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An investment in a new Mazak machining centre convinced Neil and Gareth Williams, Joint Managing Directors of Halesowen-based Hockley Pattern, that the time had come to move up to Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM software for five-axis and high-speed machining. One of the UK’s leading toolmakers for the aerospace and automotive industries,…

Lectra is pleased to announce the launch of its new FocusQuantum® airbag cutting solutions. Designed to enable suppliers to deliver airbags to carmakers on time, at the right price, with the highest level of quality, FocusQuantum represents a major breakthrough in airbag manufacturing. It enables fully streamlined operations meeting the stringent…

Tech Soft 3D announced Tetra 4D Enrich, a new application that enables anyone to create rich, interactive 3D PDF documents quickly and easily directly inside of Adobe Acrobat [Professional]. Tetra 4D Enrich is the first and only solution that allows anyone to create data rich, interactive 3D PDFs inside of…

Maplesoft™ announced the release of the MapleSim CAD Toolbox, a new add-on to MapleSim that allows engineers to understand and improve their mechanical designs by bringing their CAD assemblies into MapleSim, the advanced system-level modeling and simulation platform. The new toolbox makes it easy to import CAD models into MapleSim, so engineers…

Cadence Design Systems has announced the delivery of the new Virtuoso advanced-node platform that is enabled for all 10nm FinFET designs. This next-generation custom design platform delivers up to 5X improvement in designer productivity and also provides initial support for emerging 7nm technologies. To address the challenges that come with…

General Sportwear Co., Inc®, a leader in private-label woven bottoms, has selected Gerber Technology's YuniquePLM™ to standardize processes across its vertically integrated supply chain. Prior to its implementation of YuniquePLM, General Sportwear relied on email and Excel® spreadsheets to share style attributes amongst its teams, as well as communicate styles…

Dassault Systemes today announced that General Mills France, a subsidiary of General Mills, one of the world's leading food companies, is deploying the "Perfect Shelf" industry solution experience to engage in new merchandising strategies for its Hagen-Dazs premium brand of ice cream. In a product category driven by impulse purchases, "Perfect Shelf" enables General…

Synopsys, Inc.reported results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2015. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, Synopsys reported revenue of $587.2 million, compared to $539.0 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014. Revenue for fiscal year 2015 was $2.242 billion, an increase of 9.0 percent from $2.057 billion in fiscal 2014.   "Synopsys…

GRAPHISOFT has announced that ARCHICAD 19 has won the prestigious BIM Product of the Year award at the tenth annual Construction Computing Magazine Awards in the United Kingdom. This is the fifth year in a row that ARCHICAD has been honored with the top BIM product award. In addition, GRAPHISOFT…

 Autodesk, Inc. announced Forge, an initiative to accelerate a cloud connected ecosystem in support of the future of making things. The initiative consists of three major components – a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, a robust developer program, and a $100 million investment fund – all geared toward advancing the next wave…