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Steve Fennessey, Director of Business Innovation, Imaginatik Steve Fennessey is Director of Business Innovation for Imaginatik. His focus is on helping organizations build a systemic and sustainable innovation capability to significantly improve their profitability and business operations. Through a mix of consulting and advisory, hands-on innovation projects, program management, and an award-winning enterprise software platform, he helps clients develop their innovation capability into a permanent competitive advantage. He has been providing innovation and technical consulting services to fortune 100 clients such as Eli Lilly, Dow, and Procter & Gamble for two decades. A graduate of The Ohio State University with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering, he got his commission in the US Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer.In 1994, he resigned his commission to start his commercial career in product development and innovation.  

Rasterex Software released version R16.0 of their popular desktop viewers for Windows. Version R16 continues to serve the hundreds of thousands of users throughout the world with updates, improvements and fixes. Although AutoCAD version 2015 has been supported already since it was launched by Autodesk, the R16 provides a full featured and complete support for AutoCAD 2015 based on Teigha 4.0.0 libraries. Another format which is important for their customers, is SolidWorks. The new version R16 has full support for SolidWorks 3D and 2D up to and including latest version 2014. As always, they have included a number of generic bug fixes and improvements into version 16. Version R16 introduces a “perfect office option”, a very significant improvement for their customers who rely on a perfect rendering of MS Office files or Open Office files. The “perfect office option” utilizes the users’ own automation manager (included in all MS Office and Open Office installations) to render office files perfectly. RxView allows users to view &

CCE announced the immediate availability of its updated Unified Interop (UIOp) libraries. The UIOp libraries were revised to support attributes that represent entity names in the native CAD system along with instance path. Persistent identifiers are now supported in Creo, NX and CATIA V6 translators. CATIA V5 and SOLIDWORKS persistent identifiers have been enhanced to provide unique identifiers for every instance in the assembly. "We've increased the speed of translation and support persistent id's across more CAD platforms," said Vinay Wagle, CCE's V.P. of Sales and Marketing. "Our newest UIOp release includes customer requested enhancements to process points, store component level attributes and more." UIOp's CATIA V5 translator now allows grouping of translated entities into respective geometric sets (PartBody, Geometric sets, Ordered Geometric sets) providing applications the ability to display the model tree as it appears in the native CAD system. Support for publications has been improved by providing access to published vertices

Rand Worldwide announced that its courseware division, ASCENT – Center for Technical Knowledge, provides digital site licenses helping organizations with volume training needs effectively control inventory management of their chosen courseware. ASCENT’s digital site licenses ensure organizations have immediate access to ASCENT’s Autodesk, PTC and Dassault Systèmes courseware to best suit their training needs. “Digital site licenses are ideal for those organizations who require larger volumes of training materials such as associations, trade unions, businesses, government departments and academic institutions,” says Ronda Wiley, business development manager for ASCENT. “We customize our licenses for every customer so that they have access to the training guides they need, when they need them. In addition, a digital site license allows our customers to locally print the materials on-demand including the incorporation of their own custom covers, branding and binding. And on the logistics side, both shipping and inventory costs are eliminated so everyone wins: the organization,

ZW3D has released a CAD/CAM white paper to discuss practical approaches for product design, bringing better products with shorter time-to-market.   With user experience becoming a major talking point, the marketability of products relies on not just usability but also aesthetics. Customers prefer products with eye-catching shapes, leaving product designers with more challenges than ever. They are constantly seeking for solutions to maximize the flexibility of product design process, in a bid to conceptualize and realize even their craziest ideas. Empowered by a unique OverdriveTM kernel, ZW3D CAD/CAM offers designers the following six approaches to turn their creative insights into tangible products. Sketch Flexibility With “Ready Sketch”, ZW3D’s built-in sketching library, standard parts can be sketched with a few clicks. As for not so commonly-used sketches, they can be generated in seconds with the equation curve. Plus, adjustments can be made by drag & drop operations. Modeling Flexibility Previously, designers were trained to apply different modeling

The newest versions of PROSTEP's 3D PDF Enrichment™ Products; 3D PDF Animate™, 3D PDF Publish™, and 3D PDF Compare™ (A/P/C), are now available. In August 2014, PROSTEP released Version 1.7.1 offering several new and exciting features.  Creating complex PDF documents with 3D CAD data is now easier than ever. The Adobe® Acrobat® Pro plug-ins, A/P/C 1.7.1, provide users with more preference controls. Users can now set each window to appear at the same location on the screen each time the 3D PDF Animate editor is accessed. Among other improvements, A/P/C 1.7.1 offers additional security.  When a user establishes security in the PDF document, others are prevented from modifying the 3D PDF with A/P/C tools. When creating animations inside the PDF document, users can now search the Model Tree to easily find specific parts to use in the animation. Users now also have the ability to copy and paste steps and group (move) activities, reducing

Stratasys, Ltd. announced that it will broadcast its 2014 Analyst Day via webcast. The Company plans to hold its 2014 Analyst Day on Monday, September 8, 2014 in Brooklyn, NY. The event will feature a series of presentations by Stratasys management that cover industry trends, applications, strategy, financial performance, and outlook. The event will be broadcast live on September 8, 2014 beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET. The complete webcast will be made available both live and archived on the Stratasys Web site at www.stratasys.com under the "Investors" tab; or directly at the following web address: http://www.media-server.com/m/p/c8jazo6r.

FISHER/UNITECH will host its second annual Design Excellence Forum – a provocative event scheduled in 11 cities throughout the Midwest and Northeast. This year’s Design Excellence Forum will offer several presentations showing how to leverage today’s most innovative technologies to achieve excellence in design and manufacturing. The Forum promises to cover many stellar topics: 3D mechanical CAD enhancements; conceptual design with cloud-based collaboration; unified electronic design; improved simulation techniques; advanced 3D printing for product development; data management; and the latest for technical communication. This event also features a reveal of the new SolidWorks 2015 software. This roadshow will begin on October 1st in Kansas and travel throughout the Midwest and East Coast during the month of October. The Design Excellence Forum serves as a unique and complimentary resource for SolidWorks users, prospective users and upper management alike. This forum offers management the opportunity to stay involved and up to speed on

Cimatron Limited announced today that Ilan Erez, it’s CFO and Vice President of Operations will present at the Rodman & Renshaw 16th Annual Global Investment Conference on Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 at the New York Palace Hotel in New York, NY. Cimatron's presentation is scheduled to begin at 09:10am EDT. At the conference, there will be an opportunity for investors to meet Mr. Erez one-on-one. Interested investors should contact the conference organizers, or the Cimatron Investor Relations team at  \n Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! .

Sathish Kumar Thirugnanam, Consultant, NPI VE - Innovation and Transformation Group, Tata Consultancy Services Sathish Kumar Thirugnanam is a business consultant with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one of the leading Business & IT solutions providers for global customers. As a member of the Innovation and Transformation Group (ITG) at TCS he focuses on providing business solutions to manufacturing customers in the areas of New Product Introduction and Development. Sathish comes with a rich experience in manufacturing processes and concepts associated with product development and has been working with leading automotive, aerospace, industrial machinery & hi-tech customers for the past 16 years. He has led several large scale PLM programs with global customers helping them in visioning, strategizing, program management, solutions, and implementation. Sathish is an active member of Product Development Management Association and is a certified New product Development professional.