Trimble has appointed Chennai Institute of Technology (CIT) as the first Educational Centre of Excellence in India for their Trimble Buildings business division. The main objective of this initiative is to educate technology students and ensure that the future engineers are well equipped with technology skills that the growing Indian industry employers value.
The Chennai Institute of Technology provides quality technical education with adequate industrial exposure with its innovative teaching methods. The institute will include a special certification course on Trimble’s Design Build Operate (DBO) technology in their curriculum where they will teach their students on Tekla BIM technology and...

Addnode Group AB  today announced the acquisition of all shares of Transcat GmbH (“Transcat PLM”). Transcat PLM with operations in Germany, Austria and Slovakia, will join forces with Technia as a subsidiary of Addnode Group. The combined TechniaTranscat will be a European leader in CAD and PLM under the leadership of Jonas Gejer, President of Addnode Groups Business area PLM.

Summary of the Transaction

On July 1, 2015, Addnode Group acquired all outstanding shares in Transcat PLM from Transcat PLM’s existing shareholders (the “Transaction”).

Transcat PLM is one of Europe’s leading providers of PLM solutions based on Dassault Systèmes brands and its portfolio...

Key takeaways:

• o be successful in today’s global economy requires more than just supply chains; it demands value chains that have the geographic reach and robustness to meet ever-changing market demands
• SAP has a strategic focus on enabling product and demand networks that leverages their extended enterprise strengths and emerging capabilities including support for front-end innovation
• Moving to S/4HANA as their new business platform illustrates the platformization trend well documented by CIMdata, and provides new opportunities for user experience (UX) enhancement and new use cases
• Engineering Control Center (ECTR), the new authoring hub for SAP PLM,...

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that CIMdata’s Social Product Development & Collaboration Knowledge Council will present a workshop on the topic of “Collaboration and Innovation in the Digital Age.” The workshop will take place in Louisville, Kentucky and will run over two consecutive half days.

The workshop will start during the afternoon of October 7 and will end on October 8. A personal tour of First Build’s Microfactory will part of the first afternoon’s highlights. Throughout the workshop CIMdata’s Social Product Development & Collaboration Knowledge Council and a group of leading-edge users will...

 CCE has released updates of its Open Data Exchange (ODX) libraries.

“SOLIDWORKS and Creo are some of the most widely used CAD design tools in the manufacturing supply chain. Ability to do fast iterative design is extremely important to suppliers of large OEMs. CCE’s updated ODX libraries feature improvements in identifying and translating persistent data information, thus reducing the time required to update the modified designs,” said Vinay Wagle, CCE’s VP of Sales & Marketing.

CCE’s SOLIDWORKS and PTC Creo^® ODX libraries have had an array of improvements in the most recent release, which include:

ODX/SW (Read & Write)

Attributes support has been improved by...

ARI Network Services, Inc. announced today the release of DataManager® Import Utility, developed by ARI under the SOLIDWORKS® Partner Program. Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise manufacturing engineering and design systems.

DataManager Import Utility streamlines the manufacturer's publishing process by seamlessly importing SOLIDWORKS® Composer™ files directly into ARI's catalog and data management application, DataManager®.

·         Highlights of DataManager Import Utility include:

·         Extraction of image, parts list and hot spots from a CAD file export in a single pass to create Illustrated Parts Lists.

·         Elimination of time-consuming manual data manipulation with very high accuracy and zero...

ZWCAD Design announces that  Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering adopted ZWCAD+.
Faculty of Civil Engineering is one of the 13 faculties of Wroclaw University of Technology. It educates students in construction. The faculty has 3 diploma specialties at the BSc studies:  Structural Engineering, Geotechnics and Hydrotechnics anad Civil Engineering. At the MSc level Faculty offers 9 specializations: Building Structures, Building Technology, Hydro engineering and Special Structures, Underground and Urban Infrastructure, Roads and Airports, Railway Engineering, Bridge Engineering, Theory of Structures and Civil Engineering (the latter given in English).It participates in international exchange for students and for...

Gerber Technology’s YuniquePLM™ product lifecycle management solution has been selected by French manufacturer Pyrenex® for its apparel lines. YuniquePLM has been integrated with Pyrenex’s ERP solution, Sage X3, to improve communication and collaboration between the company’s creative and production teams around the world.

YuniquePLM is web-based product lifecycle management software that helps the fashion and apparel industries communicate effectively, accelerate workflows and eliminate errors. Its latest enhancements include a new development calendar and line planning function, as well as 3D file support and mass sample request development.

Pyrenex is a family-owned business with over 150 years of exceptional know-how in the production...

Aras today announced a strategic partner agreement with Airbus to use the Aras Innovator platform and solution suite for engineering business processes across the enterprise for up to 30,000 users or more.
Several PLM Platforms were evaluated by Airbus for the ability to enable simple, agile solution delivery, and Aras was retained as the preferred platform based on:

• Significant coverage of expected scope
• Open architecture with high-end data modeling “on the fly”, no development involved
• Upgrade services for customizations included as part of subscription
• Easy integration & handling
• Long term viability and total cost of ownership

Out-of-the-box functional requirements included data & document management, lifecycle...

Wood engraving software manufacturer SA International (SAi), the leading provider of software solutions for the professional sign making, wide-format digital printing and CAD/CAM for CNC machining industries, will use this year’s AWFS Fair 2015 (22-25 July, Las Vegas Convention Center) to educate audiences about the wide-ranging benefits of its industry-leading EnRoute CAD/CAM software.

The feature-rich EnRoute provides CAD/CAM design and output solutions for CNC wood working users, as well as those within the sign making, mill working, and nested-based manufacturing and fabrication industries.

On show at SAi’s booth (#8915), AWFS Fair visitors will be able to get an up-close look at the...