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AVEVA today announced the AVEVA World Plant User Meetings, India, which are being held in Mumbai on 28 November 2013 and in Delhi on 29 November 2013. The AVEVA World India Plant User Days are organised for engineers and designers who operate AVEVA software, both in Engineering, Procurement and Construction companies (EPCs) and in Owner Operators (OO) in the plant industries. The main aim of these meetings is to deliver product expertise that will increase technical knowledge and skills that can be applied in practical situations. This year, the AVEVA World Plant User Meeting in India will comprise two one-day events, in Mumbai and Delhi, to enable the maximum number of AVEVA users to benefit. Each of the two events will follow the same full agenda, focussing on the technical features and functions of AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering and Design solution, which uses products from the AVEVA Plant™ portfolio. They will provide detailed technical demonstrations

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today announced a collaboration with Synergis Engineering Design Solutions, a Platinum provider of Autodesk products, to bring Building Information Modeling (BIM) training to ABC contractor members to make them more productive, efficient and profitable. The training is part of a larger effort known as Project Virtual. "This collaboration is the foundation of an idea that will enable ABC members to work with their clients, eliminate waste and rework, more effectively plan for project success, minimizing design conflicts in a 3D environment, and ultimately deliver that work safely, ethically and profitably for all involved," said ABC President and CEO Michael D. Bellaman. "Together, ABC and Synergis have created Project Virtual, which will provide a customized training and design BIM solution specifically for ABC members." "We are excited to enter into this partnership with ABC to provide the construction industry access to the latest solutions, tools and training," said Synergis

GRAPHISOFT and Nikken Sekkei, one of the world's largest architectural design firms, announced today their strategic partnership agreement to establish a jointly-funded BIM Competence & Research Center for advancing BIM in Japan and South-East Asia. The multi-year strategic partnership agreement was signed by Keiichi Okamoto, President and CEO of Nikken Sekkei, and Viktor Varkonyi, CEO of GRAPHISOFT, at a special signature ceremony held in the JETRO Business Development Center in Tokyo, in the presence of Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary. Both companies agreed to build a joint team of BIM specialists and BIM software developers dedicated to developing both software solutions and implementation know-how. This collaboration is not only for improving BIM capabilities, but also driving further BIM implementation in Japan and South-East Asia. "We feel very confident working with GRAPHISOFT," says Keiichi Okamoto, President and CEO of Nikken Sekkei.  "As a result of our multi-year cooperation, ArchiCAD has become our main BIM

Visitors to the Advanced Engineering UK group of events at the NEC saw for themselves that Edgecam’s game-changing Workflow tools just got even faster. Workflow was already renowned for enabling CAD/CAM engineers to apply toolpaths within seconds, but several enhancements in the latest release, Edgecam 2014 R1, give additional control and save even more time. Although Edgecam was exhibiting in the Automotive section, a number of manufacturers visiting other areas came to see the latest developments in the software. General Manager Raf Lobato says: “This is a key exhibition for the automotive, aerospace and composites engineering sectors, and manufacturers from across the board extremely interested in seeing how they could benefit from producing programs much faster than if they were using conventional CAM systems.” Workflow was specifically designed for manufacturers to reduce costs, improve quality and hit shorter lead times by giving direct access to Edgecam’s accelerated toolpath technology. The Workflow enhancements in

Luxion with IronCAD, LLC, announced the integration between KeyShot and IronCAD, bringing the single-click transfer of IronCAD data into KeyShot along with the ability to keep model geometry updated to streamline the 3D visual creation process. This tight integration between KeyShot and IronCAD, featuring Luxion’s LiveLinking™ technology, allows IronCAD users to develop their design within IronCAD, export the data to KeyShot, maintaining assembly structure and all appearances, while continuing to work on the design inside IronCAD. As the design development proceeds, users can select to update the model inside KeyShot from the IronCAD interface with the click of a button without disrupting previous applied materials, views or animations set up within KeyShot. This new integration both compliments and bridges the modeling flexibility available within IronCAD and the rendering flexibility within KeyShot to deliver an efficient workflow to design engineers. With the installation of the 2014 or later versions of the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite

The Altair Partner Alliance today announced the expansion of its material database offering with new partner, Matereality, LLC. With Matereality's cloud-based software, Workgroup Material DatabasePro, it is possible to build an enterprise quality, fully functional and extensible material database to store all the material data for different projects and collaborate securely across the PLM landscape. "Product innovation success relies on centralized data and knowledge resources. The ability to easily share centralized data allows for projects to be completed more efficiently," said Hubert Lobo, President and CTO for Matereality. "We are pleased to offer a technology through the Altair Partner Alliance that removes limitations on the ability to use material data, eliminates typical risks associated with unmanaged material data, and helps accelerate the pace of product development." Workgroup Material DatabasePro creates a central core containing material data in full interactive detail that is always available to group members, whether collocated or dispersed. Within a workgroup, members are

Aras® today announced the availability of the Microsoft® Office Connector for Aras VPLM™. With the Office connector for Aras VPLM, enterprises that run Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD and Vault can manage documents, spreadsheets, slides and emails in PLM without leaving Microsoft Office applications. The Office connector for Aras VPLM improves personal productivity while driving standardization and consistency for compliance throughout the enterprise.  The Office connector for Aras VPLM extends the benefits of enterprise PLM to Autodesk users in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Users can create, store, edit, search and manage documents while working within the familiar, easy to use Microsoft environment. At the same time, the Office Connector for Aras VPLM provides administrators with sophisticated capabilities for document control and security, including need-to-know access, configurable automatic document numbering and naming conventions, the optional use of corporate templates, and more.  “We created Aras VPLM to enable Autodesk users to expand the capabilities

Using Delcam’s PowerSHAPE CAD, PowerMILL CAM and PowerINSPECT inspection software helps precision engineering company, Amdale, to combine rapid lead times, high quality and competitive value with engineering excellence in order to be its customers’ supplier of choice. Amdale, a family-owned business formed in Portsmouth in 1988 to provide an EDM wire erosion facility and round-the-clock manufacturing and engineering support, is currently progressing through a five-year expansion and diversification plan.  The company increased its five-axis machining capacity with the addition of two new DMG/Mori Seiki machining centres earlier this year, following a factory extension to 7,700 sq ft last year. Amdale is heavily involved in manufacturing development parts for 1.6 litre turbocharged V6 engines, which will take over from the current 2.4 litre V8 engines at the start of the 2014 F1 season.  The company is also working on mechanical kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS) and on the development of a high-performance electric

Over 300 sheet metal manufacturers learned how Radan is becoming much more than an isolated CAD/CAM system, when they attended a series of User Group Meetings around the UK. As well as detailing the wide range of new and enhanced functionality in its 2014 release, they also gave delegates a preview of its developing logistics modules. Radan Sales and Major Accounts Manager Kevin O’Connor says: “It’s all about the evolution of CAD/CAM. We’ve been a leading CAM supplier to the sheet metal industry for 35 years, but our logistics suite takes us outside our core CAD/CAM. Interfacing with other software such as MRP, along with automating the method in which customers can bring data into their system, is vital for Radan to integrate more fully into a company’s complete I.T. structure.” While the first of the logistics modules, Radimport, is available now, Radan Product Manager Olaf Körner previewed Radquote which launches early next

Lectra is pleased to announce the appointment of Eric Hubert as deputy sales director, responsible for sales development. Based at the company’s headquarters, in Paris, he reports to Edouard Macquin, Lectra sales director, whose team he has strengthened. In addition to the worldwide organization already in place for Lectra’s major strategic accounts, Eric Hubert’s objective is to work alongside the company’s numerous subsidiaries in deploying the sales strategy, in order to better serve all its customers. In particular, he is responsible for piloting the deployment and adoption of sales methods adapted to all sizes of company. “Lectra’s customers, spread across the world, present different profiles. In order to better answer their specific needs, we have created an approach that takes into account their specific features,” said Daniel Harari, Lectra CEO. “To bring greater value to our customers, we have also started to strengthen our sales teams through a far-reaching recruitment plan.” “Lectra wants