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TimkenSteel is leveraging the power of ANSYS simulation to solve customers' engineering challenges. TimkenSteel creates tailored products and services for its customers' most demanding applications. Its engineers are experts in both materials and applications and work closely with customers to deliver solutions tailored to their applications and supply chains. To quickly develop those custom services, TimkenSteel uses ANSYS computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions to simulate material behavior during the heat treat process. These simulations reduce trial-and-error in the plant to optimize heat-treated steel products. TimkenSteel's products are used in the manufacture of components for the agricultural, construction, military, mining, oil and gas, power generation and rail markets. "TimkenSteel will continue to use the best predictive tools to optimize our products for our most demanding customers, and ANSYS has established a prominent place in our arsenal of sophisticated modeling capabilities," said Ray Fryan, vice president of technology and quality at TimkenSteel. TimkenSteel, recently spun

Rand Worldwide, Inc. announces its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2014.  For the three months ended December 31, 2014, Rand Worldwide, Inc. reported total revenues of $22,415,000. Revenues for the same quarter in the prior fiscal year included a single large sale of $3.2 million, thus excluding this one-time large sale, revenues increased from the prior year by $1.6 million or 7.6%. The Company’s overall gross margin percentage increased from 50.1% to 51.2% due to a positive revenue mix. Total selling, general and administrative expenses were higher by 15.7% for the current quarter over the same period of the prior fiscal year as a result of costs associated with the Company’s tender offer which closed during the quarter. When these expenses are excluded from the calculation, operating expenses decreased slightly over the comparable prior year period. As a result, the Company reported income from continuing operations of $763,000,

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced they will release financial results for the company’s fourth fiscal quarter, ended January 31, 2015, on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at approximately 1:15 p.m. Pacific. Live audio webcast at http://www.mentor.com/company/investor_relations. Please register at this website prior to the scheduled call time of 2:00 p.m. Pacific. Conference call replay: Begins February 26, 2015 (4:00 p.m. Pacific); Ends March 5, 2015 (11:59 p.m. Pacific). USA 800-475-6701; International 320-365-3844; Access code: 353010

NAFEMS, the International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, has launched the initial keynote line-up for the2015 NAFEMS World Congress, incorporating the 2nd International SPDM (Simulation Process and Data Management) Conference, being held in San Diego, USA, from June 21st–24th 2015. Keynote speakers from around the globe will be part of the event, showcasing best-in-class simulation and analysis usage in many different industries. With more keynotes and invited presenters still to be announced, the event is shaping up to be the most important dedicated, independent conference on CAE of the year. The biennial world congress will bring together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies and business processes to share relevant trends and roadmaps, and to address these issues in an open forum. The aim of the congress is to provide attendees with perceptive content and perspective on the best way to position their organizations to realize the full potential

Following the success of the first Footwear Technology Forum in Milan, Delcam CRISPIN, is running its second Footwear Technology Forum in the United States for designers and manufacturers of all types of footwear.  It will be hosted at PENSOLE Footwear Design Academy in Portland, Oregon, on 20th and 21st May.  Full details and the registration form are available on www.ft-forum.com  The Forum will focus on current and emerging technologies that will help companies to develop more innovative designs, reduce costs and bring new products to market more quickly.  Top industry experts from organizations around the world will cover topics including the latest developments in 3D printing, digital prototyping, 3D rendering, simulation, materials and emerging manufacturing methods. Commenting on the event D’Wayne Edwards, Founder of PENSOLE said, "I am very excited to be hosting Delcam CRISPIN’s first Footwear Technology Forum in North America at our facility in Portland, Oregon.  This is a great opportunity not only

MSC Software today announced the acquisition of Simufact Engineering. Simufact is a leader in simulation of metal forming and joining processes. Based on best-in-class nonlinear simulation software technology, Simufact.forming and Simufact.welding are metal forming and welding process simulation tools used by aerospace, automotive, and machinery industries, their parts and materials suppliers, as well as major Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to realize significant savings from reducing shop-floor tryouts of their manufacturing processes. Simufact's customers in the metal forming industry that leverage process simulation confirm that they have reduced physical testing up to 50% following implementation of Simufact's software. Moreover, they confirm that cycle times for new part developments can be reduced from 3 weeks to 1 week. MSC customers will realize even greater savings from simulating the entire process chain with Simufact and MSC's tools, to gain a better understanding of the as-manufactured condition of the product. "Too often, our customers tell me that poorly-understood manufacturing processes result in

Infosys announced a definitive agreement to fully acquire Panaya, Inc., a provider of automation technology for large scale enterprise software management, in cash, for an enterprise value of USD 200 million. This acquisition reflects Infosys’ execution of its Renew and New strategy to enhance the competitiveness and productivity of current service lines by leveraging automation, innovation and artificial intelligence. Panaya’s CloudQuality™ suite uniquely positions Infosys to bring automation to several of its service lines via an agile SaaS model, and helps mitigate risk, reduce costs and shorten time to market for clients. Commenting on the acquisition, Dr. Vishal Sikka, CEO and Managing Director of Infosys said, “The acquisition of Panaya is a key step in renewing and differentiating our service lines. This will help amplify the potential of our people, freeing us from the drudgery of many repetitive tasks, so we may focus more on the important, strategic challenges faced by our

PLM’s future is its platformization. This isn’t a revolution. It is an evolution. It will take years, commitment, and patience from industrial companies and the solution providers that support them. Today, many leading PLM solution providers are developing highly integrated platforms as constructs of application delivery solutions. From these open and highly accessible platforms, users will be able to assemble the processes and workflows of ideation and product development—the building blocks of innovation—and re-assemble and reconfigure them whenever they need. Assembling and reassembling has always been done, of course, but today’s product developers work with a kaleidoscope of rapidly evolving tools, systems, and strategies. Moreover, the task of assembling and reassembling building blocks gets bigger every year. In many ways, PLM platformization is a re-architecting of software-based solution suites and the links between them. It speeds up business processes, refocuses and sharpens business strategies, and leverages innovation with agility. Peering deeply

No one tests materials for a single user! Matereality’s new collaborative framework responds to the ongoing need to disseminate data, in an exact "as viewed" form, among trusted parties. This is particularly useful when data is multivariate, requiring multiple views to aid comprehension. Matereality’s secure, collaborative features enable high-level information exchange with an easy click of a Share button, removing the tedium of creating email attachments, special Excel files, or PowerPoint documents. Collaborators receive a data link via email, inviting them to the same view, on the same platform, via a secure log-in. Data is displayed in rich detail using Matereality's Data Viewer, which provides data plotting, analytics, unit conversion, Excel export, and traceability features. Benefits: Detailed and comprehensive data sharing with minimal effort Transmit material properties, material cards, and even test reports No attachments; no file-size reduction Secure! Links will not work when forwarded, unlike attachments Track who sees the shared data, and when Revoke access at the end

Mastercam is known for powerful NC programming, but it also delivers a suite of shop-tested design tools including 3D surfacing and solids. The streamlined CAD engine makes design work easier than ever before. Mastercam Design streamlines modeling and editing geometry. It also supports advanced geometry creation, including NURBS curves and surfaces, 2D and 3D associative dimensioning, surface extension, blending, trimming, splitting, variable filleting, solid modeling, hybrid modeling, and so much more! A few new enhancements to Mastercam X8 Design are:  New Solids Workflow The solids interface and workflow has been completely redone for Mastercam X8 and makes constructing and editing solids a lot easier and more intuitive then it’s ever been. Every existing Solids function has been updated to reflect this new workflow. All solids functions have been given a new modern interface that allows you to work in the interface and on the screen as needed. And, by putting the solid selection filters