German shipbuilder Blohm+Voss selected Siemens’ integrated suite of product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions to support its entire ship design, engineering and construction processes. The holistic approach to shipbuilding delivered by the Siemens PLM Software business was the determining factor in the shipyard’s decision to replace its previous software with Siemens’ specialized shipbuilding solution, including its Teamcenter® portfolioand NX™ software. Working in conjunction with SGP Management Consultants GmbH, Blohm+Voss judged the Siemens PLM software solution as superior to several other specialized...

AVEVA says that NIPIGAS has extended its contract for AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering & Design solution. The new contract means that NIPIGAS will use AVEVA software to create a collaborative digital environment that enables greater control over the entire design and engineering process.

This extended contract includes access to AVEVA’s flagship 3D design software, AVEVA Everything3D™ (AVEVA E3D™).

AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering & Design software solution scales to support projects of any size, enabling NIPIGAS to take on bigger, more complex capital projects

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PTC continues to demonstrate its leadership, vision and technical prowess for the Internet of Things at the sold out PTC LiveWorx® Europe conference, which took place this week at the ICS conference center Stuttgart, Germany. Attended by more than 2,500, PTC LiveWorx Europe is a premier European conference where professionals go to learn about the IoT.

PTC LiveWorx Europe kicked off with a thought-provoking keynote about PTC’s vision for the IoT and the impact of merging physical and digital worlds by Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO of PTC. The conference highlighted a new technology announcement...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced it plans to host two digital design-focused user summits in December. The Front-End Design Summit is scheduled for December 2, 2015, and the Digital Implementation Summit is scheduled for December 10, 2015. Both user summits are to be held at Cadence® headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and are intended for design engineers or managers who have an interest in discussing industry trends and solutions for today's design challenges.

WHAT: 
Join industry visionaries, academic experts, peers and the Cadence R&D team at the two free user summits.

Topics of discussion for the Front-End Design Summit include:

• Advanced synthesis technologies, including...

Centric Software has opened its first Latin American office in Mexico City, aiming to build relationships with companies in the Latin American fashion industry and support their production of clothing, footwear, luxury goods, and consumer goods.

Leveraging the success with women's clothing brand STF Group S.A. and urban clothing retailer Quest, both based in Colombia, Centric Software plans to develop a market throughout Latin America. Centric's Mexico City office, in the heart of the fashionable Roma-Condesa district, joins its worldwide offices in California, New York, London, Milan, Paris, Munich, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Shanghai.

Centric will support the fashion industry...

Altair announced it will provide an open source licensing option for its market-leading HPC workload manager, PBS Professional® (PBS Pro). Scheduled to be released to the open source community in mid-2016, PBS Pro will become available under two different licensing options for commercial installations and as an Open Source Initiative compliant version. The decision includes working closely with Intel and the Linux Foundation’s OpenHPC Collaborative Project to integrate the open source version of PBS Pro.

PBS Pro HPC workload management technology, originally developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center, was acquired by Altair along with its development team in 2003. Today, PBS...

Infosys today said it has completed the acquisition of US-based oil and gas consulting firm Noah Consulting.

Last month, the Bengaluru-based firm had announced the acquisition of Noah Consulting for USD 70 million (about Rs 453.5 crore) in an all-cash deal.

“Infosys has completed the acquisition of Noah Consulting, a provider of advanced information management consulting services for the oil and gas industry. The acquisition is in accordance with the terms set out in the agreement announced by the company on October 19, 2015,” it said in a statement.

The acquisition positioned Infosys to offer end-to-end data management services...

Key takeaways:

• Five years in development, Windchill 11 has grown in breadth, depth and flexibility to support the growing complexity of PTC’s customers’ products
• ThingWorx technology is transforming Windchill 11 to become a smart, connected PLM platform by enabling integration and mash-ups of data created and maintained within PLM and other environments
• Role-based apps and an HTML5 user interface are designed to democratize PLM and make it more usable to an expanded community of users
• PTC is committed to cloud-based delivery of its products and also announced new subscription licensing

PTC announced the release of Windchill 11—a...

Rand Worldwide today announced that its courseware division, ASCENT – Center for Technical Knowledge will host two expert-led classes as well as exhibit at Autodesk University (AU) 2015. ASCENT will also showcase, and have available for purchase, a selection of 2016 Autodesk Official Training Guides (AOTG) and Official Certification Preparation books at booth #361. Attendees can also test drive ASCENT’s Video-Enhanced eBooks for 2016 Autodesk software on iPads located at the...

COMSOL, Inc. announced the release of COMSOL Multiphysics® version 5.2 providing the simulation community the only fully integrated environment for creating simulation apps. This version of COMSOL Multiphysics® and COMSOL Server™ simulation software environment delivers new features, improved stability and robustness, and faster execution. Major upgrades to the Application Builder available in COMSOL Multiphysics include the new Editor Tools for easy creation of user interface components, commands for dynamic updates of graphics, and more control over the deployment of simulation apps. Running simulation apps using COMSOL Server in a corporate network or in the cloud is...