Stratasys Ltd. announced the winners of its 10th annual Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge. This global contest offers students in middle school, high school, college, and art and architecture programs the opportunity to redesign an existing product or to create a new product that improves how a task is completed. Entries are evaluated based on creativity, being mechanically sound and being realistically achievable. Industry experts Todd Grimm of T.A. Grimm & Associates, Patrick Gannon of Thogus/RP+M, Tim Shinbara of the Association for Manufacturing Technology and Rachel Park of 3D Printing Industry served as judges. The following designs were selected as winners. Visit the Stratasys website for descriptions, photos or videos of the winning designs. College Engineering First place: Rabidus Arachnid; Andreas Zailo and Nathan Pacholk, Okanagan College - Kelowna; British Columbia, Canada Second place: Up-Right; Eddy Kwok and Lily Huang, Ryerson University; Toronto, Ontario Third place: Cane[a]ction; Tiffany Tse and Kate Gonashvili, Ryerson University; Toronto, Ontario Art and Architecture First place: Xiphias Concept Chassis; Wallace (Penn) Scott; Lehigh University; McLean, Va. Second place: Parametric Facade Design of High-Rise Tower; Ka Ian Ng; City University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Third place: 3D Printed Pintograph; Max Meaker; Western Washington University; Renton, Wash. Middle/High School Engineering First

ICAM Technologies Corporation (ICAM) has entered into a Strategic Marketing Agreement with Modig Machine Tool (Modig) from Virserum, Sweden. This agreement provides ICAM access to Modig’s proprietary machine and controller information and other machine related specifications. The sharing of technical knowledge and other resources allows customers to benefit from the rapid and successful integration of factory tested and proven post-processors and machine simulators for Modig’s full line of machine tools for single CAM or multi-CAM manufacturing environments. Modig’s sales team will also be equipped with ICAM demonstration software that will allow them show all advanced machine features and functions to prospects, virtually, from their laptops. This agreement also enables customers to benefit from ICAM's 42 years of NC post-processing experience with multi-axis machining applications including path planning, tool-tip programming, coordinate frame transformations, NURBS interpolation and arc fitting of point-to-point data. Additionally, ICAM’s integrated machine tool simulation solution enables NC programmers to graphically simulate

Following an extremely positive response to its free hardware offer at last week’s MACH exhibition, Delcam has extended its offer include a free PC with all orders for more than £10,000 of the company’s software until the end of April.  The offer still applies across Delcam’s complete range of CAM programs; PowerMILL for high-speed and five-axis machining, FeatureCAM for feature-based production machining, PartMaker for programming turn-mill equipment and Swiss-type lathes, and ArtCAM for artistic manufacturing applications such as engraving and woodworking. Organisations that already use Delcam’s CAM systems will receive the free PC if they place orders above £10,000 for extra seats or for any of the company’s supporting software, including PowerSHAPE for data translation, reverse engineering and tooling design, or PowerINSPECT for inspection of parts or tooling against 3D CAD data. “This year’s MACH exhibition was even more successful for Delcam than the 2012 show,” explained Steve Creron, General Manager of

David Vredenburgh, Co-Founder & CTO, SBE Vision David Vredenburgh pioneered knowledge-based engineering (KBE) in the 1990s and has applied his 20 years of software industry experience to building the preeminent rules engine and associated semantic modeling capability for SBE Vision. During his tenure at SBE Vision, David has successfully spearheaded the Company’s product and business strategy, and led the Company from a technology concept to a sales and marketing operation delivering market leading technology to valued global customers. Prior to co-founding SBE Vision, David held pivotal technology leadership positions at leading knowledge management companies: ICAD, SEAshell, and Wisdom Systems. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at the same university.  

Fadi Ben Achour, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development,  ESI Group Fadi Ben Achour is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for ESI Group. In this position he is responsible for leading ESI's strategy and business development for various industry segments including market assessment, solutions road map development and buy, build or partner evaluations. He also has responsibility for directing ESI’s go-to-market strategy, industry corporate messaging, and global inbound and outbound marketing activities. Prior to joining ESI Fadi served in various roles at ANSYS. Fadi holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, both from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.   

Dr. Todd McDevitt, Marketing Director, ANSYS Todd McDevitt is a Marketing Director at ANSYS, Inc. and has more than 15 years experience designing and developing commercial engineering software. His areas of expertise include nonlinear finite element analysis, multibody dynamics, embedded control systems, and model-based system engineering. At ANSYS his efforts are directed towards strategic marketing initiatives and facilitating the company’s R&D planning and decision-making. Todd received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and holds a Professional Engineering license in the State of Michigan.  

Diego Tamburini, Senior Industry Program Manager, Manufacturing, Autodesk Diego Tamburini currently works for the Manufacturing Strategic Industry Relations group at Autodesk. He focuses on defining the vision for Autodesk in manufacturing and evangelizing Autodesk as a thought leader in the industry. Diego came to Autodesk after 10 years at Microsoft, where he was working in the Microsoft Dynamics development team developing the upcoming first cloud release of Dynamics ERP for Professional Services. Prior to Microsoft Dynamics, he was in the Developer & Platform Evangelism group, where he managed a team of Developer Evangelists whose mission was to help Global ISVs in Engineering & Manufacturing align their product strategy with upcoming Microsoft technologies. Before managing this team, he was a Developer Evangelist for Engineering & Manufacturing ISVs. Diego also worked as Research Engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Product and Systems Lifecycle Management Systems (PSLM) Center. There he worked on engineering information modeling,

Matthew Loew, Technical Director , Maverick Innovation Lab Matthew Loew has a passion for building and leading high-performance engineering teams supporting new product development projects. He is active in large-scale engineering projects in transportation, defense, energy, industrial, and heavy equipment sectors. Matthew recently started Tera Development Solutions to work collaboratively with companies to solve New Product Development challenges utilizing Design Thinking, Advanced Modeling & Simulation, and Accelerated Product Development Methods. He is also the Technical Director at the Maverick Innovation Lab, lectures at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and blogs regularly on ENGINEERING.com.  

ARC Document Solutions, Inc. announced the release of PlanWell® Collaborate for the iPad, a new mobile-enabled version of its popular SaaS-based project collaboration tool for architects, engineers and construction professionals (AEC), available now on Apple's App Store. "Mobile devices offer the ability to download AEC content in the field, but no one has addressed the challenges of collaborating with large-format content in real time," said Rahul Roy, CTO ofARC Document Solutions. "To collaborate effectively -- and by that I mean the ability to access any content from any project and tie it to calendars, progress charts and email threads in real time -- you need constant access to the cloud, not just access to a set of documents you've downloaded. Our development efforts were focused on improving the speed of data transmission between the iPad and the cloud so field personnel can actually work with all of their data in real time rather than

Dassault Systèmes will host a webcast and a conference call on Thursday, April 24, 2014, to discuss its operating performance for the first quarter 2014 ended March 31, 2014. The management of Dassault Systèmes will host the webcast at 8:30 AM London Time - 9:30 AM Paris Time and will then also host the conference call at 9:00 AM New York Time - 2:00 PM London Time - 3:00 PM Paris Time. Both the webcast and the conference call will be available via the Internet by accessing Dassault Systèmes’ website at http://www.3ds.com/investors/. Follow the directions on the main page to link to the audio. Please go to the website at least fifteen minutes prior to the webcast or conference call to register, to download and install any necessary software. The webcast and conference call will be archived for 30 days.