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Advances in digital design and fabrication technology and crowd funding are empowering more people to design and manufacture than ever before, and to do it quickly.  To fuel this new wave of innovation, Autodesk is introducing new CAM capabilities into Autodesk Fusion 360. With the addition of CAM, users are another significant step closer to having a single, integrated tool with everything they needed to bring a product to market — from concept to manufacture. Ideal for hardware starts-ups, small- and medium-sized businesses and students, Fusion 360 is a single cloud platform for form, function and fabrication. “Product development doesn’t have to be a painfully fragmented process, said Dan Silmore, Director of MFG 360 Marketing at Autodesk. “It’s time to put product design-to-manufacturing within reach for every entrepreneur, and adding CAM in the cloud was the logical next step.” “Fusion 360 is a single place where everyone involved in our product development process can

The latest release of AVEVA Engineering adds important new productivity features that increase control of engineering information throughout highly complex projects. Engineering contractors (EPCs) can face serious challenges in controlling and communicating changes in engineering and design information as it evolves. Poor management of this highly interactive, multi-disciplinary process increases project risk, cost and can extend delivery schedules and reduce quality. AVEVA Engineering 14.1 overcomes this. Responding to customer feedback, AVEVA has added new capabilities to AVEVA Engineering that enable many engineering disciplines in multiple locations to collaborate more effectively in parallel workflows producing higher quality designs with less wasted effort. With more added intelligence and automation, AVEVA Engineering allows for revision control at the level of an individual tagged object and for each discipline to release information to the rest of the project team only when it is sufficiently mature to be used by others. 'One of our customers’ major pain points has

NGC® today announced that Vald’or Apparel is implementing NGC’s PLM, ERP and Shop Floor Control systems to bring a new level of efficiency and collaboration to its global operations. Vald’or manufactures private label and branded apparel for leading brands; the company is headquartered in Coconut Creek, Florida, with an office and factory in Jordan and an additional factory opening in Haiti this year. Vald’or selected NGC’s software to replace its outdated legacy solutions and support the company’s rapid growth. “Our business has grown tremendously, and we were not getting the support we needed from our current systems provider,” said Robert Rothbaum, president and CEO, Vald’or Apparel. “We’ve known NGC for many years and are aware of their reputation in the apparel industry; their solutions matched our needs, so it was an easy decision to select NGC.” “Our primary goal is to become more efficient,” Rothbaum continued, and he expects to improve efficiency at Vald’or

Engineering PLM Solutions today announced that the Danish company El-Bo Produktion A/S chooses RuleDesigner Configurator to realize product configuration process for design automation within the NX environment. The Trasportation division of El-Bo Produktion manufactures on commission insulated composite sandwich panels to thermally insulate vehicle structures used for different applications, including refrigerated track bodies, trailers, campers and caravans. As sandwich panels can be configured both in size and materials, the product was highly suitable to be configured and customized in RuleDesigner Configurator system, matching the exact requirements of each customer. After a careful evaluation of configurators available on the market, the company choose RuleDesigner Configurator because it is a reliable and performing configuration tool, the unique granting high-level interaction with NX, the 3D CAD system. Also, the evaluation team was impressed by the user-friendly interaction approach of the module aimed at modelling and updating rule-based processes which allows designers owning the product know-how to directly

Synopsys, Inc., has reported results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2014. For the second quarter of fiscal year 2014, Synopsys reported revenue of $517.7 million, compared to $499.3 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2013, an increase of 3.7 percent.   "Our fiscal second quarter results were very strong, driven by robust business in all key areas," said Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys.  "In addition, we introduced several important new products, including IC Compiler II, a game-changer in digital design, and we completed the acquisition of Coverity, bringing us into the emerging market of software quality, test and security." GAAP Results On a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2014 was $63.3 million, or $0.40 per share, compared to $68.7 million, or $0.44 per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2013. Non-GAAP Results On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2014 was $101.7 million, or $0.65 per share, compared

Delcam CRISPIN will demonstrate the latest releases of its ShoeMaker CAD software for the design of all types of footwear and of its Engineer Pro software for pattern development and grading at the Shoes & Leather exhibition to be held in Guangzhou, China, from 28th to 30th May.  For further details on these new releases, please go to www.footwear-cadcam.com. ShoeMaker is the only footwear CAD program to integrate fully the 3D design of lasts, uppers and soles, so allowing the complete shoe to be developed and visualised in a single system.  This integrated approach benefits all footwear designers, but is particularly advantageous for companies making sports shoes and other designs that include complex soles. The 2014 version offers improved visualisation of designs with the new KeyShot rendering engine, the ability to create lasts for boot designs, more options for heel design, and additional items in the extensive library of accessories supplied with the software. With

One of Italy’s leading specialists in WorkNC software received a top award at the company’s global reseller conference. With 259 resellers across Vero Software’s portfolio of software brands attending the conference at Orlando, Florida, Taglio C S.r.I won the award for Best WorkNC Reseller Of the Year. Taglio has been selling WorkNC in Italy since 1988, and currently has around 1,000 active licenses. General Manager Luca Bussolino says: “Our relationship with WorkNC started the year before I joined Taglio, when the company was looking for a 3-axis CAM system to provide a new solution for the FIAT automotive group. WorkNC has always been renowned as the 'best of breed' automatic CAM solution. Since the beginning, beyond its user friendliness, the thousand licenses installed in Italy shows that the original idea behind this project is the proof of its success.”  All Vero brands were represented at the conference, including WorkNC, Alphacam, Cabinet Vision, Edgecam,

Continuing its growth as the firm approaches its tenth anniversary, Kalypso announced that it has merged with Integware, a consulting firm with expertise in product lifecycle management (PLM).  Kalypso delivers a comprehensive set of services that enable innovation, including objective PLM technology strategy and implementation services. With the addition of Integware, the combined firm can provide clients with a broader set of capabilities to drive real business results from PLM. “Kalypso and its seasoned leadership team have done a fantastic job building a solid and successful operation that provides superior innovation services to the market,” said Chris Kay, CEO of Integware and new partner at Kalypso.  “I’m confident that by merging the two firms we can deliver a more comprehensive solution to our clients.” Integware, known for its PLM expertise particularly in the life sciences industry, has served a global customer base with strategy, consulting, deployment, support and training services.  In addition to life sciences, the

 PDF Key takeaways: Fully successful PLM solution deployments must integrate with many other enterprise systems including CAD, ERP, Process Planning tools and even other PDM and PLM solutions eQ Technologic’s advanced architecture supported BAE Systems’ integration of a PLM solution to other enterprise systems eQ Technologic’s eQube-MI Enterprise Service Bus integration infrastructure has proven to be reliable and scalable in production implementations over the past four years Background In reality, an enterprise PLM solution implementation requires integration with Enterprise applications and legacy systems. No one vendor has a complete solution that meets all the product definition lifecycle requirements of a business. Many applications and systems are required to completely define and manage the product definition from concept through end of life. In a practical sense this means that product definition is spread across multiple data repositories, and a wide variety of software applications are required to modify and manage the product definition over its lifecycle. Applications

 PDF Key takeaways: Aras’ ACE2014 conference had a theme of “Right Now”; all the Aras presenters focused on what could be done right now with Aras Innovator Aras emphasized their new products and coming innovations including a native 3D viewer, digital mockup utility, new mobile apps, electronic component engineering and a new approach to ECAD integrations, as well as their expanded product management team Resilience, a PLM solution’s ability to enable changing technology and business requirements over a long time period (greater than 10 or 20 years) including customizations, was a key point for several Aras presentations Aras held their latest ACE conference from April 29 through May 1 2014. This annual event continues to grow; this year there were 400 registrants from around the globe, up from 321 last year. The theme of this year’s conference was “Right Now,” an appropriate follow-on to 2011’s “Be Different,” and 2012’s “Do More.” Stringing the themes together