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Bentley Systems, Incorporated and Digital Construction Works (DCW), a Bentley Systems and Topcon Positioning Group joint venture providing digital automation, integration, and “twinning” services, around fit-for-purpose software and cloud services, announced that Bentley Systems was named a winner at the Downstream Awards. Bentley won in the Innovation in Downstream Digitalization category for Dow Chemical Company’s (Dow) use of its ConstructSim application. The awards celebrate the best of the downstream industry and are organized by Petrochemical Update, a division of Reuters Events. Awards were announced in 11 categories, with winners chosen by a panel of 10 judges representing the industry. Anne-Marie Walters, industry marketing director, oil and gas and manufacturing at Bentley Systems, said, “We are honored to have received this award, which recognizes Bentley as a provider of digital construction workflows, for the advancement of infrastructure projects, and specifically for Dow’s outstanding work of integrating advanced work packaging

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 11 December 2019 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm, announces its 2020 PLM Market & Industry Forum schedule and theme. The one-day events will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA on March 25; Frankfurt, Germany on April 2; Pune, India on April 6; Shanghai, China on April 10; and Tokyo, Japan on April 14. CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forum is designed exclusively for PLM software providers, PLM service providers, PLM systems integrators, and PLM channel partners of all sizes. Forum attendees will explore the challenges currently facing the PLM market. Presentations will offer insights into the current economic climate, leading trends, and their effects on the PLM economy. There will be a detailed look at the state and trends of current and future PLM markets, and the eagerly awaited first public release of CIMdata’s 2019 PLM market

New releases of Simcenter MAGNET and Simcenter Motorsolve software provide a unique and seamless solution to resolve noise and vibration design issues targeting electric traction motors Design engineers can now apply a wider range of real-world conditions for electro-vibro-acoustic simulation analysis, with links to additional structural package tools Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Xcelerator portfolio is helping automotive companies accelerate the process of innovating and developing the complex systems required for today’s vehicles  Siemens Digital Industries Software today announced new releases of Siemens Simcenter™ MAGNET™ software and Simcenter™ Motorsolve™ software for simulating electric motor design and electromagnetic fields at any stage of the design process. Electric traction motors must be durable and NVH-compliant, however, electromagnetic forces induce mechanical vibrations which may lead to failure. The Simcenter MAGNET and Simcenter Motorsolve solution calculates the behavior of electromagnetic forces on individual components, providing examination of the structure and materials integrities under multiple

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that Global Unichip Corporation successfully deployed the Cadence® digital implementation and signoff flow and delivered advanced-node (N16, N12 and N7) designs for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Through use of the Cadence Innovus™ Implementation System and the Voltus™ IC Power Integrity Solution, GUC achieved first-pass silicon success and met its GHz performance target for its multi-billion gate designs. Traditional digital implementation and signoff tools lack the capacity GUC required for their multi-billion gate designs during the implementation and signoff stages. Alternative solutions on the market must be greatly scripted because they don’t offer a shared data model-level integration, requiring more manual work with increased design margins and limited performance. Where the traditional tools fall short, the tightly integrated Cadence solution helped GUC meet power, performance and area (PPA) targets and deliver their large-capacity, advanced designs on time. The Innovus Implementation System improved the GUC design team’s

Global Unichip Corp. , the global custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) leader, has adopted ANSYS  to support its unmatched combination of advanced technology, low-power and embedded CPU design capabilities. Providing advanced ASIC services that meet the needs of today’s innovative technology enterprises requires a fast introduction, timely resolution to customer problems and successful signoff. GUC selected ANSYS® RedHawk-SC™ to support the significant needs of its customers by effectively executing designs with more than one billion device instances and completing the full-chip systems-on-chip (SoC) power integrity and reliability signoff in less than two days. ANSYS RedHawk-SC is built on ANSYS® SeaScape™ — the world's first custom-designed, big data architecture for electronic system design and simulation. ANSYS SeaScape features big data architecture for electronic system design and simulation and provides elastic compute scalability to enable rapid design iteration, increased scenario coverage and greater accuracy for full-chip SoC signoff for advanced nodes. ANSYS RedHawk-SC’s actionable analytics provide

ESI Group will attend for the 4th consecutive year CES in Las Vegas, from January 7 to 10, 2020. ESI will showcase its virtual prototyping solutions, alongside some of its customers – suppliers and car manufacturers (Farasis Energy, Gazelle Tech, GAC R&D Center Silicon Valley Inc). Demonstrations will illustrate the key role played by simulation in the digital industrial transformation. Manufacturers, particularly in the automotive sector, are facing increasing complexity, combining the need for transition to new mobility solutions, shorter time to market, global competition, cost pressure, as well as regulatory, safety and environmental constraints. Thanks to its expertise in virtual prototyping based on the physics of materials, ESI provides solutions that meet these transformation challenges and boost the performance of industrial products throughout their lifecycle. With the addition of virtual reality, these solutions are immersive and human-centric, accelerating collaborative decision-making from the design phase of the project. Several ESI customers, namely

Following an unprecedented streak of fast-paced growth and profitability, businesses are beginning to feel the need for deep soul searching. As a new decade approaches, they must look inwards for a total re-examination of their purpose and place in the world, says a new report by Accenture Now in its 13th year, Fjord Trends 2020 takes its annual look ahead to the future of business, technology and design, according to Fjord, design and innovation from Accenture Interactive. 2019 has been a year of climate crisis activism, Big Tech accountability, the booms and busts of the gig economy, and the commitment of 181 top CEOs to redefine the Statement of Purpose of a Corporation. Changing mindsets, accelerated by rising digital adoption, have reached the C-suite, forcing leaders to reconsider the very principles their organizations are built on. The report notes that economics and politics, capitalism and resources, and technology and society have long been entwined, but only

PDES, Inc. welcomes Kubotek3D to its international model-based standards consortium as an Industry 6 Participant. Kubotek3D delivers core precision 3D technologies and easy-to-use software to help engineers speed time-to-market, reduce costs, and improve quality. By taking part in the consortium, Kubotek will be able to provide real-time feedback to the standards based on the actual requirements of their customers. This will ensure that Kubotek will be on the forefront of implementation of the manufacturing standards supported by PDES, Inc., resulting in a more robust product for Kubotek’s customers. “Kubotek brings significant capabilities and a great vision for their products to the PDES Inc. Team. They will be a strong addition to the CAx-IF organization,” noted Jack Harris, General Manager of PDES, Inc. “Supporting product definition data mobility across design and manufacturing is at the core of all Kubotek software,” adds Ram Eswaran, COO & CTO, Kubotek3D. “Partnering with PDES will

At Autodesk, we’re continually amazed by the many companies who are leading and transforming design and manufacturing processes in a positive way, and we recently honored several companies for their achievements at the third annual Design & Manufacturing Excellence Awards, held at Autodesk University in Las Vegas.    Category: Innovator of the Year Winner: Volkswagen Group of America To celebrate the 20-year anniversary of its largest vehicle research facility outside of Germany, the team at Volkswagen’s Innovation and Engineering Center reimagined the VW bus — an iconic symbol of the company’s heritage and values. With a focus on maximizing strength while minimizing weight, the VW team collaborated with Autodesk by applying generative design to the wheels to reduce the overall weight and rolling resistance on the tires. The new wheels are 18 percent lighter than a standard set, and the overall development time from design to manufacture was cut from 1.5 years to a matter of months. Generative design was also used

 PDF Key takeaways: Trends like digital transformation and Industry 4.0 require rethinking the fundamental relationship between the product lifecycle and supply chains, thus pushing quality requirements to the forefront in the drive to deliver strategic and incremental business value. While product quality has always had an impact on a company's revenue, it was often difficult to measure the direct impact. With the shift from products to smart, connected products with embedded services, it will now to possible to directly link customer experience, satisfaction, and revenue. The Internet of Things (IoT) offers an unprecedented opportunity to proactively translate product data into knowledge leveraged across the product lifecycle. At the same time, the social web provides the ability to proactively monitor products’ customer sentiment as news of missed customer expectations travels quickly across the global internet. Oracle PLM Cloud offers a unitary digital thread—their enterprise product record spans ideation through the entire product lifecycle—powering their suite's closed-loop