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The 14th annual "Create the Future" Design Contest,(www.createthefuturecontest.com) is now open for submissions and runs through July 1, 2016.  Contestants are asked to submit innovative product design ideas that benefits society and the economy for the opportunity to receive global recognition and win a cash prize of $20,000 USD. The "Create the Future" Design Contest has helped stimulate and reward engineering innovation, and has brought attention to product designs that increase the quality of life, improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare, and help to reduce dependence on non-renewable energy sources. The contest's principal sponsors are COMSOL and Mouser Electronics with Analog Devices and Intel® as supporting sponsors. "Since the contest's inception, students, engineers, and entrepreneurs alike have contributed with inventive design ideas aimed at solving today's problems," said Bernt Nilsson, Senior VP of Marketing at COMSOL. "We're looking forward to recognizing contestants' ingenuity and rewarding their work." "Creating the Future' is very much at the heart

Infor today announced strong results for the third quarter of its fiscal 2016, ended January 31, 2016. Total revenues increased 2 percent at actual currency rates and 7 percent in constant currency compared to Q3 in fiscal 2015, with software license fees and subscriptions revenues up 23 percent at actual currency rates and 27 percent in constant currency over the same period. Non-GAAP total revenues2 increased 3 percent at actual currency rates and 7 percent in constant currency compared to Q3 in fiscal 2015, with non-GAAP software license fees and subscriptions revenues up 28 percent at actual currency rates and 32 percent in constant currency over the same period. Infor also experienced strong growth for Infor Consulting Services (ICS). Infor added more than 600 new customers in the quarter. "Q3 was another strong quarter for Infor with ongoing growth in our business as we continue to set the standard for successfully transitioning to a

Tukatech has launched its the latest and most powerful version of its award-winning pattern design software TUKAcad, and its 3D fashion design and development software TUKA3D at the recently held GT Expo in New Delhi, India and Texprocess Americas expo in Atlanta, GA, US. The new releases include many improvements, developed to reduce the time and cost for the entire product development process. TUKA3D developed with Autodesk's 3D Studio Max also allows developers to verify fit in hundreds of customised motions, through the built-in motion simulation feature. TUKAcad is a complete suite of applications, allowing a single person to complete the pattern development processes and share information with all non-CAD users. TUKAcad 2016 continues to dominate software industry, remaining in first place with new features that increase speed, efficiency, and functionality, according to a press release. Arshad Sattar, managing director for Timex – Avirate said, “We were the first dress company to adopt

Synopsys, Inc.announced the release of its LightTools® 8.4 software, the latest version of the company's illumination design solution for the modeling, analysis and optimization of innovative illumination optics. Synopsys' LightTools 8.4 release offers several significant enhancements to accelerate and streamline the design of luminaires, including a new Configuration Manager for rapid virtual prototyping, hybrid ray tracing for faster illumination simulations, and utilities to automate key design aspects of light pipes and street lighting fixtures. The new Configuration Manager supports multiple design variations in a single LightTools model. The feature simplifies model maintenance and allows users to construct design variations quickly and efficiently. For example, users can set up multiple versions of a model using different light sources, geometric shapes, materials and optical properties, and then quickly analyze and compare the variations to evaluate the best design solution. The Configuration Manager also streamlines the creation of multiple designs to incorporate the versions

Autodesk, Inc. announced a new campaign to encourage customers, for subscribing to its design technology. The company, will be providing special pricing for Autodesk products—including AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, 3ds Max, and more, that can lead to savings of up to 70% by the customers. They can avail the special pricing for the product subscriptions done till April 17, 2016 and will get lower up-front costs along with a flexible, easy-to-manage approach for using all these products. This campaign is aligned with Autodesk’s earlier announcement this year, regarding the discontinuation of perpetual licensing and availability of AutoCAD Products on a subscription-only model. Autodesk aims to provide superior customer experience by simplifying software purchase, deployment and troubleshooting. In addition to better value, easier access, and improved flexibility, the subscription will also give flexible usage (Home Use, Global Travel, and Previous Version rights), cloud services, administrative tools, multi-year options, single and multi-user options. Commenting on

Aras® announced Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction has selected Aras Innovator® to support complex engineering processes and data involved in the design and construction of thermal and nuclear plants, as well as, desalination plants for customers around the world. Aras will drive process improvements in engineering data management, plant CAD integration and workflow management, and will also be used as an engineering portal for data distribution. Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction chose Aras based on the following criteria: Ability to provide secure web-based access to streamline management of engineering data and documents Flexible workflow capabilities for complex engineering business processes Ability to openly integrate with 3D plant design software including SP3D, Revit and Tekla Teaming with implementation partner Zionex, Inc., Doosan will benefit by combining PLM from Aras with the existing Supply Chain Management (SCM) system, leveraging the flexibility of Aras Innovator’s Program Management application to help Doosan better track large, multi-phased global projects. “Effectively managing

Bruce Rodgers, founder and president of Tribe, Inc., designs entertainment events ranging from awards ceremonies and music festivals to political conventions and television shows. But perhaps the biggest of these events, and certainly one of the most viewed, is the NFL Super Bowl Halftime Show. Producing a live show on such a grand stage, and especially with famous headliners like Coldplay, Beyoncé, and Bruno Mars, takes expert timing, a skilled team, and the right tools. Luckily, Rodgers has all of those things and the experience to bring them together.  “We want to give the artist the best show we can so that they can give the audience the best show possible,” Rodgers says. “This year’s show was a distinct challenge since it took place at sunset. It’s been 13 or 14 years since the Super Bowl Halftime Show was held in the daytime.” Rising to the challenge of the halftime show is nothing

Chinese intimates leader Aimer has selected Centric Software to provide its PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solution. Aimer will use Centric 8 PLM to improve data management in product design and Research and Development (R&D), and to enhance collaboration between R&D, design and development. After 22 years of activity, Aimer has become an undisputed fashion underwear market leader in China. In a rapidly growing and highly competitive fashion market, Aimer decided to further leverage product development by adopting a PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solution to enhance its R&D management and response time. Aimer’s main business challenge has been R&D data management, which entails keeping track of data on styles and materials, design files and supplier information. Aimer needed to enhance inter-departmental communication and easily reuse data and design assets to speed up product development and improve overall efficiency. After extensive contact and communication with various PLM software providers and a rigorous selection process, Aimer

“I can now do everything in CAD without being concerned about the model source or data history.” Those are the words of a stamping and forming toolmaker, explaining what VISI software means to him. “That’s a huge advantage for me, because I can give my full attention to the tool,” says Stefan Schmitz, who, with two colleagues, is responsible for designing progressive dies and equipment at Franz Pauli. The company, based in Ense-Parsit, Germany, use specialist tools on their 40 eccentric and 17 hydraulic presses which manufacture inserts with a pressing force of up to 6000 kN. In addition, they have 18 stamping machines with a pressing force of around 4000 kN. These are provided with steel strips up to 6 mm thick, and coils reaching a width of 800 mm. In subsequent production steps some of the batches are deburred with others being spot-welded or TIG-welded. This is, for example,

ESTECO announces the new release of ESTECO Enterprise Suite, which combines the advanced capabilities of the modeFRONTIER optimization platform with SOMO 1.6, the distributed execution framework for enterprise, collaborative design process management. Providing new, advanced integration capabilities, ESTECO confirms its role of as pioneer in numerical optimization solutions by bridging the standardization gap between design optimization and process automation, and high-level PLM processes. With new SOMO plug-in connectors, ESTECO Enterprise Suite now provides secure and seamless integration with PLM systems and enables companies to link their simulation data to the enterprise product information backbone. By leveraging PROSTEP AG OpenPDM software, ESTECO Enterprise Suite allows design teams, focused on the simulation and optimization stages,​ to connect with external repositories (Product Lifecycle Management, Product Data Management and file storage service databases) such as Siemens® Teamcenter® and PTC® Windchill®. While SOMO users can easily transfer projects to and from SOMO and PLM repositories, consistency of simulation