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Infor today announced the availability of Infor Fashion Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), the company's new application that helps link vital areas of product development to the supply chain - from line planning, design, development and sourcing, to production, inventory management, customers and distribution. Infor Fashion PLM was written with a fresh approach, and every line of code was developed using the latest technologies to help brands, manufacturers and private brand retailers develop styles, materials and trims more quickly and efficiently, with more consistent quality, all while ensuring they stay on schedule. This new solution is a key component of Infor Fashion, one of the most functionally rich application suites for today's market. Infor Fashion PLM supports the design process, new collection development cycle, and streamlines the overall planning process. Each collection, style and its components are accessed through a meaningful and intuitive user interface that has driven processes for greater speed in daily

Fidesys, LLC has launched its next-generation CAE Fidesys on the Autodesk Exchange Apps store for Autodesk Inventor. CAE Fidesys is an easy-to-use and effective tool for performing a full cycle of engineering-strength analysis including loading a CAD mode and its analysis, meshing, setting loads and material mechanical properties, selecting and setting a FEM-solver, model calculation, and results visualization. The Autodesk Exchange Apps store is a portal to the Autodesk Inventor software ecosystem, providing access to add-ins that allows designers to find and immediately download solutions to some of their more pressing design challenges, specifically engineering strength analysis. Autodesk Exchange Apps include apps for 15 Autodesk products including AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya. Customers access The Autodesk Exchange Apps store both directly on the Web and from within Autodesk products, making it a highly convenient resource. The new CAE Fidesys 1.4 allows performing linear and nonlinear static

CTC, Inc., an Autodesk Partner to the Building and Civil Infrastructure industries, announced today a strategic partnership with national design firm TKDA. Nationwide building and infrastructure firms are integrating BIM technology into workflows; CTC has successfully implemented BIM technology workflows for over 500 multi-disciplined firms. “We sought to partner with a company offering extensive experience in implementing BIM technology in both building and infrastructure software solutions and we found that experience and more with CTC,” said Xai Xiong, TKDA IT Manager. “CTC has the expertise to fully support Autodesk software implementations for our firm.” TKDA is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minn. with six additional offices across the United States. TKDA offers single-source, multi-discipline engineering, architectural and planning services to a diverse group of clients seeking innovative design solutions. “Our partnerships with our clients begin with fact-finding meetings, where we learn about their current processes and workflows,” said Brian Levendowski, PE, CTC Application Engineer.

Synergis Software announced today that Ruhrpumpen (www.ruhrpumpen.com), a global centrifugal pump technology company, is using Adept engineering document management as its enterprise platform for unified global engineering. One of Ruhrpumpen's key corporate goals is to expand geographically into South America and the Far East. Victor Melendez, Corporate Development Director, knows that the faster they get innovative, customized, highly-engineered products to the fastest-growing segments of their market, the better. And this means being able to share parts, designs, and resources among plants to develop products more quickly. "It's critical that we all have ready access to the same information, so that drawings and other engineering specifications are easily shared and controlled," says Melendez. "We need to ensure that the product we make in Germany, Mexico, and the United States or anywhere is made exactly to the same engineering standards and quality levels." Global engineering processes made easier with document management By implementing Synergis Software's document management solution, all Ruhrpumpen facilities are

Synopsys, Inc. and Coverity, a provider of software quality, testing, and security tools, today signed a definitive agreement for Synopsys to acquire Coverity. Coverity products reduce the risk of quality and security defects, which can lead to the catastrophic failures that plague many of today's large software systems. Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Synopsys will pay approximately $375 million, or $350 million net of cash acquired. In addition, Synopsys will assume certain unvested stock options of Coverity employees. The transaction will be funded by Synopsys with a combination of U.S. cash and debt, and is subject to Hart Scott Rodino regulatory review and other customary closing conditions. The acquisition is expected to close in Synopsys' fiscal Q2. Software complexity and the resulting quality and security issues are dramatically increasing. Today, more than six million professional software developers across the world write more than 60 million lines of code every day, deployed to fulfill

Atos today announced its 2013 annual results. Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO of Atos said: “In 2013, we completed the three-year plan announced in December 2010. As expected, profitability improved significantly with operating margin increasing to 7.5% of revenue, free cash flow totaled more than €350 million, and earning per share was up +50% compared to 2011. During this period the Group focused on cash generation leading to a net cash position above €900 million at the end of 2013. These results demonstrate that the Group has the track record and now the financial means to deliver its 2016 strategic plan, approved by 99.6% of shareholders in December 2013. Leveraging both our IT services and payments businesses, the priority of the new three-year plan is to deliver profitable growth and to increase operating margin by +100bps to +200bps by 2016. We confirm our ambition to complete the IPO(*1) of Worldline in 2014, to accelerate its

Today, from its historic Norwood Motor Manufacturing Facility, Siemens announced a $66.8 million in-kind software grant to Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. Students there will now have access to the same Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software used throughout the global manufacturing industry to design, develop and manufacture some of the world’s most sophisticated products in a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, biotechnology, machinery, shipbuilding, and high-tech electronics. “The manufacturing industry in America is on the rise and it is being transformed by a software revolution that is enhancing productivity, increasing efficiency and speeding time to market,” said Chuck Grindstaff, president and CEO, Siemens PLM Software. “This revolution requires a highly trained workforce. With this grant, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College will be able to integrate world-class PLM technology into its curriculum, so that its students are even better prepared for co-op assignments and for high quality manufacturing

The Circle is: a) A misspelling of the Cyrkle, a sixties one hit wonder with “Red Rubber Ball” b) An potentially malevolent application in the company of the same name, which is the topic of a popular book of the same name by Dave Eggars (confused, I am) c) A blatant attempt to make a poor pun as a blog title Of course, anyone who reads this blog knows that the answer is C. Why? The theme of this year’s PLM Market and Industry Forum is “The Circular Economy.” Products and services offered in the marketplace must meet a wide range of requirements simultaneously. Of course the customer should always come first, but there are additional stakeholders with needs to be addressed. With more criteria to meet, it makes sense to consider them as early in the development process as possible. The notion of concurrent engineering, which emerged in the 1980s, addresses those needs; it

The more you read about industrial sustainability and the circular economy the more you hear about corporate leaders who are readying their companies to take advantage of the transformational opportunities that will undoubtedly become available. All this has implications and opportunities for PLM. Most apparent is the need to embed the end of a product's useful life through the creation of innovative new products while at the same time supporting the full lifecycle. Those companies able to do this will be rewarded. For more information take a look at CIMdata's Essential Reading List on this topic. Let us know what we should add to this list HERE. Sign up HERE for access to our free PLM recources and to receive updates on this topic. A CIMdata Essential Reading List: The Circular Economy The Ellen MacArthur Foundation http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/business/reports (registration required) Towards the Circular Economy Vol.1: Economic and business rationale for an accelerated transition Towards the Circular Economy Vol.2: Opportunities for the fast-moving consumer goods sector Towards the

Zero Wait-State, a provider of Product Lifecycle Management solutions and services introduced their newest application, LoadState at the Oracle Value Chain Summit, in San Jose California, February 5th. The product was developed with input and feedback from their client SubZero-Wolf, a high end manufacturer of kitchen appliances. The product was deployed live at SubZero-Wolf in late January. Some key features of the product include the ability to read, interpret and import regulatory spreadsheet and custom spreadsheet forms directly into Agile. It also validates the entered information, and creates a declaration in Agile. Finally, it uploads the substances data and sets the declaration compliance status for different specifications in Agile and attaches the original supplier submitted form to the Agile declaration. Miah Finley a Business Systems Analyst from SubZero-Wolf had this to say about Zero Wait-State and LoadState," With ZWS and LoadState, the intricacies of global compliance became simplistic to manage." Zero Wait-State