Siemens announced an expanded partnership with Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), building upon a nearly two-decade relationship pursuing manufacturing innovation through software, conducting frontier-pushing research that supports digital product development, and preparing students to enter the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce of the future.  “Georgia Tech is one of the leading research institutions in this country, paving the way for new ideas and technologies to help redefine the way we manufacture goods, power our homes, travel through space and more,” said Eric Spiegel, president and CEO, Siemens USA. “Building upon our strong relationship, this comprehensive partnership will continue to produce cutting-edge research and innovative industrial automation and digitalization software, while preparing highly trained students to join the global manufacturing workforce.” This full spectrum partnership will continue to push the boundaries of advanced manufacturing design, automation and innovation. One example where this vision is currently being realized is the Georgia

In cooperation with TraceParts, Rollon is now making their 2D and 3D CAD data available for free download.  Rollon, one of the technological leaders in linear motion systems, including telescopic guides, linear guides and actuators, has always focused on delivering first class technical support to engineers in different applications such as industrial machines, railway, aerospace, logistics, special vehicles, packaging or medical. To further enhance its service to design engineers, Rollon has now partnered with TraceParts to offer them instant access to its 2D and 3D drawings and technical data.  The publishing of its 3D catalog fully supports Rollon's global growth strategy which was initiated in 2011 with the acquisition of El.More, a manufacturer of linear actuators and tables. More recently, Rollon made another acquisition in 2015 of Tecno Center also, a specialist in actuators.  "The decision to work with TraceParts was a way to support our growth worldwide. Publishing our CAD data with

Nano-electronics research center imec and Cadence Design Systems, Inc.today announced that the companies completed the first tapeout of a 5nm test chip using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) as well as 193 immersion (193i) lithography. To produce this test chip, imec and Cadence optimized design rules, libraries and place-and-route technology to obtain optimal power, performance and area (PPA) scaling via Cadence® Innovus™ Implementation System. Using a processor design, imec and Cadence successfully taped out a set of designs using EUV lithography as well as Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning (SAQP) for 193i lithography, where metal pitches were scaled from the nominal 32nm pitch down to 24nm to push the limit of patterning. The Innovus Implementation System is a next-generation physical implementation solution that enables system-on-chip (SoC) developers to deliver designs with best-in-class PPA while accelerating time to market. Driven by a massively parallel architecture with breakthrough optimization technologies, the Innovus Implementation System provides typically 10 to

Cadence Design Systems announced the new Cadence Tensilica Vision P5 digital signal processor (DSP), its flagship high-performance vision/imaging DSP core. This imaging and vision DSP core offers up to 13X performance boost, with an average of 5X less energy usage on vision tasks compared to the previous generation IVP-EP imaging and video DSP. The Tensilica Vision P5 DSP is built from the ground up for applications requiring ultra-high memory and operation parallelism to support complex vision processing at high resolution and high frame rates. As such, it is ideal for off-loading vision and imaging functions from the main CPU to increase throughput and reduce power. End-user applications that can benefit from the DSP’s capabilities include image and video enhancement, stereo and 3D imaging, depth map processing, robotic vision, face detection and authentication, augmented reality, object tracking, object avoidance and advanced noise reduction. The Tensilica Vision P5 DSP core includes a significantly expanded

Rand Worldwide today announces that itsIMAGINiT  Technologies division is releasing a new addition to the IMAGINiT Clarity family of products – Clarity Owner Data Portal (ODP). Clarity ODP combines the popular benefits of Clarity with powerful tools for organizations to distribute data to non-Revit users and integrate with enterprise facilities management software systems including ARCHIBUS. “The findings from our recent ‘Insights into BIM and FM’ survey clearly pointed to a gap that needs to be bridged between BIM and facilities management,” says Joe Eichenseer, director of the Building Lifecycle Solutions team at IMAGINiT. “More than half of the building owners surveyed did not know how to mine critical data from their building information model. And only 27 percent of AEC firms knew what type of BIM information would be useful for owners and facility managers. Clarity Owner Data Portal addresses this disconnect by allowing owners to query the model and extract useful data that

GRAITEC, an international BIM and CAD software developer for AEC, and Autodesk® Platinum Partner in US and across Europe, is delighted to announce its file collaboration and interoperability app for Revit, BIM Connect 2016, is now available as a free download directly from the Autodesk Exchange App Store. This powerful, free extension for Autodesk® Revit® from GRAITEC provides bi-directional, intelligent Structural Building Information Modeling (BIM) model sharing, including the transfer of FEM results data, between GRAITEC Advance BIM Suite (Advance Design, Arch, SuperSTRESS, ...) and Autodesk® Revit® Architecture, Autodesk® Revit® MEP, Autodesk® Revit® Structure and Autodesk® Advance Steel products. Sharing both the geometrical shapes, including dynamic concrete-section mapping to Revit Families, together with analytical FEM results, creates a new pathway of intelligence-driven BIM workflows which assures a more robust "platform" ready to utilize the high-level of automation promised by next-gen BIM technology. GRAITEC BIM Connect also supports multi-discipline and multi-platform workflows, enabling import

Tukatech, Inc., Los Angeles–based provider of award-winning apparel software and hardware solutions, has announced its most recent partnership with Indochine International Ltd., multi-national apparel manufacturer, headquartered in Hangzhou, China with locations within China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, and many apparel producing countries around the globe. “Since the company’s launch in 2004, Indochine has aimed to be the leader in design, sourcing, and manufacturing, and has certainly continued that trajectory. Annual sales have grown from $15 million to more than $550 million in 2014, and Indochine is now aiming to reach $1 billion in annual sales by 2020. We needed a technology partner who could help us with that goal - that is when we reached out to Tukatech” states Nishit Bapna, Indochine’s Managing Director. Between its product development offices in China and Bangladesh, Indochine International Ltd. has converted all their manual pattern makers to digital operations through the use of

Gerber Technology is showcasing its integrated industrial fabrics cutting solutions for optimizing material yields and workflows in the Gerber booth (#558) at the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) Specialty Fabrics Expo and Advanced Textiles Expo in Anaheim, Calif., through Oct. 9. A long time provider of integrated automation systems, software and support across all aspects of the industrial fabrics value chain, Gerber solutions have been applied in a broad range of industrial applications and a variety of industrial textiles and advanced materials to significantly improve customers' productivity, quality and profitability. Visitors to the Gerber booth at IFAI will learn how to apply the latest innovations, from software design to automated spreading and cutting, to their operations. "The technical textile industry is as broad and diverse as the products it generates, with new and innovative applications being developed on a daily basis," said Mike Elia, CEO of Gerber Technology. "The technical textile industry is a growing segment within the textile industry. Gerber continues

In times of increasing cost and time pressures in production, along with ongoing globalization, logistics plays a key role in the success of a company. In its upcoming webinar, Geometric Solutions will demonstrate how Tecnomatix® Plant Simulation is likewise essential, for it identifies potential logistical problems and illustrates how to solve them before manufacturing even begins and problems occur. This episode, the second in the Simulation Nation 2015 webinar series, examines Plant Simulation’s ability to create dynamic computer models of complex systems that allow users to optimize performance in terms of material flow, resource utilization and logistics at every level of plant planning. Participants will then get a chance to create a virtual plant and to examine and optimize throughput as well as identify potential bottlenecks. They will learn how – without disturbing existing systems – they can run experiments, predict coordination of product components and product completion schedules, as well as run “what

Altair today announced that LW Engineering Software AB has joined the Altair Partner Alliance (APA), adding LW Finder for accurate and controlled strain gauge placement for measuring structural loads. "Common issues encountered by engineers include noisy data and misleading results when using strain gauges to measure structural loads," said Shea Wilson, co-founder of LW Engineering Software. "We identified this gap and consequently developed LW Finder to determine optimal strain gauge placement and predict measurement errors to dramatically improve the quality of the measured data. We chose the Altair Partner Alliance to help bring LW Finder to market as we have always relied upon them for easy access to world-class engineering software." LW Finder is able to overcome challenges of identifying the appropriate location when utilizing strain gauges to measure structural loads. It minimizes measurement error by identifying the ideal locations for these strain gauges, even in situations where the structure is complex