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Dr. Alain de Rouvray, Chairman and CEO of ESI Group, proposed to the Board of Directors on December 4th, 2013, the appointment of Dr. Christopher St.John as Chief Operating Officer of ESI Group. The Board accepted the nomination. Dr. Alain de Rouvray can now rely on two COO; Dr. Vincent Chaillou for the activities of the Edition and Strategic Marketing and Dr. Christopher St.John for the activities of Distribution and Support. Dr. Christopher St.John joined the Group in July 2008 as Director for Asia Pacific. Since February 2010 he has been responsible for Distribution operations in all geographic areas. His career includes more than 30 years with companies publishing and distributing CAE solutions and in engineering consultancy. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London, UK.

Tech Soft 3D announced the acquisition of tetra4D and its line of 3D PDF products, including 3D PDF Converter - the world's only solution for converting native 3D CAD data into rich, interactive 3D PDF documents from within Adobe Acrobat. Through this acquisition, Tech Soft 3D will begin working directly with regional resellers, current Tech Soft 3D HOOPS customers, and end users to expand and improve its suite of 3D PDF-related offerings. Specific announcements regarding plans will be forthcoming in the near future. “The team at tetra4D has done an excellent job of driving global awareness and adoption of 3D PDF Converter as the de-facto solution for document-based 3D collaboration in both the enterprise and supply chain market,” said Tech Soft 3D VP of Corporate Development, Dave Opsahl. “As the adoption of 3D PDF continues to grow so dramatically within enterprises, we felt the time was right for us to expand our

Highlights: Extends multi-threaded processing support for dramatically faster backward ray trace analyses and photorealistic rendering Supports targeted analysis of illuminance and intensity output charts to expedite design troubleshooting Accelerates creation of complex lighting components with new swept and freeform objects Provides new volume scattering types to facilitate the design of biomedical optics Expands street and automotive lighting design and analysis Includes new utilities that provide illumination simulation data in easy-to-read, customizable formats Enhances modeling of optical surface scattering for small-feature design Synopsys, Inc. today announced the availability of version 8.1 of its LightTools® illumination design software, which delivers new modeling and analysis features for general lighting, automotive and biomedical applications, as well as speed improvements for tracing backward rays and generating photorealistic images. Additional Multi-CPU Capabilities LightTools' multi-threading capabilities, which enable illumination simulations to take advantage of all CPUs or cores on a computer, now support backward simulations and photorealistic renderings. This can dramatically improve the speed and efficiency of

Infor today announced Infor Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Enterprise Edition version 11.0 to help drive collaboration and innovation. The latest iteration is specifically designed to provide users with considerable gains in its ease of use. The upgrades allow users to better leverage technology and make actionable decisions in real time. Infor EAM v11 embraces the cross-departmental structure and provides a better way to orchestrate people, assets and processes to advance visibility and value. The core upgrades include a modern user interface (UI), improved mobility and analytics, "zero downtime" upgrade capability and an enhanced safety management module. Infor EAM v11 incorporates the latest Infor technology innovations of the Infor 10x platform and broad support for Infor Ming.le™. Infor EAM v11 was purposefully designed to improve upon the basic problems that are commonly faced with managing assets. "With Infor EAM v11 our users are no longer limited to working from a desktop, a windows computer or a particular browser.

German toolmaker Lahnwerk GmbH has invested in new high-speed mills and five-axis machining centres, plus Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM software.  The outcome has been greatly improved surface quality and reduced manufacturing times. Lahnwerk, which employs 140 staff in Hessian Biedenkopf, specialises in the design and production of casting equipment, including patterns, dies and moulds, predominantly for cast metal components for cars and utility vehicles.  Since its establishment over 60 years ago, the company has developed into a full-service provider with a continuous process chain from 3D design right through to manufacturing, assembly and sample production in-house.  The milling area alone encompasses 25 CNC machines, including the latest C40 and C50 five-axis machines from Hermle, plus a three-axis RXP 1200 from Röders. Twenty-three engineers design the casting equipment in 3D, using CATIA, Creo Elements and NX software.  Programming with PowerMILL takes place both in the office and on CAM workstations located directly adjacent to

Extensive interest in the WorkNC stable of products from Vero Software on show at Euromold, meant orders placed at the exhibition topped the €100,000 mark. Features in the latest releases of WorkNC, WorkNC Dental, WorkXplore and WorkPLAN attracted considerable enthusiasm, and as well as the €100,000+ orders, the team provided more than 50 quotations and took a number of strong sales leads. “It was the first time many visitors to our stand had seen our products exhibiting under the world-renowned Vero Software branding, following the acquisition of the WorkNC stable at the start of the year,” says Werner Moeller, WorkNC Manager in Germany. “They were pleased to see that Vero is actively investing in the brand.” WorkNC’s functionality of automatically generating 5-axis toolpaths from existing 3-axis paths was of particular interest at Euromold. Described as a unique and revolutionary innovation in the field of 5-axis CNC machining, it enables users to automatically generate

System Insights and Autodesk recently teamed to build solutions to marry 3D spatial modelling with real-time manufacturing data analytics. These capabilities were presented at Autodesk University 2013 recently. Carl White, Senior Director of Manufacturing Engineering Products at Autodesk stated, “By working with System Insights we aim to increase the visibility of manufacturing operations to facilitate flexible, agile and efficient production.” The solutions will also be able to identify areas where production efficiency and energy usage can be optimized and the traceability of product flows and processes can be improved. The synthesized data views will inform decision-making on production scheduling, plant layout, maintenance and asset health, process planning and tool-path design and evaluations of new capital investments. Dr. Athulan Vijayaraghavan, Founder & CTO of System Insights, said, “We are very excited in partnering with Autodesk to bring vimana's real-time manufacturing data analytics to Autodesk's range of digital tools for factory design. By bringing

Knovel announced today the addition of six publishers, including Taylor & Francis and ICE Publishing, to its roster of more than 100 authoritative publishers and societies. Knovel has signed more than 20 new publishing partners since January, making 2013 a record year for content expansion. As a result, engineers worldwide have access to more content, data and answers from credible sources. Knovel’s cloud-based application integrates technical information with analytical and search tools. “We’re pleased to work with Knovel to facilitate access to CRC Press and Routledge content for engineers in the corporate and government markets,” said T. Emmett Dages, president of U.S. Books for Taylor & Francis Group. “Engineers rely on Knovel for best practices and trusted technical answers to solve problems. Our partnership with Knovel is in line with our goal to make our content accessible and useful where and when engineers need it most.” “These partnerships, several with limited exclusivity, highlight

3D Systems announced today the acquisition of Village Plastics Co., a manufacturer of filament-based ABS, PLA and HIPS 3D printing materials. Through its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Norton, Ohio, Village Plastics delivers the highest quality, precision 3D printing filaments. 3DS plans to immediately integrate Village Plastics materials and manufacturing technologies to accelerate its development of advanced filament-based materials for its growing Cube® and CubeX™ 3D printers. Additionally, the company plans to support all of Village Plastics’ existing customers by providing full access to its complete portfolio of design-to-manufacturing products and services. “Village Plastics brings significant filament-based material development know-how and large scale manufacturing expertise that are vitally important to our Cube 3D printer consumer and prosumer growth initiatives,” said Avi Reichental, President and CEO, 3D Systems. “With the Village team on board, we expect to be able to enhance the profitability of this growing category and fast track the delivery of new high-performance

SmartCAMcnc has announced the release of SmartCAM® v2014. SmartCAM v2014 delivers a redesigned and improved user interface that assists in usability, ease of learning and user efficiency, plus a variety of milling process modeling, toolpath verification and geometry modeling improvements. The SmartCAM product family consists of Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) applications for Computer-Numerical Control (CNC) milling, turning, fabrication and wire EDM. SmartCAM v2014 introduces extensive user interface updates that give the product a more modern look and feel while also making it easier to learn and use.  New panel task menus and customizable toolbars make it more convenient to access frequently used commands, and new configuration options allow the system to be tailored to make best use of screen workspace. Additionally, the SmartCAM Undo mechanism has been completely re-written to allow multiple Undo or Redo of all modeling tasks, a significant advantage over previous versions. "SmartCAM v2014 users will first notice the new user interface