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Hagerman & Company, Inc., will host a two hour, free hands-on workshop featuring Autodesk Simulation Mechanical software. The event will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 2 p.m. in Hagerman’s St. Louis training lab. Autodesk Simulation Mechanical software provides fast, accurate and flexible mechanical simulation tools to help predict performance, optimize designs, and validate product behavior before manufacturing – minimizing reliance on costly physical prototypes. This two-hour hands-on workshop will show users how easy it is to use Autodesk Simulation Mechanical software and how someone using Autodesk Inventor Professional for FEA could benefit from Autodesk Simulation Mechanical software. Workshop attendees will:  Understand the difference between Autodesk Inventor Pro, Autodesk Simulation Mechanical and Autodesk Simulation CFD software Learn about Non-linear Analysis and why is it important to you Experience the ease of use of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical software See how heat and stress can impact your design Sandy Hagerman, President and CEO of Hagerman & Company, stated, “We are eager to give

 PDF Key takeaways: Product development is a continual process of making decisions that turn the unknown into the known Faulty decisions can have a huge impact on your company High quality knowledge is required for making good decisions Building knowledge that results in corporate wisdom requires stable communication channels A new breed of decision-support tools establishes stable communication channels Product Development Decisions What is a decision? The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines a decision as “a determination arrived at after consideration.” Product development decisions are those conclusions or resolutions that impact or affect a product. They can be classified into five broad phases of the product development process: concept development, product design, supply chain design, performance testing and validation, and production ramp-up and launch. Decisions are made by individuals, teams, and management. Some decisions can have a significant impact on the product, such as selecting a material or a component, while other decisions are seemingly inconsequential. Decision making is a

CIMdata PLM Certificate Programs are available in North America and Europe for 2014 ANN ARBOR, Michigan, December 17, 2013 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm announces its CIMdata PLM Certificate Program schedule for 2014. 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. CIMdata’s PLM Certificate Program equips PLM professionals at several levels with the tools they need to successfully address the inherent challenges to 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 Leadership community. According to Peter Bilello, CIMdata’s

Dr. Alain de Rouvray, Chairman and CEO of ESI Group, proposed to the Board of Directors on December 4th, 2013, the appointment of Dr. Christopher St.John as Chief Operating Officer of ESI Group. The Board accepted the nomination. Dr. Alain de Rouvray can now rely on two COO; Dr. Vincent Chaillou for the activities of the Edition and Strategic Marketing and Dr. Christopher St.John for the activities of Distribution and Support. Dr. Christopher St.John joined the Group in July 2008 as Director for Asia Pacific. Since February 2010 he has been responsible for Distribution operations in all geographic areas. His career includes more than 30 years with companies publishing and distributing CAE solutions and in engineering consultancy. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London, UK.

Tech Soft 3D announced the acquisition of tetra4D and its line of 3D PDF products, including 3D PDF Converter - the world's only solution for converting native 3D CAD data into rich, interactive 3D PDF documents from within Adobe Acrobat. Through this acquisition, Tech Soft 3D will begin working directly with regional resellers, current Tech Soft 3D HOOPS customers, and end users to expand and improve its suite of 3D PDF-related offerings. Specific announcements regarding plans will be forthcoming in the near future. “The team at tetra4D has done an excellent job of driving global awareness and adoption of 3D PDF Converter as the de-facto solution for document-based 3D collaboration in both the enterprise and supply chain market,” said Tech Soft 3D VP of Corporate Development, Dave Opsahl. “As the adoption of 3D PDF continues to grow so dramatically within enterprises, we felt the time was right for us to expand our

Highlights: Extends multi-threaded processing support for dramatically faster backward ray trace analyses and photorealistic rendering Supports targeted analysis of illuminance and intensity output charts to expedite design troubleshooting Accelerates creation of complex lighting components with new swept and freeform objects Provides new volume scattering types to facilitate the design of biomedical optics Expands street and automotive lighting design and analysis Includes new utilities that provide illumination simulation data in easy-to-read, customizable formats Enhances modeling of optical surface scattering for small-feature design Synopsys, Inc. today announced the availability of version 8.1 of its LightTools® illumination design software, which delivers new modeling and analysis features for general lighting, automotive and biomedical applications, as well as speed improvements for tracing backward rays and generating photorealistic images. Additional Multi-CPU Capabilities LightTools' multi-threading capabilities, which enable illumination simulations to take advantage of all CPUs or cores on a computer, now support backward simulations and photorealistic renderings. This can dramatically improve the speed and efficiency of

Infor today announced Infor Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Enterprise Edition version 11.0 to help drive collaboration and innovation. The latest iteration is specifically designed to provide users with considerable gains in its ease of use. The upgrades allow users to better leverage technology and make actionable decisions in real time. Infor EAM v11 embraces the cross-departmental structure and provides a better way to orchestrate people, assets and processes to advance visibility and value. The core upgrades include a modern user interface (UI), improved mobility and analytics, "zero downtime" upgrade capability and an enhanced safety management module. Infor EAM v11 incorporates the latest Infor technology innovations of the Infor 10x platform and broad support for Infor Ming.le™. Infor EAM v11 was purposefully designed to improve upon the basic problems that are commonly faced with managing assets. "With Infor EAM v11 our users are no longer limited to working from a desktop, a windows computer or a particular browser.

German toolmaker Lahnwerk GmbH has invested in new high-speed mills and five-axis machining centres, plus Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM software.  The outcome has been greatly improved surface quality and reduced manufacturing times. Lahnwerk, which employs 140 staff in Hessian Biedenkopf, specialises in the design and production of casting equipment, including patterns, dies and moulds, predominantly for cast metal components for cars and utility vehicles.  Since its establishment over 60 years ago, the company has developed into a full-service provider with a continuous process chain from 3D design right through to manufacturing, assembly and sample production in-house.  The milling area alone encompasses 25 CNC machines, including the latest C40 and C50 five-axis machines from Hermle, plus a three-axis RXP 1200 from Röders. Twenty-three engineers design the casting equipment in 3D, using CATIA, Creo Elements and NX software.  Programming with PowerMILL takes place both in the office and on CAM workstations located directly adjacent to

Extensive interest in the WorkNC stable of products from Vero Software on show at Euromold, meant orders placed at the exhibition topped the €100,000 mark. Features in the latest releases of WorkNC, WorkNC Dental, WorkXplore and WorkPLAN attracted considerable enthusiasm, and as well as the €100,000+ orders, the team provided more than 50 quotations and took a number of strong sales leads. “It was the first time many visitors to our stand had seen our products exhibiting under the world-renowned Vero Software branding, following the acquisition of the WorkNC stable at the start of the year,” says Werner Moeller, WorkNC Manager in Germany. “They were pleased to see that Vero is actively investing in the brand.” WorkNC’s functionality of automatically generating 5-axis toolpaths from existing 3-axis paths was of particular interest at Euromold. Described as a unique and revolutionary innovation in the field of 5-axis CNC machining, it enables users to automatically generate

System Insights and Autodesk recently teamed to build solutions to marry 3D spatial modelling with real-time manufacturing data analytics. These capabilities were presented at Autodesk University 2013 recently. Carl White, Senior Director of Manufacturing Engineering Products at Autodesk stated, “By working with System Insights we aim to increase the visibility of manufacturing operations to facilitate flexible, agile and efficient production.” The solutions will also be able to identify areas where production efficiency and energy usage can be optimized and the traceability of product flows and processes can be improved. The synthesized data views will inform decision-making on production scheduling, plant layout, maintenance and asset health, process planning and tool-path design and evaluations of new capital investments. Dr. Athulan Vijayaraghavan, Founder & CTO of System Insights, said, “We are very excited in partnering with Autodesk to bring vimana's real-time manufacturing data analytics to Autodesk's range of digital tools for factory design. By bringing