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Maplesoft today announced it has been named an Encompass Product Partner in the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork™ Program. Through the partnership, joint customers of Rockwell Automation and Maplesoft will benefit from technology that provides model-based tools for virtual commissioning. Using Maplesoft technology, customers are able to reduce costly integration problems through the development of high-fidelity, high-performance Digital Twins of their machines. Integrating these Digital Twins with Studio 5000® from Rockwell Automation allows customers to predict dynamic loads on machine actuators, helping them to make much better-informed decisions on motor sizing, eliminate undesired dynamic effects, and maximize machine performance. It also helps customers reduce the costly integration problems typically associated with the first prototype of the machine, which reduces associated development costs. Model-driven Digital Twins, less expensive than traditional data-driven Digital Twins, assist in all stages of product design and are essential for virtual commissioning. The capabilities provided by this partnership are

Altair and GE have signed a multi-year software agreement making Altair the exclusive distributor for GE’s Flow Simulator software. This comprehensive engine system modeling software provides the functionality of numerous tools for fluid systems to enable multi-disciplinary analyses. Altair will leverage its expertise in commercial software deployment and support, broad industry domain knowledge, and global footprint to expand the technology’s adoption. “We are very excited to work with Altair Engineering to commercialize our Flow Simulator software, a GE state-of-the art engine system modeling tool,” said Gary Mercer, Vice President and General Manager of Engineering for GE Aviation. “This software helped guide GE to design world record efficient gas turbines and the more advanced aircraft engines in the industry.” Developed internally by GE with a modern Graphics User Interface (GUI), GE’s Flow Simulator is a robust multi-grid based solver. It uses the powerful continuity-based Newton-Raphson method, encompassing several numerical techniques that conquer

Nokia has acquired SpaceTime Insight to expand its Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio and IoT analytics capabilities, and accelerate the development of new IoT applications for key vertical markets. Based in San Mateo, California, with offices in the U.S., Canada, U.K., India and Japan, SpaceTime Insight provides machine learning-powered analytics and IoT applications for some of the world's largest transportation, energy and utilities organizations, including Entergy, FedEx, NextEra Energy, Singapore Power and Union Pacific Railroad. Its machine learning models and other advanced analytics, designed specifically for asset-intensive industries, predict asset health with a high degree of accuracy and optimize related operations. As a result, SpaceTime Insight's applications help customers reduce cost and risk, increase operational efficiencies, reduce service outages and more. The acquisition supports Nokia's software strategy by bringing SpaceTime Insight's sales expertise and proven track record in IoT application development, machine learning and data science to the Nokia Software IoT product

 PDF Key takeaways: Multi-disciplinary Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is still in the early stages of industry adoption, similar in nature to the state of MCAD and MCAE technology adoption in the early 1990s. Early adopters of model-based engineering techniques are working to implement an integrated MBSE/MDAO approach within selected programs and domains with positive metrics of success; albeit not without the normal cultural challenges of organizational/process change and related people training. System architecture design and modeling languages such as SysML are maturing to meet the needs of the engineering community in designing, developing, and maintaining more robust cyber-physical systems where embedded software and electronics content is increasing at a rapid pace. Commercial solution providers are building integration platforms and tools such as Phoenix Integration ModelCenter and MBSEPak to bridge the gap between the currently loosely connected domains of traditional systems engineering (RFLP) and PLM/MCAD/MCAE, ECAD, and ALM. Phoenix Integration International Users Conference Highlights CIMdata was provided the

Theorem Solutions has announced the latest release V20.3 of their CATIA V5i to JT visualization solution – part of the Visualize 3D product suite. Theorem’s CATIA V5i- JT is a uni-directional direct database converter between the Dassault Systemes’ V5 modeling application and the JT file format used by the Siemens VisMockUp visualization product. It can be packaged with Theorem’s JT-CATIA V5i to create a bi-directional product. It enables users to convert all forms of 3Dimensional mechanical design geometry and assembly data, together with system defined attribute and color information, between the CATIA V5 and JT systems. It has been developed using the Spatial (Dassault Systemes) Interop Development Environment and supports all CATIA V5 revisions from V5 R15 to V5-6R2017, as well as all versions of JT. The new Theorem UI is supported for both interactive and batch processing. Theorem’s CATIA V5i-JT visualization solution allows CATIA users to continue working whilst reading

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence announced the 2018 MSC Software Global Users' Conference will be held at HxGN LIVE, Hexagon's technology conference, from June 12-15 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. During the four-day event, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence will highlight manufacturing techniques and technologies in the Smart Factory. Three sub-tracks—Design and engineering, production, and metrology—form the Manufacturing Intelligence Track. The MSC Software Global User's Conference will be hosted in the CAE and simulation-focused design and engineering sub-track, attracting company executives, engineering managers, CAE specialists, product development professionals, designers and academicians. Hexagon acquired MSC Software in 2017. For more information, visit HexagonMI.com. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Hexagon on CIMdata.com

Oracle today announced that Veltio has achieved Platinum level member status in the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).  By attaining Platinum level membership, Oracle has recognized Veltio for its commitment to excellence in delivering complex planning, supply chain and optimization solutions on Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS) and for uniquely addressing the challenges of joint customers both on premises and in the cloud. Veltio’s clients represent a wide range of retail companies, from tier-1 multinational corporations to smaller, privately held companies and across verticals including grocery, fast fashion and specialty retailers globally.  Veltio, one of the largest dedicated Oracle RPAS integrators worldwide, has recently opened a new office in Santiago, Chile, to further Oracle and Veltio’s success in the region. The combined growth and expansion naturally led to Oracle and Veltio strengthening their collaboration. “As an Oracle Partner for nearly 15 years and now one of the world’s largest Oracle Retail

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that two of its GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance) solutions have won the 2017 GRC 20/20 Innovation and User Experience Awards. TCS' Enterprise Regulatory Compliance Management Framework solution received the 2017 GRC 20/20 Innovation Award in Internal Controls Management for its alignment of control and compliance ecosystem to regulatory requirement and visualization of risk intelligence when evaluating the impact of business or regulatory changes, and determining the strategic or tactical responses to those changes.  In addition, TCS' Integrated Information Controls Framework for data risk management, received the 2017 GRC 20/20 Innovation in User Experience Award in the Risk Management category for its analytical framework, ability to manage data risks, holistic view of data control assurance along with organizational (business, IT etc.) impacts of data weaknesses, and for infusing transparency in data lineage.  "Changing risk profiles, disruptive business models, shifting market dynamics, and increasing regulatory rigor

The opening ceremony for the digital lab “Digitalschmiede” of VINCI Energies Germany attracted customers, partners and employees alike. The goal of the new “Digitalschmiede”: to present prototypes from the Industrie 4.0 areas of Smart Industry, Smart Building, Smart Maintenance, Smart Energy and Smart City. During a guided tour through the new facilities featuring a number of use cases, the pick-and-place application using the LBR iiwa was not just front and center in terms of the on-site layout. It also grabbed everyone’s attention. During the opening ceremony, KUKA also introduced itself as a selected strategic partner in the context of the IIoT ecosystem. Industrie 4.0 processes are visualized In the KUKA pick-and-place application, the LBR iiwa picks up a box from a predefined location. It places the box at a setdown point and then performs the process the other way round. For visualization of the application, the KUKA Industrie 4.0 Accelerator Team developed a customer-specific dashboard for VINCI based on a user interface. With the

OpenText™ today announced OpenText Release 16 Enhancement Pack 4 (EP4). This release further extends security, artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), and cloud support into the market-leading OpenText EIM platform.  “The world’s leading organizations use the OpenText EIM platform to manage and gain insights from their critical information assets" said Mark J. Barrenechea, OpenText Vice Chair, CEO and CTO. “This latest release enhances protection of these assets from threats and data breaches, while continuing to expand support for advanced AI and extreme automation use-cases.”  Barrenechea continued, “Cybersecurity vulnerabilities represent a real and present threat to today’s digital organization. The value of information in our modern economy requires data-intensive companies to contend with a barrage of cyberattacks, the risk of data breaches, and the growing impact of data privacy regulations. Building any business requires companies to develop and maintain trust with their customers and suppliers. Intelligent and connected enterprises must effectively