2008年3月上海消息：

经过两年多时间的慎重选型，爱克伦（中国）集团正式决定采用FORAN软件系统作为其主流的船舶设计系统，这是FORAN软件在国内赢得的第一家正式用户。目前该集团所属的船舶设计公司已经在上海完成软件系统的安装和初步培训，并计划在近期利用FORAN展开第一条实船的设计和建造工作。

“FORAN系统是国际上技术领先、并被广泛采用的船舶设计和建造软件，我们为爱克伦（中国）集团成为FORAN系统在中国的第一家正式用户感到骄傲，同时也希望FORAN在中国能够获得更广泛的推广和应用。”爱克伦（中国）集团总裁班诺斯先生说：“我们选择FORAN作为主流的船舶设计和建造系统，不仅是因为这个软件系统本身先进的技术和完整的功能，同时也是因为通力有限公司在推广FORAN系统的同时，也能够提供领先的PLM系统、以及数字化造船平台的解决方案，与爱克伦集团希望成为数字化造船的领先者和倡导者的远景规划不谋而合，因此我们双方已经达成长期战略合作关系，共同打造国际一流的数字化造船平台。”

“FORAN投入应用是我们与爱克伦（中国）集团全面合作的第一步，” 通力有限公司总经理王和根先生高兴地表示：“双方能够确立长期战略合作关系，证明我们在造船领域开发并实施数字化造船平台的决策是正确的、是符合国内船舶行业需求的。通力公司在数字化造船建设领域已经投入了巨大的努力，并将进一步扩大投入的广度和深度。我们非常感谢爱克伦集团的充分信任和大力支持，期望双方的合作能够为国内FORAN应用、以及船舶行业的数字化建设树立起成功的榜样。”

西班牙SENER集团执行副总裁Mr. Luis Garcia先生为中国第一家FORAN正式用户的诞生发来贺信：“我们非常高兴地看到FORAN已经在中国正式开始了工程应用，这是我们继日本、印度等国之后，在亚洲地区新的突破。中国的造船工业将在可预见的几年内成为全球第一，我们将发挥SENER在造船领域具有丰富经验的优势、同时大力支持SENER在中国的合作伙伴通力有限公司，将FORAN推广到更多的造船厂和设计公司，以推动中国造船行业的技术改进，帮助他们提高企业的竞争力。”
据悉，爱克伦（中国）集团与通力有限公司已经在有关的数字化造船建设领域展开合作，包括PLM系统、数字化制造等工作正在进行中。

关于爱克伦（中国）集团
爱克伦（中国）集团主要业务为船舶设计建造、以及相关的采购、贸易以及经营管理。总部设在上海，负责全部业务的经营管理，同时在上海拥有一个船舶设计公司、在连云港拥有一个造船厂、并与国内的造船厂保持合作。集团的业务处于快速发展阶段，因此相关信息化建设成为重要课题之一。

关于SENER公司及FORAN软件
SENER公司是西班牙最大的民营工程系统公司，在船舶工程、软件开发和应用领域拥有50多年的经验，利用FORAN系统自行设计的船舶已有超过1100艘投入建造和运营。
FORAN系统是由船舶设计师开发的船舶设计建造专用的软件系统，是一款包含船舶设计所有专业、覆盖船舶设计全过程的完整的解决方案。FORAN采用单一数据库、分布式并行的运行模式，可以实现异地协同设计。FORAN代表了船舶CAD/CAM/CAE技术的前沿，获得广泛的应用，目前已有23个国家的130余家船厂、设计院所和大学将这款优秀的软件用于各种不同类型、不同尺寸和不同用途的船舶及海洋结构物的设计中。
更多信息请访问：http://www.sener.es 或 http://www.foran.es

关于通力有限公司
通力有限公司是服务于企业信息化建设的高新技术企业，为制造业客户提供企业信息化全程咨询服务、PLM解决方案实施服务、产品设计与分析工程咨询服务、PLM应用软件销售与技术支持服务等，帮助客户进行企业信息化平台的建设，保证信息化项目和PLM项目的成功实施，充分发挥先进软件及技术的作用、提高企业的核心竞争力。通力公司在美国、上海、成都、长沙、西安等地设有多个分支机构，公司的用户已遍及航空、航天、船舶、汽车、机车车辆、电力、电子、兵器和通用机械等行业。
通力有限公司是中国市场上唯一的FORAN系统供应商，并同时向国内造船业用户提供数字化造船解决方案。
更多信息请访问：http://www.ufc.com.cn

FORAN has Won the First User in China
AKRON (China) Group chose FORAN
Shanghai, March 2008,

AKRON (China) Group decided to use FORAN as their main ship design system after careful election with more than two years. This is the first commercial FORAN user in China.
“FORAN is a technical leading shipbuilding software system, and it is widely accepted by many shipyards and design offices in the world. This is our honour to be the first user of FORAN in China, and we wish that FORAN can be applied in more and more shipyards in China.” According to Mr. Panagiotics K. Mitroulias, Executive Director of AKRON (China) Group, “We choose FORAN as our main system for ship design and construction, not only because its advanced technology and powerful capability, but also because that UFC can provide leading PLM system and Digital Shipbuilding solution as well as FORAN. AKRON and UFC have same vision in digital shipbuilding area, so we had established the long term strategic partnership to study and construct our digital shipbuilding platform in AKRON (China) Group.”
“The FORAN implementation in AKRON is the first step of the collaboration,” Mr. Geoffrey Wang, General Manager of UFC indicated, “The long term partnership with AKRON is a forceful proof of our investment in digital shipbuilding. Our solution can fully meet the requirements of shipbuilding industry. We have invested in this area with significant resources, and we will continuously expand the solution to provide more functions and services to our customer. Also, we wish to setup a successful sample user in FORAN application and digital shipbuilding through the effort by UFC and AKRON.”
Mr. Luis Garcia, Executive VP of SENER, sent his congratulations from Spain for the first FORAN user in China: “We are so glad to know that FORAN had been implemented in China, it’s the new penetration in Asia territory, after India and Japan. Since Chinese shipbuilding industry will be the No.1 in coming years, we are willing to take our advantages of ship engineering, and support UFC, our partner in China, to promote FORAN into more and more shipyards and design offices. We will do our best to help them improve the process of ship design and construction, and enhance the competitive of them.”
Now FORAN had been deployed in AKRON Design Department in Shanghai, and they are preparing to use FORAN in the whole design process of a real project. And the Digital Shipbuilding system based on FORAN is also in discussion between UFC and AKRON.

About AKRON (China) Group
The main businesses of AKRON (China) Group are ship design and construction, related trading and management. It’s headquartered in Shanghai, and has a design company and a shipyard in China.

About UFC
United Force Corporation is a high technology company headquartered in USA. UFC has provided consulting, implementation and technical services of CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM systems to more than 500 Chinese customers and has helped them in the building up of their Digital Manufacturing System and Digital Shipbuilding System. UFC is the only distributor of FORAN in the Chinese market.
Please visit: http://www.ufc.com.cn/ for more information