Leading PLM solution and service providers to sponsor PLM conference. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 13 October 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Longview Advisors, Inc., organizer of 3D CIC, have today announced the key sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map for the Aerospace & Defense Industry featuring 3D CIC conference. The participating sponsors are 3D PDF Consortium, Anark, Aras Corp., Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, ITI, Kisters, Siemens PLM Software, Tata Consultancy Services, and Theorem Solutions. The event, which takes place on October 28 and 29 at the Westfields Marriott - Dulles, is a strategic conference that focuses on how companies successfully define and employ PLM strategies and enabling solutions to meet challenging product development, manufacturing, and deployment issues. “We are honored to have these leaders in PLM solutions and services choose to sponsor PLM Road Map for the Aerospace & Defense Industry featuring 3D CIC,” commented

PROSTEP's 3D PDF Pro 2.1 plugin for Adobe® Acrobat® is now available and can be downloaded by requesting a free trial today at http://www.3dpdf.com/en/client-solution/request-a-free-trial.html.  The release of 3D PDF Pro 2.1 in October of 2015 includes many new and exciting features to help authors create animations more effectively within 3D PDF documents. These features bring static imagery to life by efficiently repurposing 3D CAD engineering data into interactive PDFs. The capabilities of 3D PDF Pro have proven time and again to exceed customer expectations by reducing engineering overhead, loss of scrap, rework, and supplier response time. 3D PDF Pro now provides authors with new tools for making a part color change as the animation progresses or using color to highlight parts during a series of simulated activities. Creating animation is more intuitive for authors as they can now undo and redo multiple actions in order to correct mistakes. Drag-and-drop capability is now provided,

Mastercam/CNC Software offers the Mastercam X9 with Dynamic Motion improvements, Multiaxis enhancements, and many Design and System features to make your job easier. Dynamic Motion toolpaths follow a proprietary and sophisticated set of rules that take into consideration a broad data set. To create the most efficient cutting motion possible, Dynamic toolpaths calculate not only the area where metal will be removed; they also take into account the changing condition of the material throughout various stages of machining. Design features include Dynamic Xform which allows you to switch between gnomon manipulation and geometry manipulation mode at any time without having to reselect geometry. Solid Disassemble is a new Model Prep function that takes an assembly and lays each body out in a single pane. With Mastercam X9, the associativity between solids and toolpaths has been greatly improved. Now when bodies are edited, only the toolpaths directly affected by the change in

Infosys results for first quarter (Q1) of FY16 showed a net profit of Rs 3,030 crore, registering a 5 per cent increase year-on-year. Vishal Sikka, CEO and MD, Infosys had reacted thus in July, 2015 after announcing the results: “I am very pleased with our performance in the first quarter. Our efforts in redesigning our clients’ experience and our widespread adoption of innovation, both in grassroots and breakthroughs, are starting to bear fruit in large deal wins and in the growth of large clients.” Infosys maintained its annual revenue guidance at 10-12 percent for this financial year – or what it had projected in April. In dollar terms, though, the guidance has been revised upward by 100 basis points. Infosys reported consolidated revenue of Rs 53,319 crore for last fiscal (2014-15) in rupee terms and $8.7 billion in dollar terms, which was 6.4 per cent growth YoY in rupee terms and

EMC Corporation today announced preliminary third-quarter 2015 results: consolidated revenue is expected to be between $6.05 and $6.08 billion. GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share is expected to be approximately $0.25. Non-GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share is expected to be approximately $0.431. Zane Rowe, EMC Corporation CFO, said, "During Q3, thanks to the hard work of the team, we continued to generate positive momentum in our IT transformation-focused businesses such as Pivotal, VMware and our emerging storage portfolio. We also experienced a higher than expected build in unshipped storage product orders of approximately $100 million due to the timing of bookings in the third quarter; this impacted GAAP and non-GAAP EPS by approximately $0.02." In addition, Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners, Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell, MSD Partners and Silver

Amazon unveiled AWS IoT at its Invent conference, a platform created to make it easier for IoT devices to connect to AWS services so that companies can store, process, analyze and act on data these devices generate. The new service for IoT is aimed at AWS customers and companies that now have to handle a lot of the development and infrastructure maintenance tasks for their Internet-of-Things efforts in house.. At the company’s Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, SVP Andy Jassy revealed that AWS has grown at a rate of 81pc a year, surpassing the growth rates of other companies providing cloud storage and processing. He said the AWS cloud gives freedom for enterprises that want to innovate quickly “to say “yes” to new innovation” because they will not be held back by costs and other considerations that haunt “traditional IT”. It’s created to provide end-to-end support for managing and working with embedded devices through Amazon’s cloud. During the event’s inauguration on October 6, the company announced three

PTC announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Vuforia business from Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated for $65 million. Vuforia is the industry’s most advanced and widely adopted augmented reality (AR) technology platform, and will enrich PTC’s technology portfolio and accelerate PTC’s strategy as a leading provider of technologies and solutions that blend the digital and physical worlds. Under terms of the agreement, PTC will acquire the award-winning Vuforia business, including the developer ecosystem. PTC is committed to continued investment in the Vuforia platform and to the ongoing support and growth of the Vuforia ecosystem. Vuforia is a mobile vision platform that enables applications (“apps”) to see and connect the physical world with digital experiences that demand attention, drive engagement, and deliver value. Today, Vuforia is supported by a global ecosystem of developers in 130 countries, and has powered more than 20,000 apps with more

Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners, Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, will acquire EMC Corporation, while maintaining VMware as a publicly-traded company. Under the terms of the agreement, EMC shareholders will receive $24.05 per share in cash in addition to tracking stock linked to a portion of EMC’s economic interest in the VMware business. Based on the estimated number of EMC shares outstanding at the close of the transaction, EMC shareholders are expected to receive approximately 0.111 shares of new tracking stock for each EMC share. Assuming, for illustrative purposes, a valuation for each share of tracking stock of $81.78, the intraday volume-weighted average price for VMware on Wednesday, October 7, 2015, EMC shareholders would receive a total combined consideration

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced its new Tessent®ScanPro product, which features technology that significantly improves the test pattern volume reduction achievable with the company's Tessent TestKompress® ATPG compression solution. Because the volume of test patterns largely dictates the cost and time to test an integrated circuit (IC), the Tessent ScanPro product helps chip manufacturers to ship their products more quickly and cost effectively. The key technology in the Tessent ScanPro product, Embedded Deterministic Test (EDT) Test Points, applies local circuit modifications to reduce assignment conflicts that arise during the test pattern generation process. The resulting improvement in pattern generation efficiency translates into significant pattern count reduction. EDT Test Points are effective at reducing patterns generated for all types of fault models, including the advanced Cell-Aware fault model from Mentor®. "Test times are becoming more problematic as our design sizes continue to grow," said Erez Menahem, Marvel NCD DFT Manager. "Using Mentor's EDT Test Point

After retiring from the rail industry, Stephen Ollier and his wife invested in their composites engineering company, Pentaxia.  Today, with the support of Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM software, the company is going from strength-to-strength. Stephen Ollier established Pentaxia in 2008 when he was asked to help some former colleagues that had started a precision engineering business.  He recalls: “They rented a five-axis machine tool and set up a business, but they had not had much experience in running a business, so they asked me if I wanted to join.  I admit I found retirement a bit boring so I joined.” Originally located in a rented building with no running water or toilets, after six months the decision was taken to look for new premises.  “In the beginning our customers were small composite companies,” he said.  “We supplied them with patterns and always focused on providing a reliable service.  This was appreciated and