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solidThinking Inc (www.solidthinking.com) announced today that it has signed productONE (www.prodone.com) as its first channel partner in South Africa.  productONE will introduce the South African market to solidThinking Inspire software and will be offering support and workshops to customers in the region. "We are very excited to introduce solidThinking Inspire to this region through our newest partner," said Gronum Smith, Country Manager for Altair South Africa.  "Ensuring growth and customer support in this region is essential and productONE is our ideal partner, with its strong reputation in technical expertise and service." Parent company of solidThinking, Altair (www.altair.com), acquired EM Software & Systems SA (EMSS), the developer of the FEKO electromagnetics analysis suite, in June 2014.  Today, FEKO is now part of Altair's HyperWorks® simulation suite and Stellenbosch has become the center of operations for Altair to support clients in South Africa with applying technologies like HyperWorks and solidThinking Inspire. solidThinking Inspire enables design

Altium Limited has released the newest version of the company's flagship PCB design tool, Altium Designer 15.1. Included in this release are a number of new features to improve design efficiency with expansions to productivity, documentation, and high-speed design. The newest update to Altium Designer is available now for all Altium Subscription customers. "Altium Designer 15.1 is building upon the solid foundation we've had in place since the original release of Altium Designer 15," said Sergey Kostinsky, VP Engineering at Altium. "There's incremental improvements upon every layer in the platform for both designers and fabricators alike. This update is a win-win for everyone involved in the design process, with greater accuracy in documentation features for fabricators, to expanded productivity and high-speed enhancements for electronics designers." New Features for All The new features in Altium Designer 15.1 focus on improvements to the entire design ecosystem, from a design's inception with electrical designers to the completed

PTC today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ColdLight, a visionary in big data machine learning and predictive analytics, for approximately $105 million. The acquisition of ColdLight’s Neuron automated predictive analytics platform will enrich PTC’s technology portfolio and extend PTC’s position as a leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) market. ColdLight will serve as PTC’s core data analytics platform to deliver new value to markets both companies serve today – manufacturing, healthcare, media and retail – as well drive growth across new markets. When combined with PTC’s ThingWorx® IoT platform, ColdLight’s Neuron will automate the analysis of data from things to address a range of important challenges. These challenges include detecting failure patterns from data, modeling correlations, predicting failures, prescribing remedies and prioritizing recommendations against cost constraints. ColdLight’s Neuron platform addresses these challenges by using artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to automatically and continuously learn from

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the Nucleus real time operating system (RTOS) targeting high-performance, next-generation applications for wearable embedded devices designed for medical, fitness, security, safety and other sectors. The introduction of new multicore system-on-chip (SoC) architectures targeting wearable devices with Internet of Things (IoT) features requires an operating system that has a framework tailored to meet new system requirements. The Nucleus RTOS framework for smart wearable devices connects to other smart devices, gateways, or directly to the cloud. Optimized for size, performance, and power efficiency in unicore or multicore SoCs, the Nucleus RTOS is the first embedded operating system to provide a power management and processor lifecycle framework to maximize wearable device battery life. The Nucleus RTOS provides memory space partitioning in both high-performance microprocessor units (MPU) and resource-constrained microcontroller units (MCU) to support software updates and upgrades in deployed systems. The Nucleus RTOS includes a rich IPv4/v6 networking stack,

Infor today announced general availability of Infor Advanced Scheduling (AS) version 11. This latest release of Infor AS provides a major leap forward in product functionality. Infor AS version 11 includes key enhancements to help planners collaborate efficiently and evaluate production schedule performance using real-time decision support metrics. The results are easier deployment of schedules and improved collaboration between various teams, ensuring schedules align with key business objectives. Infor Advanced Scheduling is a constraint-based scheduling solution providing components that are aimed at addressing the unique scheduling challenges for process manufacturers managing variables such as the capacity of tanks, vessels and lines as well as the flow between them. This latest version adds collaborative scheduling, quick search and filter functionality, and a user-friendly dashboard for managing schedule performance. Key enhancements for Infor Advanced Scheduling Collaborative scheduling – The collaborative scheduling process allows planners to co-ordinate with other planners' schedule production. Schedule performance dashboard – The new-look

Granta Design has released the latest version of GRANTA MI, its platform for managing materials knowledge. Version 8.1 expands on developments added in 8.0, the company states. Added features include Web app control over user groups to support workflows such as composite qualification. The release adds tools and data structures for composite qualification and managing data related to additive manufacturing. It also has a multi-step importer for integrating complex data into the system, enabling users to place data from a single spreadsheet into multiple locations. With the MI:Explore Web app interface, users can upload and edit data with a drag-and-drop method. Database access can also be customized and configured to desired privacy settings. The company states that it is delivering more frequent upgrades with significant features to respond to customer needs faster. “Our customers are all companies that take the management of materials knowledge seriously,” says Patrick Coulter, chief operating officer at Granta Design. “This

Elsevier, today announced the launch of Knovel Quick Search for AutoCAD. Available to customers at no cost, the feature rich, easy-to-use search plugin connects Knovel's essential insights with one of the most widely used CAD software programs in engineering markets. This integration significantly improves the users' efficiency and workflow.   Knovel Quick Search for AutoCAD empowers users to solve a broad range of knowledge-driven questions though a vetted collection of trusted engineering reference material without interrupting their normal CAD workflow. Users launch their search from within the Autodesk AutoCAD software environment, review results with snippets, and then access full Knovel content when a result is selected. This is particularly useful to users in the engineering, design and construction (ED&C) industry, as well as the oil and gas (O&G) industry, especially those with a focus on engineering design-such as piping design, plant design, and building design where geometric and special decisions are

Xilinx, Inc. announced acceleration of system verification with the release of the Vivado® Design Suite 2015.1, featuring major productivity advances  for the development and deployment of  All Programmable FPGAs and SoCs. This release includes the Vivado Lab Edition, accelerated Vivado Simulator and third party simulation flows, interactive clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis, and advanced system performance analysis with the Xilinx® Software Development Kit (SDK). New Vivado Lab Edition The Vivado Lab Edition is a no-cost, lightweight programming and debug edition of the Vivado Design Suite. The Lab Edition includes the Vivado Device Programmer, Vivado Logic and Serial I/O Analyzer, as well as memory debug tools. It is intended for use in lab environments where the full-featured Vivado Design Suite is not required. The Vivado Lab Edition is 75 percent smaller than the complete Vivado Design Edition, which considerably reduces lab set-up time and system memory requirements. For design teams that require remote debug or

Trimble and the Nemetschek Group announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance to expand the deployment of Building Information Modeling (BIM) across the entire Design-Build-Operate (DBO) lifecycle of buildings. The alliance will emphasize collaborative approaches to design modeling and 5D construction management through data integration between a variety of the companies' products.   The announcement was made today at the Lake Constance 5D-Conference 2015held this week in Constance, Germany.  Trimble and Nemetschek will share their extensive global market and technology expertise and collaborate on initiatives to drive a paradigm change in the development and adoption of technologies for the AEC industry and building owners. The companies intend to: Transparently share data formats to support new solutions and promote workflow interoperability between selected products across the DBO lifecycle; Tighten the connection of Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) solutions to real data from the field and real objects in the physical world; Support interoperability and the longevity

As the emergence of social media, Cloud, and Big Data continues to fuel the digital evolution, today's digital workplace must drive new levels of employee engagement, operational efficiency and service excellence. To help deliver on this digital transformation, EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced new enhancements across its Documentum portfolio of enterprise content management (ECM) applications, enabling customers to further address next-generation ECM by optimizing current investments as the backbone for new business models. Latest Enhancements: Productivity, Efficiency, and Agility The portfolio of products provide best-in-class offerings to solve customer business and content problems: The latest Documentum 7.2 platform is the fastest and most secure Documentum release ever, including Top Secret-level encryption (AES-256) for content in transit and at rest, and new storage certifications enabling storage management optimization within the software-defined data center Documentum D2 4.5 and Documentum xCP 2.2 deliver more agility and drive productivity for developers and administrators in deploying new solutions across