Dassault Systèmes announces that it commenced a cash tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Accelrys common stock at a price of $12.50 per share yesterday. The tender offer is being made pursuant to the previously announced merger agreement dated January 30, 2014 between the companies. The tender offer period will expire at 12:00 midnight (New York City time) at the end of the day on March 13, 2014, unless otherwise extended or terminated. Dassault Systèmes has filed a tender offer statement on Schedule TO with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 3DS Acquisition Corp., a US affiliate of Dassault Systèmes, is the acquirer in the tender offer.  The Offer to Purchase contained within the Schedule TO sets out the terms and conditions of the tender offer. Accelrys has also filed a Solicitation/Recommendation Statement with the SEC, which includes the recommendation of the Accelrys board of directors that Accelrys

Program will take place in Andover, Massachusetts from May 19-23 ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 February, 2014 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm announces that it will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Andover, Massachusetts from May 19-23. The CIMdata PLM 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 CIMdata PLM Certificate Program ensures PLM professionals at several levels have the tools they need to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM strategy development and implementation. This assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. In addition, the program provides intensive and extensive exposure to a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a CIMdata PLM Certificate and become a member of CIMdata’s global PLM

C3D Labs (ASCON Group) is pleased to announce a newest release of its geometric modeling kernel, C3D. The company worked with customers over the last year on improving V15, and so the new version offers developers over fifty new functions, methods, and algorithms, as well as enriched documentation, an improved test application, and English localization. The C3D Solver and C3D Converter modules now operate several times faster. "The potential for enhancing C3D is far from exhausted, as V15 proves,” said C3D Development Manager Nikolai Golovanov. “The architecture of the product provides great opportunities for developers. For example, we achieved impressive acceleration in individual components of the kernel.” Developers using the new version for three-dimensional computer-aided design systems will be able to increase the speed and efficiency of their applications with minimal consumption of their resources. English localization expands the geography of sales for the geometric kernel. Thanks to its flexible licensing policy,

Software Factory the TOOLKIT|EXPERTS for PTC Creo and PTC Windchill will demonstrate the latest versions of productivity solutions for Creo and Windchill at PTC/User Denmark on March 04-05, 2014 at the Trinity Conference Centre in Fredericia. Do you manually collect your specification characteristics for first article inspection (FAI) reports or check your design changes by a visual comparison of drawings? Just automate these activities with INSPECT for Creo. You simply need to press a button and all characteristics are generated automatically from the CAD data. Every characteristic is defined by a unique identifier through the complete product life cycle, and can be shown in the drawing. All changes of the 3D model and the drawing from now on, can be clearly traced, updated and documented. Do you have company specific model standards and design rules for your assemblies, parts and drawings? QCHECK for Creo or Modellcheck EXTENSIONS for Creo validate the compliance with these guidelines and

Delcam will demonstrate the latest version of its OrthoMODEL design and manufacturing software for custom orthotic insoles at the 2014 American Academy of Orthotists & Prosthetists Annual Meeting & Scientific Symposium to be held at the Hyatt Regency, Chicago, from 26th February to 1st March.  This new release includes options for the design of corrective orthotics for the first time. OrthoMODEL now offers “real-time design” of both accommodative orthotics, ideal for patients with diabetes and for those requiring comfort insoles, and corrective orthotics, to address problems with the patient’s foot orientation and gait cycle.  Full details are available on www.orthotics-cadcam.com The software has a direct interface to Delcam’s iQube range of scanners, all of which are able to scan the patient’s foot, foam boxes or casts.  OrthoMODEL can also import scan data from most other systems.  Once the scan data has been imported, new trimming tools allow the removal of any unwanted data

ITC Infotech has expanded its global footprint in the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region by setting up an office in Dubai. The sales and marketing office of ITC Infotech in Dubai will focus exclusively on the MEA market and look at tapping promising sectors like BFSI, Retail and Oil & Gas, among others. Commenting on the development, Mr. B Sumant, Managing Director, ITC Infotech, said, “Our objective is to be able to serve customers across the globe in all viable locations. ITC Infotech is engaged with several large customers in the region and we are providing mission critical services to leaders in the market. It was only appropriate that we open an office in the MEA region to consolidate and expand our presence.” Said Mr. Vishal Kumar, Senior Vice President & Head of the MEA region, ITC Infotech, “We have been closely following this market and feel it is the opportune moment to set up a

Agilent Technologies Inc. reported orders of $1.68 billion, down 2 percent over one year ago, for the first fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31, 2014, and revenues of $1.68 billion, flat compared with one year ago. First-quarter GAAP net income was $195 million, or $0.58 per share. Last year's first-quarter GAAP net income was $179 million, or $0.51 per share. During the first quarter, Agilent had intangible amortization of $51 million, integration and transformation costs of $10 million, pre-separation costs of $20 million and a tax benefit of $47 million. Excluding these items and $3 million of other net benefits, Agilent reported first-quarter adjusted net income of $226 million, or $0.67 per share(1). Agilent President and CEO Bill Sullivan said, "Our life sciences, diagnostics and applied market businesses got off to a solid start in the quarter. Electronic measurement, however, faced challenges in the aerospace/defense market. Our plans to separate into two companies

MSC Software Corporation announced that Imperial College London relied on MSC Software's Marc Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis (FEA) solution to develop a unique traumatic injury simulator. Engineers from The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London, in collaboration with military trauma surgeons, are developing and utilizing traumatic injury simulation in an attempt to improve blast mitigation. In order to understand the physical mechanisms involved and to develop new and improved evaluation criteria, techniques, materials and design in a cost efficient manner, it is necessary for Dr. Spyros Masouros' research team to work with both experimental and computational models of human injury and mitigation technologies. To investigate the mechanism of extremity injury caused by explosions and develop appropriate mitigation strategies, the researchers at Imperial College London designed a unique traumatic injury simulator (AnUBIS, anti-vehicle, underbelly, blast-injury simulator). Using Marc Nonlinear Finite Element (FE) Analysis from MSC Software, the researchers were able to optimize

Selerant (www.selerant.com) announces its educational Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) blog at http://info.selerant.com/selerant-blogs. “We saw the need to provide expertise to team leaders and executives,” states Selerant COO, Sunil Thomas.  “This blog provides best practices in a clear and concise format.”  The blogs currently feature brief explanations with actionable instructions for PLM best practices, including: Specifications Compliant Labeling Recipe Management PLM/ERP Integration PLM Acronyms (what they actually mean) “We meet with several industry leaders.  They always ask us to clarify why they need PLM,” explains Thomas.  “We created this series to help them evaluate if this is truly the best solution for them.” Many blogs provide downloadable forms that allow companies to define their needs, compare and contrast with multiple vendors, and start defining the scope of their PLM solution. “The Selerant Blog is a great resource for PLM practitioners especially within the process industry. It provides relevant, practical information that can help companies improve their PLM solution” states Tom Gill, Senior Consultant