Meet Sigmetrix

Sigmetrix’s people and technologies have been helping companies produce better products through mechanical variation management for over 25 years. Mechanical variation is a reality of manufacturing and assembly processes. Companies who successfully manage this variation reap many competitive benefits. Sigmetrix can help:

Maximize the return on your MBD/MBE investment.
Improve profitability by balancing product quality with manufacturing costs.
Achieve faster time to market by reducing design and prototype cycles.
Deliver more innovative products through better understanding of mechanical variation.
Capture, transfer, and retain critical product and process knowledge.

Employees are the #1 assets

Customer success is our goal

Creatively search for solutions to the right problem

President

James Stoddard

Chief Revenue Officer

Ed Walsh

1984

ORIGIN OF TECHNOLOGY

ADCATS was founded in 1984 by Dr. Ken Chase at BYU and focused on the development of CAD based tolerancing software. The supporting member companies were: Allied Signal Aerospace, Boeing, Cummins, FMC, Ford, Hewlett Packard, Hughes, IBM, Motorola, Sandia Labs, Texas Instruments.
1990

TI/TOL 1D WAS DEVELOPED

Originally developed as an internal tool, but also sold commercially.
1992

SIGNED ON AS PTC’S FIRST COOPERATIVE SOFTWARE PARTNER
1994

TI LICENSED THE TECHNOLOGY FROM BYU TO DEVELOP 2D/3D SOLUTION
1994

TI/TOL 2D 3.0 IS LAUNCHED
1995

TI/TOL 3D+ 4.0 RELEASED
1997 - 1999

INCEPTION YEARS – RAYTHEON

Raytheon purchased the DSEG group from TI
1998

TI/TOL 6 SIGMA 5.0 LAUNCHED

This is the only release under Raytheon. The technology wasn't in their strategic roadmap so they looked to divest.
1999

SIGMETRIX WAS FOUNDED

There were seven founding employees - three of whom still work at Sigmetrix!
1999

SIGMETRIX BECAME A PTC ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE GOLD PARTNER
2000

INDIANAPOLIS OFFICE OPENS

Rand had been a financial partner and distributer, and in early 2000 they transferred the Indianapolis office to Sigmetrix and 3 of their employees came on to run the operations and sales. Two of those employees still work at Sigmetrix!
2000

CETOL 6 SIGMA 5.1 LAUNCHED
2002

DASSAULT SYSTEMS CAA GOLD PARTNER
2008

CETOL 6 SIGMA 8.0 RELEASED

This version was a milestone release, and most of the code was updated.
2008

TOLERANCE ANALYSIS EXTENSION RELEASED

Tolerance Analysis Extension (TAE) makes it easy to define and perform tolerance stack up and gap analysis.
2008

SOLIDWORKS SOLUTION PARTNER
2009

ACQUIRED BY CYBERNET
2011

MOVED TO SECOND LOCATION
2012

GD&T ADVISOR INTRODUCED

Sigmetrix in collaboration with Alex Krulikowski at Effective Training, Inc. (ETI), releases GD&T Advisor. This is an interactive tool that provides expert guidance on the correct application of GD&T and guides designers through a standards-based application of GD&T from within the CAD environment, increasing GD&T standards conformity and accuracy while reducing the time to apply GD&T by 75%.
2014

GD&T ADVISOR BECOMES PART OF AUTODESK INVENTOR
2015

CETOL BECOMES A SOLIDWORKS CERTIFIED GOLD PARTNER PRODUCT
2017

EZtol INTRODUCED

This was the first 1D tolerance analysis product that worked with all the major CAD systems as a stand-alone solution.
2018

EZtol OEM'D BY AUTODESK
2017

ACQUIRED ADVANCED DIMENSIONAL MANAGEMENT

In addition to GD&T software, we can now offer a robust number of GD&T and Tolerance Analysis training classes.
2017

CETOL FOR NX INTRODUCED

“We are thrilled to announce the release of CETOL 6σ for NX,” said Chris Wilkes, Sigmetrix President and CEO. “Our development team strives to provide engineering departments worldwide a comprehensive understanding of their designs and potential issues before releasing to manufacturing. We have had much demand for our robust tolerance analysis software to work with NX files and are pleased to accomplish that with CETOL 6σ for NX.”
2018

JAMES STODDARD APPOINTED AS PRESIDENT

Stoddard has played an instrumental role in the creation and development of CETOL 6σ Technologies, advanced constraint systems, architecture and CAD integrations developed over 25 years. He is also recognized by the top CAD and PLM companies and universities as the leading expert in advanced constraint technologies setting the benchmark for precise solutions necessary for addressing the next generation needs of tolerance optimization systems.
2019

SIGMETRIX ANNOUNCES DIRECT OPERATIONS IN CHINA

The new China office will augment the existing reseller network Sigmetrix has been utilizing throughout Europe and Asia.