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Worksoft®, a provider of business process validation software for packaged enterprise applications, today announced support for Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter®. Industry leaders in aviation and defense, automotive and manufacturing industries utilize PLM software to integrate people, data, processes and business systems and provide a product information backbone for their organizations and extended enterprises. Worksoft’s support for Teamcenter reaffirms the company’s commitment to helping Fortune 1000 companies ensure business process quality across an increasingly complex system landscape. Today’s enterprise application landscape extends beyond SAP® to include dozens of enterprise systems, including PLM applications. “We are pleased to support the growing portfolio of enterprise applications that our customers depend on for their success,” said Brian Smith, vice president, engineering, Worksoft. “New test automation capabilities for Teamcenter bring additional assurance for customers seeking complete end-to-end business process validation across their SAP and non-SAP landscapes.” Worksoft technology supports automated business process testing on a variety of platforms and

Siemens today announced its Shipbuilding Catalyst, aimed at helping accelerate the deployment of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and further enhancing PLM value in this industry. Using a pre-packaged combination of industry-specific best practice guides, templates and tailored software, the Shipbuilding Catalyst integrates and synchronizes shipbuilding operations, including crucial members of the supplier network and third-party service providers. The Shipbuilding Catalyst is one of Siemens’ Industry Catalyst Series™ offerings announced in September of last year. “Siemens’ Shipbuilding Catalyst represents a transformational technology that enables shipyards to shorten their time-to-value and boost their return on investment,” said John MacKrell, vice president, CIMdata. “By improving total enterprise productivity, reducing cycle times and lowering the total cost of ownership of future fleets, Siemens´ shipbuilding solution can help change the way leading shipyards design, produce and sustain the next generation of advanced ships.” The marine industry is undergoing a major transformation. Fleet operators need to develop reliable,

SAP AG today announced new innovations for SAP® PowerDesigner® software, the information modeling and enterprise architecture tool. SAP PowerDesigner now integrates into an organization’s operational process intelligence. Through a new intelligent business operations offering, users can create a blueprint for processes systems, and technologies needed to execute their business. The announcement was made at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit, being held March 19-20 in London.  “The advanced features of SAP PowerDesigner empower organizations to meet the demands of today’s complex business environment,” said Darren Crowder, vice president and general manager, Middleware, SAP. “SAP has made significant investments in this critical component of the middleware portfolio to help ensure that it continues to meet the changing needs and challenges of businesses seeking to improve their information and enterprise architectures.”  While many enterprise architecture tools focus primarily on business process management (BPM), SAP PowerDesigner offers full support for all components of an organization’s enterprise architecture,

ENGINEERING PLM Solutions announces today the release of RuleDesigner PDM integration for Creo Parametric 2.0, by PTC. The new integration allows to extend the benefits of a collaborative organization and management of product information to all Creo Parametric 2.0 users. Moreover, those organizations that are planning to replace their design software for Creo Parametric 2.0 can find in RuleDesigner PDM a trusted partner. In this regard, thanks to the large portfolio of integrations available, RuleDesigner PDM is able to manage both the history of the old cad data and new cad projects. RuleDesigner PDM permits to classify drawings created in Creo Parametric 2.0 with a unique and homogeneous part-numbering plan, facilitating collaboration within the design team and the reuse of existing design information.  Also, due to a dedicated environment, RuleDesigner PDM enables users to create and manage different types of BOMs and reports and to export them to ERP systems. Finally, combined to the different

Today, the Altair Partner Alliance (APA) announced that multi-body dynamics (MBD) software from ChassisSim Technologies is available for download. Traditionally used in the racing industry, ChassisSim simulates and predicts numerous vehicle parameters. "ChassisSim Technologies is delighted to be working with Altair to provide our simulation technologies to their user community," said Danny Nowlan, Director at ChassisSim. "ChassisSim is a natural fit for any project involving motorsport, race engineering or automotive vehicle dynamics." ChassisSim allows race teams and vehicle dynamics engineers to simulate all aspects of vehicle behavior early in the design process, saving time and resources by preventing unnecessary cycles. Users can predict lap times by performing full multi-body transient simulation and then export the data for review. "ChassisSim is a product which has been created by race engineers, for race engineers," said Michael Hoffmann, Sr. VP Math & Systems at Altair. "It combines ease-of-use with predictive simulation technology, both of which are absolutely necessary

Kubotek USA has released Kubotek Comparison Suite 2014 Version 12.5.  Comparison Suite products include Validation Tool and ECO Manager. The engineering change identification and documentation tools found in the Kubotek Comparison Suite help users avoid the costs and pitfalls resulting from undetected or undocumented changes in CAD files. Comparison Suite 2014 Version 12.5 adds several new capabilities, updated translators, and user-driven improvements to save time and improve user control: CATIA V5 version to version compare   Added ability to enter disposition text next to related geometry in validation quality documents Updated CAD interoperability readers for Inventor 2014 and Parasolid R26.  CATIA V5 import now reads Hidden Assembly Instances User control options for locating closed sets of curves. Geometry ToolTips to identify entity locations for all entities and entity components Tony Anderson, VP and General Manager of Comparison Suite Products, states, “Our Comparison Suite products help design and quality teams confidently compare two CAD models, regardless of file type, to find differences in product

PDF3D today announced their support for AutoCAD’s latest 2014 software version. PDF3D’s latest update of their popular ReportGen tool goes beyond other AutoCAD plugins with a new level of 3D PDF creation for 3D CAD users. Working in parallel with Autodesk’s aim of providing highly sophisticated 3D design tools, PDF3D’s ReportGen allows AutoCAD users to easily convert DWG files to rich, fully interactive, beautifully animated 3D PDFs at the touch of a button. “As unaffiliated, independent developers, we are great fans of Autodesk and admire what the company has done with their 2014 version. The brand’s values fit perfectly with those at PDF3D and so evolving ReportGen to work seamlessly with AutoCAD 2014 felt like a natural evolution of our tool. It’s good to be able to add value to such a popular design authoring product,” explained Ian Curington of PDF3D. “Just as Autodesk has done, we have focused on usability, functionality and

Engineering software provider CAD Schroer today announced the release of a standalone version of its P&ID software for standards-driven creation of high quality piping and instrumentation designs, with a free 30-trial.  Affordable High Quality P&IDs Mark Simpson, Product Line Manager at CAD Schroer, developer of MCAD, plant and factory design solutions, explains, “We’ve launched this product in response to the needs of smaller engineering departments or individual consultants, who need to quickly create quality P&IDs in a flexible yet controlled, standards-driven manner.  M4 P&ID FX is a good value stand-alone system for those not requiring integration with 3D piping or large-scale industrial plant design software.” M4 P&ID FX free trial: http://www.cad-schroer.com/products/m4-pid-fx/free-trial.html?pk_campaign=pr140319_m4pidfx Configurable P&ID Symbol Libraries M4 P&ID FX includes symbol catalogs in support of the EN ISO, ANSI and ISA standards. Users can add or edit individual symbols, create new symbol catalogs, and configure catalogs for specific projects. Dynamic P&ID Creation and Editing Dynamic tools allow

Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (3DCIC), today announced its lineup of speakers for the 2014 event to be held May 28-30 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 3DCIC (www.3dcic.com) is dedicated to fostering and improving collaboration and interoperability throughout the product lifecycle. The theme of 3DCIC 2014 is “Driving Product Development with Collaboration, Simulation, and Integration”. Executives have long understood that seamless integration of design, analysis/simulation, manufacturing, downstream operations and the supply chain is the key to effective global business. It’s the very foundation of the PLM vision. Making this work requires highly trained people, sharing information in efficient processes, supported by world-class technology. This will be a focus area of 3D CIC this year, especially between design-analysis/simulation and design-manufacturing. Conference organizers are pleased to announce that NAFEMS  (the International Association of the Engineering Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Community) will hold their North American bi-annual conference at 3DCIC 2014. In addition, the PDES Board of

Delcam will demonstrate how the “design for manufacture” options in its PowerSHAPE CAD software can rapidly convert product designs into tooling designs on stand 4011 at the MACH exhibition to be held at the NEC, Birmingham, from 7th to 11th April.  The software provides a powerful set of easy-to-use tools to increase productivity for mouldmakers and other tooling designers through increased automation and improved workflow.  Full details, including video demonstrations of the new functionality and the option to download an evaluation version, are on http://lz.powershape.com. By offering a combination of solid modelling, surface modelling and direct modelling functionality, PowerSHAPE 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.  At the same time, the combination of quick and easy direct modelling options,