EMC Corporation has been recognized for its actions and strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change by CDP, the international not-for-profit organization that drives sustainable economies (see related CDP news release here). EMC is among the top 5% to achieve A-List status of the thousands of companies that were independently assessed against CDP's methodology.

In addition, for the seventh time, EMC has earned its position on the Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI), which spotlights companies listed on the Standard and Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500) that have demonstrated a high level of transparency and data quality...

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced the newest version of its market-leading FloTHERM® product, the industry’s most powerful and accurate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software solution. The FloTHERM product was developed to quickly identify potential thermal issues early in the design process to avoid expensive late stage re-design and warranty costs arising from thermal failures in the field. The newest version of the FloTHERM product delivers an automated method to calibrate simulation models to match transient thermal measurements recorded with the Mentor Graphics® T3Ster® hardware. As a result, the FloTHERM product can help maximize simulation data accuracy and provide additional insight...

Zentera Systems, Inc., and Runtime Design Automation (RTDA) today announced that they have collaborated to demonstrate the Mentor Graphics^® Eldo^® circuit simulator massively compute-bursting into the cloud on a secure hybrid network. This production system can be seen for the first time at Supercomputing 2015 this week, Booth #3309, in Austin, TX. 

In the demonstration, the Eldo foundry-certified, high-precision circuit simulator from Mentor Graphics is managed by the Network Computer™ workload manager from RTDA, provider of infrastructure and design optimization software solutions. The tools run in the public cloud over a hybrid network powered and secured by the Zentera...

Dassault Systèmes today announced its partnership with Centurion University of Technology & Management, Odisha (CUTM) to offer virtual design and digital manufacturing programmes with assault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform for Academia on the cloud.

This would be the first ever all on cloud programme being offered in India through Dassault Systemes, by a University. The collaboration would involve Dassault Systèmes technology and applications, interactive learning and training material and Dassault Systemes’...

Comet Solutions, Inc. announces a reseller partnership with Front End Analytics (FEA). Under the agreement, FEA will distribute Comet’s suite of Simulation Application (SimApps™) solutions as an independent value added reseller. Powerful, web-deployable, and solution-specific, Comet SimApps allow product designers and engineers, who are not experts in the use of simulation tools, to safely and quickly evaluate designs using sophisticated simulations. With embedded expert knowledge and methods, SimApps remove the complexity of using general purpose CAE tools. Forward-thinking companies throughout Automotive, Aerospace, Off-Highway, Electronics and more, are today leveraging SimApps to globally enforce expert best practices while measurably...

Altium Limited has announced the release of a major update to their flagship PCB design tool, Altium Designer 16. 
This update expands the Altium Designer platform to include several new features for enhanced design productivity and automation, allowing engineers to create complex, error-free designs in less time. Altium Designer 16 is available now as a free upgrade for all existing Altium Subscription customers, and can be accessed via the Altium Products Download page 
“Engineers are constantly being challenged to design PCBs in increasingly smaller product packages while still requiring the highest-performance electronics,” said Jason Hingston, CTO at Altium. “Altium...

Leading Swedish fashion brand, Filippa K®, has implemented YuniquePLM™ from Gerber Technology to improve collaboration among its global network of retail partners, managers, suppliers and manufacturers. Filippa K offers timeless, high quality apparel for men and women that can be found in over 700 select retailers in North America,Europe and Asia....

The latest in 3D virtual and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) innovations, and their impact on quality, collaboration and improved time to market, will be presented in a Scandinavian technology tour Nov. 17 to 20. Software and automation solution experts Gerber Technology and Alvanon, in collaboration with apparel development technology suppliers Amatec and ACG Nystrom, are hosts of "Transforming Apparel Development with Virtual Technologies," four one-day seminars for apparel retailers, brands, designers and manufacturers.

The Apparel Tech Tour will be held daily from 10:00 a.m....

Boole Business Labs, Europe's first digital transformation research centre for regulated industries, has been launched by EMC and University College Cork (UCC).

The joint collaboration between EMC and UCC aims to ensure that industries such as telecoms, financial services and biopharma become innovative while remaining compliant with industry regulations.

Officially opened today by Minister Dara Murphy at UCC, the centre will focus on IT business systems integrity, risk analysis, including cybersecurity, and innovation in regulated industries.

The centre will located at UCC and be run by a team of university researchers.

Dara Murphy, Minister for European Affairs and Data...

CAM developer Delcam and tooling supplier Technicut have partnered to produce a novel method for blisk machining that delivers remarkable savings in both time and cost.  The new method covers the machining of the blisk from start to finish and combines new tooling concepts from Technicut with advanced machining strategies in Delcam’s PowerMILL software for the rough, semi-finish and finish machining of integrally bladed rotors.

A video of the new process can be seen on the Delcam AMS channel on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1nqbQHV1Ew  In this example, the cycle time was reduced to 35 hours, less than half the time...