For the fourth consecutive year, Tata Technologies was recognized by Siemens as a Platinum Partner, a distinction awarded annually to the highest-achieving Siemens value-added resellers (VAR). "We are extremely pleased," Tata Technologies Associate Vice President – Partners Joseph MacLellan said. "There's something to be said about a four-year streak. We owe it all to our marketing, sales, delivery, finance and legal professionals and Siemens' high-quality products." The Platinum Partner streak began in 2010 when Siemens first recognized Tata Technologies with the company's highest honor for value-added resellers. MacLellan said the success of the sales and delivery teams at Tata Technologies hinges on the ability to offer clients the full spectrum of services relating to Siemens PLM solutions from implementation to support and consulting. Tata Technologies also earned accolades in three other categories. This year's awards include: Outstanding Sales Achievement for selling more NX in comparison with other Siemens partner in the U.S. and Canada. Competitive Win award

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the call-for-entries for its first annual Don Miller Award for Excellence in System Level Thermo-Fluid Design. Don Miller is the former research director for British Hydromechanics Research (now BRH Group) in the U.K., and author of Internal Flow Systems. His book serves as the foundation for Mentor Graphics Flowmaster software technology. Mentor Graphics is establishing the award with Mr. Miller to recognize excellence for System Level Design using Flowmaster software, and to uncover breakthroughs in research and real-world applications in the field. Award application criteria must be based on a practical and realistic approach to 1D computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This entry must be quantifiable and representative of an advance in system level thermo-fluid analysis and modeling. The submission must demonstrate a relevant, clear and practical approach to system design and must be within the public domain and circulated publicly within 12 months prior to the award entry closing date. Applicants must have permission

Barry Wehmiller International (B-WI) has accepted an exclusive invitation to become a Certified Partner in the PTC ServiceAdvantage Program. As a Certified Partner of the program, B-WI has partnered with PTC to deliver the best solutions for product lifecycle management, content management, and dynamic publishing to PTC’s 40,000+ customers. The primary focus of the PTC ServiceAdvantage™ Program is to enable PTC customers to realize the full value from their investments in PTC® products and solutions. The program gathers the world’s top partners providing customers with domain expertise and sound understanding and knowledge of configuration and deployment of PTC products. “B-WI has successfully worked hand-in-hand with PTC as one of their leading technology partners. We are very excited to have the opportunity to also become a service partner, allowing us to further integrate the PTC product suite and our PLM and ALM services to major customers in North America,” said Jim Webb, Executive

Bengaluru-based Altem Technologies added another feather to its cap by winning the Dassault Systèmes’ Growth Award for Overall year revenue as well as the Marketing & Technical Excellence Award at the Dassault Systèmes’ ‘Annual Sales Kick-off 2015’ event. Dassault Systèmes announced its annual VAR Excellence Awards to acknowledge the contribution and work of their VAR partners. These awards are given across 14 categories, including VAR of the Year, Best Brand Initiative, Social Impact and the Industry Excellence Awards were announced during the Annual Sales Kick-Off held in the city of Visakhapatnam recently. The 3-day annual Sales Kick-Off had senior global executives from Dassault Systèmes in attendance along with Industry representatives addressed the 200plus -strong audience on key issues like Cloud, Online Services delivery and Industry Solution Experiences which was a key focus area. Commenting on the win, Mr. Sharath Chandra, Co-Founding Director – Altem Technologies said“4 years ago Altem had started without any significant financial

TraceParts with SolidFace today launched the SolidFace portal, a free online design resource, to the fast growing user community of SolidFace software. Directly available through SolidFace´s software interface, this new online part library features over 100 million part numbers from hundreds of leading component manufacturers and distributors and thousands of ISO, ANSI, DIN, NF, GB, ASME and more standards. “We’re proud to partner with SolidFace to bring best-in-class free 3D part catalogs to their users.” says Gabriel Guigue, TraceParts Managing Director. “Time to market is critical to all manufacturing companies and SolidFace is a highly flexible tool to help them designing their products better and faster. Therefore we are very pleased to be the first content supplier to provide the SolidFace user community with hundreds of millions of certified supplier components that can be inserted into their designs.” “Our mission is to develop high-performance software that add the greatest amount of benefits at

Delcam’s PartMaker Division has launched a new, free PC-based app called the PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer that allows users of multi-tasking turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes to view and align multi-channel CNC programs automatically. The PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer is available for download free of cost from http://www.partmaker.com/multichannelviewer.  The downloaded program is activated for each shop by a PartMaker product specialist.  He will provide the user with a customized machine configuration for the machines in that shop.  The software also works for any standard, single-path NC machine as well.  Both the application and the custom configuration files are provided free of cost. The PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer allows users of turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes that require multi-channel CNC programs to view such programs side by side and automatically align "sync” or "wait” codes.  This unique application supports virtually any multi-channel machine/control combination from every machine builder on the market.  It is highly intelligent, using proprietary technology

fCoder Group, Inc. has introduced a complete set of software products designed for workflow automation. FolderMill is usually installed on the company server and monitors all the incoming files. The software follows the rules specified by company employees and sets automatic conversion of incoming files to the formats, such as PDF, JPG, TIFF and others. It also allows document printing, where applicable. Deployment of FolderMill can release the users from manual PDF creation and/or printing. All the work is done via two “hot folders” – files to be processed are placed in one of them and taken out of the other completely ready. As a result, there is no necessity to install printer driver and PDF creation software onto each office workstation. More than that, 100% of newly created PDF files and printed documents will satisfy the company standards. For example, all PDF files will be saved in searchable PDF/A format; all documents intended for

AMC Bridge releases LuxViewer™ for iPad 1.0 – new free tool for viewing and editing the rendering results obtained from LuxRender rendering engine. The tool is available at iTunes App Store. LuxViewer™ for iPad now allows users to open rendering results stored in FLM files from DropBox folder. Application supports the whole palette of instruments for rendering results editing as in the original desktop viewer. Files up to 200 Mb are supported for processing.

Stratasys, Ltd. announced that it will release financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2014 on Monday, March 2, 2015. The Company plans to hold the conference call to discuss its fourth quarter and full year financial results on Monday, March 2, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. (ET). The investor conference call will be available via live webcast on the Stratasys Web site at www.stratasys.com under the "Investors" tab; or directly at the following web address: http://edge.media-server.com/m/p/fsefp4qi. To participate by telephone, the domestic dial-in number is 800-510-9691 and the international dial-in is 617-614-3453. The access code is 23883766. Investors are advised to dial into the call at least ten minutes prior to the call to register. The webcast will be available for 90 days on the "Investors" page of the Stratasys Web site or by accessing the provided web address.

Agilent Technologies Inc. reported orders of $995 million, up 2 percent over one year ago, for the first fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31, 2015, and revenues of $1.03 billion, also up 2 percent compared with one year ago. Orders and revenues each grew 6 percent on a currency adjusted basis (3). First-quarter GAAP income from continuing operations was $102 million, or $0.30 per share. Last year's first-quarter GAAP income from continuing operations was $121 million, or $0.36 per share. During the first quarter, Agilent had intangible amortization of $43 million, transformation costs of $12 million and a tax benefit of $24 million. Excluding these items and $6 million of other net costs, Agilent reported first-quarter adjusted income from continuing operations of $139 million, or $0.41 per share(1). "Agilent delivered a solid start to the year," said Bill Sullivan, Agilent CEO. "The strength of our core analytical business drove our success, offsetting currency headwinds and