MachineWorks Ltd is celebrating 20 years of development and would love their customers to celebrate with them because this is a celebration of their success too. MachineWorks think of their customers as partners. The moment they start working together, they form a tight relationship to create excellence. MachineWorks' strong technical team maintains an open dialogue and keeps regularly in touch to help customers meet their challenges. "We work closely together to understand customers' needs and to ensure that they take full advantage of our capabilities and make the most of MachineWorks Software" says Lucy Davies, Customer & Product Services Manager. The CNC industry has evolved significantly over the last two decades; mergers & acquisitions, multi-tasking machines, nanotechnology, PC-based controllers are a common occurrence. On the technology front, advances have taken place too; artificial intelligence, increased processing power and memory. All these radical changes have certainly transformed the world of manufacturing. Innovation is the key to the

Accenture has completed the acquisition of the industrial and embedded software development and services business of evopro group, a software development and engineering services company headquartered in Budapest. The acquisition, announced on November 28, 2013, will enhance Accenture’s ability to help industrial companies maximize the return on their investment in industrial software and automation by strengthening Accenture’s software development skills. The acquisition will also support Accenture’s digital initiatives. “Three global trends, digitization, mobility and “everything as a service” are transforming the value chain of Accenture’s industrial clients, creating a demand for solutions that enable digital and intelligent processes and services in the emerging business environment that Accenture calls Digital Industry 4.0,” said Eric Schaeffer, senior managing director with Accenture. “Industrial software is transforming core processes in areas such as manufacturing to make operations faster, smarter, and more adaptive, enabling industrial companies to take products to market faster and more efficiently.” Through the acquisition,

AGA CAD company, developing productivity-boosting design tools and applications for Autodesk Revit users, known under the brand T4R© (Tools 4 Revit) and distributing them since the end of 2010, experienced a significant sales growth of its product last year. In the year 2013 the company acquired more than 4,500 new customers. Compared to the 2012's year activities, the number of AGA CAD product users has increased by 25%, while product license sales revenue increased by 33%. As it can be seen from the market trends, Autodesk Revit extensions are becoming more and more popular, so AGA CAD members expect that Company’s products sales will grow for the third this year. "We have created over 20 applications that extend functionality of the BIM platform Autodesk Revit software. Our products increase the designers' work rate and quality, therefore designers from different countries like them, and increased quantity of sales confirms that AGA CAD products

Advanced Solutions announced it has been awarded the ANSI/IACET 1-2013 accreditation for all its training programs including eLearn & Improve™, PILOT™ (Professional Instructor Live Online Training) and custom training curriculum. The accreditation allows Advanced Solutions to issue certified Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for all its educational and training programs. The CEUs are recognized and approved by over 450 professional licensing boards, educational institutions and government agencies. "Our educational technology platform offers a systematic, teach – test – measure, methodology for our customers' technical professionals." stated Michael Golway, Advanced Solutions President & CEO. Golway added, "In addition to realizing improved organizational performance and measured return on training investment, customers will now receive continuing education unit certificates for courses they take with Advanced Solutions." ANSI/IACET 1-2013 is a rigorous accreditation review and quality control monitoring process, involving extensive hands-on evaluation and verification by an independent third party. It requires validated policies and processes that

CGTech, the developer of VERICUT NC verification, optimisation, and simulation software, has announced that its new “VERICUT Reviewer” iPad App will be available through the iPad App store starting on March 1, 2014. “It’s no longer necessary to visit the NC programming office or an engineering workstation to view an NC program being simulated on a virtual CNC machine,” said CGTech Ltd Managing Director John Reed. “With VERICUT Reviewer on the iPad, shop floor personnel and other production staff can view 3D animations of CNC machining processes at the machine tool, during meetings, or at any other location. Intuitive touch controls and navigation make it easy to rotate, pan and zoom to view machining operations from any perspective as they are being simulated.” VERICUT’s simulation moves according to the NC code the same as the CNC machine, so virtual machining exactly mimics real machining. The user can select and closely examine specific sections

CAD Software Distributor, SimpleCAD, announces a recent release to the G-Cad productivity add-on for AutoCAD® and Bricscad Professional, an alternative to AutoCAD®. Erik Z, Owner says, "SimpleCAD's featured product series, G-Cad was created to make CAD users productive - straight out of the box. We feel it's an excellent add-on for AutoCAD® and are thrilled to offer it within our collection of CAD utilities at SimpleCAD." The G-Cad solution series offer hundred of drawing tools that can be used for all CAD related industries including engineering and architecture. The add-on solution includes G-Cad Schedule for the development of schedules and cost estimates from block attribute data and G-Cad Exchange for maintaining layering systems and other CAD standards. Also within the G-CAD series is a drawing organizer which consists of various tools to help manage and catalog drawings for both small and large offices. Erik explains, "The drafting series also includes two fascinating products called Block Manager and

Altium Limited announces a new major release of its TASKING compiler suite for ARM, now including its well-received Software Platform that was first showcased at the ARM TechCon in Santa Clara (USA). The Software Platform delivers ultra-rapid prototyping and code development for ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers, at an unmatched attractive cost level. The VX-toolset for ARM is the first TASKING compiler suite to receive the Software Platform technology, which is seamlessly integrated into the toolset’s Eclipse based IDE. The complete offering also includes a C/C++ compiler, simulator and hardware debugger, and a wide collection of frequently used middleware components, such as TCP/IP, USB, CAN, web server, graphical user-interface, and an RTOS. At the cost of a traditional development toolset the developer gets everything needed to build an application much faster than is possible with other compiler suites and additional third party middleware components. By selecting in the IDE the desired middleware options

3D Systems Corporation announced today that its fourth quarter revenue grew 52% from the prior year to a record $154.8 million on 34% overall organic growth, resulting in GAAP earnings of $0.11 per share and non-GAAP earnings of $0.19 per share for the fourth quarter. For the fourth quarter 2013, gross profit increased 53% and gross profit margin remained flat at 51.7% compared to the 2012 fourth quarter, and contributed to GAAP net income of $11.2 million, and non-GAAP net income of $19.7 million. For the full year 2013, revenue increased 45% to a record $513.4 million on 80% printers and other products growth and 29% organic growth, resulting in GAAP earnings of $0.45 per share and non-GAAP earnings of $0.85 per share for the year. Gross profit increased 48% and gross profit margin expanded 90 basis points to 52.1%. “We are pleased to report another record revenue quarter on robust professional and

Delcam will combine with systems integrator CNC Robotics to show how easy it is to program complex robot machining operations with its PowerMILL Robot CAM system on stand 4011 at the MACH exhibition to be held at the NEC, Birmingham, from 7th to 11th April.  To see how easy it is to use PowerMILL Robot, please go to www.delcam.tv/cnc-polystyrene. Robots can be extremely cost-effective for machining large parts, for the production of larger items of tooling, and for the trimming and drilling of panels in metal or composites.  Robots can also be programmed for part-to-tool applications, such as grinding or linishing.  The working area can be extended with linear tracks and rotary tables for even greater flexibility over the size and types of parts that can be manufactured. PowerMILL Robot makes it as easy to program a robot for machining as it is to program a five-axis machine tool.  Furthermore, with PowerMILL

BETA CAE Systems S.A. and its subsidiary in Italy, BETA CAE Italy Srl., have the pleasure to announce the 2014 Open Meeting in Turin, Italy. The event will take place on March 20th, 2014 at NH Lingotto Tech Hotel, Turin. During this event attendees will have the opportunity to participate in sessions on the latest developments and real case applications, on various CAE disciplines and industries, of ANSA, µETA, and our new product SPDRM (Simulation Process Data and Resources Manager). A number of very interesting presentations from guest speakers will feature this event's agenda. Impressive applications of our software, from the automotive, motorsports and other industries will be showcased. BETA CAE Systems and BETA CAE Italy would like to extend their appreciation to their customers who accepted the invitation to contribute to the success of this event with their presentations. Following the event’s closing, the “Technical Discussion” session will offer attendees the opportunity to discuss with their engineers the software