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Kit and Ace is a contemporary luxury apparel brand founded in Vancouver, Canada by Shannon Wilson and J. J. Wilson, the wife and son of Lululemon founder Chip Wilson. They specialize in producing “Technical Luxury” garments, meaning they apply technical attributes to traditionally high-end fabrications like cashmere. They also offer online E-commerce shopping and operate a vertical retail model.  With a long history in retail, the founders wanted to channel their mutual passion for innovation, design, fashion and creativity into the evolution of Kit and Ace. They wanted to implement process improvements by incorporating all technical and design information into one Cloud-based location and at the same time manage integrated supplier interactions, messaging, critical path and product approval management.  "Given that we want to connect everyone internally and our overseas vendors, the Cloud was a natural choice and WFX has been super easy for our teams to adopt ", says Laura Rowse, Head

Synopsys, Inc. reported results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2015. For the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, Synopsys reported revenue of $542.0 million, compared to $479.0 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2014, an increase of approximately 13.2 percent.   "Synopsys delivered strong results in the fiscal first quarter, and we are raising our revenue and non-GAAP earnings targets for the year," said Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys. "We see high demand for our new products, momentum in IP and prototyping, and we're making good progress in our higher-growth software quality and security space." GAAP Results On a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2015 was $65.2 million, or$0.41 per share, compared to $67.7 million, or $0.43 per share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2014. Non-GAAP Results On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2015 was $125.7 million, or $0.80 per share, compared to non-GAAP net income

At the International Dental Show in March, ModuleWorks will be showing all the latest developments in the ModuleWorks Dental product range.  Originally launched back in 2009, the product aims to bring the benefits of hundreds of man-years of toolpath development technology from the CAM market to the Dental market.  And in the two years since the previous IDS show, this technology has enabled many new toolpath creation methods to be made available to Dental CAM customers. Unlike many technology providers, ModuleWorks does not sell software to end users directly, but produces an OEM product which is built in to the software of a partner.  This allows ModuleWorks to focus on the technical developments which provide the power behind many Dental CAM systems. Among the features ModuleWorks will be demonstrating are: 5-Axis Constant Cusp toolpaths to machine undercuts Automatic 3+2-Axis Z-Level toolpaths to machine undercuts Lollipop cutter strategies to machine undercuts on a 3-axis machine Rotary machining

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced it plans to exhibit its system design and verification solutions at the Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) in San Jose, California. The conference is focused on the application of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) standards, languages and methodologies for the design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits.  WHEN: March 2 – 5, 2015  WHERE: Hilton Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, CA, Booth 505  WHAT: At booth 505, Cadence is scheduled to showcase the latest tools, methodologies and support customers need for designing and verifying complex silicon, SoCs and systems. Experts will be on hand to discuss topics focused on Verification IP and IC/SoC/system design and verification.  To view the full list of Cadence speaking slots, visit: http://www.cadence.com/cadence/newsroom/press_releases/Pages/pr.aspx?xml=021815_dvcon

For the fourth consecutive year, Tata Technologies was recognized by Siemens as a Platinum Partner, a distinction awarded annually to the highest-achieving Siemens value-added resellers (VAR). "We are extremely pleased," Tata Technologies Associate Vice President – Partners Joseph MacLellan said. "There's something to be said about a four-year streak. We owe it all to our marketing, sales, delivery, finance and legal professionals and Siemens' high-quality products." The Platinum Partner streak began in 2010 when Siemens first recognized Tata Technologies with the company's highest honor for value-added resellers. MacLellan said the success of the sales and delivery teams at Tata Technologies hinges on the ability to offer clients the full spectrum of services relating to Siemens PLM solutions from implementation to support and consulting. Tata Technologies also earned accolades in three other categories. This year's awards include: Outstanding Sales Achievement for selling more NX in comparison with other Siemens partner in the U.S. and Canada. Competitive Win award

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the call-for-entries for its first annual Don Miller Award for Excellence in System Level Thermo-Fluid Design. Don Miller is the former research director for British Hydromechanics Research (now BRH Group) in the U.K., and author of Internal Flow Systems. His book serves as the foundation for Mentor Graphics Flowmaster software technology. Mentor Graphics is establishing the award with Mr. Miller to recognize excellence for System Level Design using Flowmaster software, and to uncover breakthroughs in research and real-world applications in the field. Award application criteria must be based on a practical and realistic approach to 1D computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This entry must be quantifiable and representative of an advance in system level thermo-fluid analysis and modeling. The submission must demonstrate a relevant, clear and practical approach to system design and must be within the public domain and circulated publicly within 12 months prior to the award entry closing date. Applicants must have permission

Barry Wehmiller International (B-WI) has accepted an exclusive invitation to become a Certified Partner in the PTC ServiceAdvantage Program. As a Certified Partner of the program, B-WI has partnered with PTC to deliver the best solutions for product lifecycle management, content management, and dynamic publishing to PTC’s 40,000+ customers. The primary focus of the PTC ServiceAdvantage™ Program is to enable PTC customers to realize the full value from their investments in PTC® products and solutions. The program gathers the world’s top partners providing customers with domain expertise and sound understanding and knowledge of configuration and deployment of PTC products. “B-WI has successfully worked hand-in-hand with PTC as one of their leading technology partners. We are very excited to have the opportunity to also become a service partner, allowing us to further integrate the PTC product suite and our PLM and ALM services to major customers in North America,” said Jim Webb, Executive

Bengaluru-based Altem Technologies added another feather to its cap by winning the Dassault Systèmes’ Growth Award for Overall year revenue as well as the Marketing & Technical Excellence Award at the Dassault Systèmes’ ‘Annual Sales Kick-off 2015’ event. Dassault Systèmes announced its annual VAR Excellence Awards to acknowledge the contribution and work of their VAR partners. These awards are given across 14 categories, including VAR of the Year, Best Brand Initiative, Social Impact and the Industry Excellence Awards were announced during the Annual Sales Kick-Off held in the city of Visakhapatnam recently. The 3-day annual Sales Kick-Off had senior global executives from Dassault Systèmes in attendance along with Industry representatives addressed the 200plus -strong audience on key issues like Cloud, Online Services delivery and Industry Solution Experiences which was a key focus area. Commenting on the win, Mr. Sharath Chandra, Co-Founding Director – Altem Technologies said“4 years ago Altem had started without any significant financial

TraceParts with SolidFace today launched the SolidFace portal, a free online design resource, to the fast growing user community of SolidFace software. Directly available through SolidFace´s software interface, this new online part library features over 100 million part numbers from hundreds of leading component manufacturers and distributors and thousands of ISO, ANSI, DIN, NF, GB, ASME and more standards. “We’re proud to partner with SolidFace to bring best-in-class free 3D part catalogs to their users.” says Gabriel Guigue, TraceParts Managing Director. “Time to market is critical to all manufacturing companies and SolidFace is a highly flexible tool to help them designing their products better and faster. Therefore we are very pleased to be the first content supplier to provide the SolidFace user community with hundreds of millions of certified supplier components that can be inserted into their designs.” “Our mission is to develop high-performance software that add the greatest amount of benefits at

Delcam’s PartMaker Division has launched a new, free PC-based app called the PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer that allows users of multi-tasking turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes to view and align multi-channel CNC programs automatically. The PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer is available for download free of cost from http://www.partmaker.com/multichannelviewer.  The downloaded program is activated for each shop by a PartMaker product specialist.  He will provide the user with a customized machine configuration for the machines in that shop.  The software also works for any standard, single-path NC machine as well.  Both the application and the custom configuration files are provided free of cost. The PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer allows users of turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes that require multi-channel CNC programs to view such programs side by side and automatically align "sync” or "wait” codes.  This unique application supports virtually any multi-channel machine/control combination from every machine builder on the market.  It is highly intelligent, using proprietary technology