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Altair has released Altair EDEM 2020, the market leading Discrete Element Method (DEM) software for bulk and granular material simulation.  EDEM is used for virtual testing of equipment that handles or processes bulk materials in the mining, equipment manufacturing and process industries. Companies worldwide use EDEM to optimize equipment design, increase productivity, reduce operational costs, shorten product development cycles and drive product innovation. EDEM 2020 from DEM Solutions Ltd., recently acquired by Altair, allows for faster workflows, and includes new tools for quicker and easier simulation set-up. The new release also includes new coupling solutions with multi-body dynamics software Altair MotionSolve™ and open source, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software OpenFOAM. “Speed has been an important focus for our development work and successive releases have been concentrated on implementing EDEM capabilities for GPU technology, so all users benefit from significant speed up of their simulations,” said Mark Cook, Altair product manager

Infor announced that Fransen Gerrits, a Dutch animal feed producer, has completed a successful upgrade of Infor M3 to help automate processes and streamline efficiency. Fransen Gerrits has been using the M3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution since 2007. One reason for the longevity is that M3 has continually expanded its capabilities to meet the evolving needs of the food and beverage industry and its customers. By upgrading M3, with the support of Infor Alfa-Beta, Fransen Gerrits will benefit from new ways to optimize business processes and increase efficiency. Joris Teuwen, financial director at Fransen Gerrits, elaborates on the company’s commitment to Infor: “I keep up-to-date with suppliers like SAP and Microsoft to see what’s available in the market, but Infor M3 is the absolute winner for us thanks to the multi-country, multi-company, intra-company and multi-currency capabilities it provides, which I have not yet seen in other solutions. This is very important to

This webinar will discuss how Indian automotive manufacturers are able to streamline the certification process with full traceability. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 3 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will take part in a webinar to discuss the challenges faced by the Indian automotive industry in certifying their vehicles against the Bharat Stage IV emission norms. With one of the largest automobile markets in the world the Indian government has instituted a series of emissions standards designed to regulate the output of air pollutants from internal combustion engines and spark-ignition engines equipment. With the Bharat Stage IV emission norms in place, automakers in India are facing stiff challenges in certifying their cars. This webinar will show how realistic simulation solutions can help automakers in India meet these challenging regulatory targets by streamlining the certification process with full traceability—from

Identify3D, a San Francisco-headquartered software company, has announced it has signed an OEM partnership with Siemens Digital Industries Software, the automation and digitalization software branch of industrial manufacturing company Siemens.  This partnership will enable the integration of Identify3D’s security suite within Siemens’ software solutions. Both companies aim to support customers in creating automated, end-to-end, secure and controllable manufacturing data distribution across multiple control systems and production equipment.  “Through a standardized data model and end-to-end integration, Siemens customers can lower operating costs by interacting more efficiently with machines,” explains Fabrizio De Pasquale, VP Business Development and Strategic Accounts at Identify3D. Additionally, Identify3D has also provided an update on its collaboration with leading German 3D printing OEM EOS. Showcased at Formnext 2019 last week, Identify3D’s secure and standardized communication solution has also been paired with EOS’ additive manufacturing machines.  Creating an integrated machine interface with secure data transfer Within an end-to-end digital manufacturing process chain, the suite

Stratasys AP, a subsidiary of Stratasys Ltd. announced the appointment of TCL Hofmann and TCL Hunt as authorized channel partner to expand its market outreach in both Australia and New Zealand. “3D printing has changed the ways that many things are created and as an innovator and partner of our customers, Stratasys continues to push the boundaries to ensure needs are matched with the most fitted solution, whether our customer requires 3D printed replica of a patient’s heart for pre-surgical analysis, or a customized masking jig in shop floor,” said Ben Darling, Senior Territory Manager of Stratasys Australia and New Zealand Region. TCL Hofmann and TCL Hunt joins the Stratasys’ reseller network with strong understanding of the local manufacturing market and customer needs in technical products. The team will market the complete suite of Stratasys’ professional additive manufacturing solutions, including 3D printers, wide range of engineering-grade materials, post-sale service and 3D printing software across multiple sectors

Eurostep has been recognised as the editor’s choice of the 20 most promising collaboration solutions providers of 2019 by CIOReview magazine. CIOReview magazine is a leading technology magazine bridging the gap between enterprise IT vendors and buyers. Serving as a platform for the C-suite executives, industry experts, and other decision-makers. CIOReview provides information about forefront business solutions and services by sharing valuable insights, opinions of C-suite executives and paradigm changing business leaders about new technology trends in the market. Read their latest article “Eurostep Group: Driving Towards Cloud Based Business Collaboration” about how our new ShareAspace cloud solution is adding value to the business ecosystem lowering the threshold to business collaboration for small and medium enterprises. You can read the article at: https://collaboration.cioreview.com/vendor/2019/eurostep_group To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Eurostep on CIMdata.com

Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Atlas 3D Inc., a Plymouth, Indiana-based developer of Sunta software that works with direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) printers to automatically provide design engineers with the optimal print orientation and requisite support structures for additive parts in near real-time. Atlas will join Siemens Digital Industries Software, where its solutions will expand additive manufacturing capabilities in the Xcelerator portfolio of software. With Atlas3D, designers and manufacturing engineers can quickly gain insights into the optimal part build orientation in order to minimize supports, distortion, effort to remove supports, part material, and printing time. Photo Credit: Siemens Atlas’ Sunata software uses thermal distortion analysis to provide a simple, automated way to optimize part build orientation and generate support structures. This approach allows the designer – rather than the analyst – to perform these simulations, thereby reducing the downstream analysis that needs to be conducted via Simcenter software

­Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and National Instruments Corporation announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Cadence expects to acquire AWR Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of National Instruments (NI). AWR is an industry leader in high-frequency RF EDA software technology and will bring a highly talented RF team to Cadence. Concurrently, Cadence and NI also entered into a strategic alliance agreement to expand their relationship to enhance electronic system innovation with a focus on communications. AWR software is used by microwave and RF engineers to design wireless products for complex, high-frequency RF applications. The technology helps customers accelerate the design and product development cycle of systems used in communications, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, computer, and consumer electronics, by helping reduce the time it takes to go from concept to manufacturing. “Companies designing communication and radar chips, modules and systems face increasing time-to-market pressure in high-growth

OpenText announced its latest technology update, with innovations across its entire portfolio. This release further improves the capture, governance, exchange and use of information to drive productivity, growth and a lasting competitive advantage.  “OpenText builds the world’s most impressive and compelling EIM platform, designed to help companies gain the agility, scale and capability they need to empower their workforces and delight customers,” said Mark J. Barrenechea, OpenText CEO & CTO. “Today’s release furthers this mission, bringing to market new SaaS and cloud-native apps, advanced security services and the most progressive supply chain management tools available.”  Accelerating Cloud Leadership  This release advances the company’s cloud leadership with the introduction of cloud-native applications for OpenText™ Content Services, including OpenText™ Content Suite Platform, OpenText™ Extended ECM Platform, OpenText™ Documentum™ and OpenText™ InfoArchive.  These cloud-native Content Services applications update automatically, scale dramatically, and run anywhere – both on- and off-cloud and represent important progress on the company’s

Kubotek3D announced the availability of a new major release of KeyCreator 3D CAD software. The 2020 version provides significant productivity improvements to many commonly used functions and updates to numerous CAD translators. Productivity Improvements “We focused our development process for 2020 on improvements to KeyCreator that would reach everyone,” stated John Wright McCullough, GM Marketing, Kubotek3D. Selection features which are used throughout the product from assembly management to drawings have been expanded to save steps but not interfere with established workflows. The time saved and productive feel of these small improvements really add up because they are used all day long. For example, drawing of a selection window now dynamically highlights the entities to be selected in real time and can be used in all-in or cross-select (part-in) modes based on window draw direction which saves several button-clicks. React rapidly to unexpected changes KeyCreator Pro 2020 continues the trend of