CD-adapco™ today announced the release of STAR-CCM+® v9.04, the second release in 2014 of its flagship simulation tool. Customers will see reductions in overall time-to-solution and dramatic productivity gains using STAR-CCM+ v9.04 workflow improvements, parallel meshing and optimization capabilities. The addition of new physics models allows users to perform increasingly realistic CAE simulations that more closely represent the real world conditions under which their product will operate. "With STAR-CCM+ v9.04 we have continued to add new modeling capabilities, increasing accuracy realism and throughput of their applications results," said Senior VP of Product Management, Jean-Claude Ercolanelli. "The development of the STAR-CCM+ v9 releases remains completely focused on simulating large and complex models more easily, faster and in the shortest amount of time." New features such as Concurrent Per-Part Meshing allows users to distribute the wrapping and meshing of complex multi-part assemblies over many parallel processors; the Adjoint Solver Expression allows users to mathematically combine individual cost

Arena Solutions today announced the availability of Arena Quality, a new solution that enables the entire discrete engineering and manufacturing team to rapidly identify, capture, collaborate on and resolve product quality problems. Quality processes are directly connected to the product record in Arena PLM, which provides everyone with complete visibility into quality issues. Engineering, operations and the supply chain can fully participate in problem resolution and learn from experience to drive continuous improvement. And because Arena Quality captures all quality processes in an easily navigated history, customers will always be audit ready for ISO (International Organization for Standardization), FDA and other organizations. "The new quality module looks like a great tool," said Julie Stringham, document control manager at Pulsar Vascular, an endovascular medical device company. "Finally, we'll have a solution that can make all quality issues visible to the entire company, which is difficult in our current paper-based system." Capabilities of Arena Quality include: Create and customize templates

Altium Limited has announced the release of the next generation of Altium’s enterprise data management and collaboration platform - Altium Vault 2.0. By centralizing, managing and formalizing the component libraries, design data and team collaboration using the Altium Vault, design teams will be able to achieve significant productivity improvements and reduce potentially costly errors. "Designing and maintaining engineering data demands rigor and reliability, but it should not create an administrative burden", noted Jason Hingston, Chief Technology Officer, for Altium. "Our development focus for this release is around collaboration and productivity - making the next generation of the Altium Vault the natural choice for design library, data and collaboration management.” Debuting in 2010, the Altium Vault enterprise platform has been at the heart of Altium’s design data and collaboration solutions. The Altium Vault manages product versions and releases, design reuse and design library management, provides a platform for real-time collaboration, and even manages installation

Palliser Furniture Upholstery Ltd., a leading North American furniture company has chosen Optitex, provider of 2D and 3D Virtual Prototyping software solutions to optimize the design, development and manufacturing of its product lines. "As we are constantly experiencing business growth, we reached out to a point where we needed a solid, accurate, user-friendly solution to support our product development and production processes, Optitex will enable us to get an end-to-end solution to our projects from design through production using a single platform”, said Mr. Bryan Rach, VP Product Development at Palliser. “We looked for a solution that can take us to the next level and will enable us to improve our sample making process by using the most accurate and efficient CAD software available”. “We are pleased to welcome Palliser as one of our customers. Palliser will enjoy one complete and fully integrated software solution that combines 2D flat pattern making with

The Austrian company recently invested in the fourth generation of CAD Schroers product suite. PALFINGER’s special highly customised engineering design environment provides the company with the greatest degree of automation and flexibility. From loader cranes to cherry pickers, on construction sites, on the railways, at sea or in public transport - PALFINGER’s products are ubiquitous, and many of us meet them (and the projects they make happen) every day. The brand stands for the highest level of quality and performance without compromises. PALFINGER recently invested in around 25 seats of MEDUSA4 Advanced Parametrics, as well as additional licenses for MEDUSA4 Sheet Metal Design and interfaces to PTC Creo® and Windchill® PDMLink™. Keeping Up-to-Date PALFINGER’s highly specialised product development department in Salzburg depends on flexibility and productivity when it comes to delivering up-to-date technical specifications and assembly instructions to its customers. “CAD Schroer’s extremely customisable MEDUSA4 2D/3D CAD system offers built-in design intelligence, meeting

Aras® has announced that the Aras Community Event (ACE) 2014 Japan will be held on October 7 at Akihabara UDX Gallery / Gallery Next in Tokyo, and on October 10 at Grandfront Osaka North Tower C Conference Room in Osaka, Japan. Details, Agenda and Free Registration at 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 meet with Aras staff and partners. The theme of the conference is RIGHT NOW emphasizing the many things global enterprises can do with Aras and Aras Innovator® “right now”, and the impact Aras PLM can have on the

Isuzu Motors, Japan’s well-known manufacturer of commercial vehicles, light commercial vehicles and diesel engines, signed ProSTEP iViP Association’s Code of PLM Openness (CPO). By this, Isuzu clearly takes position und underlines the already strong request for more Openness in PLM within Asia. “We welcome Isuzu’s step and we are sure, that beside companies like Toyota and Isuzu other big Japanese manufacturers will follow within the next month.”, stated Dr. Oliver Riedel, ProSTEP iViP’s Chairman of the Board. Far more than 70 companies from America, Asia and Europe already signed the CPO and benefit by its application. CPO defines a commonly agreed baseline of PLM Openness. IT Customers use it for streamlining purchasing processes and related discussions. IT Vendors take advantage of the CPO for illustrating how their products address the openness requirements. This includes integration possibilities for 3rd party solution providers, which was in the past more seen as “essential, but probably

During a briefing at a PLM solution provider last week, the Oslo project at Microsoft came up: http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/11/introducing-codename-oslo-and-the-office-graph/  and it made me think back to the 2012 CIMdata Market & Industry Forum where I said what we really needed to help us ration our limited attention was to have context built into what we do at the operating system level: We have too many screens and other things vying for our attention. Having the system watching what you are doing, and making the connections for you just made sense. Well for once Microsoft was listening. (And so, apparently, was Oleg listening to Microsoft because he was blogging about it just about during my meeting last week, apparently:  http://beyondplm.com/2014/06/18/oslo-office-graph-new-trajectories-in-discovery-and-search/) The YouTube video linked in the blog post shows some interesting approaches. Now, if they can extend this to other applications besides their own, we are in business. Now with Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,

  A CIMdata Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council Workshop Proceedings Morning Sessions - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction Dr. Keith Meintjes, Simulation & Analysis Practice Manager, CIMdata [Bio] 8:45 a.m. – 9:25 a.m. | Simulation Automation [View Presentation] Ravi Desai, Director, CAE & CAD Product Engineering, American Axle & Manufacturing [Bio] Engineering even at its finest, is an iterative process. Active knowledge and data management is critical to the “first time capable designs”. In today’s global multi-location engineering environment, it is imperative that design and simulation processes are executed in a consistent and error free mode all the time. Automating simulation processes is a way to achieve increased productivity while driving standardization and enabling forward deployment. This presentation will review various approaches, efforts involved, and cost/benefit analysis of automating simulation processes used in designing a complex automotive driveline system. Simulation automation is an essential

TFTLabs S.A.S, announces in this latest release the support of new Autodesk Inventor 2015 for company products TFTWeb™, TFTPad™, TFT4iT™ and free JSON3D Gallery™. Check it from their free JSON3D Gallery (browser/mobile), go to http://json3d.com. TFTLabs products support all major 3D formats, , which now include latest release of CAD System, Autodesk Inventor 2015 Entities treated:  Assemblies, parts, Visibilities, Colors, Transparency, Attributes, All 3D Entities File extensions : .iam .ipt “In CAD interoperability business, the #1 customer requirement is the responsiveness in delivering updates compatible with the latest versions of any CAD format. This is also our #1 priority for the 20+ formats we support and, thanks to our Web software available on most popular Web browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Deployment to end-users is instantaneous and transparent. ” says Francois Chretien, CEO and Chief Scientist. “We are proud of our development team who managed to release this update. Our technology reads and visualizes all 3D native formats without