ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 January 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Ms. Laila Hirr, CIMdata’s Practice Manager for High Tech & Electronics, will highlight issues and trends related to getting products into production, in an upcoming webinar on using Design for Excellence (DFx) to improve product realization sponsored by Geometric Ltd.

“Faulty decisions adversely impact the products we develop,” says Hirr. “Identifying design issues early allows them to be addressed when they are relatively low cost to fix. Reducing issues improves product launches leading to improved profitability and customer satisfaction. This webinar will...

PTC today announced the release of PTC Mathcad® Gateway solution. With one million licenses sold of PTC Mathcad engineering software, PTC Mathcad Gateway combines the power of PTC Mathcad with the ability to access calculations anywhere, anytime from a wide variety of devices. The solution offers a server that enables universal access to those who work with engineering calculations while still protecting corporate intellectual property.

Engineering companies that have adopted standardized calculation best practices often want to distribute certified calculations to every user who needs the information but without exposing sensitive and valuable intellectual property (IP). The PTC Mathcad...

Advanced Solutions Product Lifecycle Management, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced (ASI), an Autodesk Platinum Partner and Authorized Training Center (ATC), has been selected as the PLM Advisor and Implementation Specialist for First Solar.

First Solar is a pioneer in Photovoltaic (PV) energy solutions, currently operating many of the world's largest grid-connected PV power plants in existence. First Solar provides commercial solar energy solutions enabling a world powered with sustainable, dependable, and affordable solar electricity.

Under the awarded contract, ASI Product Lifecycle Management will modernize the current First Solar internal process for bill of materials management, change order procedures,...

ESI Group announces the signature of a strategic partnership with JMDA, global child car seat design and development specialist. By signing this agreement, JMDA and ESI are joining forces to enable child car seat manufacturers to reach new levels of technical understanding and design excellence. The main benefit of combining child car seat design and Virtual Prototyping, using ESI's Virtual Seat Solution, is to virtually test a proposed design, to gain information about expected product performance and regulatory compliance before committing to major investments. The seat and its restraint system...

Altium has announced their partnership with VOX, Industry-Leading Musical Equipment Manufacturer, with the goal to reduce development time on the company's electronic designs for their award-winning guitar amps. With the use of Altium Designer, VOX was able to reduce development time by 50%, citing ease of use, ECAD-to-MCAD collaboration tools, and powerful productivity features as the primary catalysts for their streamlined development success. Altium will be in attendance at DesignCon 2016 to showcase all of the powerful features that made this development goal possible with VOX, including a sneak peek into future plans for the platform in 2016. Engineers interested in...

Arena Solutions today announced highlights from Q4 2015, which proved to be a record quarter for the company. Arena recorded the highest bookings and the largest average deal size in the company's 16-year history. Q4 2015 bookings increased by nearly 30 percent over Q4 2014 (a record high at that time), while average deal size grew 22 percent over the same period.

These strong results were driven primarily by closing larger enterprise deals, an accomplishment driven in large part by the release of Arena Analytics in September, which was the latest new...

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) along with Wipro Limited for the Wipro Sustainability Fellowship and the Wipro Sustainability Grant will fund Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) students to research on the broad area of sustainability.

Professor Shashidhar Murthy, IIMB's FPM Chairperson, said, "We at IIMB are glad that Wipro values our students and the nurturing provided by our faculty. We thank Wipro for their generosity. This will provide an impetus to students' research in the area of Sustainability."

The FPM at IIMB is a premier source of rigorous and inter-disciplinary research in all areas of business management and public policy,...

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the formation of a Simulation-Driven Systems Development (SDSD) Practice and Knowledge Council. Mr. Donald Tolle will head up the initiative. Mr. Tolle transitions into this new role as a natural extension of his activities with CIMdata over the past 2 1/2 years as Director of CIMdata’s Systems Engineering and Simulation Consulting Practice.

The new SDSD Knowledge Council represents the merger of CIMdata’s Systems Engineering Knowledge Council and Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council activities. The new Council reflects the cross-industry and cross-discipline focus on...

Infor today announced Infor Supply Chain Execution (SCE), version 10.4, to deliver enhanced performance and efficiency. Building upon last year's announcement of SCE in the Cloud, Infor has utilized feedback from customers in multiple industries, to improve fulfillment performance, increase ease-of-use and achieve a faster return on investment. As a cloud company that is geared towards delivering industry-first solutions, Infor SCE 10.4 provides a unique tool that is easily adapted to specific needs of the vertical, allowing for a more holistic approach for supply chain management. 

Infor SCE 10.4 combines warehouse management, transportation execution, 3PL billing and labor management in...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that HiSilicon has completed a successful evaluation of the Cadence® Innovus™ Implementation System that led to the adoption of the solution for 28nm and advanced node FinFET digital signal processor (DSP) design projects. The Innovus Implementation System enabled HiSilicon to achieve an optimal target performance of 1.2GHz while creating a 20 percent smaller design when compared with its previous solution.

The Innovus Implementation System handles challenging, highly complex designs utilizing technologies such as the GigaPlace™ solver-based placement technology, GigaOpt™ low-power optimization and CCOpt™ concurrent clock and datapath optimization engines. The Innovus Implementation System...