Altair today announced 11 nominations for the 2nd Altair Enlighten Award. The award, presented in collaboration with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), is the automotive industry's only award program created specifically to acknowledge innovations in vehicle lightweighting. The winner will be announced during the "Featherweight Competition: Agile, Light, and Strong" session of the 2014 CAR Management Briefing Seminars (MBS). The session takes place on Monday, August 4, between 1:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Grand Traverse Resort & Spa in Traverse City, Mich. The Altair Enlighten Award aims to recognize achievements in weight reduction across the automotive industry, from motorcycles to passenger cars, light trucks to commercial vehicles and buses. The 2014 Award nominees are: Continental Structural Plastics - Composite outer body panels for Chevrolet Corvette Dow Automotive Systems - Epoxy structural adhesive applications for PACCAR Kenworth and Peterbilt Dow Automotive Systems - Crash durable adhesive for Chevrolet Corvette Grede Holdings LLC -

Delcam held a successful second Orthotics Technology Forum in North America at Loyola University, Chicago, during June.  The company has now confirmed that the next meeting in the North American series will be held in partnership with the Pedorthic Association of Canada in Vancouver during 2015 at a date and venue to be finalized. The full details will be announced on www.orthotics-technology-forum.com soon. The reaction of the delegates in Chicago was best expressed by Richard Prenger of Walking Wellness who said, “I have been to a number of conferences over the years but this one was different.  I leant so much over the course of the two days.” One of the main themes of the Forum was the use of technology in the design and manufacture of custom orthotic insoles for the diabetic foot.  Peter Cavanagh, endowed Chair in Women’s Sports Medicine and professor and vice chair for research in the Department of

Hexagon AB, a global provider of design, measurement and visualisation technologies, announced today the acquisition of Vero Software, a world leader in Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software. Vero Software is a UK-based software company with a strong brand and proven customer satisfaction track record. Their software aids the design and manufacturing process with solutions for programming and controlling machine tools, addressing the rising challenge of achieving manufacturing efficiencies with high-quality output. Several well-known brands in Vero Software's portfolio include Alphacam, Cabinet Vision, Edgecam, Radan, SURFCAM, VISI, and WorkNC. The company has large market coverage with offices in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, USA, Brazil, Netherlands, China, Korea, Spain and India supplying products to more than 45 countries through its wholly owned subsidiaries and reseller network. The acquisition strengthens Hexagon's software offerings, providing the means to close the gap of making quality data fully actionable by extending the reach of the newly developed MMS (metrology planning software) to include CAM (manufacturing planning software). "Together with its unique

A career in technology often exposes you to some interesting topics and people. I have been blessed to be like Forrest Gump in this regard, in the background in some interesting scenes. During my time at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon I crossed paths with some famous names in computer science and technology. A workshop in Austin included Jack Kilby, one of the inventors of the integrated circuit. I reprimanded Grace Hopper for smoking in a non-smoking area, of course many decades after she helped create COBOL. Grady Booch (object-oriented design, UML) and Jakob Nielsen (usability research) did work at the SEI, and I got beaten up at tennis by Barry Boehm, a pioneer in software engineering economics. We also did work with Rational when they were a hardware company, making Ada machines, long before they became part of the IBM Software Group. I also got to spend

About Accenture Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company, with approximately 289,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. Accenture Product Lifecycle Services help companies organize, develop, and manage products and services, from idea to retirement. Our services provide greater engineering efficiency and predictability to reduce cost and increase return on R&D investment. Our end-to-end Product Lifecycle Services span the full spectrum of strategy, digital, and technology supported by established alliances with major PLM vendors. Website Contact Sandra Waschnewski, Global Marketing Manager \n Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! Featured Automotive & Transportation Industry Solutions   Accenture Product Lifecycle Services for Automotive and Manufacturers Accenture helps automotive companies identify and

About Aras We offer the best enterprise PLM software for global businesses with complex products and processes. Advanced PLM platform technology makes Aras more scalable, flexible and secure for the world’s largest organizations, and a full set of applications provide complete functionality for companies of all sizes. Companies running Aras include Honda, Nissan, Kawasaki, Dongfeng, Lear, Freudenberg, GE, Gentex, GETRAG, Hitachi Automotive, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Schrader Electronics, Sumitomo, the US Army and thousands of others worldwide. Discover your next PLM at www.aras.com Contact For more information contact Aras at \n Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! Featured Automotive & Transportation Industry Solutions   Aras Innovator Aras Innovator is ideal for OEMs and tier suppliers developing tomorrow’s innovative new vehicles and next generation automotive systems. We provide a full suite of business solutions for global product development, systems engineering, multi-site manufacturing, supply chain and quality compliance. By rethinking the

About Siemens Siemens PLM Software is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 6.7 million licensed seats and more than 63,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies to deliver open solutions that help them turn more ideas into successful products. PLM is an increasingly important enterprise business strategy that enables an enterprise to fully marshal the skills, knowledge, creativity and ideas of its people and apply them collaboratively at every stage of a product’s lifecycle. Our PLM solutions can help you make smarter decisions that lead to better products. Contact Shaun Ennis \n Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! Featured Automotive & Transportation Industry Solutions Teamcenter Process enablement. Teamcenter provides automated workflows to ensure processes and changes are consistently managed to ensure efficient control and execution. Teamcenter's change and revision management

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About Geometric Geometric Limited is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services, and technologies. Its portfolio of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Global Engineering services, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle. We have over two decades experience in PLM and over 16,000 person-years of expertise in developing software solutions in the extended PLM environment. Geometric has been at the forefront of introducing advancements in PLM, having pioneered enterprise interoperability solutions and developing innovative process and solution frameworks to maximize value from PLM investments and adopt next generation PLM strategies. Geometric's Website Contact Amit Fulmogare

Wipro Ltd., a global Information Technology, Consulting and Business Process Services company, announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Alberta-based ATCO Ltd., one of Canada's premier corporations. As part of this alliance, Wipro will provide total outsourcing solutions to ATCO in Canada and Australia. Wipro and ATCO have signed a series of Master Services Agreements under which Wipro will provide the complete suite of IT services to ATCO. The arrangement is projected to result in revenues of over CAD 120 million (USD 112 million) to Wipro annually, for the next ten years, up to December 2024. “This alliance ensures ATCO can focus on growing our core businesses of structures and logistics, utilities, and energy while partnering with Wipro for strategic, innovative IT solutions required to support our global operations,” said Brian Bale, Senior Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer, ATCO. “Wipro’s deep domain capability and technology-leadership will also ensure we