated revenues of Rupees 5.98 billion (US Dollars 129.47 million) for the year ended March 2009. It employs close to 3000 people across 11 global delivery locations in the US, France, Romania, India, and China. Geometric is assessed at SEI CMMI Level 5 for its software services and ISO 9001:2000 certified for engineering operations.

Geometric’s Desktop Products and Technologies (DPT) business unit develops cutting-edge point productivity solutions that enhance design and improve manufacturing operations. The end-user products from Geometric include CAMWorks®, eDrawings® Publisher, DFMPro, GeomCaliper® and 3DPaintBrush™. The key technologies from Geometric are NestLib®, Feature Recognition (FR), GeomDiff and 3DSearchIT®. Geometric licenses these technologies to OEM partners and also designs and implements customized process solutions using these technologies for industrial customers.

For further details about Geometric’s DPT business unit, please visit www.geometricglobal.com/products or call +1.480.367.0132

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