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Advanced Solutions, Inc. announces a new partnership with SMART® Technologies as an authorized reseller and member of the SMART Ecosystem Network (SEN). Advanced Solutions will specialize in SMART business solutions, which enhance meetings, collaboration and information sharing. Working with SMART, Advanced Solutions has developed a unique offering for customers in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AEC). Advanced Solutions SMART Design Review is an Advanced Solutions, Inc. company. The SMART Design Review solution will transform how AEC project teams coordinate, collaborate and communicate. The two companies have aligned, combining Advanced Solutions, Autodesk, and SMART Technologies software and hardware solutions to create a complete solution delivering successful AEC projects. The SMART Design Review solution includes: SMART Board® interactive flat panel -- With high-definition, LCD flat-panel displays, SMART's interactive flat panels offer the richest visual experience for interacting with digital content, including 3D models. SMART Meeting Pro™ software -- Make notes over any available application and capture ideas

Centric Software, Inc., is expanding its reach in Europe with the addition of its first customer in Germany, MUSTANG Jeans. MUSTANG, an iconic jeans brand in Europe, has selected Centric to provide its product lifecycle management (PLM) software. The company—maker of the first jeans and first corduroy jeans in Europe—will implement the Centric 8 PLM software for apparel throughout its women’s wear and men’s wear product groups. MUSTANG also will implement Centric’s patent-pending Collection Book for Fashion iPad App. The app directly links a collection of styles from the Centric PLM solution to users through an interactive mobile device. “We are and always have been pioneers—not just in the field of denim, but also with regards to innovation and cutting- edge technology,” explains Dietmar Axt, CEO of MUSTANG Group. “This characteristic is part of our long-standing, proven company philosophy.” MUSTANG will deploy Centric 8 to support ambitious company growth goals, explains Julia Einsiedler,

ModuleWorks are delighted to reveal that 2013 has been a record year for the company. Revenue has increased by over 25% and there have been more than 20 new sales.  Of particular interest has been the success of the relatively new products/modules for 5-Axis MultiBlade machining (aimed mainly at Impellers and Blisks), 5-Axis Port machining (aimed at automotive engines) and 2 to 5-Axis Adaptive Roughing (optimizes Roughing for general production machining). The growth in the company has allowed increased investment in development, with the recruitment of 12 new people to join the team.  Because ModuleWorks does not provide end user products and only works with partners, it is a very development focussed company.  This allows the large majority of all employees, currently 80%, to work as part of the development team. The ModuleWorks Simulation component has had a very successful year.  This component is included in the majority of new sales and 2013

Arena Solutions today reported on its fiscal year 2013 financial performance, which featured robust growth, including a 77 percent leap in new customer subscriptions year-over-year. Growth within the mid-market and enterprise sectors was particularly strong. During the fourth quarter, the average deal size for these transactions nearly tripled from Q4 2012 compared to Q4 2013. The company's average deal size for all market segments more than doubled from Q4 2012 to Q4 2013, and grew by 62 percent from Q3 2013 to Q4 2013 alone. "We saw a huge uptick in our mid-market and enterprise business this year, and it played a significant role in our exceptional overall growth for 2013," said Craig Livingston, CEO of Arena. "Larger companies have been impressed with our rapid pace of innovation and with the breadth of PLM solutions we offer. In fact, we increased the size of our services organization by 33 percent to support all

AVEVA will be demonstrating how its two latest software innovations help its customers to improve productivity and reduce risk at the ARC World Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida, 10-13 February, 2014. AVEVA E3D Insight™, AVEVA’s first Windows 8.1 mobile app, enables 3D model viewing and approval by decision makers anytime, anywhere, maximising project efficiency in ways that were never before possible. AVEVA Activity Visualisation Platform™ (AVEVA AVP) uses advanced Industrial Gaming technology to create an immersive plant simulation environment that enables improved operational safety and efficiency through more effective personnel training. 'The ARC World Industry Forum provides a great opportunity to listen to the needs of the process industries and continue our long-standing relationship with the ARC Advisory Group,' said William Muldoon, Executive Vice President, North America, AVEVA. 'Both innovations, AVEVA E3D Insight and AVEVA AVP, represent not just a steady evolution of existing technologies, but a true step change to the way

CONTACT Software and Siemens Austria are the industry partners in a research project aimed at speeding up the development of bogies for railroad vehicles. The Virtual Vehicle Research Center (ViF) and the Institute of Electrical Engineering at the Graz University of Technology are providing scientific support. The project is sponsored by the Austrian Federal government as part of the COMET K2 program. The project partners will be presenting initial findings at the 13th International Railway Industry Conference to be held 26-28 February 2014 in Dresden. Railroad trucks are designed to have a service life of thirty years and are crucial to both the safety and comfort of rail vehicles. Under the name "Multidisciplinary Optimization in the Development of Bogies", the joint project sets out to provide suitable methods for increasing the level of automation when using numeric calculation procedures. Up to now, it has been necessary to condition the required CAD model

Rand Worldwide today announces that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has earned the globally recognized Autodesk Platinum Partner designation. “Our globally recognized Platinum Partner designation enables Autodesk to acknowledge the instrumental role Rand Worldwide and IMAGINiT Technologies play in delivering world-class design solutions, products and services,” said Steve Blum, senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Services at Autodesk. “Whether through the services they deliver, or their solid customer satisfaction scores, IMAGINiT shows that they can provide exemplary services and capabilities to their customers.” Achieving this designation is recognition that IMAGINiT has demonstrated rich industry experience, as well as having fulfilled the demanding Autodesk training and certification requirements for both sales and services employees. It also indicates that a superior standard of customer satisfaction has been met across the broad range of interactions that IMAGINiT provides as they help customers design, simulate and analyze their ideas into reality, increase operational efficiencies and extend the value of

Autodesk, Inc. is joining with President Barack Obama and other leading technology and telecom companies to help prepare American high school students for science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics (STEAM) careers. The company will expand its Design the Future program, and make available $250 million of 3D design software, project-based curricula, training and certification to every middle and high school in the United States in 2014. “Our customers have unfilled, high-paying positions due to the lack of qualified U.S. high school and university graduates,” said Carl Bass, Autodesk president and chief executive officer. “As part of our ongoing commitment to training and equipping the next generation of designers, engineers, architects and digital artists, we are proud to respond to the call from President Obama. Today we are committing to making our Design the Future program available to every secondary school in the United States over the next year.” The Design the Future program provides secondary

 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes’ strategy is clear—make value extensions, additional solutions, and capabilities offered by the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform available to the SolidWorks’ community SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual and SolidWorks Industrial Conceptual significantly enhance the SolidWorks community’s ability to collaboratively develop conceptual and industrial designs with partners and for internal product development teams These new solutions offer capabilities that can provide significant benefit, especially during collaborative product development efforts The 16th annual SolidWorks World conference was held January 26-29, 2014 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, USA. A large and enthusiastic crowd of approximately 5,600 SolidWorks users cheerfully attended the conference in sunny San Diego, where the average daily temperature (according to Google) is a comfortable 70.5° F (21.4° C). Given that much of North America has been dealing with one Arctic blast after another, it felt much warmer; perhaps this was one of the reasons why the crowd was so cheerful. Like

FISHER/UNITECH, reseller of Stratasys 3D Printers and a top reseller of SolidWorks 3D CAD software, now offers the latest in 3D Printing technology. Today Stratasys unveiled its newest addition to the design series of printers called the Objet500 Connex3™. With its ability to combine vivid color and multiple materials, the Objet500 Connex3™ is the only 3D printer that empowers users to simulate the precise look, feel and function of finished products. And with a wide range of advanced material options and dozens of composites, your designs will come to life as realistic models earlier in the design process. The Objet500 Connex3™ is the only multi-purpose 3D printer that offers a comprehensive modeling solution for designers throughout the entire product development cycle. The new three-material jetting technology automates creation of complex prototypes that have diverse material properties – no assembly needed. Users can build prototypes with fine feature quality that provides high detail