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Rand Worldwide today announced that its courseware division, ASCENT – Center for Technical Knowledge, has surpassed the milestone of 30 released Autodesk Official Training Guides (AOTG) in the past four months for Autodesk’s 2015 software. All released 2015 titles are available for purchase through ASCENT’s online store at ASCENTeStore.com. “ASCENT's staff of subject-matter experts, instructional designers, and technical writers have been extremely busy all year to ensure we meet, or exceed, the projected release dates of 2015 titles set in our Courseware Release Roadmap,” says Paul Burden, director of product development for ASCENT. “While producing our standard, off-the-shelf, AOTG curriculum for instructor-led teaching or self-paced learning, the ASCENT team also continues to work with clients to customize our learning resources. They can tailor existing content to match varying client training offerings, include specific workflows, models and datasets, as well as accommodate teaching preferences and institutional branding. No matter what the training need, ASCENT works

Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM software for high-speed and five-axis machining has helped Muroplás SA, a Portuguese manufacturer of medical devices, to make its own moulds quickly and efficiently, and so develop a successful and growing business. Muroplás SA is located in the North of Portugal, close to the city of Trofa.  It was founded twenty years ago with one second-hand injection-moulding machine.  Although the company started out with a general goal to develop parts made by thermoplastic injection, Muroplás has subsequently become a specialist provider of medical devices, in particular dialysis products. Over the years, Muroplás achieved continuous growth through an emphasis on research and development in the manufacture of moulds, and in the use of plastic injection for different markets like medical devices, automotive, civil construction, tools and food packaging. The decision by Muroplás to have its own machining area, allowing the company to manufacture its own moulds, has proved to be fundamental

Centric Software, Inc. has closed on $24 million in growth capital as part of its Series D venture capital financing. The Series D financing was co-led by Fung Capital and Silver Lake Waterman. Fung Capital is the investment arm of the Hong Kong-based Fung family whose holdings include Li & Fung Limited, a public company that sources and distributes consumer products globally with more than $20 billion in revenues. Silver Lake Waterman is the growth capital arm of Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing. Prior investors Oak Investment Partners and Masthead Partners also participated in the financing round. The Centric 8 PLM suite delivers easy-to-use functionality to manage critical business processes, including product development, sourcing, business planning, quality management and collection management. Centric 8 implements and delivers value rapidly using an Agile DeploymentSM methodology. Working with marquee brands and consumer products companies, Centric has demonstrated the highest growth and innovation

Highlights: Strong commercial activity in Q2 with 127% book to bill ratio Revenue: € 4,176 million Operating margin: € 275 million, increased by +20bps to 6.6% Net income Group share: € 76 million Free cash flow: € 124 million Atos today announced its results for the first half of 2014. Revenue was € 4,176 million, representing an organic evolution of -1.9% compared to the first half of 2013. Operating margin was € 274.6 million, representing 6.6% of revenue, an improvement of +20bps compared to the same period last year. The Group generated € 124 million of free cash flow in the first half of 2014. Net cash position was € 845 million at the end of June 2014 including € 628 million restricted cash for the Bull acquisition (excluding € 639 million from the Worldline IPO received in July). Order entry was € 4,360 million, representing a book to bill ratio of 104% for the first half of the year. Net income Group share was € 76 million. Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO of Atos said: “The first half of this year was particularly active for the Group. We started

NAFEMS, the International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, will hold its 2015 World Congress in San Diego, USA, incorporating the 2nd International Simulation Process and Data Management Conference, from June 21st-24th 2015. The biennial congress will bring together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies and business processes to share relevant trends and roadmaps, explore common themes, and address these issues in an open forum. The aim of the congress is to provide attendees with perceptive content and perspective on the best way to position their organisations to realize the full potential of CAE both now and in the future. The Congress will also host the 2nd International Conference on Simulation Process and Data Management. This ground-breaking conference will bring together industrial users, technology experts, academics and software vendors alike, allowing all those with an interest to take part in the only truly independent, international forum dedicated to SPDM. Attendees, speakers and exhibitors

Zuken announces that French CADSTAR distributor Novacad has achieved the highest European sales, winning Zuken’s European CADSTAR Distributor of the Year Award for 2013-14. CADSTAR is Zuken’s industry-leading desktop PCB design software. Philippe Biran, Novacad Manager said: “We were successful this year in two very different markets. Entry level CADSTAR Lite offers full CADSTAR functionality at a lower cost for those working on designs with fewer than 2,000 pins. This is attractive for the many smaller companies we support. With CADSTAR Kynetic we have a high-functionality solution for high-speed designs.” Jeroen Leinders, CADSTAR Worldwide Sales Manager said, “The Novacad team has achieved consistent results throughout the year, so this award is well-deserved. Novacad focuses on responsive, locally-based customer service and has strong technical resources. This explains why they have a high level of repeat business.” Biran reports that in the past few years many companies are reducing their European operations and therefore cutting

Cimatron Limited announced today that Gibbs and Associates has developed a partnership with Sandvik Coromant to integrate the Adveon™ Tool Library application. Adveon has been developed in compliance with ISO 13399, which defines cutting tool data representation and exchange. ISO 13399 allows the accurate exchange of tooling data among computer aided applications that support and adhere to the standard, including CAD, CAM, CAE, PDM, PLM and tool management systems. Gibbs and Associates will begin marketing Adveon integrated with GibbsCAM immediately, and begin shipping it with the GibbsCAM 2015 release. Adveon will initially support milling tools, and incorporate turning tools when the data becomes available. GibbsCAM users with current software maintenance will receive Adveon free of charge. Gibbs will demonstrate Adveon at IMTS 2014, September 8-13, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Booth E-3310. Adveon for GibbsCAM allows users to develop their own tool library, selecting from tools they use daily. While having all tooling data at

CD-adapco™ today announced its renewed membership with the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), the first public-private partnership focused exclusively on the unique needs of the medical device community. MDIC made tremendous progress in the first year by bringing together the key players in the field of Computational Modeling and Simulation (CM&S). This momentum will drive collaborations between industry, academics, non-profits and regulatory agencies. This allows CD-adapco to demonstrate the power of its CM&S tools in the support of benchtop testing and clinical trials, and to further develop its capabilities to serve this emerging market. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, MDIC is designed to create a collaborative environment where industry, government, non-profits and other experts can work together to advance pre-competitive medical device innovation. MDIC focuses on regulatory science: the tools, standards, and approaches that are used to assess a product’s safety, effectiveness, and performance. By fostering breakthroughs in regulatory science, MDIC aims not

Carlsson will discuss how Volvo Car Corporation plans to double its sales by 2020. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 29 July 2014 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Volvo Car Corporation’s  Senior Advisor for Virtual Manufacturing and PLM Anders Carlsson will kick-off  PLM Road Map™ 2014 with a keynote presentation that will address how a global brand with just 0.5% of the world automobile market can stay competitive.  In his keynote address, “The Volvo Journey,” Carlsson will discuss how Volvo Car Corporation (Volvo Cars)  intends to fulfill its vision of selling 800,000 cars per year by 2020 – an increase of  nearly 100% over current sales. Volvo Cars’ future is about getting as much product to market as quickly as possible and to achieve this goal their plans call for lead time to be reduced by 50%. He will also demonstrate  how Volvo Cars’ investment

SPEC Innovations (Systems & Proposal Engineering Company) is pleased to announce the release of Innoslate 3.0, a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tool. Innoslate 3.0 allows for greater full lifecycle power through Requirements Management and Analysis, MBSE, and DoDAF integration. Innoslate 3.0 has made a notable difference in the way systems engineers can solve their engineering problems. Now you have even further integration across the lifecycle with the addition of the DoDAF 2.02 Dashboard. Users can see real time statistics on their diagrams, models, and projects through the Project Dashboard. Along with increased speed of performance, Innoslate 3.0 has added many new noteworthy features including: Project Dashboard The Project Dashboard displays model maturity checker, a notification system, real-time model statistics graph, and feedback panel. Keep team members up-to-date on project status, database changes, and model maturity with one easy-to-understand dashboard. DoDAF 2.02 Dashboard Develop your architecture in their new dedicated DoDAF Dashboard which includes all the