Aras® today announced that Airbus SAS has joined the list of presenters at the 2014 European Aras Community Event (ACE) in Frankfurt, Germany. Airbus will present on its experience implementing Aras PLM, and share best practices and lessons learned. Airbus joins GETRAG, Imperial Tobacco Group, Hydrocontrol and several other leading companies participating the two day event. Agenda, Details and Registration at http://www.aras.com/ACE2014Europe Employing more than 59,000 people of over 100 nationalities, Airbus is the world’s leading aircraft manufacturer. The company’s commercial know-how, technological leadership and manufacturing efficiency have set the standard for the aviation industry. To ensure that the company’s full range of jetliners remain at the cutting edge of performance, Airbus is continuously developing new product innovations with more than 3,000 people working either directly or indirectly on over 100 Research and Technology projects. The company files over 500 patent applications per year, and today, more than 90% of its €2

MESA International announced today that Dassault Systèmes has joined MESA as a Platinum Keystone Sponsor. As such, Dassault Systèmes will join other manufacturing operations management leaders in supporting MESA’s mission to help its manufacturer / producer members to drive performance and profitability in their organizations through thought leadership, promote active best practice sharing, and expand industry dialogue. DELMIA, a Dassault Systèmes brand, delivers Apriso Solutions to synchronize global manufacturing networks, offering real-time visibility and control over the business processes performed by plants and suppliers. These solutions establish a common set of operational practices that can be managed holistically on a global scale while supporting continuous improvement to meet local market and customer needs. DELMIA solutions enrich the global manufacturing operations management capabilities of the Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform across multiple industries. Tom Hennessey, brand marketing vice president, DELMIA, at Dassault Systèmes said, “Supporting the global community of industry professionals within MESA International is the right thing

Booz Allen Hamilton renewed an agreement with the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), a move that will support expansion of INCOSE professional certifications for qualified systems engineers. “Our renewal of the certification agreement with INCOSE demonstrates Booz Allen’s continued commitment to be a world leader in the application of systems engineering and to deliver high quality, innovative results to our clients,” said Troy Peterson, Booz Allen Fellow and Chief Engineer who established the initial agreement with INCOSE in 2009. “Booz Allen is known as a strong supporter of INCOSE and its certification program as shown by our leadership in having more certified Systems Engineering Professionals (SEPs) than any other organization worldwide for more than six years.”  INCOSE’s certification program provides a formal method, and a baseline, for recognizing the knowledge and experience of systems engineers at different stages in their careers. INCOSE’s comprehensive certification program aligns with a systems engineer’s typical

Dassault Systèmes and Outscale today announced that Outscale cloud received ISO/IEC 27001:2013 security certification from BSI Group.  This certification – recognition for information security management systems compliance – enables Outscale to offer a unique, fully operational and secure cloud platform that meets the highest global industry requirements. Outscale’s optimized cloud architecture, unlike other cloud platforms, goes beyond simple data storage and computation. It was designed for the industry with customizable features.  As part of its cloud portfolio, Outscale’s critical, high performance interactive applications encompass simulation, visualization of complex elements and data management while, in parallel, ensuring data security and traceability throughout the entire process, from initial data entry through to storage and transmission. The full platform also addresses security and regulatory parameters specific to local industrial processes.  “The internet, by nature, is international—a virtual environment without borders. While the cloud echoes this virtual environment, from certain industry perspectives, security, local laws and regulations

AVEVA and Capgemini today announced their signing of a Global Alliance agreement. The agreement will benefit asset-intensive industries such as Oil & Gas, Process, Power, Marine and transport infrastructure. Building upon the alliance’s capabilities, customers will be able to achieve increased efficiency in construction, revamp and modification projects, as well as to extend the life of, and improve the integrity of operational information in, existing assets. For new-build projects, AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering & Design solution enables rapid project setup, highly productive clash-free 3D design and real-time collaboration across different locations and disciplines. AVEVA’s solutions for Owner Operators enable them to control and manage both project performance and the long-term operational performance of their assets. Capgemini’s Digital industrial Asset Lifecycle Management (DiALM) solution, based on AVEVA Information Management technology, will enable organisations in asset-intensive industries to benefit from highly skilled resources for programme management, business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing, ensuring the successful

Does Historical PDM Usage Limit How we View PLM Today?   Early in my career, as I was implementing 3d, solid modeling across five corporate divisions, I was asked if I had “ever used a drafting board” by one of the manufacturing engineers who was skeptical about the use of the incoming tool set. My response was “not only have I used a drafting board, I have also used a slide rule and punch cards – and I don’t think any of us would argue that we should go back to those tools today.” That said, we did what every company was doing at that time, implementing CAD on high end personal computers while mimicking the practices of using a drafting board. My premise is that we are doing the same today with PLM. Companies implemented PDM (Product Data Management) over the past 10 to 15 years with an emphasis on part number

Third Wave Systems has released the latest version of its NC optimization software, Production Module 7.0. Production Module is used by the world’s top manufacturing companies to maximize potential of current manufacturing processes and dramatically improve finished part quality. Production Module 7.0 users will see several enhancements including: a beta advanced toolpath interpretation functionality and batch queueing functionality; 2D and 3D algorithm improvements for improved modeling for indexable mills and enhanced force and optimization improvements; updates to the Japanese interface; upgraded data validation with messaging functionality; XML file structure, which should dramatically reduce simulation setup time; and a new license management functionality with monitoring capability. Production Module users routinely generate cycle time reductions of 30 percent and have achieved up to 80 percent, while simultaneously improving tool life. Engineers who use Production Module are able to work offline to gain better tool life information than other simulation packages or trial-and-error testing. To obtain this

Theorem Solutions is pleased to announce availability with immediate effect of its latest CADverter v17.2 for Siemens NX 9 with translation capabilities for both new and legacy NX Data. With the ability to translate earlier versions of NX data, from 7.5 through to the latest NX 9, along with NX parts as far back as Version UGNX11.0, the new NX 9 CADverter ensures that both current and legacy data can be translated with just a single application. Available under version 17.2 of Theorem’s CADverter product portfolio are the latest Publish 3Dsuite of products for NX 9 and JT which support all versions of the JT file format are supported from Version 6.0 to Version 9.5 which is the ISO Standard 14306:2012 version of JT. Theorem's popular Multi-CAD plugin solutions and class-leading traditional uni and bi-directional CADverters include: NX 9 and JT CADverters to/from CATIA V5-V6R2014 (R24) NX 9 and JT CADverters to/from 3DEXPERIENCE Platform (R2014x) formerly CATIA V6 NX 9 and JT CADverters to/from PTC’s Creo

With hyperMILL® 2014, OPEN MIND Technologies AG is announcing a range of brand-new innovative features in addition to improvements to existing functions. One of these new features is the ‘Deformation’ module in the CAD part of the software, hyperCAD®-S. In hyperCAD®-S, OPEN MIND has developed its own CAD system that is ideally matched to the CAM system hyperMILL®. This CAM-CAD software is specifically designed to address the requirements of NC programmers. hyperCAD®-S provides the hyperMILL® CAM system with a modern and highly user-friendly interface. The core of the CAD software has also been completely redeveloped. It has increased functionality in comparison with traditional CAD systems, which are customised for each individual CAD programmer. In version 2014, hyperCAD®-S has been improved in a number of ways. One of the new features is the ‘Deformation’ module, which opens up many new possibilities. Targeted deformation of geometries In hyperCAD®-S, the user has the option to deform all geometries

TraceParts announces the launch of the seventh major version of its website www.traceparts.com. The site has been completely redesigned to match new Web standards and thus improve the experience of its users. New design as well as new structure: information retrieval and navigation of the new site are optimized by highlighting the 3 main services offered by TraceParts. In addition, the international visibility is enhanced with its content translated into 9 different languages. CAD users now have intuitive access to the library of 3D components, the list of 3D catalog suppliers and the TraceParts Mobile application. Component manufacturers can quickly find all the necessary information to convert their CAD data into a powerful 3D Marketing tool. Marketing professionals have access to a whole range of Digital Marketing solutions, allowing them to promote their products to engineers and design professionals to generate quality leads. For its 1st month of online, this new version of the site confirms