Laila Hirr is one of the few recognized and Siemens/UGS PLM Software-certified specialists globally for I-deas to NX and Team Data Manager (TDM) to Teamcenter migrations. She has assisted numerous companies in the smooth transition to NX and Teamcenter while preserving these organizations’ investment and intellectual capital contained in their I-deas and TDM data. She remains in her leadership position at Metafore while she assumes this new role.

“It is a great honor for me to be elected into this position and to be able to make my knowledge, experience and expertise in this area available to both the I-deas user community as well as Siemens/UGS PLM Software”, says Laila Hirr. “I am looking forward to working with and helping the many companies using I-deas to plan and execute their transition from Ideas to NX”.

“We congratulate Laila to her election to this important position and wish her all the best for this additional assignment,” says Andreas Lindenthal, Principal of Metafore. “Being voted into this role by users of I-deas software shows the confidence and trust they have in Laila’s knowledge and expertise in this area and in her ability to help them perform a successful and smooth transition”.

About Metafore

Metafore is an independent full-service product lifecycle management (PLM) solution provider. We deliver PLM by educating our clients, providing unbiased information and helping them to identify, design, implement and operate the most appropriate PLM practices, processes and technologies for their business needs. Our PLM experts work with companies of all sizes across most industries and bring years of practical experience in evaluating and implementing both large enterprise PLM solutions as well as small workgroup PDM solutions (www.meta-fore.com).

For questions and additional information about the I-deas SIG and the I-deas to NX transition go to http://www.meta-fore.com/services/ideas2nx.html or send an e-mail to ideas2nx@meta-fore.com.