Position Papers

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced results for the second quarter 2017. Cadence reported second quarter 2017 revenue of $479 million, compared to revenue of $453 million reported for the same period in 2016. On a GAAP basis, Cadence recognized net income of $69 million, or $0.25 per share on a diluted basis, in the second quarter of 2017, compared to net income of $49 million, or $0.17 per share on a diluted basis, for the same period in 2016. Using the non-GAAP measure defined below, net income in the second quarter of 2017 was $94 million, or $0.34 per share on a diluted basis, as compared to net income of $86 million, or $0.29 per share on a diluted basis, for the same period in 2016. “Customer adoption of our innovative product portfolio enabled Cadence's strong second quarter results, driven by robust software and IP growth,” said Lip-Bu Tan,

Arena Solutions today announced that Q2 2017 saw the overall business grow by 35 percent over the same period last year, resulting in a second consecutive quarter growth of 30 percent or more. Gains were driven by robust sales of new products and additional seat licenses into the company’s installed base. For the quarter, upsells increased 63 percent over the same period last year. That performance combined with the renewal rate contributed to a net retention of 114 percent in Q2. Net new annuity increased by 60% year-over-year, coming on the heels of a record-breaking net new annuity performance in Q1.  Arena provides a comprehensive, cloud-based product development platform that unites all engineering, quality, manufacturing and operation disciplines in the creation of innovative connected products featuring traceability throughout their entire lifecycle. In late 2016, Arena added ALM (application lifecycle management) capabilities with Arena Verify, which provides requirements, issue, bug and

Associate Environment Minister Scott Simpson visited Agpac Ltd’s Plasback, congratulated them on the scheme’s successful recycling of agricultural plastic, and announced Plasback’s reaccreditation as a Product Stewardship Scheme. “Plasback collects plastic, such as silage wrap, irrigation pipes and fertiliser bags, from the agriculture and horticulture sectors and processes it into new products, such as Tuffboard, an innovative plywood replacement used on farms,” Mr Simpson says. “Plasback provides farmers with an easy and practical way to recycle their plastic waste. Since 2010, when Plasback first became an accredited Product Stewardship Scheme, over 2500 farmers across New Zealand have signed up to have their plastics collected, and Plasback has recycled more than 6500 tonnes of plastic - equivalent to 650,000 sacks of potatoes.” Product stewardship is the responsible management of the environmental impact of a product. It aims to reduce the impact of manufactured products at all stages of the product life

Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan will step into his role as CEO and Managing Director of Larsen & Toubro with effect from July 1, 2017. This follows his appointment to the role by the Board of Directors of Larsen & Toubro at its meeting held on April 7, 2017. Mr. Subrahmanyan is currently the Deputy Managing Director and President of the Company. At the meeting on April 7, 2017, the Board had also requested Mr. A.M. Naik, Group Executive Chairman, L&T, to provide guidance and mentorship to the Company’s leadership subsequent to his current term. Consequently Mr. Naik will continue as Non-Executive Chairman of the Company for a period of three years effective October 1, 2017. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. A.M. Naik said: “Mr. Subrahmanyan is the finest among the many top executives I have mentored over the last few years. Three years ago he was identified as the most likely

Dassault Systèmes and Boeing have extended their partnership. Boeing will expand its deployment of Dassault Systèmes’ products across its commercial aviation, space and defense programs to include the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform.  This decision follows a competitive process that included the rigorous analysis of technical and functional capabilities, cost and business benefits across the value chain.  Boeing will deploy the 3DEXPERIENCE platform in phases and rely on Winning Program, Co-Design to Target, Ready for Rate, Build to Operate and License to Fly industry solution experiences for aerospace and defense to deepen its end to end digital collaboration, design, engineering, analysis, manufacturing planning and shop floor execution capabilities throughout the enterprise.  “Dassault Systèmes is proud to collaborate with Boeing as it embarks on another century of innovation with a partner it trusts.  Boeing not only leads the way in its own industry, but influences the progress of all industries across modern society,” said Bernard Charlès, Vice Chairman and CEO, Dassault

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that Dan Durn will join the company as senior vice president on August 7, 2017 and assume the role of chief financial officer on August 24. Mr. Durn, 50, is currently CFO of NXP Semiconductors N.V. Bob Halliday, 63, will remain with the company to support a smooth transition and move to a new role focused on business development. Mr. Halliday is planning to retire towards the end of 2018. “Dan brings a tremendous combination of experience and knowledge that can help accelerate Applied’s strategy,” said Gary Dickerson, president and CEO. “These are exciting times as our markets are strong and getting stronger, Applied is better positioned than ever before and we have a great platform to drive sustainable profitable growth. Bob has done a terrific job as CFO and I’m confident that Dan is going to step in and help us reach new heights.”

 PDF Key takeaways: Collaboration between aerospace and defense OEMs and their design chain suppliers has been identified as a chronic pain point by the OEMs, i.e., point of friction impeding information flow through the product lifecycle. CIMdata research has revealed that, in general, A&D OEMs and their partners have no system in place to record and track collaboration inquiries. Establishing an inquiry and response tracking system between collaboration entities is a simple, low cost investment that would go a long way to alleviating this chronic pain point. Over the past two years CIMdata has participated in collaboration research together with a number of aerospace and defense (A&D) OEMs—members of the A&D PLM Action Group.[1] Admittedly the focus of the research centered on the preparation and transfer of product 3D model geometry and part manufacturing information (PMI) between collaboration partners. In this particular study those partners were the OEMs and their Tier 1 suppliers. However, the

Green leader Papros Inc. announced that it has brought advanced quality control in checking substance, substance category and exemption lists, thresholds and identities, queries and also any custom lists to the supply chain. This is necessary for the seamless dissemination of compliance information for Article level compliance for REACH. Now cross checking of product data can be done versus control lists that are uploadable in standards based xml typically provided by IEC or IPC, or any custom company lists in similar formats. These features which are available at the main Papros Inc web data stevedoring site and available for anyone to use, many free to use but subject to terms of use posted, enable a new level of quality control in all these lists and their contents. This is because information dissemination in this area is typically in the form of IEC or IPC declarations that can have hundreds or

IBM today announced the first IBM Watson-based services platform  fully built on the IBM Cloud that  augments human intelligence to help improve service provider operations via cognitive technologies and freeing up professionals to focus on driving higher value results. The IBM Services Platform with Watson already is being leveraged by early adopter Danske Bank as part of a new 10-year information technology infrastructure service contract. The platform provides companies with artificial intelligence capabilities that bring together human intelligence and insight with technology by creating infrastructures, which is designed to predict and identify potential problems and self-heal, helping reduce business disruption and strengthening a highly secure IT environment. "In a world where always on is the new norm for businesses of all kind, clients expect from their services partners the ability to deliver operational excellence at any time, at any place for any system,"  said Martin Jetter, IBM Senior Vice President

Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a gallium-nitride (GaN)(1) high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT)(2) power amplifier for use in W-band (75-110 GHz) transmissions. To realize long-distance, high-capacity wireless communications, a promising approach is to utilize the W-band and other high frequency bands that encompass a broad range of usable frequencies, and increase output with a transmission power amplifier. At the same time, demand exists for improved efficiency in power amplifiers in order to mitigate the increased power consumption of communication systems. Fujitsu has now succeeded in developing a power amplifier for use in W-band transmissions that offers both high output power and high efficiency, improving transistor performance through the reduction of electrical current leakage and internal GaN-HEMT resistance. Fujitsu has achieved 4.5 watts per millimeter of gate width, the world's highest output density in the W-band, and has confirmed a 26% reduction in energy