Press Release:
Telcordia Digital Work Design Service Uses Virtual Reality
To Bring Productivity Gains to the Telecom Industry
New Simulation Service Enables Companies Such as Corning Cable Systems
to Stay Ahead of Competition
PISCATAWAY, NJ - March 6, 2006 - Demonstrating its continued leadership in product consulting and analysis, Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) today introduced its digital work design service to the telecommunications industry. Digital work design uses highly detailed simulations including human factors and ergonomics analysis to test product usability in a 3D virtual world, before an actual prototype is built. This service allows equipment suppliers and service providers to see how a product will be utilized in the field while the product is in the design phase.
Corning Cable Systems, a leading supplier of fiber-to-the-home passive components, is the first customer to utilize Telcordia's digital work design service to assist in the design optimization of its next generation OptiTect™ Premier Local Convergence Cabinets (LCP). Telcordia's innovative service supported Corning Cable Systems on the design of the LCP, enabling the production and delivery of the right solution very quickly. Corning Cable Systems' main design objective was to significantly reduce the size of the LCP, while providing the technician with a work area that was large enough to perform their tasks efficiently. Telcordia's digital work design service utilized 16 virtual mannequins representing 95% of the population's size — including finger circumference — to identify the ideal size and spacing within the new cabinets. Using this competitive edge service, Corning Cable Systems also had the added advantage of showing its customers how technicians can operate their product to gain customer feedback in the early stage of development.
"Telcordia's design service allowed us to quickly optimize our final design for the best solution at the product development stage, and avoid costly field retrofits if issues are identified after the product is deployed in the field," said Dr. David Thompson, Vice President of Hardware and Equipment Technology at Corning Cable Systems. "This groundbreaking approach from Telcordia helped us to achieve the optimal cabinet size faster and win significant business from FTTH customers."
Telcordia's innovation in digital work modeling has enabled the industry to move from physical mock ups and field trials to virtual prototypes and virtual field trials. This service identifies design problems early on and can decrease time and cost to both equipment suppliers and service providers. In addition, digital work design services can support a centralized data base used to create and distribute training materials, disseminate updated work procedures, design and create new work methods company-wide.
"Our new service offering has allowed Corning to prototype its product in a virtual world. Using advanced ergonomic statistical techniques, Corning was able to test and redesign its product," said Dennis Tinley, Senior Vice President, Supplier Solutions for Telcordia. "Digital work design service is a competitive differentiator that dramatically reduces labor costs to service providers and reduces development costs to equipment suppliers."
By adopting Telcordia's leading edge digital work design services, service providers can gain substantial value and drive productivity improvements by optimizing and standardizing work activities. For more information on digital work design tools visit www.telcordia.com.
About Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is a diversified technology company that concentrates its efforts on high-impact growth opportunities. Corning combines its expertise in specialty glass, ceramic materials, polymers and the manipulation of the properties of light, with strong process and manufacturing capabilities to develop, engineer and commercialize significant innovative products for the telecommunications, flat panel display, environmental, semiconductor, and life sciences industries. Media Contact: Dana McEntire, Corning, Cable Systems, (828) 901-6910
Contact:
Diane Griffith
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
(732) 699-4885
griffithdia@telcordia.com
Kirsten Woodard
Global Results Communications
+1-949-681-8122
kwoodard@globalresultspr.com