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The webinar will address how organizations can benefit from implementing Design for Excellence within their engineering processes. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 January 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Ms. Laila Hirr, CIMdata’s Practice Manager for High Tech & Electronics, will highlight issues and trends related to getting products into production, in an upcoming webinar on using Design for Excellence (DFx) to improve product realization sponsored by Geometric Ltd. “Faulty decisions adversely impact the products we develop,” says Hirr. “Identifying design issues early allows them to be addressed when they are relatively low cost to fix. Reducing issues improves product launches leading to improved profitability and customer satisfaction. This webinar will identify product realization issues and where leading companies are investing to improve their designs.” Ms. Hirr has over 20 years of experience in the application of computer-based solutions to engineering and manufacturing. She has

PTC today announced the release of PTC Mathcad® Gateway solution. With one million licenses sold of PTC Mathcad engineering software, PTC Mathcad Gateway combines the power of PTC Mathcad with the ability to access calculations anywhere, anytime from a wide variety of devices. The solution offers a server that enables universal access to those who work with engineering calculations while still protecting corporate intellectual property. Engineering companies that have adopted standardized calculation best practices often want to distribute certified calculations to every user who needs the information but without exposing sensitive and valuable intellectual property (IP). The PTC Mathcad Gateway solution was developed to be platform independent, giving users the ability to calculate results while restricting access to the methodologies and algorithms used to content administrators. “We are very pleased to launch PTC Mathcad Gateway,” said Brent Edmonds, senior director, PTC Mathcad. “This release delivers a solution that allows companies to share vital

Advanced Solutions Product Lifecycle Management, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced (ASI), an Autodesk Platinum Partner and Authorized Training Center (ATC), has been selected as the PLM Advisor and Implementation Specialist for First Solar. First Solar is a pioneer in Photovoltaic (PV) energy solutions, currently operating many of the world's largest grid-connected PV power plants in existence. First Solar provides commercial solar energy solutions enabling a world powered with sustainable, dependable, and affordable solar electricity. Under the awarded contract, ASI Product Lifecycle Management will modernize the current First Solar internal process for bill of materials management, change order procedures, and new product introduction. The project also includes a PLM integration within the current ERP system, led by the First Solar team, as well as the implementation of the PLM solution across multi-functional divisions, which will improve the organizations overall productivity and efficiency. Advanced Solutions is proud to have been chosen by First Solar

ESI Group announces the signature of a strategic partnership with JMDA, global child car seat design and development specialist. By signing this agreement, JMDA and ESI are joining forces to enable child car seat manufacturers to reach new levels of technical understanding and design excellence. The main benefit of combining child car seat design and Virtual Prototyping, using ESI's Virtual Seat Solution, is to virtually test a proposed design, to gain information about expected product performance and regulatory compliance before committing to major investments. The seat and its restraint system can be optimized early on in the design phase; reaching higher performance levels, while reducing product development and manufacturing costs. What's more, Virtual Seat Solution enables manufacturers to achieve Virtual Pre-Certification, accelerating the product certification process while lowering R&D costs and making less conservative design decisions. Derrick Barker, Managing Director of JMDA, says: "Our alliance with ESI Group is an important landmark in JMDA's history, marrying

Altium has announced their partnership with VOX, Industry-Leading Musical Equipment Manufacturer, with the goal to reduce development time on the company's electronic designs for their award-winning guitar amps. With the use of Altium Designer, VOX was able to reduce development time by 50%, citing ease of use, ECAD-to-MCAD collaboration tools, and powerful productivity features as the primary catalysts for their streamlined development success. Altium will be in attendance at DesignCon 2016 to showcase all of the powerful features that made this development goal possible with VOX, including a sneak peek into future plans for the platform in 2016. Engineers interested in upgrading their PCB design platform can register now for a free trial to Altium Designer 16. "At VOX, our goal has always been to use modern technology to bring modern day conveniences to our products," said Dave Clarke, R&D Manager at VOX. "Altium Designer has been an intrinsic part towards realizing of this goal,

Arena Solutions today announced highlights from Q4 2015, which proved to be a record quarter for the company. Arena recorded the highest bookings and the largest average deal size in the company's 16-year history. Q4 2015 bookings increased by nearly 30 percent over Q4 2014 (a record high at that time), while average deal size grew 22 percent over the same period. These strong results were driven primarily by closing larger enterprise deals, an accomplishment driven in large part by the release of Arena Analytics in September, which was the latest new module in a series of enterprise-focused releases. Next month, Arena will continue to accelerate product innovation with the Winter 2016 release of Arena PLM. "For 2016, Arena will continue to invest in new products, key enhancements, performance and scalability," said Steve Chalgren EVP Product Management. "This upcoming release will have significant improvements around search, access security, and a new capability

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) along with Wipro Limited for the Wipro Sustainability Fellowship and the Wipro Sustainability Grant will fund Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) students to research on the broad area of sustainability. Professor Shashidhar Murthy, IIMB's FPM Chairperson, said, "We at IIMB are glad that Wipro values our students and the nurturing provided by our faculty. We thank Wipro for their generosity. This will provide an impetus to students' research in the area of Sustainability." The FPM at IIMB is a premier source of rigorous and inter-disciplinary research in all areas of business management and public policy, including Corporate Strategy & Policy, Economics & Social Sciences, Finance and Control, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, Production & Operations Management, Quantitative Methods & Information Systems, and Public Policy. PS Narayan, Vice President and Head-Sustainability, Wipro Limited, said, "The business sector has a critical role to play in facing

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the formation of a Simulation-Driven Systems Development (SDSD) Practice and Knowledge Council. Mr. Donald Tolle will head up the initiative. Mr. Tolle transitions into this new role as a natural extension of his activities with CIMdata over the past 2 1/2 years as Director of CIMdata’s Systems Engineering and Simulation Consulting Practice. The new SDSD Knowledge Council represents the merger of CIMdata’s Systems Engineering Knowledge Council and Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council activities. The new Council reflects the cross-industry and cross-discipline focus on the ever-expanding intersection of emerging model-based systems development methods and technologies with functional systems modeling and simulation tools and the best practices required to enable effective simulation-driven systems development. Within the context of industry’s move towards a next generation product development environment based on product innovation platforms, the SDSD Council will research,

Expanded focus ensures CIMdata is well positioned to take advantage of the move towards a comprehensive model-based enterprise paradigm. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 19 January 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the formation of a Simulation-Driven Systems Development (SDSD) Practice and Knowledge Council. Mr. Donald Tolle will head up the initiative. Mr. Tolle transitions into this new role as a natural extension of his activities with CIMdata over the past 2½ years as Director of CIMdata’s Systems Engineering and Simulation Consulting Practice. The new SDSD Knowledge Council represents the merger of CIMdata’s Systems Engineering Knowledge Council and Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council activities. The new Council reflects the cross-industry and cross-discipline focus on the ever-expanding intersection of emerging model-based systems development methods and technologies with functional systems modeling and simulation tools and the best practices required to enable effective simulation-driven systems development. Within

While additive manufacturing has been around since the 1980s, the rapid evolution of 3D printing and associated materials has industrial companies and even individual consumers excited about the future of making things. The original work on stereolithography (STL) was done in Japan in the 1970s, however, the term STL was coined in 1986 by Chuck Hull, who went on to found 3D Systems, a leader in additive manufacturing today. For many years the technology was used for prototyping, creating a physical form for parts that only lived on the drafting board or in the computer. The resins used in these early machines were both expensive and brittle, which helped in part to limit their applications. Over the next 30 years, new processes and materials evolved to support a broader range of use cases, but the machines were still expensive and had small build envelopes. It is only in the last 10-15 years