iBASEt announced today that Textron Systems, a provider of advanced marine craft and armored vehicles to United States and international customers, is going live with Solumina’s Manufacturing Execution System (MES), including Quality, Planning, Work In Process and Business Integration Services modules to streamline their global manufacturing operations. Textron Systems chose to standardize on iBASEt’s Manufacturing Execution System to efficiently manage thousands of mission critical requirements and operations while providing managers with instant control and visibility into as-built manufacturing work processes, while also delivering digital work instructions all through one fully integrated system. Textron Systems relies on Solumina today to capture all manufacturing data during the entire product’s manufacturing lifecycle, providing detailed manufacturing information easily accessible through dashboards, graphs and reports at the click of a button. Additionally, because Solumina incorporates strict Six-Sigma and ISO-9000 process control methodology, Textron Systems is enhancing quality checks and balances throughout its manufacturing operations, resulting in a significant

CNC Software, Inc., will host an open house at its manufacturing facility located at 671 Old Post Road, Tolland, CT to celebrate Manufacturing Day. The open house will be held on Friday, October 3rd from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and is open to members of the community. The CNC Software Educational Division will also be participating in Manufacturing Day events in the greater Seattle, WA are, where their office is located. CNC Software, Inc., manufactures CAD/CAM software for 2-through 5-axis milling, turning, wire EDM, 3D design / drafting, artistic relief cutting, router tooling, and surface / solid machining. The open house will give visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the Mastercam facility. Get a tour of the building and see the machine shop in action – where Mastercam toolpaths are tested each and every day. Studies show that almost 80 percent of Americans believe manufacturing is important to our economic prosperity, standard

SofTech, Inc. today announced its partnership with Kisters AG, creator of 3DViewStation, a high performance 3D CAD digital mockup solution and viewer application. “SofTech is pleased to announce our partnership with Kisters and its 3DViewStation solution,” said Bob Anthonyson, vice president of business development at SofTech. “This partnership with Kisters further extends our company’s solution portfolio of complementary products. 3DViewStation’s unmatched capabilities will allow our clients to derive even more value from our solutions.” Kisters 3DViewStation is a powerful 3D CAD digital mockup solution and viewer application that is designed for 3D analysis, viewing, technical documentation and publishing. 3DViewStation is compatible with leading 3D CAD systems including Autodesk Inventor, CATIA, CreoElements | Pro/ENGINEER, NX, Solid Edge, SolidWorks and neutral formats such as JT, STEP, 3D-PDF and PRC. 3DViewStation can be used as a standalone application or integrated with PDM, PLM, ERP, and other systems.

Continuing with its mission to provide best in class teaching and learning to customers and engineering students, PTC today announced that Purdue University is the latest university to join its PTC University Authorized Training Program to deliver PTC software training to the surrounding engineering community. The training will be administered by Purdue's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Center and led by Professor Nathan Hartman in the College of Technology. The PLM Center brings together experts from across the university to serve as valuable resources for industry. Since 2002, the PLM Center has been dedicated to promoting the advancement and implementation of PLM through research and education. The College of Technology's reputation for industry collaboration, use-inspired research and work at high technology readiness levels reaches around the globe. “The programs offered by the Purdue University PLM Center using the PTC University Authorized Training Program will be instrumental in our efforts to provide professional level courses

3D Systems announced today that it has acquired Belgium-based LayerWise, a provider of  advanced direct metal 3D printing and manufacturing services. LayerWise delivers quick-turn, 3D-printed metal parts, manufactured on its own proprietary line of direct metal 3D printers, for aerospace, high-precision equipment and medical and dental customers. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to 3DS’ cash generation. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “We are delighted to integrate our proprietary direct metal technology and processes into 3D Systems’ leading portfolio of products and services,” said Jonas Van Vaerenbergh, one of LayerWise’s founders. “With its culture of continuous innovation dating back to its founder Chuck Hull, the inventor of the first 3D printing technology, and its commitment to advancing direct metal 3D technology and medical device services, 3DS is the perfect fit for our company and strengthens our combined growth potential.” Since 2008, LayerWise has designed and built its own

Why Driving in Circles is the Right and Best Future for PLM Derek Piette, Product Management Director, PTC The long and relatively straight road of product engineering in the automotive and transportation sectors has served us well over the past decades and produced several innovative and compelling products that enrich our lives on a daily basis. The mega-trends of safety, personalization, connectivity, and security are seeing that road heading towards a cliff when it comes to not only how we manage the product lifecycle but what we consider the product lifecycle itself and how we implement processes and tools to address it. Layer on this the exponential rise of complexity in our products, whether due to regional or market variation, cost, and regulatory constraints or the growing importance of non-physical “parts” in terms of software components or the data generated from these products and the environment they operate within.This presentation will explore

Integrated Requirements Management for Systems Engineering Marc Lind, SVP Global Marketing, Aras Vehicle complexity continues to increase with no end in sight forcing even greater emphasis on systems engineering capabilities at OEMs and tier suppliers worldwide. Tracing requirements across an integrated configuration that includes mechanical, electrical, wiring, software, firmware, and other system-related items to validate satisfaction and compliance has become impractical and unmanageable with stand-alone system silos. The inherent warranty risks associated are forcing automotive companies to fundamentally rethink their approach to requirements management for systems engineering. Find out how breaking down the walls and bringing together requirements management and configuration and change management processes across the enterprise enables the design and delivery of our next generation vehicles.

Digital Industry 4.0 – Digitize, Industrialize, and Optimize in Automotive and Transportation Scott Whiteman, Senior Manager, Accenture Digitization is on the top of the business agenda for Automotive and Transportation companies. It encompasses intelligent products that are connected in intelligent networks and manufactured in smart factories and provides opportunities for new services and extended business models. Intelligent products will require enhanced product lifecycle management capabilities in the future, as companies are looking for ways to accelerate product development and engineering processes to seize the opportunity. This presentation will explore a case study on how to optimize engineering efficiency, enhance internal and external collaboration, and improve product information management along the entire product lifecycle.

OEM-to-OEM Collaboration for Global Engineering Louis J. Pascarella, Principal Consultant, Geometric OEMs are creating and evolving their business partnerships in order to address evolving market environments which require robust information/context sharing, faster innovation cycles, and increased market agility. As OEMs evolve diverse and highly complex Product Development methodologies, associated business processes, and richer semantic information exchanges (e.g., MBSE) require increased data validation and security across their IT infrastructures.There is a need for a secure and scalable framework that provides a non-invasive collaboration hub for secure product data exchange between partners based on customized process orchestrations. In this presentation, Lou Pascarella will share his views on probable solutions to enable secure OEM-to-OEM collaboration while ensuring partnership objectives are met.

SDPD – the New Paradigm for Innovative Product Development Gerald Deren, Executive Director, Americas Business Development & Consulting, Siemens Strategic Industries Americas In today’s challenging and demanding world, companies face the monumental pressure of cost reduction, shrinking budgets, and having to do more with less. Additionally, threats of regulatory compliance, out-sourcing, take-overs, and moving more work to the supply chain have created a sense of competition or change in business strategy as a way to pick up the loss in other areas of their business. Additionally, numerous competing entrepreneurs have also sprung to life with efficient product development practices which lack the overhead of the traditional players forcing them to rethink how they need to evolve if they want to remain in the game. This presentation addresses one such theme referred to as “Systems Driven Product Development” (SDPD) and how manufacturers are embracing this as a leading practice to attack this challenge. The