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Centric Software, Inc., marked its 2016 fiscal year (ending Jan. 31) with its 4th year of phenomenal growth thanks to overwhelming market adoption of its strategy based on mobility, innovation and extending solutions beyond traditional PLM (product lifecycle management) for fashion, retail, luxury, footwear and consumer goods. Enthusiasm from the market has driven Centric's massive growth and worldwide leadership position. "Centric is disrupting the marketplace with a strong emphasis on mobility and innovation, and by extending the value proposition beyond traditional PLM. The market worldwide continues to give its endorsement," says Chris Groves, president and CEO of Centric Software. "The fashion, outdoor and other consumer goods markets face rapid changes and constant business transformation. We support our customers through transformational projects that go way beyond PLM to help them reach both bottom line savings and top line growth." Milestones for Centric this year include: Bookings growth: Bookings were up more than 70% over

Product Design is a study of structured design processes and methods. Exercise of Structured Design Process (SDP) has many benefits for both Academia and Industries in equal measure. From Industrial aspect, a SDP is mandatory to effectively decide what type of products to bring to market place, schedule the development in existing scenario of uncertain and changing world and create a wonderful and robust product.  From the Academia perspective, the benefits of using SDP include experiences with hands-on products, applications of current technologies, applications of scientific principles and mathematics, studies of systematic experimentation and exploration of boundaries of technology. At the present day scenario, product design is the key battleground that all organisations must master to remain in business – to be competitive in basic level and for this reason alone, present day Product Design can take help from Simulation Technology. Simulation Technology is quite young in its development and applications aspects in Industries. Simulation Technology is based on Computational Knowledge and

Three major Indian IT companies — Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro — have joined President Barack Obama's ambitious Computer Science for All initiative as part of a public-private collaboration, pledging thousands of dollars in grants. Obama announced his “Computer Sciences for All” plan in his weekly address Jan. 30 as he emphasized the need for teaching the subject as a "basic skill" to all children across schools in the country in a changing economy. While Infosys has pledged a $1 million in donation, Tata Consultancy Services is providing support in the form of grants to teachers in 27 U.S. cities, the White House said in a fact sheet, also issued Jan. 30. Wipro announced a $2.8 million grant for multi-year project in partnership with the University of Michigan to involve over a hundred school teachers, with the aim of nurturing excellence in science and mathematics. This would start with the public school systems of Chicago, Obama's hometown. According to

iBASEt announced today that it has been appraised at Level 3 of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)® for Product and Service development. The appraisal was performed by Kevin Cotherman, and comes after a demanding examination of iBASEt’s processes and practices, many of which were enhanced over the last two years to institutionalize standards throughout the product and service development organizations and ensure compliance with CMMI guidelines. An appraisal at maturity level 3 indicates iBASEt is performing at a “defined” level. At this level, processes are repeatable, proactive, reflective, and focused on continual process improvement. For iBASEt clients, the Level 3 status ensures quality results, delivered on a timely basis, with effective cost management. “We are proud to be successfully appraised at Level 3,” said Vic Sial, President of iBASEt. “Our long-term strategy of delivering quality solutions to our customers begins with our ability to operate to well-defined and documented processes.” Kuldip

BobCAD-CAM has launched a new website, http://www.Machinist-ToolBox.com, where CNC machinists can download the popular shop utility, Machinist ToolBox software, free of charge. Normally retailing for $100.00, BobCAD-CAM is waiving the fee whenever anyone downloads the Machinist ToolBox software from the new Machinist-ToolBox.com site. Also included in the download is a trial version of the company’s latest CAD-CAM software for CNC programming, BobCAD-CAM V28. Machinist ToolBox offers fast access to optimized speed and feed calculations for CNC milling, drilling, turning, and tapping, in addition to trig calculators, quick conversion formulas, and important reference guides. These calculators are specifically designed for CNC machinists and can be applied to any number of CNC programming jobs. “CAD-CAM software goes a long way towards automating the manufacturing process, but it doesn’t completely eliminate the mathematics and calculations involved in getting the part on the machine and cutting with precision,” explains Larry Pendleton, CEO of BobCAD-CAM. “The Machinist ToolBox is

MathWorks today announced that Kostal Asia R&D Center, a subsidiary of automotive supplier Kostal Group of Germany, adopted Model-Based Design to achieve on-schedule ISO 26262 functional safety-based certification for its new electronic steering column lock module. Extending the use of Simulink for early verification and validation and Embedded Coder for production code generation allowed Kostal to develop a module compliant with Automotive Safety Integrity Level D (ASIL D). This certification level requires the highest verification and validation practices throughout the development process and the most rigorous qualification of development tools across all ISO 26262 levels. Kostal is the first company in China to achieve ISO 26262 ASIL D level certification for an automotive product. The integrated tool chain from MathWorks, including Simulink and Embedded Coder, allowed Kostal engineers to quickly evolve their software development processes and meet ISO 26262 objectives on schedule. The Kostal team performed systematic verification of the models

The 2016 Prime Source Forum (PSF), the international platform that offers solutions and intelligence exchange for the fashion industry, is to open its doors in three weeks in Hong Kong. Senior executives and senior stakeholders from the apparel and footwear supply chain have signed up for attending this event receive the latest industry updates and network with the peers. The 2016 Prime Source Forum is the international platform that offers solutions and intelligence exchange for the fashion industry. Some of the companies represented at the event include Academy, adidas, ALDI, BlueSign, Clarks, Coats, Cotton Council, Crocs, CTI, Dassault Systemes, EU Office, FTA, Fung Group, Groz-Beckert, H&M, Hanbo, InvestHK, Lectra, LF Sourcing, New Balance, Primark, PVH, Ralph Lauren, SAC, Sears, TAL, Target, Texhong, TexRay, TCHK, Tom Taylor, Top Form, United Nation, Weave, WRAP, ZDHC and more. The Minister of Ethiopia, Dr. Arkebe Oqubay and Mr. Tino Zeiske, SVP of METRO GROUP, will kick off

Edgecam, the production machining CAD/CAM software, will demonstrate their major new release at the Smart Manufacturing Workflow Open House which is taking place at CIS’ Product Proving Centre in High Wycombe. The Open House, hosted by CIS, is a 5-Axis event held in partnership with Grob and Edgecam. The focus of the two days is Smart Workflow, which considers all the stages of the manufacturing process and many suppliers will be available for discussions on a number of topics including CAM, tool pre-setting, spindle tooling, balancing, shrink fit machining, metrology, work holding and fixturing.  Edgecam will also showcase their latest release at the event - 2016 R1, which contains over 30 important new and enhanced items of CAD and CAM functionality for milling, turning, and wire EDM. Wesley Tonks, Edgecam’s Strategic Partnership Manager said “we are very excited to be supporting both our partners, CIS and Grob at this event, which

PTC today announced that the PTC Academic Program has released a series of online courses available worldwide through Udemy, an established provider of MOOCs. These courses focus on general product development and business strategies associated with the IoT and include presentations, demos and use cases. Participants who utilize these courses will gain specific IoT knowledge that will enable them to extend current education, freshen job skills and prepare for a new career in today’s IoT world. A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model that seeks to deliver learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on attendance or location. According to data collected by Class Central, more than 35 million students have registered for at least one MOOC —up from an estimated 17 million in 2014, with more courses being offered to cover in-demand skills across technology and business fields. “Education is changing.

Aras®, a leader in enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, and CGI Business Consulting today announced their partnership. The intent of the relationship is to deliver specialized intellectual property (IP) and expert integration services with Aras for global companies. As part of the high-end business consulting activities in the Research & Development (R&D) domain, CGI Business Consulting will now include the Aras Innovator platform & suite in the business transformation practices and methodologies. With Aras Innovator, CGI Business Consulting plans to develop operational frameworks and IP for system engineering, advanced manufacturing engineering, and compliance processes including Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), as well as, creating an ISO IDMP standards repository for life science data used in submissions. The flexibility of the modern Aras Innovator platform will be used for rapid prototyping of processes to enable a “mock-up consulting” approach for developing transformation recommendations during the very early stages of a project. CGI Business Consulting