Industry Summary Articles

Key takeaways: Competing successfully in today’s global market requires continuous management and improvement of your product’s lifecycle from ideation through removal from service Many new technologies are impacting PLM solutions and how manufacturers must use them to optimize their product development lifecycle—Big Data, the Cloud, Mobility, and Social Computing, among…

Maplesoft expanded its European operations with the opening of a new office in Cambridge, UK. The new office in the United Kingdom will act as the headquarters for the company’s European operations, which includes offices in France and Germany. With the addition of the new Cambridge office, Maplesoft now directly…

ASCON and LEDAS Ltd. jointly announced their cooperation in researching and developing innovative geometry search technology. The primary idea behind the technology is an easy-to-use tool for reusing existing geometry in the design process. ASCON invited LEDAS to join its R&D team for the new project, a move that continues…

United Launch Alliance (ULA) CEO Michael Gass and Siemens USA CEO Eric Spiegel attended the successful launch of MAVEN, the first NASA mission devoted to understanding Mars’ upper atmosphere. A ULA Atlas V rocket, enabled by design analysis software from Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software business unit, carried the…

Aéropostale® Inc., a mall-based specialty retailer of casual apparel for young women and men, has implemented Gerber Technology’s YuniquePLM™ software to optimize and increase collaboration between its headquarters and global suppliers. By implementing YuniquePLM, Aéropostale’s designers, sourcing team and vendors speak a much more consistent language. With retail and manufacturing…

AVEVA Group plc announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2013. HIGHLIGHTS Good performance in H1 with group revenue up 11% to £108.5m and adjusted profit before tax up 13% to £32.3m Engineering & Design Systems revenue up 12% : Enterprise Solutions revenue up 5%  AVEVA…

MachineWorks Ltd will be showcasing a preview of the upcoming Polygonica release in Frankfurt at Euromold 2013, on Hall 8 Stand  G111.   The new release will focus on handling very large models and supporting colour and application data defined on polygonal meshes. Some mesh solids, particularly those created from point cloud data, contain huge…

C3D Labs, part of the ASCON Group, has become the newest resident of Skolkovo, Russia's modern technology business park. Located just outside of Moscow, the park was established to support high-tech developments in an environment similar to Silicon Valley. C3D originally was a proprietary 3D modeling kernel available only in…

Hiller Associates, the leading strategic consulting firm in the area of product cost and CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announce the release of a new research report on Product Cost Management in manufacturing. Product cost is one of the top attributes that must…

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm today unveiled its new website ( www.CIMdata.com), which has been designed to provide those that have any type of interest in PLM with a comprehensive and trusted resource for finding all things related to PLM. The project, which forms an…