The benefits of BIM (building information modeling) and other technology advancements that allow the exchange of information on design and construction projects, including improving labor productivity and reducing costs for construction companies, are just the beginning of what can be achieved, according to a new study released today by Dodge Data & Analytics in partnership with Bentley Systems.

The findings are published in a new report, "SmartMarket Brief: BIM Advancements 01," the first of a series that will examine how BIM and information mobility are transforming the construction industry, based on respondents from the largest architecture, engineering and contracting companies in...

Canopy, the Atos Cloud, in collaboration with EMC commissioned a study about Hybrid Cloud adoption conducted by Forrester Consulting.  Surveying over 150 companies with revenues of $1 billion+ across multiple countries, the findings show an increased adoption of hybrid cloud services with 58% of the respondents saying they already have some form of hybrid cloud environment.

Multi-Cloud is Here and a Reality

The research demonstrates that a majority of companies now understand that their approach to cloud must be through a combination of cloud services.

Organizations using hybrid cloud define it as a 'cloud spread across multiple deployment models' with 40% of respondents seeing...

Arena Solutions highlighted how more than 100 customers are already using Arena PLM for creating, designing and manufacturing of products that incorporate Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities.

IoT is an explosive technology megatrend in which previously unconnected devices are being connected to the Internet with fixed IP addresses — all without human intervention — so they can send data to and interact with a central database and, sometimes, with one another. Product companies of all stripes are only just beginning to tap the vast potential of IoT, embedding sensors in everything from medical devices to home appliances and clothes.

But it's no...

Zuken USA Inc announces the acquisition of CAETEK Inc. CAETEK is a software developer and sales partner for electrical design and manufacturing solutions.

The addition of CAETEK will strengthen Zuken USA’s product portfolio and coverage in the electrical design space. CAETEK employees and intellectual property will transition to Zuken USA as part of the acquisition.

Zuken USA’s CEO, Kent McLeroth, commented on the acquisition: “Paul Harvell and the team at CAETEK have developed some fantastic products, including Harness Builder, which expands the scope of E3.series further into the electrical manufacturing realm. Paul is an industry expert and will play...

Key takeaways:

• Effective, early product costing, especially for manufacturers in the automotive, industrial machinery, and high-tech industries is becoming more critical to a company’s ability to propose, deliver, and service the products that are key to their long-term profitably
• Effective lifecycle costing must incorporate the mechanical, electronic, and software components of today’s increasingly complex products as well as production, service, and other factors
• The SAP Product Lifecycle Costing solution enables companies to better manage product costs and quotations in line with strategic targets, especially during the bid and early development phases where design is evolving and master data is incomplete

Introduction

Product complexity in all...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 22 December, 2015 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm announces that the first CIMdata PLM Certificate program of 2016 will take place at the Kensington Court Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan from March 7-11. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The three- or five-day program prepares PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. The program is facilitated by a...

Synopsys, Inc. today announced the release of its CODE V® version 10.8 solution, the company's industry-leading software application for the design of imaging optical systems. The CODE V optical design software release 10.8 supports the design of high-performance asymmetric and freeform optical systems with algorithmic enhancements that yield highly accurate computations of optical system parameters and enable precise control of those parameters during design optimization. In addition, CODE V 10.8 provides designers with extended aspheric lens formulations, new ways to customize workflows and an expanded materials library.

"The updates in Synopsys' CODE V 10.8 help streamline the design of...

Building on its commitment to deliver major new contributions in the open source community, EMC Corporation today announced RackHD™ (Rack 'H' 'D'), a platform-agnostic technology stack designed to solve an industry-wide challenge of managing and orchestrating server and network resources at hyper-scale. Additionally, the CoprHD™ Community announced the release of CoprHD 2.4 and new collaborations with Intel and Oregon State University, marking a significant community milestone as CoprHD grows beyond a single-vendor open source project. Lastly, EMC also announced new updates to Project REX-Ray™, its open source storage orchestration engine for use with containers provided by Docker, Mesos and others.

RackHD API...

Anark Corporation announced today that it has launched its MBE-enabled HTML hosting and collaboration solution, powered by its Anark Core software.

Leveraging Anark’s recipe-driven publishing and collaboration software currently deployed within many of the world’s largest manufacturing enterprises, MBEWeb brings powerful new capabilities to the Industrial Internet, including full support for popular mobile platforms such as iOS and Android-based tablet and smartphone devices through their standard web browsers.

The past three years have seen a rapid migration of enterprise manufacturers, away from traditional 2D engineering drawings and loosely-coupled database reports, towards a unified electronic MBE process leveraging 3D PDF...

California based Pacific Gas and Electric has extended its intelligent substation design strategy, based on Bentley Substation, to its external design contractors. Through ProjectWise, contractors can securely access PG&E’s substation designs and collaborate with in-house engineers working “live” in PG&E’s environment. 

PG&E Substation Engineering Services successfully deployed Bentley Substation and ProjectWise to approximately 80 internal design employees in 2011 and 2012. This decreased errors on drawings, reduction of the amount of construction rework in the field, and a drop in the average design hours per drawing by 50%.

In order to continue to successfully manage substation work, PG&E needed to...