Position Papers

SoftInWay Inc. is pleased to announce its new client – Weir Power & Industrial. Weir Power & Industrial, a division of The Weir Group, is headquartered in Scotland with locations on five continents. The company provides a wide range of engineering solutions and support services for the global power generation, oil & gas, and industrial sectors. Among the many offerings of Weir Power & Industrial are the design and manufacture of hydro turbines and industrial steam turbines. Weir Power & Industrial has placed an order to use SoftInWay’s flagship software, AxSTREAM, in order to perform the design, optimization and analysis of their axial steam turbines. SoftInWay experts will be fully training Weir engineers to use AxSTREAM so as to incorporate it into the design, analysis, and manufacturing process already in use at the company. AxSTREAM offers many capabilities relating to axial turbines, including: Design, redesign, analysis, and optimization in a fully-integrated standardized interface Preliminary

SPRING Technologies is pleased to announce that the engineering company Musashi, in Japan, has chosen to use NCSIMUL Machine software in its 5-axis operations. Before choosing NCSIMUL Machine, Musashi applied another NC simulation software package for the 5-axis machining process used to make turbine impellers. The operation took over 16 hours and the user interface froze frequently when rotating or zooming in on the 3D model during simulation. Musashi consequently set out to find a solution that would offer faster simulation, with smooth 3D model handling and easy settings. “We wanted to run the simulations on our 5-axis impeller machining process faster. We were looking for an easy-to-use application and automated simulation software,” said Mr. Baba, manager of the Development Department. At the time, Mr. Yagihashi, the president of Musashi, visited the Saeilo Japan booth at the JIMTOF 2012 tradeshow, where he first heard about NCSIMUL Machine. “Our president visited many other booths

Flow Science, Inc. has announced a new consultancy agreement with Minerva Dynamics to provide computational fluid dynamics (CFD) services in the maritime, hydraulic engineering and manufacturing sectors. Minerva Dynamics offers a UK-based resource to service the increasing need to simulate challenging free-surface flow problems, without the expense or technical constraints associated with scaled experimental testing. Minerva specializes in the simulation of hydrodynamic design problems and has selected the industry-leading free-surface flow software, FLOW-3D, to assist them. “Our services are targeted towards engineers and scientists who require a deeper understanding of their problem and quantifiable forces, coefficients, and flow rates,” said Peter Arnold, Principal of Minerva Dynamics.

allsafe JUNGFALK, a specialist for load restraint systems, places its trust in CIM DATABASE PLM. The mid-sized company uses CONTACT`s CAD data and document management solution, including ERP synchronization, and is planning further system enhancements relating to paperless production, classification and project management. allsafe JUNGFALK's objective is to establish a more consistent product creation process and simplify collaboration between development and production. In the long term, it is intended that all technical data, documents and workflows relating to the product portfolio be made available in CIM DATABASE PLM in a way that is audit-trail capable throughout the company. To do this, the company recently first put the CAD data and document management solution with an MS Office link, project-specific storage, extraction of BOMs and neutral formats, followed by integration with the ERP system abas, into operation. As the next step, allsafe JUNGFALK will implement the concept of paperless production. This will involve

Q4 2014 Financial Highlights Revenue: $539.0 million GAAP earnings per share: $0.39 Non-GAAP earnings per share: $0.64 FY 2014 Financial Highlights Revenue: $2.057 billion GAAP earnings per share: $1.64 Non-GAAP earnings per share: $2.53 Cash flow from operations: $551 million Ending cash balance: $985.8 million Synopsys, Inc. reported results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2014. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014, Synopsys reported revenue of $539.0 million, compared to $504.9 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013. Revenue for fiscal year 2014 was $2.057 billion, an increase of 4.9 percent from $1.962 billion in fiscal 2013. "Fiscal 2014 was a very good, very significant year for Synopsys," said Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys. "We delivered solid financial results, and built a strong foundation for 2015. We released game-changing new products that will drive a multi-year upgrade cycle. And we broadened our total addressable market to include the higher-growth software quality, test and security space. We look forward to another year of solid

Eight country-specific PLM market analyses now available ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 4 December 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of seven additional country-specific PLM Market Analysis Reports. These new reports follow the release of the 2014 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year. The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2013 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2013, and forecasts PLM investments for 2014 through 2018. It includes charts that present the overall PLM market and its various sectors as defined by CIMdata. These include collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm), tools and tools sub-sectors, and digital manufacturing. In addition to its global reports, CIMdata now offers eight country-specific PLM Market Analysis Reports: Brazil China Germany India Japan Russia South Korea United States These

QuadRite today announced the release of version 4.5 of its PLM software, RitePro™. Referred to by its customers as “The best kept secret in the industry”, QuadRite delivers a PLM software solution that is generations ahead of other PLM solutions. Version 4.5 includes significant enhancements to the software’s advanced set of capabilities, allowing users to easily and economically access greater functionality and increased regulatory compliance. RitePro version 4.5 is delivered through a private cloud, it is uniquely packed with best practice business processes built to help the entire enterprise bring a product to market. It trumps both the traditional departmental PLM approach and the development platform approach. QuadRite’s 3rd generation PLM solutions expand the traditional scope of PLM Systems to enable all departments in a company to participate in relevant product-related processes. Compared to traditional PLM solutions that focus only on supporting the activities of the engineering group through bill of materials (BOM) and

The new EPLAN Design Space Exchange (DSE) will be unveiled at SPS IPC Drives. DSE supports data exchange between mechanical construction and control system technology in control cabinet and switchgear construction. The expansion module for EPLAN Pro Panel Professional, developed by EPLAN and MCAD specialists at affiliate Cideon, is available for the first time with EPLAN Platform 2.4 and compatible with Autodesk Inventor 2014 and 2015. “Without the cabinet case, there is no mounting layout, and without the mounting layout, there is no final case design. This dilemma can now be resolved with the Design Space Exchange expansion module,” explains Thomas Weichsel, product manager at EPLAN. DSE is based on a fully parametric 3D geometric data model of the mechanical design that takes into account the particular requirements for the installation location of the mounting panel or cabinet. DSE accesses the 3D CAD data of the control cabinet case design

MSC Software Corporation announced the new release of MSC Nastran 2014 and Patran 2014. MSC Nastran 2014 delivers significant enhancements to its groundbreaking solver embedded fatigue functionality as well as performance improvements and ease of use. Patran 2014 supports the new fatigue analysis capabilities and delivers improvements to nonlinear analysis support. Linear Analysis The highly popular external superelement (SE) capability of MSC Nastran has been enhanced providing users with the ability to rotate, move or mirror a primary external SE. This capability is designed to reduce the modeling effort for full vehicle analysis with duplicate assemblies like aircraft engines attached to wings, or landing gears attached to the fuselage. New capability was added to activate and deactivate rigid elements in subcases and improve flexibility in defining combinations of load cases often used for safety related industries and airline certification. Nastran Embedded Fatigue Several enhancements have been implemented in this release to improve the efficiency and

Eagle Point Software Corporation announced the expansion of content in Pinnacle Series. Pinnacle Series subscribers who use the cloud version can now access: Workflows for BIM Implementation Workflows for BIM 360™ Glue® Workflows for Autodesk® Vehicle Tracking An additional 50+ Cheat Sheets for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Eagle Point Software is exhibiting at Autodesk University from December 2-4, 2014 in Las Vegas, NV. To see a live demonstration of these resources, plus many more, visit with us at booth 162. "As organizations continue to adopt and expand BIM into their design workflows, Eagle Point strives to provide comprehensive workflows, videos and support through the Pinnacle Series that connect people to answers in this dynamic and collaborative environment," explains Luis Rojas, Director of AEC - Content and Services at Eagle Point Software. "Our subscribers can now access tools that will enable them to create better BIM Execution Plans with detailed BIM Use workflows, take advantage of the Autodesk cloud technology