Aras® announced that Murata Manufacturing and Yanmar Energy Systems will present at the 2014 Aras Community Event (ACE) in Osaka, Japan. Murata will share best practices for addressing challenges in electronic circuit design and manufacturing. Yanmar will share its strategy for IT business process improvement using Aras Innovator. ACE 2014 Japan takes place October 7, 2014 in Tokyo and October 10, 2014 in Osaka. Details and registration at http://aras.com/plm/002515 ACE 2014 Japan Free to Attend - No Fee (Space is Limited - Registration Required) Details and Registration: http://aras.com/plm/002515 Expanded to two locations, Tokyo and Osaka, ACE 2014 Japan provides attendees an opportunity to learn about next generation product lifecycle management and collaborate on PLM best practices for addressing the complex challenges of global product development. Attendees will see and learn how leading companies around the world have transformed their business processes with Aras, network with peers who are working on advanced PLM initiatives, and

Advanced Technologies Solutions today announced their designation as an Autodesk Gold Tier Value-Added Reseller (VAR). Gold Tier partners comprise an elevated level of the Autodesk Value Added Reseller program, which incorporates Autodesk software solutions along with proven and measurable technical expertise in a specific industry or unique business. Gold partners provide their customers with full solutions from pre- and post-sales support, to training, implementation, and customization. They work closely with Autodesk to help customers design, simulate and analyze their ideas, increase operational efficiencies and maximize their return on investment in Autodesk software solutions. “Gold Tier partners understand that a healthy business is achieved through the success of their customers,” said Steve Blum, senior vice president of worldwide sales and services at Autodesk. ”Advanced Technologies Solutions has raised the bar by developing a deep understanding of their customers’ business, pain points, and goals. They also have a solid understanding of solution selling

Synopsys, Inc. announced it will report results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2014 on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, after the market close.  A conference call to review the results will begin at 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET) and will be hosted by Aart de Geus, chairman and co-chief executive officer, and Brian Beattie, chief financial officer. Financial and other statistical information to be discussed on this conference call will be available on the corporate website at http://www.synopsys.com, immediately before the call.  A live webcast will also be available on this site.  Participants should access the live webcast at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the call.  A webcast replay can be accessed on the corporate website beginning Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, at approximately 4:00 p.m. PT.  The replay will remain available until Synopsys announces its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2014 results in December 2014.  In addition, a dial-up replay of the conference call

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that Joseph Reinhart, Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations, will present at the 16th Annual Pacific Crest Global Technology Leadership Forum. Who:  Joseph Reinhart, Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations at Mentor Graphics When:  Tuesday, August 12, 2014, 9:30 am Mountain Time Where:  Sonnenalp Resort, Vail, CO

Delcam will give UK debuts to the 2015 versions of its PowerSHAPE Pro CAD and reverse engineering software, and its FeatureCAM and PowerMILL CAM systems at the Northern Manufacturing exhibition to be held at Event City, Manchester, on 1st and 2nd October.  Each of the programs contains major enhancements that will help manufacturing companies to increase productivity, improve quality and reduce lead times. By offering a combination of solid, surface and direct modelling, together with reverse engineering functionality, PowerSHAPE Pro provides the most comprehensive range of design techniques available in a single CAD program.  Having all the different technologies in the same package reduces the need to transfer data between multiple programs and so streamlines the whole product development process.  At the same time, the combination of quick and easy direct modelling options, together with powerful and flexible surface modelling, makes PowerSHAPE Pro the perfect choice for design for manufacture. The main

3D Systems announced today that its Senior Vice President and CFO, Damon Gregoire, plans to present at the 3rd Annual Needham Advanced Industrial Technologies Conference on Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 2:00 PM ET. A live audio webcast and replay of the presentation will be available on 3DS’ website under the Investor Relations section at 3DSystems.com/investor.

For industrial sales engineers whose clients expect keen project pricing, time is of the essence. But quality and clear, professional project presentations are equally important. Are 3D layouts a realistic goal when you have a day to create a proposal? For packaging systems provider Mariani and poultry and game processing plant provider Verderio Impianti the answer is a big ‘yes’. Both forward-thinking firms invited CAD Schroer to demonstrate the MPDS4 Factory Layout software at their stands. This allowed their sales engineers to understand the value of 3D project proposals, and demonstrate projects designed with MPDS4 to end customers. Understanding Pre-Sales Constraints “The events helped us to better understand our customers’ clients and the constraints placed on sales engineers - keen pricing and time pressure,” explains Sergej Schachow of CAD Schroer, who joined Mariani at Interpack. “A bottling line layout proposal often has to be completed in one day. Yet the result is key

Oracle announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire TOA Technologies (TOA), a provider of cloud-based field service solutions that manage and optimize the last mile of customer service for enterprises by coordinating activities between dispatchers, mobile employees and their customers. TOA’s Field Service SaaS enables modern enterprises to continuously monitor real-time field service requests coming in from contact centers, to schedule the right field service representative to dispatch, and to use sophisticated business analytics to monitor and view current inventories, accurately predict service windows, and optimize field service operations. TOA’s customers have more efficient field service operations, lower costs of delivering field service, and deliver a superior customer experience. TOA’s solutions manage over 120 million service events annually in more than 20 countries and include global brands across many industries including DISH Network, E.ON, Home Depot, Ricoh, Telefonica, Virgin Media and Vodafone. Oracle Service Cloud, part of Oracle Customer Experience Cloud,

Software training firm Infinite Skills Inc. this week introduced its "Learning AutoCAD Civl 3D 2014 Tutorial," an intermediate course designed to prepare student and professional designers for modeling and presenting 3D projects in AutoCAD. AutoCAD 2015 is equipped with a powerful set of 3D design tools, allowing users to create different kinds of 3D models, including solid primitives, surface models, or composite models from multiple solids. AutoCAD's 3D features can also be used to produce walkthroughs, using lighting and other visualization tools to render and animate 3D designs. Infinite Skills' Learning AutoCAD 3D 2015 Tutorial Video takes users from the basics of learning to navigate the 3D workspace and use 3D tools, through the tools and techniques for drawing and editing, and through to the final rendering and presentation stages. Course author Seth Cohen is currently a vice president of training at CADManage, a world-wide consulting company for AutoCAD Civil 3D and other

Pointwise announces the latest release of its eponymous computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software in which the ability to rapidly generate layers of hexahedral cells has been significantly enhanced. “The enhancement involves how the software combines high aspect ratio – anisotropic – tetrahedra into hexahedra,” said Dr. John Steinbrenner, Pointwise's vice president of research and development. “The new tet-to-hex agglomeration yields about a one-third reduction in run time, an increase of nearly 20 percent in high quality cells in the extruded layers, and almost a 30 percent reduction in the number of isotropic cells in the farfield.” Near-wall and near-wake hex layer generation is the latest capability added to T-Rex (anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion), one of Pointwise's hybrid meshing techniques. The technique extrudes stacks of anisotropic tetrahedra off a surface mesh. A post-processing step combines stacks of tetrahedra into either prisms or hexahedra. In addition to reducing cell count and thereby CPU time,