Position Papers

The Nemetschek Group presents its new corporate design. The main elements are the new logo and the launch of the new website, which reinforce the alignment of the Group as an internationally leading software provider for the entire life cycle of buildings. The addition of “Group” is a clear reference to the group structure of a strategic parent company with strong, independent brands. An external appearance which is consistent worldwide will make the international alignment of the Nemetschek Group and the common bond of the brands clear: “A NEMETSCHEK COMPANY” will be added to every brand in the course of the upcoming year. This allows the brands to present a face to the customer which showcases their individual strengths, make it possible for them distinguish themselves from each other and at the same time remain recognizable as members of a strongly positioned international corporate group and as Nemetschek brands. Parallel to the

Continuing its tradition of promoting and recognizing printed circuit board (PCB) design excellence, Mentor Graphics Corporation announced the winners of its 25th annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards. Started in 1988, this program is the longest running competition of its kind in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. It recognizes engineers and designers who use innovative methods and design tools to address today’s complex PCB systems design challenges and produce industry-leading products. Prominent experts in the PCB industry judged entries from around the world in six categories that represent a wide variety of industries: Consumer electronics and handheld Industrial control, instrumentation, security and medical Military and aerospace Computers, blade and servers, memory systems Telecom, network controllers, line cards Transportation and automotive The expert judges included Happy Holden, Gentex Corporation (retired); Gary Ferrari, FTG Circuits technical support director; Pete Waddell, president of UP Media and publisher of Printed Circuit Design & Fab/Circuits Assembly Magazine; Andy Kowalewski, Metamako LP senior interconnect

3D Systems announced that it made Deloitte’s 2014 Fast 500™ rankings. The prestigious Technology Fast 500™ list is an annual ranking of the fastest growing public and private North American companies who, according to Deloitte, “are on the cutting edge of transforming the way we do business.” 3D Systems joins this distinguished group with 355% growth between the years of 2009 and 2013, and comes in as the highest ranked 3D printing company on the list. “3D Systems’ ranking in the Technology Fast 500™ underscores the strength of our rapidly expanding portfolio of 3D products and services and the disruptive nature of our technology,” said Avi Reichental, President and CEO, 3DS. “Our powerful, end-to-end 3D products and services are driving breakthrough applications everywhere from 3D personalized healthcare and virtual surgical planning to the end-use production of flight-ready, metal aerospace components to a fully integrated, digital-to-physical workflow on the engineer’s desktop.” 3DS continues to empower users of

 PDF Key takeaways: 1,800 PTC customers, partners, and employees convened in Stuttgart at PTC Live Stuttgart 2014 and LiveWorx, on November 18 and 19 The acquisition by, and integration into PTC of ThingWorx and Axeda, two leading Internet of Things (IoT) solution and service providers, help PTC boost realization of their IoT vision and strategy PTC’s IoT Roadmap shows a solid foundation and framework, towards seamless integration of IoT into their overall Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) portfolio CIMdata recently attended the PTC Live Stuttgart 2014 and LiveWorx events in Stuttgart, Germany. These parallel events were held at the Messe Stuttgart venue, and registrants to either event could attend sessions in both events at will. The PTC Live event gave PTC customers the opportunity to not only hear and explore PTC’s solution strategies and roadmaps, but also to showcase their own work, network with peers, share ideas, and discuss how they are addressing their challenges. At

The first installment in a three-part series that explores the platformization of PLM ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 December 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the publication of a new position paper detailing how the “platformization” of PLM is morphing into new ways of going about the business of innovation. “How and Why PLM is Being Transformed Into a Product-Oriented Innovation Platform” explores in detail how, due to its ongoing evolution as a business strategy, PLM is fast approaching and in some cases achieving the status of a business platform. PLM-as-a-platform, or the platformization of PLM, has evolved out of the need for innovation throughout the product lifecycle. This paper, the first in a series of three CIMdata position papers on this topic, considers the major drivers for higher levels of innovation—the Circular Economy, including the concept of “servitization,” and globalization. The need for innovation has never

 PDF Key takeaways: The combination of scarce resources and globalization are driving an upheaval in innovation and lifecycle management Scarcity and globalization upheavals are coalescing into business strategies that demand the “platformization” of PLM The Iron Triangle of better / faster / cheaper is no longer good enough In its ongoing evolution as a business strategy, PLM is approaching and in some cases already achieving the status of a business platform. PLM has always been a core enabler for innovation as part of a business strategy. Now PLM-as-a-platform, or the “platformization” of PLM, is morphing into new ways of going about the business of innovation. There are two major drivers for higher levels of innovation, and they are unstoppable. One is the Circular Economy, where, according to the UK-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation, “today’s products are tomorrow’s resources.” Closely related to the Circular Economy is “servitization,” manufacturers delivering their products as services under service-level agreements (SLAs). Under

GTX® Corporation announced the newest release of its popular GTXImage CAD™ Series, Version 18.0. The new GTXImage CAD Series, Version 18.0 enhancements and features include: Full AutoCAD 2015 DWG/DXF compatibility Support for Microsoft® Windows® 8 and Windows® 7, 32- and 64-bit operating systems New User Interface with enhanced Icons, Ribbons, and Toolbars which incorporate the new Light and Dark theme environments of AutoCAD 2015 Reengineered Rasterization Engine supports the new CAD entities including blocks with attributes, angled text and geometry New Installation for Windows 8 and Windows 7 PCs to alleviate any security permission issues Improved Licensing - Package and Borrow facility options for Network Flex LM licensing. PDF support, open and save a color or black and white PDF file – once open, the files can be edited and then saved to a TIF format or a PDF Intelligent Object Picking™ (IOP) raster selection enhancements include selecting raster within a Rotated Rectangle and selecting raster inside & crossing a rotated rectangle

Graebert™ GmbH announced immediate availability of its acclaimed ARES™ Commander 2015 2D/3D CAD package on all three desktop operating systems: Microsoft® Windows®, Apple® Mac® OS X™ and Linux®. A full list of new features is available at www.graebert.com – 30-day free software downloads for Windows (32- and 64-bit), OS X and Linux 64-bit, as well as videos, social media information and additional documentation may be found there as well. Graebert-developed CAD technologies are in use by more than 7M design professionals in more than 100 countries in 14 languages through not only ARES Commander, but also dozens of OEM partner solutions including DraftSight® and CorelCAD™ (which are both powered by the ARES CAD engine). The company has also released ARES Touch 2015 Beta, the world’s first DWG-based CAD solution for Google® Android®. Each user of ARES Commander 2015 will also receive ARES Touch for one year, renewable for successive one year terms

Fast, reliable and efficient – the configuration software Festo Design Tool 3D reduces the risk of errors when designing and ordering system modules and offers greater convenience. The Festo Design Tool 3D was developed in cooperation with CADENAS the software manufacturer from Augsburg. Delivering system modules as a complete package with one order item simplifies logistics and assembly operations. Until now, there was always a residual risk when dimensioning and ordering pneumatic drives. Many individual system components had to be placed manually by designers using CAD systems, and the result was long lists of items to be ordered. The potential for errors was therefore large. More security There is now an answer to this problem – the new Festo Design Tool 3D provides more security. Fast, reliable and efficient, this configuration software provides a convenient way of dimensioning standard cylinder modules with accessories in all the usual CAD formats. The Festo Design Tool 3D

CCE has released a new update of its Unified Interop (UIOp) libraries, version 29.5. "UIOp provides an extremely powerful, yet easy-to-deploy interface to translate multiple CAD formats to Parasolid," said Vinay Wagle, CCE's VP of Marketing and Sales. "With UIOp's unified API, our ISV partners have been able to implement the technology in less than a day, compared to the weeks it normally takes to integrate such broad CAD interop support," added Wagle. UIOp now also provides read access to parts and assemblies from Creo 3.0, Solid Edge ST7, and Autodesk Inventor 2015. In addition, support has been added to translate Rhino and ACIS files to Parasolid. A new option is now provided to select the configuration of the file to be translated; this feature is available for SOLIDWORKS and Solid Edge. There is also a significant enhancement in the performance of all the Parasolid translators in UIOp. The CATIA V5 translator in UIOp