aPriori, a provider of enterprise product cost management (EPCM) software solutions today announced the immediate availability of aPriori 2015 R2. This second major software release of 2015 features the introduction of several important new cost models that will help manufacturers get quick answers to cost questions as they evaluate a variety of design alternatives that require Stamping, Machining, Casting and Finishing manufacturing processes to be created.

In a survey published by Techvalidate in August of 2015, more than 50% of manufacturers indicated that it takes 3 weeks or more to get a cost estimate for a new product design using traditional...

Selerant announced today that it has launched the Selerant Collaboration Portal (SCP), a new vendor management tool for process manufacturers. This new portal will provide a more controlled, efficient, and secure data synchronization between suppliers and manufacturing companies, using Selerant's web-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool, DevEX.

"Typically, vendor data is received by several different ways, such as spreadsheets, emails, and actual paper communication," explains Selerant CTO, Jacopo Colombo. "Manually entering all of the data creates several issues, not the least being data accuracy....

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced availability of verification IP (VIP) for the ARM AMBA 5 AHB on-chip interconnection specification. Available in the Mentor [®] Enterprise Verification Platform™ (EVP), this new VIP simplifies and speeds up the verification process for designers using Questa [®] simulation and Veloce [®] emulation to verify chip designs using the new specification.

As part of the Mentor [®] VIP library, the new VIP provides essential information for verifying designs using the interconnect specification—sequences, test plans, coverage and assertions for the memory types, and security and messaging features.

"The ARM AMBA 5 AHB specification defines on-chip...

Theorem’s latest CADverter range of products now support the processing of Model Based Definition (MBD) information as standard.

This is helping to streamline the manufacturing process into a paper free process by producing an information rich 3D CAD model that fully defines a product/component ready for manufacture.

When working with different suppliers as part of the design and manufacturing process, there will always be a requirement to exchange design data back and forth. However, the CAD systems used by different suppliers may be different to the ones you use. So how do you go about exchanging data...

CCE has released an update of its Unified Interop for Parasolid (UIOp) libraries. 
“Rapid support of new revisions of CAD systems in our libraries is a hallmark of CCE. We have demonstrated this again with our support for SOLIDWORKS 2016 within 60 days of general availability,” said Vinay Wagle, CCE’s VP of Sales & Marketing.
Besides supporting import of SOLIDWORKS 2016 data, Persistent ID support has also been enhanced in CATIA V5, Creo, and NX translators, which helps increase productivity for ISVs by allowing easier navigation within associative workflows, all the while making the process of updating changes more simple...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced a reference system jointly developed with ARM that is targeted at the Internet of Things (IoT) systems. This is the first product following the strategic IP Interoperability Agreement (IPIA) signed by Cadence [®] and ARM that allows the companies reciprocal access to relevant IP portfolios.

For more details on the reference subsystem, and the Cadence and ARM IPIA, please visit http://www.cadence.com/news/ARMIPIAIoT. 

The reference system is built around the ARM [®] IoT Subsystem...