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Delcam will launch the 2015 R2 version of its PowerSHAPE Pro software for the design of products and tooling at the Develop3D Live Conference and Exhibition to be held at Warwick Arts Centre on 26th March.  The new release includes a number of new options for reverse engineering as well as improvements to speed up and simplify the editing of product designs to make them more suitable for manufacture. By offering a combination of solid, surface and direct modelling, together with reverse engineering, PowerSHAPE Pro provides the most comprehensive range of design techniques available in a single CAD program.  Having all the different technologies in the same package reduces the need to transfer data between multiple programs and so streamlines any product-development process that requires both reverse-engineering and CAD functionality.  PowerSHAPE Pro can connect directly to most scanning hardware to capture and display scan data in real time.  The 2015 R2 version includes a new split-screen

Cyon Research announced that David Brin will give the Friday keynote and Mark R. Anderson will give the Saturday keynote at COFES 2015. COFES: The Congress On the Future of Engineering Software will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona from April 16-19 at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort. The two keynotes resonate with the COFES 2015 theme: “Stepping Back to See the Big Picture.” Engineers and software professionals spend the majority of their time getting things done, tightly focused on execution of tasks and plans. Along the way, they are continuously faced with choices, big and small. Too often, decisions are made in the narrow context of what is directly in front of them. This year, COFES takes a giant step backwards in order to challenge attendees to broaden their view: to think about thinking about the bigger picture. Brin’s keynote is “The murky road ahead: from an Internet of Things to human augmentation and AI… Looking beyond the five year

Tata Technologies has teamed up with CIMdata to provide a comprehensive and informative webinar targeting product development efficiency. The complimentary webinar titled Realizing Your Product Development Performance Potential: 5 Metrics for Change is set for 11 a.m. EST March 10. Tata Technologies Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) thought leaders Chief Strategy Officer Richard Welford, Head PLM Strategy Consultant Lionel Grealou and PLM Consultant Chris Hind will be joined by John MacKrell, vice president and systems engineering lead for CIMdata, in an intriguing discussion of five metrics for improving product development performance through a mature PLM strategy. Registration for the webinar begins immediately. “We are excited to share our PLM experience and knowledge and to illustrate some of the product development efficiency challenges that we have helped our customer overcome,” Grealou said. Chief engineers are striving for cost-effective solutions to support their product development priorities—creating more innovative, better and cost-effective products. A well-executed PLM strategy

MachineWorks Ltd has been working together with the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI), developing software that is shaping the CNC machining landscape of Taiwan.  The CNC machining industry in Taiwan has evolved to become one of the most innovative in the world supplying advanced manufacturing equipment globally to a range of industries from aerospace to oil.  ITRI is leading the way in this sophisticated market by being the research ground for the development of high precision machining, multi-axis CNC controllers, multi-axis universal heads and optimised software. Their goal is to increase the overall competitiveness of machine tools industry. The integration of MachineWorks Simulation and Verification Technology into ITRI’s own CNC controllers, has enabled the Research Centre not only to create real-time simulation online but to develop an anti-crash system. The benefits of this tight collaboration between MachineWorks and ITRI have been extended to other machine tool manufacturers in Taiwan who are now able

Hagerman & Company announced that Autodesk has promoted the firm to an Autodesk Platinum Tier Value Added Reseller (VAR). Only a small number of Autodesk Value Added Resellers worldwide have achieved Platinum Tier status. “Our Platinum Tier acknowledges the instrumental role these companies play in delivering world-class design solutions, products and services,” said Steve Blum, senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Services at Autodesk. “Whether through the services they deliver, or their notable customer satisfaction scores, these partners constantly show that they can provide exemplary services and capabilities to their customers.” Platinum partners provide their customers with best-in-class full solutions from pre- and post-sales support, consulting, training, implementation, and customization.  Hagerman & Company works closely with Autodesk to help customers design, simulate and analyze their ideas, increase operational efficiencies and maximize their return on investment in Autodesk software solutions. “Hagerman & Co., Inc. has a long standing initiative to deliver world class products

Canon Europe announces a distribution agreement with 3D Systems. Under the arrangement, Canon will market, sell and support 3D Systems’ advanced manufacturing 3D printers, including the ProJet 1200, 3500 series, 4500, 6000 and 7000 in the UK and Ireland, with a view to rolling out across Europe. Through the partnership, customers will have access to 3D Systems’ advanced 3D printing technology underpinned by Canon’s exceptional service and support. This partnership reflects Canon’s ongoing growth strategy of expansion into new technology domains that deliver significant value to its diverse customer base and builds on the 3D Systems distribution agreement with Canon Marketing Japan announced in March 2014. Focusing on prototyping for rapid product development, Canon will offer the 3D printers to its substantial customer base in the UK and Ireland, across the engineering, manufacturing and architectural market segments. Enabled by advances in technology and driven by the demand from the manufacturing sector for increased

Synopsys, Inc. launched the embARC Open Software Platform to help accelerate the development of DesignWare® ARC® processor-based embedded systems. The new embARC platform gives ARC software developers online access to a comprehensive suite of free and open-source software that eases the development of code for the IoT and other embedded applications. Device drivers, operating systems and middleware ported to and optimized for ARC processors are available for download without cost from the embARC.org website. The website also provides access to software development tools and documentation as well as user forums to facilitate the sharing of information and expertise among the ARC-based design community. "We are pleased to see that the embARC Open Software Platform supports the use of the popular open-source FreeRTOS," said Andrew Longhurst, business development manager at Wittenstein High Integrity Systems. "We offer OPENRTOS, the only commercially licensed and supported version of FreeRTOS, thus allowing designers using embARC to move to

Altium Limited announces the availability of a new C compiler for the Generic Timer Module (GTM-IP MCS) from the Robert Bosch GmbH. The GTM IP module forms a generic timer platform for complex applications in the automotive industry like power train, power steering, chassis and transmission control. To serve these different application domains, the GTM provides a wide range of timer functions like counters, multi-action capture/compare, PWM functions, duty-cycle measurement and many more. The GTM also features internal RISC-like programmable cores for data processing and complex output sequence generation. The IP is designed to run with minimal CPU interaction and to unload the CPU from handling interrupt service requests as much as possible. Generic interfaces and the hierarchical system architecture make the GTM an ideal solution as IP core for various microcontroller architectures. The GTM has been licensed to semiconductor manufacturers for incorporation of the core on automotive microcontrollers like the AURIX

Inceptra LLC and Trinity Aero, a producer of precision aerospace machined parts and assemblies, announced today that Trinity has partnered with Inceptra to optimize their product development and first article development processes.  Based on industry best practices from Inceptra and PLM solutions from Dassault Systemes, Trinity Aero is re-engineering their business as a foundation for the substantial growth they are realizing in their markets with new business awards. David May, President and owner, Trinity Aero stated "This partnership is the right one for Trinity at the right time. Inceptra brings Trinity a breath of both knowledge and solutions and a proven partnership approach. In addition, the use of the aerospace industry's predominant PLM and CAD solutions from Dassault Systemes will allow us a more seamless integration with our customers by using their preferred platform as our own". He continued, "In addition, by selecting these solutions, Trinity will have access to a deeper

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced financial results for the company’s fiscal fourth quarter ended January 31, 2015. The company reported revenues of $439.1 million, non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.09, and GAAP earnings per share of $0.96. For the full fiscal year, revenues were $1.244 billion, non-GAAP earnings per share were $1.77, and GAAP earnings per share were $1.26. “Mentor Graphics set all-time records for the fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2015,” said Walden C. Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics. “Fourth quarter results were driven primarily by Asian foundries and their customers adopting Design-to-Silicon solutions for 14nm and 10nm nodes and by the automotive sector’s continued demand for embedded software and electrical design products. Mentor’s board of directors is raising the quarterly dividend by 10% to $0.055 per share.” During the quarter, the company announced new releases of its award-winning computational fluid dynamics product, FloEFD™, and of its Flowmaster® simulation software