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A Forum for Setting A&D Industry Direction on PLM-Related Requirements, Standards, and Research CIMdata has assembled a group of leading aerospace and defense companies into an action group to help address PLM-related challenges in that industry. CIMdata’s Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (Action Group) provides a unique opportunity for Aerospace & Defense Industry leaders to maximize the benefits they receive from their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) investments. The Action Group is open to major aerospace and defense OEMs and selected tier 1 suppliers. Participation enables members to make more informed business decisions by providing timely and valuable information, insights, and advice, while networking with companies with similar PLM challenges.  Features & Benefits of Participation Include: You will be part of a group that serves as a sounding board for common practices and issues You will have access to CIMdata subject matter experts You will participate in the identification and prioritization of industry-specific PLM topics You will have access to

Innovation is a top priority for many CEOs, who look to new products as the engines to implement their corporate strategy for growth and transformation. However, translating these aspirations into reality requires treating product innovation as a key business process, and providing solutions to support that process – linking this upstream to overall portfolio management, and downstream to product development and commercialization. It is precisely to address this challenge that Oracle has introduced Oracle Innovation Management. This new solution helps organizations increase revenue growth from new products and achieve a competitive advantage by introducing a systematic approach to capturing, selecting and investing in the right ideas and product concepts. To help organizations increase their return on innovation, Oracle today introduced Oracle Innovation Management, a systematic approach to capture, select and invest in the right product ideas and to manage your overall product portfolio. Oracle Innovation Management enables bottom-up innovation so all stakeholders may participate in

Australian-based IC3D has released a new version of translationXPERT, the rapid language translation software it developed for SolidWorks. Distributed nationally in Australia and New Zealand by IC3D sister company Intercad – the largest SolidWorks distributor in the region – translationXPERT 2.0 revolutionises the way designers collaborate with colleagues and other designers around the world in their native languages. New functionality in translationXPERT 2.0 means any SolidWorks drawing (including DWG imports) can now be automatically translated and output as a foreign-language PDF document. The software has also been upgraded to work seamlessly with SolidWorks Enterprise PDM’s workflow engine, allowing translations of SolidWorks documents to be generated automatically on release. “translationXPERT has changed the way many of our customers do business, helping them overcome communication bottlenecks, reduce turnaround times on global projects, and eliminate issues that have literally been ‘lost in translation’,” said Intercad sales and marketing director Mark Deere-Jones. “With the enhancements to the software, not

FISHER/UNITECH are announcing the addition of a search-based application (SBA) technology for product development named EXALEAD OnePart from Dassault Systemes SolidWorks. SBA is a disruptive technology that will revolutionize how designers and engineers manage and access product data in environments with multiple repositories and formats of legacy information. EXALEAD OnePart allows designers and engineers to rapidly locate and access existing parts, product designs and other related information located anywhere inside the organization, even beyond PDM and PLM repositories. This innovative technology will save a company substantial time and costs as it eliminates the need to reproduce new parts and reduces the time spent searching for already created parts. EXALEAD OnePart helps designers find reusable 2D/3D designs and related documentation at the speed of thought with just a few clicks across multiple programs. The application offers both semantic and geometric based search arguments to find existing parts. “FISHER/UNITECH is pleased to introduce EXALEAD

MSC Software Corporation today announced that researchers at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (one of the public institute in astrophysics of the French National Center for Scientific Research) are using MSC Software's Marc Nonlinear FEA software to simulate a new process that involves the use of hydroforming to reach extreme optical mirror shapes, necessary for the next generation of astronomical telescopes and instruments, and to reduce the cost and lead time of producing freeform mirrors. "We selected Marc to analyze the hydroforming process because the software has demonstrated the ability to provide accurate results in problems involving complex nonlinear changes in geometry and materials properties," said Zalpha Challita, in post-doctoral position at CNRS-LAM. "Marc demonstrated the ability to accurately model the hydroforming process and will be used extensively going forward." Freeform mirror surfaces - surfaces with a shape more complex than a symmetrical conventional mirror surface (as for example, sphere, parabola, hyperbola, etc.) -- offer substantial

SolidCAM France will be exhibiting on stands 5-U82 and 5-J84 at the largest manufacturing technologies event in France – INDUSTRIE PARIS 2014 at Paris-Nord Villepinte, 31st March - 4th April 2014. Over five days, this outstanding biennial event will welcome more than 25,000 visitors wishing to find the most innovative manufacturing technologies available today. SolidCAM France will be demonstrating its full suite of SolidCAM CAD/CAM products for 2.5D Milling, HSS, 3D HSM, Simultaneous 5-Axis Milling, iMachining 2D & 3D, Turning, Advanced Mill-Turn for multi-turret and multi-spindle machines, as well as the Solid Probe module. At the show, SolidCAM is partnering with the Hoffmann Group on their stand 5-J84, where visitors will be able to see live cutting using SolidCAM’s unique, patented and revolutionary iMachining technology. SolidCAM's iMachining technology saves 70% in CNC machining time and more, and extends tool life dramatically. The unique Technology Wizard, provides optimal feeds and speeds, taking into account the toolpath,

Aras® today announced that MAN Diesel & Turbo will present at ACE 2014, the company’s annual global conference. Attendees will learn how MAN Diesel & Turbo is leveraging the Aras platform to go beyond traditional PDM to manage complex engine configurations and variants over a 30 year lifecycle across the extended enterprise to support manufacturing licensees, shipyards and vessel owner operators. ACE 2014 April 29 - May 1 Chicago, Illinois, USA Free to Attend - Registration Required Agenda and Registration: http://www.aras.com/ACE2014 ACE 2014 brings together business and technology professionals from around the world to discuss, benchmark and collaborate on PLM best practices for addressing the growing complexity in global product development, manufacturing, quality and the supply chain. With its open, community-based format, ACE offers the ideal learning environment for companies looking to replace or expand an existing legacy PLM or PDM system. MAN Diesel & Turbo, a member of the MAN Group, is the world's market leader

EpiGrid, LLC, the first cloud-hosted solution for SOLIDWORKS EPDM, was recently named a SOLIDWORKS Certified Service Partner–one of only 12 companies worldwide to achieve this certification. SOLIDWORKS Certified Service Partners specialize in the professional implementation and customization of the SOLIDWORKS Enterprise product data management (EPDM) system, and have been proven to possess the knowledge, experience, and expertise required to tailor and optimize implementations to meet specific customer needs and maximize productivity. “This certification is a huge benefit for our clients,” said EpiGrid CTO, Chad Garrish. “Clients can be confident they’re getting support at every level—from us at a partner level, from SOLIDWORKS at a corporate level and from their reseller.” EpiGrid has as small but highly qualified staff including two Certified SOLIDWORKS Professionals (CSWP) and three Certified SOLIDWORKS Professionals-Data Management. In addition, the company partners with SOLIDWORKS Value Added Resellers (VARs) to streamline the EPDM sales, implementation and management process. One of EpiGrid’s partners, SOLIDWORKS Reseller

 PDF Key takeaways: The PLM industry is entering an accelerating era of end-to-end business platform enablement The shift towards enabling robust and resilient business platforms, as opposed to deploying and integrating best-in-class business suite solutions, requires a fundamental change for both industrial users as well as PLM solution providers PLM solution providers who wish to compete at the enterprise business platform level now or in the future must rethink their solution set strategy, and how they identify, assess, and assimilate third-party partners The global product lifecycle management (PLM) market, which traces it historical roots to the computer-aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM) software industries of the 1980s, is rapidly evolving away from a labyrinth of best-in-class point solutions, that are often individually integrated during costly deployments, to holistic business platforms that enable integrated end-to-end business processes. For many of the leading PLM solution providers, it is increasingly difficult, if not now impossible, to

C&G SYSTEMS INC. has released their CAD/CAM software "CG Series" specializing in the 3D design and manufacture of molds & dies, in the spring of 2011. The CG Series Software Suite is a “Partner Product” of the 3D CAD software, SOLIDWORKS. Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation boasts over 2.2 million SOLIDWORKS Licenses worldwide. In February 2014, our 3D CAD system, for press die design, "CG Press Design” for SOLIDWORKS, a part of the CG series, became a "Gold Product". “Gold Product” status is the final level of “conformance certification” awarded by SOLIDWORKS. This product has been certified as a CAD system for press die design, and is fully integrated in SOLIDWORKS. (It becomes the first achievement of this kind for a Japanese CAD/CAM product.) Receiving this certification proves that there is high level of integration with SOLIDWORKS, which will enhance the users confidence in CG Press Design. In addition, the partnership with