Position Papers

TUKATECH, Inc., announced today that they have moved their World Headquarters to new location in Los Angeles, CA. The address of the new location is 5462 Jillson St., Los Angeles, CA 90040.   All other contact information including phone numbers remain the same.  This move comes after 18 years in the previous location, just one mile south of Jillson St. “As TUKATECH continues to grow, we are excited to expand our footprint in USA,” said Ram Sareen, CEO.  “This new facility allows us to better serve the needs of over 70% of Fashion Industry in Southern California with training, support and consulting. “

Kalypso announces a strategic partnership with GoEngineer, a reseller of Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software. Kalypso delivers a comprehensive set of services that enable innovation, including PLM technology strategy and implementation services. In addition to software sales, GoEngineer provides technical PLM expertise including upgrade, hosting, integration and implementation services. As part of the partnership agreement, Kalypso has acquired GoEngineer’s implementation services business. “The Kalypso-GoEngineer partnership enables both firms to scale our businesses to better serve the growing demand for PLM services and software,” said George Young, CEO of Kalypso. “With the addition of GoEngineer’s implementation business to Kalypso we strengthen the size and experience of our delivery team, allowing us to serve a larger client base with a broader set of PLM services.” GoEngineer will continue to focus on providing PLM cloud services by subscription and hosting of perpetual licenses. Kalypso will continue to focus on implementation

C&G SYSTEMS INC. has received “Gold Product” certification. This is the final level of conformity in the certification program sponsored by Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS. The product receiving Gold Product Certification is “CG CAM-TOOL for SOLIDWORKS”, a “CAM” software for machining molds, dies and parts. CG CAM-TOOL functions totally as an Add-In inside of “SOLIDWORKS” the 3D CAD software developed by Dassault Systèmes. CG CAM-TOOL is acknowledged as a CAM product that is fully integrated with SOLIDWORKS. Receiving said program’s certification proves the software’s higher level of affinity with SOLIDWORKS, and further enhances the recognition from worldwide SOLIDWORKS users and resellers, as a tightly integrated CAM software, functioning inside of SOLIDWORKS. Our partnership with Dassault Systèmes, at the technical level, has been strengthened as well. This will greatly contribute, to the swiftness of the development of the functions, and the upgrading of the products in the future. “CG CAM-TOOL for SOLIDWORKS” was released

Altair today announced that John Calabrese, former General Motors Vice President of Global Vehicle Engineering, will join a newly formed board of directors for Altair ProductDesign, a wholly owned subsidiary focused on product development, enterprise solutions, and customer site services.  The board has been established for the U.S.-based entity, but will guide all Altair consulting business initiatives around the world. Calabrese's career at General Motors spanned more than three decades and included multiple functional and operational roles across the company, culminating in his leadership of the company's global vehicle engineering organization from 2011-2014. "The role of Altair ProductDesign is to support and demonstrate Altair's vision of how simulation-driven design radically improves the way companies design products and make decisions," noted Mike Heskitt, Chief Operating Officer of Altair ProductDesign.  "Given Mr. Calabrese's remarkable background in product engineering, his insights and guidance as a member of our board of directors will be invaluable." "I am honored to join

Forming Technologies Inc. (FTI), announces that it has acquired Rand Technologies Japan and created a new company, FTI Rand Japan KK. The company will be located in Tokyo, Japan. “FTI is very proud to announce our joint partnership with Rand Technologies”, states Michael Gallagher, VP Sales and Marketing of Forming Technologies Inc. “Rand Technologies and FTI have similar core values and corporate philosophies and an underlying desire to bring value to the bottom line for our customers.  The synergy between us will enable our customers to become more efficient, optimize their costs and ultimately accelerate their design-to-manufacture time.” Maburatani-san, President of FTI Rand Japan states “We are very excited to join forces with Forming Technologies and become part of a leading global technology company for the design, simulation and costing of sheet metal components. We share similar value systems with respect to customer and employee satisfaction and by combining both companies to form FTI

“What’s next?” This is a question often asked in the PLM market but seldom fully understood without looking at what has already happened (i.e., letting the past predict the future). Fortunately, there are a multitude of signs that indicate significant growth well into the foreseeable future. But what do these signs tell us? What will the PLM solutions of the future look like? What solution characteristics are industrial companies looking for? What functionality do they need? What type of business solutions are really required to be successful? In general, today’s signs point to the ongoing evolution of PLM. What it is…what it looks like…how it supports a company…all of this is progressing and evolving fairly rapidly. In this 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

nPower Software announces the 2.0 release of its Power Surfacing product. Power Surfacing is an award winning industrial design plugin product for SolidWorks® 3D design software that significantly improves the design process for modeling organic, free form surfaces in SolidWorks®. Power Surfacing 2.0, with support for SolidWorks® 2015, builds on the successful 1.0 version of Power Surfacing. Power Surfacing 2.0 greatly improves the ability to integrate organic / free form design with mechnical / functional design. Power Surfacing integrates Subdivision Surface (Sub-D) modeling (with powerful free form surface modeling) into the SolidWorks® product; the integration of Power Surfacing's Sub-D modeling tools has empowered SolidWorks® customers with tools to design free form, aesthetically pleasing "Class A" surfaces quickly and easily, improving product design and work flow. The 2.0 version of Power Surfacing enhances the ability to integrate Sub-D design with typical NURBS models. Power Surfacing now supports parametric Sub-D design, tangential connectivity to SolidWorks® surfaces and solids, constraints to connect

Luxion announced the release of  KeyShot Enterprise Edition, a complete software solution that combines all KeyShot features and add-ons including KeyShot Animation, KeyShotVR, Network Rendering and Siemens NX integration. KeyShot is used for the creation of visuals in large companies and Fortune 1000 product manufacturers across many industries. KeyShot Enterprise Edition meets the need for users of high-end 3D modeling software who require both KeyShot integration and the complete suite of KeyShot products. KeyShot Enterprise Edition is the single product option that meets this need with a solution to enhance the 3D visual workflow for users of specific 3D software. KeyShot Enterprise Edition includes the following product options: KeyShot Pro Floating – KeyShot Pro Floating is the full-feature, floating license version of KeyShot. Features include unlimited realtime and output resolution, KeyShot HDRI Editor, View and Scene sets, Render layers and passes, NURBS import, OBJ and ZPR export and more with FlexLM license server management. KeyShot

Kalypso announces PLM Pulse, the firm’s managed services for product lifecycle management (PLM) system support, administration and maintenance. As the PLM market evolves and matures, more organizations are in need of specialized PLM technology support to ensure optimal system performance. Companies are finding it is often more cost effective and operationally beneficial to outsource this function than developing this capacity internally. “Our objective is to help organizations deliver real business value and sustainable results from PLM,” said Trey Allen, partner at Kalypso. “With PLM Pulse, our clients can get the PLM solution support they need from our business and technical experts. This frees up their internal resources to focus on more valuable innovation activities instead.” PLM Pulse provides user administration, configuration changes, on-call issue resolution, proactive system monitoring, environment strategy, installation and maintenance, and backup and recovery for leading PLM applications. Business process and direct user support services are also available. While designed to deliver the

The swift evolution of Edgecam Workflow is highlighted with over 50 new and enhanced aspects of functionality in the latest release. Waveform turning, multiple machining sequence support, ribbon bar and interface updates, and the inclusion of Wire EDM mean that Edgecam 2015 R1, from Vero Software, continues to be a game changer in ensuring UK manufacturers can compete in a global economy. Vero’s Strategic Product Director, Raf Lobato, says having developed waveform roughing for milling during the last two years, the new version of Edgecam also makes it available for turning strategies. And manufacturers say that will be particularly valuable in driving down costs.  Rob Duncan, from Linkham Scientific Instruments says: “We invested in a new mill-turn machine early in 2014, which is reducing cycle times. But using Edgecam’s new Waveform toolpath generation for turning, will make an even bigger difference. “We see Edgecam as a vital tool...we look at the latest enhancements and