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3D Systems announced VSP® Connect, a centralized, cloud-based surgical planning portal that integrates automated workflows and artificial intelligence (AI). As the latest addition to the company’s VSP surgical planning solutions, VSP Connect empowers device manufacturers and surgeons with real-time patient case visualization and improved collaboration capabilities. VSP Connect is powered by Enhatch, with whom the company entered a partnership in 2022 to scale personalized medical device delivery. The solution incorporates Enhatch’s AI and automation technologies with 3D Systems’ FDA-cleared workflows for patient-specific solutions, including advanced software, expert planning services, personalized implant and instrument design, and industry-leading 3D printers and manufacturing processes. This combination improves visibility for healthcare systems and medical device manufacturers and streamlines the preoperative planning process — helping make personalized procedures more efficient while delivering improved outcomes. “VSP Connect is the missing link in surgical planning, bridging the gap between patient care and cutting-edge technology,” said Michael Phipps, CTO/president, Enhatch. “With Enhatch's advanced AI

Aspen Technology, Inc., a global leader in industrial software, announced a new emissions management solution that gives asset-intensive organizations the ability to pinpoint and act on key operational areas with the biggest impact on their emissions reduction efforts. The new solution features AspenTech Operational Insights™, a proven decision support capability that unites, correlates, analyzes and visualizes data from across an organization for fast, confident decision-making on those critical areas affecting emissions. AspenTech’s new emissions management solution consolidates customer data and leverages operational technology (OT) applications in the plant, the enterprise and the entire value chain into a single, dynamic visual interface. As a result, customers can make decisions with the benefit of a “single pane of glass” view for carbon emissions, margin and abatement. In addition, the real-time nature of the solution eliminates the wait to review time-sensitive data. “AspenTech’s emissions management solution addresses the need customers are focused on – the

AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, has announced its portfolio-wide transition to a subscription business model. To accelerate access to modern solutions and meet dynamic business needs, customers can trade-in their existing perpetual licenses for subscriptions spanning any mix of cloud, hybrid, and on-premises solutions across the design-operate-optimize industrial lifecycle. The AVEVA Flex subscription program revolutionizes the way industrial software is purchased and consumed. It can help reduce upfront costs as much as 65%, while enabling flexibility and scalability to respond to changing business needs, industry standards and regulatory requirements. New licenses for major engineering and operations solutions in AVEVA’s software portfolio are now subscription only, and the company has set a target to transition 80 percent of customer licenses from perpetual to subscription by 2025. Saadi Kermani, Vice President of Cloud Platform and Digital Business at AVEVA, said: “Industrial organizations, taking a hybrid approach to their software architectures, are capitalizing on the increased data insights and functionality

Desktop Metal, Inc., a global leader in additive manufacturing technologies for mass production, announced the launch of Live Suite™ — a package of premium software applications with all-new functionality for users of the company’s Additive Manufacturing 2.0 systems across Team DM brands. Building on the success of the company’s Live Sinter™ simulation software, Live Suite enables users to make their digital design data come alive easily and accurately in 3D printed metal, polymer, and ceramic parts. Live Sinter uses an advanced multi-physics approach based on state-of-the art GPUs to simulate the end-to-end printing and sintering process — generating new design shapes that will deliver the desired final part within tight tolerances. Furthermore, Live Sinter applies state of the art machine learning to calibrate this simulation process to match real-world results for the world’s largest install base of binder jet systems. “AM 2.0 is a digital manufacturing process that is ultimately powered by

Kelly Gallagher of Siemens posted to their blog to announce the most recent release of Tecnomatix. Kelly says “Tecnomatix 2301 launched recently with several exciting new advancements in the areas of Teamcenter connectivity, UI updates, robotics simulation, offline programming, virtual commissioning, human simulation and virtual reality. “ Read the full post here: https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/tecnomatix/discover-whats-new-in-tecnomatix-march-2023/ To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Siemens on CIMdata.com

The FMI 3.0 Implementers’ Guide is a free resource intended to give non-normative recommendations and guidance to implementers of the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) standard version 3.0. It has been published jointly by prostep ivip and the Modelica Association Project FMI. FMI has established itself as a widely adopted format for exchanging simulation artefacts and co-simulation. More than 170 tools officially support FMI, and many more in-house solutions are built on top of FMI. The FMI 3.0 Implementers’ Guide provides best practice recommendations to implementers of FMI, focusing on FMI 3.0, derived from the industrial experience of the prostep ivip Smart Systems Engineering project members and the FMI community in employing FMI. The overarching goal of the recommendations is to aid interoperability of FMI implementations and ensure ease-of-use for end users in employing FMI. The FMI 3.0 Implementers’ Guide is intended for tool vendors planning to support FMI in their products, for importing and exporting of FMUs.

New Documentation Engine Documentation is a key aspect of IT projects. Most developers like us don't like to spend to much time writing documentation even though we complain every time something is not documented. The key challenges for documentation are: make it easy to write/publish make sure it is up to date with the software version make it easy to find the right information enable multi-language support Until now we used a solution we built ourselves. It takes markdown files and generates a static website. The reached a limitation in terms of navigation and search. We used the right bits of technologies but we recognize that others have done a better job. We looked at and tested various solutions. The best we could find that would be close to our existing solution and that would fit our needs is Retype. It doesn't change much for your own documentation. The only impact is the location of your

Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division announced the release of PAS PlantState Integrity™ version 9.0. The PAS PlantState Integrity platform includes solutions for alarm management, boundary management, control loop monitoring and tuning and managing Independent Protection Layers (IPL) that work together to ensure safe, reliable and compliant industrial operations. This release expands the platform’s multi-lingual support to include Japanese, Korean, Chinese and German languages. It also includes: User and security enhancements via new Single Sign-on (SSO) options Documentation and Rationalization workflow enhancements that standardize, enhance and simplify information sharing across multiple control systems and multiple sites while making it easier to complete Documentation and Rationalization projects To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Hexagon on CIMdata.com

Honeywell, a global leader in fire and life safety, launched the first fire alarm system with UL-approved self-testing smoke detectors that can be tested automatically, changing the way fire and life safety systems are installed, tested and maintained. The NOTIFIER INSPIRE™ fire alarm system with Self-Test detectors is designed to help create a safer building environment by increasing facility managers awareness of system needs while equipping service providers with digital self-testing tools that streamline maintenance and support regulatory compliance and system uptime. NOTIFIER INSPIRE is an all-in-one fire system that delivers reliable protection, scalability, efficient monitoring, as well as flexible and timely reporting. It helps enhance fire technician efficiency as it is designed to scale based on the buildings' needs, minimizes the need for equipment changes, and provides secure connectivity. "Honeywell is integrating intelligence across all aspects of fire and life safety systems," said Jurgen Van Goethem, global president, Fire, Honeywell. "By digitalizing the most essential

Optitex®, a global provider of integrated end-to-end 2D-3D CAD/CAM software solutions for the fashion, transportation seating, and furniture industries, today announced their collaboration with Sizer Technologies (Sizer), a global leader in contactless digital body measuring solutions. The partnership with Sizer presents clear added-value for Optitex’s global apparel customers, specifically the fashion, lingerie, uniform and workwear sectors, where size accuracy and garment fit are mission critical. In addition, large brands and retailers can now benefit from an immediate, responsive digital fitting solution to help optimize their daily operations, and yield significant savings in time, costs, and returns. Optitex customers enjoy a wide selection of highly-accurate fit analysis tools like PDS Grading, Variation Grading, M2M technologies and 3D Tension View and more, for optimized fit predication. Implementing Sizer’s technology, Optitex uniform customers will eliminate the need for costly and time-consuming manual fitting sessions, and the arduous logistics of sampling, shipping and returning size sets. Additionally, fashion and