Milford, OH, October 19, 2010 – ITI TranscenData, the Product Data Interoperability business within International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI), announced today that their President, Don Hemmelgarn, has joined the Association for Enterprise Information (AFEI) Board of Directors.

AFEI is an industry association dedicated to the advancement of the sharing, integration, management and protection of information across extended enterprises (people, process and technology), with a focus on national security and defense issues.  AFEI provides opportunities for industry and government personnel to discuss and share information on issues of immediate interest and importance to the community. AFEI (www.afei.org) is an affiliate subsidiary of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) ( www.ndia.org), America’s leading defense industry association promoting national security.

ITI is a global company helping clients achieve world class product development productivity. ITI TranscenData provides interoperability solutions that enable companies to effectively exchange, reuse, integrate and share engineering product data among diverse software applications. ITI TranscenData solutions are aimed directly at reducing and eliminating non-value-added time and costs associated with reusing product data. 

Hemmelgarn has an extensive background in the development and application of product data interoperability technologies and solutions. He joined ITI in 1984 and has been the President of the TranscenData business since 2002, where he manages business operations and interests throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as development projects that implemented translation software for major CAD/CAM system vendors.

In addition to his duties at ITI TranscenData, Hemmelgarn serves as an Officer and Executive Committee member of the PDES Inc. Executive Board. PDES is an international industry/government consortium accelerating the development and implementation of ISO 10303 (STEP).

"We are pleased to have Don join the AFEI Board of Directors” stated Dr. Margaret Myers, Board Chairman of AFEI. “His wealth of industry experience and knowledge will strengthen our collaboration efforts between government and industry, furthering the advancement of engineering data interoperability, integration and protection.”

About ITI and ITI TranscenData

International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Milford, OH. ITI TranscenData is the product data interoperability business within ITI. CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM vendors and end users alike utilize ITI TranscenData's products and services for seamless data exchange between dissimilar systems. Customers include ABB, Airbus, BAE Systems, Boeing, Dassault, EADS, Ford, Honeywell, Lego, Lockheed Martin, NASA, MAHLE Powertrain, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon, Renault, Rockwell Collins, Samsung Electronics, Siemens, Snecma, Spirit AeroSystems, Thales, ThyssenKrupp, US Air Force, US Army, US Navy, Xerox and others.

For more information about ITI TranscenData, visit www.transcendata.com
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