Commentaries & Highlights

The 2017 AEC Excellence Awards winners were revealed today at Autodesk University 2017 in Las Vegas. The 2017 AEC Excellence Awards competition recognizes global projects that embrace connected BIM (Building Information Modeling) technologies and sustainable design in the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry. This year’s competition received 145 submissions representing more than 30 countries, indicating that around the world, innovation in building design and construction is thriving. The 2017 AEC Excellence Awards were co-sponsored this year by Autodesk, HP, Construction Dive and Smart Cities Dive. The independent panel of judges selected the winning projects in the categories of Sustainability, Infrastructure, Building, and Construction. “With their bold imaginations and the right tools in hand, the winners of this competition are creating lasting monuments to the ingenuity of humankind,” said Nicolas Mangon, Vice President AEC, Business Strategy and Marketing at Autodesk.  “I applaud each of the winners and finalists for sharing their vision and demonstrating the future of making things

Popular PLM education program will be available via a series of publicly offered classes. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 November 2017 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces its CIMdata PLM Leadership Certificate Program schedule for 2018. The CIMdata PLM Leadership Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership—the PLM industry’s most comprehensive non-biased education offering for today’s PLM professionals. The program helps prepare PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. The program is facilitated by a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a CIMdata PLM Certificate and are invited to join CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community. According to Peter Bilello, CIMdata’s President, “Since the program’s introduction in 2009, some 500 global PLM professionals

Tasktop today announced its support for codeBeamer ALM, Intland Software's application lifecycle management (ALM) platform for complex and safety-critical product development. With this new integration, organizations can automate the connections between codeBeamer and more than 50 applications that govern other parts of their value stream. This dramatically extends the list of integrations offered by the award-winning codeBeamer ALM. The Tasktop Integration Hub is used to automate integrations for the entire software development and DevOps toolchain, enabling the flow of work, information and processes across the value stream. For example, using the Tasktop Integration Hub, critical information can now flow instantly between codeBeamer and JIRA, IBM tools, ServiceNow, Micro Focus, CA and dozens more. Tasktop users can now include codeBeamer ALM in their connected value stream networks to establish traceability across tools and support analytics and reporting initiatives. codeBeamer ALM is an all-around ALM platform for traditional and safety-critical product developers with features covering the entire

Centric Software is proud to announce that Centric 8 PLM version 6.2 is now available. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury and consumer goods companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Centric Software’s latest Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) release is driven by feedback from Centric’s Customer Advisory Board and customer innovation partners. New innovations include the debut of a Final Inspection Module, including a new mobile app, to evaluate and track final product quality prior to acceptance and delivery. Also new are market-leading innovative Bill of Materials (BOM) ‘Sections’ and ‘Push’ tools to enable users to work on hundreds of styles per season and at least 2 seasons simultaneously for fast and efficient high-volume development as well as enhanced user experience with upgraded business analytics capabilities. Centric’s new Final Inspection Module expands Centric PLM’s digital transformation capabilities to the evaluation

At its 25th annual flagship user conference, Autodesk University, Autodesk, Inc. previewed its next generation BIM 360 platform, a seamless cloud service connecting the entire construction project lifecycle. Autodesk also launched the "Connect and Construct Exchange," a new BIM 360 integration partner program designed to bring third-party software applications and data into the BIM 360 construction workflow. The Connect and Construct Exchange launched with more than 50 inaugural BIM 360 integrators. The next generation of BIM 360, built on the Autodesk Forge platform, supports informed decision-making throughout the construction project lifecycle by centralizing all project data in a single place. Autodesk Forge is a connected developer cloud platform which enables customers and partners to create customized, scalable solutions for engineering, construction and manufacturing challenges. BIM 360 connects project stakeholders and workflows at all stages of the building lifecycle – from design to construction to operations, from the field to the office and back. BIM

Altair Engineering Inc. today announced its collaboration with Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) to offer HPC users a seamlessly integrated solution. QxSmart HPC/DL, QCT’s best-in-class infrastructure, combined with PBS Professional, Altair’s industry leading workload manager and job scheduler, will provide a scalable cluster architecture with outstanding performance. “QCT has been a long-time solution supplier for high-performance computing and we embrace synergistic knowledge in our DNA to extend our solutions to the HPC market for application profiling and optimization,” said Mike Yang, President of QCT. “As HPC expands across a diverse range of fields, QCT remains committed to collaborating and working with Altair, who provides the industry’s leading workload management and job scheduling for high-performance computing environments, PBS Professional. We believe the pairing of both of our company’s proven technology will provide our mutual clients with more reliable, more efficient, and more intelligent solutions.” QxSmart delivers optimized applications with pre-validated common

Dassault Systèmes announced that BRM Aero, a developer of ultralight and light sport airplanes, is using the “Engineered to Fly” industry solution experience on the cloud to more efficiently design and develop the structure of its Bristell airplanes.  “Engineered to Fly,” based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud, provides BRM Aero with capabilities for 3D modeling and simulation of folded and unfolded representations of sheet metal part surfaces.  BRM Aero can explore workable concepts for detailed design, enrich them with complex shapes, and check their manufacturing feasibility.  In a unified digital environment, its team can collaborate in real time and reduce cycle times and changes late in the engineering process, with full data traceability and secured intellectual property.  “Engineered to Fly” is tailored for smaller operations seeking to improve productivity from a bid to the delivery of a part or system.  It features applications for each major commodity class, including sheet metal. 

Afero announced today a partnership with D-Link. A global leader in networking and communications products for the home and enterprise, D-Link has selected the Afero IoT Platform™ to bring a new class of secure smart products to market. "We are especially happy to be working with Afero… The D-Link Smart Water Sensor system leverages the Afero IoT Platform for its security, reliability, and ease-of-use," stated Jack McGuigan, VP of Sales at D-Link. In addition to the elegant onboarding, Afero provides a scalable, cloud platform for an array of solutions to address the needs of insurance customers."  "For over 30 years, D-Link has delivered award-winning communication solutions to the home and to the enterprise," said Afero CEO Joe Britt. "We are tremendously excited that D-Link has partnered with us to combine our technology innovation with their trusted brand, which will enable their customers, both enterprise and consumers, to onboard devices quickly and deploy

At its annual flagship user event starting today, Autodesk, Inc. welcomed thousands of architects, designers, engineers and digital artists from around the world to experience the future of making things. Now in its 25th year overall and its third carbon-neutral year, Autodesk University (AU) brings together nearly 10,000 people to learn, network and explore new ways to make buildings, infrastructure, products and entertainment as these industries increasingly converge. In his first keynote as Autodesk CEO, Andrew Anagnost will share an optimistic industry outlook on work in the age of automation, and how Autodesk will help customers do more, better, with less negative impact on the world. "The new wave of automation will undoubtedly cause disruptions, but technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics will be far more effective at creating job opportunities and spurring economic growth than many skeptics would have you believe," said Anagnost. In support of Anagnost's vision, the company will announce several initiatives that will

Global technology-solutions provider Arrow Electronics, Inc. announced that it will join force with ON Semiconductor to exhibit a range of IoT solutions at the India IoT Symposium held from November 15-16 at Nimhans Convention Center in Bangalore, India. The wide range of solutions spans automotive, energy, retail and more. Accelerating the move to a smarter and more connected world, Arrow strives to help companies quickly bring a broad range of connected IoT products to market. Arrow's sensor-to-sunset IoT portfolio includes a comprehensive range of hardware components and sensors, development platforms, software tools system integration, data analytics and cloud data platforms, as well as product lifecycle management for assets that have reached the end of their operational life. "We are excited to introduce our new portfolio of IoT solutions to enterprises and innovators at the India IoT Symposium. We will continue to stay current with emerging technology trends and connect the