For the past decade, lighting, film, TV, exhibit, concert, theatre, and other designers have exported their light plots, scenic designs, and event models created with Vectorworks Spotlight software to ESP Vision to cue and visualize award-winning experiences. With our recent acquisition of the ESP Vision product line, which includes Vision Pro, the most advanced lighting pre-visualization software available for both PC and Mac operating systems, we’ve created a path to further enable such workflow collaboration.

“This purchase fortifies Vectorworks’ global market leadership position and signals our continuous commitment to the entertainment design industry at a time when visualization capabilities...

Key takeaways:

·         Product complexity is increasing as products become smarter and more connected

·         As new methods and paradigms for design emerge the importance of PLM to manage the increased scope of requirements and information needed for design, development, manufacturing, and service continues to increase

Introduction

In their latest article on how technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) are changing products and business models, PTC President and CEO Jim Heppelmann and Dr. Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School discussed How Smart, Connected Products are Transforming Companies.[1] CIMdata is following this series...

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