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Eagle Point Software, creator of the Pinnacle Series e-learning solution, has been accepted into the SOLIDWORKS Partner Program, marking a continued progression of the organization's growth into the manufacturing sector. Eagle Point's Pinnacle Series complements and is compatible with the SOLIDWORKS line of tools, widely considered essential technology for the manufacturing industry. SOLIDWORKS offers complete 3D software tools that enable the creation, simulation, publishing, and management of data and facilitate the design of better products. Steve Biver, Eagle Point COO, shared how his company views this relationship with SOLIDWORKS. "This partnership, now in its early stages with room to grow, is exciting for our team as we have increased our focus on the manufacturing industry and showcasing the benefits of Pinnacle Series to companies that aim to improve the use of their design technologies." Biver continued, "Our Pinnacle Series platform provides many innovative solutions for manufacturing companies and helps teams within these types of organizations

ModuleWorks announces plans to step up its software development for digital dentistry as part of the company’s global growth strategy. Since it was founded in 2003, ModuleWorks has developed over 1500 person-years of core manufacturing technology with a worldwide team focusing on machining algorithms. The recent launch of its Strategic Partnership Program will raise funds from key partners to increase the company’s Research and Development capacity. As part of its continued growth strategy, ModuleWorks has also expanded its Headquarters in Aachen, Germany, this year, with R&D facilities dedicated for dental and industrial CNC machines, 3D printers and robotics hardware. "ModuleWorks software is integrated in systems that manufacture the objects everywhere around us: From molds for consumer items to airplane parts and, of course, dental prosthetics. It is notable that Digital Dentistry was our starting point in CAM automation - one of the four strategic development areas ModuleWorks is investing in. The remaining three areas

The Nemetschek Group, a leading global software provider for the AEC/O and media & entertainment industries, announced their investment in the start-up Preoptima, a carbon hub for the built environment. This investment further expands the Nemetschek Group's venture strategy of driving sustainability and innovation in the construction industry. Preoptima’s software is set to drive radical reductions of carbon in the built environment globally. The funding will be used to launch their WholeLifeCarbon API, which will provide uniquely accurate carbon calculations seamlessly integrated with existing workflows and toolsets. This will extend the current products, which use generative design and Artificial Intelligence to optimize carbon emissions from the earliest design onwards. “Worldwide, more than half of all people live in cities. At the same time, buildings are now responsible for 37% of global CO2 emissions. As urbanization continues, this trend will intensify. The construction industry must act and decarbonize its value chain”, states László Vértesi, Head

Spatial Business Systems, LLC (“SBS”), the leading provider of intelligent design solutions for the utility and critical infrastructure market has partnered with IMAGINiT Technologies to leverage their extensive content development, instructional delivery and implementation teams. Through this partnership, IMAGINiT will create eLearning content and training courses for the SBS products and will also provide delivery of instructional classes to SBS customers and service partners. “We’re honored that SBS selected IMAGINiT as their principal training partner as it demonstrates their trust in us earned during our collaboration on many successful implementation and adoption initiatives for shared clients,” says Dennis Helmick, vice president, government and utilities, IMAGINiT Technologies. “Customers will now benefit from this alignment ensuring a high level of consistency when it comes to deploying game changing technology and its successful adoption. IMAGINiT’s comprehensive range of capabilities including simulation, scanning, digital twins and other utility modernization solutions, along with a deep history in learning

At the world's largest industrial trade fair, CONTACT Software is making the benefits of digitization tangible with its low-code platform Elements: through an electric formula racing car, its digital twin, and a racetrack simulation. The industry can better address supply bottlenecks, rising costs, climate change, and other risks through digitization and align its business models in a resilient manner. Under the motto "Where PLM meets IoT", CONTACT Software will demonstrate from April 17-21 in Hanover how the product lifecycle can be made more sustainable from an economic and ecological perspective with end-to-end PLM and IoT applications. "Eyecatcher" in hall 17/booth H20 is an electrically powered racing car from Bremergy, which CONTACT and the Formula Student Electric Team of the University of Bremen have converted into a driving simulator. The bolide is networked via the CONTACT Elements platform. One monitor shows its product structure in PLM, while the IoT dashboard on the second

Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, launched the industry's only free cloud data loading, integration and ETL/ELT service - Informatica Cloud Data Integration-Free and PayGo. The new offering targets data practitioners and non-technical users such as in marketing, sales, and revenue operations teams to build data pipelines within minutes. For example, it provides operations teams with a fast, free, and frictionless way to load, integrate and analyze high-quality campaign, pipeline, forecast, and revenue data. In addition, data analysts and data engineers benefit from increased productivity and rapid development. This is the second in a series of releases that began with the Informatica Data Loader launch in May 2022. Taken together, Informatica Data Loader, Cloud Data Integration-Free (CDI-Free), and PayGo (CDI-PayGo) are the industry's only free data loading and integration solutions. They are natively built in to provide intelligent cloud data management services for all your data-driven use cases. Informatica CDI-Free,

Simulations Plus, Inc., a leading provider of modeling and simulation software and services for pharmaceutical safety and efficacy, announced that management will be presenting at the Raymond James & Associates’ 44 th Annual Institutional Investors Conference, scheduled for March 5-8, 2023, at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida. Shawn O’Connor, chief executive officer, will present on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at 1:40 p.m. Eastern Time. In addition, Mr. O’Connor will be available to host one-on-one meetings throughout the day. The live webcast and slide presentation will be available via this link and on the Investors page of the Simulations Plus website where it will also be available for replay after the event. The conference is by invitation only, so to attend the conference or request a one-on-one meeting, please contact your Raymond James representative. For more information about the Raymond James Institutional Investors Conference, please visit the Raymond James website or contact Brian Siegel from Hayden IR at 

Kubotek Kosmos, a leader in engineering and manufacturing geometric software technology, announced the 5.0 release of its CAD/CAM software interoperability products: Validate, Revision, Convert, and View. These CAD utility programs utilize proprietary Kubotek Kosmos modeling technology to support transfer of precise CAD data across the manufacturing supply chain. This major release drops the K-Compare and K-Display brand names and provides updates to CAD file readers and user interface improvements. The new software is available for customers to download immediately.  Updated CAD ReadersTo assure customers are prepared for any CAD files sent to them, reading of 3D CAD files across all 5.0 Kubotek Kosmos software programs has been updated to support new versions of nine CAD file formats: Autodesk Inventor 2023 Dassault Systemes (DS) CATIA V5 R2023x DS V6/3DExperience R2023x DS SolidWorks 2023 DS Spatial ACIS 2023 PTC Creo 9.0 Siemens Digital Industries Software (SDIS) NX 2206 SDIS Solid Edge 2023 SDIS Parasolid V35 The 5.0 update to these programs provides users

After WILO has already made good experiences with eCATALOGsolutions, the company will use PARTsolutions as a global standard part solution in the future In 2020, the multinational technology group WILO published a digital product catalog with 3D BIM data based on the eCATALOGsolutions software. This year, CADENAS and WILO are writing the next chapter of their joint success story: Starting July 1st, 2023, WILO will implement the Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions at every subsidiary worldwide with a design department to organize standard and repeat parts.  Many interfaces For WILO employees in all engineering departments to benefit from PARTsolutions, the software is rolled out as a bundle with interfaces to various systems. These include NX, SolidWorks and AutoCAD. Moreover, the package includes an integration for SAP Engineering Control Center | SAP ECTR for the CAD system NX. In addition, DSC Software AG, a long-standing partner of CADENAS, is supporting the project.  Leaner processes with PARTsolutions WILO has found that designers spend

Centric Software®, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market leader, proudly announces its partnership with Pan Pacific International Holdings, Inc. (PPIH), a leading player in the Japanese retail industry. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell consumer goods such as fashion, footwear, luxury, outdoor, consumer electronics, cosmetics & personal care and food & beverage to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. As the fourth largest retailer in Japan, PPIH proudly operates a successful portfolio of retail chains, including the popular discount store Don Quijote and supermarket Apita Piago. With a total of 610 stores in Japan and 105 stores overseas in the United States and other Asian regions, PPIH is expanding its reach and solidifying its position as a leader in the retail industry. PPIH has been developing and implementing systems to streamline its domestic retail business and stay ahead of market challenges. The