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CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announced today the key sponsors for its upcoming PLM Road Map for the High Tech Electronics (HTE) Community conference are Aras Corp., Arena Solutions, Autodesk, LeverX/SAP, and Siemens PLM Software. The event, which takes place on June 16 at the Biltmore Hotel & Suites in Santa Clara, California, is a strategic conference that focuses on how companies successfully define and employ PLM strategies and enabling solutions to meet challenging product development, manufacturing, and deployment issues. The theme for PLM Road Map for the HTE Community is Innovating in...

Confidence. Flexibility. Visibility. Those are the three keywords that Cabinet Vision software provide for one of Northern Ireland’s leading kitchen, bedroom and cabinet companies.

Woodland Kitchens, a family-run business founded in Ballymena over 30 years ago by Brian McCloskey, who is still Managing Director, is at the forefront of design, manufacture and installation of high-end, ultra-contemporary and traditional kitchens and bedrooms.

All their units are created in a purpose-built 90,000 square foot factory in Rasharkin, using computer controlled manufacturing technology combined with traditional craftsmanship, and are supplied fully made up.

Design Technician Sean Quinn says Cabinet Vision is an essential part of their...

Expo Milano 2015 has developed an online 3D experience powered by Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform.  The experience will enable virtual visitors to discover the expo’s eco-sustainability theme, ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’. World Expo 2015 is currently taking place in Milan and will run until October 31st.

The event will examine the challenge of balancing nutrition for mankind with respect for the planet’s resources.

To support this focus and make the event accessible to all, Expo Milano 2015 is creating an online, virtual model of the one million square meter exhibition site.  Virtual visitors will be able to immerse...

''Delcam CRISPIN will demonstrate the 2015 R2 version of its ShoeMaker Pro CAD software for the design of all types of footwear at the Shoes & Leather Fair to be held in Guangzhou, China, from 1^st to 3^rd June.  This latest release includes special editing tools to adapt an existing sole to a new upper design, more efficient tools for upper design, such as edge gimping, stitch-down simulation and a new jewellery library, plus improvements to the KeyShot rendering and the ability to export models...

The U.S. Army Contracting Command–Aberdeen Proving Ground has awarded ManTech International Corporation a task order to provide tactical communications software support to the Army’s Software Engineering Center (SEC). The cost-plus-fixed-fee task order was awarded under the Software and Systems Engineering Services contract and has a 12-month base period of performance and one 12-month option period, with a potential total value to ManTech of $16.2 million.

Under the contract, ManTech will provide post-deployment and post-production software lifecycle support to the Software Engineering Center (SEC) Command, Control, and Communications - Tactical (C3T), Communications Division for the Army’s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment One.

"WIN-T...

EMC Corporation, along with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) Board, announced that EMC will expand its operations in Draper, creating 700 jobs and an estimated $62 million in capital investment. The announcement came as part of a special board meeting held at the Capitol. 

Utah’s booming IT sector has gained national attention and continues to be an integral part of our economy,” said Gov. Gary R. Herbert. “EMC has been a major partner in building Utah’s Silicon Slopes, and we are grateful for their positive impact. We look forward to their future contributions.”

EMC operates one of eight global...

CNC Software Inc. has appointed Meghan Summers-West as company president. Her father and previous president Mark Summers (now chairman), who founded the company with his brothers, made the announcement. Mr. Summers also said that with the rapid consolidation of many CAD/CAM companies, this decision represents a continuation of CNC Software’s strengths as a private entity.

Ms. Summers-West has served as operations manager for the company since 2009. She earned a bachelor’s degree in business at Bentley College and an MBA in Management at Hawaii Pacific University.

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ASM International (Materials Park, OH) and Granta Design (Cambridge, UK) have announced major updates to the ASM Medical Materials Database. The spring release of this resource includes new data on materials including stainless steels and tool steels, expanded coverage of the latest additive manufacturing techniques and the addition of the latest FDA approved devices with links to associated materials, coatings and drugs.

Users can immediately benefit from additional peer-reviewed data covering the materials, coatings and compatible drugs used in medical devices. Website navigation has been improved to allow medical device designers, academics, students, regulatory affairs officers and other users to quickly...

EMC Corporation today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Virtustream. When the transaction closes, Virtustream will form EMC's new managed cloud services business. The acquisition represents a transformational element of EMC's strategy to help customers move all applications to cloud-based IT environments. With the addition of Virtustream, EMC completes the industry's most comprehensive hybrid cloud portfolio to support all applications, all workloads and all cloud models.  

Virtustream CEO Rodney Rogers will report to Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO.

"Virtustream is an exceptional company and this is a critical and transformative acquisition for EMC in one...

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Innovation in the Digital Age.” The webinar will take place on June 25, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT).

Using a systemic innovation case study from Procter & Gamble, the webinar will describe use cases appropriate for PLM and Collaborative Innovation (CI). The webinar will also show how PLM and CI solution providers have an opportunity to connect and collaborate to expand their markets by developing a consistent terminology and communication around innovation and clarifying how their offerings complement each other and fit into...