Okuma America Corp. officials are pleased to announce that CGTech, a leading developer of CNC software specializing in simulations, verification, optimization, and analysis technology for the manufacturing industry has joined Partners in THINC.

Since 1988 CGTech’s product, VERICUT software, has been the industry standard for simulating CNC machining in order to detect errors, potential collisions, or areas of inefficiency. VERICUT enables users to eliminate the process of manually proving-out NC programs. The program also optimizes NC programs to both save time and produce higher quality surface finish. VERICUT simulates all types of CNC machine tools and runs standalone,...

Desktop Engineering announces Tom Cooney as its new publisher. Tom will be taking over for Tom Conlon, former owner of Desktop Engineering who will be transitioning his current publisher role through September. 

"I am very excited about building upon the exceptional editorial content and product mix we offer the design technology market." says Tom Cooney. "The team at Desktop Engineering and I have a great opportunity to grow and expand upon the strong foundation Tom Conlon has built."

Tom has long and distinguished career of over 25 years working for leading business media companies such as Crain Communications, Quadrant Healthcom and Penton...

Delcam has selected GOM’s ATOS III system to improve data capture for automation sequences in its process development work and in developing turnkey adaptive machining cells. 

In these cells, Delcam staff are applying their expertise to automate the process from 3D scan through to intelligent machining of components.  These projects are mainly for the aerospace and automotive industries and involve the development of geometric adaptive machining solutions for complex engineering tasks.

GOM and Delcam staff have forged close working relations on creating detailed scan data on complex aerospace parts.  The scan data is used to provide reference information for geometric distortion of...

 NGC Software today announced that it is sponsoring PI Apparel 2015, held June 23 and 24 at New York’s Union League Club, a prestigious Manhattan social club at the corner of 37th Street and Park Avenue.

Now in its third year, PI Apparel has quickly grown into one of the apparel industry’s most anticipated technology events. It was previously held in London and is in New York for the first time this year. PI Apparel 2015 will bring together leading brands and retailers to focus on streamlining product lifecycles and driving innovation with advanced technologies.

NGC will demonstrate its best-in-class Extended PLM...

Fashion firm Yumi International Ltd, has chosen Visual End2End suite of software products by Visual 2000 International.
Yumi’s commercial director, Dipak Davé, said, “We pride ourselves on innovative design and excellent customer service. Being a true ‘Omni Channel’ business selling via ecommerce, direct to retail customers, concessions and our own retail stores, as well as wholesale – we needed a system that would seamlessly integrate all these channels together to have one central inventory system to pull from - with advanced reporting, financial and merchandising abilities.”
Davé said, “We undertook a detailed market evaluation to find the most efficient and...

Oracle Corporation today announced fiscal 2015 Q4 results. The results were significantly impacted by the strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to foreign currencies. Total Q4 Revenues were $10.7 billion, down 5% but would have been up 3% without the strengthening of the U.S. dollar. Software and Cloud Revenues were $8.4 billion, down 6%, but up 2% in constant currency. Cloud software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) revenues were $416 million, growing 29%, and up 35% in constant currency. Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) revenues were $160 million, growing 25%, and up 31% in constant...

Dassault Systèmes today announced a partnership with Safran Group, a leading international high-technology group in aerospace, defense and security, to develop expertise in the virtual validation of the additive manufacturing process using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing in other industries, uses computer-aided design, engineering, manufacturing and materials science software (CAD/CAE/CAM/CAMS) to create 3D models of parts and subsystems that are then built using successive layers of materials. The effective use of this manufacturing process in the aviation industry can enhance production times as well as product performance in terms of strength, weight...

ClusterHQ, The Container Data People, today announced integration between ClusterHQ's Flocker container data management software and EMC Corporation's (NYSE: EMC) EMC® ScaleIO® and EMC XtremIO™ storage solutions. As a result, developers and operations (DevOps) teams can architect and manage high performance, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective persistent storage backends for Docker-based applications. EMC collaborated with ClusterHQ to develop pluggable storage drivers for ScaleIO and XtremIO solutions that enable flexible and portable shared storage for Docker. Organizations can easily take advantage of the portability and massive per-server density benefits inherent in containers, while still deploying EMC's advanced storage solutions. Through this collaboration,...

Atos has announced the opening of its new office facility in Vadodara, Gujarat. This is the second establishment of Atos in a Tier-II city in India, the first being in Pune, Maharashtra, which was opened in January 2012.

With this new office expansion, Atos said this will boost its offshore delivery capability and explore business prospects from the region as well.inkstock

Milind Kamat, EVP and CEO Atos in India, said: “Our focus is to establish India as one of the key global delivery centre for the Atos Group and its clients worldwide. We are working on growing India market. Currently 25 percent of...

CSA Group, a global provider of testing and certification services and a leading standards development organization,  continues its growth in Europe by opening a new EMC testing chamber in Strasskirchen, Bayern, Germany. CSA Group Bayern operates one of Europe's largest state-of-the-art EMC testing centers. The new 560-square meter lab building allows for testing of large objects including passenger cars of all sizes. It will enable CSA Group to address the growing market demand resulting from increased connectivity of products and solutions. The new chamber extends current EMC testing capabilities to 7,260 square meters in 17 shielded rooms and 7 anechoic chambers, and is a testament...