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Last month marked the release of the Application Builder, now available with COMSOL Multiphysics® software version 5.0. The Application Builder, which allows COMSOL® software users to build an intuitive interface to run any COMSOL model, has been very well received by the engineering community. COMSOL Multiphysics users are already building applications and exploring the benefits of sharing their models with colleagues and customers worldwide. Application Builder Set to Expand Access to Simulation One such company is Arkansas Power Electronics Intl. (APEI), a manufacturer of high power density and high performance power electronics products. APEI has found that the Application Builder can provide enormous benefits throughout the organization. “I’m building applications to help us expedite our design processes,” says Brice McPherson, a Senior Staff Engineer at APEI. “Our engineers often spend time running analyses for the sales or manufacturing departments to find model results based on diverse conditions and requirements. The Application Builder will be hugely

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced financial results for the company’s fiscal third quarter ended October 31, 2014. The company reported revenues of $292.7 million, non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.34, and GAAP earnings per share of $0.18. “We had revenue and non-GAAP earnings per share that were both records for a third quarter,” said Walden C. Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics. “Strength in automotive products and services continued in the quarter and expanded into the broader transportation market, as aerospace and commercial vehicles also transition from mechanical to electronic systems. We are pleased with our momentum heading into the fourth quarter, with continued strength in transportation, high demand for design-to-silicon products and a growing pipeline of emulation customers.”   During the quarter Mentor Graphics announced its newest offering and key building block in the Xpedition® platform, the Xpedition Systems Designer product for multi-board systems connectivity. The company also announced an integration

Autodesk, Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2015. Third Quarter Fiscal 2015 Total billings increased 25 percent, compared to the third quarter last year. Revenue was $618 million, an increase of 11 percent, compared to the third quarter last year as reported, and increased 12 percent on a constant currency basis. Revenue contribution from the recent acquisition of Delcam was approximately $14 million. Total maintenance, desktop (rental), and cloud subscriptions increased by approximately 121,000 from the second quarter of fiscal 2015, including approximately 25,000 subscriptions related to Delcam. This is the first quarter that Delcam subscriptions have been included in the subscription count. GAAP operating margin was 2 percent, compared to 12 percent in the third quarter last year.  Non-GAAP operating margin was 13 percent, compared to 22 percent in the third quarter last year. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the accompanying tables. GAAP diluted earnings per share were

Advanced Solutions has opened registration for the Digital Prototyping Virtual Event, a Manufacturing industry focused live, online event to be held on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. EST. The event will explore the latest enhancements and innovative software technologies surrounding the digital prototyping process. Digital Prototyping is a revolutionary approach to product development, which applies design, visualization, and simulation techniques to produce products rapidly and cost-effectively. Working in conjunction with Autodesk to create a new educational opportunity, Advanced Solutions has combined manufacturing industry talent and revolutionary design technology to produce the first virtual Digital Prototyping Event. Through the registration link, participants will be directed to a dynamic landing page with detailed descriptions of each session, event highlights, presenter headshots and biographies, a full agenda and frequently asked questions. During this virtual event, technology experts from Advanced Solutions and Autodesk will showcase how leading manufacturers are using computer technology to: Create more

Applied Software announced that it has earned the new Autodesk Advisor status for PLM 360 from Autodesk, Inc. As an Advisor Partner, Applied Software has shown that it has made significant investment in its PLM 360 business, provides the highest level of industry acumen, and has solution knowledge to sell and support the Autodesk PLM 360 Cloud Service Solutions. "We're pleased to add the Autodesk Advisor Partner status for PLM 360 to our many other Autodesk credentials," said Richard Burroughs, president of Applied Software. "As an Autodesk reseller for over 30 years, the achievement further validates our deep experience with Autodesk solutions. We remain committed to delivering the advanced services, consulting, training and support that help design professionals achieve the highest proficiency with Autodesk products." The new Advisor Program allows Autodesk Partners to brand their expertise in delivering solutions and services in the highly specialized field of product lifecycle management (PLM) and PLM

Innovyze announced the worldwide availability of the V13 Generation of its industry-leading InfoSWMM 2D for ArcGIS (Esri, Redlands, CA). InfoSWMM 2Ddelivers new ways to quickly and accurately build and analyze very large and comprehensive two-dimensional (2D) models that reliably simulate complex urban stormwater, sanitary sewers, river flooding and pollutant transport. It allows users to accurately predict the extent and duration of urban and rural flooding for comprehensive stormwater management directly within the powerful ArcGIS environment. A fully hydrodynamic geospatial stormwater modeling and management software application, InfoSWMM 2D can be used to model the entire land phase of the hydrologic cycle as applied to urban stormwater systems. Built atop ArcGIS and using exceptionally robust and efficient numerical simulation capabilities, the model can perform single-event or long-term (continuous) rainfall/runoff simulations accounting for climate, soil, land use, and topographic conditions of the watershed. In addition to simulating runoff quantity, InfoSWMM 2D can reliably predict runoff quality, including buildup and

Mechatronic configuration is one of the core topics within the spectrum of services of EPLAN Engineering Center. The product is being renamed at the start of SPS IPC Drives to EPLAN Engineering Configuration, or “EEC” for short – the same abbreviation as before. Configuration as a core functionality will now be reflected in the product name. For many years, EPLAN has been offering integrated mechatronic configuration solutions through EEC that can be used to configure components, machines and even complex installation projects. The decision to rename the EEC product was driven by the benefits it offers customers: EPLAN represents “efficient engineering” – standardisation and modularisation via configuration are a decisive step in this direction. The consistency of the configuration across all engineering disciplines, including mechanics, electrics and software, makes forward-looking mechatronic configuration possible. Along with the name change, the EEC version number will be synchronised with that of the EPLAN Platform. The coming

Apriso 9.7 is now available from Dassault Systèmes, with enriched integration to the company’s digital manufacturing applications. As the first significant new product introduction since Dassault Systèmes’ acquisition of Apriso Corporation, the Apriso 9.7 application suite offers an improved business experience for Apriso users, with closer, out-of-the-box integration to other DELMIA Digital Manufacturing products, helping to better bridge the gap between the virtual and real worlds of manufacturing. This Apriso product portfolio update delivers enhanced digital continuity from design to execution, supporting paperless manufacturing initiatives while accelerating new product introduction. “The launch of Apriso 9.7 represents an important first step to becoming part of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Apriso capabilities will be available by simply adding widgets to the platform, extending real-time visibility to manufacturing intelligence to engineers and other users of the platform,” said John Fishell, DELMIA Product Management at Dassault Systèmes. Dassault Systèmes customers can use Apriso 9.7 to help ensure engineering designed work instructions are

AVEVA announced today a new contract with OAO VNIPIneft, for the supply of AVEVA Engineering software. The new deployment complements VNIPIneft’s existing AVEVA 3D design system by enabling 2D schematic and engineering data to be integrated into the common project information asset. Alexey Berezhnoy, Deputy Managing Director, VNIPIneft, explained the importance of this contract in increasing the company’s capabilities and deepening the relationship with AVEVA. ‘The number of contracts that VNIPIneft executes has increased dramatically in recent years and we expect this positive trend to continue,’ he said. ‘Maintaining such momentum and expanding capabilities and productivity is essential for the development of every company. For this reason, we are very careful with the technologies we work with and with the choice of the partners who supply it. VNIPIneft’s multi-disciplinary teams of engineers develop engineering information that defines a wide range of project components, such as lines, equipment and valves, together with

MSC Software Corporation today announced that Laboratoire Vibrations Acoustique (LVA) of INSA-Lyon, one of the top universities of Science and Technology in Europe, has selected MSC Software's Actran acoustic analysis software to develop innovative acoustic methods at the laboratory. The Laboratoire Vibrations Acoustique (LVA) was created in the 1970's to build bridges between research domains such as structural dynamics and acoustics. Today, LVA applies computational modeling and simulation to several research topics to develop innovative methods that are first applied to academic problems, and then on realistic systems in order to demonstrate their applicability within industrial processes. Acoustic source identification and inverse methods are typical domains where new simulation processes benefit the methods development initiatives at LVA. In acoustics, inverse methods cover a wide field of applications, which all rely on the same concept: identifying the inputs of a linear system by observing the outputs. However, the term of identification methods encompasses goals as