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PLM Industry SummaryEditor: Christine Bennett

Vol. 10 No. 28 Friday 11 July 2008

Contents Acquisitions _______________________________________________________________________ 2

Technia to Acquire Ravalik Oy in Finland – Strengthening the Company’s Position as the Leading Supplier of PLM Systems in the Nordic Region _______________________________________________________2

CIMdata News _____________________________________________________________________ 3 New Opinion Poll: What is the primary driver for deploying PLM solutions within your business? _______3

Company News _____________________________________________________________________ 4 ASCENT Updates Four Autodesk Training Guides _____________________________________________4 Autodesk Announces Salzburg, Austria, as First Pilot City of Its Digital Cities Initiative _______________5 Autodesk Names CADD Microsystems Americas Reseller of the Quarter ___________________________6 Cooperation Agreement: ProSTEP iViP and ASD-STAN are Jointly Setting International Standards _____6 Eurostep Nominated for Microsoft .Net Awards _______________________________________________7 First Place At Michelin Again _____________________________________________________________7 Mastercam #1 among CAM Software Applications _____________________________________________8 Sales of Zuken’s CADSTAR Solution in America Doubled Last Year Thanks to Tropical PCB Design Services Inc. ___________________________________________________________________________9 SolidCAM Fastest Growing CAM Vendor in 2007 - reports CIMdata ______________________________9 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Global ISV Technology Innovation Special Recognition Award __ 10

Events News ______________________________________________________________________ 11 Delcam to Launch New FeatureCAM Release at IMTS ________________________________________ 11 DP Technology Corp. Introduces ESPRIT 2009 and ESPRIT Mold Version 10 ______________________ 12 DP Technology Italy hosts Third Annual User Meeting July 15 in Parma, Italy ______________________ 12 Surfware, Inc. and Swift-Carb CNC to Launch Swift-Carb TrueMill(R) Certified Series of Cutters at IMTS, 2008 ________________________________________________________________________________ 13

Financial News ___________________________________________________________________ 13 AVEVA Group Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 April 2008 to 30 June 2008_______ 13 Cadence Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results Webcast _____________________________ 14 PTC to Announce Fiscal Q3 Results on Tuesday, July 22nd and Host Conference Call on Wednesday, July 23rd at 8:30 am ET _____________________________________________________________________ 15

Implementation Investments _________________________________________________________ 15 Atrion Delivers Key Value to Three New Accounts Within The Food & Beverage Industry ____________ 15 Cadence Virtuoso IC 6.1 Successfully Deployed by Matsushita for Analog and Mixed-Signal SOC Designs ____________________________________________________________________________________ 16 Cambric Switches to the HyperWorks CAE Suite as Its Simulation Backbone Worldwide _____________ 17 CDS Catalog Selected by Hi Plains Filtration ________________________________________________ 18 Daktronics Selects Fishbowl Solutions and EAC as Their Preferred Partners for Their PTC® Product Development System Initiative ____________________________________________________________ 18 Dassault Systèmes Renews its R&D Support for K-Challenge America’s Cup Team __________________ 19 Delcam Crispin Software Keeps Footwear Company One Step Ahead _____________________________ 20 Euphonic Technologies Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success With DesignWare IP for PCI Express ______ 21 Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. Selects CMstat ____________________________________________ 21 Force Protection Industries Chooses HyperWorks Simulation Platform for Military Vehicle Product Development __________________________________________________________________________ 22 Free Source Energies Selects Arena PLM to Streamline Processes and Make Geothermal Energy More

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Broadly Available ______________________________________________________________________ 23 JSC NPO Saturn Extends its Usage of Software From ANSYS __________________________________ 24 Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Expands with AVEVA _____________________________ 25 Renesas Adopts Cadence Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator With Turbo Technology ________________ 25 Sixty Formula SAE Teams Join the CFdesign Premier Sponsorship Program _______________________ 26 Thermal Simulation Reduces Cost of Stacked Module Potting Compound 50% ______________________ 27 University of Glasgow Purchases 200 Licenses of SolidWorks Software ___________________________ 28

Product News _____________________________________________________________________ 29 Autodesk and Bentley to Advance AEC Software Interoperability ________________________________ 29 Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Connectors for Aras _________________________________________ 30 Awaited Release of KOMPAS-3D V10 is Coming Soon ________________________________________ 31 Bentley Unveils Bentley Gas V8 XM Edition ________________________________________________ 32 CEI's EnSight Visualization Suite to Be Distributed in Israel by J-Rom Ltd. ________________________ 33 Dassault Systèmes and Sogeti Group Sign Industry Solution Alliance _____________________________ 33 Dassault Systèmes Unveils ENOVIA High Tech Accelerator for New Part Request and Development ____ 34 Delcam Launches Latest Version of PartMaker CAM Software __________________________________ 35 Enable Regulatory Compliance with printLogic 5.6 - Coastal Logic's Dassault Enovia MatrixOne Batch Printing Integration _____________________________________________________________________ 36 First Trace Releases Korrigo Engineering Document Management Solution ________________________ 36 Geometric Releases Version 6.1 of ‘eDrawings Professional for Autodesk Inventor’ __________________ 37 hyperMILL® Certified and Seamlessly Integrated in Autodesk® Inventor™ 2009 ___________________ 38 ICP Solution Joins Aras Partner Program ____________________________________________________ 40 Invention Machine Adds New Multi-Lingual and Risk Analysis Capabilities to Goldfire Innovator to Further Accelerate and Sustain Product Innovation __________________________________________________ 41 Just When You Thought it was Safe to go Back in the Water: STAR-CCM+ V3.04 __________________ 42 LMS Releases LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim Rev 8A ___________________________________________ 43 National Instruments DIAdem 11.0 Expands Test Data Management and Visualization _______________ 44 New WorkNC Module Optimizes Feedrates to Cut Machining Times by up to 20% __________________ 44 Oracle Delivers Oracle’s AutoVue Enterprise Visualization 19.3 _________________________________ 45 PaTech To Promote and Sell Altair's HyperWorks Platform _____________________________________ 47 Power Forward Initiative Momentum Continues With Addition of Three Leading Japanese Design Services Companies ___________________________________________________________________________ 48 Selerant Releases DevEX 2.0 with Features and Functionality that Take a Completely New View on PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) __________________________________________________________ 49 Standard for Component- and Geometric Data Descriptions in the Harness Environment Released ______ 50 Think3 Signs Partnership With Think PLM Solutions to Strengthen its Presence in the UK and US ______ 51

Acquisitions Technia to Acquire Ravalik Oy in Finland – Strengthening the Company’s Position as the Leading Supplier of PLM Systems in the Nordic Region 4 July 2008

Technia is to acquire the Finnish PLM supplier Ravalik Oy. The company generates sales of approximately SEK 35 M and is one of the leading players in Finland in its field. Its customers include several leading companies in the manufacturing industry and telecommunications. The acquisition is an supplement to the existing operations and means that Technia will become the leading PLM supplier in Finland, at the same time as the company’s position as the Nordic region’s leading supplier of PLM systems is strengthened.


Technia is one of the largest in the Nordic area and one of Europe’s leading supplier of PLM systems. PLM is a shared concept for systems that handle information and processes for the entire lifecycle of a product, from planning, design, development, production and sale to aftermarket support. The IT solutions are largely based on the software from Dassault Systemes and proprietary components.

“The acquisition is entirely in line with our Nordic growth strategy. Ravalik is well-managed with a superb reputation and this acquisition means that we will further advance our position in Finland. Ravalik is the perfect match to our existing business and supplements Technia in a variety of ways. We envisage elevated demand for PLM systems, and with Ravalik’s expertise we will broaden our offering and increase delivery capacity,” says Hans Wolfhagen, CEO of Technia.

Ravalik has successfully completed more than 500 project deliveries since it was founded in 1989. The company has 21 employees and generated sales of approximately SEK 35 M in the 2007 financial year. Similar to Technia, Ravalik’s PLM solutions are based on software from Dassault Systemes and proprietary components. Ravalik has also developed its own product platform for product-data management, which has been delivered to many international customers.

After the acquisition of Ravalik, Technia will have 200 employees in Sweden, Finland and Norway.

“We are looking forward to developing our business together with Technia, a company with a very strong brand a good reputation in the industry. Technia’s strong position in the Nordic region offers many opportunities for securing new business and broadening our offering. Together we will become the strongest player in Finland and look forward to an exciting future at Technia filled with many possibilities,” says Mikko Viertola, President of Ravalik Oy.

“The sale of Ravalik is an industrially correct move for all parties concerned – our employees, our customers and our suppliers. Aided by its personnel and customer base, Ravalik will strengthen Technia’s market position. Similarly, based on their size Technia and Addnode (Technia’s parent company ) will secure general growth and a broad offering to Ravalik’s existing customers,” says Pertti Pöntinen, founder and principal owner of Ravalik Oy.

For more information please contact:

Hans Wolfhagen

CEO Technia AB and Business Area Manager, Product Lifecycle Management

Tel: +46 733 772 412

E-mail: [email protected]

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CIMdata News New Opinion Poll: What is the primary driver for deploying PLM solutions within your business? 11 July 2008

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Company News ASCENT Updates Four Autodesk Training Guides 8 July 2008

RAND Worldwide announced that its courseware division, ASCENT – Center for Technical Knowledge®, released four updated training guides to its curriculum line-up for Autodesk® 2009 software:

- AutoCAD Electrical 2009 Fundamentals

- Civil 3D 2009 Fundamentals

- Inventor 2009 Advanced Assembly Modeling

- Revit Architecture 2009 Fundamentals

AutoCAD Electrical 2009 Fundamentals covers the core topics for working with AutoCAD® Electrical 2009. The training guide teaches users how to create schematic and panel drawings, and PLC/IO circuits using automated commands for symbol insertion, component tagging, wire numbering, and drawing modification. New topics added to the training guide include AutoCAD® Electrical 2009’s enhanced Symbol Builder interface, which uses the AutoCAD Block Editor to streamline the creation of AutoCAD Electrical Symbols and the Circuit Builder, which allows users to dynamically create and customize circuits, such as motor control circuits.

The Civil 3D 2009 Fundamentals training guide is designed for Civil Engineers and Surveyors who are new to the Civil 3D® 2009 software environment. The guide introduces the application and teaches users the tools to create standardized civil engineering, drafting, and GIS projects. The training enables students to complete transportation, site, sewer, storm drain, and subdivision projects quickly, while using the tools to dynamically link and generate automatic design updates, which reduce costly errors. A new optional training module has been added, which teaches users how to share data between team members using data shortcuts or Vault. The course contains six other comprehensive modules focusing on the application interface; surfaces, alignments, profiles and production tools; assemblies, corridors and sections; pipes and grading; and parcels.

The Inventor 2009 Advanced Assembly Modeling guide is the third course in ASCENT’s recently released Inventor 2009 Introduction to Solid Modeling and Inventor 2009 Advanced Part Modeling training guide series. This course concentrates on the Top-Down Design approach for assembly creation. The training guide covers the Inventor® tools available for Top-Down Design and other advanced assembly features aimed at increasing design efficiency, including positional and level of detail representations, iMates and iAssemblies, frame generator, design accelerator and file management techniques. The course also provides an Inventor® Studio overview and teaches users how to render and animate realistic images, as well as introduces users how to use the assembly bill of material functionality.

Revit Architecture 2009 Fundamentals teaches students how to create full 3D architectural project models and set them up in working drawings. The guide focuses on applying Building Information


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Management (BIM) in Revit® Architecture 2009 and the basic design development tools users require to work effectively within the software. These include creating basic floor plans, setting up levels and grids, making design changes, and using specialty objects such as stairs, railings, ramps, and curtain walls. The updated guide includes a new project model that reflects a real world 3D architectural model.

“ASCENT continues its commitment to enhancing and changing its courseware based on responses and suggestions from our clients,” said Joe Oswald, Executive Vice-President, PLM Operations, North American and Europe, RAND Worldwide. “Our Revit Architecture 2009 Fundamentals training guide is an ideal example of this commitment. We invested more than a year updating the training guide to reflect the real world terminology and projects our clients were seeking from us and the training they require to better utilize their Revit Architecture software.”

ASCENT is an Authorized Author, Publisher and Developer of the Autodesk® curriculum. All of the company’s Autodesk® courses are available to educational institutions, individuals, and corporations.


Autodesk Announces Salzburg, Austria, as First Pilot City of Its Digital Cities Initiative 8 July 2008

Autodesk, Inc. announced it will be working with the city of Salzburg, Austria, as the first pilot city in Autodesk's new Digital Cities initiative. The announcement was made with the Mayor of Salzburg at the AGIT 2008 conference in Salzburg.

The Digital City initiative is Autodesk's technology designed to provide a collaborative environment for visualizing, analyzing and simulating the future impact of urban design and development at a city-wide scale.

Autodesk has chosen to work with Salzburg to help them integrate their city data into a highly detailed 3D model of their city. This combination of city data with realistic visualization and simulation tools can allow Salzburg to view and interact with the city landscape, as well as analyze the impact of future urban planning, tourism and economic development projects before they are built.

Scientific personnel from Salzburg University's Center of Geoinformation (Z_GIS) are involved with the implementation of Digital City for the city of Salzburg. "As a competence center for geoinformation, we are pleased to be able to contribute to one of the most ambitious innovation projects worldwide, and to be able to do this in our home town of Salzburg. Thanks to this project, students can benefit from gaining decisive knowledge advantages and participating companies in Salzburg can develop services upon this new platform. In this way, the Z_GIS will be strongly oriented to economic, scientific and administrative interfaces."

About Digital Cities Technology

A Digital City allows stakeholders from the public, city government, construction, and business communities to work together to understand how many different proposals could impact the urban environment by experiencing the future of the city before it becomes real.

The goal of this pilot program is for Salzburg to be able to bring together 3D models of above and below ground features in an open platform that supports secure integration of CAD, building information modeling (BIM), geospatial, civil engineering, and infrastructure data over a wide geographic area. By combining this data with realistic visualization, analysis and simulation tools, a Digital City can deliver

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an intuitive and compelling way to understand the impact of plans and proposals from any point in time and from any point of view.

For more information about Digital Cities, visit http://www.autodesk.com/digitalcities.


Autodesk Names CADD Microsystems Americas Reseller of the Quarter 11 July 2008

Autodesk announced that it has selected CADD Microsystems, Inc. as Reseller of the Quarter for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009. The designation recognizes the reseller not only for its sales performance and dedication to customer service, but also for the growth of its operations and its investments in the business of selling Autodesk software. Autodesk selected CADD Microsystems from among more than 100 resellers throughout the Americas.

Based in Alexandria, Va., and serving the Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Northern Virginia area, CADD Microsystems provides software to customers in architecture, construction, civil engineering, facilities management, GIS (geographic information systems), mapping, visualization and government. In addition to its status as an Autodesk Authorized Training Center, CADD Microsystems is also an Autodesk Premier Solutions Provider, the top tier of the Autodesk reseller channel for civil engineering, building architecture, federal government and state and local government.

CADD Microsystems partners with its customers to help ensure the best solution for their design needs. For example, CADD Microsystems worked closely with Ayers/Saint/Gross Architects + Planners to help with the firm's adoption of building information modeling (BIM) and Revit-based software. The firm has had great success using Revit Architecture and Autodesk 3ds Max software on several high-profile projects. Working with CADD Microsystems to implement Autodesk solutions has helped Ayers/Saint/Gross improve workflows and efficiency.

The Reseller of the Quarter designation is based on factors such as quality of customer service and support, overall sales, vertical sales and overall growth. Customer adoption of integrated solutions and 3D design technologies like Revit Architecture software has helped to propel CADD Microsystems' growth.


Cooperation Agreement: ProSTEP iViP and ASD-STAN are Jointly Setting International Standards 5 July 2008

The standardization organizations ASD-STAN (Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe – Standardization) and ProSTEP iViP sealed a cooperation agreement on July 1st, 2008, Goal of this new alliance is to faster release standards on an international scale for the automobile- and aerospace industry with the support of the project group „LOTAR – Long Term Archiving and Retrieval“. LOTAR is working on long-term archiving of digital product data in the automobile- and aerospace industry in order to save this data securely for years.

“Thus we are reaching a new quality in the area of standardization “, said Gunter Lessmann, Director of ASD-STAN which is based in Brussels. “In doing so we make sure that the working results of the LOTAR-project can be transferred into standards on a European as well as international level at the

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same time.”

The project group LOTAR is developing a standard on long-term archiving of digital product data in the automobile- and aerospace industry under the patronage of ASD-STAN and ProSTEP iViP. At this time LOTAR is establishing methods, processes and models for the archiving of 3D-geometric data and product structure information. ASD Stan ensures that these working results are available to the aerospace industry as standard of the EN9300 series as quickly as possible. Therefore the organization co-operates with the European standardization committee CEN and American mirror organizations (Aerospace Industries Association – AIA). The LOTAR standards are very important for the aerospace industry, because they are referred to in any certification and authorization process.

About the ProSTEP iViP Association

The ProSTEP iViP Association is an international branch-specific community comprising leading companies in the automotive and aerospace industries, system vendors and research institutes. The aim of the ProSTEP iViP Association is to find solutions for the challenges facing the manufacturing industry as a result of networked collaboration in a worldwide development network.

A concept based on a coherent, cross-organizational and cross-domain view of data, processes and systems provides a solid foundation for meeting these challenges. The Association’s five main areas of focus reflect this approach: process management, system integration, product data standardization, engineering collaboration and knowledge transfer.

The ProSTEP iViP Association is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, and was founded in October 1993 by 38 industrial companies and a number of system vendors as part of the German STEP initiative. Members of the ProSTEP iViP Association currently include about 200 companies and organizations from 17 nations.


Eurostep Nominated for Microsoft .Net Awards 8 July 2008

Eurostep has been nominated for the Microsoft .Net awards with its standards based PLM collaboration software Share-A-space™

From a record number of submissions Share-A-space™ is one of three candidates in the ISV category nominated for the final round.

The price ceremony will take place in Kista, Sweden on September 4 as part of the Microsoft Summit.

During 2008 Share-A-space™ has been certified for Windows Server 2008 and Eurostep has in addition become a Microsoft Gold Partner.


First Place At Michelin Again 8 July 2008

The Formula Student is an international engineering competition that was founded in the US in 1981 and is now held in seven different countries each year. The main organizer is the world’s largest engineer’s society, the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers).


The Formula Student is based on the idea that a company orders the construction of a race car prototype for amateur race car drivers. The vehicle has to fulfill certain requirements, which means that the competition is conceived in such a way that all aspects are evaluated, from the design to the cost control and from the marketing to the practical usability.

During the annual competitions in the US, Germany, England, Italy Australia, Brazil and Japan, the race cars go up against a large international group of participants.

For a long time there were no specific Formula Student tires that matched the small race cars. The tires that were used were therefore often unsuitable and very expensive on top, since they had to be imported from overseas.

Michelin responded to this challenge several years ago and developed tires with a mixture that specifically matched the race cars. This prompted Dr. Astrid Kurth, who is in charge of the Michelin college marketing in Karlsruhe, to create a competition for all German Formula Student teams.

This year a graphic illustration of the Michelin Bibendum as a team member was requested. After the final round at the German corporate headquarters in Karlsruhe, the winner was clear: just as in the year before, the first place was awarded to the Running Snail Team of the Amberg-Weiden College, which made an impression with its successful photo montage that showed the Michelin man next to the Running Snail.

TraceParts GmbH would like to express its warmest congratulations and hopes that the Running Snail Racing Team makes another successful start into the racing season 2008.

It is also worth mentioning that Michelin has been a very loyal customer of TraceParts since 1995. Three successful partners have therefore come together here.


Mastercam #1 among CAM Software Applications July 2008

The most recent analysis of CAM software seats produced by CIMdata, Inc. shows that CNC Software’s Mastercam® is once again the world’s most widely-used CAM software for the 14th straight year. With almost 136,000 installed seats worldwide, Mastercam has more than twice the installed base of the closest competitor.

CNC Software President Mark Summers says, “There is a lot of competition in the CAM market today, and we are pleased to be at the top. We have worked hard to develop the best CAD/CAM software we possibly can by constantly updating our software to reflect our customer’s needs.”

CNC Software is the leader in global installed seats among all CAM vendors. CIMdata Chairman Alan Christman notes, “As in prior years, Mastercam has proven itself to be the most widely-used CAM software in the world, based on total installed seats. When those installed seats are broken out, it also ranks #1 in both the industrial and educational markets.”

“CNC Software always strives to be the leader in the CAD/CAM industry,” Summers comments. “We’re happy that Mastercam’s popularity means more people know the software. This means shops have an easier time finding good programmers, students entering the workplace know our software, and individuals who know Mastercam have an easier time finding a good job.”

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Sales of Zuken’s CADSTAR Solution in America Doubled Last Year Thanks to Tropical PCB Design Services Inc. 2 July 2008

Tropical PCB Design experienced great success with Zuken’s CADSTAR PCB design solution. The popularity of CADSTAR rocketed in '07-'08, with sales doubling in numbers from previous fiscal years. Recognizing this triumph, Zuken announced Tropical PCB Design Services Inc. the American CADSTAR Distributor of the Year.

"A 100% increase in CADSTAR sales for the Americas is an amazing feat - representing a monumental break-through for Zuken," said Jeroen Leinders, CADSTAR Distribution Manager.

Leinders continued, "This achievement can be attributed to two main factors: a recognition by customers that CADSTAR is a stable solution backed by Zuken’s strong commitment to its development; and the improvement in Tropical’s internal processes to deliver more value and better customer service."

Tropical PCB Design Services Inc., headquartered in sunny Florida, is headed up by company president, Sam Burton.

For more information about CADSTAR visit http://www.cadstarworld.com and to find out further details about Tropical visit www.tropicalpcb.com


SolidCAM Fastest Growing CAM Vendor in 2007 - reports CIMdata 11 July 2008

SolidCAM was once again named, the most rapidly-growing CAM vendor worldwide by prominent consulting and market research firm, CIMdata.

In its recently published, “NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment report Version 17”, CIMdata ranked SolidCAM as “the worldwide fastest-growing NC software vendor in 2007 with a revenue growth rate of 37.1%.” CIMdata also forecasted that “SolidCAM again will be a fast-growing vendor in 2008 with a growth rate of 30%.”

Mr. Alan Christman, CIMdata Chairman and primary author of the report, stated that “SolidCAM is implementing a distinctive business and product strategy, their revenue growth rate is exceptional, and they have a broad-based, easy-to-use, competitive CAM product offering” and concluded that “SolidCAM is rapidly becoming a significant player in the worldwide CAM marketplace.”

Dr. Emil Somekh, founder and Managing Director of SolidCAM, believes that SolidCAM is reaping the fruits of a carefully planned and implemented strategy. “The results reflect the size of the SolidWorks market in need of a powerful and fully integrated CAM solution, and the acceptance of SolidCAM as the de-facto integrated CAM engine for SolidWorks by an ever growing portion of the marketplace.”

“We have been catering to an exceptionally diversified customer base, providing a strong solution for the full range of their machining needs. Our geographical presence in over 40 countries enables us to be intimately familiar with specific market needs and to respond to those needs in a very short cycle time” added Dr. Somekh.

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Being totally integrated in SolidWorks, the leading mainstream 3D CAD system, SolidCAM provides all the necessary operations for the manufacturing of a part inside SolidWorks. With its seamless single-window integration in SolidWorks, SolidCAM enables the user to define, calculate and verify all the machining operations in the SolidWorks environment. All geometries used for machining are fully associative with the SolidWorks design model. When the geometry of a part is modified, SolidCAM enables the user to automatically synchronise all machining operations with the updated geometry.

SolidCAM creates efficient toolpaths and supports advanced CAM intelligence including knowledge-based manufacturing processes and automatic feature recognition and machining (AFRM).

Mr. Christman added that he is “favorably impressed by the core SolidCAM strategy to be closely aligned with and embedded within SolidWorks, the SolidCAM decision to only develop CAM products, the extensions to their product line in high-speed and 5-axis machining, and the breadth and depth of their CAM product offerings that meets the needs of a broad range of industries and users.”

Additional information about the CIMdata report can be found at http://www.cimdata.com/press/PR08-0603.htm


2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Global ISV Technology Innovation Special Recognition Award 8 July 2008

Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced it has won the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Global ISV Technology Innovation Partner of the Year Special Recognition Award. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft Partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

“We are pleased to receive the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Global ISV Technology Innovation Special Recognition Award. Our strategy is to provide all communities - creators, collaborators and consumers - with immersive, lifelike experiences in 3D,” said Florence Hu-Aubigny, VP of 3DVIA R&D, Dassault Systèmes. “Our PLM 2.0 solutions like 3DLive for powerful and easy collaboration online and Virtual Earth 3DVIA enabling 3D modeling for all strategically leverage Microsoft technologies, putting the power of innovation in the hands of everyone so that they may build a better world.”

Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 2,000 entrants worldwide. Dassault Systemes was recognized for superior technology and innovation in Global ISV Technology Innovation. The Microsoft Global ISV Innovative Technology Partner of the Year Award is given to the Global ISV Partner who has developed a solution based on the Microsoft technology platform that has had powerful market impact. The partner’s solution has demonstrated technology innovation that pushes the boundaries of next generation software. The Special Recognition Award acknowledges the global partner that has demonstrated leadership in driving Microsoft technology in a creative and ambitious way.

“Dassault Systemes’ ground breaking work in security, online collaboration, and the application of 3D modeling to geo-location distinguishes them as a true software industry innovator. Their solutions take 3D computing to a new level and show the full power of the software-plus-services strategy,” said Walid Abu-Hadba, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Developer and Platform Evangelism.

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The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year.


Events News Delcam to Launch New FeatureCAM Release at IMTS 7 July 2008

Delcam will launch the new version of its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system at the IMTS exhibition to be held in Chicago from 8th to 13th September. FeatureCAM 2009 incorporates enhancements across its complete range of functionality, reflecting the increased investment in product development following Delcam’s acquisition of the software in 2005.

An important area for the new release is increased support for mill-turn equipment. These machines are becoming more popular because of their ability to complete parts in a single set-up on one machine instead of having to use multiple set-ups on two or more different pieces of equipment. FeatureCAM development has focused on support for the more complex machines, those featuring multiple turrets and/or multiple spindles. Additional post-processors for these types of machine have also been introduced.

Work has continued on extending the range of five-axis options introduced in FeatureCAM 2008. The software now supports both positional and continuous five-axis operation, five-axis trimming and five-axis drilling. All these options allow productivity to be improved by enabling parts to be produced in one or two set-ups that would otherwise require multiple set-ups and/or special fixturing.

Another key area for development has been four-axis simultaneous milling. This provides programming for milling machines with rotary tables and gives a more comprehensive solution than the existing options for rotary milling and fourth-axis wrapping that were in previous versions of FeatureCAM. Like the mill-turn and five-axis enhancements, this new functionality will allow users to tackle more sophisticated parts than could be programmed before.

Developments have also continued with the more fundamental machining operations. The main enhancement to the FeatureTURN module has been the addition of support for form tools. Other improvements include more efficient threading, better control of undercutting, and extra options for pre-drilling before boring. Similarly, 2D machining has been enhanced with improvements to thread milling, easier control of feeds and speeds, support for a wider range of engraving tools. In addition, substantial improvements have been made to the FeatureWIRE module, the highlight being faster and easier recognition of 4-axis wire features.

Finally, three-axis milling has been made more efficient, for example when machining preforms like castings or parts that have already been rough machined. The new version minimises air cutting thanks to the ability to limit toolpaths to the stock model. Since no cutting moves are generated outside this boundary, an efficient toolpath strategy can be created more quickly and more easily.



DP Technology Corp. Introduces ESPRIT 2009 and ESPRIT Mold Version 10 3 July 2008

ESPRIT® 2009 and ESPRIT Mold Version 10, the latest versions of computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) software produced by DP Technology, were introduced at ESPRIT World Conference 2008, which took place this spring in Denver, Colo.

Attended by over 300 members of the ESPRIT community — including resellers, end-users and business partners — the world conference was a platform for the debut of both new software releases, as well as an opportunity for participants to receive detailed technical training and provide feedback on the new features in ESPRIT 2009 and ESPRIT Mold Version 10.

Held annually to provide the ESPRIT community with vital technical training, networking opportunities and exposure to the latest product developments, ESPRIT World Conference continues to grow each year and attracts attendees from around the world.

DP Technology demonstrates its commitment to technical excellence by dedicating nearly 20 percent of its annual revenues to ongoing research and product development, as well as by focusing on the short-term needs of existing customers and vital long-term trends in the metal-working community.

The latest versions of ESPRIT CAM software are the result of DP’s effort to create balance when addressing short and long-term needs, and include a significant number of enhancements and new technologies for milling, turning and wire EDM part programming. The company’s balanced focus has resulted in its consistent creation of powerful technological innovations — and has placed ESPRIT in an industry-leading position since its market launch in 1985.

ESPRIT 2009 and ESPRIT Mold v10 will be introduced to the public at IMTS in Chicago, Ill., Sept. 8-13, 2008. Existing ESPRIT customers with an active software maintenance contract will begin receiving updates for the latest version of the software in the fall of 2008.


DP Technology Italy hosts Third Annual User Meeting July 15 in Parma, Italy 8 July 2008

DP Technology announced that its Italian office, Auton, will conduct its third annual user meeting on July 15 in Parma, Italy.

Meeting participants will attend a general presentation conducted by knowledgeable Auton staff, followed by a series of technical sessions focused on new technologies and enhancements that will be made available in ESPRIT 2009 and Auton (ESPRIT Mold) Version 10.

Additionally, customers will be given copies of an early release of ESPRIT Mold v10 and the opportunity to provide feedback on the software.

“The feedback of Auton's customer base is precious for ESPRIT Mold software development, since it is used mainly within highly specialized moldmaking industries,” said Simone Festevoli, applications engineer for Auton. “The latest cutting-edge five-axis machining technologies are used to produce complex parts in the aerospace, automotive, and all other industrial sectors.”

Roughly 100 attendees are expected to participate in the Auton user meeting.

Meeting participants will meet directly with Auton’s product development staff, including the product


manager, applications engineers and resellers — who will be on hand to provide “qualified hints” and receive feedback from customers.

For information in Italian on the annual user’s meeting, including the benefits of participation, a detailed agenda and registration details, visit http://www.auton.it/it/news.


Surfware, Inc. and Swift-Carb CNC to Launch Swift-Carb TrueMill(R) Certified Series of Cutters at IMTS, 2008 10 July 2008

Surfware, Inc. and Kent, Washington-based Swift-Carb CNC, a New Tech cutting tools company, announced that cutting tools built specifically to optimize TrueMill's patented cutter path will be launched in September, 2008 at IMTS (the International Manufacturing Technology Show) in Chicago.

"We are delighted that Swift-Carb has chosen to dedicate a line of tools to TrueMill," says Stephen Diehl, President and CEO of Surfware, Inc. "With our new release of Velocity 4, the TrueMill technology for milling has achieved new levels of productivity. We are pleased to show clients the extra speed offered by using the dedicated Swift-Carb TrueMill Certified Series of cutters."

"We have seen repeatedly that TrueMill makes good on its promise to produce significantly faster - in some cases over 100% -- cycle times and two to four times tool life," says Steve Swift, President of Swift-Carb. "With the patent pending 'engagement angle' or 'TEA' method that TrueMill uses to calculate their tool path, the TrueMill tool path achieves what all tool path systems have been trying to accomplish from the beginning."

"The core problem in milling has always been the inability to control the cutting tool's engagement with the material," explains Diehl. "This makes it physically impossible to keep the load on the tool constant and forces machines to be run at far less aggressive cutting parameters than they are capable of, resulting in longer cycle times.

"TrueMill solves this core problem. The motion of the toolpath is designed with consideration for the in-process material boundary everywhere along the toolpath to ensure that the tool is never over-engaged for any part geometry Controlling the engagement angle and using smooth motions allows the tool to run at an exceptionally fast and consistent federate, resulting in an exceptional reduction in cycle time."

"The difference between our TrueMill series end mill compared to others out there is the substrate, geometry, and coatings used," says Swift. "A tool like this has never been made before."

This combination of leading edge CAM software and cutting tool technology will be unveiled at the IMTS show in September. Surfware will feature the Swift-Carb TrueMill Certified series of Cutters at its booth, D3210.


Financial News AVEVA Group Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 April 2008 to 30 June 2008 10 July 2008

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Ahead of today's Annual General Meeting AVEVA Group plc announced its Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 April 2008 to 30 June 2008.

The Group has had a good start to the financial year and is pleased with the progress made so far, which is in line with the Board's expectations. Levels of demand remain high across its geographies and in all of the sectors in which it operates. The Asia-Pacific and the Central, Eastern and Southern European regions remain particularly strong with new customer wins across many of our vertical markets. In the Americas and Western Europe, the Middle East and Africa markets we continue to see expanding opportunities in our traditional verticals as our customers expand usage and look to new solutions to increase efficiencies.

AVEVA's design solutions, supported by the recent upgrades to both AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine, continue to be in high demand particularly in the Oil & Gas, Power & Marine industries. At the same time, and as previously announced, the Group is pushing ahead with its plan to increase its presence in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) markets with its AVEVA NET solutions.

AVEVA's continued focus on developing a broad range of software products that help manage the increasing complexity of engineering projects, combined with strong relationships with some of the world's leading companies and exposure to buoyant industries, means that at this early stage in the year, the Board remains optimistic about the Group's growth prospects.

The Group's financial strength and market position allows significant investment in its sales network and product development, as it looks to capitalise on the growth in existing markets and exploit new opportunities which are constantly being identified.


Cadence Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results Webcast 3 July 2008

WHO:

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. to announce second quarter 2008 financial results via Webcast.

WHAT:

You are invited to attend the second quarter 2008 financial results audio Webcast. Participating on the Webcast will be Mike Fister, president and chief executive officer, and Kevin Palatnik, senior vice president and chief financial officer.

WHEN:

The Webcast will begin Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 2 p.m. (Pacific)/5 p.m. (Eastern). An archive of the Webcast will be available from 5 p.m. (Pacific) July 23 until 5 p.m. (Pacific) July 30.

WHERE:

The Web cast will be available online at: http://www.cadence.com/company/investor_relations.


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PTC to Announce Fiscal Q3 Results on Tuesday, July 22nd and Host Conference Call on Wednesday, July 23rd at 8:30 am ET 9 July 2008

PTC announced that it will release its fiscal 2008 third quarter results on Tuesday, July 22rd after the stock market closes. Senior management will host a live webcast and conference call to review the results on Wednesday, July 23rd at 8:30 am Eastern Time. The earnings press release and accompanying financial and operating statistics will be accessible on the Company's web site prior to the conference call and webcast.

What: PTC Fiscal Q3 Conference Call and Webcast

When: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time

Dial-in: 1-888-566-8560 or 1-517-623-4768

Call Leader: Richard Harrison

Passcode: PTC

Webcast: http://www.ptc.com/for/investors.htm

Replay: The audio replay of this event will be archived for public replay until 4:00 pm on July 28, 2008 at 1-866-516-0671 or 1-203-369-2035. To access the replay via webcast, please visit http://www.ptc.com/for/investors.htm. Please note that statements on the conference call are as of the date of the call and PTC does not assume any obligation to update any statements made live or the archived call. In addition, matters discussed may include forward-looking statements about PTC's anticipated financial results and growth, as well as about the development of products and markets, which are based on current plans and assumptions. Actual results in future periods may differ materially from current expectations due to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those described from time to time in reports filed by PTC with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including PTC's most recent report on Forms 10-Q and 10-K.


Implementation Investments Atrion Delivers Key Value to Three New Accounts Within The Food & Beverage Industry 25 June 2008

Atrion International, Inc., announced new contracts for its Regulatory Analysis Solution (RAS™) with three key North American and European Food and Beverage organizations, including Manheimer (member of Kerry Group), Cargill Flavor Systems and A.M Todd. RAS™ is an automated regulatory compliance application that has been specifically designed to integrate with Infor’s Optiva Product Lifecycle Management solution. The combined offering enables Optiva users to address the increasing regulatory complexity surrounding food safety, health claims and ingredient usage by integrating automated compliance early in the product lifecycle.

“The momentum we are gaining in the Food and Beverage Industry is validating Atrion’s reputation as the premier product compliance expert, and is opening up new market avenues for us to explore”, said David Lavoie, Executive Vice President of Partner Alliances and Marketing at Atrion. “Through our

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partnership with Infor, we are delivering a functionally-rich product compliance solution specific to this Industry, which is very exciting”.

RAS is designed to optimize processes and ensure that products are designed for compliance so that the impacts of design changes and their related costs can be minimized early in the process rather than at production time. The solution facilitates not only the company’s ability to protect its brand integrity but also its ability to successfully address the challenging, dynamic, and ever increasing complex global regulatory requirements, including the new REACH legislation being implemented in Europe.

At the core of the RAS solution is Atrion’s Compliance Expert ® application which updates Infor’s PLM Optiva instantly based on global industry and government regulatory rules. It leverages an extensive set of dynamic regulatory content (rules, forms, phrases and data) in 43 languages and multi-lingual formatting, which are validated by Atrion’s network of experts. The Atrion Compliance Expert offers automated & auditable authoring, regulatory impact assessment at the formulation stage, product event impact and change management, and auto-generation of multi-lingual\jurisdictional documents.


Cadence Virtuoso IC 6.1 Successfully Deployed by Matsushita for Analog and Mixed-Signal SOC Designs 7 July 2008

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that the newest version of the Cadence® Virtuoso® custom design platform has been deployed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand, for analog and mixed-signal advanced-node designs of Semiconductor Company of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (hereinafter called "Matsushita"). Matsushita used the Virtuoso IC 6.1 to design and verify its most complex and advanced node custom designs, aiming for design time reduction.

Cadence collaborated with Matsushita to help ensure the latest version of the platform met the needs for designers performing analog/mixed-signal (AMS) design and verification for today's complex chips. Cadence technologies are used by Matsushita to design blocks for larger AMS designs, including using design constraints to ensure that the design intent is maintained throughout the development process. The Virtuoso Analog Design Environment and the Virtuoso Layout Suite XL have been used by Matsushita to boost productivity. The company also has deployed Virtuoso Layout Migrate for IP reuse and migration.

"We have started using the new Virtuoso platform for both our advanced and legacy process nodes," said Seiji Yamaguchi, System LSI Technology Development Center Director, Semiconductor Company of Matsushita. "When we worked with Cadence under this partnership, we set a target to reduce design time by using advanced features of Virtuoso IC 6.1, and we're starting to see the objective being achieved. Our collaboration with Cadence has provided us with significant new technology to address our greatest custom design challenges."

Cadence has been working with Matsushita from the conceptual phase of Virtuoso IC 6.1. The technology provides an exceptionally fast and silicon-accurate way to design custom analog, RF, and mixed-signal ICs. Building on the Virtuoso technology's longstanding industry leadership, the latest version features an integrated design environment, modern capabilities for constraint management, and new technologies for verification and layout.

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"These results demonstrate the value of our strong relationship with Matsushita," said Srinivas Raman, corporate vice president, Research and Development of Cadence. "Cadence collaborated with Matsushita to achieve the substantial design time reduction through our close relationship; it's a model of how such cooperative engagements should work. There is an enormous amount of complexity associated with these types of designs, and we're glad that we agree with Matsushita that the Virtuoso IC 6.1 delivers the best technology for tackling these challenges."

The platform delivers integrated products on a common database to address complex design requirements across process nodes. Automated constraint management helps maintain design intent within the flow and across globally distributed design chains, and high-speed, comprehensive simulation engines enable constraint refinement. The platform's layout techniques and DFM technologies combine to deliver the best, most differentiated custom silicon possible.

With the latest version of the Virtuoso platform, customers may improve productivity with an accelerated overall IC design flow; increase design accuracy with minimized re-spins; and deliver differentiated, high-quality, custom silicon which meets demanding time-to-market schedules.


Cambric Switches to the HyperWorks CAE Suite as Its Simulation Backbone Worldwide 9 July 2008

Altair Engineering, Inc., announced that Cambric Corporation, a global provider of engineering services, is now using HyperWorks as its primary computer-aided engineering (CAE) solution to serve its customers.

Cambric supplies collaborative engineering, process design, intelligent CAD data creation, and analysis services. Founded in 1989, Cambric combines high-caliber engineering talent, customized specification development, secure data environments, and a global infrastructure to provide best-in-class solutions to engineering and manufacturing organizations in industries such as automotive, aerospace, heavy equipment, and defense.

"We work for companies that are household names in industries that range from aerospace to consumer products," said Cambric CEO Tim Hayes. "HyperWorks allows us to easily engage with customers that use a variety of solver technologies and CAD systems. Our clients expect us to be as efficient as possible, and we have found that we're more efficient and responsive to our customers' needs with HyperWorks."

"Our company culture is dedicated to engineering excellence. And if you can combine excellent engineers with the right tools, they can deliver engineering excellence. This is our goal and I will say that Altair's HyperWorks solution fits exactly into supporting this initiative."

"Many of the projects we're involved in are time-sensitive. The faster we can deliver results and direction, the faster our customers are to market, which is critical," said Paul Spangler, Cambric vice president of business development. "The unique HyperWorks licensing model enables us to be very flexible in providing our global engineering staff with the right tools, when they need them, for the projects they're working on."

"We use HyperWorks extensively for modeling and visualization but a key driver in our decision was the suite's widely accepted optimization technology, something that was missing from our previous solution," said Bogdan Balasa, director of analysis technologies for Cambric. "With OptiStruct, we are

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able to perform detailed, robust optimization studies especially for the off-highway equipment market to drive the weight out of designs, minimize in-service down-time, and improve fuel efficiency."

"We are very pleased that Cambric has selected HyperWorks as their simulation platform," said Michael J. Kidder, Altair Engineering vice president of corporate marketing. "Their distributed, global workforce and international client base really highlight the power and value of the HyperWorks business model. We look forward to working with them as they continue to apply a broader range of HyperWorks applications to support their expansion into new markets and geographies."


CDS Catalog Selected by Hi Plains Filtration 1 July 2008

Catalog Data Solutions (CDS) announced that Hi Plains Filtration, a Pampa, Texas based supplier of filtration equipment has selected the online CDS Catalog™ to present its products online.

“We wanted an easy to use online catalog with both graphical and attribute search for our customers that provides an advanced user experience online 24X7. The objective is to save the customers’ time in selecting and ordering the right part,” said Art Turner, Vice President, Hi Plains Filtration. “We chose CDS for rapid delivery, graphical and attribute search and on-demand delivery integrated directly into our website.”

“In complex products, being able to easily search by attributes and/or graphics is essential for speed,” said John Major, CEO of Catalog Data Solutions. “We are delighted that Hi Plains Filtration selected Catalog Data Solutions as this further endorses both our software and the momentum towards Software as a Service/on-demand delivery of mission critical applications.

Catalog Data Solutions helps industrial manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors grow sales and strengthen customer loyalty through interactive online catalogs, spare parts catalogs, ecommerce, 3D CAD model delivery and product configurator solutions. Studies show that over 90% of designers and engineers now use the Internet to find components for their new designs.


Daktronics Selects Fishbowl Solutions and EAC as Their Preferred Partners for Their PTC® Product Development System Initiative 9 July 2008

Fishbowl Solutions and EAC Product Development Solutions announced that Daktronics, one of the world’s largest suppliers of electronic scoreboards, computer-programmable displays, and large screen video displays and control systems, selected Fishbowl and EAC to deploy the PTC Product Development System (PDS).

Daktronics, a long time user of PTC Pro|ENGINEER® for their computer-aided design (CAD) system, expanded their PTC solution this past January with their production deployment of PTC’s Windchill PDS for their corporate wide product design and data management initiatives. With Windchill, Daktronics has a world class platform to manage their engineering content, enable improved collaboration among its design teams, develop integrations with its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and help achieve other strategic corporate goals.

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Daktronics evaluated several solutions and implementation partners as part of their due diligence during the selection phase of their project. In the end, Windchill was the clear choice as the best system for Daktronics’ requirements. When it came to implementation partners, Fishbowl and EAC were the best choice because Daktronics was undertaking a complete system overhaul, not a simple data migration project. They needed a team that had deep experience with the Windchill platform and the ability to solve complex data migration issues. Fishbowl Solutions and EAC met these requirements.

“Daktronics selected Windchill because of its broad capabilities and flexibility. We chose EAC/Fishbowl because of the proven partnership we have with them. This team supported all aspects of our data migration and implementation project, which allowed Daktronics to place a checkmark in the success column for the Windchill implementation. They were easy to work with and their overall approach was professional and diligent,” said Brian Vogl, Engineering Design Applications Manager at Daktronics. “With this team’s expertise, we were able to supplement our staff’s ability to support the process development, configuration development, data migration, training, and implementation requirements surrounding a major application change within our organization.”

“We were excited to be chosen as Daktronics’ preferred partner. This was a fun and challenging project that only those involved can probably appreciate,” stated Rick Passolt, Fishbowl Solutions PTC Business Development Manager. “As far as Fishbowl and EAC, our partnership is having success in the marketplace because A) we are executing on our mission, which is ‘Exceed Our Customer’s Expectations’ and B) we truly have unique solutions that allow us to deliver more value to our customers as part of their implementation.”

“We’re honored to be chosen as Daktronics’ preferred partner,” said Thane Hathaway, President & CEO of EAC. “This will be a substantial collaboration effort with vast opportunities for data management and product development improvements. We’re excited to help Daktronics succeed in getting their products to market faster.”


Dassault Systèmes Renews its R&D Support for K-Challenge America’s Cup Team 9 July 2008

Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced that it has renewed its R&D partnership with K-Challenge, providing the America’s Cup team with CATIA virtual design solutions to help them prepare for the 34th America’s Cup. K-Challenge will use CATIA to design and optimize its hull drawing as well as the boat’s structure.

The yachting industry is a fast growing, competitive market undergoing profound changes from craftsmanship towards more industrial processes. Some of the most famous yacht designers, naval architects, small/large yacht shipyards and suppliers across the globe are using Dassault Systèmes solutions based on CATIA.

“The value of CATIA lies in its ability to provide a seamless flow of information and integrate all the disciplines throughout the design process all the way to manufacturing, in particular for the definition, calculation, optimization and manufacturing of composite structures, as well as the integration of the naval ‘design spiral’ and advanced hydrostatic calculations,” explains Dimitri Nicolopoulos, technical director for K-Challenge. “It is the early development of these tools and methodologies that will really enable us to move much faster once the measurement rules are set. I’m delighted to continue working with Dassault Systèmes. Their support is a true added value for our work, and it confirms our strategy to

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prepare all our tools upstream.”

“By renewing its partnership with K-Challenge for the next America’s Cup, Dassault Systèmes confirms its support to K-Challenge’s design innovation,” says Laurent Couillard, vice president PLM value channel, Dassault Systèmes. “The preliminary design phase should allow the development of new methods for the definition and optimization of the hull. Dassault Systèmes will contribute actively to this stage, drawing on its powerful collaborative design technologies and expertise in cutting-edge industry sectors.”

Dassault Systèmes provides yacht professionals from small and large yacht builders to naval architects and subcontractors with packages dedicated to their specific line of business. These solutions address the associated processes with the right styling, hull design integrating hydrostatic calculations, structure, and composite design products, industry methodologies and best practices.

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Delcam Crispin Software Keeps Footwear Company One Step Ahead 9 July 2008

To be a successful subcontractor in the global footwear industry means keeping one step ahead of the competition. With its Delcam Crispin software, Italian company Diamant DMT does just that. The software has helped it to win contracts from world leading manufacturers, such as Nike, Crocs and Bikkembergs.

Started in 1978 by Signor Zecchetto, Diamant, DMT has gradually but constantly grown to achieve a worldwide reputation in the manufacture of cycling shoes. Today its designs are the choice of world champions like Lance Armstrong, Alessandro Petacchi, Laurent Jalabert and Mario Cipollini. In its products, design and high-tech materials are skillfully blended to give the ultimate performance from shoes that weigh only a few hundred grams.

Initially an exclusive Nike subcontractor in Europe for high-quality football boots, Diamant DMT has grown from 20 employees making 100 pairs per year in 1980, to the current 300 employees making 300,000 pairs in Italy, plus a further 1,000 employee in Bosnia making six million pairs a year of injection moulded shoes for Crocs.

Diamant DMT has gradually diversified its production into cycling wear, moving from the local cycling teams to international teams such as Panaria. Recently, the company even started to produce racing-bike chassis, working successfully for Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Eddy Merckx.

Delcam Crispin has been used by Diamant DMT since the mid 1990s. Production Manager Signor Philippe Zecchetto, the son of the founder and the first Crispin operator in the company, remembers the time when he needed two days work to develop a pattern, and how that same pattern was achieved in just four hours following the acquisition of the first license of the software.

The current two Crispin licenses are used to make not only the upper design, but also the upper graphic work and the sole patterns. Every stage is achieved with absolute precision and with the maximum freedom to exchange data with suppliers in real time. The most significant of the many benefits brought in by Crispin is the powerful and flexible editing. No pattern is correct the first time, nor the second or often the third, especially when the design plays such a

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big part in the success of the finished product. A complete database of all the patterns has been kept since day one and being able to import sections from previous patterns is of great help in speeding the process. Last, but not least, full control of the grading, the special scaling method used in the footwear industry, is important to ensure an accurate fit in the finished shoe.


Euphonic Technologies Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success With DesignWare IP for PCI Express 8 July 2008

Synopsys, Inc. announced that Euphonic Technologies has achieved first-pass silicon success for its high-performance EGC601 Embedded Graphics Controller system-on-chip (SoC) utilizing Synopsys' DesignWare® IP for PCI Express. Euphonic selected Synopsys' DesignWare IP because it offered a comprehensive suite of digital controllers and mixed-signal PHY that met their power, feature and performance requirements. Furthermore, Euphonic benefitted from obtaining all the PCI Express IP from a single vendor and had convenient access to an experienced local technical support team, which enabled them to lower integration risk and speed time to market.

Euphonic needed an eight-lane PCI Express interface to meet the high bandwidth requirements of the EGC601 graphics controller, which supports up to five different imaging layers without intervention of the host CPU. After evaluating several IP providers, Euphonic chose Synopsys because the DesignWare IP for PCI Express exceeded the performance requirements and was extremely low in power consumption. In addition, Euphonic was impressed with the on-chip diagnostic and ATE capabilities of the PHY, which allowed them to get from initial silicon to production test within a matter of weeks. According to Euphonic, Synopsys' offering was unparalleled.

"Selecting Synopsys was definitely the right decision," said Shinji Masuda, vice president of engineering at Euphonic Technologies. "The DesignWare IP for PCI Express met our latency, power and performance requirements. Furthermore, the quality of the IP was excellent, enabling us to completely focus our engineering resources on product differentiation and achieve first-pass silicon success."

"We understand the importance of providing customers such as Euphonic Technologies with complete and compliant IP solutions that help them succeed in an aggressive market," said John Koeter, senior director of marketing for IP and Services at Synopsys. "As a leading provider of connectivity IP, we invest heavily in developing high-quality PCI Express IP that meets our customers' design requirements and reduces integration risk for their complex SoCs."


Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. Selects CMstat 1 July 2008

CMstat announced Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. has selected CMstat as its Hardware Configuration Management solution.

The CMstat "Database of Authority will provide a "Central Information Repository" for all Metadata and Documents to improve product visibility and change control. Supplying customer IT departments with the tools they need for a fast and effective implementation, CMstat expects to be in production at a

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cost that is well below that of other PDM/PLM "solutions."

The full suite CMstat product suite will enable FTT to engage Supply Chain Partners while managing its products, and associated documentation, from the Design Phase through Field Sustainment

About Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (FTT)

Located in Jupiter, Florida, FTT specializes in gas turbines, propulsion components, turbomachinery, systems, and engineering for aircraft, space, industrial, and clean power generation. In addition, FTT developed the world's first miniature turbofan for small aircraft that was designed for both high power and high fuel efficiency.

FTT's experience base includes designs for military aircraft, commercial aircraft, industrial, and space applications; and spans many disciplines including turbomachinery performance analysis, aerodynamics, heat transfer and durability, materials, structures and vibrations, tip clearance, mechanical design, manufacturing, testing, instrumentation and assembly.

About CMstat

CMstat is the Flagship CM product of TPT Technologies, Inc. CMstat is a True COTS product offering in-depth Hardware CM functionality, including Part, Document and Change Management, Business Process Management and Collaborative On-line Document Review.

Epoch DM (Data Management) is the newest offering from TPT Technologies, Inc. Epoch is a web-based state of the art DM, and Contracts, Management System developed to the newly released EIA-859 Data Management Standard.


Force Protection Industries Chooses HyperWorks Simulation Platform for Military Vehicle Product Development 8 July 2008

Altair Engineering, Inc. announced that Force Protection Industries, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Force Protection, Inc. has implemented the HyperWorks CAE solution for engineering design analysis.

Force Protection Industries, which pioneered the manufacture of vehicles for the U.S. military’s Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) program, has adopted HyperWorks exclusively to drive their design process with simulation. Force Protection Industries is using HyperWorks to develop multiple versions of the company’s three vehicles: Buffalo, Cougar, and Cheetah. Force Protection Industries will utilize HyperWorks to ensure that its vehicles meet or exceed all standards required by the U.S. military.

“We selected HyperWorks for our analysis work for several reasons,” said Mark Edwards, executive vice president of development, Force Protection Industries. “First we were impressed by the performance, value and breadth of the HyperWorks offering. It provided us with a powerful pre-and post-processing environment and integrated linear and nonlinear solvers that we need today and into the future. The selection of HyperWorks allows us to cost-effectively scale to meet our existing and growing analysis needs.”

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consulting partner, they are very competitive, have deep automotive design knowledge, and are experts with our analysis toolset.”

"Altair is proud to be a part of Force Protection Industries' design and analysis tool set,” said Michael J. Kidder, Altair vice president of corporate marketing. “Their vehicles have established a solid reputation of life-saving performance in the field, and their ground-breaking work in MRAP design is now being emulated by other manufacturers. We look forward to aiding Force Protection Industries as they continue to push the bounds of quality and safety in the protection of our troops.”


Free Source Energies Selects Arena PLM to Streamline Processes and Make Geothermal Energy More Broadly Available 2 July 2008

Arena Solutions announced that Free Source Energies, LLC has selected Arena PLM to streamline business processes and make geothermal-based renewable energy more broadly available. The company will use Arena PLM to facilitate collaboration, streamline the product change process, and ensure compliance with industry and safety standards and environmental regulations—ultimately helping the company to grow rapidly and compete head-on with the existing furnace market.

Free Source Energies is working to make a big impact in the world by changing the way people heat and cool their structures. They deliver direct exchange geothermal units for homes, businesses, schools and other buildings. These units offer an attractive alternative to increasingly scarce fossil fuels and reduce energy costs for those who use them.

“In Arena PLM, we’ve found an application that will fully support us as we grow and that will easily scale as the company requires,” said Laura Matykiewicz who wears many hats at Free Source Energies, LLC.

Free Source needed a PLM solution that would replace its disparate applications, including Microsoft Excel and QuickBooks, with a single version of the product record that’s centralized across the extended enterprise—connecting everyone at Free Source Energies with all vendors working with the company. Free Source picked Arena PLM for its ease of use, the low cost of ownership and the advantages of its on-demand delivery model.

“Let’s face it, price matters, and even more so when you’re a start-up. To begin using the robust functionality of Arena PLM, we didn’t have to make any big investments in IT support or servers. We pay as we go and get automatic software upgrades included in the price. It doesn’t get more affordable—or valuable—than that,” said Matykiewicz. “The fact that Arena PLM is Internet-based is very significant: We can access it from anywhere, include partners and vendors in the process and enjoy all the benefits of PLM while keeping our IT and hardware costs low.”

By implementing Arena PLM from the beginning, Free Source Energies is able to avoid manual, time-consuming and error-prone processes. The company is standardizing activities, aligning its efforts with its partners’ and other select vendors’ efforts and adopting a framework that reflects the best practices of the manufacturing industry. With this framework for communicating and coordinating efforts, the rewards of working in a distributed way far outweigh the potential risks.

“Being able to use Arena PLM to share information in a format that is accessible by all is a great advantage. Without Arena PLM, we have discussed engineering changes over the phone or by email, but


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it was never clear that we were all on the same page. Having all of our product information in Arena PLM will help streamline the process and give us a much better historical record,” said Matykiewicz.

Free Source Energies is also using Arena PLM to manage its compliance efforts as it begins to market its heat pumps in Canada and Europe, where the company must comply with various industry and safety standards and environmental regulations. Arena PLM gives Free Source greater ability to maintain proper documentation, track compliance status, deliver evidence and pull together compliance reports with a single click.

“We pride ourselves on the ability to develop and deliver the robust, yet easy-to-use, on-demand PLM software that has helped so many companies boost their positions in the market. Like other companies replacing manual processes and disparate software systems with Arena PLM, Free Source Energies is set to experience a ‘night and day’ difference in its productivity,” said Craig Livingston, chief executive officer at Arena Solutions. “And as the company scales to meet its goal of helping the world move to clean geothermal energy and reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, the product will scale right along with them. We’re thrilled to have our product supporting Free Source in those efforts.”


JSC NPO Saturn Extends its Usage of Software From ANSYS 10 July 2008

ANSYS, Inc. announced that leading aircraft engine manufacturer JSC NPO Saturn has selected the comprehensive suite of multiphysics products from ANSYS to accelerate its product innovation initiatives. The Russian-based company plans to use simulation software from ANSYS mainly in the area of aircraft engine design. It also expects to tackle applications such as gas turbine engines for power generation, which engineers can optimize by developing innovative technologies for low-emission combustion of gaseous and liquid fuels and the use of modern ceramic materials. The ceramic high-temperature components can considerably reduce cooling air requirements and correspondingly increase engine efficiency.

JSC NPO Saturn’s decision to select simulation software from ANSYS was based mainly on the capabilities available in the ANSYS® Workbench™ environment, the outstanding parallel computing performance, and the clear ANSYS strategy regarding future technological development. The aircraft engine manufacturer also cited the successful application of ANSYS products by other leading international and domestic manufacturers in the industry.

NPO Saturn uses simulation technology from ANSYS in the area of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and structural mechanics when performing stress–strain analysis of critical engine components, thermal stress analysis of hot engine parts in turbine and compressor aerodynamic design, combustion simulation, and new-generation low NOx combustion chamber simulation. The company applies multiphysics technologies from ANSYS in designing high-pressure turbine blades, for blade flutter analysis, and for engine noise performance simulation. “Because of this advanced simulation technology from ANSYS, NPO Saturn is able to create more competitive products and strengthen its position in the industry,” said Alexander Piontkovsky, chief information officer at JSC NPO Saturn.

“Using comprehensive multiphysics technologies from ANSYS, development engineers at Saturn can arrive at real-world solutions that have built-in product innovation,” said Joe Fairbanks, vice president for global sales and support at ANSYS, Inc. “For example, our software can help reduce engine noise generation and lower exhaust emissions, both important environmental and regulatory considerations.

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Because it is such a forward-thinking company, our products will enable Saturn to create even more effective, highly reliable products.”

ANSYS channel partner ZAO EMT R was instrumental in the sale and software implementation at JSC NPO Saturn. It will provide high-level technical support and maintenance to Saturn.

About ZAO EMT R

ZAO EMT R is a leading Russian company focusing on sales and support of high-end products from ANSYS, Inc. It also is closely integrated with CAD and PDM products. ZAO EMT R provides consulting services in the area of computer-aided engineering technology management. The company’s employees perform expert work in such application areas as aviation and aerospace, turbomachinery, oil and gas, power engineering, automotive, shipbuilding and marine construction, and civil engineering. For more information, visit http://www.emt.ru or http://www.ansys.msk.ru.


Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Expands with AVEVA 11 July 2008

AVEVA announced that Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co,. Ltd., has signed an agreement with a value close to USD 2 million to increase the use of AVEVA's marine solutions.

Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry is a key shipyard under the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC). The company is engaged in shipbuilding, ship-repair and conversion, building and repairing offshore facilities, building of large-size steel structures, plus designing and building of GRP boats and davits.

The shipyard has moved its operations to the new Haixiwan Shipbuilding & Ship-repairing Base at Qingdao Economic and Technical Development Zone. The current production target of the shipyard is 2,000,000 dwt. It has a long term goal to increase shipbuilding capacity to 4,680,000 dwt. This would be achieved with the benefits derived from using AVEVA's marine solutions and technical support from AVEVA's team in China which started over a year ago.

Peter Finch, President, AVEVA Asia Pacific, said:

"China needs a good foundation in the use of engineering IT in order to be the world leader in shipbuilding. AVEVA's marine solutions are widely used in China, Japan and Korea and have been developed and tailored to shipbuilders' needs from years of working with leading yards. Our solutions offer yards cost and time saving benefits to stay ahead in the shipbuilding industry's competitive environment."


Renesas Adopts Cadence Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator With Turbo Technology 7 July 2008

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that Renesas Technology Corporation has adopted the new version of Cadence® Virtuoso® Spectre® Circuit Simulator, with performance-boosting "turbo" technology, for its analog and mixed-signal designs.

Since participating in an early access program, Renesas has realized a significant reduction in simulation

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run time for pre-layout designs. The Renesas team has seen simulation speed improve up to five times without any sacrifice of full SPICE accuracy.

"We expect to improve design efficiency by adopting the new Cadence simulation technology, Spectre with 'turbo' capability," said Hisaharu Miwa, general manager, Design Technology Division LSI Product Technology Unit at Renesas Technology Corp. "It was easy to use right out of the box, and we have seen around a five times performance gain on our complex power management circuits without any reduction in accuracy. We are convinced we will see a tremendous productivity boost by incorporating this technology into our flow, where Spectre has been used for many years as our standard SPICE simulator for analog designs and cell characterization."

Cadence publicly introduced Virtuoso with turbo technology at CDNLive! EMEA, its user community forum, in Munich, Germany, on April 29. Virtuoso's turbo technology boosts performance while ensuring silicon accuracy, enabling designers to verify their complex large analog designs, such as phase-locked loops, analog-to-digital converters, transceivers, clock data recovery circuits and power supply circuits.

"Renesas is one of the leading companies in MPU (micro processor unit) development, and we are pleased that turbo capability brings significant performance gain in simulation for Renesas," said Sandy Mehndiratta, group director for the custom IC platform at Cadence. "With the superior performance of our Spectre simulator with turbo technology, we are enabling our customers to more quickly and accurately verify their most complex designs and meet their time-to-market requirements."

The new technology addresses a broad variety of challenges across all analog design methodologies and process nodes by delivering up to 10 times performance gain over existing solutions without any loss in accuracy. This speedup enables analog and mixed-signal designers to verify large, complex designs, correlating the results with silicon behavior, while meeting aggressive tapeout schedules. The turbo technology also efficiently analyzes the potential impact of physical parasitics that can threaten designs in advanced process nodes, delivering up to 20 times performance gains for designs with large amounts of parasitics.


Sixty Formula SAE Teams Join the CFdesign Premier Sponsorship Program 8 July 2008

Blue Ridge Numerics announced over the past three months 60 Formula SAE teams have signed-up to take advantage of the new CFdesign Premier Sponsorship Program. The program gives team members access to a commercial license of CFdesign, full technical support and discounted training in exchange for normal sponsorship acknowledgments.

“With CFdesign there’s no need to export CAD geometry and meshing is fully automated, students can focus on how to optimize their designs instead of how to use the software,” said Maureen Kennedy, Marketing Academic Program Leader at Blue Ridge Numerics. “Time is a huge factor for every team; CFdesign helps them quickly get the answers they need so they can focus on fabrication.”

Blue Ridge Numerics is committed to empowering engineering students with CAD-driven tools that optimize flow and thermal performance. The design expectation of FSAE competition judges increases each year. CFdesign will help Formula SAE teams accelerate innovation in their quest to take home the SAE Foundation Cup.

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“Using CFD is essential to the development of a competitive Formula SAE racecar in this ever more demanding competition,” said Brandon Bordner, FSAE Team Representative at Ohio State University. “From engine intake analysis to cooling system design, CFdesign will be vital to our success next season.”


manufacturing resources are complemented by an integrated design-to-test service encompassing ASIC design as well as analogue, digital, RF, mixed-mode and thermal simulation. C-MAC also operates a UKAS-approved test facility, where an extensive range of product qualifications and tests are carried out to internationally recognized standards.


Thermal Simulation Reduces Cost of Stacked Module Potting Compound 50% July 2008

C-MAC MicroTechnology used Flomerics’ Flotherm thermal simulation software to determine that the thermal requirements of a stacked module could be met with a potting compound that cost only half the amount of the default choice. “Our engineer simulated the junction temperatures of the devices in the stacked modules while using three different potting compounds,” said Bob Hunt, Head of Engineering for C-MAC. “Simulation was much faster and less expensive than the alternative of building and testing prototypes.”

C-MAC, an electronics design and manufacturing company based in SouthDenes, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom, recently developed a stacked module for a critical defense application. Prior to building prototypes, C-MAC engineers performed thermal simulation on the initial concept design and discovered that junction temperatures on the module ranged up to 125°C, well above the 100°C maximum. They realized they needed a potting compound to reduce thermal resistance and wanted to select the least expensive formulation that would meet the thermal requirements of the application.

“Without simulation we would have been faced with two unattractive alternatives,” said C-MAC senior engineer Jonathan Crossley. “We could have undertaken a much lengthier and more expensive physical testing process to identify the potting compound that provided the best mix of performance and price. Or we could have foregone this process and used the best potting compound because we were fairly confident that it would have delivered acceptable thermal performance.”

Instead, Crossley performed thermal simulation on the initial design using Flotherm software. “We use Flotherm because it provides many built-in functions that reduce the time required to module complex stacked module designs,” Crossley said. “The most important of these is the Flopack web-based wizard, which quickly produces accurate models of integrated circuits and other components.”

Crossley used the Flomerics Flopack web-based wizard to generate models of each of the components. “Using the Flopack wizard all I had to do was enter basic design parameters such as the die size, die flag size and lead frame clearance. Flopack generated models of the components that were almost complete. I was able to create a thermal model for this stacked module with Flopack in a tenth of the time that would have been required using conventional modeling methods.”

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Crossley ran thermal simulations of the stacked module with three different potting compounds which are referred to here as: standard, enhanced and best. “Simulation demonstrated that both the enhanced and best potting compounds brought the core temperature down to acceptable levels with ample safety margin on the die junction temperatures,” Hunt concluded. “So we were able to specify the enhanced potting compound at a cost of about half of the best potting compound. Thermal simulation helped us engineer an optimized solution while minimizing our engineering costs and leadtime.”

About C-MAC MicroTechnology

Headed by Indro Mukerjee, C-MAC MicroTechnology (http://www.cmac.com) is a world leader in high-reliability electronic systems, modules and components for harsh environments such as extremes of temperature, vibration and shock. C-MAC operates primarily within the defence, aerospace, automotive, space, medical and specialised industrial sectors. The head office is in Wooburn Green, UK and the company has design and manufacturing facilities in the UK, France, Belgium and Canada, with additional dedicated sales and customer support teams throughout Europe and the USA. C-MAC has an extensive intellectual property portfolio and considerable electronics design and manufacturing expertise geared to its target industries.

Technologies and manufacturing processes at production sites at Great Yarmouth in the UK, Sherbrooke in Canada and Ronse in Belgium include thick-film printing on ceramic and other substrates, surface-mount hybrid circuits, DC/DC power modules, direct-attach flipchip, low-temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC), chip-on-board (COB), multichip module (MCM) assemblies and PCB assembly. These manufacturing resources are complemented by an integrated design-to-test service encompassing ASIC design as well as analogue, digital, RF, mixed-mode and thermal simulation. C-MAC also operates a UKAS-approved test facility, where an extensive range of product qualifications and tests are carried out to internationally recognized standards.


University of Glasgow Purchases 200 Licenses of SolidWorks Software 7 July 2008

University of Glasgow mechanical engineering students will soon hone their 3D CAD skills designing everything from race cars to bridges using SolidWorks® Education Edition software as they prepare for professional careers.

Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. It has more than 20,000 graduate and undergraduate students focusing on a range of disciplines. It was the first university in the U.K. to hire a professor of engineering, and therefore the first to create a focused engineering department. After evaluating leading CAD packages, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the university standardized on 200 licenses of SolidWorks software. The department, in conjunction with the Glasgow School of Art, will begin teaching SolidWorks 3D CAD and SolidWorks Simulation design validation software in the Product Design Engineering degree program next autumn.

“The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Glasgow offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate taught degree programs that impose a wide and challenging range of

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demands on the 3D CAD software used by the students,” said Dr. Graham Green, senior lecturer in engineering design, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow. “An additional challenge is provided by the needs of students taking our joint course in Product Design Engineering, taught in conjunction with the Glasgow School of Art. Only one piece of software fully met the challenge: SolidWorks.”

SolidWorks Education Edition will give University of Glasgow graduate and undergraduate students a hands-on product development experience that exposes them to concept innovation through design to prototyping and testing. The department will use SolidWorks Education Edition’s pre-packaged coursework, curriculum and student certification platform to support everything from lesson planning to assessment.

“Though steeped in tradition, the University of Glasgow has a progressive approach to incorporating cutting-edge tools in its curricula,” said Marie Planchard, director of worldwide education markets at SolidWorks Corporation. “Teaching SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation effectively gives students an advantage when applying for engineering jobs.”

The University of Glasgow relies on authorized SolidWorks reseller TMS CADCentre for ongoing software training, implementation, and support.


Product News Autodesk and Bentley to Advance AEC Software Interoperability 8 July 2008

At a joint press conference, Autodesk, Inc. and Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced an agreement to expand interoperability between their portfolios of architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) software. Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries, including Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write the companies’ respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed environments with greater fidelity. In addition, the two companies will facilitate work process interoperability between their AEC applications through supporting the reciprocal use of available Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). With this agreement, the companies aim to improve AEC workflows by enabling broader reuse of information generated during the design, construction, and operation of buildings and infrastructure, and by enhancing the ability of project teams to choose among multiple software sources.

Interoperability has emerged as a critical issue for users of design and engineering software. A 2004 study by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology found that users bear direct costs of almost $16 billion annually from time wasted due to inadequate AEC software interoperability. By virtue of this agreement, and the interoperable offerings that it will enable, AEC firms will be free to employ software tools of choice from either Autodesk or Bentley to accept or submit either DWG or DGN files. By improving fidelity of work shared between the two file formats, users will be able to focus on being creative and getting work done, rather than being constrained by file-compatibility considerations.

Through supporting the reciprocal use of their available APIs, Autodesk and Bentley will enable AEC project teams to combine products from both providers within integrated workflows. For instance, a

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design team could use a mixture of Autodesk and Bentley software, such as Autodesk’s Revit platform and Bentley’s STAAD and RAM structural products, and simulate and analyze their designs or manage project information using Autodesk NavisWorks software or Bentley’s ProjectWise.

Norbert Young, FAIA, president of McGraw-Hill Construction and former chairman of the International Alliance for Interoperability in North America, said, “This groundbreaking agreement directly addresses many of the critical issues detailed in the October 2007 McGraw-Hill Construction study on interoperability in the construction industry. I applaud both companies for their foresight and leadership.”

Added Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, CEO of global architectural firm HOK and a founder and current chairman of the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI), “As a longtime advocate of interoperability, I welcome this agreement as an important step toward enabling AEC information to be more broadly shared, increasing the value of BIM to our clients.”

“Autodesk recognizes that many customers use our products in mixed environments, and this agreement will help to better support these firms,” said Jay Bhatt, senior vice president, Autodesk AEC Solutions. “As part of our commitment to provide technology that improves productivity and efficiency across the AEC industry, we’re pleased to enter into this agreement with Bentley Systems – Autodesk’s largest development partner – and together help customers design, build, operate, and maintain the world’s infrastructure.”

“Bentley and Autodesk share a goal of enabling the creation and operations of better-performing infrastructure,” said Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley Systems. “Realizing that our mutual users bear unnecessary costs resulting from lack of interoperability, we came together to finally make information reuse the norm. By raising its sights beyond file format issues, the resource-constrained AEC community can better serve us all.”


Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Connectors for Aras 7 July 2008

Aras® announced the availability of packaged CAD connectors from ICP Solution GmbH & Co. KG, a leading provider of CAD connector integration products and product lifecycle management [PLM] solution deployment services for the Aras Innovator® enterprise PLM solution covering the portfolio of Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD design software products.

“Companies of all sizes across industries use the Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD products and ICP Solution is offering these businesses proven CAD connectors for the Aras Innovator enterprise PLM solution,” said Dr. Helmut Maier, President of Dr. Maier CSS. “ICP CAD connectors provide extensive product structure handling and product data extraction capabilities for Aras Innovator. Now, companies can implement a comprehensive enterprise PLM solution from Aras and ICP much faster than previously possible with conventional PLM systems.”

The ICP Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD connector products for Aras Innovator provide a wide range of features including:

• Load and save a 3D model structure as a document structure in Aras Innovator

• Create a parts list and import to Aras Innovator as a Bill of Materials product structure

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• Create a drawing and refresh title block data

• Plotting and file format conversion by batch queue

In the CAD session users can control the CAD structure and the PLM attributes, and have context sensitive pull-down menus for managing CAD information including:

• Approval, release and revision operations

• Model & drawing status information such as In Work or Released

• Complete or selective structure copy of model & drawing for new variant

• Read and write access rights, reservation capabilities, and preview functionality

“The ICP CAD connectors provide companies with additional capabilities for Aras Innovator’s advanced enterprise PLM solution,” said Martin Allemann, Vice President EMEA for Aras. “The open model encourages established companies like ICP Solution to become community members and provide their proven solutions for everyone which advances the Aras solutions faster to deliver more innovation and greater business value.”


Awaited Release of KOMPAS-3D V10 is Coming Soon 7 July 2008

ASCON Group is preparing to launch a new, considerably improved and extended version of its Parametric Mechanical Computer-Aided Design solution — KOMPAS-3D V10.

The forthcoming version will include a lot of novelties and enhancements in professional 3D and 2D Design Modellers, to increase rate of output and quality of new products, to reduce errors in design and as a result to help growth of industrial enterprise as a whole. KOMPAS-3D V10 will be the first version of mid-range MCAD solution totally localized not only in English, but also and in the German language, so German-speaking users will get a great ability to experience even more advantages of a professional, easy-to-learn system. For ASCON' customers all over the world French, Czech, Polish and Chinese versions of the software will be also available. Among others add-ons and improvements, new version will include direct access to TraceParts Online Library — one of the largest Mechanical Part catalogues in the world, and feature to import more than 100 million 3D CAD models and 2D drawings, containing European-based and other parts suppliers in the tooling, machinery, aerospace, automotive and many others industries.

Even more additional add-ons and third-party applications to be offered for KOMPAS V10, such as Piping 3D Add-on for designing pipes and tubes; special application for calculation and finite element analyses of machine elements, designed in KOMPAS. Many other novelties and applications of KOMPAS-3D V10 will be released to please MCAD users.

Up to release of improved version in the end of summer designers, engineers and all the other users of MCAD solutions are able to get full-functional 3D Modelling, 2D Drafting, Design and Release of Documentations, as well as BOM Wizard, Template Manager, import and export opportunities, build-in interactive learning system KOMPAS-ABC, export to eDrawings Professional and others with 25% discount. Free update and support will be provided to users of KOMPAS previous versions. All around the world 3D design is an universally recognized practice — increasingly more enterprises use this

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technologies successfully. KOMPAS-3D, developed by ASCON specialists, provides customers with great possibilities for quick transition to new technologies of 3D modeling!


Bentley Unveils Bentley Gas V8 XM Edition 8 July 2008

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the release of Bentley Gas V8 XM Edition facilities design software for gas distribution networks. Bentley Gas helps engineers and GIS professionals in gas utilities and contractors serving utility owner-operators design, document, and manage gas distribution networks more efficiently by unifying CAD and GIS capabilities, and by providing a built-in, intelligent, gas distribution data model. The streamlined workflows that result ensure high-quality infrastructure data, reliable as-built data, and significant time savings in the creation of new designs and maintenance of existing infrastructure. Because Bentley Gas V8 XM is based on Bentley Map – Bentley’s software for managing the world’s infrastructure in a geospatial context – it provides all of this technology’s core capabilities, including map management, thematic and overlay analysis features, business and topological rules enforcement, and highly accurate editing capabilities. In addition, it provides the same powerful 3D visualization capabilities of MicroStation, as well as network tracing, leak analysis, and an interface to Bentley sisHYD for hydraulic modeling and analysis procedures. It also can export data to Bentley PowerMap Field to support field technicians with work packages and redlining capabilities. Bentley Gas V8 XM integrates with Oracle® Spatial in a two- or three-tier mode and, when deployed with Bentley Geospatial Server, supports enterprise GIS for long transactions with both optimistic and pessimistic locking.

Robert Mankowski, Bentley director, Geospatial Product Management, said, “The release of Bentley Gas V8 XM further extends Bentley’s commitment to advancing GIS for infrastructure. It delivers spatial data seamlessly and transparently to gas utility engineering teams when they need it, increasing organizational efficiency, decreasing errors, and improving data quality.

“Take, for example, the software’s advanced network tracing and leak analysis capabilities. With Bentley Gas V8 XM, reported leaks are quickly correlated to network infrastructure, speeding repair and replacement activities, limiting service interruptions, and increasing profitability.”

Bentley Gas V8 XM Edition is delivered with a prebuilt data model that empowers users to completely customize and extend its functionality as required through easy-to-use administration tools. The data model is supported by inference-driven connectivity that automatically establishes network relationships as the user lays out new facilities. The data model supports comprehensive and customizable attribute sets for classes of network objects, and the logical connectivity model is persisted in DGNs or relational databases, including Oracle® Spatial.

Added Mankowski, “As powerful as Bentley Gas V8 XM is, municipalities and private owner-operators of gas utilities will have even more to look forward to in the months following its initial release. The software soon will be integrated with the forthcoming Bentley Expert Designer Gas to deliver on-the-fly design cost estimation and design-cost comparison, further enhancing organizational efficiencies.”

To learn more about Bentley Gas, visit http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+Gas.


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CEI's EnSight Visualization Suite to Be Distributed in Israel by J-Rom Ltd. 10 July 2008

Computational Engineering International (CEI) announced a partnership with the Israeli firm J-Rom Ltd. to distribute the American developer’s software throughout Israel. Best-known for its EnSight software, CEI produces a full range of software applications for the scientific and engineering community covering all aspects of simulation, including plotting, process workflow, animation, and visualization.

“This partnership represents our formal entry into the Israeli market, and we’re very pleased to be represented by J-Rom,” said Darin McKinnis, CEI’s vice president of marketing and sales. “We enter this venture with great confidence in J-Rom and high expectations for a growing market share in Israel.”

J-Rom Ltd. has just made their first sale of EnSight to Ben-Gurion University. Ben-Gurion University is a major center for teaching and research in Israel, with over 17,000 students. The university is a world leader in arid zone research, offering its expertise to many developing countries. In keeping with its mandate, it plays a key role in promoting industry, agriculture and education in the Negev.

J-Rom is a CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) engineering consultant and software distributor of Ansys Inc. CFD software and the optimization software from EnginSoft, modeFRONTIER. J-ROM Ltd. provides CFD users in Israel support and training, as well as consulting services.

“We are really excited to have the honor of distributing CEI’s products in Israel,” said Shmuel Olek of J-Rom. “CEI’s pioneering products are ideal for our CAE customers, and we see this as a true win-win partnership.”


Dassault Systèmes and Sogeti Group Sign Industry Solution Alliance 3 July 2008

Dassault Systèmes (DS) and Sogeti Group, a member of the Capgemini Group, announced that they have signed an industry solution alliance. By combining Dassault Systèmes’ products and solutions with Sogeti’s expertise and skills in the high-technology consulting area, the companies will create industry-focused, best-practices offers to accelerate and secure PLM 2.0 deployments.

“As more companies are adopting PLM as a core system, the need for customized PLM solutions and services is increasing. We are proud to team with Dassault Systèmes, a visionary company that has been in this business for over 25 years and is now a world leader in PLM activities and products,” says Luc-François Salvador, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sogeti Group.

“Sogeti is recognized as a leader in its field and has impressive knowledge and service offerings with high-level consulting engineering skills and expertise in many sectors. We welcome Sogeti as partner in our industry solution alliance program,” says Bruno Latchague, EVP, PLM Business Transformation, Dassault Systèmes.

As part of the first offering, Dassault Systèmes and Sogeti have already begun targeting aerospace industry best practices. Today, aerospace OEMs and Tier 1 partners are facing difficulties quickly accomplishing master model creation and simulation within a fully associative process. This slows the design change process and often results in more human errors. The solution, called “Aircraft Structural Optimization”, will address these issues as they occur during aircraft conception, and will support a high

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level of parametric modifications, as well as quick propagation to both geometry and analysis.


Dassault Systèmes Unveils ENOVIA High Tech Accelerator for New Part Request and Development 8 July 2008

Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced the availability of a new PLM solution developed specifically for the High Tech industry. Based on Dassault Systèmes’ recently announced V6 platform, the ENOVIA High Tech Accelerator for New Part Request and Development enables key decision makers in the product development process to collaborate on the creation of, or request for, new parts regardless of geographical location without requiring any specialized software. Offered as an out-of-the-box (OOTB) solution, it allows companies to more effectively manage the approval, delivery, cataloging and utilization of new parts. This assists in the elimination of part information errors and enforces standardization and re-use by the establishment of a single PLM platform designed for global intellectual property management vs. multiple standalone component data libraries or databases.

“With increased competition and shrinking margins, it’s important for high tech companies to build greater efficiency into every stage of the development process. As we have seen in recent years, managing the risks associated with a global business and complex part requests are key to long term success,” said Ed Miller, president, CIMdata. “By effectively managing those burdens, PLM solutions play an integral part in helping the industry focus attention on continuous innovation and enabling companies to realize the benefits of a truly collaborative environment.”

Built on the ENOVIA V6 platform, the latest ENOVIA High Tech Accelerator promotes innovation via an online environment for global collaboration. This approach reduces costly queue times by ensuring that real time, concurrent work processes occur. In addition, all deliverables are accomplished on a single PLM platform helping to manage intellectual property and eliminate translation errors. Customers can also gain immediate value by using the OOTB processes for almost any part request, which ultimately helps to drive lower total cost of ownership.

The latest in a line of industry-specific solutions produced by ENOVIA, the High Tech Accelerator for New Part Request and Development provides multiple benefits to manufacturers, including:

• Maximized Part Reuse and Reduce Proliferation: the ability to bring innovative products to market faster and reducing costs is optimized by applying consistent part processes and optimizing part reuse.

• Streamlined and Standardized Part Development: rapid response to market opportunities is enabled by streamlining new part development for new part design definition. By providing a method for standardizing the process for new part request, development process efficiencies are maximized and best practices are enabled.

• Enhanced Monitoring and Improved Decision Making: the capability to monitor part development business metrics, at the company, project, or product level, is included, giving companies real-time information and facilitating decision making within the organization. In addition, this allows for supply chain optimization by supporting both internally developed and purchased part business models.

“One of the critical challenges of new part development in the high tech industry is multi-faceted coordination across time, location and with regard to changing specifications and development cycles,” said Rob Shinno, global director, High Tech Strategy & Solutions, ENOVIA R&D, Dassault Systèmes. “With the Accelerator for New Part Request and Development, companies can communicate,

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collaborate and approve parts easily, regardless of their location or role. Everyone with a stake in the product has the ability to participate in the lifecycle of new part requests or development, from inception to finished product.”


Delcam Launches Latest Version of PartMaker CAM Software 11 July 2008

Delcam has launched the latest version of its PartMaker family of software. The PartMaker range includes systems for the programming of turn-mill equipment and Swiss-type lathes, plus supporting software for milling, turning and wire EDM. PartMaker Version 8.6 features a number of productivity-enhancing improvements, including improved solids-based programming, tool selection, surface machining and simulation. All these enhancements are designed to make PartMaker users more productive across the full range of applications.

“PartMaker Version 8.6 represents another value-added release for PartMaker users across all of our applications modules,” according to Hanan Fishman, President of Delcam’s PartMaker Division. “The enhancements will make the programming of parts requiring multi-axis machining techniques more productive than ever before.”

Solids-based Programming

PartMaker Version 8.6 sees the introduction of the concept of “Face Planes”. When programming a part from an imported solid model, a Face Plane indicates very clearly the plane in which machining is occurring. Face Planes simplify the programming of parts with multiple faces from solid models and improve visualization of the areas that need to be machined on a model. They simplify the definition of multiple coordinate systems in PartMaker, which allows the user to perform surface machining more easily across multiple parts or on multiple sides of the same part. Face Planes also give the ability to set a view normal to any surface more quickly.

For Cylindrical Surfaces, a Face Plane can be displayed “wrapped” or “unwrapped”. The user can then specify the transfer of just slots and holes for indexing, or unwrapped geometry for cylindrical milling.

Improvements to Surface Machining

The Surface Machining Wizard offers improved machining strategies by adding axial step options to finishing and projection strategies, giving effectively nine more roughing strategies and more control in finishing operations. The ability to follow stock shape when needed has also been added. Additionally, 3D milling can now be performed in multiple coordinate systems on mills, ideal for 3D milling applications on horizontal machining centres.

Grooving Improvements

Version 8.6 supports the simulation of inclined turning tools used on lathes equipped with “B-axis” heads. It also supports the simulation of mini-turrets, which must be tipped on an angle when used in practice. This release also has a number of enhancements to grooving, including the ability to support inclined grooving. Better control of tool retraction is possible by indicating the retract distance for a peck-grooving operation.

Improved Tool Selection


In Version 8.6, users can now automatically select a Turning, Grooving or Threading tool in any Turning Profile machining strategy, i.e. Turning, Contouring, Grooving, Threading or Cut-Off. This makes programming faster and easier, for example when performing Turning with a Grooving tool.

Full Machine Simulation Improvements

The Full Machine Simulation Module (FMS) in Version 8.6 has a number of improvements, in particular, the ability to support even more complicated machine architectures. The visualisations have been made more realistic and the library of machine models has been greatly expanded.


Enable Regulatory Compliance with printLogic 5.6 - Coastal Logic's Dassault Enovia MatrixOne Batch Printing Integration 7 July 2008

Coastal Logic, Inc. announced the immediate availability of printLogic 5.6.

printLogic, Coastal Logic's server-based web integration, allows users to batch print over 450 files directly from their Enovia databases, without using the native application to first open or view them. Printed files can be automatically stamped with metadata based on multiple stamp templates created by the Matrix Administrator. Using Coastal Logic’s simple point-n-click interface, administrators control all printing and metadata stamping. Because printLogic removes all stamping control from the user and gives it completely to the administrator, printLogic is a tool enabling organizations to comply with Government standards and Regulatory agencies.

A sampling of features in printLogic 5.6:

- Intuitive User interface with four methods of printing files from within the database - FCS multi-site installations via Site definitions in Enovia MatrixOne

- Multiple Stamp Templates that are automatically applied at print time based on Type, State, or Format

- Role and Group based permissions to control users’ printing options

- Schema Traversal, which automatically locates and includes related files

- CSV Print Method that allows users to upload comma-separated files containing a batch list

- AutoSize printing option, which automatically determines the best size paper from the selected printer

- Zip batch function. Users are emailed a hyperlink to retrieve their zip file from a network folder

Coming Soon – Dassault Systèmes V6 PLM 2.0 versions of printLogic and Coastal Logic’s premier PDF rendering solution, convertLogic. Both products currently support the latest version of MatrixOne - 10.8.


First Trace Releases Korrigo Engineering Document Management Solution 10 July 2008

First Trace, Inc. has completed development and released Korrigo, a standards-based engineering document management product. Korrigo is the newest addition to the KinnosaONE product family.

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KinnosaONE is a suite of service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions built on open standards that solve a common industry problem: how to unify engineering with the greater corporate document management strategy.

The document and process management requirements of engineering are very complex and enterprise-oriented solutions are simply unable to satisfy them. This gap in requirements has caused a separation between engineering and the balance of the enterprise, leading to islands of data, fragmented environments, and business processes that are inefficient and unable to be completely automated. KinnosaONE is the first product family to bridge the requirements gap and solve this problem to create a True Enterprise. Korrigo was built for engineering enterprises with a strong CAD focus that need to prepare engineering data for eventual inclusion in an enterprise strategy. Korrigo addresses the complex needs of manufacturing and engineering departments without forcing IT to revamp their existing infrastructure or networks.

"We chose Korrigo as the name for our new product because in Latin 'Corrigo' literally means 'improvement' or 'upgrade,'" said Terry Simpson, CEO of First Trace. "Korrigo provides all the functionality required of an advanced engineering document management system to improve management of engineering design and change processes. This includes easy management of distributed data repositories for true data unification."

Korrigo provides document version control, property management, relationship management, workspace management, file backup, restore, and archiving. Korrigo separates itself from other solutions by using a virtual data repository. This allows users to easily manage distributed data repositories, control life cycle states, conduct full content searches, and integrate with enterprise authentication and security systems. "The key differentiator of Korrigo against other solutions is that it enables the management and inclusion of engineering information into the greater corporate information strategy," adds Simpson.

Application add-ins place Korrigo functionality directly into the interface of CAD tools from Autodesk, SolidWorks and Bentley Systems so engineering users can manage documents directly from within the CAD application. The addition of the Windows Extension Service embeds Korrigo functionality into Windows File Explorer and Microsoft Office programs. Employees can use the familiar Windows File Explorer interface and file tree to access Korrigo capabilities, manage distributed data repositories, and collaborate in real time.

Korrigo serves as a stepping stone for engineering departments that need to begin moving toward a corporate-oriented document environment. Korrigo utilizes Open Platform Services and a JCR repository built on industry standards for storing files. It will not lock engineering documents into a proprietary data vault. Korrigo's open architecture prepares engineering to merge into the greater corporate environment without investing in expensive systems integration, migrating data or changing normal work routines.


Geometric Releases Version 6.1 of ‘eDrawings Professional for Autodesk Inventor’ 9 July 2008

Geometric Limited announced the release of eDrawings® Professional for Autodesk Inventor® version 6.1.

This version includes major enhancements to support:


• Autodesk Inventor 2009

• Textures

• iParts and iAssemblies.

A 15‐day trial version of eDrawings Professional for Autodesk Inventor can be downloaded free of cost from http://edrawings.geometricglobal.com.

eDrawings Publishers are lightweight intuitive collaboration tools for 3D models that are available on Pro/ENGINEER®, CATIA V5®, NX®, Autodesk Inventor®, SolidEdge® and Google SketchUp®.

They help in multiple ways as listed below.

• Generate ultra compact eDrawings files with compression of up to 95%, compared to the original CAD file.

• Share and receive feedback on product designs with review‐enabled eDrawings files and collaborate with an unlimited number of recipients.

• Manage, track, and merge comments from various team members.

• Share design data with password protected and self‐extracting eDrawings files.

• Measure the geometry in part, assembly, and drawing files when dimensions are absent.

• Disable measurement feature to protect sensitive design data.

• Examine internal details of parts and assemblies with dynamic cross‐sectioning.

• Hide, show, and move components in order to better understand assembly structure.

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hyperMILL® Certified and Seamlessly Integrated in Autodesk® Inventor™ 2009 9 July 2008

Autodesk® certifies the compatibility of hyperMILL® with Autodesk® Inventor™ 2009. The software provider also confirms that hyperMILL® provides full integration and data associativity with the newest version of its CAD suite.

hyperMILL® offers Autodesk® Inventor™ 2009 users the advantage of integrated processes with uniform data models and enhanced security and transparency throughout the entire production process. These features have now been officially certified by Autodesk®. Integration included adapting the user interface of the hyperMILL® CAM application to match the CAD interface of Autodesk®. Autodesk® 2009 users, as well as users of the 2008, 11 and 10 versions of Autodesk®, can thus continue to operate in the working environment they are familiar with. The certification process of Autodesk® also ensures the integration of hyperMILL® with Inventor™ 2009. Thanks to full associativity with Autodesk® construction data, it is now possible to have CAM operations automatically updated when changes are made to the CAD models. By accessing a single database and opening hyperMILL® in the CAD interface, software integration improves speed and efficiency, prevents errors and reduces the workload of the user.

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OPEN MIND Technologies AG’s hyperMILL® CAM software is used worldwide by companies in the mechanical engineering, automotive and aerospace industries as well as by tool and mould manufacturers. Users appreciate the versatile machining strategies, the user-friendliness and the intuitive graphics-based user interface, as well as the ease of programming. Integrated automated functions reduce programming complexity and help prevent incorrect data entry. By means of new feature technology, OPEN MIND has succeeded in reliably transferring geometric information from a design and converting it into hyperMILL®. Pre-existing machining know-how can thus be efficiently re-used, reducing programming complexity. Continuous processing thanks to CAD integration. Integrated processes with universal data models guarantee security and transparency in the production process. Familiar user interfaces reduce the potential for human error and increase acceptance amongst users.

This is why hyperMILL® in Autodesk® Inventor™ can offer Autodesk® users a number of significant advantages. The CAD integrations of the hyperMILL® CAM software facilitate reliable and continuous processing that is on a par with single-system solutions. A uniform data model can be used throughout the entire process, from design through programming and up to the simulation stage. Both the CAD system and the CAM system access the same database. It is thus possible to do design work and calculations in parallel. With CAD integration, the “look and feel” of the CAM product fits in with the CAD interface and users of Autodesk® Inventor™ continue to operate within a familiar working environment.

Flexibility thanks to comprehensive feature definition

Based on the new hyperMILL® V9, hyperMILL® in Autodesk® Inventor™ boasts fully developed feature technology. Feature recognition takes place across the entire model, detecting holes as well as many other geometries such pockets and plane levels, which are then stored by hyperMILL® in a feature list. Complex machining sequences, in the form of technology macros, can then be assigned to these features. This provides a range of intelligent and automated functions to support programmers. Another important feature is the bidirectionality between the CAD model and the feature list, enabling features to be identified both in this list and in the CAD model. Sorting and filter functions, including type, orientation, colour, layer or parameters such as the drilling depth and the diameter, make it possible to precisely search for the geometries to be processed. A particular highlight is the way in which the current status of the model, including visible elements, orientation and zoom, can be saved and activated for any feature and at any time. All in all, feature technology provides the ideal way to process existing machining and geometry data efficiently, thus significantly reducing the amount of programming required in the CAM system.

All strategies under one interface

With the hyperMILL® in Autodesk® Inventor™, users have access to a wide range of strategies for 2D, 3D and multi-axis machining, as well as 5-axis simultaneous milling and mill-turning. These include 2D cycles for face and contour milling, for milling various pocket geometries, as well as drilling and helical drilling. Profile roughing and finishing, free-path milling, ISO machining, Z-level roughing with automatic stock tracking, roughing of any stock, Z-level finishing and multiple-job stock tracking offer numerous possibilities for 3D machining.

hyperMILL® 5AXIS is known worldwide for its easy-to-use and reliable 5-axis technology. Depending on the machining task and the machine kinematics, users can choose the optimal type of 5-axis machining from a variety of tilt strategies including milling with fixed tool angle 3+2, automatic indexing and 5-axis simultaneous machining. hyperMILL® 5AXIS offers all the 3D strategies of hyperMILL® in addition to 5-axis tool positions. A whole range of special 5-axis strategies are available


such as 5-axis top milling, 5-axis swarf cutting, 5-axis contouring and 5-axis cutting edge machining.

The mill/turn module millTURN is fully integrated in hyperMILL® and allows users to freely combine milling and turning strategies in a single program. hyperMILL® millTURN integrates turning strategies for roughing, finishing, recessing, thread cutting and drilling. With such a broad spectrum of machining strategies, this CAM solution offers users the highest possible level of production flexibility.

Efficiency through easier operation

Efficient CAM programming is heavily dependent on the application’s ease of use. Examples here include the creation of drilling jobs with different positions, rest material machining and stock tracking. By combining feature recognition and multi-axis drilling, drilling jobs can be automatically generated across several sides and with several tilt angles in a single job. Complex drilling operations can be defined as centred drillings, simple drillings, drillings with chip breaks or tappings. This practical automatisation saves users considerable time. By defining the maximum machining depth, it becomes very easy to avoid milling tool fracture in deep zones during rest material machining. Furthermore, the use of lollipop milling cutters is now possible. These can be used to machine undercut zones, which can be applied on simpler machine tools and is much less time-consuming than working with tilted tools. The stock tracking function guarantees control of the machining status. Users can now calculate the current machining status for every single job step, for any number of selected job steps, or even for the entire job, as required. The user can also define various tool positions for individual jobs. Management of stock takes place in a separate job list window, providing a very clear display of the stock that has already been calculated.

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ICP Solution Joins Aras Partner Program 7 July 2008

Aras® announced that ICP Solution GmbH & Co. KG, a leading provider of CAD connector integration products and product lifecycle management [PLM] solution deployment services, has joined the Aras Partner Program.

ICP Solution is an established organization with 25 years of experience specializing in the delivery of enterprise PLM services and CAD connector solutions. The ICP CAD connectors have been deployed by more than 100 companies over the past 10 years with the Oracle Agile PLM e6 software, and will now be offered for the Aras Innovator® solution suite.

“ICP Solution is proud to join the Aras Partner Program and we look forward to leveraging our considerable PLM expertise with the Aras Innovator solution suite,” said Daniel Büeler, Managing Director of ICP Solution. “ICP recognizes the significant business benefits that companies of all sizes achieve through the Aras enterprise open approach, most importantly the elimination of the capital expense for PLM solution licenses which reduces the risk and Total Cost of Ownership for a substantially better customer ROI.”

“Aras Innovator is a truly advanced PLM solution that uses modern Web services technologies to provide next generation advantages for much faster deployments and easier integrations,” said Dr. Helmut Maier, President of Dr. Maier CSS. “By integrating our suite of proven CAD connectors to the Aras Innovator solution companies now have comprehensive MCAD and ECAD connectors with

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“Aras is pleased to welcome ICP Solution to our partner program. The considerable PLM competence ICP Solution brings along with their suite of packaged CAD connectors will provide significant value to the Aras corporate community,” said Martin Allemann, Vice President EMEA for Aras. “ICP has a long history of successful PLM implementations and a reputation for excellent customer satisfaction.”


Invention Machine Adds New Multi-Lingual and Risk Analysis Capabilities to Goldfire Innovator to Further Accelerate and Sustain Product Innovation 8 July 2008

Invention Machine launched Goldfire Innovator 4.6 with new multi-lingual and hazard analysis capabilities to help companies further boost their product innovation process and competitive edge.

Goldfire’s new multi-lingual translation capabilities not only taps into Japanese, English, French and German engineering content, but brings back results in the language the question was asked. For example, a user looking to find alternative materials to design fuel cells, types the query in German. If the solution is captured in a Japanese document, the software will deliver the translated document summary in German. This capability helps users leverage relevant multi-lingual content and learn what companies and competitors are doing in different countries. Gaining access to multi-lingual content also expedites the collaboration and innovation processes as people will not have to translate irrelevant documents.

The flagship innovation software also offers new risk analysis platform and research functions that addresses Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP). This function proactively focuses on physical, chemical and biological hazards and can help identify alternative materials and components that are eco-friendly and meets federal guidelines. This new risk analysis capability expands Invention Machine’s knowledge-enabled innovation platform for its customer-base, especially those in cosmetic, pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries.

Invention Machine’s innovation software helps enterprises innovate repeatedly, accelerating and sustaining product innovation. Its semantic technology helps translate ideas into commercialized products by generating and validating the right ideas the first time - whether it's creating a folding box spring, an engine for NASA or a new printer. Manufacturing organizations worldwide use Goldfire to deliver innovative products that positively impact society, planet and profit. Today, the innovation software is used by more than 1,000 companies worldwide, including more than 10 of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies as ranked by Business Week.

“Invention Machine’s latest software tears down language barriers and allows engineers to tap into packets of valuable intellectual property and design documents that eliminate risks and further accelerate the innovation process,” said James Todhunter, chief technology officer, Invention Machine. “Given that we support multi-national corporations, it is critical that we listen to our customers and continue to deliver functionalities that drive their sustainable innovation initiatives.”


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Just When You Thought it was Safe to go Back in the Water: STAR-CCM+ V3.04 7 July 2008

CD-adapco announced the imminent release of STAR-CCM+ V3.04 the latest version of process oriented Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), which will be available for download at the end of June.

Dynamic Fluid Body Interaction

Keeping to a rigorous four monthly release schedule, the latest release again broadens the scope of application through the addition of a “Dynamic Fluid Body Interaction” model. Unlike traditional CFD software, which is typically limited to simulating the motion of a body along some prescribed path, the STAR-CCM+ V3.04 DFBI model enables engineers to simulate the fluid induced movement of a body, for everything from a tanker listing under heavy seas to an aerodynamic body tumbling in free fall.

“The significant advantage of our new DFBI model is that it allows the fluid induced motion of an object to be predicted in six degrees of freedom, with no additional effort from the user, compared to performing a simple steady state simulation of flow past the same body,” says Jean–Claude Ercolanelli, CD-adapco’s VP Product Management. “The meshing process for a DFBI simulation is identical to that for a simple non-moving calculation and the DFBI model accomplishes its task without invoking the complex and time-consuming re-meshing schemes used by other CFD tools.”

At each time-interval, STAR-CCM+ V3.04 calculates the forces and moments acting on the body by automatically integrating the pressure and frictional loads before calculating the acceleration, velocity and displacement in six degrees of freedom. Rather than using complex mesh distortion or interpolation across sliding boundaries, the DFBI model works by translating and rotating the entire computational domain in response to the fluid induced load. STAR-CCM+ V3.04 then updates the flow field for the new body position and, iterating this procedure over time, calculates the trajectory of the body.

A complete tool for marine applications

DFBI is useful for any simulation in which an unrestrained object moves in response to fluid excitation. However, it is particularly useful when combined with STAR-CCM+ V3.04’s free surface modeling capability, to simulate the behavior of floating vessels such as boats. For large amplitude motions, such as a container ship navigating heavy seas, the DFBI model can be used to simulate wave slamming, capsizing, wave-piercing, water-entry and green water effects.

STAR-CCM+ V3.04 also includes an automatic wave generator, which is fully integrated into the GUI, allowing users to generate waves using just a few simple parameters. The DFBI solver can also be used for marine applications in which a vessel’s running attitude depends on the pressure field around the hull. Running in steady-state mode the DFBI model will calculate the vessels actual position in the water for a given boat speed, automatically calculating sinkage, heel and trim.

Beyond Boats

Each new release of STAR-CCM+ contains raft of new features and enhancements that help to increase productivity while reducing analysis turnaround times. The automatic hexahedral mesher now has the ability to refine cells in specific directions allowing greater control of cell count without compromising accuracy, extremely useful for aerodynamics and free surface simulation. A new surface offset tool has been added to the Surface Preparation GUI to ease and speed-up the handling of complex and poor geometry. Building on the advanced turbomachinery functionality introduced in the last release, indirect topological interfaces for multi-stage turbines may now be modeled where each stage has a different pitch. Multi-band thermal radiation in participating media has also been implemented in STAR-CCM+


for the first time, allowing the radiation properties to vary with wavelength.


LMS Releases LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim Rev 8A 2 July 2008

LMS announced the release of LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim Rev 8A. The new version of its 1D multi-domain simulation platform includes new ergonomic features for better productivity, new interfacing capabilities for enhanced interoperability, and breakthrough developments in various dedicated application solutions.

LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim offers a complete 1D simulation suite to model and analyze multi-domain, intelligent systems and to predict their multi-disciplinary performance. The components of the model are described by analytical models representing the hydraulic, pneumatic, electric or mechanical behavior of the system. To create the system simulation model in LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim, the user can make use of a large set of packaged solutions including specific sets of tools and application libraries of pre-defined components from different physical domains. The software creates a physics based model of the system, which doesn’t require a full 3D geometry representation. This approach gives LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim the capability to simulate the behavior of intelligent systems long before detailed CAD geometry becomes available.

The new LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim Rev 8A release will optimize overall global productivity with a variety of significant ergonomic improvements, including a new extended super-component creation process, Windows Vista compatibility, a Modelica editor and new AMESet possibilities to easily extend and maintain libraries of components. This increased ease-of-use reduces the required level of end-user expertise and significantly shortens the learning curve. With these improvements, LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim Rev 8A provides a quicker and easier way to create and modify models for all types of users.

LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim Rev 8A features new scripting and plug-ins for easy application-specific pre-processing and post-processing. With the circuit application programming interface, it is possible to embed an AMESim core into your own application for additional customization.

Rev 8A of LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim has enhanced interoperability with other simulation tools. From within LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim, users can simulate system models and three-dimensional designs using both LMS Virtual.Lab Motion and LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim solvers. The new co-simulation interface with LMS Virtual.Lab Motion extends the scope of applications directly analyzed within one simulation environment.

The latest release of the LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim platform also includes a new LabVIEW Real-Time interface giving the end user the possibility to export AMESim models on LabVIEW real-time benches. This new feature is especially useful for Electronic Control Unit design and validation on Hardware-in-the-Loop test benches in the automotive, aerospace and off-highway industries.

Various breakthrough developments directly enhance several of the dedicated application solutions in LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim Rev 8A. Major updates have been made in the solution and libraries portfolio to enhance the modeling capabilities and accelerate calculation speeds. Significant improvements have been made in the powertrain & transmission, electromechanical, internal combustion engine and related hydraulics, fluids systems and thermal management domains. Two new libraries, Electrical Static Conversion and Engine Signal Generator, have been developed as well.


"LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim Rev 8A further strengthens the application-oriented strategy of the current platform,” testified Willy Bakkers, Vice-President and General Manager Imagine and CAE Division. "LMS is committed to provide its customers with state-of the art solutions featuring application-oriented components, running on a cutting-edge simulation platform. Our main objective with Rev 8 was to make LMS Imagine.Lab and its solutions more accessible and more user-friendly while keeping a high level of expertise."


National Instruments DIAdem 11.0 Expands Test Data Management and Visualization 8 July 2008

National Instruments announced the release of DIAdem 11.0, the latest version of the interactive software for managing, analyzing and reporting test data. DIAdem 11.0 adds sensor data mapping for 3D CAD models to simplify the visualization of high-channel-count systems. It also streamlines large-group test management with automatic conversion and scaling of engineering unit sets. Additionally, NI DataFinder Server Edition 2.0, a software solution that works with DIAdem to extend test data management to large groups or departments, introduces support for user security management and integration with an electronic archiving system.

DIAdem makes it easy to manage, analyze and report on data collected during data acquisition or generated during simulations, and the software’s ability to handle large volumes of data as well as provide consistent reporting and data visualization makes it ideal for applications such as aerospace, automotive and structural test. With DIAdem 11.0, users now can map data acquired from sensors to any virtual reality modeling language (VRML) or STL file format CAD model to gain a clearer understanding of the measurement or simulation data.

DIAdem 11.0 also adds new features to improve user productivity. The latest version of the software helps global teams share data by providing automatic conversion and scaling of engineering unit sets or measurement units to reconcile any geographic or standardization differences that may result from users working in multiple locations. To give users greater flexibility in managing and mining their data sets, DIAdem 11.0 offers the ability to both expand and limit search parameters for creating more complex data queries. Additionally, DIAdem 11.0 provides a script editor that simplifies and accelerates script writing through the use of CodeCompletion for methods and properties of objects as well as syntax highlighting.

With NI DataFinder Server Edition, engineers simultaneously can access collected test data from multiple client computers. The latest version of the software adds support for user security management, which synchronizes users’ defined security rights with their Microsoft Windows login for easier and more secure access. NI DataFinder Server Edition 2.0 also adds integration with electronic archiving systems for easily and quickly indexing and searching archived files.

Readers can visit http://www.ni.com/diadem to view DIAdem demonstrations, tutorials and case studies.


New WorkNC Module Optimizes Feedrates to Cut Machining Times by up to 20% 4 July 2008

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Sescoi is bringing its latest technology to the USA market to further reduce machining times for complex parts, molds and dies. Its CAM/CAD software, WorkNC G3, already automatically generates optimized roughing and finishing toolpaths for 2 to through to 5-axis machining applications. Now, the new NCspeed module, developed by Formtec and fully integrated into WorkNC, can produce additional cycle time reductions of up to 20% using its proven technology.

Unlike other CNC feedrate optimizers that simply look at the programmed points of the CNC file and search for direction changes, NCspeed uses a computer generated stock model that is updated dynamically and continuously. This more advanced method allows the NCspeed module to calculate the load and thus forces generated on the cutting tool. NCspeed will then adjust the feedrates up during conditions of a light cutter load. Conversely, for cutter safety, NCspeed can lower feedrates where appropriate, such as during areas of high cutter loads.

Furthermore, by keeping tool loads as constant as possible, NCspeed will help engineers to achieve the best possible cutting conditions across the whole job, which will have a positive impact on accuracy and the quality of the surface finish. In particular, the performance of small diameter and long cutters will benefit from optimization with NCspeed. By avoiding excessive load conditions and endeavoring to keep the volume of material being cut the same at all times, cutter deflection will be minimized, tool life increased, excessive vibration and chatter eliminated and cutter breakage avoided.

The software also checks for tool engagement with the material, maximizing movements at rapid feed where the cutter is out of the material, and shortening the overall length of rapid toolpaths where it is safe to do so.

NCspeed is most effective when machining hard or tough materials, however, even free cutting materials can show significant savings in tooling costs and cycle times, making it a worthwhile investment for every machine shop.

Jeff Jaje of Sescoi Inc said, “We are always trying to help our customers to improve the productivity they get from using WorkNC. The new NCspeed module is a powerful addition which will enable American engineers to make major reductions in manufacturing costs through faster machining and longer tool life.”


Oracle Delivers Oracle’s AutoVue Enterprise Visualization 19.3 9 July 2008

For organizations that need to improve global collaboration, Oracle has released Oracle's AutoVue Enterprise Visualization 19.3.

With this latest release, Oracle is making technical information such as product specifications and Computer Aided Design (CAD) drawings available to all users, wherever this information may reside, and without requiring costly authoring applications.

AutoVue 19.3 includes a new, streamlined and action-oriented user interface, making it easier for technical and non-technical users to view, review and collaborate on documents, and extending AutoVue to a broader set of enterprise users.

With Oracle's 'Applications Unlimited' program, AutoVue customers may take advantage of new capabilities that enhance supply chain collaboration, improve enterprise business processes and serve


industry-specific needs.

Customers continue to adopt Oracle's AutoVue Enterprise Visualization solutions including Aarkel Moulds, Abitibi Bowater, ATCO Power, Chongqing Changan Suzuki Automobile Corp, Cooper Standard Automotive, Danish Department of Defense, GE Aviation (Bromont), Gecina, Smart Centres and TEMSA GLOBAL A.S.

Enhanced Supply Chain Collaboration

AutoVue Mobile, a new product within the AutoVue software suite, provides a simple and secure mechanism that allows teams to share technical documents with supply chain partners.

Through the sharing of Mobile Packs, a feature within AutoVue Mobile, partners can access crucial design and product information, as well as the entire history of comments, changes and decisions related to the documents. This helps users better understand the full document context, add their comments and return them to the sender.

With AutoVue Mobile, partners can rely on complete information to make sound business decisions and provide constructive feedback; organizations can easily integrate partners into their business workflows.

Improved Enterprise Business Processes

IntelliStamp, a new productivity feature in AutoVue 19.3, enables electronic signing and stamping of document sets with attributes from the back-office system.

With IntelliStamp, users can trigger workflow actions directly from within documents reviewed in AutoVue, allowing for workflow automation and improved business processes.

Industry-Specific Advancements

AutoVue 19.3 strengthens its 2D and 3D visualization capabilities by adding support for the latest release of AutoCAD, version 2009 and the popular Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) format, the standard for rich data exchange in the engineering and construction industry.

Remote maintenance workers and field service employees in the engineering and construction, utilities, and energy industries can expedite maintenance operations and resolution with AutoVue Mobile by accessing key information, even when working offline. Support for additional Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) data allows manufacturing personnel to instantly access, view and review important product specifications and ensure that products are manufactured in compliance with design engineering's intent.

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"AutoVue is an essential part of our collaboration and design review process as it helps us leverage 3D CAD data across our estimating, research & development, engineering and prototyping departments," says Geoff Alexander, IT Supervisor at Cooper Standard Automotive Canada. "With AutoVue, we can give users instant insight into rich and interactive product information and enable them to quickly and easily communicate feedback and changes in the context of the design to help them work better and faster. Moving to AutoVue Web version also allowed us to reduce IT operating costs by eliminating the need to install and maintain licenses on each client workstation."

"Making business and technical documents accessible to everyone in an organization regardless of the authoring tool is the mission of Oracle's AutoVue Enterprise Visualization," said Oracle Group Vice


President, Application Development, Paul Giaconia. "With investments in a new action-oriented user interface and significant new collaboration capabilities like AutoVue Mobile, AutoVue Enterprise Visualization 19.3 helps organizations extend the reach of design and product information to a broader set of users, leveraging crucial information across the enterprise."

General Availability Oracle's AutoVue Enterprise Visualization 19.3 and Oracle's AutoVue Mobile are currently available.

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PaTech To Promote and Sell Altair's HyperWorks Platform 10 July 2008

Altair announced that leading Canadian software distributor PaTech (Practical Application of Technology) has joined the Altair Channel Partner Program to actively promote and resell the HyperWorks Platform for Enterprise Analytics.

"With the addition of Altair's HyperWorks suite of solutions, our combined innovative technologies allow us to offer our customers complete Test & Measurement and Product Design Solutions," said Paul Thorpe, PaTech President. "PaTech is pleased to have Altair as a partner as it increases our capabilities and raises the value we deliver to our customers."

PaTech is a leading Canadian distributor of nCode software solutions for fatigue and durability simulation.

"PaTech represents a knowledgeable and experienced distribution channel for Altair's HyperWorks in Canada. This is an excellent opportunity for PaTech to expand its capabilities by offering the broad suite of enterprise analytic applications that HyperWorks delivers," said Robert Little, President of Altair Engineering Canada.

HyperWorks is a suite of enterprise analytic applications that includes statistical, database, visualization and simulation software to help companies make better business decisions. Altair has expanded the HyperWorks platform to include new, third party-software applications under one simple licensing system, delivering more than 40 individual software solutions to customers.

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Power Forward Initiative Momentum Continues With Addition of Three Leading Japanese Design Services Companies 9 July 2008

The Power Forward Initiative (PFI) announced that three Japanese design services companies recently joined the initiative and are offering Common Power Format (CPF)-enabled low-power design capabilities to their design services customers. With the addition of these three leading Japanese design centers — NIPPON SYSTEMWARE CO., LTD. (NSW), Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) and Toppan Technical Design Center Co., Ltd. — the PFI increases its membership to over 30 companies around the world, representing a broad spectrum of IC design, IP, service and manufacturing providers.

All three design services companies have adopted the Cadence® Design Systems, Inc. Low-Power Solution, which integrates design, verification and implementation technology with the widely deployed CPF standard to deliver an end-to-end low-power design solution to IC engineers. By preserving low-power design intent throughout the design process, the solution eliminates laborious manual work, reduces power-related chip failure, and provides power predictability early in the design process, enabling sharing and reuse of low-power intelligence throughout the design process.

NSW is an independent IT company and a provider of embedded total solutions in the LSI design service market. NSW assists customers designing ICs for graphics, communication/network, mechanical control applications and ARM-embedded SoCs as an ARM-approved design center.

"Low-power design is considered ecologically friendly, and is therefore becoming a key requirement for designers of ICs targeting consumer products," said Seiichi Koseki, associate general manager, System Logic Technology division of NSW. "By using the Common Power Format for low-power hand-off, we can deliver low-power designs to our customers faster and meet their requirements more consistently."

DNP provides LSI design services for a variety of applications, including microprocessors for consumer electronics, ASICs and SoCs, mixed-signal, memory, CCD and CMOS image sensors, display drivers, and power supplies through its subsidiary for LSI design service, DNP LSI Design Co., Ltd.

"The Common Power Format will allow our design teams to increase designer productivity and reduce energy consumption which is valuable to our customers," said Yasuo Jimbo, general manager of LSI Design & Development Department, 1st Sales Division, Electronic Device Operations at DNP. "Through our design consulting services, we have experienced the value of CPF-based low-power design."

Toppan Technical Design Center provides custom, multipurpose services, including systems design, logic design, and chip-level and IP integration using C-level or HDL design as well as chip-level layout. Toppan also provides capabilities and superior technologies for ARM-based design as an ARM-approved design center, as well as analog RF and power supply design.

"A large number of new designs are for communications and consumer products requiring low-power implementations," said Takashi Nabuchi, manager, Asaka design center of Toppan Technical Design Center. "CPF provides the mechanism for communicating low-power intent that helps us give our customers exactly what they want."

"Low-power design is a significant and growing trend in the Japan semiconductor market, where an increasing percentage of design work is targeted to consumer applications," said Pankaj Mayor, group

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director of Business Enablement at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. "By joining the Power Forward Initiative, NSW, DNP and Toppan can bring additional value to their customer engagements both in terms of low-power design capabilities, and in support of their customers' programs to reduce energy consumption. We applaud their leadership."

The Power Forward Initiative, which has more than 30 member companies, is an industry initiative sponsored by Cadence Design Systems and has the goal of enabling the design and production of more power-efficient electronic devices. The initiative includes companies representing a broad cross section of the design chain including system, semiconductor, foundry, IP, EDA, ASIC and design services companies. CPF was contributed by Cadence to the Si2 Low Power Coalition in December 2006; CPF is now the most widely deployed low-power intent standard in the industry and available from Si2. The Initiative has also published A Practical Guide to Low-Power Design — User experience with CPF which is aimed at educating the broad design marketplace in utilizing advanced low-power design techniques. The Guide is available free of charge at http://www.powerforward.org.


Selerant Releases DevEX 2.0 with Features and Functionality that Take a Completely New View on PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) 9 July 2008

Selerant (http://www.selerant.com) announces the release of DevEX 2.0.

“More than just a release of enhancements, this is an entirely new vision of PLM and how our clients will be implementing in the future,” states Carlo Colombo, Selerant’s CEO. He explains further, “We partnered with our current clients as well as listened to what progressive leaders in the industry had to say. We also took our expertise with what we know about formulation, regulatory, and our technology architecture and built a vision of expediting products to market not just from concept, but much earlier on.”

Colombo is referring to the implementation and adaptation stages. These stages can take time with some software packages. “DevEX 2.0 has taken several usability features and adapted them with architecture, configurations, reports, as well as dramatic robust formulation tools to create a significantly intuitive experience for the user,” says Colombo.

The usability enhancements can be in significantly attributed to DevEX being built on the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 platform, enabling DevEX to run rich web-based applications. In addition to the platform, the developers dramatically extended the service-oriented architecture for web services to allow even greater integration, connectivity, and communication between systems.

In addition to the usability, added and enhanced features include, but are not limited to:

Enhanced control and visibility throughout formulation with a significant emphasis on the recipe process

Recipe Visual Control & Stage List Functionality

Increased regulatory compliance calculations and features

Regulatory What If Functionality

Regulatory Reports

Claims Management

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Specification Management

SharePoint Integration

Knowledge Base Enhancements

Mass Replace Enhancements

Quick Search Functionality

Significant Reports Enhancements

Click Once Technology

“Selerant understands the unrelenting demands of our customers. To very simply state it, they must quickly identify emerging trends, innovate products, comply with regulatory issues, and outpace the competition to market,” says Colombo. “We want to change the rules of the game. While everyone else may show up in laces for a marathon, we want to give our customers the keys and tell them to rev the engine and beat the competition to market. DevEX 2.0 is the tool that will allow them to do just that.”


Standard for Component- and Geometric Data Descriptions in the Harness Environment Released 11 July 2008

Since June 2008 two new data models are available on the website of the "ECAD Implementor Forum" of the ProSTEP iViP Association, including XML-schemata as standardized description of component and geometric information in the harness environment: http://www.prostep.org/en/project-groups/process-chain-car-electric-ap-212.html

The data models were defined by the VDA working group "Process Chain Vehicle Electric" in co-operation with the ProSTEP iViP project group "ECAD Implementor Forum (ECAD-IF)". Die VDA-working group wants to specifically improve the development processes for vehicle electrical systems and their integration into the development processes for the entire vehicle.

Both data models - newly released as version 1.0 - complement the already existing data models KBL 2.3 and ELOG 1.1. They represent the next step on the way to one standardized "Vehicle Electric Container Data Model" (Vehicle Electric Container, VEC), which is supposed to contain in an integrated manner the aspects that have so far been treated in separate data models:

• The component data model VDA KOMP offers in comparison with the KBL data model primarily enhanced possibilities for the description of master data and component characteristics (e. g. of plugs, fixtures, cable protection) for the import into company specific component data bases.

• The VDA-GEO data model enables a description across variants for topology information on the basis of correlating sights (2D, 3D, harness in the vehicle, harness on the design board).

About the ProSTEP iViP Association

The ProSTEP iViP Association is an international branch-specific community comprising leading companies in the automotive and aerospace industries, system vendors and research institutes. The aim of the ProSTEP iViP Association is to find solutions for the challenges facing the manufacturing industry as a result of networked collaboration in a worldwide development network.

A concept based on a coherent, cross-organizational and cross-domain view of data, processes and

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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary systems provides a solid foundation for meeting these challenges. The Association's five main areas of focus reflect this approach: process management, system integration, product data standardization, engineering collaboration and knowledge transfer.

The ProSTEP iViP Association is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, and was founded in October 1993 by 38 industrial companies and a number of system vendors as part of the German STEP initiative. Members of the ProSTEP iViP Association currently include about 200 companies and organizations from 17 nations.


Think3 Signs Partnership With Think PLM Solutions to Strengthen its Presence in the UK and US 9 July 2008

Think3 has partnered with Think PLM Solutions, a Value Added Reseller (VAR) with offices in the UK (Stevenage, Hertfordshire) and the US (Portland, Oregon). The agreement follows think3’s strategy to enter the UK market and to strengthen its presence in the US through a partner that can offer the entire think3 range of products and solutions designed for styling, engineering, tooling and PLM purposes, as well as its training and consulting services.

Think PLM Solutions is a company made of professionals with many years of experience in the CAD and PLM markets. It targets companies in the manufacturing, automotive, shipbuilding and aerospace industries and offers CAE, consulting, design and engineering services, focusing on specific areas that demand partners with special know-how and skills.

“In a rapidly evolving market, where innovation means success, Think PLM Solutions is committed to maintain its competitiveness through constant updating and careful selection of the best available solutions,” said Dan Morgan, Vice-President Sales & Marketing, Think PLM Solutions. “I believe think3 offers our customers a real competitive advantage. The partnership with think3 will allow Think PLM Solutions to propose cutting-edge CAD and PLM technology across the many industries we serve both in the UK and in the US.”

“The partnership with Think PLM Solutions will enable think3 to enter the UK market taking advantage of the company’s strong local presence across the country as well as strengthen our presence in the US,” said Amedeo Brasolin, Sales Vice President of think3. “This is one step further in our strategy to expand our sales network by seeking international partners throughout Europe, the Mediterranean area, and Americas.”

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