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ZWCAD Design announced that New Optics Ltd., a leading back light unit (BLU) and light guide plate (LGP) manufacturer in Korea, has selected ZWCAD+ for better team collaboration. ZWCAD+’s file format compatibility allows New Optics to share drawings freely between partners and customers, helping accelerate collaboration within product development. New Optics is a leading lighting and backlight products manufacturer and supplier in Korea. Aiming to provide the most efficient light source for the next generation of lighting products, they have been providing high quality products and services to users since their foundation in 2005. Being high-brightness, energy-efficient, and long-lifespan, their main product, BLU, has become one of the authorized suppliers of LG Display. The Need New Optics has very strict requirements on collaboration since the majority of their designers work in teams on extensive and sophisticated projects. Besides, in order to further boost profitability, they are increasingly seeking out CAD software that incurs less financial and

Carven has selected Centric Software, Inc., for its product lifecycle management (PLM) software. Carven will use the Centric 8 PLM software for retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods to support growth and align the organization, according to Claude Sztykman, production and purchasing director with Carven. “Importantly, the Centric PLM software will allow Carven to accomplish these goals without losing creativity in the design and development process, which is so critical for the company.” Since the re-launch of Carven in 2009, the company has experienced rapid growth, explains Sztykman. “Centric 8 was the only solution on the market with the flexibility to accommodate the rapidly changing needs of our business. It will provide us with the flexibility to add new staff, product categories and suppliers as our business continues to expand.” The Centric 8 PLM solution will replace extensive use of spreadsheets at Carven, and allow the company to rely on “one version of the

AVEVA today announced that Paul Wurth, a leading engineering company in the Iron &Steel industry, has implemented AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D), AVEVA’s next-generation plant design software. By using this with other tools from the AVEVA Integrated Engineering & Design suite of solutions, Paul Wurth will benefit from enhanced capabilities, improved integration and seamless global work-sharing. “We piloted an alternative solution for 18 months, but as projects grow ever larger and become technically more challenging, it could not offer us the scalability of AVEVA E3D,”said Nicolas Leclaire, Head of Engineering applications, Paul Wurth. “In addition, we need a wide range of design and engineering tools that integrate seamlessly and enable projects to be worked on across multiple sites. AVEVA Everything3D will save us time and cost across the whole design process by eliminating unnecessary rework, both in the design office and in construction, keeping us competitive in an ever-changing environment,” said Georges Schreiner,

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today announced that American Electric Power (AEP), one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, has chosen to enhance its electric substation design practices with Bentley Substation. By taking advantage of Bentley Substation’s integrated set of capabilities combining intuitive 3D modeling, electrical design functionality, and automatic bills of materials and report generation, AEP will gain from B/IM, Bentley’s advancement of the reach and benefits of “BIM” – for better-performing assets through increased depth of information modeling, and better-performing projects through increased breadth of information mobility. As a result, AEP anticipates faster design cycles and improved collaboration across physical and electrical design disciplines. AEP selected Bentley Substation based on a careful review of commercially available alternatives, the productivity benefits demonstrated at other utilities, and the estimated improvement the software would make in its own design processes. AEP is making Bentley Substation available to the more than 100 staff members in its transmission and engineering organization and plans

Granta Design today announced the latest advances to support both simulation and materials information management in engineering enterprises working with composites and advanced materials. Central to this is the idea of “bridging the gap” between design or test data and the input data required by the finite element community, as well as for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). At next week’s JEC Europe (Paris, March 11-13), Granta will be demonstrating the 2014 release of the Composites Design Data Module, providing traceable design data from the AGATE and NCAMP global aerospace projects. This material property data compilation covers the constituents, intermediates, and processing steps used to generate over 600 laminates, including design data tested in up to four standard conditions. It has applications across research, design, testing, and simulation. Discussions on Granta’s booth (F74 in Hall 7.3) will also draw on the outcomes of the recent Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC) meeting, hosted by Northrop Grumman in January.

3D Systems announced its CEO, Avi Reichental, will deliver a keynote address on Manufacturing the Future at CeBIT 2014 in Hannover, Germany. Reichental will speak on Friday March 14, 2014, at 12:15 local time, Hall 8, Center Stage, Hannover Exhibition Grounds, Germany. A livestream of Reichental’s keynote can be viewed here. CeBIT 2014, hosted by Deutshe Messe AG, brings together more than 4,000 companies from 70 different countries for 5 days to showcase high-tech’s latest innovations. Thousands of live attendees along with over 37,000 online followers learn, discuss, debate and shape the digital world’s hottest topics, trends and innovations from game-changing and emerging technologies to their impact on business and society. Reichental’s keynote is part of the game-changing technologies program and he will speak on how 3D printing is manufacturing a future that integrates virtual design with physical production and free from complexity, entering the world into an era of bold localized, digital craftsmanship.

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ZW3D today released ZW3D CAD/CAM 2014. This new version is fully developed based on the collected market needs, featuring upgraded CAD, more productive Mold and Smarter CAM, to ensure intelligible design and machining experience with high quality. Enhancing 3D Modeling with Optimized Functionalities Improvements of ZW3D 2014 cover every aspect of ZW3D’s CAD functions, such as the integrated file translator supporting more up-to-date formats of mainstream design software, simplified feature manager providing faster history regeneration, part configuration accelerating design of parts variations and enhanced 2D sheet presenting production-ready 2D drawings efficiently. These customer-driven optimizations of ZW3D CAD can speed up product design process, reduce development time and save project budget. “I think the improvements of 2D sheet are fantastic. Some are quite amazing and it seems faster than before,” commented by Paul, a ZW3D 2014 Beta user, on ZW3D forum. Strengthening CNC Machining with Smarter Operations  One of the most anticipated highlights of ZW3D CAM is the

ANSYS, Inc. will be webcasting the ANSYS 2014 Investor Day being held at the Pittsburgh Fairmont Hotel on March 12, 2014. The morning webcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. ET and end at approximately 11:15 a.m. ET, resuming in the afternoon at 12:00 p.m. ET and ending at approximately 3:00 p.m. ET. Please go to the following link to view the web cast:   http://www.livestream.com/ansys Password: AnssinvDay14 - The password is case sensitive and will be useable 15 minutes prior to the start of the event. Live Webcast Agenda Presentations: 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. ET Jim Cashman, President and Chief Executive Officer Walid Abu-Hadba, Chief Product Officer 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET Members of our Research and Development Team presenting "The Power of Our Products" Maria Shields, VP and Chief Financial Officer Question and Answer Session 3:00 p.m. Adjourn The archived webcast will also be available on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website www.ansys.com within twenty-four hours of the conclusion of the event.

Representatives from Siemens PLM Software will be participating in the 10th International Modelica® Conference to be held in Lund, Sweden from March 10 to 12, 2014. At the conference, Siemens PLM Software experts will present white papers on Modelica and Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) as well as the latest Modelica and FMI capabilities developed in the LMS Imagine.LabTM software. A leading simulation environment for multi-domain system integration, LMS Imagine.Lab AmesimTM software is an ideal choice for users looking to couple C-based and Modelica modeling approaches into a single open platform. Depending on modeling requirements, users can access a wide selection of built-in libraries containing complex, validated component models, or they can create customized libraries using a full-featured Modelica development environment. After the Modelica models have been built, Modelica users can run them within LMS Amesim benefitting from powerful analysis tools for visualization, linear analysis and design exploration. To meet the growing demand for