Altair today announced that GeonX S.A. has joined the Altair Partner Alliance (APA), bringing access to Virfac®, a welding simulation software, to HyperWorks® users. Virfac provides quality predictions for manufactured parts with the ability to improve product lifespan and design before any prototype is required.

Virfac is capable of predicting residual distortions encountered by a part during the manufacturing process as well as residual stresses to help calculate the in-service fatigue life of the part. It is particularly suited for high fidelity results on complex industrial applications and ensures manufactured part quality by predicting material...

Infolytica Corporation announces today the release of their latest MagNet for SOLIDWORKS update, the company’s electromagnetic field simulation add-in to the 3D CAD package. This update includes improvements made to the interface, post-processing and speed of the software.

MagNet for SOLIDWORKS is an embedded 3D electromagnetic field solver developed by Infolytica Corporation which is based on their standalone MagNet 2D/3D software. The simulation and analysis of any electromagnetic device can be performed completely within the SOLIDWORKS environment using this embedded version, making it simpler than ever to setup such complex design problems. This includes a wide range of applications such as...

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced  its next-generation MicReD® Industrial Power Tester 1500A product, which provides electronics components power cycling and thermal testing for up to 12 devices simultaneously. The MicReD Industrial Power Tester 1500A is the industry's only commercially available thermal testing product combining both power cycling and thermal transient structure function analysis for real-time failure-in-progress data for diagnostics.  Based on market feedback and the success of the MicReD Power Tester 1500A three-channel product, Mentor Graphics has enhanced the product to accommodate more device testing for greater productivity and lifecycle performance, which will benefit industries such as automotive systems, hybrid and...

Infor today announced that Vari-Form has selected Infor CloudSuite™ Automotive to improve business processes and streamline product innovation. As a global provider of structural automotive hydroforming, Vari-Form sought to implement technology that would make the company more dynamic in creating more than 7 million parts each year. Infor CloudSuite Automotive provides the company with reliable access to a flexible technology platform that will help reduce customizations, lower risk and increase overall productivity.

Vari-Form is currently undergoing a companywide expansion, which includes creating new facilities in European and Asian markets. Infor solutions will provide key language components that enable Vari-Form...

Tata Consultancy Services was ranked as the 57^th leading brand in the US by Brand Finance® in its second annual Top 500 US Brands survey, which evaluates the financial value of a company's brand name, intellectual assets and trademark, as compared to companies across industries. TCS was recognized as a top four IT Services brand in the US – the same as its global ranking – and has a AA+ score for its brand strength, the sector's highest designation. Globally, TCS' brand value grew 271% from US $2.3 billion in 2010 to US $8.7 billion in 2015, marking the fastest growth across the IT Services...

PTC announced it has launched the PTC IoT Academic Program  to address the growing concern of an IOT talent shortage by providing students with an investigative learning experience and hands on exposure to the ThingWorx^® IoT application development platform.

A recent study published by the World Bank estimates that over the next 10 years there will be two million unfilled Information and Communication Technology-related jobs globally. In addition, over 95% of companies say they will be using the IoT in some form within the next three years. This requires educational institutions to better prepare students for employment by these...

EEMBC^®, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium setting the industry standard for valuable application-specific benchmarks, today announced its focus on a benchmark to ensure optimum efficiency of edge nodes (end points) on the Internet of Things (IoT). This new benchmark, currently in development within EEMBC’s IoT working group, aims to provide a standardized, industry-created and -endorsed method to provide application developers with accurate, reliable information that allows them to quickly and equitably compare the efficiency of system solutions targeted at IoT end-point applications.

An edge node, referred to as the 'thing' of the IoT, has four primary parts: 1) the sensors or...

According to results from the fifth annual NBS National BIM Report 2015 (http://www.thenbs.com/pdfs/NBS-National-BIM-Report-2015.pdf), Vectorworks® Architect is the most popular software in the United Kingdom with 29 percent of respondents reporting that they use the solution from global design software developer Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. for designing with a BIM workflow. This announcement comes on the heels of quantifiable growth for Nemetschek Vectorworks in the U.K. market.

With a legal mandate requiring BIM deliverables for significantly sized, government-funded projects in the U.K. by 2016, Vectorworks Architect's BIM capabilities have positioned it as a leader in the architectural industry.

"We've witnessed a rapid and...

Fujitsu and Intel announced that they have reached an agreement to combine Fujitsu Laboratories's distributed service platform technology with the Intel IoT Gateway to build IoT systems. The two companies initially seek to focus on development in the areas of manufacturing, retailing, and the public sector. They have commenced a Proof of Business at Shimane Fujitsu, designed to enable greater visualization of the manufacturing facility's operations. 

Fujitsu's distributed service platform technology allocates service functions across an entire network, including both the network centre and remote sites, enabling unified management. A cloud-based centralized-management mechanism is set up at the centre, and this...

CD-adapco announced today a new standard in performance and scalability for industrial CFD software. Working in partnership with High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and SICOS BW, STAR-CCM+® was run on the entirety of the 1.045 PetaFlop Hermit cluster, managing to maintain perfect scalability beyond 55,000 cores.

The work was completed as part of the ongoing multi-year project to benchmark, profile and ensure optimal STAR-CCM+ performance and scalability on petascale computing systems. A number of different benchmark cases were run, ranging in size from 500 million to 2 billion cells, all generated automatically using parallel meshing technology and without the need...