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4D Technologies today announced the latest release of its CADLearning Plugin for Autodesk applications. This add-on support tool provides on-the-spot answers to user questions, right inside the application. “The CADLearning Plugin provides true performance support for Autodesk users,” says Matt Murphy, Senior Director of Product Strategy for CADLearning. “This adaptive technology suggests contextual content based on what the user is doing at that moment; organizations can now make videos, workflows, best-practice guides, or any digital asset available to its users without interrupting their workflow.” The CADLearning Plugin is easy to install and puts the entire CADLearning library of Autodesk content at the user’s fingertips. Once installed, the CADLearning Plugin is launched from the Add-ins tab of the Autodesk application. As users progress through their workflow, they’re presented with a palette of short video tutorials and resource materials relevant to the exact function they’re performing. “The CADLearning Plugin minimizes downtime and maximizes productivity by giving

Infocast is excited to announce the Driverless Cities Summit, taking place in San Francisco October 26 to 28. The intimate community building event will highlight the latest activities of regulators, modern designs for smart city planning, cutting-edge tech and applications for connectivity, and paradigms for allocating funding. In one month, the Driverless Cities Summit will take place over the course of two information packed days where attendees will get the latest on the following topics: Government initiatives – Status and updates, smart city building, new paradigms for financing AV enablers in Smart Cities, Urban mobility, and early adoptions. The event will touch on all major key points in the development and growth of the industry to provide a holistic view of the industry’s future. Attendees will gain insights and perspectives on policy changes from industry leaders at the forefront of autonomous vehicle implementation, policy, and planning. Participating organizations include: 4Dialog AB,

CONTACT Software and Robert Bosch Engineering & Business Solutions Private Limited have entered into a close global cooperation agreement. The partnership is intended to provide global customers with comprehensive process consulting, software and services support for topics such as Product Lifecycle Management, Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things. CONTACT Software is boosting its capabilities in the field of professional services by means of a strategic partnership with Robert Bosch Engineering & Business Solutions Private Ltd. (RBEI). Headquartered in Bangalore, India, the company is a fully-owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH and has, over many years, acquired in-depth expertise in the world of PLM. It employs a workforce of more than 17,000 in Asia, Europe and the USA. "CONTACT Software as well as Robert Bosch Engineering & Business Solutions are leading companies in the PLM industry – and so RBEI is the perfect addition to our Global Ecosystem. The company

The engineering software industry has seen a number of major technology innovations over the past decade, including the ways in which commercial software is licensed, priced, and delivered to end users.  In addition to traditional dedicated user desktop licensing models, new usage models such as flexible tokens, vertical bundles/apps, global enterprise bundles, open source, Cloud and Software as a Service (Saas) have become much more popular and cost effective for both small/medium businesses (SMBs) and large global organizations. In this webinar, join invited speakers Don Tolle and Monica Schnitger as they discuss the myriad of options available to industrial manufacturing companies and lay out some guidelines for how to evaluate the financial business case trade-offs of the various options. NAFEMS Webinar Business Challenges: Licensing Models Date: Tuesday, September 27th Time: 8am PDT (Seattle) / 11am EDT (New York) / 4pm BST (London) To learn more, please click here. Search for NAFEMS on

ZW3D today announced the availability of ZW3D 2017 Beta, bringing new features and numerous enhancements to improve efficiency and minimize overhead in the process of designing and manufacturing. One of the most highlighted advancements in ZW3D 2017 beta is the expanded sheet metal design, delivering engineers & designers much better user experience. The newly-added hem flange allows expanded flange creation with all necessary pre-defined hem types provided; the brand-new jog helps users create 2 bends at one time to better suit design technology; the enhanced full flange and partial flange enables users to intuitively control dimension with drag of the mouse; the new editing tools are included to avoid reprogramming trouble. “We’ve invested a lot of R&D resources in sheet metal module,” said Colin Lin, Director of ZW3D Overseas Business, “You’ll definitely embrace a much more user-friendly & productive ZW3D.” The CAM module in ZW3D 2017 beta comes with

Stibo Systems today announced the availability of SpirePLM, a comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution powered by Stibo Systems’ Master Data Management platform STEP. SpirePLM works in concert with STEP to gather, integrate and clean data from different systems and then stores information in a central repository. This ensures that organizations work with a single version of the truth throughout the product development cycle. Due to increasing customer demands, organizations are constantly pressured to reduce time-to-market and to remain competitive. As a result, efficiently managing information in the product life cycle becomes critical in order to launch products faster without sacrificing quality. However, product data is often stored and managed from different and disconnected systems, which can result in poor designs, reduced visibility, and no guidance for standards, which directly affects customer satisfaction and how quickly new products can launch. SpirePLM addresses these challenges by providing flexible data models and processes to

Projectplace® recently added a new Project Request capability for enterprise customers. The new Project Request tool captures requests and ideas from inside and outside of the organization to help administrators manage and approve new projects. Teams can now accept project requests across their entire virtual team without requiring an additional Projectplace license. Additional features: Configurable request form that allows requestors to include project ideas Ability to evaluate, approve and reject project requests Easy conversion of requests into approved projects Additional improvements will be announced as Planview continues to improve the Projectplace collaboration solution. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Planview on CIMdata.com

Dassault Systèmes today announced that Reutlingen University in Germany has selected the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud to implement teaching, learning and research practices that will help students master Industry 4.0 trends and better prepare for future careers. Reutlingen University deployed the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud for its “Logistics Learning Factory,” an on-campus realistic learning and research environment for industrial production processes and logistics concepts. Here, the university’s business and engineering students are learning about the convergence of a digital and a real smart factory. First, they can use the platform to virtually develop an intelligent product or product feature and virtually configure a production line. Next, they can engage in the additive manufacturing of the product’s parts, its production and assembly in the Logistics Learning Factory’s real-world environment. Reutlingen University offers 6,000 students international academic programs with close ties to industry and commerce, and has been top-rated in rankings for many

Centric Software announces that Orchestra has selected product lifecycle management (PLM) from Centric Software. In 1995, Pierre and Chantal Mestre founded Orchestra on the idea of building a children’s clothing brand with a unique retail concept. Orchestra now has 700 stores in 40 countries worldwide and counts a turnover of €562 million per year. To keep pace with business growth, Orchestra recently embarked on a global overhaul of its information systems, including an ERP implementation. Questions about the product development process also arose. “We decided to look for a PLM specialist as this was the best approach for us and our IT strategy,” says Virginie Llorca, Director of Orchestra’s Supply Chain, Methods and Organization. “We wanted to do more than consolidate systems; we need a foundation to sustain our immediate, ongoing growth, but we also required a solution that is resilient and flexible enough to change along with our goals.”

“During this first semester Licenses sales experienced solid growth, in particular with new business and high level of repeat business. In parallel the significant progression in high valued-added services demonstrates the specific need to support industrialists, adapted to their maturity level in transition to IVE. The continued improvement of our profitability indicators confirms that our continuously monitored discipline of execution allows us to combine the dynamics of profitable and sustainable growth with high level of investments,” Alain de Rouvray, ESI Group’s Chairman and CEO, comments. "The very solid performance over the period, as measured by our economic indicators, clearly and again illustrates the market relevance of our unique strategic positioning based on Immersive Virtual Engineering (IVE1) of the full lifecycle of industrial products.” In this demanding global context and accounting for the renewed challenges of the timely integration of our several recent acquisitions, we expect our dynamic sales trend to continue