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Trimble announced that Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) Operations and Maintenance has selected Trimble’s AgileAssetsⓇ infrastructure enterprise asset management software to manage, maintain and operate the country’s 10,600-km road network and associated transportation infrastructure. The selected software complements Trimble’s QuadriⓇsoftware, a cloud-based Building Information Modeling (BIM) collaboration solution that NPRA already uses for construction projects. As Norway’s road network becomes increasingly complex, the powerful combination of Trimble’s Quadri and AgileAssets will enable NPRA to meet growing demands by leveraging connected data to improve performance throughout the entire asset lifecycle, from design and construction to operations and maintenance. “Trimble has been heavily involved in the road design and construction process in Norway for years and is a trusted partner in our digital transformation,” said Bjørn Laksforsmo, division director at NPRA. “Efficiently maintaining our road network and related assets is critical for keeping our citizens safe, maximizing the benefits from our infrastructure investments and meeting the

US and India-based technology startup Praan, Inc. (Praan) developed its latest filterless air purification technology using Ansys’ industry-leading simulation solutions. The company’s advanced technology includes filterless purifiers for indoor air in large spaces with near-zero maintenance costs, and an advanced tablet-based activated carbon filter. Praan’s technology is currently on display at CES at Ansys’ booth, #4401. To help mitigate the worldwide problem of air pollution, Praan designed the MK One and MK Two for large spaces. The advanced air purification technologies — designed with Ansys® Fluent® computational fluid dynamics —capture polluted air, separate microscopic particulate matter (particle pollution) into a collection chamber, and release cleaner air back into the atmosphere. Additionally, Praan offsets any carbon dioxide emitted during manufacturing through afforestation or direct air capture methods, making all their products net-zero. “With Ansys simulation, our team significantly reduced the development time of functional prototypes from four and a half years to 45 days,” said Angad

Building on a longstanding relationship, Ansys signed a multiyear agreement with Sub-Zero Group, Inc. (Sub-Zero Group) to expand Sub-Zero Group’s use of Ansys’ simulation solutions and digitally transform its research and development (R&D) processes to optimize designs, efficiency, and product quality. The industry-leading manufacturer of premium kitchen appliance brands Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove, Sub-Zero Group implements Ansys’ industry-leading simulation tools to inform designs from early stages, reduce physical prototypes by up to 50%, and accelerate development by nearly 20%. Historically, Sub-Zero Group integrated simulation as a late-stage verification method. Today, Ansys helps Sub-Zero Group create and maintain an infrastructure that includes automated and semi-automated workflows in which simulation is used to ideate and fine-tune designs before a physical prototype is ever made. Further, by shifting to virtual prototyping and testing, Sub-Zero Group improves sustainability by decreasing material usage and manufacturing time, which preserves energy and eliminates unnecessary waste. “By incorporating Ansys’ simulation solutions earlier

Altair, a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced the latest updates to its simulation portfolio, Simulation 2022.2. These updates build on the enhancements brought by Simulation 2022.1 and improve Altair’s cloud elasticity and scalability, electrification, and product development capabilities. Cloud Elasticity and Scalability Simulation 2022.2 offers an enhanced Altair One experience by providing users with flexible access to solutions, applications, data, and compute, allowing users to launch leading tools like Altair® HyperMesh®, Altair® HyperView®, Altair® SimLab®, and Altair® Inspire™ in browsers or on the desktop/laptop. Altair One is a turnkey marketplace that connects users – from any device at any time – to their solutions, data, teams, and compute infrastructure.  In addition, users can submit solver jobs covering structural, thermal, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and high/low frequency electromagnetics disciplines in Altair’s scalable, elastic cloud infrastructure – making it easier for organizations with limited IT and high-performance computing (HPC) resources to meet budgets and demand. Moreover, self-service allows users

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi DSP IP now supports Dolby Atmos® for cars, making it the first DSP IP with this capability. Cadence has optimized Dolby car experience technology to run on the Tensilica HiFi DSP for audio playback of Dolby Atmos for cars. Offloading Dolby Atmos to the low-energy, high-performance Tensilica HiFi DSP enables system-on-chip (SoC) providers to offer automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers a more energy-efficient implementation without affecting the audio experience. Dolby Atmos for cars immerses drivers and passengers in the future of in-car entertainment with greater audio details, clarity and sound separation that bring listeners closer to their favorite content. Dolby Atmos brings music to life by providing artists an expanded palette that can be used to express their creativity in an entirely new way. With Dolby Atmos, drivers can experience entertainment that has been created, delivered and played back as the artist intended. “At Dolby

Ready for more CAD in the new year? Just-released CMS IntelliCAD 11.1 includes all the new features found in the IntelliCAD 11.1 engine, focusing on new commands and abilities in dimensioning, blocks, and tables. More features throughout the program also include turning live sectioning on/off, aligning model space entities in layout viewports with entities in paper space or other model space viewports, drawing facet model helices, extracting isolines, custom paper sizes for .pc3 files, and more.  CMS IntelliCAD versions, some of which include BIM technology, can be purchased and downloaded with a perpetual or subscription license and can include a USB dongle for portable licensing. New users can try a free trial at https://us.intellicadms.com. Existing CMS IntelliCAD 11.0 users can update for free—simply uninstall version 11.0 before installing CMS IntelliCAD 11.1. CMS IntelliCAD 11.1 is based on the IntelliCAD 11.1 engine which was released to ITC members just two weeks ago. To view the original press

Performance tuning and Gift Feature Still working on v3, we still have some work to maintain and enhance v2. There's a mix of enhancements from v3 that we like to add to v2 and it obviously goes in both directions. Any performance improvement we can find while we are working with v2 is getting implemented in v3 if that makes sense. Having customers on v2 helps us getting more feedbacks and perf logs to evaluate our enhancements. Tag based client elements filtering So far we have only been limiting access to data based on the relationship between a user and the data. A few times we received the request to adapt the UI to users, mainly on the node listing grids. We agree, that even though we are 100% right on information access. It doesn't make sense sometimes to access the list of softwares if you don't have access to softwares. We thought

 PDF Key takeaways aPriori’s key message is that, with respect to sustainability, it’s time to move from intent to impact. aPriori announced aP Sustainability Insights, scheduled for release in Q1 2023, which garnered a lot of attention from attendees. aPriori announced aP Workspace scheduled for release in Q1 2023, with the promise of greater collaboration across the extended enterprise. aPriori announced the next major releases of aP Pro, aP Design, and aP Analytics in March 2023. Presenters at the conference emphasized the importance of applying early product design feedback, which improves manufacturability, profitability, and sustainability. Sustainable design is the key to identifying costly outliers, achieving a reduced carbon footprint. CIMdata attended aPriori’s Manufacturing Insights Conference 2022 in Boston, MA on November 15-16, 2022. This was a return to an in-person event for the first time since 2019, with approximately 200 attendees filling the halls, exhibit space, and meeting rooms at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf. aPriori is a

Turntide Technologies (Turntide), developer of electrification and sustainable operations technologies, is leveraging Ansys solutions to produce electric vehicle powertrain components that help its customers transform commercial and industrial vehicles from gas and diesel engines to clean, quiet battery electric machines — a significant step towards achieving global net-zero goals. While many automakers electrify passenger vehicles, Turntide is focused on supplying electrification solutions for commercial and industrial vehicles, such as construction equipment, agricultural machines, trains, marine and freight movers. These vehicles present greater sustainability challenges than passenger vehicles because of their heavy-duty loads, work cycles, and vibration. Timely, cost-effective simulation is essential to develop the solution components. Turntide uses a suite of Ansys tools to design and test components for construction equipment such as front wheel loaders or mini excavators. These simulations show the impact of extreme scenarios including weather, vibration, impact, and corrosive exposure to salt, sand and chemicals and provide performance and safety

HUS Logistics selected Roima’s FidaWare WMS to improve HUS Logistics’ role in providing efficient logistics services to customers. About HUS Logistics HUS Logistics provides logistics services, material services, and medical engineering services for the entire HUS. HUS, formally the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, is made up of five hospital areas: Helsinki University Hospital, Hyvinkää, Lohja, Porvoo, and Västra Nyland. HUS is the largest healthcare provider and the second-largest employer in Finland.  Clients of HUS Logistics include all HUS hospitals and treatment units. In addition, they provide services to the HUS member municipalities and the Helsinki University Hospital Specific Catchment Areas that have signed a service agreement with them.  Background The HUS Logistics WMS project was launched in the spring of 2021 with a survey on customer references of domestic WMS suppliers. During the WMS project and together with HUS Logistics warehouse staff, we visited the Masku Kalustetalo’s logistics center in Mäntsälä. HUS Logistics conducted a market presentation where we reviewed successful WMS projects and