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The latest version of Siemens’ NX™ software (NX 10) includes new capabilities that deliver enhanced product development flexibility and up to three times higher productivity. New tools like the 2D concept development solution make it easier and faster to create designs, while enhancements to NX Realize Shape™ software, a fully integrated sub-division modelling environment, give designers more flexibility to produce unique shapes. A new optional touch-enabled interface provides expanded access to the full design capabilities of NX. And tighter integration to product lifecycle management (PLM) software, through Siemens’ Active Workspace environment, reduces the amount of time spent searching for product information. NX 10 also includes multiple enhancements throughout the integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution. “NX 10 continues to improve on the robust functionality and user-friendly features that customers need to manage the ever-increasing complexity of product designs,” said Jim Rusk, senior vice president, Product Engineering Software, Siemens PLM Software. “The new and

Following certification by the SAP® Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC), CONTACT Software today announced release of its enhanced ERP standard interface for CIM Database PLM 10.1. Thanks to the changeover to the remote function call functionality of the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, the interface now also supports the bidirectional multilingual alignment of product data based on the use of Unicode. The scenario "Cross Application – PLM 4.7" was successfully tested in the categories CAD Data and Document Management, Product Data and Product Lifecycle Management (PDM/PLM), as well as the SAP Solution Manager registration. The new major release of the PLM/ERP interface is available for all current versions of the SAP ERP application. Beyond the standard scenario, the SAP certification for CONTACT's CIM Database PLM also supports access to other components of SAP ERP, including project system and plant maintenance. Alongside CAD data alignment, product data management covers the service-oriented, process-controlled synchronization

Altium Limited announces the release of its TASKING VX-toolset for ARM Cortex-M for Apple Mac computers running OS X. Traditionally embedded software development tools have been available exclusively for the Windows operating system and Altium has a long history in providing its TASKING cross compilers and debuggers for running on Windows, including its TASKING VX-toolset for ARM Cortex-M. With ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers becoming popular in broad market consumer applications, especially with wearable electronics and electronic systems that can be controlled from the iPhone, it is apparent that embedded software engineers want to use the Mac as their development platform. To serve this development community, Altium has developed a native OS X port of release v5.1r1 of its TASKING VX-toolset for ARM Cortex-M, bringing its C compiler suite with Eclipse based IDE and debugger to Mac computers. "Given the growing popularity of Mac OS X and the development of ARM Cortex-M based embedded

Join Premier Autodesk Gold Partner, Tata Technologies and elite automotive industry designers, engineers, plant managers and decision makers for the annual Automotive Innovation Forum on Thursday, October 9 at the Inn at St. John’s in Plymouth, Mich. Attendees will participate in a choice of four customized tracks aimed at sparking inspiration and driving excellence across the whole automotive design, visualization, simulation, and factory planning workflow. Each track will be led by world class automotive engineering and design professionals, kicking off with Buzz Kross, SVP Manufacturing Division at Autodesk, who will deliver the keynote introduction on Autodesk Automotive Vision. Key takeaways include:  An understanding of how to combine creativity with craftsmanship Strategies for engaging customers with interactive visualization The ability to meet increasingly strict efficiency regulations An understanding of how to model the optimum factory Event Overview:  What: Automotive Innovation Forum  When: Tuesday, October 9, 2014; 9:30 am– 5:30 pm  Where: Inn at St. John’s  44045 Five Mile Rd.  Plymouth, Mich. Registration Information:  Design and Class A Track About:

Delcam will highlight developments in three programs from its range of manufacturing software on stand H57 in Hall 8 at the Euromold exhibition to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, from 25th to 28th November.  The new CADCAM software on show will include the 2015 releases of the PowerSHAPE Pro CAD package, the PowerMILL CAM system and the Delcam Electrode suite for the design, machining and inspection of electrodes. By offering a combination of solid, surface and direct modelling, together with reverse engineering functionality, 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 the whole product development process. The main enhancement in the 2015 release is the Smart Feature Selector.  This option allows multiple similar features to be found and selected using either a specific

EMC Corporation announced that Zane Rowe has joined the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer reporting to Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO. Rowe now assumes all internal and external financial responsibilities for EMC’s consolidated business. Prior to joining EMC, Rowe had a successful 19-year financial and corporate strategy career first at Continental Airlines where he rose to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following that, he was CFO at United Continental Holdings, Inc. Analysts surveyed by Institutional Investor magazine named Rowe one of the top two CFOs in the airline industry. Following United Continental Holdings, Rowe joined Apple where he served as head of North America Sales reporting directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Tucci commented, “Zane brings to EMC a unique blend of extremely valuable skills and experience both as a world-class CFO in complex, multi-business environments and as a highly- accomplished corporate strategist. We

TraceParts is due to break another record number of registered users by the end of 2014. With an average of 30,000 new subscriptions per month from Engineers and Design professionals worldwide willing to get a free and instant access to Millions of CAD models on TracePartsOnline.com, the TraceParts Engineering community is set to reach the astonishing number of 2 Million registered users during October or November 2014. To celebrate this impressive milestone, Thalmic Labs is offering a free revolutionary gesture control armband called Myo™ to the 2 Millionth registered user. The name and country of the lucky winner will be revealed upon reaching this milestone. “Designers and Engineers can really speed up their design projects with TracePartsOnline.net as they have free access to Millions of technical data ready to download in 2D and 3D. After all, they all know that the fastest way to model a part is to download it” commented Bertrand Cressent,

HP today announced plans to separate into two new publicly traded Fortune 50 companies: one comprising HP’s market-leading enterprise technology infrastructure, software and services businesses, which will do business as Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and one that will comprise HP’s market-leading personal systems and printing businesses, which will do business as HP Inc. and retain the current logo. Immediately following the transaction, which is expected to be completed by the end of fiscal 2015, HP shareholders will own shares of both Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. The transaction is intended to be tax-free to HP’s shareholders for federal income tax purposes.  Today’s announcement comes as HP approaches the fourth year of its five-year turnaround plan. Over this time, the company has executed successfully against its turnaround objectives, keeping customers and partners at the forefront. HP has reignited its innovation pipeline, strengthened its go-to-market capabilities, rebuilt its balance sheet, and inspired its workforce and

The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) today announced that the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry revenue increased 6.3 percent for Q2 2014 to $1757.9 million, compared to $1653.4 million in Q2 2013. Sequential EDA revenue for Q2 2014 increased 0.7 percent compared to Q1 2014, while the four-quarters moving average, which compares the most recent four quarters to the prior four quarters, increased by 5.8 percent. "Double-digit increases in PCB/MCM and Semiconductor IP led the way to an overall increase in industry revenue for Q2," said Walden C. Rhines, board sponsor for the EDAC MSS and chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics. "Geographically, all regions except Japanhad solid revenue increases." Companies that were tracked employed 31,259 professionals in Q2 2014, an increase of 6.7 percent compared to the 29,304 people employed in Q2 2013, and up 2.7 percent compared to Q1, 2014. The complete quarterly MSS report, containing detailed revenue information broken out by both categories and

German software provider Nemetschek® AG announced it is acquiring Bluebeam® Software, Inc., the developer of PDF-based collaboration solutions for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, for a $100 million purchase price. “Today is an exciting day for Bluebeam Software and Bluebeam users alike,” said Richard Lee, Bluebeam Software CEO. “With its Open BIM philosophy, Nemetschek is committed to making project information available to everyone, a belief strongly held by Bluebeam as well. I look forward to working together to make digital project collaboration easier than ever.” Nemetschek, Munich, is a globally leading software provider for the AEC industry. With its 11 brands including Vectorworks® and Graphisoft®, the Nemetschek Group now serves more than 1.2 million users in 142 countries from more than 40 locations worldwide. Founded in 1963 by Professor Georg Nemetschek, the company has been publicly listed since 1999 and quoted on the TecDAX. The company achieved revenues of EUR 185.9