Ides, with its focus on PDM software for plant life cycle, has today acquired all product rights and related ongoing business from Docassist AB. This means that Ides now have the possibility to offer their customers a PLM system with related PDM applications. The purpose of the acquisition is to strengthen Ides' total product offering and thus satisfy the manufacturing industry's need for product information handling. From now on Ides also has an office in Gothenburg, Sweden.

"As a system and product supplier, Ides has over a period of time noticed an increased demand for information structure management in parallel with traditional product data management within manufacturing industry. DOC Applications is a unique product on the market with its support for information structures within manufacturing industry. The features of the Docassist products will strengthen Ides MasterConcept and its plant data management. Thanks to this we will get a complete product range covering all disciplines within design and data management", says Lars Geidne, CEO of Ides AB.

"As Ides acquires our product DOC Applications we secure our existing customers’ investments. Simultaneously, the solution results in a more powerful PLM product for managing product development projects, regardless if you deal with product supply from serial output (where you have your own manufacturing plant) or delivery of customer adapted plants. Ides long experience from CAD application development will be of great benefit for further development and strengthening of DOC applications. With all the expertise accumulated within the same company, Ides can provide solutions to see the product through the design phase with its CAD tools via our long experience from ERP integrations for the acquisition process, to the following change order management (ECM) and after sales in a homogeneous solution. Thanks to the fusion Ides will be able to offer our customers unique solutions in the field of PDM and PLM including necessary ERP integrations in the processes - from design of new products/plants through manufacturing/assembly to the ongoing redesign/rebuilding of existing plants. This is especially important in operations with strong demands on quality assurance", says Thore Andrén, CEO of Docassist AB.

About DOC Applications
DOC Applications is a PDM system with features that make it possible to, within the same system, support all the document intensive processes. Thanks to DOC Applications being a configurable system, each customer can customize the solution to suit their own processes in an excellent manner. In its object oriented system structure, DOC Applications has all the qualifications to work in flows from market, research and development, purchasing, production, delivery, quality management and after sales.

About Docassist AB
Docassist is a company specialized in helping manufacturing and distribution companies to be more efficient in the technical administration, quality assurance in the information flow through the product life cycle (PLM-process) and general document management in other document intensive processes. Docassist delivers solutions in document management, quality management and technical information management in a way that helps our customers become more efficient and qualitatively better by being able to provide their staff, customers and suppliers with the right information to right person, at the right time and place.