BobCAD-CAM, Inc has announced a new partnership with MSI, an industry-leading innovator of motherboards, graphics cards, notebooks, and all-in-one PCs, to provide manufacturers and job shops with a quality laptop solution to operate their high performance CAD/CAM software.

After months of rigorous testing, BobCAD-CAM selected MSI as a preferred Notebook PC supplier. The selection was based on MSI's ability to deliver high performance hardware that could manage the processing demands of CAD/CAM software, including complex 3D model design, realistic CAM simulations, and large volumes of toolpath calculations.

MSI has a solid reputation of developing quality products for software that demands a lot...

Synopsys, Inc. announced the release of version 2015.06 of the RSoft product portfolio, the company's industry-leading family of software tools for photonic component and optical communication system design. The RSoft Photonic Component Design Suite delivers advanced finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation features as well as significant speed and usability improvements. The RSoft Photonic System Design Suite includes new libraries of components and algorithms to streamline the design of photonic chips, modulator circuits and coherent transceivers, as well as an innovative new platform for modeling large-core multimode fibers. The enhancements in version 2015.06 facilitate faster, more efficient design of a wide range...

Infor has announced Infor Advanced Planning 11, a configurable constraint-based supply chain planning solution to optimise supply chains. The latest version of Infor Advanced Planning provides users with a highly configurable solution that is adaptable to the unique business requirements of the customer’s supply chain, further enabling faster and more accurate decision-making. Infor has made significant investments in scale and performance to help users identify and solve problems before they slow or halt the fluidity of the supply chain. Benchmarking performed by Infor and customers to date indicates that this release is more than 30 percent faster across the board.

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Blueprint today announced the release of Blueprint 6.2. With Version 6.2, Blueprint introduces new features along with security and significant performance improvements for enhancing user productivity and customer success. Two key additions are a new “Accelerator”, and the introduction of a Global Search capability.

Blueprint’s modern, innovative requirements technology continues to set the company apart and provide clients tools they can leverage for competitive advantage.

Blueprint 6.2 helps projects accelerate and drive improvements in overall quality through the introduction of a new Nonfunctional Requirements Accelerator. Nonfunctional requirements have always been a huge challenge in enterprise projects, and even more-so as enterprises continue...

Lectra’s cut order optimisation technology helped improve material consumption by 10-15 per cent and throughput by approximately 20 per cent at Art Stone, a designer and producer of dance apparel.
The solution provided flexibility and responsiveness in the manufacturing process, while also allowing Art Stone to keep production close to consumers and achieve shorter time-to-market.
“This helped the company focus on increasing market share and expanding its presence in Europe, Asia and Australia,” a press release from Lectra explained by saying.
Art Stone needed a production process that could handle the intricate fabrics that sets it apart from the competition.