Inmedius will be integrated into CDG, a subsidiary of Boeing’s Commercial Aviation Information Services group.

The acquisition of Inmedius will enable Boeing and CDG to offer an expanded portfolio of technical services and solutions for aerospace, defense and manufacturing markets.

For more information, read the complete Boeing press release on the Boeing website.

CDG has also published a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) reference document for its customers and partners.

Additional information related to the acquisition will be posted on the CDG and Boeing websites as it becomes available.

What This Means for CDG

We believe the recent acquisition of Inmedius is an extremely positive development for us at CDG, and our objectives have not changed at all as a result of this recent acquisition. We remain 100% focused and committed to our goal of providing the best Technical Documentation, Technical Services, Training Solutions and Software Solutions for our customers. Boeing and CDG selected Inmedius to be a part of their overall growth strategy because of the quality of the software and knowledgeable customer-focused teams at Inmedius.

In Technical Documentation:

This acquisition will enable our teams to further enhance and evolve our technical documentation solution offerings to adapt to changing customer needs. As a complement to our technical authoring services, CDG will now be able to also offer Inmedius technical content management software solutions to help our customers who may need software tools combined with authoring services.

We will guide our software product development roadmaps to meet the demands and requirements of the most challenging technical authoring and content management projects. CDG’s decades of technical authoring experience on large scale projects will provide valuable insights here. Likewise, our teams can improve our technical authoring services approach by learning from the many years of experience gained by Inmedius in helping customers to manage the technical authoring lifecycle with their advanced tools and standards expertise.

In Training and eLearning Solutions:

CDG will be able to greatly expand its training solutions options for customers. We will continue to work with customers to develop cutting-edge eLearning and training content. With the addition of Inmedius LMS (Learning Management System) platforms, we can now offer more robust options and solutions to deliver that content and support our customers’ training programs with an enterprise-wide solution approach.

What This Means for CDG Customers

With Inmedius as a part of the CDG global team, we can now provide even more value-added benefits for our customers:

• 360° Training Solutions – Our customers will now have access to multiple options for training and eLearning solutions from a single source provider. Customers can leverage our existing expertise in eLearning content development, combined with the advanced Inmedius Learning Management System (LMS) software applications to deliver that content. Training content and LMS platforms can either be hosted by CDG, or installed in-house at the customer site. This combination of services and software will address the entire lifecycle of in-house training programs for our customers – from creating and updating training materials, to delivering and managing training content, to tracking all student training programs and test results.


• Full Lifecycle Technical Documentation Solutions – Inmedius content management software applications are already used by numerous customers across the defense and commercial sector to create, manage and deliver technical content. Customers can leverage CDG’s strong understanding of the technical content authoring process, combined with these advanced tools used to help manage that process. This provides our customers with a full spectrum view of best practices and options that can be applied to manage the entire technical authoring lifecycle.


• Technical Standards Expertise - Inmedius has strong domain expertise in technical publications standards such as S1000D, ATA and DITA, and their teams have been actively involved in standards development committees. Customers will now have access to an expanded team of combined CDG and Inmedius subject matter experts available to assist in understanding how these standards are applied in the technical authoring environment.


• Expanded Software Solutions - CDG will have access to increased resources to support our software product development efforts. CDG customers will be able to take advantage of innovative new software products as we leverage the new knowledge and resources that the Inmedius team brings to benefit our customers.

We know that our customers and partners may have several questions about this acquisition. Read more in our Customer and Partner FAQs about the Inmedius acquisition.
 

The acquisition of Inmedius will enable Boeing and CDG to offer an expanded portfolio of technical services and solutions for aerospace, defense and manufacturing markets.

For more information, read the complete Boeing press release on the Boeing website.

Additional information related to the acquisition will be posted on the CDG and Boeing websites as it becomes available.

MRO Americas – Dallas, Texas – Stand # 4824

Long Beach, Calif. – Mar. 23, 2012 – CDG, a Boeing Company will sponsor exhibits at the upcoming Aircraft Interiors Expo at the Hamburg Messe in Hamburg, Germany March 27-29 and at the Aviation Week MRO Americas 2012 event in Dallas, Texas on April 2-5.

The Aircraft Interiors Expo is the world’s largest exhibition focused on aircraft cabin programs, highlighting innovations in cabin design, in-flight entertainment, connectivity and passenger services. Visitors from around the world will view expo sessions and exhibits covering key industry issues such as weight saving materials, space efficient designs and cabin refurbishment solutions. A new Cabin Innovation and Strategies for the Future Conference on March 26th will focus on key strategic issues surrounding cabin innovation, consumer expectations and strategies for profitability within the aircraft cabin.

The Aviation Week MRO Americas 2012 event will provide professionals involved in aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul with information on trends, opportunities and the industry landscape of the high-pressure MRO environment. MRO Americas will be co-located with the MRO Military conference, the premier event for senior-level military and industry professionals involved in maintaining and sustaining military air assets. Noting that up to 36% of all aircraft maintenance and repair costs are related to engines, the Aviation Week Conferences team also added a new Engine MRO conference to be co-hosted in the same venue during the MRO Americas event.

CDG representatives will be available at both of these important industry events to discuss and demonstrate services and solutions to help drive efficiency, productivity, and cost savings in the areas of aircraft engineering, maintenance, and operations, including Engineering Services, eLearning and Training Solutions, Technical Documentation Services (including S1000D), and Advanced Software Solutions.

For more information about the Aircraft Interiors Expo, visit the expo website at www.aircraftinteriorsexpo.com.

For more information about MRO Americas 2012, MRO Military, and Engine MRO events, visit the conference website at www.aviationweek.com/events/current/mro.

To learn more about CDG, visit the CDG website at www.cdgnow.com, or visit the CDG team on-site at these conferences.

About CDG
CDG, a Boeing Company, is a world-class strategic partner for engineering-driven organizations that develop, support and maintain complex equipment. The company leverages a strong history of more than 40 years of experience to provide industry-leading technical services, technical documentation, training solutions and software solutions for defense and space, commercial aviation, manufacturing, energy and other engineering-focused industries. For more information, visit http://www.cdgnow.com.

###

Mona Rice – CDG, a Boeing Company (425) 456-0500
 

Long Beach, Calif. – Oct. 31, 2011 – CDG, a Boeing Company will sponsor an exhibit at the upcoming SAE DoD Maintenance Symposium and Exhibition in Fort Worth, Texas on November 14-17. Hosted at the Fort Worth Convention Center, this popular event will focus on military and commercial maintenance technology, information systems, and management processes, with a stated purpose to share best practices and lessons learned while fostering public/private partnerships.

More than half of the attendees at this premier annual event include representatives from military and government agencies, with the remainder of attendees from tier 1 suppliers and system integrators, OEMs, and parts and component suppliers. Invited guest speakers include highly respected officials from the US military and defense segments, including the Honorable Alan Estevez, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness, and LTG Claude Christianson, (U. S. Army Ret), Director of the Center for Joint and Strategic Logistics at the National Defense University.

Each year, the conference sponsors a “great ideas” competition. The theme for the 2011 competition is entitled, “Achieving Readiness through Efficiency and Effectiveness in Maintenance Operations.”

For more information about this event, visit the SAE DoD Maintenance Symposium website at www.sae.org/events/dod/.

For more information about CDG, visit the CDG website at www.cdgnow.com, or visit the CDG team on-site at the conference in exhibit booth # 304.

About CDG
CDG, a Boeing Company, is a world-class strategic partner for engineering-driven organizations that develop, support, and maintain complex equipment. The company provides industry-leading Engineering Services, Technical Documentation, Training Solutions, Process Consulting, and Software Solutions to organizations across multiple industries.

CDG offers more than 40 years of experience and highly skilled global teams to deliver quality services and solutions for defense and space, commercial aviation, manufacturing, energy, and other engineering-focused industries. By relying on CDG to improve the overall effectiveness of equipment support and maintenance processes, CDG’s partners are able to concentrate on their core business, increase efficiency, and ultimately provide enhanced value to their own customers.

For more information, visit www.cdgnow.com.

###

Mona Rice – CDG, a Boeing Company       (425) 456-0500

 

Mr. Galante will facilitate the Leadership Meeting entitled, “Move Beyond the Tools to a Holistic, Strategically Aligned Process Excellence Culture.” The session will be hosted in a team environment covering best practices and will include open brainstorming activities with other Process Excellence leaders from various industries.

Galante commented, “When it comes to managing process excellence initiatives, it’s very easy to just get buried in the weeds of operations and lose sight of the importance of the overall strategic objectives. This workshop is an opportunity for me to share what I have learned first-hand as a Lean Coach and facilitate a working session with other industry leaders to discuss methods to help resolve that disconnect, and ensure high visibility for strategic goals from top level management to implementation throughout the workforce.”

Some of the key points to be covered in Galante’s Leadership Meeting Session will be:

• How to analyze critical elements of ‘systems thinking’ to keep core objectives highly visible
• How to prioritize high return projects
• How to integrate key financial and business targets into your process excellence plan
• How to accelerate change by strategically selecting projects that meet cross company metrics and objectives
• How to establish a self-critical culture to support continuous process excellence

For more information about the event, visit the Process Excellence West website.

For more information about CDG, visit the CDG website at www.cdgnow.com.

About CDG
CDG, a Boeing Company, is a world-class strategic partner for engineering-driven organizations that develop, support, and maintain complex equipment. The company provides industry-leading Engineering Services, Technical Documentation, Training Solutions, Process Consulting, and Software Solutions to organizations across multiple industries.

CDG offers more than 40 years of experience and highly skilled global teams to deliver quality services and solutions for defense and space, commercial aviation, manufacturing, energy, and other engineering-focused industries. By relying on CDG to improve the overall effectiveness of equipment support and maintenance processes, CDG’s partners are able to concentrate on their core business, increase efficiency, and ultimately provide enhanced value to their own customers.

For more information, visit www.cdgnow.com.

###

Mona Rice – CDG, a Boeing Company      (425) 456-0500
 

Both UK facilities for CDG now hold a certificate for ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System and BS OHAS 18001:2007 certificate for its Occupational Health and Safety Management System. In addition to these recent achievements, it already holds certification to ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System.

Mike Parven, Chief Operating Officer for CDG commented, “We are extremely pleased with the effort that our Welwyn Garden City and Knaresborough teams have made to achieve compliance for these certifications. These certifications demonstrate our strong commitment to providing high quality services for our customers, ensuring the safety of our employees, and to protecting and preserving our natural environment.”

All of CDG’s US facilities are currently registered to ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System and ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System. The Chennai, India facility of CDG is also registered to ISO 9001:2008.

For more information about CDG, visit the CDG website at www.cdgnow.com.

About CDG

CDG, a Boeing Company, is a world-class strategic partner for engineering-driven organizations that develop, support, and maintain complex equipment. The company provides industry-leading Engineering Services, Technical Documentation, Training Solutions, Process Consulting, and Software Solutions to organizations across multiple industries. CDG offers more than 40 years of experience and highly skilled global teams to deliver quality services and solutions for defense and space, commercial aviation, manufacturing, energy, and other engineering-focused industries. By relying on CDG to improve the overall effectiveness of equipment support and maintenance processes, CDG’s partners are able to concentrate on their core business, increase efficiency, and ultimately provide enhanced value to their own customers. For more information, visit www.cdgnow.com.

###

Mona Rice – CDG, a Boeing Company - USA +1 425 456 0500

Maddy Dalton – CDG, a Boeing Company – UK +44 1707 367 700

CDG’s VP of Operations, Mr. Warren Smith and Director of Enterprise Application Development, Mike Patterson, will host a presentation entitled, “Capturing Knowledge Management in Maintenance and Engineering Documentation”. The presentation will provide some insights into the common challenges that the commercial aviation industry and nuclear industry may often face in tracking and handling necessary changes to maintenance and engineering documentation. These documentation changes can impact operations efficiency, as well as safety in operations.

Regarding the upcoming presentation, Mr. Smith commented, “The commercial aviation industry uses a number of knowledge management tools and standard methods and practices to capture identified revisions that are needed in maintenance or engineering tasks. By providing examples and demonstrations of how the aviation industry tracks their needed revisions for maintenance processes, we hope to open a dialogue with the nuclear energy community to share the various methods they are using in nuclear facility operations and discover if any lessons can be learned and applied from the commercial aviation tools and practices used.”

CDG will also host an exhibit at the NIRMA event. For more information about the NIRMA conference, visit www.nirma.org.

For more information about other upcoming CDG events, visit the CDG website at www.cdgnow.com.

About CDG
CDG, a Boeing Company, is a world-class strategic partner for engineering-driven organizations that develop, support, and maintain complex equipment. The company provides industry-leading Engineering Solutions, Technical Documentation, Training Solutions, Process Consulting, and Software Solutions to organizations in multiple industries.

CDG offers more than 40 years of experience and highly skilled global teams to deliver quality services and solutions for defense and space, commercial aviation, manufacturing, energy, and other engineering-focused industries. By relying on CDG to improve the overall effectiveness of equipment support and maintenance processes, CDG’s partners are able to concentrate on their core business, increase efficiency, and ultimately provide enhanced value to their own customers.

For more information, visit www.cdgnow.com.

###

Mona Rice – CDG, a Boeing Company   (425) 456-0500
 

CDG’s VP of Defense, Space, and Energy, Mr. Gary Beyer, will be a guest speaker presenter at the upcoming SpeedNews 9th Annual Defense and Security Aviation Suppliers Conference in Los Angeles, CA on May 5-6, 2011. Mr. Beyer’s presentation will be entitled, “New Technologies for Logistics Analytics - Boeing Entity Analytics”. Mr. Beyer will be co-presenting with Mr. Greg Arnold, Strategic Growth – Logistics – Boeing Research & Technology. CDG will also host an exhibit at this event. For more information about the conference, visit www.speednews.com.

CDG will also be exhibiting at the AIA-Joint Services Technical Publication Workshop located at the Sheraton Sand Key, Clearwater Beach, FL May 12-13. This event provides a valuable forum in which technical publications professionals can learn more about new technologies and standards and exchange lessons learned in their experiences in development of technical documentation. Mr. Ian Proctor, Technical Publications Consultant for CDG will also chair a panel on "Multimedia Use and Configuration Management" at the AIA Technical Publications Workshop. The panel will discuss the potential use and roadblocks for multimedia in technical publications. Just prior to this event, CDG will also be attending the AIA Spring 2011 Product Support Conference located at the same venue in Clearwater Beach on May 9-11. Both events are sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA). For more information on these events, visit the AIA website at www.aia-aerospace.org.

CDG will be also be exhibiting and participating as guest speakers on the agenda for the ATA e-Business Forum and S1000D User Forum at the Hyatt Regency Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on June 6-8. Mr. Ian Proctor, Technical Publications Consultant for CDG, will participate as a guest speaker in the S1000D User Forum. Mr. Proctor’s presentation will be entitled, “Multimedia in S1000D – The Future?”. This presentation will describe the use of multimedia within S1000D data modules, and will provide a discussion on the options available for the use of multimedia formats within S1000D Technical Publications. The presentation will also look at the use of audio, video and 3D models in data modules along with animation, simulation, interactivity, quality control and life-cycle issues. Mr. Proctor will also guide the audience in an examination of the possibilities and challenges presented by using multimedia in S1000D data modules. Mr. Proctor is currently the committee chair for the Multimedia committee for the S1000D™ Electronic Publications Working Group (EPWG).

Mike Patterson, Senior Manager of Application Development for CDG, will also make a presentation at the ATA e-Business Forum entitled “Tracking Efficiency Down to the Second: Proven Process Improvements in Airline Maintenance Operations”. This presentation will provide a demonstration and discussion of how CDG’s customers have utilized the Smart IPC™ application to obtain access to critical parts configuration, inventory, and maintenance information for their entire fleet in a quick-turn maintenance environment where every second counts. For more information on the ATA e-Business Forum and S1000D User Forum, visit www.ataebiz.org/forum.

For more information about other upcoming CDG events, visit the CDG website at www.cdgnow.com.

About CDG
CDG, a Boeing Company, is a world-class strategic partner for engineering-driven organizations that develop, support, and maintain complex equipment. The company provides industry-leading Engineering Solutions, Technical Documentation, Training Solutions, Process Consulting, and Software Solutions to organizations in multiple industries.

CDG offers more than 40 years of experience and highly skilled global teams to deliver quality services and solutions for defense and space, commercial aviation, manufacturing, energy, and other engineering-focused industries. By relying on CDG to improve the overall effectiveness of equipment support and maintenance processes, CDG’s partners are able to concentrate on their core business, increase efficiency, and ultimately provide enhanced value to their own customers.
For more information, visit  www.cdgnow.com.

###

Mona Rice – CDG, a Boeing Company    (425) 456-0500

Headquartered in Cypress, California, Continental DataGraphics (CDG) supports a number of aircraft component manufacturers and general aviation aircraft manufacturers and suppliers with engineering and technical documentation services, training and eLearning solutions, process consulting, and software solutions. CDG is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company with multiple locations in the U.S., Europe and India and over 1,200 employees worldwide. http://www.cdgnow.com.

Thales Canada designs integrated systems for cockpit and flight controls for regional and business jet manufacturers around the world from its base in Montreal. It is a world leader in providing Fly-By-Wire (FBW) solutions and is Thales' global centre-of-excellence for Flight Controls Systems. Thales is a global technology leader for the Defence and Security and the Aerospace and Transport markets. In 2010, the company generated revenues of €13.1 billion with 68,000 employees in 50 countries. With its 22,500 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and services that meet the most complex security requirements. Thales has an exceptional international footprint, with operations around the world working with customers as local partners. www.thalesgroup.com.

About GAMA

GAMA is an international trade association representing 70 of the world's leading manufacturers of general aviation aircraft, engines, avionics and related equipment. GAMA's members also operate fleets of aircraft, fixed based operations, and pilot training and maintenance training facilities. GAMA is headquarted in Washington, DC, with a European office in Brussels, Belgium. For additional information, visit GAMA’s website at www.GAMA.aero.

About CDG

CDG, a Boeing Company, is a world-class strategic partner for engineering-driven organizations that develop, support, and maintain complex equipment. The company provides industry-leading Engineering Solutions, Technical Documentation, Training Solutions, and Process Consulting to organizations in multiple industries.

CDG offers more than 40 years of experience and highly-skilled global teams to deliver quality services and solutions for defense and space, commercial aviation, manufacturing, energy, and other engineering-focused industries. By relying on CDG to improve the overall effectiveness of equipment support and maintenance processes, CDG’s partners are able to concentrate on their core business, increase efficiency, and ultimately provide enhanced value to their own customers.

For more information, visit the CDG web site at www.cdgnow.com.

###

Media Contacts:

Mona Rice – CDG, a Boeing Company – USA (425) 691-2680

Katie Pribyl – GAMA (202) 393-1500