Following the success of the first Footwear Technology Forum in Milan, Delcam CRISPIN, is running its second Footwear Technology Forum in the United States for designers and manufacturers of all types of footwear.  It will be hosted at PENSOLE Footwear Design Academy in Portland, Oregon, on 20th and 21st May.  Full details and the registration form are available on www.ft-forum.com  The Forum will focus on current and emerging technologies that will help companies to develop more innovative designs, reduce costs and bring new products to market more quickly.  Top industry experts from organizations around the world will cover topics including the latest developments in 3D printing, digital prototyping, 3D rendering, simulation, materials and emerging manufacturing methods. Commenting on the event D’Wayne Edwards, Founder of PENSOLE said, "I am very excited to be hosting Delcam CRISPIN’s first Footwear Technology Forum in North America at our facility in Portland, Oregon.  This is a great opportunity not only

MSC Software today announced the acquisition of Simufact Engineering. Simufact is a leader in simulation of metal forming and joining processes. Based on best-in-class nonlinear simulation software technology, Simufact.forming and Simufact.welding are metal forming and welding process simulation tools used by aerospace, automotive, and machinery industries, their parts and materials suppliers, as well as major Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to realize significant savings from reducing shop-floor tryouts of their manufacturing processes. Simufact's customers in the metal forming industry that leverage process simulation confirm that they have reduced physical testing up to 50% following implementation of Simufact's software. Moreover, they confirm that cycle times for new part developments can be reduced from 3 weeks to 1 week. MSC customers will realize even greater savings from simulating the entire process chain with Simufact and MSC's tools, to gain a better understanding of the as-manufactured condition of the product. "Too often, our customers tell me that poorly-understood manufacturing processes result in

Infosys announced a definitive agreement to fully acquire Panaya, Inc., a provider of automation technology for large scale enterprise software management, in cash, for an enterprise value of USD 200 million. This acquisition reflects Infosys’ execution of its Renew and New strategy to enhance the competitiveness and productivity of current service lines by leveraging automation, innovation and artificial intelligence. Panaya’s CloudQuality™ suite uniquely positions Infosys to bring automation to several of its service lines via an agile SaaS model, and helps mitigate risk, reduce costs and shorten time to market for clients. Commenting on the acquisition, Dr. Vishal Sikka, CEO and Managing Director of Infosys said, “The acquisition of Panaya is a key step in renewing and differentiating our service lines. This will help amplify the potential of our people, freeing us from the drudgery of many repetitive tasks, so we may focus more on the important, strategic challenges faced by our

PLM’s future is its platformization. This isn’t a revolution. It is an evolution. It will take years, commitment, and patience from industrial companies and the solution providers that support them. Today, many leading PLM solution providers are developing highly integrated platforms as constructs of application delivery solutions. From these open and highly accessible platforms, users will be able to assemble the processes and workflows of ideation and product development—the building blocks of innovation—and re-assemble and reconfigure them whenever they need. Assembling and reassembling has always been done, of course, but today’s product developers work with a kaleidoscope of rapidly evolving tools, systems, and strategies. Moreover, the task of assembling and reassembling building blocks gets bigger every year. In many ways, PLM platformization is a re-architecting of software-based solution suites and the links between them. It speeds up business processes, refocuses and sharpens business strategies, and leverages innovation with agility. Peering deeply

No one tests materials for a single user! Matereality’s new collaborative framework responds to the ongoing need to disseminate data, in an exact "as viewed" form, among trusted parties. This is particularly useful when data is multivariate, requiring multiple views to aid comprehension. Matereality’s secure, collaborative features enable high-level information exchange with an easy click of a Share button, removing the tedium of creating email attachments, special Excel files, or PowerPoint documents. Collaborators receive a data link via email, inviting them to the same view, on the same platform, via a secure log-in. Data is displayed in rich detail using Matereality's Data Viewer, which provides data plotting, analytics, unit conversion, Excel export, and traceability features. Benefits: Detailed and comprehensive data sharing with minimal effort Transmit material properties, material cards, and even test reports No attachments; no file-size reduction Secure! Links will not work when forwarded, unlike attachments Track who sees the shared data, and when Revoke access at the end

Mastercam is known for powerful NC programming, but it also delivers a suite of shop-tested design tools including 3D surfacing and solids. The streamlined CAD engine makes design work easier than ever before. Mastercam Design streamlines modeling and editing geometry. It also supports advanced geometry creation, including NURBS curves and surfaces, 2D and 3D associative dimensioning, surface extension, blending, trimming, splitting, variable filleting, solid modeling, hybrid modeling, and so much more! A few new enhancements to Mastercam X8 Design are:  New Solids Workflow The solids interface and workflow has been completely redone for Mastercam X8 and makes constructing and editing solids a lot easier and more intuitive then it’s ever been. Every existing Solids function has been updated to reflect this new workflow. All solids functions have been given a new modern interface that allows you to work in the interface and on the screen as needed. And, by putting the solid selection filters

Paroc has again chosen the infrastructure provided by BIMobject® to reach out with their BIM solutions. Paroc Panel System, a European market leader in the manufacturing of mineral wool sandwich panels, now meets the request from many BIM users by publishing a Revit-based design tool on the BIMobject® Portal. Paroc Panel System provides a unique service package based on its 25 years of experience and expertise. The company’s operations are reliable and flexible, and facilitate the management of PAROC panel building projects from project planning to installation. PAROC panels are high-class steel-faced sandwich panels with a core of stone wool. The main application areas of the panels are facades, partitions and ceilings in commercial, industrial and public buildings. Download the App for free from the BIMobject® Portal: http://bimobject.com/product/?manufacturer=paroc Architects and Designers will find it easy to use the tool to generate different wall and ceiling panel types and then visualise the designs with realistic profiles and colours. By

LEDAS Ltd., today announced new capabilities in its LEDAS Geometry Comparison (LGC) component. LGC now supports most formats from today’s MCAD systems, including all flagship and mid-range products of the top four CAD vendors. Because LGC makes it possible to compare models from any source, the new release allows users to work with CAD models without worrying about native formats. And so LGC allows users to open and then compare native parts and assemblies from CATIA, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, Inventor, and Solid Edge. As well, it fills out its coverage of 3D interoperability formats by adding JT and ACIS to those already supported, STEP, IGES, and Parasolid. To handle the new formats, LEDAS decided on licensing the translation component from Datakit, software that has a proven track record. “Expanding the list of supported CAD formats was the most requested feature that we received from users, following the first release of LGC,” said Alexey

AVEVA announced today that ENERGOINVEST d.d. Sarajevo, a multi-disciplinary engineering company, has used AVEVA Bocad Tower to complete the construction of a K-Face transmission tower, saving a time for the design of towers significantly.  AVEVA Bocad Tower is the only software designed specifically for the construction of transmission and communication towers, increasing productivity and enabling superior quality modelling. The AVEVA Bocad products are helping companies achieve right-first-time fabrication, ensuring assets are delivered on time and on budget. ‘AVEVA Bocad Tower is an open, interoperable solution that facilitates collaboration across multi-discipline teams,' commented Nedim Karahasanovic, Marketing Manager, ENERGOINVEST Transmission Lines, ‘It has increased our efficiency and productivity.  With only a few week’s training on the AVEVA Bocad software we made great progress with the design of the tower and reduced the scheduled time of the project.’ Richard Brotherton, VP Sales, Fabrication sector, AVEVA, explained how AVEVA’s technology is achieving such impressive time savings: ‘AVEVA

Simpleware has joined 3T RPD Ltd in the GOSSAM (Generation of Optimal Support Structure in Additive Manufacturing) project. Funded by Innovate UK, the project aims to develop innovative and advanced intelligent metal additive manufacturing (AM) support structures. Launched in October 2013 and running to December 2015, GOSSAM targets breakthroughs in the often-overlooked area of support structures used in the manufacturing of components. Support structures are typically required to build unsupported geometric features on metal DMLS parts. The use of supports however removes the complete design freedom offered by additive manufacturing; additionally supports may need to be created which cannot be removed post production. Supports may comprise up to 50% of the build mass, and can considerably increase the set-up, build and post-processing times. New software solutions are being developed through GOSSAM to automatically orientate parts and then generate intelligent scaffolds for them. The long-term goal of the software developed for GOSSAM is