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Delcam will launch the 2015 R2 version of its PowerSHAPE Pro software for the design of products and tooling at the Develop3D Live Conference and Exhibition to be held at Warwick Arts Centre on 26th March.  The new release includes a number of new options for reverse engineering as well as improvements to speed up and simplify the editing of product designs to make them more suitable for manufacture. By offering a combination of solid, surface and direct modelling, together with reverse engineering, PowerSHAPE Pro provides the most comprehensive range of design techniques available in a single CAD program.  Having all the different technologies in the same package reduces the need to transfer data between multiple programs and so streamlines any product-development process that requires both reverse-engineering and CAD functionality.  PowerSHAPE Pro can connect directly to most scanning hardware to capture and display scan data in real time.  The 2015 R2 version includes a new split-screen

Cyon Research announced that David Brin will give the Friday keynote and Mark R. Anderson will give the Saturday keynote at COFES 2015. COFES: The Congress On the Future of Engineering Software will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona from April 16-19 at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort. The two keynotes resonate with the COFES 2015 theme: “Stepping Back to See the Big Picture.” Engineers and software professionals spend the majority of their time getting things done, tightly focused on execution of tasks and plans. Along the way, they are continuously faced with choices, big and small. Too often, decisions are made in the narrow context of what is directly in front of them. This year, COFES takes a giant step backwards in order to challenge attendees to broaden their view: to think about thinking about the bigger picture. Brin’s keynote is “The murky road ahead: from an Internet of Things to human augmentation and AI… Looking beyond the five year

Tata Technologies has teamed up with CIMdata to provide a comprehensive and informative webinar targeting product development efficiency. The complimentary webinar titled Realizing Your Product Development Performance Potential: 5 Metrics for Change is set for 11 a.m. EST March 10. Tata Technologies Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) thought leaders Chief Strategy Officer Richard Welford, Head PLM Strategy Consultant Lionel Grealou and PLM Consultant Chris Hind will be joined by John MacKrell, vice president and systems engineering lead for CIMdata, in an intriguing discussion of five metrics for improving product development performance through a mature PLM strategy. Registration for the webinar begins immediately. “We are excited to share our PLM experience and knowledge and to illustrate some of the product development efficiency challenges that we have helped our customer overcome,” Grealou said. Chief engineers are striving for cost-effective solutions to support their product development priorities—creating more innovative, better and cost-effective products. A well-executed PLM strategy

MachineWorks Ltd has been working together with the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI), developing software that is shaping the CNC machining landscape of Taiwan.  The CNC machining industry in Taiwan has evolved to become one of the most innovative in the world supplying advanced manufacturing equipment globally to a range of industries from aerospace to oil.  ITRI is leading the way in this sophisticated market by being the research ground for the development of high precision machining, multi-axis CNC controllers, multi-axis universal heads and optimised software. Their goal is to increase the overall competitiveness of machine tools industry. The integration of MachineWorks Simulation and Verification Technology into ITRI’s own CNC controllers, has enabled the Research Centre not only to create real-time simulation online but to develop an anti-crash system. The benefits of this tight collaboration between MachineWorks and ITRI have been extended to other machine tool manufacturers in Taiwan who are now able

Hagerman & Company announced that Autodesk has promoted the firm to an Autodesk Platinum Tier Value Added Reseller (VAR). Only a small number of Autodesk Value Added Resellers worldwide have achieved Platinum Tier status. “Our Platinum Tier acknowledges the instrumental role these companies play in delivering world-class design solutions, products and services,” said Steve Blum, senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Services at Autodesk. “Whether through the services they deliver, or their notable customer satisfaction scores, these partners constantly show that they can provide exemplary services and capabilities to their customers.” Platinum partners provide their customers with best-in-class full solutions from pre- and post-sales support, consulting, training, implementation, and customization.  Hagerman & Company works closely with Autodesk to help customers design, simulate and analyze their ideas, increase operational efficiencies and maximize their return on investment in Autodesk software solutions. “Hagerman & Co., Inc. has a long standing initiative to deliver world class products

Canon Europe announces a distribution agreement with 3D Systems. Under the arrangement, Canon will market, sell and support 3D Systems’ advanced manufacturing 3D printers, including the ProJet 1200, 3500 series, 4500, 6000 and 7000 in the UK and Ireland, with a view to rolling out across Europe. Through the partnership, customers will have access to 3D Systems’ advanced 3D printing technology underpinned by Canon’s exceptional service and support. This partnership reflects Canon’s ongoing growth strategy of expansion into new technology domains that deliver significant value to its diverse customer base and builds on the 3D Systems distribution agreement with Canon Marketing Japan announced in March 2014. Focusing on prototyping for rapid product development, Canon will offer the 3D printers to its substantial customer base in the UK and Ireland, across the engineering, manufacturing and architectural market segments. Enabled by advances in technology and driven by the demand from the manufacturing sector for increased