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SD3D has completed the acquisition of the New York based software company, 3D Matter, for an undisclosed amount. 3D Matter launched the platform in 2015 in order to make it easier to visualize the performance of 3D printed materials based on empirical data derived from mechanical testing over 3000+ authentic 3D printed parts. Initially a client of 3D Matter, SD3D began utilizing the material optimization and forecast tools to enhance the quality and confidence in their 3D design and print production services. SD3D recognized the value of the Optimatter solution to their strategic growth plans, which led to the acquisition.   The acquisition includes both the 3D Matter brand and the Optimatter material optimization software.  Optimatter is a web-based platform in which designers, engineers and researchers can optimize their 3D printed parts by ensuring the right materials and processing parameters are chosen for the specific part application. The service

Nutanix, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Minjar, Inc. (“Minjar”), the maker of Botmetric, a service that provides customers with unified cost control and enhanced visibility into their workloads running in public clouds. Botmetric, along with Minjar’s other cloud solutions SmartAssist Assurance and SmartAssist Managed Cloud, help enterprises embrace the cloud effectively and optimize their multi-cloud environments for performance and cost. The closing of the acquisition is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Through the Minjar acquisition, the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS will offer customers new capabilities to better manage their multi-cloud deployments. Once the acquisition closes, Nutanix also plans to use Minjar’s technology to bolster its Nutanix Calm automation and lifecycle management product, as well as Xi Cloud Services, a native extension to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software. Nutanix Calm will take advantage of Botmetric’s cloud management platform, helping customers

Siemens today announced the Valor™ IoT Manufacturing Analytics product, a new comprehensive big data and business intelligence platform that monitors and manages global electronics manufacturing operations for accurate, real-time manufacturing utilization and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Building on the acquisition of Mentor Graphics, Siemens continues to invest in software solutions to realize innovation and power each customer's digital enterprise. This new solution is powered by MindSphere. By collecting and managing rich data sources from Valor shop-floor modules, the product provides visibility into all shop floor equipment, materials management, product quality, traceability, and supply-chain operations globally for optimum supply-chain performance.  This new product is an extension of the Valor Manufacturing Solution, a robust, scalable and secure plug-and-play IoT device and data acquisition product for electronics manufacturing. Only Siemens provides integrated software solutions across the entire customer value chain, from initial conceptual design through manufacturing planning and execution, to service and support of

Altair invites technical managers, R&D, system and control engineers, product creators, and everyone interested in system simulation development approaches and multibody simulation to its technology conference - "ATCx: Multibody and System Simulation Conference 2018". The event takes place on March 13th, 2018 at the Centro Congressi Unione Industriale in Turin, Italy. To meet market demands for ever shorter development cycles, engineers face the challenge to develop better, lighter, and more powerful systems for increasingly complex products. The Altair event in Turin addresses the growing needs of multi-discipline engineering such as electric actuation, control of flexible mechanisms or computing external fluid loads on systems.  Customer presentations from renowned companies such as Ankers, Magna Steyr, Schneider Electric, SpinMag, Tadano Faun, and ThyssenKrupp Elevator will focus on how systems and multibody simulation helps them develop better products faster and will discuss industry trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT), the Digital

Upchain today announces it has raised $7.4M CAD in funding. The round was led by OpenText Enterprise Apps Fund (OTEAF) and BDC Capital (BDC) and will help Upchain expand the solution offering and business development into the US and Europe. The company also announces that Richard Black, General Partner at OTEAF, as well as Sean Brownlee, Partner at BDC Capital’s Industrial, Clean and Energy (ICE) Technology Venture Fund, will be joining Upchain’s board.   Upchain, a portfolio company of Canada’s largest SaaS accelerator, L-SPARK, offers affordable Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) solutions to all stakeholders in the product development chain as well as post-sales support. Their tools are designed for companies that manage rapidly changing products, those that work with multiple suppliers and producers, and those with design and manufacturing operations distributed across multiple locations. “In the past, PLM projects have depended on large, expensive enterprise solutions that rarely met the customer’s expectations. A company’s only option today is to

Siemens was awarded top honors for its idea management program at the German congress of the Zentrum Ideenmanagement ("Idea Management Center"), which took place in Fulda over the last two days. Within the framework of "3i ideas – initiatives – innovations," as the Siemens idea management program has been called since 1997, the ideas, initiatives and innovations of Siemens employees continue to contribute to the company's success today. Under the program, Siemens employees submitted more than 160,000 suggestions – or an average of more than 400 a day – in fiscal 2017. Nearly 125,000 of these ideas were ultimately implemented, bringing Siemens benefits last year totaling over €300 million – more than ever before. "Our employees' knowledge and personal commitment are decisive for our company's success. We want to leverage this vast potential in order to make our processes even faster and more secure, to make our products even better

CBX Software announced today that they had been awarded The Green Supply Chain Award by Supply & Demand Chain Executive. Supply & Demand Chain Executive recognized CBX software for its industry leading sustainability and green efforts by awarding them with the Green Supply Chain Award, an award given out to only the companies that best exemplify a lasting commitment to making a positive impact on the environment, while also maintaining a high level of business proficiency. The list of companies receiving the Green Supply Chain Award were noted for either having an efficient green supply chain, or offering a supply chain, PLM, solution that enables companies to address their own supply chain inefficiencies and sustainability downfalls. John R. Yuva, editor for Supply & Demand Chain Executive, says, "Honorees for this year's award demonstrate that corporate social responsibility is a business imperative that transcends the company and extends throughout the supply

AVEVA today announced it has combined with Schneider Electric’s industrial software business to drive digital transformation across the asset and operational life cycle for capital-intensive industries. This unmatched, end-to-end offering unlocks the power of two industry leaders to deliver improved profitability and operational excellence to maximise return on capital.  “88% of leaders in capital-intensive industries say that digitalisation would increase their revenues*”, said Craig Hayman, Chief Executive Officer at AVEVA. “Yet less than half of these companies are actually in the process of adopting a digital strategy. This represents an incredible opportunity for AVEVA to be our customer’s digital transformation partner.”  “Digitalisation demands a fundamental rethink of the way organisations operate. They need to be confident that their technology investment will deliver a high return on capital and can lower the total cost of asset ownership. AVEVA’s combination of proven solutions, industry-specific knowledge and a global partner ecosystem will drive innovation

ANSYS and MachineWorks signed an agreement to expand the use of Polygonica Polygon Modelling Software toolkit throughout ANSYS. Polygonica is used in ANSYS® Discovery Live™ software, ANSYS’ new tool that enables fast computation of CAE analysis results using the power of the local GPU. ANSYS Discovery Live shortens the feedback loop between design and analysis by empowering the product designer to see relevant results immediately during the conceptual design process. ANSYS® Discovery Spaceclaim™ software was an early adopter of the Polygonica technology, which was initially used within additive manufacturing workflows. The SpaceClaim team has helped progress the Polygonica functionality to support more generic polygon-based CAD functionality. “We are very excited that ANSYS have seen the potential for using Polygonica across their product range and we fully expect they will be driving us to deliver solutions to even more challenging polygon-based geometry problems,” said Dr Fenqiang Lin, Managing Director of MachineWorks. "The agreement with MachineWorks enables ANSYS to provide the industry-leading faceted modelling

 PDF Key takeaways: CIMdata was impressed by the level of satisfaction displayed by HCL customers including presenters from major US industrial users. DFMPro's new costing module extends the suite of Design For X (DFx) applications to help companies determine what a product should cost. Many customers noted that every very experienced organization made the same DFx mistakes over and over, likely due to the ad-hoc way DFx knowledge is shared and used within organizations. CIMdata attended the DFMPro annual user meeting, DFX Insights '18, in downtown Detroit at the Renaissance Center. The one-day event was focused on the DFMPro application, one of several products from HCL. The event is billed as one "that connects industry leading product design experts, technologists, and thought leaders." Attendees from automotive, A&D, construction equipment, high-tech electronics, and leading companies from other industries gathered to discuss their experiences and learn. DFMPro is a design validation solution that helps ensure that designs can