Pulse Technology System’s Managing Director, Damian Rafferty credits the hard work of the staff at the company for the positive growth over the past number of years:

We are delighted to be included in the prestigious Deloitte Fast 50 Awards. This is our first year to be included on the list and the award is due to the hard work of our development team. They have created an innovative suite of software products that fits the needs of growing manufacturers.

The Fast 50 programme, now in its ninth year in Ireland ranks the fastest-growing technology companies in Ireland. This year, there were 17 companies from north in the ranking. The average annual growth rate of the 50 winning companies was 460%.

Announcing the winners of the Technology Fast 50 programme, David Coates, Associate Partner with Deloitte, Belfast said:

Congratulations to our 2008 Fast 50 winners – their success is indicative of the innovative technology companies present in Ireland. To have 16 new companies in the awards is a true sign of the talent and creative thinking that is present in the technology industry in Ireland. It is this innovation and fresh thinking that will ensure Ireland’s continued success in this competitive industry.

The awards took place in the Guinness Storehouse on October 16th. Industry figures speaking at the event included Jim Breen (CEO, Pulse Learning), John McElligott (Director of Strategy and M&A, eBay Global Classifieds) and David Tansley (Partner, Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Deloitte UK). Details of the final Technology Fast 50 ranking list are available to download at www.fast50.ie.

Pulse PLM Multi Site is a recent addition to our suite of products and allows companies to safely share data across disperse project teams. Sending only the delta chage to the file over to the replicated vault means that network is minimised and changes are seen instantly on the other side. This tool will allow us to target businesses with multiple sites and allow us to grow our already impressive customer base. Damian Rafferty, Pulse Systems

Further information can be found at the Pulse Systems web site or by calling Pulse Systems direct.

The management teams of both Fintec and Extec have vast knowledge of the industry and both companies also possess the most modern manufacturing facilities in the UK. Fintec and Extec will continue to manage their businesses as normal until such times as the new Sandvik management team properly assess the strengths and weaknesses of both companies. These 2 acquisitions provide a very strong base for Sandvik to continue to build on for further expansion into this growing segment of the construction industry.

Microsoft .NET Developers

We currently have vacancies for Microsoft .NET software developers. If you are an enthusiastic programmer who is confident they can contribute positively to our small team, please contact us now. Situated in centrally in Northern Ireland, we are just 30 minutes from Belfast, just off the M1 motorway. Applications and requests for further information can be sent to info [at] pulseplm [dot] com.

We look forward to welcoming new members on board.

Pulse Connect is a key solution within the Pulse PLM Suite of applications. With continuing pressure on organisations to shorten time to manufacturing, the key challenge is to extract important design information from CAD systems and post that to ERP systems in real time. Pulse Connect enables automatic model exporting, saving time re-keying information and ensuring accuracy and consistency between systems.

Pulse Connect provides companies the ability to extract important part and bill of materials data from their CAD system and to compare this data to information that already exists within their ERP system. The ability to export and import bill of materials data in XML or spreadsheet format exists within most CAD and ERP systems, however the ability of Pulse Connect to visually compare the data before it is posted to the ERP system is a key distinction. Damian Rafferty, Pulse Systems Managing Director

The Pulse Connect solution is currently available for the following CAD applications: Pro/ENGINEER, AutoDesk Inventor and Mechanical Desktop, SolidWorks and SolidEdge.

The Pulse Inventor Integrator compliments our other collaborative design integration offerings, including AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop. These integrations enable companies using Autodesk solutions to easily manage and control their 2D or 3D design data and streamline the release to manufacturing. Companies need to stay one step ahead of their competition and deliver quality products at the highest speed. Shortening design cycle time is the key to survival. Damian Rafferty, Pulse Systems Managing Director

Inventor Integration is a key solution within the collaborative design enabling Pulse PLM Suite. With continuing pressure on organisations to shorten product development cycles, the key challenge is to extract important design information from CAD systems in a form that enables it to be distributed and used by all departments across your workgroup and extended enterprise. Inventor Integrator allows for the automatic extraction of Autodesk Inventor attributes to populate Pulse PLM Suite attributes, saving time re-keying information and for accuracy and consistency between systems.

The two firms are working jointly to solve a key issue facing many manufacturing companies, namely the transferring of Parts and Bill of Materials data from various CAD systems directly into their ERP.

The Pulse PLM Suite product provides a seamless integration to multiple CAD systems, including Pro/ENGINEER, Inventor, SolidWorks, AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop. With the new Pulse PLM Suite / Syspro set-up, designers can now simply export part and bill of materials data from whatever native CAD system they are using directly into Syspro to replicate that data for wider company use.

The information contained in a company’s CAD system is an invaluable resource, and sometimes the success or failure of a business can revolve around its designs and associated data. Making changes to those designs, controlling the changes and communicating them throughout a company is therefore a critical process. Our solution represents a major cost saving for businesses, because not only does it unlock and transfer information from the CAD system directly into Syspro in real-time, but the transfer process avoids costly and error-prone re-keying in of data. Howard Joseph, Sales Director of McGuffie Brunton

Pulse Systems and McGuffie Brunton are enjoying their first success with the new venture after signing up Extec Screens and Crushers Ltd., manufacturers of the world-renowned range of mobile crushers, screeners and shredders.

As we have already found out, there is definitely demand for this type of type of CAD/ERP integration. It gives us a better way to market, especially in the industrial equipment and machinery market sector. Colin Rafferty, Pulse Systems Business Development Manager

The Pulse solutions are linked to Syspro using e.NET architecture and provide customers with a complete life cycle management solution that reduces product design time, brings down time to manufacturing and improves profitability at various stages throughout product lifecycle.

We had a poor experience with another data management package prior to the installation of Pulse PLM Suite, but the installation and operation of Pulse has proven to be a great success. We have recently upgraded to Pro/ENGINEER WildFire and our guys using find Pulse and WildFire very easy to use. They were trained and using the system in a matter of days. Jorge Abelho, Engineering Manager at Pilot Crushtec

Pilot Crushtec will use Pulse PLM Suite to manage and control all of the company’s engineering data created in Pro/ENGINEER. Manual engineering change procedures have been automated and are now controlled in Pulse PLM Suite. Pilot Crushtec will use Pulse to help the company reduce product design time and will assist Pilot Crushtec get their crushers to market faster.

The company have invested heavily over the years in state of the art production facilities including laser cutting and robotic welding to streamline production. They have also invested in Pro/ENGINEER as their 3D CAD software and Syspro for all their accounting and ERP needs. McHale were using a file management system to manage their Pro/ENGINEER data but were not happy with its performance and some aspects of functionality. They began the search to update their data management systems.

After some time McHale had narrowed down the list of possible solutions to two. PDMLink from PTC and Pulse PLM Suite from Pulse Systems. After extensive demonstrations and testing McHale chose the Pulse system.

Speed was a crucial factor in our decision. Retrieving models from the old system was very slow. Engineers would often leave their work stations while an assembly was being pulled from the server. In talking with other customers using Pulse PLM Suite we believed that Pulse PLM Suite could improve this download time. Now that we have gone live we can’t believe the improvement. With the old system an assembly would take over 20 minutes to retrieve, now with Pulse this is down to 2 minutes. James Heaney, the Design Office Manager at McHale’s

McHale plan to roll out further modules of Pulse PLM Suite to encompass the after sales service management for their farm equipment. Giving McHale the ability to manage their products throughout their lifecycle from design through to in field service.