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Anark Corporation announced today its plans to create certified Autodesk Inventor software products as an Autodesk Applications Development Partner. Leveraging the Anark Core software platform currently deployed within the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as many of the world's most innovative manufacturing enterprises, Anark plans to provide MBE authoring and publishing automation capabilities for users of Inventor and Autodesk Vault. The past two years have seen a rapid migration by large enterprise manufacturing companies and the U.S. Department of Defense, away from traditional engineering drawings to communicate design intent and manufacturing process, towards paperless MBE best practices. A natural next step in this shift is for their extended network of suppliers to leverage the advantages of MBE best practices. "Autodesk Inventor users represent a large portion of the extended manufacturing supplier network. By rapidly adopting proven MBE practices for engineering and manufacturing process, these suppliers will benefit from the commonly benchmarked 30%

CGS announces that Secret Charm has selected its BlueCherry® PLM as the fashion company’s Product Lifecycle Management system both for its user-friendly functionality and its ability to streamline existing business processes such as line planning, product specification development, sample management, costing, quality and compliance and workflow. To keep pace with the rapidly changing world of women’s and girls’ clothing, Secret Charm selected BlueCherry PLM to reduce the company’s time to market, improve communication and collaboration with its global manufacturing partners and support its long term growth strategy. BlueCherry PLM will provide a centralized and integrated software platform to enable Secret Charm to manage its business processes and workflow from design through sourcing, with the scope to add additional modules and capabilities as their business needs require. Established in Los Angeles in 2003, Secret Charm LLC is a designer and distributor of women’s and girls’ fashion wear specializing in dresses, skirts and tops that offer

NXP Semiconductors has significantly reduced its product footprint and improved overall performance of its new car infotainment system by using power noise and reliability sign-off solutions for integrated circuits from ANSYS. With digital radios becoming a standard feature in automobiles, scalable multi-standard support, improved reception performance and cost savings are driving NXP's product development. ANSYS engineering simulation tools helped NXP combine six chips into a single system-on-chip, the SAF360x – leading to the decreased costs. When combining several complex circuits on a single piece of silicon, there is a significant risk of noise coupling across circuits, especially through shared silicon substrate. To ensure that noise coupling and unwanted noise across various frequency bands were avoided, NXP used ANSYS® RedHawk™ and ANSYS® Totem™ to validate designs against real software operating conditions and silicon measurements. "By dramatically reducing the total cost of designing and manufacturing in-car digital radio systems, we expect the SAF360x series will help to boost the

CONTACT Software is a technology partner in the GEMINI research project. Sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, the project addresses the development and IT-based implementation of new, viable business models for Industry 4.0. Within the GEMINI project, CONTACT is aligning its PDM/PLM system to meet specific requirements in the context of configuring Industry 4.0 business models. "New technologies in the fields of information logistics and networking are paving the way for innovative business models that are relevant to Germany as a leading economy with global footprint for advanced capital goods," says Dr. Patrick Müller, Product Manager PLM at CONTACT. "Industry 4.0 solutions demand end-to-end PLM support from development of the business model to design of the system architectures through to digital system simulation." According to Müller, the operation and maintenance of capital goods represent a further motivation for CONTACT's involvement. Here, innovative business models are based on operational

Dr. Peter Schmitt is joining the ESI Group as Executive Vice President (EVP), Sales and Operational Marketing. In that role he will contribute to the Group’s international distribution and Go-to-Market strategy. He will notably be responsible for implementing new marketing strategies whilst optimizing the business models for the Group’s various innovative solutions and associated services. His expertise in terms of management and execution and proven track record in the field of technological solutions for major automotive and aeronautics enterprises, position him to contribute materially to the successful implementation of the ambitious development plans of ESI. Alain de Rouvray, the ESI Group’s Chairman and CEO, says: “We are delighted to welcome Dr. Peter Schmitt to our corporate management team to strengthen its commercial dimension. His substantial experience in implementing global sales and marketing strategies among major industrial players, his dual European and American culture, and his proven market knowledge represent solid assets

Manufacturing software developer Delcam announces that Pete Baxter has been appointed to lead Delcam in the new role of Vice President.  Pete joins Delcam from its parent company, Autodesk, Inc, where he was a Vice President of Sales and served as the country manager for Autodesk in the United Kingdom. "I’m thrilled to announce the appointment of Pete Baxter as Vice President, Delcam Ltd.,” said Buzz Kross, Autodesk senior vice president, Design, Lifecycle and Simulation.  "In his new role, Pete will be responsible for managing the global Delcam business, and for leading the company in the next stage of its growth.  Pete brings to Delcam extensive leadership experience and knowledge that will be critical in helping Delcam develop closer connections to Autodesk, to the benefit of both organizations and our customers.”  "I am delighted to be joining Delcam, and helping create the next generation of manufacturing software,” said Pete Baxter, Vice President,

3D Systems announced today that it has been awarded two research contracts worth over $1 million dollars to develop advanced aerospace and defense 3D printing manufacturing capabilities at convincing scale. These contracts are administered by America Makes (the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute) and funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Underscoring 3DS’ technological leadership and proven defense and aerospace manufacturing track record, the two contracts leverage 3DS’ proprietary Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and Direct Metal 3D Printing (DMP) portfolio to meet the most demanding advanced manufacturing road map of the United States Air Force. Together with some of the nation’s leading military suppliers—including Honeywell, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin—3D Systems will develop a precision closed loop and advanced manufacturing and monitoring platform, designed to deliver the accuracy, functionality and repeatability specifications demanded for flight worthy aerospace parts. “The collaborative and forward looking initiative of America Makes members is driving extraordinary

The final installment in a three-part series that explores the platformization of PLM ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 3 February 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the publication of a new position paper, the final in a series of three that explore the platformization of PLM. “Linking the Physical and Virtual Worlds: PLM Platformization Sustains the ‘Organic’ Enterprise” looks at how platformization impacts the PLM marketplace as end-to-end lifecycle management becomes increasingly about sustaining the extended enterprise. In this paper CIMdata suggests the ultimate goal of platformization as one which makes the infrastructure of product and process innovation completely transparent, thus enabling all forms of product-related innovation as the natural focus of the extended enterprise. Fundamentally, platformization is described as a strategy for business agility, one that more than ever is not optional. According to Peter Bilello, CIMdata’s president, “Traditionally, the primary justification for PLM has been enabling the

 PDF Recap of Position Paper 1 of 3: The combination of scarce resources and globalization are driving an upheaval in innovation and lifecycle management. These changes are coalescing into business strategies that recognize the validity of the Circular Economy and the platformization of PLM. The Iron Triangle of better, faster, and cheaper fixes is being superseded. Skeptics overlook many enterprise-level benefits inherent in end-to-end lifecycle management and overestimate the remaining challenges Recap of Position Paper 2 of 3: The challenges confronting innovation and end-to-end lifecycle management are a matrix and must be addressed that way. Ideation is the fundamental rationale for lifecycle management. Platform support for ideation is the intellectual process of creating new products that are globally competitive and sustaining of the enterprise through end-to-end lifecycle management, including information governance. Platformization is the drawing together of personal productivity tools, lifecycle management at the enterprise level, and cross-functional collaboration. End-to-end lifecycle management

OpenText™ announced the release of Brava!TM Enterprise 7.2* for IBM Content Navigator. The new version includes role-based redaction to offer organizations the ability to assign different views of the same document to users based on their roles.  With role-based redaction, companies can set viewing controls for each member of the team based on their individual needs. The organization creates and implements a simple script that defines the access level for individual roles. The redaction then occurs “on the fly” when a user opens the document, eliminating the need to store multiple versions of documents for the various roles.  “Information is our most important asset in the Digital-First World and protecting personally identifiable information about employees and customers is essential,” said Muhi Majzoub, senior vice president of engineering, OpenText. “Developed specifically for IBM Content Navigator, role-based redaction helps organizations address their concerns about information security and data privacy which have become paramount to