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CNC Software’s newly appointed president, Meghan Summers West, will be heading to California Polytechnic State University July 27-30, to deliver a keynote address focused on manufacturing. During her presentation at the 2015 National HTEC Conference, West will focus on the need to “Acquaint, Convince and Excite (ACE) the Next Generation…

Optitex has released version O/15 of its O/Dev 3D Product Creation Suite. The upgraded software package enables fashion and apparel companies to boost their competitive edge with advanced capabilities, productivity, and ease of use throughout the development workflow, from 2D design all the way to true-to-life 3D digital samples. Optitex…

Gerber Technology introduces YuniquePLM™ V6.1 to further improve collaboration along the supply chain and accelerate time to market. YuniquePLM is web-based product lifecycle management software that helps the fashion and apparel industries communicate effectively, accelerate workflows and eliminate errors. YuniquePLM V6.1 generates and exports user-created product and line report views,…

Granta Design today announced further major performance, deployment, and functional enhancements to its GRANTA MI™ Version 8.1 system for enterprise materials information management, including enabling users to access data twice as fast. These significant advances are being delivered via a simple-to-install software update this month. As well as delivering a quicker…

Trimble announced today that BuildingPoint® distribution partners have been established in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. These latest additions are part of the growing BuildingPoint network that provides focused sales and services with a portfolio of software and hardware solutions for the Design-Build-Operate (DBO) lifecycle of buildings. BuildingPoint distribution partners represent Trimble Buildings' solutions…

Altair today announced 17 nominations for the 2015 Enlighten Award. In its third year, the award will be presented in collaboration with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) at the 2015 CAR Management Briefing Seminars taking place in Traverse City, Mich. from August 3rd-6th. The award aims to recognize the…

Key takeaways: At the same time that overall product complexity is increasing, manufacturers must also produce custom product configurations, often in small quantities Better collaboration between engineering, process and product planning, and manufacturing is required to manage growing product and variant complexity Collaborative manufacturing provides a key solution for analyzing…

PTC today announced a series of industry-first innovations across its PTC Integrity™ product family of software and systems engineering solutions. The new capabilities will help customers reduce barriers to process modeling, make higher quality, more profitable product line engineering decisions, and manage and re-use assets more easily in the Internet of Things…

Datakit releases version 2015.3 of its CAD data reading and writing interfaces. This version offers several new features: The Siemens™ NX™ format writing is now available. T he writing of SOLIDWORKS™ and COLLADA™ formats and the reading of SOLID EDGE™ 2D format have been added to CrossCad/Ware SDK, enabling software vendors to…

Zuken announces that electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider Enics has invested in CR-8000 Design Force, part of Zuken’s next generation product-centric design platform. Enics chose CR-8000 as part of an ongoing investment program to ensure they can meet their customers’ future technical requirements and further reduce time-to-market. Enics is one of world’s largest…