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Anark Corporation announced today that it has launched its MBE-enabled HTML hosting and collaboration solution, powered by its Anark Core software. Leveraging Anark’s recipe-driven publishing and collaboration software currently deployed within many of the world’s largest manufacturing enterprises, MBEWeb brings powerful new capabilities to the Industrial Internet, including full support for popular mobile platforms such as iOS and Android-based tablet and smartphone devices through their standard web browsers. The past three years have seen a rapid migration of enterprise manufacturers, away from traditional 2D engineering drawings and loosely-coupled database reports, towards a unified electronic MBE process leveraging 3D PDF documents generated with authoritative data from multiple data sources, including PLM and ERP. A natural next step in this process change is the need to leverage such a capability in the broader context of the extended enterprise, across the Industrial Internet—to better facilitate inter-organizational access and collaboration. “Now that many of the world’s most

California based Pacific Gas and Electric has extended its intelligent substation design strategy, based on Bentley Substation, to its external design contractors. Through ProjectWise, contractors can securely access PG&E’s substation designs and collaborate with in-house engineers working “live” in PG&E’s environment.  PG&E Substation Engineering Services successfully deployed Bentley Substation and ProjectWise to approximately 80 internal design employees in 2011 and 2012. This decreased errors on drawings, reduction of the amount of construction rework in the field, and a drop in the average design hours per drawing by 50%. In order to continue to successfully manage substation work, PG&E needed to identify a process that allowed external contractors to access and collaborate on PG&E’s 3D substation drawings. Approximately 60 percent of PG&E’s projects are contracted out to major engineering firms in the United States including GE, WorleyParsons, Schneider Engineering, Sargent & Lundy, Burns & McDonnell, Dashiell, SEL, HDR, ABB, TRC, Mesa Engineering, BPE, Ampirical

Trimble today announced a contract extension for Beijing's New Airport Project. In April, Trimble won the initial bid to supply the project with a construction information management system. Based on the success of the solution to date, the contract has been extended to include additional machine control systems for soil stabilization. Beijing's new airport is projected to handle approximately 72 million travelers, 2 million tons of shipping and 620,000 flights by the year 2025. It is a massive construction project with an unprecedented amount of civil aviation investment by the Chinese government. In order to construct the airport in a safer, more efficient manner, achieve transparent management, and maximize construction quality, the Beijing New Airport Project is using construction technology from Trimble to integrate construction and operations. Trimble was chosen by the Beijing New Airport Project to implement a browser-based, locally-hosted digital construction information management system for tracking and monitoring construction operations in real-time. The

Lectra recently hosted a global event for upholstered furniture manufacturers in Bordeaux-Cestas. More than 120 participants from the industry, representing 16 countries, were present. The event focused on the main challenges facing the furniture industry today, specifically how to offer more choice in less time and reduce costs by producing faster, efficiently, profitably, customized and responsibly. One of the key aims of the event was to give participants the opportunity to experience Lectra's expert knowledge and solutions in operation firsthand, through interactive workshops, live demonstrations, and round-table discussions. Several customers, including Polipol (Germany), Muebles Liz (Mexico) and Klaussner Furniture (US) gave presentations on how an optimized process had served to improve their companies' performance. "We have just opened a state-of-the-art leather processing facility in Poland. Working closely with Lectra, the entire plant was conceived to take advantage of lean manufacturing principles, from hide reception to finished goods expedition in a seamless process. This

The 3MF Consortium, an industry association created to develop and promote a new full-fidelity file format for 3D printing, today announced that Ultimaker, a leading manufacturer of open-source premium 3D printers, headquartered in The Netherlands, has joined at the Founding membership level. "Ultimaker strives to evolve 3D printing into a capable, versatile and accessible production technology," said Siert Wijnia, CTO and founder of Ultimaker. "For this fast-growing industry to create meaningful progress, we need a more modern, future-proof and free format that is still easy to implement." "Ultimaker’s vision — to make 3D printing accessible to all — is one we share at the 3MF Consortium," said Adrian Lannin, 3MF Consortium executive director. "We’re pleased to welcome Ultimaker and know that its award-winning innovation and experience serving both professionals and novices will help strengthen the 3MF specification and its global adoption." Ultimaker further stated that it contributes to the 3MF format because it allows companies

Tecplot, Inc., a developer of data visualization and analysis software for engineers and scientists, today announced that its flagship product, Tecplot 360 EX, was used in the design of the heat shield for the Orion spacecraft. Orion’s heat shield, a protective blanket built with high-tech fibers and ceramics, is crucial to mission success. The outer layer of the heat shield is designed to burn away as it heats up during re-entry into the atmosphere, thus maintaining the integrity of the inner layer and helping to ensure the survivability of the spacecraft. To predict temperature and airflow around the heat shield during re-entry, a team of NASA engineers analyzed heat-shield materials in NASA Ames' Arc Jet wind-tunnel and then compared the results with those generated by CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations. They then used Tecplot 360 EX as a post-processor to analyze, visualize and understand the CFD results. The Tecplot software helped engineers visualize

Synopsys, Inc. today announced the latest releases of the RSoft™ product portfolio, the company's industry-leading family of software tools for photonic component and optical communication system design. Version 2015.12 of the Synopsys RSoft Photonic System Design Suite includes new features to accelerate the design and fabrication of state-of-the-art silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits and optical transceivers in data center applications. In addition, version 2015.06-2 of the RSoft Photonic Component Design Suite enables faster simulations of complex photonic component designs with new, flexible cluster licensing policies that take full advantage of multicore CPU architectures. "The enhancements in the latest releases of the RSoft product family support the complete photonic product development process, from initial design concepts to manufacturing," said George Bayz, vice president and general manager of Synopsys' Optical Solutions Group. "We have improved overall design flows with faster simulations, new design frameworks, component libraries and example models." RSoft Photonic System Design Suite The RSoft

Not only managers but also service technicians and engineers do a lot of traveling. They therefore want to be able to access confidential information and send their data securely without running any security risks regardless of where they are. Not a problem with the new iOS app for the OpenDXM solution for data exchange and managed file transfer (MFT). The app, which can be used on both iPhones and iPads, allows data to be exchanged quickly and securely while on the go without any need to be within the confines of your company's protected IT infrastructure. The new iOS app expands the range of mobile access options to include accessing the web-based data exchange portal using an iPad or iPhone in order to download encrypted data or upload and encrypt data of your own. The OpenDXM GlobalX server takes care of encrypting and decrypting the data. Up until now, mobile access was

Spatial Corp. announced today that Numerical Innovations, a division of Caneberra Technologies, Inc. has leveraged Spatial’s 3D InterOp data reuse software suite to launch ACE 3D, the first all-in-one 3D/2D translator specifically targeted for the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. ACE 3D makes it easy to convert between 3D and EDA formats by importing a wide variety of EDA and computer-aided design (CAD) formats directly into customer 3D modeling environments. Geometries and layers are intelligently organized as individual assemblies for easy editing. By integrating 3D InterOp’s data translators, ACE 3D provides mechanical engineers with the flexibility to construct entire designs and layout assemblies, while still remaining in their preferred 3D environment. Non-CAD experts now have the ability to quickly convert and create 3D geometries without weeks of training. ACE 3D also includes a full-featured and powerful editor that can be used to clip regions, generate anti-areas (i.e. negative polarity), perform Boolean operations,

Major advances in the powerful Javelin production control system from Vero Software are leading to significant time savings in CNC machining operations. Javelin 2016 r1’s new Advanced Scheduling function can work to the nearest second, giving an accurate sequence of operations, instead of the daily capacity bucket in earlier releases.  The more accurate planning that is now available can save up to half an hour a day on each work centre, according to Javelin senior consultant Ian Cartwright. “The new function means office staff and shop floor workers can see a step by step flow chart of the operations, second by second. Previously the system simply showed all the work that would be done that day. “The daily capacity bucket is fine for many applications, but where a company is performing a large number of short operations which have to be carried out in the correct sequence, errors can creep in if