Commentaries & Highlights

Innovapptive Inc. today announced that Loudoun Water has selected Innovapptive to implement mInventory – Mobile Inventory and Warehouse Management solution to deliver a consistent, reliable and a seamless inventory management experience that tightly integrates with their SAP Inventory & Warehouse Management system. The solution will replace Loudoun Water's current manual paper-based processes within their Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Division. Innovapptive will provide Loudoun Water with the ability to streamline work processes, reduce manual data entry, produce accurate reports and work offline with real-time access and visibility across the warehouse. The mInventory solution will be deployed on iOS-based mobile devices that connect to long-range barcode scanning peripherals and wireless barcode label printers. "Innovapptive approached our warehouse management business initiative with a high degree of subject matter experience and their configuration technology removes development risks from the initial implementation and empowers Loudoun Water with a compelling solution sustainment model," said Alton C. Echols, PE., Director of O&M Programs. Loudoun Water. "We are pleased to

Ideate Software announced that Craig H. Dodge, Director of Sales, and Richard Taylor, Technical Evangelist, will attend and exhibit at BiLT Asia 2018 in Singapore. They, along with representatives from Ideate Software’s partner in Singapore, BIMAGE, will demonstrate how Ideate Software tools streamline Revit workflows. The conference will be held at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Conference Center on April 5-7, 2018. “This conference, which is recognized as a global leader in BIM education, provides a perfect opportunity for us to meet with customers and potential customers,” said Mr. Dodge. “In addition to demonstrating our products, we will ask Revit users to explain challenges they face, so we can consider addressing them in future releases of our software.” Here are highlights of Ideate Software tools that dramatically reduce the time spent on tedious tasks and increase the accuracy of Revit models by eliminating error-prone editing and updating processes: Ideate BIMLink – Revit data

Trimble has opened its Call for Speakers for the 2018 Trimble Dimensions International User Conference, which will be held November 5-7 at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. This unparalleled combination of education, technology and networking is a premier opportunity for speakers to share best practices, insights and real-world experiences with industry peers from around the globe. Of particular interest to the thousands of attendees at Dimensions are sessions addressing cutting-edge topics and groundbreaking trends in agriculture, building design, construction and operation, civil engineering and construction, forensics, forestry, geospatial, mapping and GIS, government (local, state, federal), land administration, marine construction, mobile mapping, monitoring, photogrammetry and remote sensing, quarry and aggregates, rail, scanning, surveying, transportation and logistics, and utilities. Those interested in speaking at Dimensions can submit presentation proposals at www.TrimbleDimensions.com/CallForSpeakers through June 1, 2018. Selected speakers will be notified in mid-July and receive a significant discount for the full conference registration rate. To view the original press

Lantek is collaborating with Balliu, a Belgian manufacturer of laser cutting machines for sheet metal, to provide its customers with management and process digitalization solutions (Industry 4.0). The objective is to help them on their path towards digital transformation to evolve technologically towards advanced manufacturing. The sheet metal sector is going through a stage of great changes, which is driving companies to interconnect machines, processes and plants globally using digital technologies. A high level of connectivity and integration provides a large amount of data and allows manufacturers to see production needs in real time, as well as to anticipate possible errors and carry out more efficient maintenance. The tangible benefits of having connected factories include a decrease in costs and an increase in productivity and efficiency. Companies that do not go digital in the next 3-5 years are likely to be shut out of the market. "Despite the fact

ESI Group announces the successful application of virtual prototyping by Hwaseung R&A, Korean automotive supplier specialized in high & low pressure hoses and weather strips. Using the automation of trunk joint simulation processes in ESI Visual-Environment, the equipment manufacturer was able to correct seals defects and improve their design, while reducing development time and costs. Hwaseung R&A, a company supplying automotive and other industrial rubber parts, faced a trunk seals issue that needed to be corrected, as it became deformed or distorted at the corners after assembly. The function of a trunk seal is to absorb vibrations and to close the gap between the vehicle body and trunk assembly. When the seal has an irregular shape the pressure on trunk panels is non-uniform, which degrades their ability to control of noise and water leakage can result in failure of trunk panels. Hwaseung R&A’s engineers looked to simulation to address their design problems

This popular and proven PLM education program with over 400 graduates will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in June. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 March 2018-CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to the Mercure Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 11-15 June. Recognized as the PLM industry's most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering, with over 400 PLM professionals certified to date, the program helps prepare PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based 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. The program, which is available to industrial companies that

Robin Systems today announced a Free Trial Edition of Robin Cloud Platform on Amazon Cloud. The Free Trial allows users to fully test drive Robin Cloud Platform Enterprise Edition in a SaaS model (software-as-a-service) at no cost.  With a short registration, the entire platform is available for consumption, including all features and functions. Full access is granted for the entire range of pre-configured data-heavy workloads and pipelines of Big-Data applications (Hadoop Cloudera, Hortonworks, Kafka, SPARK etc.), NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, Elastic etc.) as well as  Enterprise Databases (Oracle, MySQL, Postgres and more) so that users can test drive the robust platform with an app-store experience, and experiment with the wealth of 1-click lifecycle management features ranging from initial deployment, resource and service scaling, performance management and SLA guarantees, full application snapshots to clones and time travel. “We found Robin's Free Trial to be a great way to get hands-on experience with the Robin software and its capabilities without having to

CGTech is now shipping the next major release of VERICUT Composite Applications: VERICUT Composite Programming (VCP) and VERICUT Composite Simulation (VCS). VERICUT Composite Applications are being used by leading manufacturers to program and simulate automated fiber placement and tape-laying machinery from machine tool builders such as, Electroimpact, MTorres, AFPT, Automated Dynamics, Fives, Accudyne, BA Composites and others. “With a specific focus on laminate design, we’ve added powerful and innovative features to help our customers every step of the way in producing quality composites parts,” said Product Manager André Colvin. The Composites 8.1 suite focuses on streamlining the flow of data between design applications, VCP itself, and analysis packages. “VCP 8.1 allows users to import the engineered laminate design while providing tools to export defects caused from manufacturing limitations back to analysis packages, thus closing the design for manufacturing loop,” said Colvin. Many features have been added in version 8.1, including

PTC today announced that Bharat Forge Limited, a technology-driven leading Indian multinational has selected the ThingWorx IoT Platform from PTC to monitor its factory operations to improve operational efficiency and factory quality. Bharat Forge Limited is a Pune-based multinational company with a presence across automotive, power, oil and gas, construction and mining, rail, marine and aerospace. The world's largest forging company with manufacturing facilities spread across India, Germany, Sweden, France and North America, Bharat Forge, manufactures a wide range of high performance, critical & safety components for the automotive & non-automotive sector. Bharat Forge Limited was looking at improving its operational efficiency at its manufacturing facilities. After an exhaustive due diligence process, during which various software vendors were evaluated, Bharat Forge selected ThingWorx IoT Platform for its rapid application enablement, connectivity, machine learning capabilities, augmented reality, and integration with leading device cloud offerings. Speaking on the partnership

Theorem Solutions is back at Develop3D Live this year and is excited to be exhibiting as a Gold sponsor. You can find them at stand #54/55 in the Mead Gallery. Taking place on 20th March 2018 at Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick University, Develop3D Live is the perfect opportunity to demonstrate the latest Multi-Device Visualization Experience Application for: Augmented Reality– Windows 10 and Android tablets and phones Mixed Reality– Microsoft HoloLens Virtual Reality– HTC Vive and Oculus Rift Principal Technical Consultant Trevor Leeson will be speaking (10.50am in the Oculus Theatre) about how to start your Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality journey in Engineering and Manufacturing. Theorem Solutions has been helping engineering and manufacturing companies to leverage the value of their CAD and PLM data assets and processes for over 25 years and has recently released a data and device agnostic Visualization Experience application to utilize those data assets for Augmented, Mixed and Virtual reality devices –