Cadence Design Systems, Inc.today announced it plans to showcase its ARM®-optimized solutions that make complete systems possible at ARM TechCon 2015. The event is scheduled for November 10-12, 2015, in Santa Clara, Calif., with Cadence, a diamond sponsor, in booth #200.

WHAT:

Cadence is scheduled to deliver several presentations developed for the ARM community. The scheduled Cadence® speaking sessions are:

• Case Study: Optimizing GPU Performance Through Matched DDR Subsystem Design: Tuesday, Nov. 10, 11:30am, Nick Heaton, Cadence distinguished engineer, and Mladen Wilder, ARM senior principal engineer
• Miniaturizing Sensing and Power...

Infor today announced that it plans to increase the number of European partners in the Infor Partner Network (IPN) by 36 percent in the next six months.

The IPN is a global network designed to provide the tools and resources necessary to help partners grow a profitable and sustainable business around Infor products. Infor has continued to make significant investments in the IPN since its inception in 2011, building a program that has been consistently recognized as a leader in the industry.

Ninety-seven new channel partners joined the IPN in fiscal year 2015...

Rand Worldwide today announced that its courseware division, ASCENT- Center for Technical Knowledge, is partnering with 4D Technologies to provide free access to their Autodesk Certification Preparation content online for a limited time. The new online certification preparation portal includes Official Certification Preparation content by ASCENT and rich CADLearning video courses by 4D. These materials, available for free from November 3 to December 3, will ensure an unrivalled learning experience for those taking certification exams at Autodesk University 2015 in Las Vegas.

ASCENT’s Official Certification Preparation books are specifically designed to help users prepare for Autodesk Certification exams....

PTC announced today it has completed its acquisition of the Vuforia business from Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated. The Vuforia™ platform is the industry’s most advanced and widely adopted augmented reality (AR) technology platform. The acquisition enhances PTC’s technology portfolio and accelerates PTC’s strategy as a leading provider of technologies and solutions that blend the digital and physical worlds.

The combination of Vuforia and PTC leverages two transformational technology trends – Internet of Things (IoT) and augmented reality (AR) – that will allow PTC to deliver a new class of products that...

Key takeaways:

• SAP is expanding their reach across the extended supply chain, focused on needs and opportunities in the age of smart connected products
• The platformization of the SAP portfolio on S/4HANA illustrates the evolution of the product innovation platform as defined by CIMdata and others
• Expansions like Innovation Management, Product Lifecycle Costing, and others are bringing new energy into SAP PLM, expanding their solution coverage to the full product record

CIMdata attended SAPs Extended Supply Chain Management (eSCM) analyst event at SAP Headquarters in Walldorf, Germany on 29-30 September 2015. The SAP team put on a comprehensive...

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces a program review of Arena Solutions and their PLM portfolio.

Arena Solutions was the originator of multi-tenant cloud-based PLM. Since their inception they have continued to expand and evolve the functional capabilities of their solution portfolio, their hosted delivery model, and the underlying technology so that it is now capable of supporting the largest global enterprises. This paper discusses the issues facing manufacturing organizations across all industries and the need to have scalable, flexible PLM environments for internal development and collaboration across the value chain. It...

Australia's vintage clothing firm, The Darnell Collection, has partnered with Gerber Technology, to adopt 3D technology into its clothing styles.

McFadden executive director, CAD Product Management, Gerber said, “The Darnell Collection is important on so many levels, but perhaps the highest being its role in bringing the true art of fashion to life. It serves as an inspiration, and allows us to delve into the past and bring details and ideas to the present in a new and exciting way.”
The process of converting these garments to a computer generated dress for a 3D avatar yields astonishing results....

PROSTEP has integrated the OpenDXM GlobalX solution for file exchange and managed file transfer (MFT) even deeper into the Windows environment, thereby allowing Office application users outside the engineering department to also easily and securely exchange files. In addition to OpenDXM GlobalX Outlook-Integration, which has been available since 2014, the Darmstadt solution provider has now also integrated its Web-based file exchange platform into Microsoft Windows Explorer. Having the platform integrated into Windows Explorer makes it possible to exchange sensitive information as easily as with Dropbox. However, thanks to the encryption mechanisms and the HTTP-based proxy service offered by OpenDXM...

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced the general access of its new SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, StormCAD, and CivilStorm V8i (SELECTseries 5) products for the analysis and design of wastewater and stormwater systems. In addition to being available as stand-alone applications and to running on CAD and GIS platforms, the V8i (SELECTseries 5) sewer and stormwater products can now be used from within the V8i (SELECTseries 4) versions of OpenRoads-based products – combining 3D design and hydraulic analysis capabilities in the same platform. The resulting comprehensive civil solution eliminates the need for...

“The time saving is epic. What used to take a week, now takes a day.” Those are the words of Ollie Crosthwaite, Managing Director of a specialist manufacturer of engines and components for historic racing cars.

He was referring to the difference Edgecam’s new port machining module makes to producing cylinder heads for historic Jaguar racing cars.

“If anyone wants to win an E-Type Jaguar race, they won’t do it without our engines.” He says the main issue with porting Jaguar cylinder heads is their depth and the amount of shape in the port. “Most ports are...