Industry Summary Articles

Delcam will demonstrate the huge time savings that can be made with its Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy at Seco’s ‘Inspiration through Innovation’ manufacturing best-practice event to be held at the company’s premises in Alcester, Warwickshire, on 24th and 25th September. For full details on the event, please go to www.secotools.com/en-GB/GB-United-Kingdom/Events/Inspiration-through-Innovation/. The…

Cadence Design Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Cadence, today announced the winners of the Cadence India Design Contest 2014. A flagship initiative of the Cadence University Program, the 10th annual edition provided engineering students an opportunity to showcase their talents in electronic design. The team from Indian Institute of…

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SmartThings, the leading open platform for the smart home and the consumer Internet of Things. SmartThings supports an open and growing ecosystem of developers, who are producing new types of connected devices and unique apps…

DST (Design Simulation Technologies, Inc.; www.design-simulation.com), announced the availability of SimWise V9.5. This release continues to expand the Optimization, FEA, CAD Integration, and Interoperability capabilities of the product. Dimension and other parameters from select CAD systems can now be transferred to SimWise and used as optimization variables. During an optimization run…

Bentley Institute Press announced the publication of Principles of Structural Analysis – Static and Dynamic Loads, the second book in a three-part series. This compendium of information about STAAD.Pro – a mainstay of Bentley’s 3D structural analysis and design engineering software – bridges the gap between structural engineering concepts and their practical application to real-world challenges.…

MSC Software Corporation announced that the R&D department at Riba Composites, a leader in the design and manufacture of structural parts and components in advanced composite materials, is using MSC Nastran Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software to support the co-design process of structural and non-structural components made up of advanced composites, based…

Braskem, Latin America’s largest petrochemical company, has signed a contract with AVEVA to convert the engineering and design data of 12 of its plants to AVEVA PDMS during 2014. This large contract is the result of a successful pilot project executed earlier this year. Braskem chose AVEVA over several other…

Aspen Technology, Inc. announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2014. “We are pleased to report a strong finish to fiscal 2014, with fourth quarter results that exceeded our expectations across all key financial metrics,” said Antonio Pietri, President and Chief Executive Officer of…

Delcam’s German customers will have their first chance to see the 2015 versions of the company’s FeatureCAM and PowerMILL CAM systems on stand 4B-32 at the AMB exhibition to be held in Stuttgart from 16th to 20th September.  Both of the programs contain major enhancements that will help manufacturing companies…

Viewpoint Construction Software announced they have partnered with Solibri LLC, to offer the North American building and construction markets an end-to-end  BIM solution that provides advanced quality assurance features which ensure the coordination and validation of drawings and models occurs during the preconstruction, construction and facilities management phases. Viewpoint For Project Collaboration affords project…