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The TraceParts Publishing Network has reached a new milestone, with 17 million users having access to the CAD content on its platform. As design offices increasingly seek access to online CAD models of industrial components, more and more CAD software publishers – such as Solidworks, Autodesk, Siemens, Onshape, PTC and Sketchfab – aim to provide their communities with a broad range of certified 3D models. With this in mind, PLM software producers and web portals involved in the CAD and engineering fields have also joined TraceParts’ network, specialized in publishing 3D product catalogs.  With over 100 million models of CAD components available for download on its CAD content platform, TraceParts has developed several types of integration so as to share its data with the rest of its network. Whether using iframes to directly integrate the TraceParts technology into a web page or via a web API, TraceParts is actively working

SolidCAD celebrates another prestigious award from Autodesk, Inc. Resellers from all over the world recently gathered in Las Vegas, Nevada for Autodesk's annual One Team Conference (OTC).  At this highly anticipated event, Autodesk honours its top resellers for their exceptional achievements.  Within this exclusive group, SolidCAD excelled in their highly coveted 2017 Platinum Club Program, and was acknowledged as the top reseller in net subscription growth for Canada . This announcement marks the seventh time the company has received an Autodesk Platinum Club award. "Platinum Club is a program designed to recognize our top resellers of Autodesk products," says Autodesk Senior Partner Manager, Marcus Tateishi . "On behalf of Autodesk, we are extremely pleased to recognize SolidCAD once again this year as one of our top resellers worldwide and congratulate them on earning this distinction. SolidCAD continually provides customers with the highest level of efficiency and innovation. Autodesk congratulates SolidCAD on this achievement and is looking forward

Accenture was recently awarded six prestigious country-level Oracle Excellence Awards, earning a current total of 19 Oracle Excellence Awards across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific in the last 12 months alone. These six newest awards recognize Accenture for its contributions across various areas of IT, specifically in the European region: Specialized Partner of the Year, Engineered Systems – Denmark Specialized Partner of the Year, Cloud PaaS – Finland Specialized Partner of the Year, Business Analytics – Norway Specialized Partner of the Year, Systems Integrator – Sweden Specialized Partner of the Year, Infrastructure-as-a-Service – Germany Systems Integrator of the Year, Cloud CX – Italy In the past year, Accenture’s Oracle practice has added Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings to its existing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities, and achieved Oracle Global Cloud Elite status – one of the highest levels attainable in the Oracle PartnerNetwork. As an example of its growing Oracle IaaS capability, Accenture recently helped DNA,

Underscoring its commitment to the IoT market, Open-Silicon today announced the development of an IoT gateway SoC platform that enables complete Spec2Chip development of custom silicon solutions for emerging IoT gateway applications. This highly-integrated, fully-customizable IoT gateway platform is targeted for a wide variety of smart city gateway applications, such as lighting, metering and parking; traffic monitoring, management and surveillance; building automation and control; and industrial monitoring and control. Open-Silicon's IoT Gateway SoC Platform is the newest addition to the company's IoT SoC platform portfolio, which includes the previously announced IoT Edge SoC Platform. Through partnerships with Atoll Solutions and Wirepas, Open-Silicon has successfully developed a highly integrated IoT SoC reference platform capable of addressing multiple solutions. Atoll provided the reference board and software expertise that enables the multitude of wired and wireless interfaces. Wirepas supplied the connectivity technology that enables the gateway to operate at 2.4 GHz and sub-GHz simultaneously

Global interoperability solution leader International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) and Anark Corporation, leading provider of visual collaboration solutions, have formed a strategic partnership to better meet manufacturers’ technical document publishing and validation needs. This new partnership will enhance customer relationships and ensure the quality and success of enterprise deployments by manufacturers using Anark and ITI products and solutions. Manufacturers, especially those transitioning to Model Based Enterprise (MBE) processes, need the ability to generate production-quality 3D PDF model-based documents and technical data packages that provide suppliers and downstream consumers with the detailed engineering and manufacturing information required for effective model-based communication and collaboration. Automated validation of this technical 3D PDF-based content is key for successful MBE implementation. Anark provides its best-in-class, recipe-driven publishing automation platform, Anark Core, for transforming source data and publishing 3D MBE documents and content, and ITI provides the industry’s leading CAD validation solution, CADIQ. 3D PDF

e-Xstream engineering, an MSC Software Company, developer of Digimat, the leading nonlinear multi-scale material and structure modeling platform, announced the latest product release of Digimat 2017.1 at JEC World 2017 (Hall 5A/C68). Digimat continues to provide a leading solution for the accurate and efficient modeling of multi-scale material and structures, by extending its range of applications and continuously improving its overall workflow efficiency. Digimat 2017.1 will be available in April 2017. Digimat for Additive Manufacturing Building on its large experience with polymer modeling, with Digimat 2017.1, e-Xstream is introducing the first simulation chain for additive manufacturing of polymers, Digimat Additive Manufacturing (Digimat – AM). Additive manufacturing of plastics and composites is evolving from rapid prototyping to industrial production. Printer manufacturers, material suppliers, and end-users need predictive simulation tools to bring the additive manufacturing efficiency and performance to the next level required by the industry. Digimat- AM has already been recognized with a

Capgemini has enabled Barry Callebaut, leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, to maximize the value of Google’s G Suite in more than 30 countries. The one year migration project has also seen Capgemini provide strategic, technical, and change management services to support Barry Callebaut’s close to 10,000 team members around the world. The resulting improvements in real-time communication and document control plus the ability to work together seamlessly as one team wherever colleagues are based, has enabled greater responsiveness to meet customer needs. As a business to business (B2B) company, Barry Callebaut needed to equip its workforce with the right collaboration tools in order to provide anytime, anywhere, any device real-time capabilities to its virtual teams across the globe. The company chose Capgemini to implement Google’s G Suite across the entire organization in order to create a mobile-friendly environment, enabling them to respond quickly to customer requests and

Oracle Corporation today announced fiscal 2017 Q3 results. Total Revenues were $9.2 billion, up 2% in U.S. dollars and up 3% in constant currency. Non-GAAP Total Revenues were $9.3 billion, up 3% in U.S. dollars and up 4% in constant currency. Cloud software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) revenues were $1.0 billion, up 73% in U.S. dollars and up 74% in constant currency. Non-GAAP SaaS and PaaS revenues were $1.1 billion, up 85% in U.S. dollars and up 86% in constant currency. Total Cloud Revenues, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), were $1.2 billion, up 62% in U.S. dollars and up 63% in constant currency. Total Cloud and On-Premise Software Revenues were $7.4 billion, up 4% in U.S. dollars and up 5% in constant currency. Operating Income was $3.0 billion and Operating Margin was 32%. Non-GAAP Operating Income was $3.9 billion, up 3% in U.S.

Spatial Corp, a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, announces today the incorporation of 3D mesh technology from Distene S.A.S. into its 3D modeling software development toolkits (SDKs) to improve the CAD to solver process for analysis and simulation solutions. Through this partnership, Spatial extends its current mesh offering of 3D Mesh with 3D Precise Mesh. 3D Precise Mesh bridges the gap between CAD and simulation/analysis. In the past, end users have resorted to iterative meshing, analysis and design processes that can take weeks to complete. 3D Precise Mesh not only accelerates time to market, but also automates the process, while improving the overall quality of the resulting generative design. “We were looking for a lightweight meshing component to be used in all our finite-element-solvers and decided on components from Distene. Their Tetrahedral meshing technology represents the de facto industry standard,” said Oleg Skipa, Department Manager ‒ Data and Frameworks, Computer Simulation Technology, part of

A major new feature is introduced in the latest release of the powerful Javelin production control system from Vero Software. In response to a number of customer requests for ways of managing non-manufacturing functions such as design and programming, Javelin developers have created the new Project Management function. They focus on managing or tasking users outside the direct manufacturing sphere. The new module in Javelin 2017 R1 allows structured tasks to be defined within a specific project plan with standalone target dates, or with inter-dependency on other tasks. Planned times can be assigned to specific staff, and the progress monitored both in time and cost against estimate. Javelin Customer Service Manager Roland Porter says: “The whole suite has been developed to make full use of SQL, providing real time updates of progress, predicted completion dates and costs at any level of the project hierarchy.” Projects can be associated with Works