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IDG's CIO magazine announced Siemens PLM Software as a recipient of the 2014 CIO 100. The 27th annual award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT). Siemens PLM Software, a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, is being recognized for its innovative use of Panopto cloud-based recorders to capture remote enablement projects around-the-world and share them with employees worldwide. "For 27 years now, the CIO 100 awards have honored the innovative use of technology to deliver genuine business value," said Maryfran Johnson, Editor in Chief of CIO magazine & Events. "Our 2014 winners are an outstanding example of the transformative power of IT to drive everything from revenue growth to competitive advantage." Effectively capturing and recording multiple presentations from an event, and then distributing them to participants in a timely manner can be a

NGC today announced that Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine has named NGC to the prestigious Supply & Demand Chain Executive “100” for 2014, recognizing the top 100 supply chain projects in the industry. This is the fourth consecutive year NGC has been awarded this honor. NGC was recognized for its fashion PLM and Supply Chain Management software implementation at New York-based Fashion Avenue Sweater Knits. “The projects featured can serve as a roadmap for supply chain executives looking for new opportunities to drive improvement in their own operations.” This year’s Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 consists of supply chain solution and service providers that help their customers achieve true supply chain excellence. These providers demonstrate supply chain distinction by producing measurable gains in ROI through cost-cutting and increased efficiency, whether in transportation, warehouse, procurement sourcing or any other category in the end-to-end supply chain. Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s editorial staff weighed submissions based on creative application of solutions used

Electric Cloud today announced a Software and Technology Partnership with Siemens PLM Software. This partnership agreement allows for deep integrations between Electric Cloud and Siemens PLM technology – enabling solutions for closed-loop federated Continuous Delivery across all domains of complex mechatronics product development, including software, electrical, control and mechanical engineering. With the growing importance of software in traditional hardware-focused product development, R&D organizations are facing new challenges trying to unify and present an integrated view of product development lifecycle data across the mechanical, electrical, electronics and software domains. By integrating Siemens PLM Software's Teamcenter® portfolio, one of the world's most widely used digital lifecycle management software for modern mechatronics product development, with Electric Cloud's ElectricCommander, the world's most scalable and flexible Continuous Delivery platform, this partnership introduces a proven, industry-first closed-loop solution for federating data and information across the end-to-end product development lifecycle. "This agreement marks a critical step in enabling an industry-best

The latest NC Software Market Analysis Report from leading US analysts CIMdata shows that Delcam continues to be the world’s largest specialist supplier of CAM software and services.  Delcam employs over 700 staff, over 100 people more than Vero Software, and more than twice the 292 employees at third-placed Cimatron. In addition, well over 100 more people are employed in Delcam’s Joint Venture companies in Europe and Asia.  The largest of these companies, Delcam’s extremely successful Korean Joint Venture, Hankook Delcam, has over 50 staff. The CIMdata Report also confirmed that Delcam continues to employ by far the largest development team in the industry, with 224 people working on the company’s manufacturing software.  This is almost 50% more developers than the 150 staff employed in development by the second-ranked company, Vero Software. Delcam continued its impressive growth during 2013 by adding more than 50 extra staff to its international workforce.  On the sales side,

Altair acquired 100 percent of EM Software & Systems – S.A. (Pty) Ltd and its international distributor offices in the United States, Germany, and China this month. This development adds the FEKO® solver to the HyperWorks® suite and strengthens the Altair simulation offering in the aerospace, automotive, and shipbuilding industries in particular, reflecting the commitment of the company to provide comprehensive, best-of-breed solutions to its customers. In addition, in-house electromagnetic expertise crossing multiple industries will enable the company's consulting arm, Altair ProductDesign, to take on more responsibility in customer engagements where this specialized applied engineering knowledge is required. Typical applications of FEKO include antenna design, antenna placement, electromagnetic compatibility analysis, bioelectromagnetics, radio frequency components, 3-dimensional electromagnetic circuits, design and analysis of radomes, and radar cross-section analysis. Altair HyperWorks contains a number of industry-leading solvers, including OptiStruct®, RADIOSS®, MotionSolve®, and AcuSolve®. The addition of FEKO will help to address coupled electromagnetic-thermal and electromagnetic-mechanical problems,

Enabling better, faster business and product decisions by maximizing connectivity and collaboration across the enterprise through social technologies and socialization of PLM Ann Arbor, Michigan, 24 June 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the expansion of its Collaborative Innovation and Social Product Development consulting practice.  While research will continue in the respective Knowledge Council, this consulting practice will concentrate on the development and adoption of strategies, processes, and technologies to enhance collaboration and connectivity across enterprises as well as their extended enterprise participants thereby allowing for increased use of collective intelligence, thus improving innovation and the return on investment from new product development. As part of this expansion, Peter Bilello, President of CIMdata, announced that Dr. Suna Polat will lead the practice. Dr. Polat’s title will be Director, Collaborative Innovation and Social Product Development Consulting Practice. “We are very pleased that Dr.

 PDF This week GrabCAD invited a group of PLM analysts and media to their first ever media event at their Cambridge, MA offices. GrabCAD claims to be “leading the Open Engineering movement, helping engineers get products to market faster by connecting people, content and technology.” They are best known for their GrabCAD community, where over 1.3 million engineers are actively sharing and collaborating on content from a wide range of authoring tools, primarily mechanical CAD data (currently numbering over 460,000 files). While the benefits of community are well known, some question just how much commerce you can do with public intellectual property. Last November, GrabCAD announced Workbench, a solution focused on small group collaboration, again primarily for mechanical CAD data management. The successful beta test led to general availability in January 2014, and their planned summer release, which was the focus of this week’s event. From their start with CAD data management

The exciting new functionality in Edgecam 2014 R2 begins to show how Edgecam Workflow will be the default method for using Edgecam. Automatic conversion of 2D design data to a 3D model, and other significant enhancements to Edgecam Worfklow, from user interface to improved automatic machining processes, are some of the important aspects in the latest release of Edgecam software enhancing Edgecam Workflow to a new level of capability. Edgecam 2014 R2 has just been launched, and several items of new and enhanced functionality demonstrate why it continues to lead the way in improving productivity and flexibility for manufacturers, increasing their profitability. General Manager Raf Lobato says: “There are a number of exciting new aspects in Edgecam 2014 R2, including 2D to 3D for Part Modeler, the new Edgecam Workflow Solids modeler, comprehenisve machining strategies in Edgecam Workflow, and dynamic co-ordinate system creation. In addition, job reports are now available on portable

ENGINEERING PLM Solutions announces today that RuleDesigner gives the possibility to share images, 3D contents and realistic animations created with Keyshot® in real time, in both PLM and CRM processes. By structuring product information in RuleDesigner PLM collaborative platform, users can exploit the full potential of Keyshot® and, then, share information on the basis of corporate workflows or target users. Indeed, in RuleDesigner each product is represented by an informative dashboard containing data and documents coming from different corporate areas, including Marketing, Sales, CRM, Design, Quality, Projects and Service. The integration of Keyshot® data adds further value, enriching consultation with a high quality visual experience and a high level of interactivity. The Keyshot® community will operate as usual. RuleDesigner will take charge of the work to manage the outputs generated. As a matter of fact, thanks to rule-based configuration processes it is possible to fully automate the processes for delivering and sharing information with

GRAPHISOFT® announced today that ArchiCAD® 18's global rollout process and the introduction of its brand new BIMcloud® Solution has begun.  BIMcloud allows a BIM workflow on any network, hardware or software configuration, connecting teams and projects of any size or setup, 24/7. Shipping started with the International version of both products on June 19, followed by the German version on June 23 and the US and UK/Ireland versions on June 24 – the first four of 27 local versions, according to a busy release schedule, will all reach the market by the end of Q3 2014. For specific shipping dates in the various markets, please contact your local ArchiCAD reseller.  For more information about ArchiCAD 18, please visit www.graphisoft.com/archicad.