Live from Collaborate 2014, Viewpoint Construction Software® debuts the latest release of Vista™ by Viewpoint and Viewpoint's point solutions at their annual User Conference this week. The new release focuses on increased product integration as well as enhancements to the Construction Operations and Service Management areas of Vista, as well as operationally focused dashboard reports with the Business Intelligence module that can improve performance and profitability across construction operations. With this release, Vista has a tighter integration with Viewpoint For Project Collaboration, an online collaborative solution for sharing drawings, documents, emails, and contracts among internal and external project stakeholders. This integration allows users to easily collaborate with project teams by leveraging information that is being entered in Vista by publishing documents directly into Viewpoint For Project Collaboration. Additionally, new mobile capabilities and extensions are included in Viewpoint For Content Management providing customers additional functionality to both retrieve and share critical data. A new

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today announced that Service Electric Cable TV, Inc. (SECTV) – founder of cable television and a pioneer in the communications industry – has selected Bentley’s hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network engineering solution for the effective and efficient design and management of its cable broadband network. Bentley’s HFC solution, which includes Bentley Coax, Bentley Fiber, Bentley Inside Plant, and Bentley Communications PowerView, replaces disparate CAD, GIS, and spreadsheet systems at SECTV. With this new software, SECTV can accelerate new subscriber activations, network upgrades, extensions, and repairs while increasing productivity across engineering, field operations, marketing, sales, and customer support. Mike Semmel, mapping supervisor, Service Electric Cable TV, Inc., said, “The seamless database structure of Bentley’s HFC network engineering solution gives us an end-to-end perspective of our system that is simply not available from individual drawings, maps, and spreadsheets. The solution also provides a means to make the intelligent network model available to anyone in the

TXT e-solutions announces that Jean-Philippe Vorsanger has been appointed to the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer North America. The position is strategic to achieving the company’s aggressive growth plans in Retail in North America and globally. As an acknowledged expert in the industry with over twenty years’ experience in Retail, Technology and Supply Chain, Vorsanger will be responsible for further developing the TXT North American business, driving commercial efforts to grow market presence and to generate opportunities within the existing customer base, and continuing to secure successful relationships with clients. Vorsanger will also take responsibility for managing operations, including management of the consulting, professional services and customer support teams. Vorsanger joins TXT from Capgemini, where he served as Principal, responsible for managing and growing the Supply Chain Technology Canadian practice, selling and overseeing the delivery of projects and managing key Retail accounts. Previously, he held the position of

Vero Project S.r.l have been appointed Italian reseller for WorkPLAN Solutions and WorkXplore. They are attending the forthcoming 29.BI-MU Tradeshow in Milan where they will present the software for the first time. WorkPLAN Business Manager Teofilovic Violette says the company was ideal to become the reseller for both brands, as they already represent another Vero Software product, VISI, in Italy. In addition to demonstrating VISI 21 on booth H22 in Pavilion 11 at the show from September 30 to October 4, Vero Project S.r.l will also feature WorkPLAN V5 and WorkXplore 3D V4. WorkPLAN is a fully-scalable family of manufacturing software solutions, from project management to ERP, which enables custom manufacturers, project-based and make-to-order companies to automate and manage processes such as job costing, quotations, sales order processing, planning, quality, time, purchasing and stock management. And WorkXplore 3D contains many features usually only found in CAD systems, enabling users to perform diagnostics, create assembly

 PDF Key takeaways: Siemens PLM Software has made significant strides in building out their comprehensive vision for how manufacturing companies will operate in a digitized world Siemens is expanding its emphasis on education, working with academia and industrial companies to help students solve epic challenges to increase their interest in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) Siemens’ SIMATIC IT organization will become part of Siemens PLM Software as of October 1, greatly expanding their Smart Innovation Platform portfolio of PLM enabling solutions to include Siemens’ discrete and process industry tools, and further enabling their top floor to shop floor integration strategy Active Workspace is being fully incorporated within all of Siemens PLM Software’s solutions to provide users with an efficient, consistent, and graphically-rich experience  CIMdata recently attended Siemens PLM Software’s Analyst and Media Conference held in Boston, MA September 3rd and 4th. During the event, Siemens PLM Software (Siemens) introduced their concept of a Smart

PLM Road Map™ 2014 PLM-enabled Continuous Product Development and Delivery for the Automotive & Transportation Industry and Supply Chain Thursday, October 2, 2014 The Inn at St. John's | Plymouth | MI Conference Proceedings 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Registration & PLM Collaboration Café 8:00 a.m. – 8:10 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks Peter Bilello, President, CIMdata [Bio] 8:10 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | The Volvo Journey [Abstract] [View Presentation] Anders Carlsson, Senior Advisor - Virtual Manufacturing & PLM, Volvo Car Corporation [Bio] 8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | PLM Vignette: SDPD – the New Paradigm for Innovative Product Development [Abstract] [View Presentation] Gerald Deren, Executive Director, Americas Business Development & Consulting, Siemens Strategic Industries Americas [Bio] 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | New Age Collaboration and Design [Abstract] [View Presentation] John Mannisto, Engineering Director, Simulation-Based Design, Whirlpool Corporation [Bio] 9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | PLM Vignette: OEM-to-OEM Collaboration for Global Engineering [Abstract] [View Presentation] Louis J. Pascarella, Principal Consultant, Geometric [Bio] 9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Networking Break & PLM Collaboration Café 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Global

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced an integration with Lumerical’s INTERCONNECT to enable new silicon photonics design methodologies that leverage the Pyxis™ and Calibre® platforms.  With the INTERCONNECT integration, users are now able to perform optical circuit simulation directly from the Pyxis Schematic.  With this integration, users can capture a photonic design and testbench, set up optical simulation parameters for transient and frequency analysis, perform simulation, and view results interactively from the Pyxis Schematic simulation cockpit.  This not only delivers a tremendous boost in productivity, but it also leverages the existing integration to high-capacity EZwave™ waveform viewer.  While traditionally used as a viewer for mixed-signal waveforms in the electrical time domain, the EZwave viewer, which includes a built-in waveform-based calculator, an eye diagram tool, and TCL scripting, is also ideal for processing optical simulation results.  Complementing the Pyxis Schematic in the Pyxis custom IC design platform is Pyxis Implement, a tool for layout

Presentations representing a wide range of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications and techniques will highlight the Pointwise User Group Meeting 2014 on 29-30 October in Anaheim, California. The event will mark the company's 20th anniversary. Topics range from heat transfer to aeroacoustics to mesh sensitivies for internal aerodynamics. The presenters are Dr. Michael Böttcher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Michael Ni, AeroDynamic Solutions Kyle Graham, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation William Humber, AeroDynamic Solutions Andy Luo, TotalSim LLC Jeremy Shipman, CRAFT Tech Bruce Hilbert, SimCenter: National Center for Computational Engineering, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Dr. Rob McDonald, California Polytechnic State University Thomas Economon, Stanford University Dr. Amar Potturi, Metacomp Technologies Jeff Slotnick, Boeing Research & Technology Nick Wyman, Pointwise, Inc. Travis Carrigan, Pointwise, Inc. A complete list of presentations is available at the user group meeting website. The meeting, which brings together engineers and scientists from around the world, will be at the Embassy Suites Anaheim - South. For information about registration and other activities, see www.pointwise.com/ugm.

MachineWorks Ltd will be demonstrating some of the exciting new features of Polygonica at the TCT Show + Personalize at the NEC, Birmingham, UK from the 30th September to 2nd October 2014, stand F28. Polygonica v1.2 - to be released at the show - represents a milestone in development for polygon mesh processing technology. Some of the new features to be included in this release are as follows: Individual Hole Closing with Smooth Blending One of Polygonica's core strengths was the automatic hole closing algorithm, a primary step in preparing CAD models for 3D Printing. This has now been extended to allow users finer control over how holes are closed. The curvature of the model at the edge of the hole can be taken into account to produce smooth hole closing. This often provides a much cleaner model than simple planar closing, and is often essential for models that have been generated from scan data,

Delcam will demonstrate the five-axis machining capabilities of its PowerMILL CAM system by producing a complex cycle helmet on four stands at the BIMU exhibition to be held in Milan from 30th September to 4th October.  The demonstrations will be on the stands of Mazak, D14 in Hall 16, CMS Industries, D13 in Hall 9, and Isper, C01 in Hall 9, as well as on Delcam’s own stand, F47 in Hall 11. BIMU visitors will also be able to see reverse engineering of the CAD model of the helmet from the Rudy Project original on the Delcam stand. Franco Calloni, General Manager of Delcam Italia, chose the helmet for the demonstrations after seeing it used by a cycling team that is sponsored by his company.  "I was looking for a single object to demonstrate the complete Delcam solution,” he explained.  "I needed something that would be recognised instantly by visitors and that