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PLM Road Map™ 2014 Sponsors  Central to the mission and character of PLM Road Map is encouraging the continuous collaboration and synergistic innovation between all members of the PLM ecosystem, including industrial users, subject matter experts, software providers, consulting services firms, industrial and academic institutes, system integrators, and market analysts—all of whom are partners in realizing the vision and value of PLM, especially in the emerging, more sustainable circular economy. To support this collaborative mission, CIMdata has made a limited number of conference sponsorship opportunities available.  Click on the booths below to see more information about our PLM Road Map 2014 sponsors.

Viewpoint Construction Software® announced the availability of the latest version of its Viewpoint V6 Software®, which includes updates to the Accounting, Business Intelligence, Project Management and Service Management modules. In addition, Construction Imaging and Mobile Field Manager, Viewpoint’s point solutions that integrate with V6 as well as other construction specific offerings on the market, have also been updated to offer improved integration to V6, as well as numerous customer requested enhancements. “Before we even begin to develop changes to our products, we conduct extensive research and gather feedback from customers through focus groups, suggestions from current customers and many other touch points along the way, with the goal of understanding  how our software can provide even more value,” Rob Humphreys, Vice President of Product Management at Viewpoint noted. “By incorporating this valued input, this newest release continues to focus on what our customers have told us they want – an enhanced

ESI Group announces the new version of its immersive Virtual Reality solution, IC.IDO 10, featuring the new module IDO.Illuminate to deliver ultra-realistic lighting conditions. Today, Virtual Reality is used by industrial manufacturers from various sectors for collaborative exploration and resolution of design challenges throughout product engineering, manufacturing and aftersales. The new IC.IDO 10 elevates the fidelity of decision-making through its unprecedented immersive experience in terms of realistic visualization and product behavior. Industrial manufacturers seek innovative ways to increase their productivity and reduce potential design issues for large, complex or expensive products. They have adopted IC.IDO to perform collaborative and immersive design reviews, to evaluate and optimize assembly & disassembly sequences, to verify resources and tooling for manufacture and maintenance, and to support documentation and training. Recently, automotive manufacturer Renault implemented ESI’s Virtual Reality solution to speed up the quality and efficiency of their design processes. Renaud Deligny, Specialist for 3D Engineering for Product and Process Design at Renault, sums up

The 2014 R2 release of Delcam’s PowerSHAPE Pro CAD software includes a range of new functionality for the design of products and tooling.  In particular, the new version introduces powerful new tools to make re-engineering complex parts from scanned data faster and easier, plus an option to merge disjointed faces within a solid and so make direct modelling operations more robust.  Full details, including video demonstrations of the new functionality and the option to download an evaluation version, are on www.delcam.tv/ps2014R2 By offering a combination of solid, surface and direct modelling, together with reverse engineering functionality, PowerSHAPE Pro provides the most comprehensive range of design techniques available in a single CAD program.  Having all the different technologies in the same package reduces the need to transfer data between multiple programs and so streamlines the whole product development process.  At the same time, the combination of quick and easy direct modelling options, together

CONTACT Software launches the Unicode release of its Workspaces technology. Workspaces integrate heterogeneous CAx tools and help developers to work together more quickly, in a synchronized manner and organized in the way that they choose. The Workspaces realease 3.3 offers product developers further improvements for CAD data management and collaborative working in teams. New functions make it easier to create, edit and transfer documents. Complex relationships are presented even more clearly and core application scenarios are even swifter. Version 3.3 also relieves users of data management tasks: they now work in a universal master view, which they also use to control data transfer. It is also possible to assign metadata to the documents here that is compliant with the DM/PLM platform´s methodology. One key feature is Unicode support for important CAD integrations. Additional CAD interfaces will follow during the next quarter. The new Workspaces release underscores CONTACT's commitment to providing a universal,

Lightwork Design Ltd. has some major news to share; Artisan 2014 is here. After months of careful planning and development at Artisan HQ, it’s brilliant to share this great news with you. From today users of BricsCAD, ZWCAD+ and ZW3D will all have access to all the fantastic new features that Artisan 2014 has to offer. They’re pleased to tell you that they have greatly expanded their reseller network and continue to do so, allowing customers globally easy access to Artisan 2014. The release of Artisan 2014 marks the start of an adventurous new era for the Artisan product. Artisan 2014 boasts many exciting changes that have been made with the user in mind, so it’s even easier and more time efficient; plus, they’ve completely revamped the interface with a new, clean and modern look. To reflect the great changes made to the software they’ve completely refreshed and re-launched their branding, website

Delcam will include a free PC with all orders for more than £10,000 of the company’s software placed on stand 4011 during the MACH exhibition to be held in Birmingham from 7th to 11th April.  The offer applies across Delcam’s complete range of CAM programs; PowerMILL for high-speed and five-axis machining, FeatureCAM for feature-based production machining, PartMaker for programming turn-mill equipment and Swiss-type lathes, and ArtCAM for artistic manufacturing applications such as engraving and woodworking. Organisations that already use Delcam’s CAM systems will receive the free PC if they place orders above £10,000 for extra seats or for any of the company’s supporting software, including PowerSHAPE for data translation, reverse engineering and tooling design, or PowerINSPECT for inspection of parts or tooling against 3D CAD data. “Delcam has enjoyed rapid growth in our sales of software in the UK in the last three years so we wanted to give something back to

Since its foundation in 1985, the Swiss company IDC AG focuses on a close collaboration with renowned manufacturers and has a large range of products with objects/components of known brands such as air-lux, RUFALEX and Belux etc. By this experience IDC AG established a continuously growing object library for ArchiCAD in order to give their users even more freedom when creating and designing buildings. With the new partnership BIMobject® wins another experienced partner who will fulfill the professional support needed for the Swiss market. Sales activities will primarily be operated by the two partners Luke Desserich and Frank Arnet, mainly throughout the German-speaking parts of Switzerland. ”The fascination with well-made architecture and the enthusiasm for meaningful information technologies has always been a passion for the entire IDC team. Our deep connections in the network of architects and the building industry in Switzerland is an ideal opportunity to expand our service portfolio by

Dassault Systèmes today announced that SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual, the first SOLIDWORKS application on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, is now available. Already installed in production environments at numerous customer sites, this application delivers significant collaborative benefits through its use of Dassault Systèmes’ industry-leading cloud-based capabilities. It can be purchased through SOLIDWORKS’ extensive networks of reseller partners. Unveiled at SOLIDWORKS World in January, SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform embraces the new realities of today’s world of design in the age of experience: it is more social and conceptual and delivers on the promise of ease-of-collaboration among key contributors. “Now that the majority of the companies we partner with have embraced cloud technologies, GoEngineer has seen a dramatic increase in requests from our customer’s Engineering, Design, and Manufacturing departments for help in leveraging the cloud in their organizations. We are excited to offer them SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual as a solution that effectively combines the benefits of