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Altium Limited has announced the public release of never-before-seen roadmaps for their entire product lineup. These roadmaps provide a rare glimpse into years of development plans for the company’s PCB focused design and management tools, including Altium Designer, Altium Vault, PCBWorks, CircuitStudio, and CircuitMaker. You can view the roadmaps now at future.altium.com. “Transparency is a top priority for us, and we’re more excited than ever to share our plans for the future of PCB design,” said Peter Ricci, Head of PCB at Altium. “We want everyone to know exactly where the future of their tools reside. It’s our goal to instill a sense of confidence and security so our customers know that their PCB design tools have a future with Altium.” Stability Leads to Transparency This bold move by Altium to reveal their development plans for their complete product lineup comes at a time of stability in the the company’s development, release, and

CuroGens, Inc., a Microsoft partner and global systems integrator, announces the release of CuroGens PLMbridge for Microsoft Dynamics AX. This integration solution bridges the information gap between the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system of a manufacturing company and its ERP platform. The business solution allows an OEM to easily exchange Bills of Material (BOM) data between its PLM application and Dynamics in order to better manage the BOM, reduce risk of errors associated with manual data entry and make the discrete manufacturing process efficient and repeatable. "We often see OEMs implementing complex PLM solutions used by engineers that don't communicate directly with their ERP system," said Jesper Kehlet, CEO of CuroGens. "We want to equip OEMs with an easily managed, comprehensive solution that enhances an OEM executive's control over the flow of data between engineering and operations in order to make more informed business decisions. PLMbridge increases efficiencies, reduces redundancies and provides

MSC Software Corporation today announced the new release of MaterialCenter 2015. MaterialCenter 2015 is a truly out-of-the-box Material Process and Data Lifecycle Management solution with direct integration into CAE applications that engineers regularly use. Highlights of this release include:                               CAE Material Model Support Generate CAE models for the most popular CAE solver directly from MaterialCenter. Support for individual and batch generation of CAE material cards. CAE material models in MaterialCenter are revisionable and fully traceable. MaterialCenter provides out of the box support for: Nastran Marc Ansys Abaqus LS Dyna MaterialCenter Explorer Integrated Client and MaterialCenter Explorer Desktop Client Direct integration of MaterialCenter into many of the CAE pre- and post-processing tools commonly used by engineers is implemented in this release. The integration provides direct support to retrieve a material model from MaterialCenter without leaving the native pre- and post-processing application. Direct integration is provided for: MSC Software - Patran 2010-2014 MSC Software - SimXpert 2012-2013 MSC Software - Marc Mentat 2012-2015 Beta/CAE - ANSA 15 Test Data Support MaterialCenter

Mentor Graphics Corporation  today announced the newest version of the FloTHERM® XT software product with advanced thermal management capabilities for electronic systems, printed circuit board (PCB) and packages of any geometric complexity. As the industry's first integrated mechanical design automation (MDA) and electronic design automation (EDA) electronics cooling solution, the FloTHERM XT product has CAD-centric technology and a robust mesher which simulates complex geometries with ease, speed, and accuracy. The new FloTHERM XT product now supports transient analysis, Joule heating, parametric studies, extended EDA integration capabilities, and new modeling options, including a cutting-edge ability to represent copper in detail for complex PCBs. These capabilities provide an ideal solution for the thermal simulation of electronic devices used in a broad range of markets including automotive, transportation, consumer electronics, industrial automation as well as aerospace and defense. "FloTHERM XT extended modeling, EDA interfacing capabilities and UI improvements have been well received by our customers

Mentor Graphics Corporation  today announced the newest version of the FloTHERM® XT software product with advanced thermal management capabilities for electronic systems, printed circuit board (PCB) and packages of any geometric complexity. As the industry's first integrated mechanical design automation (MDA) and electronic design automation (EDA) electronics cooling solution, the FloTHERM XT product has CAD-centric technology and a robust mesher which simulates complex geometries with ease, speed, and accuracy. The new FloTHERM XT product now supports transient analysis, Joule heating, parametric studies, extended EDA integration capabilities, and new modeling options, including a cutting-edge ability to represent copper in detail for complex PCBs. These capabilities provide an ideal solution for the thermal simulation of electronic devices used in a broad range of markets including automotive, transportation, consumer electronics, industrial automation as well as aerospace and defense. "FloTHERM XT extended modeling, EDA interfacing capabilities and UI improvements have been well received by our customers

BIMobject today announces an innovative technology and solution designed to streamline and accelerate the process of BIM content creation. The technology is BIMscript(TM), an open and freely available scripting language as well as a BIM object authoring solution, BIMobject® LENA. The solution is scalable and can describe products and components in a very intelligent way, creating configurable objects with parametric variations and different levels of detail. BIMscript is a subset of the C programming language and enables smart objects to be created in BIMobject® LENA and then hosted and managed in the BIMobject® cloud. Operating in the cloud BIMscript generates intelligent, native BIM objects in a number of formats for the most popular BIM applications from Autodesk, Graphisoft, and Trimble with the potential for more in the future. It also generates objects in commonly used formats such as IFC, 3DS, DWG and WebGL. A significant gap in the industry has been the lack of

PTC  and NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan's largest mobile service provider, are expanding their relationship to extend the use of the ThingWorx® IoT Development Platform at DOCOMO in order to streamline use of cloud-based IoT platforms. Serving more than 65 million mobile customers, DOCOMO operates a high-quality nationwide LTE networks. PTC and DOCOMO will continue to jointly market IoT solutions that are specifically developed for the Japanese market. ThingWorx will provide its IoT development platform for DOCOMO cloud-based software, taking advantage of its connectivity and communication technology to implement IoT solutions. Together with Nippon Systemware, a Tokyo-based system integrator with a proven track record in software and hardware development, the companies will deliver solutions that customers can use, utilizing the DOCOMO high-quality, nationwide mobile network to serve the specific needs of its individual business customers. "The extension of our business relationship with DOCOMO is a great opportunity for businesses that want a single source for device,

As the UK’s only production manufacturer of teak decks with full depth seams for boats and yachts, Moody Decking and Services produces several thousand square metres of predominantly CNC programmed decking a year, using Alphacam software. The first time Alphacam was used in conjunction with their state-of-the-art digital scanner, it was a real sink or swim affair. Boats priced from £5,000 up to £120m use Hampshire based Moody Decking’s teak decks, as their unique construction process ensures the decks last considerably longer than decks produced with traditional rebated seams. Martin and Scott Moody are the fifth generation of their family to work in the boating industry. The current company has been making decks for 10 years, supplying to 12 high end boatyards, with custom one-offs for individual owners. Previous family enterprises stretch back 200 years and have included building dinghies and wartime landing craft, yacht construction, repair/maintenance, yacht brokerage and running marinas. Martin

The Croatian capital Zagreb has been selected by HP as its centre for the Adriatic region, reports Poslovni Dnevnik. HP is in the process of splitting into the two business units HP Inc and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and it will have a number of regional management positions in Croatia for both companies. HP is one of the largest IT companies in Croatia and the largest seller of personal computers. HP will close its office in Ljubljana (Slovenia), but will maintain a presence in Belgrade (Serbia). To view the original press release, please click here. Search for HP on CIMdata.com

Fujitsu has decided to make some changes in the network-area to address changes in the market environment. ”The market environment for the network business is undergoing a major transformation as competition intensifies with entrants from industries beyond the industry's conventional boundaries, and as the industry's business model continues to transition from a focus on hardware to a focus on services, in the context of advancing network virtualization technologies”, Fujitsu writes. To address these changes in the market environment, Fujitsu is changing its business organization, which had been organized by product, to a new structure organized by function. The change is made in order to increase the speed of further advances in network virtualization, the provision of global, general-purpose products that take maximum advantage of advanced technologies, and the creation of new services that meet the wide variety of needs of network users for the emerging IoT(1) era, the company writes. As of October