Siemens Canada has signed two memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Seneca College and Sheridan College. These MOU signings focus on Mechatronics programs and strengthens cooperation between Siemens and Canadian colleges and universities. The Siemens Mechatronic Systems Certification Program is a comprehensive industry skills certification offered together with partner schools worldwide. A central theme is the System Approach, a special set of teaching and learning methods developed over 25 years in Siemens technical schools in Germany. Mechatronics is the integration of mechanics, electronics, control and systems theory, and computers into a single system used within production and manufacturing, to optimize its efficiency, productivity, and quality. First developed at Siemens' "Technik Akademie Berlin" in Germany, Siemens Canada will now locally provide a three – level Mechatronics certification program to students in collaboration with universities and colleges across Canada. Mechatronics-related technical fields include Automation Technology, Robotics Technology, Industrial Maintenance, Process and Controls and Electro-Mechanical Technology. The focus of Siemens' Mechatronics certification

NAFEMS, the International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, has announced a significant expansion in the Americas region to provide even more opportunities for all those involved in CAE. Based in Granville, OH, the establishment of permanent offices in the US, combined with the recruitment of a new and increased team of staff, will re-invigorate the association and member community in the region. This new addition to NAFEMS' business model will enable the long-established organization to develop and deliver a range of opportunities to everyone involved in Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and related technologies. “For over 30 years, NAFEMS has served the international engineering analysis and simulation community and facilitated international industry, academia, and government collaboration, where the Americas’ members have been very active in leading and participating on many of the NAFEMS Technical Working Groups.” noted Dr. Rodney Dreisbach, Senior Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company,

MSC Software Corporation’s MSC Apex CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) platform has won the 2015 Golden Mousetrap Award as one of the most important design technology innovations of the year, MSC announced today. MSC Apex won in the Design Tools Hardware & Software category, which covers computer-aided design (CAD), product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management software (PLM). Winners were chosen by the Design News editorial team and its advisory board, and announced at the 14th annual Golden Mousetrap award presentation held at the Pacific Design & Manufacturing Trade event on February 10 in Anaheim, California. The Golden Mousetrap Award recognizes innovation in the development of new products in automation, electronics, materials and design tools. It celebrates the people and technologies driving progress in today’s U.S. design and manufacturing industries with a focus on the renaissance of manufacturing in North America. The award is sponsored by business-to-business media company UBM Canon, publisher of the widely

Dassault Systèmes announced that two million SOLIDWORKS 3D design application licenses have now been installed at educational institutions worldwide. This milestone is testimony to Dassault Systèmes’ commitment to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teaching initiatives that nurture the skills and creativity of the next generation of designers and engineers. “In education, we want to stimulate bright ideas and creativity by providing students with the same easy-to-use design tools used by professional engineers,” said Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO, SOLIDWORKS, Dassault Systèmes. “SOLIDWORKS applications help students complete challenging projects like fully functional robots or solar-powered race cars and, in the process, learn lasting skills for their future professional life.” Powered by Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, SOLIDWORKS applications offer educational institutions a specialized suite of tools for engineering design, documentation, simulation and sustainable design in one easy-to-learn software package that helps teachers and students develop student skills for rewarding careers in the engineering and industrial design

TraceParts strengthens its investment in the CAD file download platform TraceParts, a world-leading supplier of 3D digital content for engineering, is offering industrial parts vendors new 3D marketing opportunities to increase their market share. Thanks to the latest changes made to TracePartsOnline.net, users can now locate the geographical position of manufacturers or distributors via Google Map. This functionality allows potential customers to reach out to parts vendors from the earliest stages of their design projects. The www.TracePartsOnline.net online CAD library has also been upgraded with a new ultra-fast and powerful search engine allowing users to run queries with multiple criteria to pinpoint the parts they are looking for. This search engine, just like the new 3D viewer, comes as a direct response to the growing needs of engineering firms to speed up their design projects. Thanks to this new 3D viewer, the community of design professionals registered on TracePartsOnline.net can view and interact directly with

Radica Software, a developer of electrical computer-aided design (ECAD) software today announced a new pricing model that offers monthly and annual subscriptions of its Enterprise Edition of Electra software. Monthly subscription of Electra is at US$59 (paid annually) and US$69 (paid monthly) respectively. Subscribers have access to features of Electra Enterprise Edition with no restriction, free software upgrades and they may cancel a subscription at any time with no penalty incurred. This significant move is set to cater to users’ need for a low-cost of entry, yet full-featured and high quality ECAD. Companies can benefit from subscription pricing with the ability to scale up to more licenses when they get a large project or ramp down to fewer licenses at any time, without having to pay thousands of dollars for perpetual licensing just to use the software. Already used by customers in 42 countries, Electra electrical CAD is a high-productivity tool that

Fujitsu announced the release of a new version of FUJITSU Manufacturing Industry Solution PLEMIA Concurrent Design Manager, which includes enhanced features for distributed design at sites in and outside Japan. The new version will be available from February 12. PLEMIA Concurrent Design Manager is software that takes enormous volumes of data, such as with 3D data and related diagrams which are cumbersome to manage when multiple designers are involved, and in addition to efficiently managing design histories on a per-part basis, generates the information needed for the manufacturing process from this managed data. The new version was created with global design teams in mind, and comes with a replication feature that synchronizes the latest versions of massive 3D CAD files between servers at multiple locations during the night, which brings greater efficiency to collaborative design work that is distributed among overseas sites, where network delays can easily occur. In addition, it can

Standardising on Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM software for all of its machining has proved a key component of the ‘Power to Change’ philosophy at Paragon D&E.  "We are seeing jobs coming in days ahead of schedule,” claimed Manufacturing Engineer, Brian Kerkstra.  "We’re seeing jobs that would traditionally have taken us ten weeks being completed in eight or nine weeks.” "Our ‘Power to Change’ philosophy is about our team working together to develop methods to do things more efficiently.  It’s about getting people involved and really trusting in their decisions,” explained Paragon President, David Muir.  "We’re actually envisioning what Paragon could look like in a year from now.  Before we had PowerMILL, this was a five-year plan for Paragon – we are accelerating our plans by using the relationship we have with Delcam.” To see the full interview, please go to www.delcam.tv/paragon-partnership Paragon, which is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is best known for producing

About this release BETA CAE System S.A. announces the release of v15.2.3 of ANSA / µETA pre- and post- processing suite. This maintenance release focuses on the correction of identified problems and issues for ANSA and µΕΤΑ.   Understanding the Software Release Schedule The plan We are committed in delivering improved and enhanced software releases, the soonest possible, in order to meet the requirement of our customers for the continuous improvement of their experience and work. Therefore, we are working in releasing new software versions with code corrections, new software features and enhancements, in regular, frequent intervals. - A major software version is released every year. - First point releases, such as v15.1.0, v15.2.0 and so on, with code corrections but also with additional software features and enhancements are released every three months. - Second point releases, such as v15.2.1, v15.2.2, v15.2.3 mainly with code corrections only upon their parent first point release, are scheduled on a monthly

 PDF Key takeaways: All products produced, sold, used, and supported are a result of transforming the virtual into the physical Product lifecycle management software has proven its ability to enable aerospace companies around the world to meet complex and evolving challenges Siemens offers a broad portfolio of aerospace-specific capabilities, and a demonstrable track record of success in the industry At the end of the day there is nothing better than witnessing a rocket launch, at least that is how people in the space industry see it. The PLM market is full of designs, collaborative efforts, visualizations, concepts, plans, ideas, and other non-physical things, but ultimately these virtual definitions turn into something physical. As can be said of all products produced, sold, used, and supported, they are a result of transforming the virtual into the physical. The reality in a product is nothing but the physical outcome of its product definition information, and when that definition