GRAPHISOFT® will host its North America BIM Conference March 22-24 in Las Vegas. Featuring renowned keynote speakers and a unique course line up, this year’s conference provides the ultimate BIM learning and networking experience. The flagship event, now in its third year, welcomes users from around the world to the only conference in North America that is 100% ARCHICAD.

GRAPHISOFT’s clients are visionaries, innovators, and industry leaders demanding cutting-edge technology and tools that help them build and design physical spaces. Presentations from ARCHICAD “Power Users” and GRAPHISOFT experts help conference attendees explore ARCHICAD to push the limits of design...

The Altair Partner Alliance (APA) is pleased to announce the addition of SantosHuman Inc.'s Santos® Pro (Pro) to its software offering. Pro predicts human performance in order to aid in human-centric virtual design and analysis, while considering human strength, fatigue, flexibility, balance, vision and posture as well as clothing and other equipment worn on the body, external forces and environmental conditions. Example uses of this multi-faceted tool include identifying potential workplace motion inefficiencies and injuries, and enhancing the user experience during product design.

"At Altair, we believe human-centered design is more than just mechanical fit; rather, it's an exploration...

Altair today announced a business collaboration with Oracle to build and offer High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions on the Oracle Cloud Platform. This follows Oracle's decision to name Altair's PBS Works as its preferred workload management solution for Oracle Cloud customers.

Altair PBS Works running on the Oracle Cloud Platform offers independent software vendors (ISVs) faster time to market on a proven HPC platform to address markets such as Oil & Gas, Insurance Information Processing and the internet of things (IoT). The Altair HPC advantage is the ability to quickly jumpstart an ISV interested in HPC with short...

Maplesoft™ today announced a major new release of MapleSim™, an advanced system-level modeling and simulation platform used by engineers to reduce development time and gain insight into system behavior.

MapleSim enables engineers to take advantage of modern techniques in modeling and simulation, dramatically reducing model development time and risk while improving designs. The latest release provides tools that increase engineering design productivity during model development, as well as significant additions to toolchain connectivity that offer even greater cross-tool compatibility and opportunities for co-simulation.

To support engineering design productivity, MapleSim 2016.2 provides live simulations that let engineers...

Infor today announced that Watlow, an industry leader in the design and manufacture of complete thermal systems, has selected Infor Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Accelerate to enhance their customer's experience by improving global business processes. As a manufacturer of state-of-the-art industrial heaters, temperature sensors and thermal control applications, Watlow partners with its customers to help them optimize their thermal performance to deliver efficient heating products and applications. To better achieve this goal, Watlow has selected Infor and Ultra Consulting to help undertake the Horizon Project, which is focused on transforming the Watlow experience for customers and team members while delivering...

Infor today announced that Watlow, an industry leader in the design and manufacture of complete thermal systems, has selected Infor Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Accelerate to enhance their customer's experience by improving global business processes. As a manufacturer of state-of-the-art industrial heaters, temperature sensors and thermal control applications, Watlow partners with its customers to help them optimize their thermal performance to deliver efficient heating products and applications. To better achieve this goal, Watlow has selected Infor and Ultra Consulting to help undertake the Horizon Project, which is focused on transforming the Watlow experience for customers and team members while delivering...

Nexgen Packaging, a leading global apparel identification supplier, today announced that Nexgen has chosen PTC ThingWorx® Internet of Things (IoT) platform as its platform on which to develop solutions in the retail, apparel and footwear (RAF) industry. The agreement enables Nexgen to leverage and expand its integration with PTC FlexPLM®software announced earlier this year.

ThingWorx will serve as the platform on which Nexgen will build its cloud-based solutions for RAF markets targeted at transforming the ordering, manufacturing and delivery of brand ID offerings and other product components. Nexgen's solutions will rely on PTC's open cloud architecture, which will...

As the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds are getting blurred and the world is becoming increasingly connected with amalgamation of connected devices and solutions, Tech Mahindra, a specialist in digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering has refreshed its brand philosophy, to align with the changing needs.

Tech Mahindra is one of the earliest global Information Technology Service Providers to focus on the needs of the “Connected World” with “Connected Solutions”.

The refresh rationale

Businesses must build seamless and integrated technology capabilities across dimensions – the digital, the physical, the convergent, and everything...

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that company chairman and CEO Dr. Walden C. Rhines has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Rhines is being recognized for leadership and technology innovation in integrated circuit design and automation.

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the...

Lectra receives a glittering result in WhichPLM’s recent benchmark evaluation for the newest version of Lectra Fashion PLM which extends the scope from design and product development to production for retailers, manufacturers, and brands.

Providing greater visibility over fabric management and collection development processes, and guiding companies towards making the right decisions before production, Lectra’s extremely capable PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) platform scored at, or above, the industry average in all of the 43 functional areas WhichPLM measured, achieving the highest-scoring solution evaluated by WhichPLM to date.

“With the creation of tools that support...