Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the availability of the Mentor® Automotive Safety Certifiable Digital Instrument Cluster solution enabling safety-critical driver information to be displayed simultaneously with rich 3D graphics on a single instrument cluster display.  The software architecture is implemented on a multi-core and even on single-core System-on-Chip, and features very fast boot time. This new solution addresses a key problem for the automotive OEMs: How to migrate safety-critical driver information to full-featured, graphically-rich digital instrument clusters and comply with safety standards including ISO 26262, without pushing up hardware or safety certification costs. Automotive OEMs today design digital instrument clusters that include graphical information relating to essential warnings from the vehicle, such as icons notifying the driver of brake, engine or tire problems. The new solution, which is compatible with safety-certified Nucleus® RTOS and Mentor's automotive-qualified Linux solutions, allows safety-critical and non-critical information to be displayed simultaneously on the same display, while maintaining isolation of safety-related

AVEVA announced the release of new enhancements to its AVEVA Bocad product range for structural steel detailing software. AVEVA Bocad features a plate and bar nesting capability for more efficient planning and use of materials. An enhanced weld numbering and traceability feature provides efficient increased fabrication efficiency, design quality assurance and improved structural integrity maintenance. In addition elements of AVEVA Bocad can now be brought into AVEVA Marine production tools to fabricate detailed ship and offshore designs. ‘The latest release of AVEVA Bocad realises the true integration between steelwork design, detailing and fabrication,’ said Richard Brotherton, Vice President of Sales – Fabricator, AVEVA. ‘It transforms our customers’ project workflows from the design office through fabrication to construction by enabling more efficient and extensive collaborative working. AVEVA Bocad not only improves this by providing a more tightly integrated digital workflow in structural steel, it also forms part of AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering &

ActivePDF announced the release of a new PDF automation tool to batch conversions of CAD drawings, plans, and diagrams to PDF that addresses security requirements, regulations, and business mandates with 100% document fidelity. CADConverter eliminates the complexity requirement of specialized applications to view CAD designs. Converting to PDF eliminates the requirement of the original CAD authoring application or 3rd party viewers. This delivers the ease of distribution, collaboration, and format consistency of sharing CAD designs.     "Converting documents to PDF is often part of a workflow or records management processes to ensure document controls," said Jay Schlarb, Chief Operating Officer. “ActivePDF mitigates the risks for organizations to ensure compliance, archiving and collaboration demands are met through improved document management by converting CAD designs to PDF.” CADConverter is integrated on the solid platform of ActivePDF DocConverter validates a sense of security to new prospects and clients. DocConverter is used by thousands of companies to convert

Aras® today announced that BAE Systems Sweden, a subsidiary of BAE Systems Plc. and a leading manufacturer of weapons systems and military vehicles, has selected Aras Innovator® as the new common PLM platform to establish a single, unified PLM backbone across the enterprise for systems development. BAE Systems Sweden has selected Aras gold certified partner Minerva, based on technical expertise and experience, to conduct the Aras implementation and data migration from the two legacy PDM systems, using a multi-phase approach. Phase one will include Aras solutions for configuration management, Bill of Materials (BOM) and document/CAD management, enterprise reporting and searching, and secure social, as well as integrations to multiple MCAD and ECAD systems, SAP and IFS ERP, and Eurosteps Share-A-space data repository. “With Aras, we will be able enhance the business efficiency, reduce cost and get a modern future proof technology in place,” said Kalle Hagström Head of Information Systems at BAE

ESI Group announces the third OpenFOAM User Conference. Scheduled in Stuttgart on October 19-21, 2015, the event will bring together the global OpenFOAM community to hear about the latest OpenFOAM developments and to share best practices. ESI, who acquired OpenCFD Ltd. in 2012, continues to enhance the world's most popular open-source CFD code to enable efficient product development, at an industrial scale. In addition to providing information on software updates, elaborated by the ESI-OpenCFD team, the Conference features many customer presentations, including from longtime ESI customer Volkswagen, and a third day dedicated to hands-on training. OpenFOAM is a free, open source CFD software package developed by ESI-OpenCFD and other participants in the global OpenFOAM community. It has a large user base in both commercial and academic organizations and addresses needs in most areas of engineering and science. OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features that address anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and

ThingWorx, a PTC business and a leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, today announced it is working with global semiconductor company Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) to offer customers an integrated sensor to cloud environment using the ThingWorx® IoT Platform. Smart, connected products and devices can generate thousands of real-time readings that create tremendous amounts of data. The collaboration between ThingWorx and ADI is designed to make it easier for customers to intelligently bridge the physical and digital worlds with technologies that sense, measure and connect. This collaboration will support the smart, connected product data’s IoT journey from devices and sensors to wireless communication to big data collection and analysis. “A multitude of partners representing a variety of industries around the globe have selected the ThingWorx IoT Platform to help deliver IoT products and services that enable customers to increase value and grow revenues,” said Russ Fadel, president, ThingWorx. “We’re excited to collaborate with Analog

Lectra recently organized a round table on "Fashion, Sustainable Development and Technology" under the auspices of the "Fashion and Technology" Chair. The Lectra-ESCP Europe Chair, inaugurated in February 2014, aims to develop and convey knowledge based on innovations within the fashion and luxury sectors, thanks to cutting-edge technologies. In the run up to the launch of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21), which will be held next month in Paris, Lectra and ESCP Europe sought to present some of the ongoing sustainable development changes in the fashion sector. The round table attendees included, Rémi Crinière, Head of Environmental and Social Responsibility H&M France; Dr. Helen Crowley, Head of sustainable sourcing innovation, Kering; Philippe Mangeard, European TK'Blue Agency President; Eva Zingoni, sustainable fashion designer as well as Laurence Jacquot, Director of Industrial Operations and Hardware R&D, Lectra. The panelists agreed on a number

Altair today announced that Centre d'Expertise en Dynamique Rapide, Explosion et Multiphysique, SAS (CEDREM) has joined the Altair Partner Alliance (APA). The partnership adds CEDREM’s KTEX Family of integrated numeric tools for composites to the APA.  "CEDREM is specialized in finite element simulations representing high speed phenomena (such as impacts, ballistics, explosion or blast) and composite behavior,” said Karine Thoral Pierre, CEO at CEDREM. “To improve our models, tools representing the composite materials at the mesoscale and taking into account the manufacturing processes were needed. The KTex Family meets this need. We improved our material laws and cut down the gap between simulations and reality. We are pleased to share those tools with the Altair community." KTEX Family is a suite of numerical tools that analyze the behavior of composite materials during the manufacturing process. It is comprised of four modules: KTEX Pattern, KTEX Layup, KTEX Winding and KTEX Woven Property, all

Trimble introduced today the latest version of its deformation monitoring software—Trimble® 4D Control™ version 4.5. Trimble 4D Control software analyzes and reports on the condition and behavior of land and structures such as buildings, dams, mines and bridges. The latest software version features new add-on capabilities—Trimble eCognition® software integration, support for non-Trimble total stations and frequency domain  analysis based on Fast Fourier Transform calculations—to better analyze complex data communicated from a broad range of sensors and enable better decision making. The announcement was made at the International Symposium on Slope Stability in Open Pit Mining and Civil Engineering organized by the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) and South African National Institute of Rock Engineering (SANIRE). Trimble continues to expand the ways in which quantifying movement change can be automated using a range of geodetic, seismic and engineering sensors. The opportunities in automation play a significant part in effective project

The latest release of Edgecam’s manufacturing software contains over 30 important new and enhanced items of CAD and CAM functionality for milling, turning, and wire EDM. Turners now benefit from a new time-saving Pre-Finish Plunge option found in the Finishing Grooving cycle in Edgecam 2016 R1. A single plunge cut is generated at the centre of a groove feature, and the cycle then continues to finish the feature in the usual way. As this removes most of the material it does away with the need for a Rough Grooving cycle. Following on from Waveform turning, the existing Rough Turn Cycle now features a new Ramp Cut strategy. This method is typically used for turning deep recesses with double-sided turning inserts...and extends tool life as the contact point on the insert is constantly changing, avoiding notching. The new strategy can be used with decreasing cut increments. Five more milling CAM cycles have been