Altair today announced that Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration Measurement A/S has joined the Altair Partner Alliance (APA), bringing its noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) software, Insight+, to HyperWorks customers. Insight+ creates the ability to efficiently consider test and computer-aided engineering (CAE) data together to assist engineers in better understanding NVH contributions early in the design process.  "We are very excited about our partnership with Altair," said Alun Crewe, Vice President, Strategic Marketing at Brüel & Kjær. "The combination of Altair's simulation tools and the capabilities in Brüel & Kjær's solutions creates an effective environment for subjective evaluation of vehicle NVH early in the vehicle design process. CAE analysts, NVH Evaluation teams and other decision makers, who may not be NVH experts, will be able to evaluate NVH design proposals at virtual prototype stage in the context of driving the final product. This enables improved, value-based decision-making, reduces the number of physical prototypes, ensures 'right first

On 15 September 2015 within the framework of the 59th IAEA General Conference program, ASE has signed memoranda on cooperation with European division of IBM and Dassault Systemes.   The memoranda envisage cooperation in the field of creation of ROSATOM industry solution package (Solution) for support of NPP operation processes. The Solution should be logical extension of ASE Multi-D technology through the all NPP lifecycle stages beyond design & construction.   “We have come to an agreement with our partners to launch a joint Center of competence where methodological and technological aspects of Solution will be developed”,- pointed out CEO of ASE JSC Valery Limarenko. – “Value added ROSATOM industry Solution will allow us to integrate the data,  information models and know-how created by ASE at the designing and construction stages , with best practices of IBM inbuilt in Maximo for Nuclear product and Dassault Systemes 3DS technologies to process NPP operational

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm has announced that it will offer two of its PLM Short Courses in Orange County, California during the week of December 7. The first program, the PLM Executive Short Course, will be offered on December 7. This program is geared towards executives and is a one-day program delivered through a combination of lectures, industry case studies, and group discussions. Successful completion of the program leads to the award of an Executive Certificate of PLM Leadership. The second program, PLM Fundamentals for Solution Providers Short Course, will be offered on December 7-8. This program satisfies the main PLM educational requirements of PLM solution providers and their employees who are responsible for providing PLM-related services. The program has been structured to take place over two consecutive days and includes a combination of lectures, industry case studies, group discussions, and individual assessments. Successful

Short courses for busy executives and PLM solution providers will be offered in Orange County, California in December. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 September 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm has announced that it will offer two of its PLM Short Courses in Orange County, California during the week of December 7. The first program, the PLM Executive Short Course, will be offered on December 7. This program is geared towards executives and is a one-day program delivered through a combination of lectures, industry case studies, and group discussions. Successful completion of the program leads to the award of an Executive Certificate of PLM Leadership. The second program, PLM Fundamentals for Solution Providers Short Course, will be offered on December 7-8. This program satisfies the main PLM educational requirements of PLM solution providers and their employees who are responsible for providing PLM-related services. The program has been structured to

Omnify Software today announces that Synaptive Medical, a developer of neurosurgical technologies and therapies, selected Empower PLM to implement an electronic, integrated product development process with the flexibility, visibility, control, and regulatory compliance required for a growing medical device company. Synaptive has gone through an exceptionally aggressive growth rate in response to market demand. Along with resource growth, Synaptive has gone through complete design, development, and transfer to manufacturing iterations for a number of medical device products. As the company grew in both personnel and products, it was obvious that the existing mixed paper and software solution for product development processes was inadequate. "Initially we looked for an ERP system that could 'do it all' to address our needs but found that such a product didn't exist," stated Arie Henkin, Quality Systems Lead at Synaptive Medical. A recommendation from an ERP vendor prompted Synaptive Medical to investigate Omnify Software as a solution that

ProPlus Design Solutions, Inc. today unveiled MEPro, within its own Nano Design Environment (NDE), that bridges circuit design, CAD and process development, and lets designers quickly adopt and make full use of a process platform. For the first time, MEPro offers a common platform for circuit design, CAD and process development teams, presented in ways each of them are familiar with. They now are able to systematically evaluate any device or circuit target of one or multiple process platforms with SPICE model libraries, avoiding model misuse while leaving increased area for design margins. The product, designed for greater efficiency of flow setup and job execution, improves a designer's understanding of devices and processes, through systematic evaluation and benchmarking of process platforms at the device or circuit level. More important, MEPro will show the impact of these evaluation and benchmarking results on circuit designs, providing further guidance or assistance to improve them. Improved design competitiveness

Altair today announced that its industry-leading workload management product for high-performance computing (HPC), PBS Professional®, has been chosen to manage workload for the new Cray supercomputing system to be installed at the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), Australia's national weather, climate and water agency.                       PBS Professional was selected as part of a Cray contract to provide BoM with a Cray® XC™40 supercomputer and Cray Sonexion® 2000 storage system. Altair is collaborating with BoM to streamline the transition process from its previous job scheduler. The new supercomputer will upgrade BoM’s capability to deliver more precise forecasts with greater accuracy and frequency; with a 16x increase in compute capacity, the system is expected to run nearly eight times as many daily forecasts than the current system, with up to 5x improvement in model resolution. BoM’s expertise and services assist Australians in preparing for the harsh realities of their natural environment, including drought, floods, fires,

ZW3D today announced the availability of ZW3D 2015 SP, featuring over 300 improvements for a perfect mid-range CAD/CAM with high performance, extensive applications and fair price. This newly released edition is to bring SMBs (small and medium-size business) a design-through- manufacturing platform with advancements in usability, stability and function extension. ZW3D has added a series of enhancements, like new electrode ribbon tab to provide more user-friendly interface, tweaked picking and highlighting to offer flexible configuration, optimized interference check to display clearer results, and much more, for better user experience.  “I’m really happy every time ZW3D improves and develops, especially in this new version. Slight might the improvements be, they make it work better,” said Paphop, one of the ZW3D community members from Thailand. “Take smart rotation center detection for example. It makes work more enjoyable. ”  In accordance with feedback from users worldwide, the ZW3D 2015 SP is refined in diversified functionalities, like more

Using True 3D, Zuken helps product designers meet the challenges of today’s ever-smaller and complex enclosures, with 3D clearance analysis using true component shapes. True 3D checks of multi-board designs can be carried out against all aspects of a product, including the enclosure. This latest version of Zuken’s CR-8000 single and multi-board design solution also includes improved accuracy in layer configuration design work through transfer of layer configuration data between CR-8000 Design Force and Polar Instruments Speedstack. Zuken’s CR-8000 is the industry’s only next-generation, product-centric design solution for creating complex product designs. CR-8000 Design Force enables design teams to easily create any design from quick prototype boards to complex, multi-board systems using a single tool, says the company. Bob Potock, vice president of marketing, Zuken Americas, said: “Successful companies build more competitive products faster and with lower risk. Next generation products will require those same companies to shift from PCB-centric to product-centric

Nor-Tech (Northern Computer Technologies), the leading provider of high-performance, people friendly HPC for CAE solutions, just announced the availability of a cutting-edge Demo Cluster geared toward CAE/CFD/FEA applications. The cluster is designed to demonstrate the benefits of transitioning CAE applications from workstations to high performance computer clusters. This is a no-cost, no-strings opportunity. Nor-Tech President and CEO David Bollig said, “Our Demo Cluster is designed for organizations that ultimately need something beyond a workstation. Clients who have made the transition typically see significant improvement in run times; better resolution; better utilization of their engineering staff; and shorter time to market. It’s a great way for engineers to demonstrate return-on-investment for management.” To take advantage of the Demo Cluster, the first step is to contact Nor-Tech for a discussion on needs and expectations. Then they will schedule the client into a queue. Nor-Tech will reconfigure the hardware and software environment for the client and