Position Papers

Let’s start with a pop quiz: Ask a half-dozen of your colleagues, including your managers, “What is the biggest benefit of doing simulation?" It is highly likely that the answer you will get, particularly in the USA, is, “To reduce testing.” It is also true that, the higher you go up the management ladder, the more pervasive the mantra of “simulation replaces test” becomes. As you might guess, I think this particular, restricted view of the role of simulation is wrong. Not only that, it can be counterproductive and harmful. A more “correct” answer is, in my opinion, you do simulation because it is part of the best process you know to develop products. Actually, the best role for simulation is to improve first-time product design performance capability. The rise of computers A friend of mine at Intel, Don Tappan, observed: “Computers are now infinitely fast and vanishingly inexpensive.” He is correct. If one considers

Industrial IoT software firm Plataine launches the latest version of its Material and Asset Tracker software. Plataine has built on its market-leading success, using customer feedback, to design a cutting-edge manufacturing optimization software delivering unprecedented outcomes in material & tool utilization, productivity, throughput and quality. Version 4.0’s innovative microservices architecture structures the software as a suite of modular services, with each module supporting a specific business goal. The system uses Amazon’s robust Web Services platform and benefits from Amazon’s full suite of cloud services and strong security infrastructure. Both Plataine and AWS offer FedRAMP and ITAR compliant solutions that meet regulatory requirements of government and defense projects. The new release offers expanded support for the entire manufacturing supply chain, where OEMs and suppliers can collaborate on a single platform for integrated visibility of manufacturing status and traceability. As part of the new version 4.0, new – groundbreaking – analytical algorithms

Duke Kunshan University, a highly innovative joint venture of Duke University, Wuhan University and the City of Kunshan, China, has selected Oracle Student Cloud to support student recruitment, enrollment and engagement. Oracle Student Cloud will help Duke Kunshan University maintain operational excellence and student success by using technology to help modernize and optimize the student experience. Established in 2014 and located in Kunshan, China, Duke Kunshan University offers a range of academic programs for students from China and throughout the world. To support its goal of becoming a world-class liberal arts and research university, Duke Kunshan University wanted to ensure that every student received a unique, all-inclusive experience from onboarding to graduation. To deliver a personalized and seamless experience across channels and devices, Duke Kunshan University selected Oracle Student Cloud. "We knew that creating a new world-class university focused on liberal arts and research in China was going to be a challenge and a distinct opportunity for higher education innovation, and

ANSYS, Inc. announced today that the Company expects to release its second quarter 2017 earnings on Wednesday, August 2, 2017, after market close. The Company will hold a conference call conducted by Ajei Gopal, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Maria T. Shields, Chief Financial Officer, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on August 3, 2017, to discuss second quarter 2017 results and future outlook. CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION: What: ANSYS Second Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference Call   When: August 3, 2017 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time We encourage participants to pre-register for the conference call. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for ANSYS on CIMdata.com

Vero software will be demonstrating the versatility of three of its brands at the forthcoming EMO exhibition. Michel Reuter, Vero’s Marketing Manager for the DACH region, says EMO, based in Hannover from September 18 - 23, is the ideal showcase for the Edgecam and WorkNC CAD/CAM solutions, along with CAD analyser WorkXplore. Visitors to Vero’s booth (booth B20 in Hall 25) will see innovations and functionality in the latest software releases, including the powerful Waveform roughing, a high-performance strategy which is available in both Edgecam and WorkNC. “Faster and safer than ever, the Waveform strategy which works perfectly for hard and tough materials, significantly improves standard roughing technologies with its consistent material removal, while increasing tool life and productivity. Another highlight is the Advanced Toolform Technology in WorkNC, which was developed to use the benefit of modern tool geometries for HFC applications. We’ve already achieved great results with these new

OpenText™ today announced the winners of the 2017 OpenText Elite™ Customer and Partner of the Year Awards. The OpenText Elite™ Customer Awards, presented annually at Enterprise World, recognize organizations that have delivered innovative solutions to accelerate business processes, transform information, maximize data insights and simplify supply chain challenges. The Partner of the Year Awards recognize OpenText partners’ commitment to enabling the digital world and providing their customers with solutions for a better way to work. "Every year, we recognize the incredible progress and achievements of our OpenText customers," said Mark J. Barrenechea, CEO and CTO of OpenText. "It is critical that organizations are able to navigate the new challenges of the new digital world, and this year’s recipients are at the forefront of this transformation, driving competitive advantage from digital disruption. The OpenText Elite™ Customer Award winners have embraced digital at the very core of their organizations, and accepted digitization as

Riversand is pleased to announce the appointment of Shyam Potta as the VP of Product Management. In his new role, Shyam will drive the product lifecycle from ideation to implementation. "I am delighted to appoint Shyam as the VP of Product Management. Over the last sixteen years, Shyam has emerged as a leader at Riversand in defining and delivering products that drive customer satisfaction and business outcomes. In his new role, Shyam will contribute towards product vision and lifecycle, oversee execution, and measurement of product initiatives while collaborating with his peers in Product Strategy, Product Engineering and Customer Success," said Upen Varanasi, Founder, and CEO of Riversand. "We are in an exciting phase at Riversand as we roll out the next generation of Master Data Management Platform and Apps. I am honored to take this new role and grateful to be part of the Riversand family for the last sixteen

Autodesk has invested in Smartvid.io, whose imaging software is used on construction and industrial sites. Borealis Ventures and Castor Ventures are two of the new investors along with Autodesk. There are several existing investors participating as well. The total investment is about $7 million USD.  Click here to learn more about the investment. Search for Autodesk on CIMdata.com

Accenture has acquired Clearhead, the digital optimization company, based in Austin, Texas, to strengthen the personalization services of Accenture Interactive. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.   Clearhead helps brands continuously test, redesign and personalize digital customer experiences and digital products to optimize business outcomes. This is becoming a critical capability for companies to compete with digital native businesses that seek to improve every aspect of the customer experience through continuous experimentation and testing. With a team of more than 70 people, Clearhead enables brands to achieve business outcomes through optimizing key digital marketing, merchandising, sales, and service experiences. Using a proprietary data-driven methodology, Clearhead determines where improving experiences and digital product features may lead to significant gains. It then sets up A/B or multivariate tests to validate these hypotheses, analyzes the results, and redesigns experiences for what works best for customers. Clearhead has served over two dozen retailers and brands,

Robin Systems, a company that enables enterprise digital transformation, today announced the availability of its new Community and Developer Editions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). These editions, much like Robin’s established and powerful Enterprise Edition, are also leveraging modern container-based technology to enable legacy as well as modern applications to drive infrastructure in an agile and performant way. What was previously difficult and time consuming is now easy and efficient. Using the Community and Developer Editions of Robin Cloud Platform, the deployment and management of distributed and clustered data applications (like Big Data and NoSQL Databases) become a breeze. Robin Cloud Platform – Community Edition (CE) can be run in up to five nodes (leveraging virtual or physical servers) with no limit on the nodes’ specifications. RCP CE helps teams running in the cloud who seek the agility and simplicity of running Big Data pipelines, as well as distributed NoSQL