Position Papers

Accurate materials information is essential for any product development organization. A single, gold-source of materials information ensures accuracy and traceability for simulation teams, product designers, and throughout the product development lifecycle. The new GRANTA MI 2020 release meets this need with a significantly-improved user experience across the enterprise. GRANTA MI customers will see a faster, more intuitive, and easier-to-use system. If you’re not yet using GRANTA MI, find out how you could benefit from shared, consistent, and reliable materials information across your engineering teams. New features include: enhanced apps for accessing materials data with CAD and CAE, now including integration with ANSA simulation software; slicker search for all users; more flexible licensing options; new capabilities for charting data in GRANTA MI web apps; new data analysis features; and updated materials reference data. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Ansys on CIMdata.com

With many strategic applications, CIM Database is the global PLM platform at KIRCHHOFF Automotive. The company is now adding another solution from the CONTACT Elements portfolio in order to create its offers for OEMs with CONTACT Product Costing. A reliable cost calculation is the basis for the profitability of products. This applies even more if their production requires high investments in equipment, materials and operating processes – and this is the case at KIRCHHOFF Automotive: As a global development partner of the automotive OEMs, the company manufactures complex body components that give vehicles stability and safety. To date, KIRCHHOFF Automotive uses an in-house developed software for the calculation of its offers. It can no longer be expanded and can only be maintained with great effort. Therefore, the company has evaluated leading calculation programs and selected Product Costing from CONTACT Software. "CONTACT's solution is cost-efficient and offers clear functional advantages," says

Infor announced it will host an investor conference call to discuss Q2 fiscal year 2020 results for current holders of Infor securities and other interested parties on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. Materials and dial-in details will be available at https://www.infor.com/about/in... after 9 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, Dec. 11. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Infor on CIMdata.com

Tata Consultancy Services announced that its cloud-based clinical solutions and services suite, TCS Advanced Drug Development (ADD), has won an award in the category Excellence in Ancillary Pharma Services, at the India Pharma Awards 2019. The India Pharma Awards bring together industry pioneers and recognize outstanding examples of innovation that improve the pharma industry. TCS was recognized for its leadership in leveraging automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT through its intellectual property and commercial-off-the-shelf offerings, to digitize and transform patient engagement, metadata management and regulatory submissions for life sciences organizations. “We are building future-proof technology platforms to transform drug development by harnessing our deep knowledge of the life sciences industry, coupled with expertise in digital and AI technologies,” said Debashis Ghosh, Global Head, Life Sciences and Healthcare, TCS. “This award is a testament to the advanced capabilities of our TCS ADD suite that digitally transforms clinical trials and delivers increased speed to market,

Telma, the world leader in frictionless braking systems, significantly shortened time to market and optimized product development costs using ANSYS for three new series of retarders — braking systems that use electromagnetic induction. With ANSYS, Telma decreased the number of prototypes required for validation from 10 to one over the course of a decade — enabling faster development of retarders that reduce fine-particle emissions associated with braking systems by up to 90% while significantly reducing maintenance costs. Retarders are used in heavy vehicles, mining applications, wind turbines and elevators to dissipate most of the large amounts of energy produced during deceleration. This requires testing and validating the retarders under extreme conditions to ensure the function and safety of the application. With ANSYS, Telma engineers replaced their time-consuming and expensive physical prototyping and testing process with simulation, enabling engineers to better manage the electromagnetical, fluid and structural mechanic phenomena at work. Using

Altium launched the next evolution of easy, modern and powerful PCB design software: Altium Designer 20. Spanning more than two decades of electronic design innovation, Altium Designer 20 improves the design experience with a faster schematic editor, high-speed design and enhanced interactive router capabilities enabling faster board design. “Most of my design time is spent on routing. The new routing capability in AD20 will save me at least 40% of design time,” said Mark Ross, an Electronics Designer at Progressive Dynamics, Inc. “If I was not already an Altium Designer user, I'd switch just for the new routing capability." New and advanced capabilities include: Best in class interactive routing - new “push & shove’’ capabilities enable routing of complex HDI boards and speed-up design times by over 20%, even for simple printed circuit boards. New high-speed PCB routing capabilities - new advanced routing enables users to efficiently design high density and high-speed

This week at AWS re:Invent 2019, VMware, Inc.is demonstrating how customers around the world are selecting VMware Cloud on AWS to migrate and modernize their applications. Customers adopting VMware Cloud on AWS include 888 Holdings, AIT Worldwide Logistics, Department of Customer Service NSW, EMPLOYERS, Equinix, Optage, and ZENRIN DataCom, all of which are taking advantage of VMware’s consistent cloud infrastructure and operations to reduce the cost, complexity and risk of moving VMware-based applications to the cloud. VMware also announced the company is opening a Beta program for the forthcoming VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered service that brings VMware’s enterprise class software-defined data center capabilities to Amazon Web Services (AWS), with optimized access to AWS services. The service offers fast cloud migration, powered by VMware HCX and vMotion combined with consistent hybrid cloud infrastructure and operations. Once applications are migrated, customers can

  Infor announced that Watami Co. Ltd. has gone live with Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage (F&B) — a multi-tenant1 cloud ERP solution purpose-built for the F&B industry — as its supply chain management (SCM) platform for its sites across Japan. At the same time, Watami will implement data-driven management with Infor Birst cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform linked to the Infor CloudSuite solution.  The Watami Group of companies, with Watami at its head, is an integrated food business operating multiple restaurants and meal delivery services. The group is currently working on “Merchandise Reform,” a set of transformations to enable better earning structures and data-driven management decisions in real time via an optimized SCM platform. The aim is to implement a renewable energy-based program in support of what is known in Japan as the “sixth industrialization model.”2 Watami selected Infor CloudSuite F&B for its ability to drive business standardization through industry-specific functions and to

Accenture has been selected to assist Navantia, Spain’s largest builder of military and civilian vessels, with the design, development and implementation of “Shipyard 4.0,” a new technology platform that leverages digital technologies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ship design and construction.   The platform will employ capabilities such as digital twins, modelling and simulation, and artificial intelligence (AI) to help Navantia accelerate ship design and development, optimize the construction process, including meeting maximum safety standards, and develop new services across the operational lifetime of its vessels.The first ship to benefit from using the Shipyard 4.0 platform will be the new F-110 frigate, part of a new class of combat vessels for the Spanish Navy. The new platform will help Navantia improve its business management systems throughout a vessel’s entire lifecycle. The rest of Navantia’s new projects will follow.   Accenture will also work with Navantia over the next

­Trimble announced the acquisitions of Cansel Survey Equipment's Can-Net and AllTerra New Zealand's iBase networks. The acquisitions significantly increase the global footprint of Trimble-owned Virtual Reference Station (VRS) networks by adding key geographies in North America and New Zealand. Subscription-based VRS correction services are now accessible to more customers around the world who rely on high-accuracy corrections to increase productivity and reduce operational costs. The correction services are ideal for professionals in agriculture, geospatial and construction as well as emerging high-accuracy applications, such as on-road positioning for passenger vehicles. Financial terms were not disclosed. Trimble is transforming how and where users can leverage precision and accuracy by: Deploying and acquiring networks and services worldwide that deliver high-accuracy positioning nearly anywhere in the world, making Trimble a leading provider of corrections in urban, suburban and even the most rural areas. Continuing to advance GNSS corrections technology that enables industries to re-think