Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced the delivery of the next-generation Virtuoso® platform which offers designers an average of 10X performance and capacity improvement across the platform. The platform includes new technologies within the Cadence® Virtuoso Analog Design Environment (ADE) and enhancements to the Cadence Virtuoso Layout Suite to address requirements for automotive safety, medical device and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

The next-generation Cadence Virtuoso ADE product suite addresses the challenges that come with the emergence of new industry standards, advanced-node designs and the requirements for system design, enabling engineers to fully explore, analyze and verify designs...

aPriori, a leading provider of product cost management (PCM) software solutions for the enterprise today announced an important update to the company’s flagship product - called aPriori 2016 R1. aPriori continues to push the boundaries for “democratization of cost” by implementing solutions that have appeal across all product design and build teams. aPriori PCM Solutions address Design Cost Analysis, Should Cost Negotiation and New Business Development challenges and help customers improve product profitability, accelerate time to market and win new business.

Highlights of the aPriori 2016 R1 product release include:

User Experience Upgrades for Design Engineers:

• A...

ESI Group announces its participation at CastExpo, 16-19 April 2016 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Sponsored by the American Foundry Society (AFS), CastExpo is the largest metal casting trade show in North America. ESI will showcase on booth 1915 its leading casting simulation software, ProCAST, which addresses a large number of casting processes for diverse metals and alloys. Developed over the past 25 years, ProCAST has helped foundries, big and small, improve cast part quality, reduce manufacturing defects, and lower scrap rates.

ESI ProCAST is a versatile, precise and comprehensive casting simulation solution, enabling foundries to tackle...

SQS, a market leader in quality management and software testing for Product Life Cycle Management (PLM), has partnered with Siemens PLM to provide an innovative end to end testing solution for ten clients. Since 2015 SQS and Siemens have been supporting these North American and European firms in the Automotive, Aerospace, Hi-tech, Oil & Transport sectors, where the commercial engagement was either fixed price or output based.  

Its ten years working with Siemens helped SQS to identify the newest product releases and, using the vast product knowledge of SQS’ SWAT team of PLM specialists (Subject Matter Experts) and...

Plastic Ingenuity, the national leader in innovative packaging solutions from proposal to finished product, is proud to debut a groundbreaking new technology to promote collaboration between manufacturers and real world shoppers.

Perfect Shelf, a 3D experience solution from Dassault Systèmes, bridges the gap between retailers, consumers, and product design engineers. The digital modeling system creates highly realistic aisle views with shelves, fixtures, products, lighting, and even promotional materials. The tool creates the opportunity for specific, high quality design work, in addition to manufacturing and prototyping cost savings.

A major factor in the consumer shopping experience around...

IBM and SAP SE today announced plans across both companies to drive the modernization of clients’ systems and processes and accelerate them into the digital economy.  

Specifically, the companies plan to co-innovate solutions that increase customer value through cognitive extensions, enhanced customer and user experiences and industry-specific functionality -- all enabled with SAP® Business Suite 4 SAP HANA® (SAP S/4HANA) software, available on-premise and in the cloud. The companies intend to co-locate resources in Walldorf, Germany and Palo Alto, Calif. deepening their long-standing partnership and delivering a distinct blend of market-leading capabilities. In addition, the companies...

ASCON Group, the developer and integrator of high-performance CAD/AEC/PLM software systems, is pleased to announce the newest release of its architectural design system, Renga Architecture v2.3. This release adds color, works with table data, links to KOMPAS-3D, and many more useful functions.

Until now, Renga Architecture displayed graphics exclusively in monochrome, but now it adds two new display modes, wireframe and color. Wireframe mode shows just the model's edges (lines without surfaces). Originally developed for Renga Structure, our upcoming building structures design system, wireframe display mode helps to see insides of buildings, and is especially useful when creating...

Customers of ANSYS can now design their innovative electronic products faster and more cost-effectively thanks to the latest release of ANSYS® Savant™ and ANSYS® EMIT™ software. The industry-leading engineering simulation solutions give engineers the power to design and predict the performance of installed antenna and radio frequency (RF) environments quickly and more accurately for a range of products – from wearable and mobile devices to autonomous vehicles.

Product design is changing with the advent of the Internet of Things and the widespread growth of wireless devices. Guaranteeing that the proper operation and coexistence of RF systems...

Paradigm has announced the availability of Reservoir Driven Production Risk Management (RD PRM), a combined software and services offering that integrates advanced rock, fluid and stress characterization to help users better understand how the reservoir changes with time.

Targeted at asset managers, drilling and completion engineers and reservoir engineers, RD PRM leverages Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA applications, powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and enables optimal production decisions while lowering operational risks.

“Dassault Systèmes and Paradigm bring unique technology and expertise to the partnership,” said Arshad Matin, president and CEO of Paradigm. “Dassault Systèmes brings decades...

Dassault Systèmes and Ipsen, a global specialty-driven pharmaceutical group, today announced their collaboration for innovative programs using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Ipsen has selected the “Designed to Cure” industry solution experience to accelerate its research and development (R&D) transformation and discovery of new therapeutic solutions. The platform offers data integration, modeling and simulation capabilities to gain a more comprehensive view of the dysregulations linked to diseases as well as improves and shortens the identification of higher quality drug candidates. The project also aims to optimize the R&D processes of Ipsen’s multi-disciplinary teams located in the heart of the leading...