Delcam Taiwan will demonstrate the latest developments from Delcam’s development team, the largest in the CAM industry, at the TIMTOS exhibition to be held in Taipei from 3rd to 8th March.  Programs on show will include PowerMILL for high-speed and five-axis machining; FeatureCAM for quick and easy feature-based CAM programming; and PartMAKER for turn-mill equipment and Swiss-type lathes. The latest release of PowerMILL includes improvements to the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy, developments in toolpath simulation and verification, improved collision checking to also cover near misses, and more efficient raster finishing, area clearance and drilling, plus more options for customisation by users.   Complete verification can now be undertaken of a project for machine-tool issues such as collisions, saving considerable time compared to undertaking verification of each individual toolpath in turn.  Comprehensive verification is performed, including ensuring that the machine tool is capable of running the proposed strategy, as well as checking for both machine-tool collisions and tooling collisions.  A detailed list

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. will kick off its worldwide series of user conferences starting with CDNLive Silicon Valley, March 10-11, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. CDNLive conferences provide an excellent opportunity for Cadence® customers to connect, share and inspire each other, and dig deep into the latest technologies and methodologies with Cadence experts. WHEN: Tuesday, March 10, to Wednesday, March 11, 2015 WHERE: Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054 WHAT: Registration is now open for CDNLive Silicon Valley. The event will offer: Papers: Attendees can choose from a wide variety of user-authored papers addressing all aspects of design and intellectual property (IP) creation, integration and verification. They can discover how others are using Cadence technologies and techniques to develop SoCs, IP, boards and whole systems—efficiently and productively. Keynote speakers: Hear from industry leaders who influence the global electronics marketplace. They will discuss trends in end-product design and verification and share their thoughts on the most

Industry leaders in the big data space, including Platinum members GE, Hortonworks®, IBM, Infosys, Pivotal, SAS, a large international telecommunications firm, and Gold members AltiScale, Capgemini, CenturyLink, EMC, Splunk, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Teradata, and VMware today announced their intent to create an industry association, identified as the Open Data Platform (“ODP”). The Open Data Platform will promote big data technologies based on open source software from the Apache™ Hadoop® ecosystem and optimize testing among and across the ecosystem’s vendors. These efforts will accelerate the ability of enterprises to build or implement data-driven applications. A conference call with some of the founding members of the Open Data Platform will be held today for members of the media and analyst community. Call details are below. As off-the-shelf big data technologies continue to attract the interest of enterprises, these leaders are coming together to help maximize big data adoption and productivity. Companies in the Open Data Platform

NEC Corporation announced the company-wide unification of development processes for IT and network products by implementing a product data management (PDM) system that consolidates the management of product technology information, such as design drawings, specification documents and bills of material (BOM). Until now, each of NEC's business units created and operated their own PDM systems and development processes for hardware products. This new system standardizes procedures throughout the entire NEC Group by unifying the management of product technology information, such as design drawings, specifications documents and BOM. This was accomplished using NEC's "Obbligato III" PLM software, which holds the top market share in Japan (*1). This is now the largest PDM system of its kind in Japan (*2), being used by approximately 17,000 employees to manage roughly 24 million components and 18 million design drawings and specification documents. Moreover, this system makes it possible for NEC to produce the same products throughout multiple

DIGITAL DRAFTING SYSTEMS, INC. announced their designation as an Autodesk Gold Tier Value-Added Reseller (VAR). Gold Tier partners comprise an elevated level of the Autodesk Value Added Reseller program, which incorporates Autodesk software solutions along with proven and measurable technical expertise in a specific industry or unique business. Gold partners provide their customers with full solutions from pre- and post-sales support, to training, implementation, and customization. They work closely with Autodesk to help customers design, simulate and analyze their ideas, increase operational efficiencies and maximize their return on investment in Autodesk software solutions. “Gold Tier partners understand that a healthy business is achieved through the success of their customers,” said Chris Bittner, senior director worldwide sales, Autodesk. ”DIGITAL DRAFTING SYSTEMS, INC. has raised the bar by developing a deep understanding of their customers’ business, pain points, and goals. They also have a solid understanding of solution selling and implementation.” Autodesk considers those

VCollab announced the ability to export CAE model &results data from a variety of CAE solutions like ANSYS, MSC NASTRAN, Dassault Systemes, ABAQUS, LS DYNA, FLUENT, STAR-CCM+, CFX, FE SFAE, nCODE and others into interactive 3D PDFfiles. VCollab exports not only the 3D model, deformed shape and simulation result, but also exports the CAE BOM, simulation result contour and associated legend for better understanding of the simulation results. These enhancements help engineers to distribute CAE results throughout their organizations in widely used documentation and collaboration initiatives. Creating 3D PDF files of simulation results is now available through an optional plug-in for VCollab Professional allowing any result instance selected in VCollab Professional to be exported as a 3D PDF document. The combination of VCollab’s extensive CAE import and processing capabilities with the 3D PDF export plug-in makes CAE data available to a wide audience in a format that is consistent with their standard

Kit and Ace is a contemporary luxury apparel brand founded in Vancouver, Canada by Shannon Wilson and J. J. Wilson, the wife and son of Lululemon founder Chip Wilson. They specialize in producing “Technical Luxury” garments, meaning they apply technical attributes to traditionally high-end fabrications like cashmere. They also offer online E-commerce shopping and operate a vertical retail model.  With a long history in retail, the founders wanted to channel their mutual passion for innovation, design, fashion and creativity into the evolution of Kit and Ace. They wanted to implement process improvements by incorporating all technical and design information into one Cloud-based location and at the same time manage integrated supplier interactions, messaging, critical path and product approval management.  "Given that we want to connect everyone internally and our overseas vendors, the Cloud was a natural choice and WFX has been super easy for our teams to adopt ", says Laura Rowse, Head

Synopsys, Inc. reported results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2015. For the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, Synopsys reported revenue of $542.0 million, compared to $479.0 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2014, an increase of approximately 13.2 percent.   "Synopsys delivered strong results in the fiscal first quarter, and we are raising our revenue and non-GAAP earnings targets for the year," said Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys. "We see high demand for our new products, momentum in IP and prototyping, and we're making good progress in our higher-growth software quality and security space." GAAP Results On a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2015 was $65.2 million, or$0.41 per share, compared to $67.7 million, or $0.43 per share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2014. Non-GAAP Results On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2015 was $125.7 million, or $0.80 per share, compared to non-GAAP net income

At the International Dental Show in March, ModuleWorks will be showing all the latest developments in the ModuleWorks Dental product range.  Originally launched back in 2009, the product aims to bring the benefits of hundreds of man-years of toolpath development technology from the CAM market to the Dental market.  And in the two years since the previous IDS show, this technology has enabled many new toolpath creation methods to be made available to Dental CAM customers. Unlike many technology providers, ModuleWorks does not sell software to end users directly, but produces an OEM product which is built in to the software of a partner.  This allows ModuleWorks to focus on the technical developments which provide the power behind many Dental CAM systems. Among the features ModuleWorks will be demonstrating are: 5-Axis Constant Cusp toolpaths to machine undercuts Automatic 3+2-Axis Z-Level toolpaths to machine undercuts Lollipop cutter strategies to machine undercuts on a 3-axis machine Rotary machining

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced it plans to exhibit its system design and verification solutions at the Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) in San Jose, California. The conference is focused on the application of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) standards, languages and methodologies for the design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits.  WHEN: March 2 – 5, 2015  WHERE: Hilton Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, CA, Booth 505  WHAT: At booth 505, Cadence is scheduled to showcase the latest tools, methodologies and support customers need for designing and verifying complex silicon, SoCs and systems. Experts will be on hand to discuss topics focused on Verification IP and IC/SoC/system design and verification.  To view the full list of Cadence speaking slots, visit: http://www.cadence.com/cadence/newsroom/press_releases/Pages/pr.aspx?xml=021815_dvcon