Cooper Bearings, a SKF Group company, has added an interactive split roller bearing selector to its website, www.cooperbearings.com.

 “This user-friendly selector makes it easy for engineers and designers to search our database for the split roller bearings that meet their particular needs, and download 3D drawings,” said Martin Caspall, Cooper Bearings engineering manager. “It also calculates bearing fatigue life for a single shaft size or for multiple sizes.”

The 3D models are available in several formats, including STEP and Autodesk Inventor. 

 The new bearing selector — accessed by clicking “Product Selector” at...

Fashion and lifestyle mobile app Myntra announced that it has partnered with Dassault Systemes to use its 3DExperience platform to further delight customers with a gamut of new experiences.

Having launched a Fall/Winter collection of a new brand of tees, jeans, sweatshirts and kurtas, Myntra is going all out to address other pain-points customers face, while shopping for fashion products on their mobile devices.

“We are implementing Dassault Systemes’ ‘My Collection for Fashion’ solution, which will help us make decisions much faster, reduce time to market and bring real time, real fashion in quick cycles...

Alfa Instrumentos, a Brazil-based industrial manufacturer of electronic components, has launched a new catalog of configurable 3D CAD models, built by CADENAS PARTsolutions. Featuring more than 100 product families and 10,000 individual products, the catalog will help streamline the process for engineers looking to specify Alfa Instrumentos parts in to their designs. The configurable parts are available on-demand at Alfa Instrumentos website, ready for download in more than 150 formats.

Alfa Instrumentos, best known for their industrial weighing products, as well as weight transmitters, indicators, load cells and big bag loaders, was looking...

Delcam will demonstrate the 2016 releases of its FeatureCAM feature-based programming system and its PowerMILL CAM system for high-speed and five-axis machining at the Inspiration Through Innovation event to be hosted by Seco Tools UK at its Alcester headquarters on 23^rd and 24^th September.

The 2016 release of FeatureCAM includes a number of enhancements to the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy.  Vortex gives the fastest safe metal removal from solid carbide tooling, in particular designs that give deeper cuts by using the full flute length as the cutting surface.  It produces toolpaths with a controlled engagement angle and...

CD-adapco announced today it is joining the prestigious BHR Group Fluid Mixing Processes (FMP) consortium, offering the company access to valuable expertise in the area of mixing for the chemical and process industries.

The FMP consortium provides its members — many of whom are successful in applying STAR-CCM+Ⓡ, the flagship simulation software tool developed by CD-adapco for their engineering problems — with cutting-edge experimental research and engineering knowledge in mixing processes.

“CD-adapco’s commitment to the Chemical Process industry is growing as is evident by joining this consortium,” said Ravindra Aglave, Director, Chemical Processing, CD-adapco....

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Mentor Graphics Corporation and Breker Verification Systems today announced that the three companies have collaborated on a technology contribution to the Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group. The contribution leverages the combined experience of the three companies in providing portable test and stimulus solutions, and is intended to assist the Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group in defining a system-on-chip (SoC) verification standard that offers both vertical (intellectual property to SoC) and horizontal (simulation to post-silicon) reuse of stimulus and test.

The collaborative contribution includes:

• A concise specification language for use-cases that allows high level abstraction...

University students now have the opportunity to learn about multidisciplinary design optimization and get valuable hands-on experience using top-class engineering software. These are just some of the advantages of the new ESTECO Academy Membership Program unveiled today by ESTECO, a leading provider of numerical optimization solutions. The program is designed for academic users and represents an innovative community of practice built around design optimization and modeFRONTIER, one of the most successful multidisciplinary optimization platforms available today. With a rich collection of media and training material, a complementary calendar of events and a free one-year modeFRONTIER license, ESTECO Academy supports...

With an objective of reaching emerging software engineers and a thriving metro population of over five and a half million people, global design software developer Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. officially opened the doors of its Atlanta office today. The main goal of this office is to employ software engineers who will further develop the Vectorworks product line, serving the AEC, landscape and entertainment design industries.

Located in the heart of Midtown Atlanta on Regions Plaza's 19th floor, the new office boasts 3,700 square feet and can hold up to 25 people. Additionally, the location is in close...

Gerber Technology and COMESA (the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa), have announced the establishment of a dedicated program for technical assistance and training in Mauritius.
Gerber Technology and COMESA were invited by the Republic of Mauritius and its Mauritius Business Growth Scheme (MBGS) unit to collaborate and introduce a program focused on improving the sustained use of premium software solutions for apparel pattern making. The approach is also intended to promote advances in quality control, collaboration with partners and better efficiency.
A primary goal for the initiative will be the deepening of integration and competitiveness of the...

Aras® today announced that Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards (VSY), a pioneer in shipbuilding and ship repairs, has selected the Aras Innovator® platform for PLM to support their development as a world-class shipbuilding company under the Government of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS). Seaspan will use Aras to unify critical processes for the design, construction, maintenance and repair of vessels.

After evaluating several PLM solution suites, Seaspan selected Aras for its native Web platform technology, out-of-the-box functionality, application flexibility and extensive customization capabilities while assuring upgradability. Seaspan concluded that these aspects of Aras will enable significantly better ability...