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Fifth Module of the 2015 PLM MAR Report Series ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 August 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Geographic Analysis Report, the fifth of five modules of the CIMdata 2015 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2014. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth. The CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series is packaged as five modules: The CIMdata 2015 Executive PLM Market Report provides an overview of CIMdata’s complete global analysis. It includes key charts on PLM market investment statistics through 2015, forecasts of investments for 2015 through 2019, and a summary of PLM solution providers’ performance in 2014. The CIMdata 2015 PLM

BobCAD-CAM, Inc. announced today the release of the popular CAD-CAM video training series for their new CNC lathe programming software, which launched in July 2015. “We’re very excited to release the new Lathe training set,” explained Walter Czyrsky, Technical Director at BobCAD-CAM. “It’s truly an invaluable resource to have at the shop. Not only can the videos have an immediate impact on productivity and programming efficiency, but they’re also great to keep on hand for occasional refreshers and for getting new hires up to speed in less time.” BobCAD-CAM Version 28 software is packed with new CAD and CAM CNC programming features, including faster drawing tools, smarter hole making systems, better surfacing toolpaths, increased tool type support, improved simulation, and more. The Training Professor Video Series offers how-to instructions on using the new features available for CNC lathe programming and CAD design in addition to the innovative features that BobCAD-CAM has developed over the past

Students around the world now have free access to the same leading engineering simulation solutions used by top organizations and professional engineers to create the most advanced products on the planet, thanks to ANSYS  Released today, ANSYS® Student is a free, introductory academic software package for students interested in learning the fundamentals of simulation while gaining exposure to the state-of-the-art ANSYS simulation workflows, pre-processing, post-processing and solver solutions. Students can tackle a broad scope of mechanics and fluids simulations, from fundamental tutorial level models to complex real-world scale models. "At Cornell University, we use ANSYS software in a dozen courses in mechanical and aerospace engineering to expose students to finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics simulations. Our students find it convenient to have the software on their computers to complete homework and projects," said Rajesh Bhaskaran, Swanson director of engineering at Cornell University. "The free ANSYS Student product is a truly

Kenesto Corp today announced the enhancement of Kenesto Drive to include features traditionally only available through physical LAN mounted drives and Product Data Management (PDM) systems. These new features include the automatic locking of documents. For example, when a file from Kenesto Drive is opened for editing in Windows desktop, Kenesto Drive automatically locks it globally so that other users at any location can open it for Read-Only thereby preventing any unintentional overwrites. The file is automatically unlocked when closed. Kenesto Drive new enhancements include: Works just like a Local Area Network (LAN) shared drive Auto-locks a document when someone opens it from a Kenesto Drive folder Offers status visibility of the document for all users who have access Allows editing of documents one user at a time and read only for others Provides access to version history so users are assured they are working with the current file Offers offline use of recent files Enables sharing

Aras® today announced that Habasit Italiana, the Italian division of the world’s leading provider of conveyor, processing and power transmission belts for the automotive, food, textile, manufacturing and materials handling industries, has extended its implementation of the Aras Innovator suite for enterprise PLM to streamline collaboration with external design partners worldwide and manage technical design data, from initial design through production. The Aras implementation includes project management and end-to-end configuration & change management with product data management, bill of materials, design file vaulting and integrations to Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD and SAP ERP. Working with Aras Gold Certified Partner Focus PLM, Habasit Italiana has standardized collaborative product development with Aras. This has streamlined the process of incorporating contributions from a network of global suppliers and design partners, further advancing Habasit Italiana’s award-winning product lines. Since 1946 Habasit has led the industry in the manufacture of belt systems. With 16 plants and 250 service

Delcam’s stand (C05 in Hall 4) at the Milan EMO exhibition in October will feature a demonstration system for the polishing of turbine blades by robot.  The system, which has been developed by Delcam Professional Services in association with Finland-based JOT Automation, uses an ABB robot driven by a combination of Delcam software including PowerMILL Robot and PowerINSPECT. During the development of the process, simulations were undertaken in PowerMILL Robot to ensure that the robot could complete the progress of the blades around the cell without any collisions or any singularities resulting in erratic movements. As well as showing how the use of a robot could replace manual operations, the cell provides an example of Delcam’s adaptive machining technology.  As with other adaptive processes, the polishing operation is altered for each blade individually on the basis of inspection data collected at various stages in the process. Each blade is transferred into the cell

EMA Design Automation Inc., a full-service provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions, and Arena Solutions, a pioneer of cloud-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications, announced that Cadence OrCAD PCB (printed circuit board) design tools and the Arena cloud-based PLM system are now more comprehensively integrated. “This new software integration is a result of the strategic alliance we announced at the beginning of this year,” says Manny Marcano, president and CEO of EMA. “Engineering teams will now have a direct link between their PCB design tools and their corporate PLM system, maintaining data integrity between the engineering work-in-process data and corporate product lifecycle data.” This new integration enables two-way communication between the two databases to ensure data integrity by eliminating manual processes. As a result, end-users can upload a BOM (bill of materials) directly into the Arena PLM system. An automatic upload directly from the OrCAD environment ensures that the BOM is correctly formatted

Arena Solutions today announced that it has partnered with GoodData, a leading provider of Insights-as-a-Service, to create a highly visual solution that integrates the power of business intelligence (BI) with PLM, all delivered via cloud: Arena Analytics. Arena Analytics, powered by GoodData, is a robust BI solution that enables companies to gain meaningful insights into how their product-related business processes are performing. Stakeholders can easily create dashboards tied to key performance indicators (KPIs) with reports that focus on areas such as product development cycle time, product quality trends, project performance and supply chain health. Organizations can access one central hub to rapidly monitor process status and performance trends at a moment's notice, which enables them to take proactive action, reduce risk and eliminate problems before they arise. Arena Analytics goes beyond spreadsheets by providing the ability to create reports that examine data from multiple dimensions and provide deeper insights about business processes.

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Geographic Analysis Report, the fifth of five modules of the CIMdata 2015 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2014. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth. The CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series is packaged as five modules: The CIMdata 2015 Executive PLM Market Report provides an overview of CIMdata’s complete global analysis. It includes key charts on PLM market investment statistics through 2015, forecasts of investments for 2015 through 2019, and a summary of PLM solution providers’ performance in 2014. The CIMdata 2015 PLM Industry Review and Trends Report is mainly qualitative in nature, and focuses on

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a Bay Area company are joining forces to explore how design software can accelerate innovation for three-dimensional printing of advanced materials. Under an 18-month Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), LLNL will use state-of-the-art software for generative design from San Rafael-based Autodesk Inc. as it studies how new material microstructures, arranged in complex configurations and printed with additive manufacturing techniques, will produce objects with physical properties that were never before possible. In the project, LLNL researchers will bring to bear several key technologies, such as additive manufacturing, material modeling and architected design (arranging materials at the micro and nanoscale through computational design). LLNL and Autodesk have selected next-generation protective helmets as a test case for their technology collaboration, studying how to improve design performance. “As an organization that is pushing the limits on generative design and high-performance computing, Autodesk is an ideal collaborator as we investigate