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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Realtek Semiconductor Corp. utilized the Cadence Palladium XP platform to accelerate the successful development and verification of a recent system-on-chip (SoC) design. With the Palladium XP platform, Realtek achieved up to 250X faster acceleration versus its previous methodology and was able to improve quality by executing system simulations six months before the silicon was available. Due to the integrated nature of the Cadence System Development Suite, Realtek was able to save time by reusing over 90 percent of its simulation environment setup for Cadence Incisive Enterprise Simulator on the Palladium XP platform, along with its previous emulation environment. Additionally, the power analysis capability of the Palladium XP platform, along with the ability to test software loads on the emulated system before silicon was available, allowed Realtek to optimize system-level power prior to silicon availability to within five percent of the SoC's actual power measurements in-silicon. "Our customers demand exceptional

Lectra recently hosted its first apparel manufacturing seminar in Bordeaux-Cestas (France). The two-day event brought together close to 70 participants from different brands, retailers and manufacturers with experts and thought leaders from the fashion and apparel industry. Companies from  22 countries were in attendance, including businesses operating in the luxury and made-to-measure market, as well as mass manufacturers. The goal was to explore innovative ways to add value to their offer and share winning business strategies for today's rapidly changing fashion marketplace. "The world of business is changing quickly and nowhere is this more true than in fashion," observed Daniel Harari, Lectra CEO. "Today's generation is more connected than ever, which has disrupted traditional business models and shifted the balance of power between brands, retailers and consumers. In order to remain competitive in this environment, companies have to completely rethink how they operate." The importance of moving from competitive to cooperative business strategies was

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, announces the initiation of a multi-sponsor research project to create an Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) Solutions guide to help accelerate the development of the global EIM market for the benefit of both solution providers and industry. Co-sponsors of the research effort are eZassi, Planview, Siemens PLM Software, and Sopheon. The goal of the research is to address the existing concerns and typical questions—as well as preempt the emerging concerns—of industrial companies about implementing EIM by providing market education and motivating web events. Through a series of thought leadership interviews with solution provider peers, development of a whitepaper solutions primer on the EIM landscape, and webcast events, CIMdata will define and socialize a common framework of terminology, solution approaches, implementation challenges, and benefits. Through this effort it is expected that industrial companies will become more familiar with enterprise innovation enabling technologies and

Research will result in the creation of an Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions Guide. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 August 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, announces the initiation of a multi-sponsor research project to create an Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) Solutions guide to help accelerate the development of the global EIM market for the benefit of both solution providers and industry. Co-sponsors of the research effort are eZassi, Planview, Siemens PLM Software, and Sopheon. The goal of the research is to address the existing concerns and typical questions—as well as preempt the emerging concerns—of industrial companies about implementing EIM by providing market education and motivating web events. Through a series of thought leadership interviews with solution provider peers, development of a whitepaper solutions primer on the EIM landscape, and webcast events, CIMdata will define and socialize a common framework of terminology, solution approaches, implementation challenges, and benefits. Through this

MUSTO, the world’s No.1 offshore sailing brand, has selected Centric Software to provide its first product lifecycle management (PLM) platform. Founded in Britain in 1964, MUSTO creates technical clothing, luggage and accessories that CEO Peter Smith collectively refers to as “ocean-engineered.” After close to five decades outfitting professional sailing teams, Smith explains, MUSTO recognized the need to more closely manage its product development process and to safeguard uncompromising, brand-critical standards of performance and quality. Speaking about his company’s decision to adopt the Centric 8 PLM platform, Smith says that “the standards of our products are essential to our brand, and we are thrilled to be working with people as passionate as we are about protecting that reputation.” Passion is something not in short supply at MUSTO; founder Keith Musto and his wife began the company by hand-making purely technical clothing in Essex, United Kingdom. Today, with form and function road-tested in some of the most extreme

DSM - the Dutch science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials – on July 29, 2015 selected Wipro Limited - the Bangalore-based information technology, consulting, and business process services company - as its strategic IT partner to provide workplace services. Wipro will bring next generation workplace technology features such as predictive analytics, automation, self-help, self-heal, multi-channel support and user experience management to DSM through this multi-year strategic partnership. This technology deployment will help DSM optimise costs, while providing users (ie DSM's employees) with an Internet-centric and sustainable workplace, with smart systems which will enable a seamless user experience. The smart systems include predictive monitoring for faster service restoration, automation and preventive self-heal to minimise service disruptions, and round-the-clock support to enable stable operations. The green IT features of the project will improve the sustainability of this initiative. Wipro has deployed its proprietary LiveWorkplace solution for this engagement.  The solution enables a great computing experience for

Aras today announced that Carlisle Brake & Friction, a leading provider for high performance and severe duty brake, clutch and transmission applications, has selected the Aras PLM platform to streamline and improve processes across the extended enterprise. Working with Aras gold certified partner Razorleaf, Carlisle Brake & Friction selected Aras PLM for the platform’s flexibility and extensive out-of-the-box best practice solutions. Integrating to Creo CAD and QAD ERP systems, Aras Innovator will unify Carlisle’s ITAR compliance, engineering processes, parts management, BOM management, change management, and auditing at 11 manufacturing and purchasing facilities worldwide. “We must comply with ITAR regulations concerning access to and export of certain parts with military uses,” said Isaiah Kincaid, Senior Computer Electronics Engineer at Carlisle. “Aras PLM gives all our sites instant role-based security and ensures people can only select parts that fall within ITAR standards.” Having extensive experience with Microsoft products, Carlisle’s IT staff was drawn to Aras

ESI UK Ltd., a pioneer and world-leading provider in virtual prototyping, will bring together leading UK industry and academic experts at a free one day event, “Shaping the future of Near-Net and Light Weighting”, which will be held at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry on Tuesday 8th September 2015. The field of Near-Net Shape (NNS) manufacturing encompasses a wide range of innovative techniques for the accelerated and sustainable production of parts.  It is particularly suitable for the production of complex geometries, for customised production, and small batch sizes. This event will explore how these new technologies can produce components that contribute to light weighting (or mass reduction) of road and rail vehicles, as well as ships and aircraft, reducing fuel consumption and thus also the carbon dioxide emissions. Delegates attending this free event can expect to gain an insight into recent developments in Near-Net Shape process, and learn what processes are being

Delcam will demonstrate the 2016 version of its PowerMILL programming software for five-axis and high-speed machining on booth C05 in Hall 4 at the EMO exhibition to be held in Milan from 5th to 10th September.  The main enhancement in PowerMILL 2016 is the ability to mirror complete machining projects in one operation and to maintain automatically the machining characteristics, for example to choose automatically whether climb or conventional milling should be used.  Previously, only individual toolpaths could be mirrored. Automatic mirroring saves considerable time whenever right- and left-hand versions are needed of a part or tool.  It will also be faster to program the machining of symmetrical objects since it will be possible to program one half and then mirror the toolpaths to complete the program. To ensure that the mirroring has performed as expected, the new option can be used with the ability, introduced in PowerMILL 2015 R2, to undertake complete

BobCAD-CAM, Inc. announced today that the WESTEC manufacturing expo (September 15-17, 2015) would be the first tradeshow opportunity for business owners, designers, and programmers to see the new BobCAD-CAM Version 28 software series since it’s July release. “We’re excited to bring the new V28 software to WESTEC this year,” said Sean Owen, COO of BobCAD-CAM. “Not only did we make major upgrades to the core software, but we also launched a completely new CAD-CAM module with Mill Turn capabilities. This is a very significant addition to our product line as we can now offer a full CAD-CAM solution to nearly every type of machine shop.” The Latest in CNC Programming Will Be On Display  BobCAD-CAM will showcase all of the new CNC programming features available in V28, including:  Faster Drawing Tools Smarter Hole Making Systems Better Surfacing Toolpaths More Tool Type Support Improved Simulation And More The company will also display their brand new Mill Turn module which supports CNC programming