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On 1 June, solutions provider EPLAN founded EPLAN Software & Services Sp. z o.o., headquartered in Katowice, Poland, thereby acquiring the EPLAN business from the former distributor AB-Micro. With a twenty-member sales and consulting team, not to mention its own training department, the new Polish subsidiary has taken over all of its customers’ solutions business activities. Existing clients will continue to be supported by experts who have become familiar with and supported their engineering processes for years. The founding of this new branch in Poland, with its own development team, plus the software expertise of the recently acquired Digital Technology Poland (DTP), means that Poland has now become the second largest location for software excellence after Germany within the Friedhelm Loh Group. Goal: A strong team on equal footing“I’m very pleased to be welcoming these new colleagues into our team,” says EPLAN Managing Director Haluk Menderes. “Over the past nineteen years of

Sandvik has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the equity interests of the Portugal-based company Frezigest, SGPS (“Frezite”). Frezite’s offering primarily consists of made-to-order polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools for metal and wood applications, with exposure to the automotive, general engineering and aerospace segments. The company will be reported within Walter, a division within Sandvik Manufacturing and Machining Solutions. “With the acquisition of Frezite, we take another important step in our shift to growth strategy. We have a clear ambition for our machining solutions business to increase our presence and strengthen our expertise in PCD tooling for lightweight materials”, says Stefan Widing, CEO and President of Sandvik. Frezite enhances Walter’s product offering within PCD aluminum products. The company is present in Europe, Mexico and Brazil, and with its speed to market capabilities it improves Walter’s value proposition and position as a manufacturer of advanced components in lightweight materials. Frezite’s competence and offering

Ansys and SoftInWay, a design and analysis software provider for 1D-2D designs, are partnering to streamline the design workflow for single-stage, multi-stage, and multi-module turbomachinery. The new engineering workflow enables seamless, push-button design transfer between platforms for advanced multiphysics computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) to support environmentally responsible, lower-emission engine designs for SoftInWay customers. When designing turbomachinery, engineers begin working within a 1D-2D tool, then tweak their designs for further optimization. The next step is to transfer the resulting design into a 3D model and run simulations, which normally requires manual data transfer. Without the right 3D solvers in place, transferring both designs and data from the 1D-2D stage is a cumbersome process prone to inaccuracies. The Ansys-SoftInWay partnership supports further digitization of a very streamlined workflow, from the initial design in SoftInWay’s AxSTREAM platform, to analysis using Ansys' 3D physics solvers Ansys® CFX®, Ansys® Fluent®, and Ansys® Mechanical™. The new workflow enables the

Ansys announced that it has joined the Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Cloud Alliance. IFS is a fully vertical, standalone foundry business announced by Intel last year. As part of the company’s commitment to meet the growing demand for foundry capacity, Intel is partnering with cloud service providers and EDA suppliers to enable a secure design environment for customers on the cloud. Ansys tools, including Ansys RedHawk-SC, Ansys HFSS, Ansys® Totem™, Ansys® PathFinder™, Ansys® VeloceRF™ and Ansys® RaptorX™, are available as part of this interoperable, cloud-enabled semiconductor design flow that will help enable current and future Intel customers to enhance their productivity. RedHawk-SC is a next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) power noise signoff platform that is built on Ansys SeaScape, the world's first custom-designed, big data architecture for electronic system design and simulation. Its underlying highly-scalable elastic compute architecture takes full advantage of the cloud, enabling customers to load the largest designs within seconds and quickly explore thousands of scenarios.  “We are pleased

L&T Technology Services Limited, a leading global pure-play engineering services company, inaugurated its Engineering Design Centre (EDC) in Toulouse, France, to initially cater to the new age digital requirements of the global aerospace and defence sectors. The EDC will initially focus on developing cutting-edge solutions for the aerospace and defence industries and LTTS will work with major OEMs in the region as anengineering partner. The center will specialize in end-to-end solutions for aerospace design & manufacturing, with a workforce of LTTS engineers having proven expertise in digital engineering, systems engineering and avionics design. LTTS plans to hire over 100 engineers in the next two years for the centre. LTTS plans to invest and expand the new EDC, giving it a focus on sustainable next-gen solutions such as avionics systems and airlines digital solutions for customer and operations excellence. The centre will also incubate engineering solutions in other domains such as digital plant solutions, hydrogen

The FITS’ festival opening brought art and innovation together The event was an excellent opportunity to meet business and community partners with whom NTT DATA Romania, an important player in the IT services market, shares the same values. Among the guests were the Ambassador of Japan to Romania, His Excellency Mr. Hiroshi Ueda, together with distinguished representatives of the Romanian authorities and cultural community, as well as members of NTT DATA top management. The programme included an outstanding performance by Yamamoto Noh Theatre from Osaka, a revival of one of the oldest forms of traditional Japanese theatre included in UNESCO World Heritage. The Noh Theatre originated around 700 years ago, and remains the oldest surviving form of mask theatre in the world, playing a key role in shaping Japan's cultural identity. The guests were greeted by Maria Metz, CEO NTT DATA Romania, Kazuhiro Nishihata, Senior Executive Vice President NTT DATA and Constantin Chiriac,

Tata Technologies, leading global engineering, and product development digital services company, announced that it has joined the Foxconn – initiated MIH Consortium to promote the development of sustainable mobility solutions and encourage collaboration within the mobility industry. As the Automotive industry transforms rapidly to serve emerging customer requirements, it is turning into a mobility ecosystem where the key players collaborate to develop innovations that create value for all stakeholders. The MIH Consortium is creating an open EV ecosystem that promotes collaboration across the key OEMs, Tier 1s, and ESPs in the mobility industry to realize and standardize EV technologies that underpin the Electric Vehicle revolution. The goal is to bring the strategic partners together to build the next generation of Electric Vehicle, Autonomous driving, and Mobility service applications. Tata Technologies’ mission is to help its global clients engineer better products through compelling product engineering and digital solutions across the product development value

Uptake, a leader in industrial intelligence, announced that it has been named a finalist for the 2022 Microsoft Energy & Sustainability Partner of the Year Award. Microsoft selected the company among a global field of top partners for demonstrating excellence in the development and implementation of customer solutions. Uptake Fusion was recognized for its ability to unlock industrial data by moving and normalizing enterprise datastreams in Microsoft Azure for real-time decisions. “We’re honored to be recognized as a finalist for this award. Uptake’s strategic relationship with Microsoft is a testament to the value of enabling energy companies to generate business value and enterprise reporting from their data,” said Kayne Grau, CEO, Uptake. “We look forward to continuing to advance digital transformation and sustainability initiatives with the Microsoft tools our customers are using each day.” Uptake Fusion enables asset-intensive operations, including energy and utilities, to prepare data in the cloud for analytics. By connecting to underlying

With integrating 3Dfindit.com, users have now access to millions of 3D CAD models from renowned manufacturers Kubotek3D and CADENAS have partnered to provide KeyCreator mechanical and manufacturing design users access to an enormous selection of 3D and 2D component geometry from 3Dfindit.com, the technical search engine powered by CADENAS. From a function built into KeyCreator, the data for millions of parts, from thousands of manufacturer catalogs, is available for download directly into an active KeyCreator session. Free access to thousands of CAD catalogs speeds up design process By incorporating accurate models of components from up-to-date catalogs directly into designs, KeyCreator users save hours and potential mistakes over drawing the components manually. The extensive 3Dfindit.com catalogs, preview and search capabilities save further time over hunting for data across various component manufacturer sites. “KeyCreator users will appreciate the flexibility afforded by the 3Dfindit.com integration,” says Ram Eswaran, CTO at Kubotek. "This 3DfindIT integration will be a

Kubotek3D, a leading supply chain software provider, today announced the 2022 service pack 2 release of the KeyCreator software products. This release provides updates to CAD file translators, several interface updates, and dozens of fixes. Updated CAD TranslatorsReading of CAD files in KeyCreator software has been updated to support the latest versions of several major CAD file formats: Dassault Systèmes CATIA V5 R2022x (R32) Pro: Adds 2D file support Prime/Drafting: Adds 2D&3D file support Siemens Digital Industries Software (SDIS) NX Series 1980 Pro: Adds 2D file support for builds 2007-2015 Prime/Drafting: Adds 2D&3D file support for builds 2007-2015 SDIS Parasolid 34.1 (Prime/Drafting only) Minor Enhancements The column widths in the Level Entity Count and Move Instance to Layout dialogs have been widened to improve readability of information displayed in them. The default insertion position for standard washer bodies has been adjusted to be underneath the washer to better support locating these components on top of holes. Toggling the insertion position