Position Papers

Popular education program will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan from May 4-8 ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 4 February, 2015 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to Ann Arbor, Michigan from May 4-8. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering. The three- or five-day program prepares PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. The program is facilitated by a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a CIMdata PLM Certificate and are invited to become a member of CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community. The program is built on CIMdata’s over 30 years of extensive experience guiding industrial companies in successfully

SSI released ShipConstructor 2015 R2.1 software in response to emerging ship design, engineering and building trends identified by a “Client Council” of industry leaders. The expert advisors on this software launch were representatives from US and Canadian companies: Genoa Design, Glosten & Associates, Gunderson Marine, and Trinity Marine Products. This group has similar production methods and/or design approaches. A different set of advisors from Europe provided input into the previous Client Council release last year. Focused on a Few. A Benefit to All. The Client Council Program reflects SSI’s commitment to understanding the global market. All clients, regardless of geographic region and type, will be able to benefit from the new software’s enhancements. However, sequentially addressing the needs of various focus groups is part of how SSI acknowledges the fact that more customers of more different types use ShipConstructor than any other competing software. See the new features in ShipConstructor 2015 R2.1

Ideate, Inc., today announced the availability of a new Autodesk Revit add-in Ideate Software  solution, Ideate Sticky for Revit, designed to work with Autodesk Revit 2015 and Autodesk Revit 2014. Ideate Software is a set of far-reaching Building Information Modeling (BIM) data management tools that help the Revit community clean up models, delete problem items, analyze files quickly, improve speed and accuracy in data flow, increase collaboration and overcome repeated workflow interruptions. Ideate Sticky combines the ease and flexibility of Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing with the convenience of pasting a sticky back note. This unique utility enables users to create and post Excel worksheet contents within the Revit project while matching the Excel table cell content, format, and style with highest possible visual fidelity. “Revit schedules are the perfect tool to represent the data behind Revit elements, but until Ideate Sticky for Revit, organizing and formatting essential non-BIM data was frustrating and time

C3D Labs is pleased to introduce C3D V16, the latest update of its professional toolset for developing engineering software. V16 extends the capabilities of C3D for creating sophisticated geometric shapes, matures its 2D/3D design functions, and adds powerful features for constructing solids composed of sheet metal. Most of the improvements made to C3D V16 were requested by customers, fifteen as of now. Overall, the latest release of C3D features more than 100 improvements to the kernel's functionality. What’s New in C3D V16 For this release, the C3D development team focused on improved the sectioning and cutting processes, adding efficient parallel calculations within the kernel, and on securing threads for binding multiple surfaces. The geometric solver now boasts clustering, journaling, dragging, and reflection symmetry for 3D shapes, as well as advanced options for building parameterized splines. In addition, there are major changes to 2D Boolean operations. The updated C3D converter imports data in STL and

Anark Corporation announced today its plans to create certified Autodesk Inventor software products as an Autodesk Applications Development Partner. Leveraging the Anark Core software platform currently deployed within the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as many of the world's most innovative manufacturing enterprises, Anark plans to provide MBE authoring and publishing automation capabilities for users of Inventor and Autodesk Vault. The past two years have seen a rapid migration by large enterprise manufacturing companies and the U.S. Department of Defense, away from traditional engineering drawings to communicate design intent and manufacturing process, towards paperless MBE best practices. A natural next step in this shift is for their extended network of suppliers to leverage the advantages of MBE best practices. "Autodesk Inventor users represent a large portion of the extended manufacturing supplier network. By rapidly adopting proven MBE practices for engineering and manufacturing process, these suppliers will benefit from the commonly benchmarked 30%

CGS announces that Secret Charm has selected its BlueCherry® PLM as the fashion company’s Product Lifecycle Management system both for its user-friendly functionality and its ability to streamline existing business processes such as line planning, product specification development, sample management, costing, quality and compliance and workflow. To keep pace with the rapidly changing world of women’s and girls’ clothing, Secret Charm selected BlueCherry PLM to reduce the company’s time to market, improve communication and collaboration with its global manufacturing partners and support its long term growth strategy. BlueCherry PLM will provide a centralized and integrated software platform to enable Secret Charm to manage its business processes and workflow from design through sourcing, with the scope to add additional modules and capabilities as their business needs require. Established in Los Angeles in 2003, Secret Charm LLC is a designer and distributor of women’s and girls’ fashion wear specializing in dresses, skirts and tops that offer

NXP Semiconductors has significantly reduced its product footprint and improved overall performance of its new car infotainment system by using power noise and reliability sign-off solutions for integrated circuits from ANSYS. With digital radios becoming a standard feature in automobiles, scalable multi-standard support, improved reception performance and cost savings are driving NXP's product development. ANSYS engineering simulation tools helped NXP combine six chips into a single system-on-chip, the SAF360x – leading to the decreased costs. When combining several complex circuits on a single piece of silicon, there is a significant risk of noise coupling across circuits, especially through shared silicon substrate. To ensure that noise coupling and unwanted noise across various frequency bands were avoided, NXP used ANSYS® RedHawk™ and ANSYS® Totem™ to validate designs against real software operating conditions and silicon measurements. "By dramatically reducing the total cost of designing and manufacturing in-car digital radio systems, we expect the SAF360x series will help to boost the

CONTACT Software is a technology partner in the GEMINI research project. Sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, the project addresses the development and IT-based implementation of new, viable business models for Industry 4.0. Within the GEMINI project, CONTACT is aligning its PDM/PLM system to meet specific requirements in the context of configuring Industry 4.0 business models. "New technologies in the fields of information logistics and networking are paving the way for innovative business models that are relevant to Germany as a leading economy with global footprint for advanced capital goods," says Dr. Patrick Müller, Product Manager PLM at CONTACT. "Industry 4.0 solutions demand end-to-end PLM support from development of the business model to design of the system architectures through to digital system simulation." According to Müller, the operation and maintenance of capital goods represent a further motivation for CONTACT's involvement. Here, innovative business models are based on operational

Dr. Peter Schmitt is joining the ESI Group as Executive Vice President (EVP), Sales and Operational Marketing. In that role he will contribute to the Group’s international distribution and Go-to-Market strategy. He will notably be responsible for implementing new marketing strategies whilst optimizing the business models for the Group’s various innovative solutions and associated services. His expertise in terms of management and execution and proven track record in the field of technological solutions for major automotive and aeronautics enterprises, position him to contribute materially to the successful implementation of the ambitious development plans of ESI. Alain de Rouvray, the ESI Group’s Chairman and CEO, says: “We are delighted to welcome Dr. Peter Schmitt to our corporate management team to strengthen its commercial dimension. His substantial experience in implementing global sales and marketing strategies among major industrial players, his dual European and American culture, and his proven market knowledge represent solid assets

Manufacturing software developer Delcam announces that Pete Baxter has been appointed to lead Delcam in the new role of Vice President.  Pete joins Delcam from its parent company, Autodesk, Inc, where he was a Vice President of Sales and served as the country manager for Autodesk in the United Kingdom. "I’m thrilled to announce the appointment of Pete Baxter as Vice President, Delcam Ltd.,” said Buzz Kross, Autodesk senior vice president, Design, Lifecycle and Simulation.  "In his new role, Pete will be responsible for managing the global Delcam business, and for leading the company in the next stage of its growth.  Pete brings to Delcam extensive leadership experience and knowledge that will be critical in helping Delcam develop closer connections to Autodesk, to the benefit of both organizations and our customers.”  "I am delighted to be joining Delcam, and helping create the next generation of manufacturing software,” said Pete Baxter, Vice President,