3D Systems  announced that it acquired Medical Modeling Inc., a provider of personalized surgical treatments and patient specific medical devices, including virtual surgical planning and clinical transfer tools, using 3D modeling and printing that is rapidly changing how reconstructive surgery is done today. The company expects this acquisition to be immediately accretive to its net income. Based in Golden, Colorado, Medical Modeling pioneered the field of 3D printing-centric personalized surgery and patient-specific medical device solutions with FDA-cleared manufacturing processes and world-class expertise, providing help on tens of thousands of patient cases for surgical planning tools, implants and other design services. 3DS also announced today that it plans to consolidate all of its healthcare activities into a single unit under the leadership of former Medical Modeling President, Andy Christensen, who was named 3DS’ Vice President, Personalized Surgery and Medical Devices. “We are thrilled to become part of 3DS,” said Andy Christensen, President, Medical Modeling.  “We already use

Zuken’s CR-8000 continues to lead the way with next-generation tools capable of creating today’s and tomorrow’s complex product designs. Design Gateway and Design Force – the core of Zuken’s CR-8000 2D/3D multi-PCB and IC packaging design solution (which was introduced in 2011) – contain enhancements that include significant new placement and routing functionality for both conventional and high-speed designs, 3D mechanical enclosure clearance checking, and interfaces to third party simulation tools. “In the development of the world's thinnest and lightest 20-inch large-screen 4K tablet, CR-8000 Design Force’s system-level SI and thermal analysis effectively reduced the number of design spins during the project. Due to the success of this project, we will make more efforts with Zuken to develop our next generation 4K tablet using CR-8000 Design Force.” - Mr. Kiyoshi Nakanishi, 4K Tablet development manager, Panasonic Corporation Enhanced placement and routing Placement and routing templates enable designers who work with bus routing or

In an effort to help discrete manufacturers increase efficiency in engineering and manufacturing, SAP AG today announced its new plan for authoring tool integration, including a strategy to simplify and expand its offering by integrating authoring tools into the SAP® Product Lifecycle Management application. The SAP® Engineering Control Center integration tool is planned to help companies deliver innovative products and services in a shorter time to market and aims to support a new way of developing products. This ties in with the broader aim of “idea to performance,” a holistic business approach to managing the entire life cycle of a product, from design to service.  The pace of technological advance is constantly increasing and puts pressure on manufacturers to be more innovative. Products are becoming more and more complex and are often a combination of mechanics, electronics and software. Product data is stored in multiple repositories, making it difficult for engineers to keep

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the Chinese-language version of the Vectorworks® 2014 line of design software, including: Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals and Renderworks®. Mad Macs, the Vectorworks distributor in China, will host launch events in Shanghai on April 9, Beijing on April 16 and Guangzhou on April 23 to demonstrate the software’s new features and capabilities and how the program supports BIM workflows. Attendees will have the opportunity to win a free license of Vectorworks software and other prizes. In addition to these live events, Mad Macs will offer an online webinar on April 29, 2014. “It’s important for us to meet with our customers at in-person events like these, and as Vectorworks 2014 has been rolled out around the world, we’ve been pleased to receive strong, positive feedback from our users,” said Stewart Rom, chief marketing officer at Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. “Some of the most

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC™), an EMC Technology Partner and a leader in viewing, collaboration and redaction technology, announces Brava!® Enterprise 7.2 for EMC Documentum D2 4.2. In addition to compatibility with the latest version of D2, this upgrade offers new features and usability enhancements: The cross-platform Brava HTML5 client now offers vector viewing for crisp views at any zoom level plus the ability to set CAD layer visibility and view object attributes. The new Brava 3D ActiveX client displays 3D models. Users can measure, locate and identify parts, access part and subassembly info, view multi-plane cutaways and cross sections, and explode assemblies. Brava users can now sign documents electronically. Add an electronic signature, initials or a professional seal to a document with Brava, then create a PDF of the signed document. Checkview, new in version 7.2, streamlines repetitive form reviews, helps to improve accuracy and ensures no areas are missed. Use Checkview to flag form

Burintekh, a developer and manufacturer of tools for the drilling and maintenance of oil, gas and mining wells, has added Delcam’s FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system to help the company cope with the ever-increasing complexity of its customers’ designs and the constant pressure for faster delivery. Burintekh, which was founded in 1999, has a modern production base equipped with the latest equipment, including a range of multi-axis machining centres, and effective quality control at all stages of production.  This allows the company to manufacture a wide range of competitive products, meeting all the requirements and wishes of its most demanding customers.  For its achievements, Burintekh was awarded the honorary title of “Best Industrial Company of the Republic of Bashkortostan” in 2009. As part of its development programme, the company acquired several new turning, milling and five-axis machines during 2011 and 2012.  The next stage was to add a powerful and versatile CAM system

Infosys Limited, a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing services, will announce results for its fourth quarter and year ending March 31, 2014 on Tuesday, April 15, 2014, Indian Standard Time (IST) (on the night of Monday, April 14, 2014, US Eastern Time (ET)). The results will also be available on http://www.infosys.com. Following the release, Infosys Founder and Chairman, Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy, CEO and Managing Director; Mr. S.D. Shibulal, CFO; Mr. Rajiv Bansal, and other members of the senior management will comment on the company's performance. There will be a common television address by Mr. S.D. Shibulal and Mr. Rajiv Bansal at 10:00 a.m. IST on business television channels addressing analyst questions. The common TV address will be streamed live on the Investor Relations section of the Infosys website. This will be followed by a detailed discussion on NDTV Profit from Bangalore at 10:15 a.m. IST on April 15, 2014 (this will not be telecast in the US). An archive of this event will be uploaded on http://www.infosys.com after 2:00 p.m. ISTon April

Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (3DCIC), announced that Donald Tolle, Director of CIMdata’s Systems Engineering & Simulation Consulting Practice, will be a featured speaker at the 2014 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress, to be held May 28-30 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 3DCIC ( www.3DCIC.com) is dedicated to fostering and improving collaboration and interoperability throughout the product lifecycle. Conference organizers are pleased to announce that NAFEMS (the International Association of the Engineering Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Community – www.nafems.org) is holding their biennial American conference at 3DCIC 2014. In addition, the PDES Board of Directors will again hold their annual meeting at 3DCIC and the 3D PDF consortium will be joining again for its third annual meeting. “The 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Conference has become an annual ‘must attend’ event on the PLM industry agenda for senior engineering and IT professionals,” says Tolle. “This year, combining 3DCIC with the

Continuing with its mission to provide opportunities for business and engineering students to develop real world engineering and product/process development skills, PTC today announced it is working with the Florida Institute of Technology to offer its students the same industry technology used by 27,000 PTC global manufacturing customers to design and develop sophisticated products. PTC will donate PTC Windchill® software for PLM process requirements and PTC Creo® software for CAD design to provide an environment for students to design, test and simulate the entire lifecycle associated with bringing new products to market. The PTC donation will form the core of the Florida Institute of Technology’s Center for Lifecycle and Innovation Management and will be integrated into its management information systems curriculum. The university will provide projects for students to complete, giving them an opportunity to understand and implement best-practices in an actual design, production and management environment. “Florida Tech’s goal is to be one of the

Missler Software has recently hired 2 new Marketing Executives to boost its Marketing and Communications actions both in France and internationally. Anne Laurier has joined Missler Software at its Lyon office and Emile Soullard is based in company Head Quarters just outside Paris. “We have historically been a very technically oriented company. This has not changed and thanks to our innovative product development thousands of companies throughout the world use TopSolid today. We need, however, to increasingly communicate on our innovative product range to boost the efforts of our sales teams in France and across the globe,” explains Marc Choquin, Sales Director for Missler Software. “We have a revolutionary product range, we are one of the only software developers to have completely rewritten our software in terms of software technology and methodology. We need to continually communicate and sell this to industrials in need of a high-performance software solution.” Graduated in Business