Delcam recently held the inaugural meeting in Alicante, Spain, of the eight million Euro COMET project funded by the European Commission. As the Co-ordinating Partner, Delcam is combining its experience and expertise in manufacturing with thirteen other technical partners from eight countries across Europe to develop plug-and-produce COmponents and METhods for adaptive control of industrial robots for high-end machining that will enable cost effective, flexible and reliable manufacturing solutions.
The other partners include Nikon (Belgium), ARTIS (Germany), AMRC (UK), TEKS (France), Fraunhofer IPA (Germany), BTU (Germany), Lund University (Sweden), Gizelis (Greece), University of Patras (Greece), N Bazigos (Greece), DemoCenter Sipe (Italy), SIR (Italy) and Nisaform (Czech Republic). The COMET project will impact on high-precision automotive, aerospace, and mould and die applications.
The thirty-month project aims to overcome the challenges facing European manufacturing industries by developing innovative machining systems that are flexible, reliable and predictable, with an average 30% cost-efficiency saving in comparison to machine tools. From a conceptual point of view, industrial robot technology could provide an excellent base for machining, being both flexible (due to their lay-out) and cost efficient (robots cost two to five times less than machine tools). However, industrial robots lack absolute positioning accuracy, are unable to compensate for deviations caused by process forces, and lack reliable programming and simulation tools to ensure right-first-time machining. These three critical limitations currently prevent the use of robots in most machining applications.
Innovations to overcome these limitations proposed by the COMET consortium include an adaptive toolpath-generation system for robots based on kinematic and dynamic models, an adaptive tracking system and a High Dynamic Compensation Mechanism. These innovations will improve robot accuracy, reduce setup times by as much as 50%, and enable precise first-time programming and simulation with real-time correction of the robot path.
According to the coordinator of the project, Jan Willem Gunnink from Delcam, "The COMET consortium contains a unique combination of partners from industry, research institutes and universities who all have an enormous drive to deliver project results to European manufacturing industries. The inaugural meeting already showed a great team spirit and a strong belief in the project goals. With my colleagues in the Management Board of this project, I am confident that these goals can support European manufacturing industries to continue to move forward.”
From January 2011, the website www.cometproject.eu will provide regularly updated project results.
This project is co-funded by the European Commission as part of the European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP) adopted in 2008. The EERP proposes the launch of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in three sectors, one of them being Factories of the Future (FoF).
Factories of the Future is a EUR 1.2 billion program in which the European Commission and industry are collaborating in research to support the development and innovation of new enabling technologies for the EU manufacturing sector.
Oct 31, 2010
Luxion supports PTC Creo™
Irvine, California - Luxion, a developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology and makers of KeyShot, the first realtime ray tracing and global illumination program, today announced that it was selected by PTC, The Product Development Company, as a launch partner for “Project Lightning,” now known as Creo. As a result of this selection, Luxion demonstrated the integration of Creo and KeyShot at the launch event in Boston, MA, on October 28.
“Upgrading our existing KeyShot plugin architecture was straight forward,” says Dr. Henrik Wann Jensen, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Luxion. “Not only could we re-use the majority of our existing implementation, but it was also incredibly easy to integrate the user interface components with Creo’s new UI and ribbon interface. We commend PTC on its vision and look forward to offering our solution on Creo.”
“Selecting Luxion as a launch partner enables us to demonstrate that Creo in combination with Luxion’s KeyShot rendering technology allows other members of the community such as sales and marketing to be involved early in the design process and utilize the digital data directly for the creation of product imagery” said Michael M. Campbell PTC’s Divisional Vice President of Design and Visualization Products.
Jensen further added:“ With a few clicks, users can take their part or assembly file in their desired representation, and transfer it to the KeyShot realtime raytracing environment. Once inside KeyShot, the user can turn the Creo CAD data into stunning photographic images in a matter of minutes. “We are excited that PTC selected Luxion as a launch partner,” Dr. Jensen continues. “This demonstrates a strong commitment to our joint customer base. Giving users the ability to quickly customize their CAD environment with the tools as they see them best fitting for their process will redefine digital product development for years to come.”
Luxion will continue to support the PTC customer base by providing the ability to import Pro/ENGINEER data (now known as Creo Elements/Pro) natively into KeyShot on both PC and Mac. In addition, Luxion offers a plugin for Pro/ENGINEER that provides a dynamic link between Pro/ENGINEER and KeyShot. This plugin is available to all KeyShot customers free of charge from the KeyShot website.
“Upgrading our existing KeyShot plugin architecture was straight forward,” says Dr. Henrik Wann Jensen, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Luxion. “Not only could we re-use the majority of our existing implementation, but it was also incredibly easy to integrate the user interface components with Creo’s new UI and ribbon interface. We commend PTC on its vision and look forward to offering our solution on Creo.”
“Selecting Luxion as a launch partner enables us to demonstrate that Creo in combination with Luxion’s KeyShot rendering technology allows other members of the community such as sales and marketing to be involved early in the design process and utilize the digital data directly for the creation of product imagery” said Michael M. Campbell PTC’s Divisional Vice President of Design and Visualization Products.
Jensen further added:“ With a few clicks, users can take their part or assembly file in their desired representation, and transfer it to the KeyShot realtime raytracing environment. Once inside KeyShot, the user can turn the Creo CAD data into stunning photographic images in a matter of minutes. “We are excited that PTC selected Luxion as a launch partner,” Dr. Jensen continues. “This demonstrates a strong commitment to our joint customer base. Giving users the ability to quickly customize their CAD environment with the tools as they see them best fitting for their process will redefine digital product development for years to come.”
Luxion will continue to support the PTC customer base by providing the ability to import Pro/ENGINEER data (now known as Creo Elements/Pro) natively into KeyShot on both PC and Mac. In addition, Luxion offers a plugin for Pro/ENGINEER that provides a dynamic link between Pro/ENGINEER and KeyShot. This plugin is available to all KeyShot customers free of charge from the KeyShot website.
Gerber Technology Releases AccuMark 8.4.1
Tolland, Conn., USA – Gerber Technology, a business unit of Gerber Scientific, Inc. (NYSE: GRB), announces the release of AccuMark™ 8.4.1. This newest version of the market-leading CAD software is designed to increase productivity, improve materialization and promote ease of use.
“AccuMark is the standard for pattern design, grading, marker making and nesting in the apparel, transportation interiors, furniture and industrial fabrics industries,” commented Bill Brewster, President, Software Solutions, Gerber Technology. “As we focus on continuous improvements to enable our customers to maintain their competitive edge, we’ve made several important enhancements to AccuMark in order to improve the productivity and ease of use for our clients.”
The new Autosave feature helps to protect against lost work and lost time due to unexpected shutdowns from power loss or other unpredicted situations. The new Save Workspace function lets pattern makers close down their system in the middle of a project without losing work in the PDS work area. This feature can also be used to share sessions between users for enhanced collaboration.
Automation is a powerful capability in AccuMark. The Batch engine provides users with the ability to automatically move jobs through different processes in the system. Improvements to 8.4.1 provide enhanced flexibility and control in Batch for customize processing to meet a users specific needs.
A new compaction function is now available to help improve material utilization. This function can be used interactively during marker making. Once a group of pieces are placed, Compact Marker can be used to improve the efficiency of that section of the marker.
Significant enhancements have also been made to AccuMark’s ability to generate cut data. The automatic start point option automatically identifies the knife entry points at optimal locations – where there is limited congestion. There is also a new option to cut certain line segments more slowly due to complex contours.
Managing inconsistent fabric can be a time consuming process. The new support for shade zones in AccuNest makes this process much more manageable. Markers for fabrics with variations in shading can now be made automatically with AccuNest, providing the best possible fabric efficiency.
“AccuMark is the standard for pattern design, grading, marker making and nesting in the apparel, transportation interiors, furniture and industrial fabrics industries,” commented Bill Brewster, President, Software Solutions, Gerber Technology. “As we focus on continuous improvements to enable our customers to maintain their competitive edge, we’ve made several important enhancements to AccuMark in order to improve the productivity and ease of use for our clients.”
The new Autosave feature helps to protect against lost work and lost time due to unexpected shutdowns from power loss or other unpredicted situations. The new Save Workspace function lets pattern makers close down their system in the middle of a project without losing work in the PDS work area. This feature can also be used to share sessions between users for enhanced collaboration.
Automation is a powerful capability in AccuMark. The Batch engine provides users with the ability to automatically move jobs through different processes in the system. Improvements to 8.4.1 provide enhanced flexibility and control in Batch for customize processing to meet a users specific needs.
A new compaction function is now available to help improve material utilization. This function can be used interactively during marker making. Once a group of pieces are placed, Compact Marker can be used to improve the efficiency of that section of the marker.
Significant enhancements have also been made to AccuMark’s ability to generate cut data. The automatic start point option automatically identifies the knife entry points at optimal locations – where there is limited congestion. There is also a new option to cut certain line segments more slowly due to complex contours.
Managing inconsistent fabric can be a time consuming process. The new support for shade zones in AccuNest makes this process much more manageable. Markers for fabrics with variations in shading can now be made automatically with AccuNest, providing the best possible fabric efficiency.
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Oct 28, 2010
EADS and Dassault Systèmes to Reach a New level of Cooperation to Accelerate Introduction of PLM 2.0
Velizy-Villacoublay, France – Dassault Systèmes today announced enhanced cooperation with EADS in the PLM domain, supporting the recent EADS initiative called Phenix PLM Harmonization Center (PHC). The PHC program, involving extensive validation study performed on the V6 Dassault Systèmes portofolio, aims at accelerating the introduction of PLM 2.0 platform to better meet business needs and challenges on current and future EADS programs.
Dr. Jean Botti, Chief Technology Officer at EADS, stated: “Our strategic goal is to improve the efficiency and performance of our engineering and manufacturing Dassault Systèmes is an EADS strategic partner for this purpose in the PLM domain”. “With our new EADS corporate initiative, the PLM Harmonization Center (PHC), this will continue to foster innovative practices at EADS.”
The partnership includes the usage extension of the SIMULIA platform, Isight Fiper and Abaqus applications for critical simulations in key programs of EADS divisions -such as Airbus and Astrium- in order to accelerate complex architecture development and new concepts validation.
"We are extremely pleased to share with EADS the same vision of PLM 2.0. Our V6 open collaborative innovation platform is being adopted by a broad range of domains. Its online capabilities truly empower a best in class native and partners application portfolio, bringing a new level of efficiency, simplicity and agility never seen before", commented Bernard Charlès, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dassault Systèmes.
“It is our decision to continue to improve the cooperation with Dassault Systemes in order to increase our PLM capabilities” said Jean-Yves Mondon , head of PHENIX and PHC at EADS. And he added: “We believe that our related strategy, leveraging those new potentialities will provide EADS with a real competitive advantage.”
Dr. Jean Botti, Chief Technology Officer at EADS, stated: “Our strategic goal is to improve the efficiency and performance of our engineering and manufacturing Dassault Systèmes is an EADS strategic partner for this purpose in the PLM domain”. “With our new EADS corporate initiative, the PLM Harmonization Center (PHC), this will continue to foster innovative practices at EADS.”
The partnership includes the usage extension of the SIMULIA platform, Isight Fiper and Abaqus applications for critical simulations in key programs of EADS divisions -such as Airbus and Astrium- in order to accelerate complex architecture development and new concepts validation.
"We are extremely pleased to share with EADS the same vision of PLM 2.0. Our V6 open collaborative innovation platform is being adopted by a broad range of domains. Its online capabilities truly empower a best in class native and partners application portfolio, bringing a new level of efficiency, simplicity and agility never seen before", commented Bernard Charlès, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dassault Systèmes.
“It is our decision to continue to improve the cooperation with Dassault Systemes in order to increase our PLM capabilities” said Jean-Yves Mondon , head of PHENIX and PHC at EADS. And he added: “We believe that our related strategy, leveraging those new potentialities will provide EADS with a real competitive advantage.”
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Dassault Systèmes Reports Strong Third Quarter Results With New Licenses Revenue up 54% in Constant Currencies
Paris ─ Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) reports IFRS unaudited financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2010. These results were reviewed by the Company’s Board of Directors on October 27, 2010.
“Dassault Systèmes delivered a powerhouse third quarter thanks to important contributions from all of our brands and superb execution from every organizational unit in DS and among our sales partners around the globe. We were very pleased by both the level of new software sales and the growth of our recurring software revenue, commented Bernard Charlès, Dassault Systèmes President and Chief Executive Officer. “Given the backdrop of a still fragile economic recovery, this performance demonstrates the value of our industry solutions for our customers. “We continued to gain important new references for our Version 6 global collaborative platform, amongst the most recent of which was Bell Helicopter’s decision to select ENOVIA V6 and expand the usage of our products to include SIMULIA, DELMIA and 3DVIA and to upgrade to CATIA V6.”
DS completed the acquisition of the IBM PLM operations on March 31, 2010 and these operations were merged into the Company’s operations within its PLM business segment for the six-month period commencing April 1, 2010. Due to the deep integration of former IBM PLM employees into the Company’s operations, involving many changes in sales territories and responsibilities, it is not possible to track the IBM PLM revenue and profit since the acquisition date. As previously disclosed, the IBM PLM share of DS software revenue was estimated at approximately €45 million in the 2009 third quarter.
* Non-IFRS revenue, operating margin and EPS ahead of DS objectives
* In constant currencies, IFRS total revenue increased 30% (38.4% as reported) and non-IFRS total revenue increased 32% (40.1% as reported)
* Non-IFRS operating margin increases 250 basis points to 28.0%
* EPS up 44% to €0.46 (IFRS) and up 48% to €0.65 (non-IFRS)
* DS increases 2010 non-IFRS financial objectives for Q3 overachievement
“Dassault Systèmes delivered a powerhouse third quarter thanks to important contributions from all of our brands and superb execution from every organizational unit in DS and among our sales partners around the globe. We were very pleased by both the level of new software sales and the growth of our recurring software revenue, commented Bernard Charlès, Dassault Systèmes President and Chief Executive Officer. “Given the backdrop of a still fragile economic recovery, this performance demonstrates the value of our industry solutions for our customers. “We continued to gain important new references for our Version 6 global collaborative platform, amongst the most recent of which was Bell Helicopter’s decision to select ENOVIA V6 and expand the usage of our products to include SIMULIA, DELMIA and 3DVIA and to upgrade to CATIA V6.”
DS completed the acquisition of the IBM PLM operations on March 31, 2010 and these operations were merged into the Company’s operations within its PLM business segment for the six-month period commencing April 1, 2010. Due to the deep integration of former IBM PLM employees into the Company’s operations, involving many changes in sales territories and responsibilities, it is not possible to track the IBM PLM revenue and profit since the acquisition date. As previously disclosed, the IBM PLM share of DS software revenue was estimated at approximately €45 million in the 2009 third quarter.
* Non-IFRS revenue, operating margin and EPS ahead of DS objectives
* In constant currencies, IFRS total revenue increased 30% (38.4% as reported) and non-IFRS total revenue increased 32% (40.1% as reported)
* Non-IFRS operating margin increases 250 basis points to 28.0%
* EPS up 44% to €0.46 (IFRS) and up 48% to €0.65 (non-IFRS)
* DS increases 2010 non-IFRS financial objectives for Q3 overachievement
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Altair Engineering and SAMTECH Join Forces to Provide Integrated Finite Element Solution
The new interface offers customers highly automated, seamless pre-processing, solving and post-processing using HyperWorks and SAMCEF.
TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, announced today that it has integrated HyperWorks’ HyperMesh pre-processing software and HyperView post-processing software with SAMTECH’s SAMCEF software, one of the most popular finite element analysis (FEA) solver tools, in particular within Europe’s Aeronautic, Space and Defense industry. SAMTECH is a leading provider of simulation software for FEA, MBS and Optimization.
“Aeronautic, Space and Defense (ASD) companies rely extensively on our SAMCEF software for a range of FEA tasks and there is also a growing interest for SAMCEF in Automotive and Energy sectors, respectively for Vehicle, Engine and Wind Turbine Structural Dynamics,” said SAMTECH Chief Strategy Officer Didier Granville. “Our ability to integrate SAMCEF seamlessly with HyperWorks tools will provide new flexibility for our customers and demonstrates the adaptability of our software, which is renowned for providing industries with customized solutions for specific applications in multiple disciplines.”
Altair developed an interface between HyperMesh and SAMCEF, which allows HyperMesh models to be read directly by SAMCEF. SAMTECH, in turn, built an interface between SAMCEF and HyperView HyperView using H3D, Altair’s compressed binary file format. This enables SAMCEF output files to be exported in H3D format, which can be read directly by HyperView without manual translation.
“The popularity of HyperWorks among engineers across the globe derives not only from the openness, ease of use, precision, and robustness of applications, like our HyperMesh pre-processor and HyperView post-processor, but also from the simplicity of integrating with software from Altair partners,” said Altair HyperWorks Chief Technology Officer Uwe Schramm. “Using our H3D technology to link our solutions will provide customers with integrated tools to further accelerate and heighten the quality of their finite element analysis.”
Altair’s H3D file format allows HyperWorks technology to communicate easily with other software. Altair partners commonly use H3D to make their technology more user friendly to Altair’s extensive global customer base.
On Oct. 28 at Altair’s 2010 European HyperWorks Technology Conference, Ronan Pitois of Eurocopter will present, "The new HyperMesh/SAMCEF Interface at Eurocopter: Deployment and Industrial Applications, where he will discuss how Eurocopter has adopted the new interface in its product development process and how the new automated process will impact the aerospace industry. A subsidiary of European Aeronautic, Defense, and Space Company (EADS), Eurocopter is already using the integrated solution offered by Altair and SAMTECH.
TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, announced today that it has integrated HyperWorks’ HyperMesh pre-processing software and HyperView post-processing software with SAMTECH’s SAMCEF software, one of the most popular finite element analysis (FEA) solver tools, in particular within Europe’s Aeronautic, Space and Defense industry. SAMTECH is a leading provider of simulation software for FEA, MBS and Optimization.
“Aeronautic, Space and Defense (ASD) companies rely extensively on our SAMCEF software for a range of FEA tasks and there is also a growing interest for SAMCEF in Automotive and Energy sectors, respectively for Vehicle, Engine and Wind Turbine Structural Dynamics,” said SAMTECH Chief Strategy Officer Didier Granville. “Our ability to integrate SAMCEF seamlessly with HyperWorks tools will provide new flexibility for our customers and demonstrates the adaptability of our software, which is renowned for providing industries with customized solutions for specific applications in multiple disciplines.”
Altair developed an interface between HyperMesh and SAMCEF, which allows HyperMesh models to be read directly by SAMCEF. SAMTECH, in turn, built an interface between SAMCEF and HyperView HyperView using H3D, Altair’s compressed binary file format. This enables SAMCEF output files to be exported in H3D format, which can be read directly by HyperView without manual translation.
“The popularity of HyperWorks among engineers across the globe derives not only from the openness, ease of use, precision, and robustness of applications, like our HyperMesh pre-processor and HyperView post-processor, but also from the simplicity of integrating with software from Altair partners,” said Altair HyperWorks Chief Technology Officer Uwe Schramm. “Using our H3D technology to link our solutions will provide customers with integrated tools to further accelerate and heighten the quality of their finite element analysis.”
Altair’s H3D file format allows HyperWorks technology to communicate easily with other software. Altair partners commonly use H3D to make their technology more user friendly to Altair’s extensive global customer base.
On Oct. 28 at Altair’s 2010 European HyperWorks Technology Conference, Ronan Pitois of Eurocopter will present, "The new HyperMesh/SAMCEF Interface at Eurocopter: Deployment and Industrial Applications, where he will discuss how Eurocopter has adopted the new interface in its product development process and how the new automated process will impact the aerospace industry. A subsidiary of European Aeronautic, Defense, and Space Company (EADS), Eurocopter is already using the integrated solution offered by Altair and SAMTECH.
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Altair Engineering to Acquire SimLab Corporation
Acquisition of SimLab technology and expertise increases powertrain depth and broadens Altair’s software portfolio.
TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire SimLab Corporation. Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., SimLab specializes in highly automated, tailored finite element modeling solutions for powertrain systems within the automotive and heavy equipment industries. Under the agreement, Altair will acquire SimLab’s technology and development staff within its HyperWorks computer-aided engineering (CAE) software development operations.
With the unique ability to recognize computer-aided design (CAD) feature information (bolts, chamfers, fillets, cylinders, etc.), SimLab’s template-driven, solid meshing solutions have allowed manufacturers of complex systems to develop higher quality CAE models five-times faster than with conventional methods. The addition of SimLab and its feature-based meshing domain knowledge will extend Altair’s simulation footprint across broad industry segments while advancing the company’s long-standing leadership position in CAE modeling and assembly solutions.
“Altair is dedicated to providing the very best in modeling and visualization technology for the engineering community, and the addition of SimLab to our range of CAE tools reinforces that commitment,” said James R. Scapa, chairman and CEO of Altair. “We recognize the value of SimLab’s technology, especially for customers who benefit from CAD associativity. This acquisition and a shared vision fit perfectly with our technology roadmap for CAE process automation.”
“By joining with Altair, we are ensuring the continued growth of our technology,” said Dr. Shan Nageswaran, president and CEO of SimLab. “SimLab provides additional specialized functions for Altair’s market-leading applications suite; and, in turn, Altair opens new opportunities for advancing SimLab in new markets and application scope to improve CAE modeling efficiency.”
Altair anticipates completing the acquisition before the end of 2010. SimLab will continue to operate from its California facility, while working closely with the HyperWorks development organization at Altair’s headquarters in Troy, Mich. on integration roadmaps.
TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire SimLab Corporation. Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., SimLab specializes in highly automated, tailored finite element modeling solutions for powertrain systems within the automotive and heavy equipment industries. Under the agreement, Altair will acquire SimLab’s technology and development staff within its HyperWorks computer-aided engineering (CAE) software development operations.
With the unique ability to recognize computer-aided design (CAD) feature information (bolts, chamfers, fillets, cylinders, etc.), SimLab’s template-driven, solid meshing solutions have allowed manufacturers of complex systems to develop higher quality CAE models five-times faster than with conventional methods. The addition of SimLab and its feature-based meshing domain knowledge will extend Altair’s simulation footprint across broad industry segments while advancing the company’s long-standing leadership position in CAE modeling and assembly solutions.
“Altair is dedicated to providing the very best in modeling and visualization technology for the engineering community, and the addition of SimLab to our range of CAE tools reinforces that commitment,” said James R. Scapa, chairman and CEO of Altair. “We recognize the value of SimLab’s technology, especially for customers who benefit from CAD associativity. This acquisition and a shared vision fit perfectly with our technology roadmap for CAE process automation.”
“By joining with Altair, we are ensuring the continued growth of our technology,” said Dr. Shan Nageswaran, president and CEO of SimLab. “SimLab provides additional specialized functions for Altair’s market-leading applications suite; and, in turn, Altair opens new opportunities for advancing SimLab in new markets and application scope to improve CAE modeling efficiency.”
Altair anticipates completing the acquisition before the end of 2010. SimLab will continue to operate from its California facility, while working closely with the HyperWorks development organization at Altair’s headquarters in Troy, Mich. on integration roadmaps.
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Geometric releases DFMPro version 2.3 for Pro/ENGINEER® Excel based reports facilitate easy tracking of manufacturability issues
Mumbai : Geometric Limited today announced the release of Version 2.3 of DFMPro for Pro/ENGINEER.
DFMPro is a novel, automated design for manufacturing (DFM) review tool, that facilitates upstream manufacturability validation and identification of areas in design that are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture. It allows quick and in-depth examination of product manufacturability through advanced design rules for manufacturing processes like milling, drilling, turning, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding.
Version 2.3 of DFMPro for Pro/ENGINEER focuses on improving ease of DFM analysis and reporting with new functionalities like:
Support for formed features like extruded holes, embosses and dimples. Fourteen new rules involving these and other sheet metal features are added. New APIs for these features are additionally provided for rule customization.
Microsoft Excel based DFM analysis report, allowing users to easily track DFM review comments to closure. The report templates can be customized to suit individual preferences. Excel reports can be generated for standard as well as custom rules.
New grouping functionality for wall thickness related rules in injection molding, allowing users to segregate results into groups based on thickness ranges. Users will be able to quickly analyze results using this functionality.
New visualization and reporting options allow users to control visibility of components during result analysis and sequence of reported instances.
The new sheet metal rules broaden the scope of out-of-the-box manufacturing checks provided by DFMPro. Also, 3D reports along with the newly added excel reports provide a simple way for organizations to easily communicate, collaborate, and track manufacturability issues not only within the organization but also with vendors and customers.
DFMPro helps organizations leverage standard and organization-specific manufacturing knowledge to -
• Reduce time-to-market by reducing design to manufacturing iterations
• Improve quality by detecting defects
• Reduce production costs by promoting usage of design and manufacturing standards
• Improve innovation by capturing manufacturing knowledge for continuous improvement
DFMPro is a novel, automated design for manufacturing (DFM) review tool, that facilitates upstream manufacturability validation and identification of areas in design that are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture. It allows quick and in-depth examination of product manufacturability through advanced design rules for manufacturing processes like milling, drilling, turning, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding.
Version 2.3 of DFMPro for Pro/ENGINEER focuses on improving ease of DFM analysis and reporting with new functionalities like:
Support for formed features like extruded holes, embosses and dimples. Fourteen new rules involving these and other sheet metal features are added. New APIs for these features are additionally provided for rule customization.
Microsoft Excel based DFM analysis report, allowing users to easily track DFM review comments to closure. The report templates can be customized to suit individual preferences. Excel reports can be generated for standard as well as custom rules.
New grouping functionality for wall thickness related rules in injection molding, allowing users to segregate results into groups based on thickness ranges. Users will be able to quickly analyze results using this functionality.
New visualization and reporting options allow users to control visibility of components during result analysis and sequence of reported instances.
The new sheet metal rules broaden the scope of out-of-the-box manufacturing checks provided by DFMPro. Also, 3D reports along with the newly added excel reports provide a simple way for organizations to easily communicate, collaborate, and track manufacturability issues not only within the organization but also with vendors and customers.
DFMPro helps organizations leverage standard and organization-specific manufacturing knowledge to -
• Reduce time-to-market by reducing design to manufacturing iterations
• Improve quality by detecting defects
• Reduce production costs by promoting usage of design and manufacturing standards
• Improve innovation by capturing manufacturing knowledge for continuous improvement
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ESI Releases PAM-CEM Simulation Suite 2010
Electromagnetic package for full virtual testing.
Paris, France – ESI’s PAM-CEM Simulation Suite addresses realistic models in their early “electromagnetic” design stage thanks to unique coupling capabilities allowing multi-scale electromagnetic phenomena to be assessed in the middle and high frequency ranges. End-users thus benefit from PAM-CEM’s ability to handle fully equipped 3D models, featuring on-board complex antennas as well as sophisticated cable networks.
The 2010 version of PAM-CEM Simulation Suite includes several key enhancements of significant benefit for industrial users, among which there are two major enhancements of special interest to the Automotive and Marine sectors:
– Direct access to the complete electromagnetic environment, beyond the usual computational area, taking into account additional reflecting vehicles and/or obstacles, if any.
– Dedicated High Frequency software tool, relying on Physical Optics combined with Equivalent Edge Diffraction and dealing with aeronautics RADAR applications or Antenna Radiation on-board large sized naval ships.
Near radiated fields for Automotive RADAR
The previous version of PAM-CEM offered a dedicated upgrade to access electromagnetic fields radiated in the so-called “near zone”, i.e. outside the 3D computational domain but not yet in the far zone. With the brand new 2010 upgrade, additional reflecting obstacles or vehicles can be taken into account together. Also, very thin paint bumper coatings that interfere with automotive RADAR devices are treated.
“The introduction of PAM-CEM has allowed us to conduct very precise electromagnetic wave simulations. We believe electronic control systems will be increasingly important in the development of the cars of the future”, declared Yasushi Hamada, Manager of the Electronic Testing and Research Group at MAZDA Motor Corporation.
High Frequency Electromagnetics
PAM-CEM Simulation Suite 2010 includes an additional product, named PAM-CEM/HF, which relies on the Physical Theory of Diffraction (PTD) combining Physical Optics and Equivalent Edge Currents. Specific applications can be found in Aeronautics with high frequency RADAR scattering or in the Navy with the radiation of integrated antennas.
“Together with Visual-CEM 6.5 and the forthcoming Special Version also presenting some new capabilities such as 3D/3D coupling for advanced source modeling, PAM-CEM Simulation Suite 2010 is clearly user-oriented and targets industrial modeling”, said Dr. Jean-Claude Kedzia, PAM-CEM Product Manager at ESI Group.
Paris, France – ESI’s PAM-CEM Simulation Suite addresses realistic models in their early “electromagnetic” design stage thanks to unique coupling capabilities allowing multi-scale electromagnetic phenomena to be assessed in the middle and high frequency ranges. End-users thus benefit from PAM-CEM’s ability to handle fully equipped 3D models, featuring on-board complex antennas as well as sophisticated cable networks.
The 2010 version of PAM-CEM Simulation Suite includes several key enhancements of significant benefit for industrial users, among which there are two major enhancements of special interest to the Automotive and Marine sectors:
– Direct access to the complete electromagnetic environment, beyond the usual computational area, taking into account additional reflecting vehicles and/or obstacles, if any.
– Dedicated High Frequency software tool, relying on Physical Optics combined with Equivalent Edge Diffraction and dealing with aeronautics RADAR applications or Antenna Radiation on-board large sized naval ships.
Near radiated fields for Automotive RADAR
The previous version of PAM-CEM offered a dedicated upgrade to access electromagnetic fields radiated in the so-called “near zone”, i.e. outside the 3D computational domain but not yet in the far zone. With the brand new 2010 upgrade, additional reflecting obstacles or vehicles can be taken into account together. Also, very thin paint bumper coatings that interfere with automotive RADAR devices are treated.
“The introduction of PAM-CEM has allowed us to conduct very precise electromagnetic wave simulations. We believe electronic control systems will be increasingly important in the development of the cars of the future”, declared Yasushi Hamada, Manager of the Electronic Testing and Research Group at MAZDA Motor Corporation.
High Frequency Electromagnetics
PAM-CEM Simulation Suite 2010 includes an additional product, named PAM-CEM/HF, which relies on the Physical Theory of Diffraction (PTD) combining Physical Optics and Equivalent Edge Currents. Specific applications can be found in Aeronautics with high frequency RADAR scattering or in the Navy with the radiation of integrated antennas.
“Together with Visual-CEM 6.5 and the forthcoming Special Version also presenting some new capabilities such as 3D/3D coupling for advanced source modeling, PAM-CEM Simulation Suite 2010 is clearly user-oriented and targets industrial modeling”, said Dr. Jean-Claude Kedzia, PAM-CEM Product Manager at ESI Group.
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Flow Science Announces Release of FLOW-3D/MP Version 4.1
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, October 25, 2010. Flow Science, Inc. announces that a new release of the distributed-memory version of its FLOW-3D computational fluid dynamics software, FLOW-3D/MP, is now available.
FLOW-3D/MP Version 4.1 offers substantial performance improvements, up to 40x on 64 processor cores giving FLOW-3D/MP users the opportunity to run larger and faster simulations than ever before. Version 4.1 includes a variety of subroutines in FORTRAN source form that allow users to customize FLOW-3D/MP. Users can customize boundary conditions or add their own models to meet their unique CFD modeling requirements. The ability to post-process results from serial and parallel versions of FLOW-3D has been integrated into FLOW-3D/MP 4.1. The physical models and numerical methods of FLOW-3D/MP v4.1 are based on FLOW-3D v9.4.2. Read a complete list of FLOW-3D v9.4.2 features.
FLOW-3D/MP, first released in 2006, uses multi-block methodology to decompose the computational domain into blocks, which are then distributed among the nodes in a cluster. FLOW-3D/MP v4.1 has been tested extensively on both Windows Server 2008 and Linux systems (RHEL 4 & 5 and SUSE 10 &11).
Flow Science has commenced shipment of this new release to FLOW-3D/MP customers under maintenance contracts.
FLOW-3D/MP Version 4.1 offers substantial performance improvements, up to 40x on 64 processor cores giving FLOW-3D/MP users the opportunity to run larger and faster simulations than ever before. Version 4.1 includes a variety of subroutines in FORTRAN source form that allow users to customize FLOW-3D/MP. Users can customize boundary conditions or add their own models to meet their unique CFD modeling requirements. The ability to post-process results from serial and parallel versions of FLOW-3D has been integrated into FLOW-3D/MP 4.1. The physical models and numerical methods of FLOW-3D/MP v4.1 are based on FLOW-3D v9.4.2. Read a complete list of FLOW-3D v9.4.2 features.
FLOW-3D/MP, first released in 2006, uses multi-block methodology to decompose the computational domain into blocks, which are then distributed among the nodes in a cluster. FLOW-3D/MP v4.1 has been tested extensively on both Windows Server 2008 and Linux systems (RHEL 4 & 5 and SUSE 10 &11).
Flow Science has commenced shipment of this new release to FLOW-3D/MP customers under maintenance contracts.
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ESI Releases PAM-RTM 2010
The industrial Liquid Composite Molding (LCM) simulation tool for large and complex components.
Paris: Infusion is a process widely used to manufacture large components such as wind blades or wing boxes. However, determining vent locations and injection strategy is a real challenge for large, complex parts made of different composite materials and inserts and for which the resin flow through the thickness is not uniform. Until now, no simulation tool could accurately manage these large or complex components requiring volumic modeling, costing companies multiple expensive and time-consuming trials to reach a working manufacturing process.
PAM-RTM 2010 is part of ESI’s Composites Simulation Suite of dedicated industrial software for the design, performance and manufacturing simulation of composite components. The 2010 release of PAM-RTM includes a high performance solver enabling Distributed Memory Processing (DMP) computations for Liquid Composites Molding (LCM) process simulation. It covers a wide range of manufacturing processes based on LCM, helping process engineers and designers to quickly and efficiently evaluate manufacturing strategies and optimize process parameters regardless of component size.
Thanks to the DMP solver capability and an optimized graphical interface, components using millions of elements (shells as well as solids) are now treated and, more importantly, simulations can be completed in a matter of hours. PAM-RTM 2010 addresses industrial time constrains with the highest level of accuracy, enabling LCM simulation for very large parts, for complex geometries requiring a detailed mesh and for thick parts in which the non-uniformity of the resin flow through the thickness cannot be neglected. PAM-RTM 2010 is a unique and powerful tool dedicated to industries – including the wind energy and aeronautic sectors – that manufacture complex or high-dimensioned Liquid Composites Molded components.
“Snecma Propulsion Solid (Safran Group) designs, develops and produces solid rocket motors and composite materials for defense, space, aeronautics, and industry applications. Recently, we showed at an RTM conference organized by the PPE (Pôle de Plasturgie de l’Est) some of our achievements in the development of flex-seal cowls,” said Martine Dauchier, R&D Phenolic Ablative Materials Engineer, Snecma Propulsion Solide, SAFRAN Group. “Introducing 3D RTM composite materials for flex-seal cowls led to materials and assembly cost savings. Together with the PPE, using PAM-RTM simulations, we successfully designed optimized RTM processes accounting for the specific reinforcements injected. These flex-seal cowls are now in use on the nozzle of the VEGA P80 Motor.”
PAM-RTM 2010 offers additional enhancements and consolidations of 2009 functionalities such as the automatic injection flow rate control to reduce porosity in the parts and the “one shot” simulation to rapidly estimate the last area to be filled and filling time, the conditional opening and closing of the gates, the influence on permeability of fiber shearing during draping – modules originally developed by the ‘Chaire sur les Composites à Haute Performance (CCHP) of École Polytechnique de Montréal’ – and the advanced draping functionalities for more realistic fiber orientation prediction, among other improvements. All these enhancements provide users with a more rapid decision-making solution for process, part quality and mold optimization.
Among the new functionalities of 2010, two major developments also from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal have been implemented:
* automatic determination of the best location of injection ports (based on genetic algorithms);
* Compression Resin Transfer Molding (CRTM) and Articulated Compression Resin Transfer Molding (A-CRTM) process simulation.
“PAM-RTM 2010 release represents a major contribution to ESI’s Composites Simulation Suite with its high performance solver moving back the main limitations of Liquid Composite Molding simulation,” declared Mathilde Chabin, Composites Product Marketing and Business Development, ESI Group. “This version was motivated by a growing need in wind energy and aeronautic industries where the complexity and size of composite structures keep increasing while the highest part quality in less time is required.”
Paris: Infusion is a process widely used to manufacture large components such as wind blades or wing boxes. However, determining vent locations and injection strategy is a real challenge for large, complex parts made of different composite materials and inserts and for which the resin flow through the thickness is not uniform. Until now, no simulation tool could accurately manage these large or complex components requiring volumic modeling, costing companies multiple expensive and time-consuming trials to reach a working manufacturing process.
PAM-RTM 2010 is part of ESI’s Composites Simulation Suite of dedicated industrial software for the design, performance and manufacturing simulation of composite components. The 2010 release of PAM-RTM includes a high performance solver enabling Distributed Memory Processing (DMP) computations for Liquid Composites Molding (LCM) process simulation. It covers a wide range of manufacturing processes based on LCM, helping process engineers and designers to quickly and efficiently evaluate manufacturing strategies and optimize process parameters regardless of component size.
Thanks to the DMP solver capability and an optimized graphical interface, components using millions of elements (shells as well as solids) are now treated and, more importantly, simulations can be completed in a matter of hours. PAM-RTM 2010 addresses industrial time constrains with the highest level of accuracy, enabling LCM simulation for very large parts, for complex geometries requiring a detailed mesh and for thick parts in which the non-uniformity of the resin flow through the thickness cannot be neglected. PAM-RTM 2010 is a unique and powerful tool dedicated to industries – including the wind energy and aeronautic sectors – that manufacture complex or high-dimensioned Liquid Composites Molded components.
“Snecma Propulsion Solid (Safran Group) designs, develops and produces solid rocket motors and composite materials for defense, space, aeronautics, and industry applications. Recently, we showed at an RTM conference organized by the PPE (Pôle de Plasturgie de l’Est) some of our achievements in the development of flex-seal cowls,” said Martine Dauchier, R&D Phenolic Ablative Materials Engineer, Snecma Propulsion Solide, SAFRAN Group. “Introducing 3D RTM composite materials for flex-seal cowls led to materials and assembly cost savings. Together with the PPE, using PAM-RTM simulations, we successfully designed optimized RTM processes accounting for the specific reinforcements injected. These flex-seal cowls are now in use on the nozzle of the VEGA P80 Motor.”
PAM-RTM 2010 offers additional enhancements and consolidations of 2009 functionalities such as the automatic injection flow rate control to reduce porosity in the parts and the “one shot” simulation to rapidly estimate the last area to be filled and filling time, the conditional opening and closing of the gates, the influence on permeability of fiber shearing during draping – modules originally developed by the ‘Chaire sur les Composites à Haute Performance (CCHP) of École Polytechnique de Montréal’ – and the advanced draping functionalities for more realistic fiber orientation prediction, among other improvements. All these enhancements provide users with a more rapid decision-making solution for process, part quality and mold optimization.
Among the new functionalities of 2010, two major developments also from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal have been implemented:
* automatic determination of the best location of injection ports (based on genetic algorithms);
* Compression Resin Transfer Molding (CRTM) and Articulated Compression Resin Transfer Molding (A-CRTM) process simulation.
“PAM-RTM 2010 release represents a major contribution to ESI’s Composites Simulation Suite with its high performance solver moving back the main limitations of Liquid Composite Molding simulation,” declared Mathilde Chabin, Composites Product Marketing and Business Development, ESI Group. “This version was motivated by a growing need in wind energy and aeronautic industries where the complexity and size of composite structures keep increasing while the highest part quality in less time is required.”
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ANSYS 13.0(R): Built for Fidelity, Speed and Power
Latest Software Release Supports Faster Time to Market and Lower Development Costs.
PITTSBURGH - ANSYS, Inc today announced the launch of ANSYS(R) 13.0, the newest release of its engineering simulation technology suite designed to optimize product development processes -- reducing the time and cost needed to foster product innovations.
The advanced technology behind ANSYS 13.0 includes hundreds of new features that make it easier, faster and cheaper for users to bring new products to market, with a high degree of confidence in the ultimate results they will achieve. ANSYS 13.0 delivers new benefits in three major areas:
* Greater fidelity via new solver methods. As engineering requirements and design complexity increase, simulation software must produce more accurate results that reflect changing operating conditions over time. ANSYS 13.0 features an electromagnetic transient solver that produces higher-fidelity results in dynamic simulation environments, among other new features.
* Higher productivity built on an adaptive architecture. ANSYS 13.0 includes dozens of features that minimize the time and effort product development teams invest in simulation. For example, as product designs grow in size and complexity -- and consideration of a single physics is no longer enough -- ANSYS 13.0 makes it easier for users with different engineering specialties to work collaboratively to exchange data and develop real-world simulations that incorporate multiphysics.
* Performance innovation via software and computational power. ANSYS 13.0 can provide speedup ratios that are dramatically greater than previous software releases. Complex multiphysics simulations can be accomplished more quickly and efficiently, speeding up product development and market launch initiatives.
"ANSYS 13.0 builds on the foundation of previous ANSYS releases. It especially addresses user feedback by incorporating valuable capabilities that compress design cycles, optimize product performance across multiple physics, maximize the accuracy of virtual prototypes and automate the simulation process," said Jim Cashman, president and CEO of ANSYS. "The release will create a significant competitive advantage for users, making it easier and faster to bring innovative new products to market -- which has become an imperative in today's economy."
"Red Bull Racing knows a lot about the need for speed. ANSYS helps us move to the next level of racing by empowering us to innovate car designs much quicker, which makes us more competitive race by race. At the end of the day this can help us achieve our goal of winning more races," said Steve Nevey, business development manager at Red Bull Technology.
Fidelity
Improvements in ANSYS 13.0 enhance solution speed and fidelity, offering customers an even greater advantage. The new software release includes solver methods that leverage advanced technology to more quickly deliver accurate answers. For example, in the structural mechanics arena, 3-D rezoning can be used for applications that involve large shape deformations. It allows engineers to stop their simulation as their mesh becomes distorted -- then remesh the material's current state and continue the simulation.
The HFSS(TM) transient solver for dynamic electromagnetic simulations -- such as broadband and radar -- incorporates automatic adaptive mesh refinement and an innovative local time-stepping procedure to accurately represent the geometry and fields while optimizing runtime, stability and efficiency. In addition, a new hybrid solver bridges finite element and integral equation methods for high-frequency electromagnetics problems, making HFSS the first commercial code to have this capability. The technology is ideal for applications that combine simulation over a large distance, such as antennas, with detailed features and complex materials, such as computer components.
For modeling turbulence in fluid environments, an embedded large eddy simulation (LES) solver delivers a faster solution yet maintains accuracy, applying LES to complex areas of interest and faster-solving Reynolds average Navier-Stokes (RANS) to the rest of the solution. ANSYS 13.0 also includes a new fluid dynamics capability for multiple reference frames, which enables engineers to model multiple moving systems simultaneously -- for example, the rotation of wheels as a car moves around a corner.
Productivity
ANSYS 13.0 is built to enhance users' productivity, especially critical when running complex multiphysics engineering simulations. One customer leveraging ANSYS advanced capabilities is Chromalloy, which evaluates gas turbine engine components to determine the effects of various stresses. "Chromalloy needs to evaluate the product designs of compressors or turbine blades based on real-world conditions. That means multiphysics, including fluids, thermal and mechanical/structural. The advances in the newest version of ANSYS software will help us to better understand those forces and to continue to bring the highest quality products to the market," said Page Strohl, structural design manager at Chromalloy.
New process compression capabilities in ANSYS 13.0 will make the work of customers like Chromalloy even more efficient and seamless. The release leverages the ANSYS foundation of open and flexible architecture, resulting in customized engineering workflows that can cut time and costs from the simulation process. An integration with Microsoft(R) Excel(R) enables users to interact with spreadsheets that contain analytic representations of models and parameter table definitions. Other enhancements include an innovative cutcell meshing feature that produces nearly all hexahedral elements on complex 3-D geometry automatically, an external data mapper that imports data in the form of a column text file defining a point cloud, and tighter integration among the Maxwell(R), HFSS and mechanical solvers when performing electromagnetic-thermal-structural simulations.
Performance
ANSYS 13.0 brings a new level of software and computational power to engineering simulation. Power enhancements include a new and unique application of variational technology that reduces solution time by a factor of five to 10 when applied to harmonic analysis. The latest ANSYS release also features greater support for GPU processors, which can be offloaded with complex, time-consuming algorithms to increase both processing speed and accuracy.
The integration of features new to release 13.0 aligns with the ANSYS vision to make multiphysics engineering simulation tools accessible to all who need them. The suite delivers fluid and structural simulation tools for turbomachinery design and analysis, such as cyclic symmetry and multiple moving reference frames; new models for internal combustion (IC) engine applications -- spray, ignition and combustion; and new process and energy industry solutions, including multiphase, real gas, nucleate boiling, and chemical reaction tools. Meshing, element modeling, more-tightly coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI), nonlinear functionality and other improvements round out the list of new features.
"Based on close interactions with our customers, we have designed ANSYS 13.0 to address their most pressing needs for high-quality, fast and powerful simulation results that boost their product development efforts," Cashman said. "The hundreds of innovative new features in ANSYS 13.0 will make it easier and more cost-effective than ever to apply engineering simulation technology to confidently bring new products to market -- a business capability that becomes more critical every day."
ANSYS 13.0 will be available for customer download later this year.
PITTSBURGH - ANSYS, Inc today announced the launch of ANSYS(R) 13.0, the newest release of its engineering simulation technology suite designed to optimize product development processes -- reducing the time and cost needed to foster product innovations.
The advanced technology behind ANSYS 13.0 includes hundreds of new features that make it easier, faster and cheaper for users to bring new products to market, with a high degree of confidence in the ultimate results they will achieve. ANSYS 13.0 delivers new benefits in three major areas:
* Greater fidelity via new solver methods. As engineering requirements and design complexity increase, simulation software must produce more accurate results that reflect changing operating conditions over time. ANSYS 13.0 features an electromagnetic transient solver that produces higher-fidelity results in dynamic simulation environments, among other new features.
* Higher productivity built on an adaptive architecture. ANSYS 13.0 includes dozens of features that minimize the time and effort product development teams invest in simulation. For example, as product designs grow in size and complexity -- and consideration of a single physics is no longer enough -- ANSYS 13.0 makes it easier for users with different engineering specialties to work collaboratively to exchange data and develop real-world simulations that incorporate multiphysics.
* Performance innovation via software and computational power. ANSYS 13.0 can provide speedup ratios that are dramatically greater than previous software releases. Complex multiphysics simulations can be accomplished more quickly and efficiently, speeding up product development and market launch initiatives.
"ANSYS 13.0 builds on the foundation of previous ANSYS releases. It especially addresses user feedback by incorporating valuable capabilities that compress design cycles, optimize product performance across multiple physics, maximize the accuracy of virtual prototypes and automate the simulation process," said Jim Cashman, president and CEO of ANSYS. "The release will create a significant competitive advantage for users, making it easier and faster to bring innovative new products to market -- which has become an imperative in today's economy."
"Red Bull Racing knows a lot about the need for speed. ANSYS helps us move to the next level of racing by empowering us to innovate car designs much quicker, which makes us more competitive race by race. At the end of the day this can help us achieve our goal of winning more races," said Steve Nevey, business development manager at Red Bull Technology.
Fidelity
Improvements in ANSYS 13.0 enhance solution speed and fidelity, offering customers an even greater advantage. The new software release includes solver methods that leverage advanced technology to more quickly deliver accurate answers. For example, in the structural mechanics arena, 3-D rezoning can be used for applications that involve large shape deformations. It allows engineers to stop their simulation as their mesh becomes distorted -- then remesh the material's current state and continue the simulation.
The HFSS(TM) transient solver for dynamic electromagnetic simulations -- such as broadband and radar -- incorporates automatic adaptive mesh refinement and an innovative local time-stepping procedure to accurately represent the geometry and fields while optimizing runtime, stability and efficiency. In addition, a new hybrid solver bridges finite element and integral equation methods for high-frequency electromagnetics problems, making HFSS the first commercial code to have this capability. The technology is ideal for applications that combine simulation over a large distance, such as antennas, with detailed features and complex materials, such as computer components.
For modeling turbulence in fluid environments, an embedded large eddy simulation (LES) solver delivers a faster solution yet maintains accuracy, applying LES to complex areas of interest and faster-solving Reynolds average Navier-Stokes (RANS) to the rest of the solution. ANSYS 13.0 also includes a new fluid dynamics capability for multiple reference frames, which enables engineers to model multiple moving systems simultaneously -- for example, the rotation of wheels as a car moves around a corner.
Productivity
ANSYS 13.0 is built to enhance users' productivity, especially critical when running complex multiphysics engineering simulations. One customer leveraging ANSYS advanced capabilities is Chromalloy, which evaluates gas turbine engine components to determine the effects of various stresses. "Chromalloy needs to evaluate the product designs of compressors or turbine blades based on real-world conditions. That means multiphysics, including fluids, thermal and mechanical/structural. The advances in the newest version of ANSYS software will help us to better understand those forces and to continue to bring the highest quality products to the market," said Page Strohl, structural design manager at Chromalloy.
New process compression capabilities in ANSYS 13.0 will make the work of customers like Chromalloy even more efficient and seamless. The release leverages the ANSYS foundation of open and flexible architecture, resulting in customized engineering workflows that can cut time and costs from the simulation process. An integration with Microsoft(R) Excel(R) enables users to interact with spreadsheets that contain analytic representations of models and parameter table definitions. Other enhancements include an innovative cutcell meshing feature that produces nearly all hexahedral elements on complex 3-D geometry automatically, an external data mapper that imports data in the form of a column text file defining a point cloud, and tighter integration among the Maxwell(R), HFSS and mechanical solvers when performing electromagnetic-thermal-structural simulations.
Performance
ANSYS 13.0 brings a new level of software and computational power to engineering simulation. Power enhancements include a new and unique application of variational technology that reduces solution time by a factor of five to 10 when applied to harmonic analysis. The latest ANSYS release also features greater support for GPU processors, which can be offloaded with complex, time-consuming algorithms to increase both processing speed and accuracy.
The integration of features new to release 13.0 aligns with the ANSYS vision to make multiphysics engineering simulation tools accessible to all who need them. The suite delivers fluid and structural simulation tools for turbomachinery design and analysis, such as cyclic symmetry and multiple moving reference frames; new models for internal combustion (IC) engine applications -- spray, ignition and combustion; and new process and energy industry solutions, including multiphase, real gas, nucleate boiling, and chemical reaction tools. Meshing, element modeling, more-tightly coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI), nonlinear functionality and other improvements round out the list of new features.
"Based on close interactions with our customers, we have designed ANSYS 13.0 to address their most pressing needs for high-quality, fast and powerful simulation results that boost their product development efforts," Cashman said. "The hundreds of innovative new features in ANSYS 13.0 will make it easier and more cost-effective than ever to apply engineering simulation technology to confidently bring new products to market -- a business capability that becomes more critical every day."
ANSYS 13.0 will be available for customer download later this year.
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Economic boom or gloom? It makes no difference to flexible factory engineers
Mid-sized manufacturers, energy providers and plant designers are adopting technologies that help them capitalise on opportunities and productively handle challenging times.
Cambridge, UK : Engineering solutions provider CAD Schroer is headquartered in Germany, with subsidiaries in the UK, US, Switzerland, Italy and France. Despite differing economic outlooks, the impetus for investment in flexible technology for factory design is everywhere.
“News coverage about a big German recovery on one hand, and the insecurity triggered by a UK austerity budget on the other, tends to exaggerate differences, rather than emphasise similarities,” says CAD Schroer’s Managing Director, Michael Schroer. “Yet both countries’ manufacturing and plant engineering sectors are boosted by overseas demand, and their firms accept that technology is a key project enabler. The solid yet flexible engineering organisations that make up our customer base - be they food or energy producers, machinery or plant providers – had their period of austerity in 2009. 2010/2011 is the time for making smart investments which offer quick benefits and good returns.”
MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT
Serving a Niche
“Our customers work internationally, and of course they feel the effects of different economic climates. But most of them are experts in their industry, supplying niche products, or engineering services to niche sectors,” explains CAD Schroer’s Product Line Manager Mark Simpson. “They have to plan, design or modify complex installations with a lot of mechanical content. The last thing they need is design software which is difficult to use, administrate or adapt.” CAD Schroer’s niche is the supply of flexible, affordable, and dynamic 2D to 3D plant and factory planning, layout, design, and visualisation software to mid-sized Owner/Operators and process plant providers.
Making the Most of Opportunities
“Be it a German machinery manufacturer gearing up to handle higher demand from Asia; a UK food manufacturer adapting processing lines to produce value ranges; or a design & construction firm progressing from 2D to 3D to be more competitive,” says Mark, “They invest in our software and services because we get projects off the ground quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.”
From Pre-Sales to Build Order
CAD Schroer’s scalable, modular software allows users to start with conceptual designs in 2D, then progress to detailed 3D design. Parametric, rules- and catalog-driven, it runs on a relational database, storing component definitions in a lightweight format. 3D factories are drawn on demand, generating impressive walk-through visualisations that help win bids, and make it easy to communicate and progress projects quickly. MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT can integrate with existing CAD/PLM/ERP/EDM systems and data, and is extremely configurable for niche requirements.
A Head Start with Factory Modelling Services
Along with its software, CAD Schroer often delivers factory layout and modelling services to get Owner/Operator projects off the ground quickly, providing everything clients need to dynamically edit and visualise their existing data, and to plan and cost changes.
Factory Modelling Services
Boom or Gloom
“We regard the harbingers of boom or gloom with healthy scepticism,” Michael concludes. “Economies are interlaced and complex. Innovative manufacturers and plant engineers use our technologies and services to help them capitalise on new opportunities, and productively handle challenging times.”
Cambridge, UK : Engineering solutions provider CAD Schroer is headquartered in Germany, with subsidiaries in the UK, US, Switzerland, Italy and France. Despite differing economic outlooks, the impetus for investment in flexible technology for factory design is everywhere.
“News coverage about a big German recovery on one hand, and the insecurity triggered by a UK austerity budget on the other, tends to exaggerate differences, rather than emphasise similarities,” says CAD Schroer’s Managing Director, Michael Schroer. “Yet both countries’ manufacturing and plant engineering sectors are boosted by overseas demand, and their firms accept that technology is a key project enabler. The solid yet flexible engineering organisations that make up our customer base - be they food or energy producers, machinery or plant providers – had their period of austerity in 2009. 2010/2011 is the time for making smart investments which offer quick benefits and good returns.”
MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT
Serving a Niche
“Our customers work internationally, and of course they feel the effects of different economic climates. But most of them are experts in their industry, supplying niche products, or engineering services to niche sectors,” explains CAD Schroer’s Product Line Manager Mark Simpson. “They have to plan, design or modify complex installations with a lot of mechanical content. The last thing they need is design software which is difficult to use, administrate or adapt.” CAD Schroer’s niche is the supply of flexible, affordable, and dynamic 2D to 3D plant and factory planning, layout, design, and visualisation software to mid-sized Owner/Operators and process plant providers.
Making the Most of Opportunities
“Be it a German machinery manufacturer gearing up to handle higher demand from Asia; a UK food manufacturer adapting processing lines to produce value ranges; or a design & construction firm progressing from 2D to 3D to be more competitive,” says Mark, “They invest in our software and services because we get projects off the ground quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.”
From Pre-Sales to Build Order
CAD Schroer’s scalable, modular software allows users to start with conceptual designs in 2D, then progress to detailed 3D design. Parametric, rules- and catalog-driven, it runs on a relational database, storing component definitions in a lightweight format. 3D factories are drawn on demand, generating impressive walk-through visualisations that help win bids, and make it easy to communicate and progress projects quickly. MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT can integrate with existing CAD/PLM/ERP/EDM systems and data, and is extremely configurable for niche requirements.
A Head Start with Factory Modelling Services
Along with its software, CAD Schroer often delivers factory layout and modelling services to get Owner/Operator projects off the ground quickly, providing everything clients need to dynamically edit and visualise their existing data, and to plan and cost changes.
Factory Modelling Services
Boom or Gloom
“We regard the harbingers of boom or gloom with healthy scepticism,” Michael concludes. “Economies are interlaced and complex. Innovative manufacturers and plant engineers use our technologies and services to help them capitalise on new opportunities, and productively handle challenging times.”
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DP Technology Corp., Maker of ESPRIT CAM, Opens New Office in Germany
Taking the next step on its path of continuing expansion, international computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) industry leader DP Technology, maker of ESPRIT®, has opened a new office in Bamberg, Germany.
“Our business grows as we enhance our reseller and machine-tool partner network,” says Udo Ehnes, European technical manager for DP Technology. Ehnes, who managed DP’s premier German office for 12 years, now oversees its new-and-improved successor.
DP’s new German headquarters, located in the suite of a spacious modern office building in the industrial region of Bamberg — near Bosch, Michelin and Brose — boasts triple the amount of space offered by its predecessor. In addition to its reception area, the new addition to DP’s worldwide offices includes a new meeting room and plenty of space for its eight-member staff — four of whom have been newly hired to support the expanding needs of DP and its clientele.
That staff, which offers sales and support services, can now also offer customers, resellers and machine-tool business partners customized training in its new on-site training room.
As the new office is also close to major roadways and a train station, in addition to several hotels, the new location is tailor-made for convenience.
“We are growing as a reflection of the growth of business in Europe, and especially in Germany,” Ehnes says.
“Our business grows as we enhance our reseller and machine-tool partner network,” says Udo Ehnes, European technical manager for DP Technology. Ehnes, who managed DP’s premier German office for 12 years, now oversees its new-and-improved successor.
DP’s new German headquarters, located in the suite of a spacious modern office building in the industrial region of Bamberg — near Bosch, Michelin and Brose — boasts triple the amount of space offered by its predecessor. In addition to its reception area, the new addition to DP’s worldwide offices includes a new meeting room and plenty of space for its eight-member staff — four of whom have been newly hired to support the expanding needs of DP and its clientele.
That staff, which offers sales and support services, can now also offer customers, resellers and machine-tool business partners customized training in its new on-site training room.
As the new office is also close to major roadways and a train station, in addition to several hotels, the new location is tailor-made for convenience.
“We are growing as a reflection of the growth of business in Europe, and especially in Germany,” Ehnes says.
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ESPRIT
Delcam to consolidate CAM leadership at JIMTOF
Delcam will look to consolidate its position as the world’s leading specialist supplier of CAM software at the JIMTOF exhibition to be held in Tokyo from 28th October to 2nd November. The latest NC Software and Related Services Market report from leading analysts CIMdata showed that, in 2009, Delcam again had the highest vendor revenues of all the CAM-centric companies and so completed a decade as the world’s leading CAM specialist. The company first achieved its global leadership in 2000, when it overtook Japanese developer Hitachi Zosen, and has kept that position ever since. After record six-month sales for the first half of this year, Delcam is expecting to extend its lead when CIMdata’s report on 2010 is published.
The CIMdata report also confirmed that Delcam has the largest development team in the industry, with 165 people working on the company’s CAM software. Only two other companies employ more than 100 CAM developers; Siemens PLM with 121 and Dassault with 110. Furthermore, the company was reported to have shipped more industrial seats of CAM software than any other supplier during the year.
A key factor in the company’s continuing success is its broad range of CAM software. Delcam can offer a CAM system to machine virtually any product, in any material on any type of equipment. No other supplier has such a broad a range of software to increase productivity, improve quality and shorten delivery times in so many applications.
Delcam’s full range of CAM systems is now made up of PowerMILL for high-speed and five-axis machining, FeatureCAM for feature-based machining, PartMaker for Swiss-type lathes and turn-mill equipment, and ArtCAM for routing and engraving. Together, the complete set of programs comprises the world’s most comprehensive collection of machining software; giving Delcam an unrivalled ability to provide solutions to all of a company’s programming needs.
Earlier this year, Delcam further extended its range with the addition of its first integrated CAM system, Delcam for SolidWorks. This new program is already attracting a high level of interest in Japan, where a number of leading resellers have agreed to promote it.
Other highlights of the Delcam stand at JIMTOF will include the 2011 releases of PowerMILL, FeatureCAM and PartMaker. These are expected to attract considerable interest from the existing users in Japan and from the growing number of manufacturing companies in the country that are looking to replace their existing CAM system with one of the Delcam programs.
The CIMdata report also confirmed that Delcam has the largest development team in the industry, with 165 people working on the company’s CAM software. Only two other companies employ more than 100 CAM developers; Siemens PLM with 121 and Dassault with 110. Furthermore, the company was reported to have shipped more industrial seats of CAM software than any other supplier during the year.
A key factor in the company’s continuing success is its broad range of CAM software. Delcam can offer a CAM system to machine virtually any product, in any material on any type of equipment. No other supplier has such a broad a range of software to increase productivity, improve quality and shorten delivery times in so many applications.
Delcam’s full range of CAM systems is now made up of PowerMILL for high-speed and five-axis machining, FeatureCAM for feature-based machining, PartMaker for Swiss-type lathes and turn-mill equipment, and ArtCAM for routing and engraving. Together, the complete set of programs comprises the world’s most comprehensive collection of machining software; giving Delcam an unrivalled ability to provide solutions to all of a company’s programming needs.
Earlier this year, Delcam further extended its range with the addition of its first integrated CAM system, Delcam for SolidWorks. This new program is already attracting a high level of interest in Japan, where a number of leading resellers have agreed to promote it.
Other highlights of the Delcam stand at JIMTOF will include the 2011 releases of PowerMILL, FeatureCAM and PartMaker. These are expected to attract considerable interest from the existing users in Japan and from the growing number of manufacturing companies in the country that are looking to replace their existing CAM system with one of the Delcam programs.
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CPFD supporting AIChE Annual Meeting
CPFD Software will be supporting the AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Ken Williams will co-chair two sessions on “Industrial Application of Computational and Numerical Approaches to Particle Flow” on Wednesday, November 10th at 12:30pm and 3:15pm in Room 251 F at the Salt Palace Convention Center.
CPFD Software has also announced that they will be exhibiting at Table No. 8 from November 10 – 12, and sponsoring all wine for the Particle Technology Forum Dinner, held November 10th at the Log Haven Restaurant.
CPFD Software has also announced that they will be exhibiting at Table No. 8 from November 10 – 12, and sponsoring all wine for the Particle Technology Forum Dinner, held November 10th at the Log Haven Restaurant.
Bob Bean and Jim Gordon of Kubotek USA to Present at Global Product Data Interoperability Summit (GPDIS)
Marlborough, Mass., – Bob Bean Sr. VP at Kubotek USA and Jim Gordon, Vice President of Development, Validation Tool, will be presenting new breakthrough technology from Kubotek USA at the GPDIS conference on Nov 8-11 in Chandler Arizona. Their subject is Assembly Model Translation, Data Reduction and Validation - Working with Supplier Data and Optimizing for Size and Data Quality. The presentation will present strategies to read, reduce, optimize, translate and validate supplier data for use in an OEM’s environment. Examples will be shown on this streamlined end to end process with techniques for data reduction and optimization for generating significant productivity and quality improvements for Aerospace and Defense companies.
Key Learning Points for the presentation include.
An understanding of how foreign assemblies can be “lightened” to make supplier data much more usable
A review of other techniques such as surface size reduction and envelope or “wetted surface” creation
A review of the benefits of using a streamlined process to improved productivity while working with supplier data
Key Learning Points for the presentation include.
An understanding of how foreign assemblies can be “lightened” to make supplier data much more usable
A review of other techniques such as surface size reduction and envelope or “wetted surface” creation
A review of the benefits of using a streamlined process to improved productivity while working with supplier data
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3D CAD Viewer combined with job shop software delivers real benefits
Sescoi’s WorkXPlore 3D high-speed CAD viewer, and its MyWorkPLAN custom manufacturing system, have enabled Pentaxia Ltd to produce accurate tooling quotations in less than 20 minutes. The rapid response to enquiries is essential to its business as the company, located in Derby, produces patterns and tooling used in the production of composite panels for Formula 1, aerospace and defense applications.
Stephen Ollier, Managing Director of Pentaxia, says, “Motorsport is an extremely fast moving environment with rapid design changes, so our ability to interpret designs, check material prices, and estimate machining times quickly enables us to offer competitive prices, ensure the job is profitable for us, and win more business.” As well as providing a service to several leading F1 teams the company has produced molds for a diverse range of parts including aerofoil shapes, bulletproof doors, components for Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, and for Roman Abramovich’s Mega-Yacht ‘Eclipse’.
The WorkXPlore 3D CAD viewer enables the company to read in and interrogate designs from a wide range of CAD software. Stephen Ollier adds, “I can examine the model data from many sources myself, without the need to use one of our CAD systems, which would otherwise interrupt our designers. I check draft angles, which helps in 5-axis CNC machining, and calculate block sizes in preparation for producing the quotation in MyWorkPLAN. The ability to load down a trial copy of WorkXPlore 3D was really helpful, making purchase of the software an easy decision.”
By adding MyWorkPLAN job shop software, Pentaxia was able to link the design interrogation into the quotation preparation process. Stephen Ollier says, “Once we have established the block size in WorkXPlore 3D we can use the material prices and the machine rates stored in MyWorkPLAN to calculate the price. Previous quotations can be accessed so that historical information about similar parts can be used. This helps us determine realistic cycle times for each operation, ensuring that we are competitive and that every job produces a profit. Being able to produce these quotations on my own, without waiting for anyone else, is very important to us. We can respond to enquiries in 20 minutes or less and, in our business time is of the essence.”
Once a job becomes an order, the WorkXPlore 3D and MyWorkPLAN quotation information forms the basis of the job documentation. More detail is then added for production, and as manufacture progresses further information is added, for example, job sheets with detailed operations, design revisions, inspection reports, invoices and delivery notes. Stephen Ollier says. “We are ISO 9000 approved and we want to gain aerospace quality approvals. The way in which MyWorkPLAN groups all the documentation for each project in one place is brilliant. It will help us to meet our quality targets, and it enables us to respond straight away to any questions asked by our customers or suppliers.”
The MyWorkPLAN manufacturing software and the WorkXPlore 3D CAD Viewer and analysis software have been designed with ease of use in mind and include tutorials to make operation and installation as simple as possible. Sescoi installed and tailored the software to suit the needs of Pentaxia, enabling it to become productive extremely quickly.
Stephen Ollier adds, “Installation of MyWorkPLAN was completed with hardly any disruption, and we find that it is far more flexible and intuitive to use than our old system. We can enter the documentation cycle at any point, allowing us to short cut many processes, speeding up administrative tasks immeasurably. The software is the backbone of our document and job management, is straightforward for anyone to use, and is a common tool for everybody at Pentaxia.”
Stephen Ollier, Managing Director of Pentaxia, says, “Motorsport is an extremely fast moving environment with rapid design changes, so our ability to interpret designs, check material prices, and estimate machining times quickly enables us to offer competitive prices, ensure the job is profitable for us, and win more business.” As well as providing a service to several leading F1 teams the company has produced molds for a diverse range of parts including aerofoil shapes, bulletproof doors, components for Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, and for Roman Abramovich’s Mega-Yacht ‘Eclipse’.
The WorkXPlore 3D CAD viewer enables the company to read in and interrogate designs from a wide range of CAD software. Stephen Ollier adds, “I can examine the model data from many sources myself, without the need to use one of our CAD systems, which would otherwise interrupt our designers. I check draft angles, which helps in 5-axis CNC machining, and calculate block sizes in preparation for producing the quotation in MyWorkPLAN. The ability to load down a trial copy of WorkXPlore 3D was really helpful, making purchase of the software an easy decision.”
By adding MyWorkPLAN job shop software, Pentaxia was able to link the design interrogation into the quotation preparation process. Stephen Ollier says, “Once we have established the block size in WorkXPlore 3D we can use the material prices and the machine rates stored in MyWorkPLAN to calculate the price. Previous quotations can be accessed so that historical information about similar parts can be used. This helps us determine realistic cycle times for each operation, ensuring that we are competitive and that every job produces a profit. Being able to produce these quotations on my own, without waiting for anyone else, is very important to us. We can respond to enquiries in 20 minutes or less and, in our business time is of the essence.”
Once a job becomes an order, the WorkXPlore 3D and MyWorkPLAN quotation information forms the basis of the job documentation. More detail is then added for production, and as manufacture progresses further information is added, for example, job sheets with detailed operations, design revisions, inspection reports, invoices and delivery notes. Stephen Ollier says. “We are ISO 9000 approved and we want to gain aerospace quality approvals. The way in which MyWorkPLAN groups all the documentation for each project in one place is brilliant. It will help us to meet our quality targets, and it enables us to respond straight away to any questions asked by our customers or suppliers.”
The MyWorkPLAN manufacturing software and the WorkXPlore 3D CAD Viewer and analysis software have been designed with ease of use in mind and include tutorials to make operation and installation as simple as possible. Sescoi installed and tailored the software to suit the needs of Pentaxia, enabling it to become productive extremely quickly.
Stephen Ollier adds, “Installation of MyWorkPLAN was completed with hardly any disruption, and we find that it is far more flexible and intuitive to use than our old system. We can enter the documentation cycle at any point, allowing us to short cut many processes, speeding up administrative tasks immeasurably. The software is the backbone of our document and job management, is straightforward for anyone to use, and is a common tool for everybody at Pentaxia.”
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Rice Daubney's Fully Integrated ArchiCAD BIM Project is Chosen as the Australian Development of the Year
BUDAPEST – An award-winning design is the first commercial high rise building in Australia completely designed, constructed and handed over as a built model with asset management software using Building Information Modeling (BIM). The Ark Building, the Urban Taskforce 2010 Development Excellence Award winner designed by Rice Daubney, breaks boundaries, challenges traditions, and sets new design benchmarks.
Designed using ArchiCAD by GRAPHISOFT, the development of ‘Ark’ as a fully-integrated Building Information Model began with the consultants and designers, and continued through to the construction of the building. This ensured that the data embedded in the sophisticated BIM model could be used by the client for ongoing asset management and building performance. “BIM helped visualize a complex building design and allowed coordination of structure and services in a highly collaborative environment,” said Mark Shoolman, Project Architect at Rice Daubney.
In addition to its new approach to architectural form, with its dramatic folded shapes, the building excels in environmental terms as well through the use of Tri-generation. The building, which has achieved a 6 star Green Star rating, collects and recycles rainwater.
Conceived, designed, documented, and built using BIM, ‘Ark’ is testimony to the benefits of a true and complete BIM environment – from initial design conceptualization through to the construction process and end management of the building. “BIM continues to change the way our industry works and collaborates; virtual construction is the future and Ark is the first completed commercial high-rise building in Australia where all contractors have truly collaborated using BIM,” sums up Paul Reidy, Director of Design at Rice Daubney.
Rex Van Katwyk, engineer of Taylor Thomson Whitting, the structural consultant firm of the project adds, “This was the first time we used ArchiCAD and we had no issues at all building and sharing the structural model. It proved a very powerful and easy to use package.”
Designed using ArchiCAD by GRAPHISOFT, the development of ‘Ark’ as a fully-integrated Building Information Model began with the consultants and designers, and continued through to the construction of the building. This ensured that the data embedded in the sophisticated BIM model could be used by the client for ongoing asset management and building performance. “BIM helped visualize a complex building design and allowed coordination of structure and services in a highly collaborative environment,” said Mark Shoolman, Project Architect at Rice Daubney.
In addition to its new approach to architectural form, with its dramatic folded shapes, the building excels in environmental terms as well through the use of Tri-generation. The building, which has achieved a 6 star Green Star rating, collects and recycles rainwater.
Conceived, designed, documented, and built using BIM, ‘Ark’ is testimony to the benefits of a true and complete BIM environment – from initial design conceptualization through to the construction process and end management of the building. “BIM continues to change the way our industry works and collaborates; virtual construction is the future and Ark is the first completed commercial high-rise building in Australia where all contractors have truly collaborated using BIM,” sums up Paul Reidy, Director of Design at Rice Daubney.
Rex Van Katwyk, engineer of Taylor Thomson Whitting, the structural consultant firm of the project adds, “This was the first time we used ArchiCAD and we had no issues at all building and sharing the structural model. It proved a very powerful and easy to use package.”
ZWSOFT Announces ZWCAD 2011 Beta & Free Upgrade Program
Guangzhou, China - ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd announces the release of ZWCAD 2011 Beta software for global testing with the ZWCAD 2011 Free Upgrade Program. The world’s leading multi-lingual* CAD software gets even better in 2011 as ZWSOFT introduces its latest innovations to its best selling CAD software.
Download ZWCAD 2011 Beta at http://www.zwcad.org/products_download_list.php?id=117
Innovative parametric design for simplified drawing and easy revisions.
Parametric drawing, with two styles of parametric (geometric and dimensional) constraints that allow associative design and editing of objects, will radically redefine the way you design in 2D by dramatically improving accuracy and reducing editing time.
A multitude of new drawing tools such as Table, Field, MLeader, PDF Plotter and Solprof.
Use PDF Plotter to convert your drawing directly into PDF format, the most widely used universal electronic document format. Create 2D images of your models with Solprof and greatly reduce the time it takes to convert your model into 2D drawing format. Table functionality creates tables with the power and functionality like Microsoft Excel. You can import your existing data from Microsoft Excel to ZWCAD table or export the data from ZWCAD table to Microsoft Excel file. MLeader can help to create MLeader objects to label different objects used with more control and flexibility. You can place a leader object in two different ways, content first or head first, and define your style, so multiple leaders are consistent throughout your drawing. Field is an updatable text that to display data that may change during the life cycle of the drawing. With all these efficient new functionalities in ZWCAD 2011, your work can become more productive.
Enhanced tools like Snap, Refedit, Raster Image, Dimension Break and Online Help.
Snap has gained a new enhancement (Magnet) to increase the efficiency for click and snap designing. With object highlight, when cursor rolls over objects meant to be selected are highlighted to help you select precisely, which is useful when dealing with complex drawing. Dimension Break provides a much needed visual enhancement to your drawing views by removing sections of dimension lines where they intersect object lines. Refedit has been reconstructed to enhance and improve the function. The speed of inserting raster images has been markedly improved. ZWCAD 2011 is now supported by Online Help (currently available in four languages: Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English and Japanese) with real time updates and online tutorials. All enhancements in functionalities above are purposed to provide you better working experience.
ZRX, the ZWCAD Runtime Extension, is also greatly improved in ZWCAD 2011, including new classes for UI, transaction and so on. With regard to LISP, we have added a batch of new visual LISP functions, such as VLR-, VLAX- and VL-functions.
New to ZWCAD? No need to wait for the release of ZWCAD 2011 to join the fastest growing global design software community. Starting from Oct. 14, 2010, customers who purchase ZWCAD 2010 before the official release of ZWCAD 2011 will receive a free upgrade to ZWCAD 2011 when it becomes available at the end of 2010.
Purchase ZWCAD 2010 today and receive your free upgrade to ZWCAD 2011!
*ZWCAD 2011 Beta version are available in 14 different languages, including Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
Download ZWCAD 2011 Beta at http://www.zwcad.org/products_download_list.php?id=117
Innovative parametric design for simplified drawing and easy revisions.
Parametric drawing, with two styles of parametric (geometric and dimensional) constraints that allow associative design and editing of objects, will radically redefine the way you design in 2D by dramatically improving accuracy and reducing editing time.
A multitude of new drawing tools such as Table, Field, MLeader, PDF Plotter and Solprof.
Use PDF Plotter to convert your drawing directly into PDF format, the most widely used universal electronic document format. Create 2D images of your models with Solprof and greatly reduce the time it takes to convert your model into 2D drawing format. Table functionality creates tables with the power and functionality like Microsoft Excel. You can import your existing data from Microsoft Excel to ZWCAD table or export the data from ZWCAD table to Microsoft Excel file. MLeader can help to create MLeader objects to label different objects used with more control and flexibility. You can place a leader object in two different ways, content first or head first, and define your style, so multiple leaders are consistent throughout your drawing. Field is an updatable text that to display data that may change during the life cycle of the drawing. With all these efficient new functionalities in ZWCAD 2011, your work can become more productive.
Enhanced tools like Snap, Refedit, Raster Image, Dimension Break and Online Help.
Snap has gained a new enhancement (Magnet) to increase the efficiency for click and snap designing. With object highlight, when cursor rolls over objects meant to be selected are highlighted to help you select precisely, which is useful when dealing with complex drawing. Dimension Break provides a much needed visual enhancement to your drawing views by removing sections of dimension lines where they intersect object lines. Refedit has been reconstructed to enhance and improve the function. The speed of inserting raster images has been markedly improved. ZWCAD 2011 is now supported by Online Help (currently available in four languages: Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English and Japanese) with real time updates and online tutorials. All enhancements in functionalities above are purposed to provide you better working experience.
ZRX, the ZWCAD Runtime Extension, is also greatly improved in ZWCAD 2011, including new classes for UI, transaction and so on. With regard to LISP, we have added a batch of new visual LISP functions, such as VLR-, VLAX- and VL-functions.
New to ZWCAD? No need to wait for the release of ZWCAD 2011 to join the fastest growing global design software community. Starting from Oct. 14, 2010, customers who purchase ZWCAD 2010 before the official release of ZWCAD 2011 will receive a free upgrade to ZWCAD 2011 when it becomes available at the end of 2010.
Purchase ZWCAD 2010 today and receive your free upgrade to ZWCAD 2011!
*ZWCAD 2011 Beta version are available in 14 different languages, including Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
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SIGMETRIX ADVANCES CETOL 6σ SOFTWARE WITH VERSION 8.2
Optimized for Precise Engineering Analysis, Visualization and Understanding
MCKINNEY, Texas – Sigmetrix, the company that revolutionized the mechanical variation and tolerance analysis software space, announced today the availability of its CETOL 6σ Version 8.2 software for CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, and SolidWorks CAD systems. Version 8.2 includes all of the powerful, next-generation features of the CETOL 6σ re-architecture which expands precision assembly engineering all the way from early concept design through inspection, enabling product development teams the ability to deliver higher-quality and more precisely engineered products.
CETOL 6σ is radically different than other solutions on the market because of its unique modeling, analysis, and visualization technologies that can be applied to a very comprehensive set of applications in a variety of industries. It goes beyond what is available with point tools that address a specific application in a limited market. CETOL 6σ is the dominant solution for variation analysis in the automotive, medical, electronic packaging, heavy equipment and many other industries.
With a range of exciting new features, this version of CETOL 6σ provides a deeper level of expert insight through unique visualization capabilities. It delivers innovative features to all users, novice or expert, with specific emphasis on ease-of-use for model creation, model validation and results visualization on the geometry model.
New features of CETOL 6σ v8.2 include:
• The ability to directly see the Unconstrained Degrees of Freedom of any component in the model
• Model Response Visualization that realistically shows how the model responds to variation
• Automation of Topological Constraints, increasing model accuracy while reducing modeling time
• Measurement-based Datum Flow Chain Visualization that filters the model to show only potential variation sources
• The unique ability to visualize the worst case minimum and maximum condition for any measurement
• Tolerance Zone Mobility Modifier and Multiple Datum Feature Support, further extending the support of GD&T standards
• Improvements in interactive modeling and analysis solution performance, especially for large models.
"This latest version of CETOL 6σ represents an enormous advancement in the overall user experience with its’ ability to logically guide the user in creating extremely precise models, covering a diversity of industries, with less expert involvement in a fraction of the time required with other 3D tolerance analysis applications on the market.” said Tim Bogard, Sigmetrix President. “CETOL 6σ strives to address the precision engineering need for designing assemblies that are more robust, giving the entire development team a richer way to understand and communicate their real design intent. It gives the manufacturing team a more objective way to achieve quality and cost goals and it gives managers a more intuitive way to make critical trade-off decisions with more confidence. In essence we are giving the entire team the ability to finally ‘see what they’re missing’.”
CETOL 6σ provides the valuable insight required to confidently release designs to manufacturing through powerful and unique features that enable engineers to more quickly and precisely predict the critical variation in assemblies.
MCKINNEY, Texas – Sigmetrix, the company that revolutionized the mechanical variation and tolerance analysis software space, announced today the availability of its CETOL 6σ Version 8.2 software for CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, and SolidWorks CAD systems. Version 8.2 includes all of the powerful, next-generation features of the CETOL 6σ re-architecture which expands precision assembly engineering all the way from early concept design through inspection, enabling product development teams the ability to deliver higher-quality and more precisely engineered products.
CETOL 6σ is radically different than other solutions on the market because of its unique modeling, analysis, and visualization technologies that can be applied to a very comprehensive set of applications in a variety of industries. It goes beyond what is available with point tools that address a specific application in a limited market. CETOL 6σ is the dominant solution for variation analysis in the automotive, medical, electronic packaging, heavy equipment and many other industries.
With a range of exciting new features, this version of CETOL 6σ provides a deeper level of expert insight through unique visualization capabilities. It delivers innovative features to all users, novice or expert, with specific emphasis on ease-of-use for model creation, model validation and results visualization on the geometry model.
New features of CETOL 6σ v8.2 include:
• The ability to directly see the Unconstrained Degrees of Freedom of any component in the model
• Model Response Visualization that realistically shows how the model responds to variation
• Automation of Topological Constraints, increasing model accuracy while reducing modeling time
• Measurement-based Datum Flow Chain Visualization that filters the model to show only potential variation sources
• The unique ability to visualize the worst case minimum and maximum condition for any measurement
• Tolerance Zone Mobility Modifier and Multiple Datum Feature Support, further extending the support of GD&T standards
• Improvements in interactive modeling and analysis solution performance, especially for large models.
"This latest version of CETOL 6σ represents an enormous advancement in the overall user experience with its’ ability to logically guide the user in creating extremely precise models, covering a diversity of industries, with less expert involvement in a fraction of the time required with other 3D tolerance analysis applications on the market.” said Tim Bogard, Sigmetrix President. “CETOL 6σ strives to address the precision engineering need for designing assemblies that are more robust, giving the entire development team a richer way to understand and communicate their real design intent. It gives the manufacturing team a more objective way to achieve quality and cost goals and it gives managers a more intuitive way to make critical trade-off decisions with more confidence. In essence we are giving the entire team the ability to finally ‘see what they’re missing’.”
CETOL 6σ provides the valuable insight required to confidently release designs to manufacturing through powerful and unique features that enable engineers to more quickly and precisely predict the critical variation in assemblies.
DCS’s Latest Release of GDM-3D is Industry’s Only Quality Data Analysis Software that Can Support All CAD File Formats
New version maximizes users’ productivity and efficiency gains
Dimensional Control Systems, Inc. (DCS), provider of dimensional engineering software solutions and consulting services, today announced the release a new version of its industry-leading quality data analysis and reporting software, GDM-3D, with enhancements that dramatically increase efficiencies for users.
Like all GDM-3D versions, Version 7.0 is commonized and interoperable with 3DCS tolerance analysis software; these features are enhanced in this version to improve its support of the overall DCS closed loop solution. Version 7.0 also simplifies the CAD translation process for users of all CAD systems, and includes numerous ease-of-use enhancements.
This new software includes built-in CAD translation that allows users to work directly, and seamlessly, with CAD file formats including CATIA V4, CATIA V5, ProEngineer, UG-NX, Parasolid, Solidworks and JT.
“GDM-3D’s multi-CAD capabilities in Version 7.0 bring even more flexibility, contributing to a level of efficiency users can’t get from any other product,” said Thagu Vivek, product development manager. “Its seamless links to 3DCS software and its built-in CAD translation set this product apart for its users.”
He continued, “While similar products on the market include support for a few select CAD systems with limited functionality, no other product that we know of has built-in translators to support all of them while maintaining a powerful, user-friendly report generation and analysis tool set.”
Other enhancements that make GDM-3D Version 7.0 even easier to use than previous versions include:
* All menu icons updated with more user-friendly and graphical images
* Ability to create and display new measurements based on measured features
* Ability to auto-distribute charts to new pages based on various feature parameters
* Ability to group charts and create report pages based on color-coded pass/fail criteria
* Ability to group edit parameters for any selected set of charts in a report
* Visual improvements and cleaner, more streamlined images
* Customizable report formats to export reported data and statistics to Excel, pdf or html
Dimensional Control Systems, Inc. (DCS), provider of dimensional engineering software solutions and consulting services, today announced the release a new version of its industry-leading quality data analysis and reporting software, GDM-3D, with enhancements that dramatically increase efficiencies for users.
Like all GDM-3D versions, Version 7.0 is commonized and interoperable with 3DCS tolerance analysis software; these features are enhanced in this version to improve its support of the overall DCS closed loop solution. Version 7.0 also simplifies the CAD translation process for users of all CAD systems, and includes numerous ease-of-use enhancements.
This new software includes built-in CAD translation that allows users to work directly, and seamlessly, with CAD file formats including CATIA V4, CATIA V5, ProEngineer, UG-NX, Parasolid, Solidworks and JT.
“GDM-3D’s multi-CAD capabilities in Version 7.0 bring even more flexibility, contributing to a level of efficiency users can’t get from any other product,” said Thagu Vivek, product development manager. “Its seamless links to 3DCS software and its built-in CAD translation set this product apart for its users.”
He continued, “While similar products on the market include support for a few select CAD systems with limited functionality, no other product that we know of has built-in translators to support all of them while maintaining a powerful, user-friendly report generation and analysis tool set.”
Other enhancements that make GDM-3D Version 7.0 even easier to use than previous versions include:
* All menu icons updated with more user-friendly and graphical images
* Ability to create and display new measurements based on measured features
* Ability to auto-distribute charts to new pages based on various feature parameters
* Ability to group charts and create report pages based on color-coded pass/fail criteria
* Ability to group edit parameters for any selected set of charts in a report
* Visual improvements and cleaner, more streamlined images
* Customizable report formats to export reported data and statistics to Excel, pdf or html
BobCAD-CAM, Inc. Releases BobCAM PRO for SolidWorks Fully Integrated CAM Software
The all new BobCAM Pro for SolidWorks add-in takes SolidWorks users to a whole new level of invention.
BobCAD-CAM software has officially released their BobCAM PRO for SolidWorks add-in for SolidWorks design software customers worldwide. SolidWorks customers can now take advantage of the BobCAM automatic 2, 3 and 4th axis machining capabilities without having to use a separate CAM software for toolpath and G-Code programming for CNC machining.
The primary benefit of BobCAM PRO is that all machining operations can be defined, calculated and verified without leaving the parametric SolidWorks design environment. All 2, 3 and 4 axis machining features are fully associative to the part model. If you make any changes to your SolidWorks model, all your CAM operations are easily updated. Full associativity between the SolidWorks design and machining operations in the new CAM tree effectively reduces errors when the part model is changed. The user has the ability to create special tool patterns for hole drilling as well as any of the other machining strategies offered in BobCAM. These tool patterns and cutting conditions can be associated with the specific part being machined or used globally throughout the system. The user simply loads the machining feature, selects the model and BobCAM loads all of the depths and correct tools for the operation. Then the user can further customize the operations and automatically generate the toolpaths and g-code program for the machine of choice. BobCAM offers powerful functionality for profiling, pocketing, engraving, plunge roughing as well as the more advanced 3 axis toolpaths such as Z-Level roughing and finishing operations.
The new PRO toolpaths that have been added are Advanced Roughing, Rest Machining, Pencil and Flatlands 3 Axis toolpaths and the Equi-Distant Offset Contour. The Rest machining feature allows you to automatically use a cleanup tool to machine left over material that the roughing tool could not machine. The Equi-Distant toolpath maintains the exact step over for the tool regardless of the models complexity.
BobCAM provides a material and tool database that can be customized as well as fully customizable post processors for CNC Milling, Routers, WaterJet, Laser and Burning machines. BobCAM includes virtual toolpath simulation, RS 232 communications and DNC capabilities. BobCAM comes with a comprehensive built-in help system as well as full user training manual. The new BobCAM add-in is also now recognized as an official SolidWorks Solution Partner.
BobCAD-CAM software has officially released their BobCAM PRO for SolidWorks add-in for SolidWorks design software customers worldwide. SolidWorks customers can now take advantage of the BobCAM automatic 2, 3 and 4th axis machining capabilities without having to use a separate CAM software for toolpath and G-Code programming for CNC machining.
The primary benefit of BobCAM PRO is that all machining operations can be defined, calculated and verified without leaving the parametric SolidWorks design environment. All 2, 3 and 4 axis machining features are fully associative to the part model. If you make any changes to your SolidWorks model, all your CAM operations are easily updated. Full associativity between the SolidWorks design and machining operations in the new CAM tree effectively reduces errors when the part model is changed. The user has the ability to create special tool patterns for hole drilling as well as any of the other machining strategies offered in BobCAM. These tool patterns and cutting conditions can be associated with the specific part being machined or used globally throughout the system. The user simply loads the machining feature, selects the model and BobCAM loads all of the depths and correct tools for the operation. Then the user can further customize the operations and automatically generate the toolpaths and g-code program for the machine of choice. BobCAM offers powerful functionality for profiling, pocketing, engraving, plunge roughing as well as the more advanced 3 axis toolpaths such as Z-Level roughing and finishing operations.
The new PRO toolpaths that have been added are Advanced Roughing, Rest Machining, Pencil and Flatlands 3 Axis toolpaths and the Equi-Distant Offset Contour. The Rest machining feature allows you to automatically use a cleanup tool to machine left over material that the roughing tool could not machine. The Equi-Distant toolpath maintains the exact step over for the tool regardless of the models complexity.
BobCAM provides a material and tool database that can be customized as well as fully customizable post processors for CNC Milling, Routers, WaterJet, Laser and Burning machines. BobCAM includes virtual toolpath simulation, RS 232 communications and DNC capabilities. BobCAM comes with a comprehensive built-in help system as well as full user training manual. The new BobCAM add-in is also now recognized as an official SolidWorks Solution Partner.
Autodesk begins shipping Beast 2011 Lighting Middleware
Beast Global Illumination Lighting Helps Decrease Iteration Time and Increase Aesthetic Quality with LiquidLight, eRnsT and DistriBeast Features.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif - Autodesk, Inc., is now shipping Autodesk Beast 2011 middleware*, the first release of the product since the company’s acquisition of Illuminate Labs in July 2010. Autodesk Beast middleware helps development teams aesthetically enhance their games with a pre-computed global illumination (GI) lighting solution, while helping to avoid complicated and time-consuming lighting setups and to minimize runtime cost.
Autodesk Beast 2011 offers three key components that work together to help decrease iteration time and enhance aesthetic quality:
* LiquidLight -- The core baking technology for advanced GI and dynamic relighting of characters
* eRnsT -- An interactive editor that helps artists control and explore lighting setups
* DistriBeast -- A distribution engine for running renders on multiple machines
Key features in Autodesk Beast 2011:
* Precomputed GI -- Prebake lighting for platform and engine independence, resulting in greater flexibility and portability.
* Aesthetic quality and efficient workflows -- Adjust overall scene lighting without bounce lights or ambient fills typically used to “fake” global illumination.
* Robust API (application programming interface) -- Integrate Beast into your game engine with a simplified interface.
*Features in Autodesk Beast 2011 middleware may differ from features announced by Illuminate Labs prior to July 2010.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif - Autodesk, Inc., is now shipping Autodesk Beast 2011 middleware*, the first release of the product since the company’s acquisition of Illuminate Labs in July 2010. Autodesk Beast middleware helps development teams aesthetically enhance their games with a pre-computed global illumination (GI) lighting solution, while helping to avoid complicated and time-consuming lighting setups and to minimize runtime cost.
Autodesk Beast 2011 offers three key components that work together to help decrease iteration time and enhance aesthetic quality:
* LiquidLight -- The core baking technology for advanced GI and dynamic relighting of characters
* eRnsT -- An interactive editor that helps artists control and explore lighting setups
* DistriBeast -- A distribution engine for running renders on multiple machines
Key features in Autodesk Beast 2011:
* Precomputed GI -- Prebake lighting for platform and engine independence, resulting in greater flexibility and portability.
* Aesthetic quality and efficient workflows -- Adjust overall scene lighting without bounce lights or ambient fills typically used to “fake” global illumination.
* Robust API (application programming interface) -- Integrate Beast into your game engine with a simplified interface.
*Features in Autodesk Beast 2011 middleware may differ from features announced by Illuminate Labs prior to July 2010.
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Latest Enhancements to Teamcenter Express Boost Collaboration and Productivity for Manufacturers
Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter Express V5.3 Delivers Faster Implementation, Easier Learning Curve and Improved Productivity for a Higher Return on Investment.
PLANO, Texas - Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced Version 5.3 of Teamcenter® Express software with key usability and desktop integration enhancements that improve collaboration and productivity in manufacturing organizations. With enhanced support for the latest versions of Microsoft Office® software and Adobe® Acrobat® software, Teamcenter Express 5.3 is a mainstream collaborative product data management (cPDM) solution aimed at increasing the ability to deliver design-through-manufacturing projects on-time and on-budget. Teamcenter Express is an easy to implement configuration of Teamcenter® software, the world’s most widely use PLM system.
“The release of Teamcenter Express 5.3 on the latest Teamcenter and Microsoft platforms adds significant capabilities to this comprehensive data management solution,” said Peter A. Bilello, President, CIMdata. “Extensive user interface enhancements should result in more efficient completion of common tasks and processes, and expanded integrations with desktop applications including Microsoft Office 2010 and Adobe Acrobat will enable more users to utilize their office automation tool of choice to work directly with a single source of managed product data, leading to improved collaboration and a reduction in errors in manufacturing.”
Multiple Enhancements Drive Improved Productivity
Teamcenter Express 5.3 can help improve the productivity of manufacturing organizations with several usability and user interface enhancements, updated integration with Microsoft Office 2010 and expanded project scheduling capabilities. These enhancements can help users achieve faster and more consistent completion of common design-through-manufacturing tasks performed from users’ desktops across multiple projects.
User interface improvements include a new summary tab layout with faster access to key data and processes, and a new quick search capability inside the Teamcenter Express explorer panel. Enhanced Microsoft Office 2010 integration, expanded support for Adobe Acrobat and a new utility to load multiple files from Windows® software folders enable more widespread access to a company’s single source of product information. Expanded capabilities in the embedded Structure Manager module enable more comprehensive and efficient management of product structures including the ability to selectively apply and reject recommended changes to a bill of materials.
Teamcenter Express 5.3 includes additional project scheduling capabilities that enable easier access for reviewing project status through a new web client, expanded project planning capabilities including finish date scheduling and critical path analysis, and timesheet reporting and work breakdown structures for improved resource tracking.
“Our original deployment of Teamcenter Express was fast, smooth and impactful,” says Kim Guk Hyeon, general manager at KC Samyang Water Systems. “In very little time, we were 100 percent operational managing our customers’ requests. In fact, since we began using Siemens PLM Software solutions, we have experienced an increase in design turnaround (speed) of more than 20 percent, an improvement in product quality of greater than 25 percent and a gain in customer satisfaction of more than 20 percent. Teamcenter Express has been a significant contributor to this success.”
Support for Latest Teamcenter and Microsoft Standards
Teamcenter Express 5.3 is a configuration of Teamcenter 8.3.It is fully scalable to this release and takes advantage of many of its new features. Teamcenter Express 5.3 is also certified for Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 and Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 clients and Microsoft Office 2010. By supporting the latest Microsoft and Teamcenter standards, Teamcenter Express provides faster implementation by leveraging the users’ existing IT infrastructure, along with improved performance and low total cost of ownership.
PLANO, Texas - Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced Version 5.3 of Teamcenter® Express software with key usability and desktop integration enhancements that improve collaboration and productivity in manufacturing organizations. With enhanced support for the latest versions of Microsoft Office® software and Adobe® Acrobat® software, Teamcenter Express 5.3 is a mainstream collaborative product data management (cPDM) solution aimed at increasing the ability to deliver design-through-manufacturing projects on-time and on-budget. Teamcenter Express is an easy to implement configuration of Teamcenter® software, the world’s most widely use PLM system.
“The release of Teamcenter Express 5.3 on the latest Teamcenter and Microsoft platforms adds significant capabilities to this comprehensive data management solution,” said Peter A. Bilello, President, CIMdata. “Extensive user interface enhancements should result in more efficient completion of common tasks and processes, and expanded integrations with desktop applications including Microsoft Office 2010 and Adobe Acrobat will enable more users to utilize their office automation tool of choice to work directly with a single source of managed product data, leading to improved collaboration and a reduction in errors in manufacturing.”
Multiple Enhancements Drive Improved Productivity
Teamcenter Express 5.3 can help improve the productivity of manufacturing organizations with several usability and user interface enhancements, updated integration with Microsoft Office 2010 and expanded project scheduling capabilities. These enhancements can help users achieve faster and more consistent completion of common design-through-manufacturing tasks performed from users’ desktops across multiple projects.
User interface improvements include a new summary tab layout with faster access to key data and processes, and a new quick search capability inside the Teamcenter Express explorer panel. Enhanced Microsoft Office 2010 integration, expanded support for Adobe Acrobat and a new utility to load multiple files from Windows® software folders enable more widespread access to a company’s single source of product information. Expanded capabilities in the embedded Structure Manager module enable more comprehensive and efficient management of product structures including the ability to selectively apply and reject recommended changes to a bill of materials.
Teamcenter Express 5.3 includes additional project scheduling capabilities that enable easier access for reviewing project status through a new web client, expanded project planning capabilities including finish date scheduling and critical path analysis, and timesheet reporting and work breakdown structures for improved resource tracking.
“Our original deployment of Teamcenter Express was fast, smooth and impactful,” says Kim Guk Hyeon, general manager at KC Samyang Water Systems. “In very little time, we were 100 percent operational managing our customers’ requests. In fact, since we began using Siemens PLM Software solutions, we have experienced an increase in design turnaround (speed) of more than 20 percent, an improvement in product quality of greater than 25 percent and a gain in customer satisfaction of more than 20 percent. Teamcenter Express has been a significant contributor to this success.”
Support for Latest Teamcenter and Microsoft Standards
Teamcenter Express 5.3 is a configuration of Teamcenter 8.3.It is fully scalable to this release and takes advantage of many of its new features. Teamcenter Express 5.3 is also certified for Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 and Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 clients and Microsoft Office 2010. By supporting the latest Microsoft and Teamcenter standards, Teamcenter Express provides faster implementation by leveraging the users’ existing IT infrastructure, along with improved performance and low total cost of ownership.
Freudenberg Hosts Aras Community Event 2010 Germany
ACE 2010 Germany Presenters included GETRAG Ford Transmissions, T-Systems, Hydrometer and Noted PLM Experts from Academia.
Aras® has announced announced the success of the Aras Community Event (ACE) 2010 Germany. Hosted by Aras Community member Freudenberg in Weinheim, Germany, the event drew customers, partners and other PLM experts and enthusiasts throughout the German speaking region of Europe.
ACE 2010 Germany featured speakers included Freudenberg, GETRAG Ford Transmissions, Hydrometer and T-Systems International GmbH. New to the Aras Partner Community, T-Systems is a leading provider of information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. T-Systems and Aras have a shared vision of providing dynamically scalable PLM solutions that integrate with global services and data, and operate seamlessly wherever the customer requires - on-site, in the cloud and in hybrid deployments.
Kaiserslautern University’s Director of Virtual Product Development, Dr. Martin Eigner, and Björn Rüegg from the Institute for Product Design and Development at the Technical University in Rapperswil, Switzerland rounded out the agenda, providing insight on PLM trends and advancements.
“With users in more than 124 countries, the Aras Community is growing every day and the impact is being felt around the world,” said Martin Allemann, Senior Vice President of Global Operations at Aras. “Aras Community members are driving advancements in PLM technology, developing a wide range of powerful complementary solutions, and affecting change throughout the PLM industry.”
Aras® has announced announced the success of the Aras Community Event (ACE) 2010 Germany. Hosted by Aras Community member Freudenberg in Weinheim, Germany, the event drew customers, partners and other PLM experts and enthusiasts throughout the German speaking region of Europe.
ACE 2010 Germany featured speakers included Freudenberg, GETRAG Ford Transmissions, Hydrometer and T-Systems International GmbH. New to the Aras Partner Community, T-Systems is a leading provider of information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. T-Systems and Aras have a shared vision of providing dynamically scalable PLM solutions that integrate with global services and data, and operate seamlessly wherever the customer requires - on-site, in the cloud and in hybrid deployments.
Kaiserslautern University’s Director of Virtual Product Development, Dr. Martin Eigner, and Björn Rüegg from the Institute for Product Design and Development at the Technical University in Rapperswil, Switzerland rounded out the agenda, providing insight on PLM trends and advancements.
“With users in more than 124 countries, the Aras Community is growing every day and the impact is being felt around the world,” said Martin Allemann, Senior Vice President of Global Operations at Aras. “Aras Community members are driving advancements in PLM technology, developing a wide range of powerful complementary solutions, and affecting change throughout the PLM industry.”
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Oct 27, 2010
JIERMT selects SIEMENS PLM Software technology to gain competitive market advantage
Cost-effective Siemens PLM Software Solutions Enable JIERMT to Streamline 3D Product Design and Improve Corporate Information Technology Infrastructure.
NEW DELHI – Siemens PLM Software has announced that China-based Jinan Second Machine Tool Group Co., Ltd. (JIERMT), one of the largest forging and pressing equipment producers in the world, has selected Siemens PLM Software technology to enhance design efficiency and gain competitive market advantage.
JIERMT selected Siemens PLM Software solutions following an extensive evaluation process including a detailed cost-benefit analysis presentation, and intensive consideration and calculation of return on investment. Siemens PLM Software’s position as a market leader and technology leader played a key role in JIERMT’s decision.
"JIERMT’s selection helps strengthen our position as a leading provider of industrial software solutions for vertical industries,” said Chuck Yuan, senior vice president and general manager, Greater China, Siemens PLM Software. “Siemens PLM Software’s open solutions offer breadth and depth of capabilities unmatched by our competition and are capable of integrating with a wide variety of technologies.”
JIERMT is committed to enhancing its technical advantages to raise competitiveness, both domestically and overseas. JIERMT selected Siemens PLM Software’s technology to replace the current system in hopes of simplifying design and manufacturing while also improving technological advantages. JIERMT will use a series of solutions from Siemens PLM Software, including NX™ software, the company’s flagship computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution; Teamcenter® software, the world’s most widely used PLM system; and Solid Edge® software, the core CAD component of the Velocity Series™ portfolio, which provides a comprehensive family of solutions addressing PLM needs of the mid-market, streamlining 3D product design capabilities, as well as providing compatibility with the existing ERP environment to improve corporate information technology infrastructure.
Siemens PLM Software’s integrated technologies will enable JIERMT to streamline its production processes and optimize its existing IT infrastructure. The industry-leading PLM technology will also enable JIERMT to improve its cooperation with international partners and customers, helping the company remain competitive in a global market.
NEW DELHI – Siemens PLM Software has announced that China-based Jinan Second Machine Tool Group Co., Ltd. (JIERMT), one of the largest forging and pressing equipment producers in the world, has selected Siemens PLM Software technology to enhance design efficiency and gain competitive market advantage.
JIERMT selected Siemens PLM Software solutions following an extensive evaluation process including a detailed cost-benefit analysis presentation, and intensive consideration and calculation of return on investment. Siemens PLM Software’s position as a market leader and technology leader played a key role in JIERMT’s decision.
"JIERMT’s selection helps strengthen our position as a leading provider of industrial software solutions for vertical industries,” said Chuck Yuan, senior vice president and general manager, Greater China, Siemens PLM Software. “Siemens PLM Software’s open solutions offer breadth and depth of capabilities unmatched by our competition and are capable of integrating with a wide variety of technologies.”
JIERMT is committed to enhancing its technical advantages to raise competitiveness, both domestically and overseas. JIERMT selected Siemens PLM Software’s technology to replace the current system in hopes of simplifying design and manufacturing while also improving technological advantages. JIERMT will use a series of solutions from Siemens PLM Software, including NX™ software, the company’s flagship computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution; Teamcenter® software, the world’s most widely used PLM system; and Solid Edge® software, the core CAD component of the Velocity Series™ portfolio, which provides a comprehensive family of solutions addressing PLM needs of the mid-market, streamlining 3D product design capabilities, as well as providing compatibility with the existing ERP environment to improve corporate information technology infrastructure.
Siemens PLM Software’s integrated technologies will enable JIERMT to streamline its production processes and optimize its existing IT infrastructure. The industry-leading PLM technology will also enable JIERMT to improve its cooperation with international partners and customers, helping the company remain competitive in a global market.
Geometric to showcase solutions for addressing the new world challenges through PLM 2.0 at DSCC 2010
Mumbai : Geometric Limited (BSE: 532312, NSE: GEOMETRIC), a specialist in the domain of Software Services, Global Engineering Solutions, and Technologies will exhibit its capabilities in PLM solutions and services, primarily its rapid transition solutions and frameworks for V6 product suite including ENOVIA V6, and its value added Application Management Services (AMS) at Dassault Systèmes Customer Conference (DSCC) 2010, at Orlando, Florida from Nov 9 to 10, 2010.
With over two decades of experience in CAx, PLM, and engineering services, Geometric has deep understanding of solutions and needs for new product development process. A Gold Partner of Dassault Systèmes, the company has extensive product development and services experience across the Dassault Systèmes technology footprint, with offerings ranging from core research & development, and consulting, to implementation and training across multiple industry verticals. .
“The V6 product suites represent a significant technology change in the PLM ecosystem. Over the past year or so we have worked to develop a framework and set of tools that enable quick and error free migration or upgrade to V6. We help our customers derive optimum value from their V6 implementation, faster,” says Mr. Nitin Tappe, Vice President and Business Unit Head for Software Services at Geometric.
“We also work closely with our customers for expert Application Management Services. The IT landscape across engineering and manufacturing is highly complex today. Maintenance and support for PLM, related CAx and other engineering applications needs to be looked at differently. We have succeeded in providing global AMS services for landscapes, where new technologies and applications have been introduced regularly to work with a host of custom engineering tools, and we are confident that we can do so for the V6 users as well” he adds.
Attendees to the event will also be able to explore Geometric’s solutions and services across the software application lifecycle and get a good perspective of Geometric’s long standing partnership with Dassault Systèmes.
With over two decades of experience in CAx, PLM, and engineering services, Geometric has deep understanding of solutions and needs for new product development process. A Gold Partner of Dassault Systèmes, the company has extensive product development and services experience across the Dassault Systèmes technology footprint, with offerings ranging from core research & development, and consulting, to implementation and training across multiple industry verticals. .
“The V6 product suites represent a significant technology change in the PLM ecosystem. Over the past year or so we have worked to develop a framework and set of tools that enable quick and error free migration or upgrade to V6. We help our customers derive optimum value from their V6 implementation, faster,” says Mr. Nitin Tappe, Vice President and Business Unit Head for Software Services at Geometric.
“We also work closely with our customers for expert Application Management Services. The IT landscape across engineering and manufacturing is highly complex today. Maintenance and support for PLM, related CAx and other engineering applications needs to be looked at differently. We have succeeded in providing global AMS services for landscapes, where new technologies and applications have been introduced regularly to work with a host of custom engineering tools, and we are confident that we can do so for the V6 users as well” he adds.
Attendees to the event will also be able to explore Geometric’s solutions and services across the software application lifecycle and get a good perspective of Geometric’s long standing partnership with Dassault Systèmes.
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ANSYS India Partners with Entuple Technologies and ATeN Systems and Technology
BANGALORE — ANSYS India, a subsidiary of ANSYS, Inc., (NASDAQ: ANSS), today announced at its 2010 ANSYS India Conference two new channel partnerships: Entuple Technologies and ATeN Systems and Technology. The relationships will allow ANSYS to broaden its reach in India as well as to serve customers and prospects efficiently and effectively. ANSYS is a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes.
Commenting on the partnership, Yves Dehouck, regional sales director for ASEAN, Australia and India and channel director Asia Pacific, ANSYS, Inc., said, "To allow more people to use our software and get better results on product engineering, ANSYS continues to expand and enhance its network of channel partners and direct offices. Together we are working to deliver the value of ANSYS engineering simulation solutions to a large and growing customer base. Entuple Technologies’ and ATeN’s solid sales and support capabilities, commitment to the engineering simulation marketplace and broad geographical coverage make them the ideal partners for addressing opportunities in one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Additionally, their capabilities complement and strengthen ANSYS India and the ANSYS product line, which will help accelerate the use of engineering simulation, enabling innovation and advancement in product design."
Entuple Technologies is now ANSYS sales channel partner in India for the electronics design products suite. Teaming with Entuple Technologies, ANSYS is working closely with leading customers and prospects in the automotive, aerospace and defense, and industrial equipment and rotating machinery industries to address their electronic design automation (EDA) needs.
“Many technology companies in our region are maturing into complete system development, so the Ansoft product line from ANSYS — the electronics design product suite — presents a huge market to service. Entuple, with its market knowledge and reach, is well positioned to complement ANSYS in this segment. Our solution-based approach to product representation and support enhances our customer experience," said Mehta S. D., director of sales at Entuple Technologies.
ATeN Systems and Technology Pvt. Ltd. is now ANSYS India’s PAN India educational product distributor. ATeN is focusing on the academic sector, offering ANSYS academic products in India.
"India has become the world’s engineering and manufacturing outsourcing hub. Every year more than 2,500 engineering students graduate from engineering and polytechnic institutes. Today the challenge is to produce global, industry-ready engineers. Computer-aided engineering, or engineering simulation, is rising-sun technology. Academic institutions that include it in their curricula not only help engineering students to become industry ready but also expose them to great employment opportunities. Engineering simulation as a technology is helping engineering and manufacturing industries to remain productive, profitable and competitive. World-class engineering simulation tools by ANSYS coupled with ATeN's experience can help students, academia and businesses to reach their goals," said Nawdeep Puranik, managing director of ATeN.
Entuple Technologies, headquartered in Bangalore, is a holistic solutions enabler in system design technologies with a team of experienced engineers and frontline staff. Adopting a solution-based approach to next-generation product design, Entuple follows a unique model in representing technology leaders in the area of electronic design automation. As part of its mission to provide holistic solutions, Entuple has also established partnerships with a range of companies in its core technology areas, including next-generation silicon platform solutions with a focus on the communications market.
Headquartered at Pune, India, ATeN Systems and Technologies Pvt Ltd is a leading CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM software solution provider in the higher and technical education sector. ATeN provides software solutions through its own network of channel partners across India. ATeN is currently helping several state higher and technical education departments in setting up Centers of Excellence for engineering design and manufacturing. ATeN also has an engineering services division that specializes in providing engineering services in the area of CAE/KBE/styling/reverse engineering to automotive and aerospace companies in India and abroad.
Commenting on the partnership, Yves Dehouck, regional sales director for ASEAN, Australia and India and channel director Asia Pacific, ANSYS, Inc., said, "To allow more people to use our software and get better results on product engineering, ANSYS continues to expand and enhance its network of channel partners and direct offices. Together we are working to deliver the value of ANSYS engineering simulation solutions to a large and growing customer base. Entuple Technologies’ and ATeN’s solid sales and support capabilities, commitment to the engineering simulation marketplace and broad geographical coverage make them the ideal partners for addressing opportunities in one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Additionally, their capabilities complement and strengthen ANSYS India and the ANSYS product line, which will help accelerate the use of engineering simulation, enabling innovation and advancement in product design."
Entuple Technologies is now ANSYS sales channel partner in India for the electronics design products suite. Teaming with Entuple Technologies, ANSYS is working closely with leading customers and prospects in the automotive, aerospace and defense, and industrial equipment and rotating machinery industries to address their electronic design automation (EDA) needs.
“Many technology companies in our region are maturing into complete system development, so the Ansoft product line from ANSYS — the electronics design product suite — presents a huge market to service. Entuple, with its market knowledge and reach, is well positioned to complement ANSYS in this segment. Our solution-based approach to product representation and support enhances our customer experience," said Mehta S. D., director of sales at Entuple Technologies.
ATeN Systems and Technology Pvt. Ltd. is now ANSYS India’s PAN India educational product distributor. ATeN is focusing on the academic sector, offering ANSYS academic products in India.
"India has become the world’s engineering and manufacturing outsourcing hub. Every year more than 2,500 engineering students graduate from engineering and polytechnic institutes. Today the challenge is to produce global, industry-ready engineers. Computer-aided engineering, or engineering simulation, is rising-sun technology. Academic institutions that include it in their curricula not only help engineering students to become industry ready but also expose them to great employment opportunities. Engineering simulation as a technology is helping engineering and manufacturing industries to remain productive, profitable and competitive. World-class engineering simulation tools by ANSYS coupled with ATeN's experience can help students, academia and businesses to reach their goals," said Nawdeep Puranik, managing director of ATeN.
Entuple Technologies, headquartered in Bangalore, is a holistic solutions enabler in system design technologies with a team of experienced engineers and frontline staff. Adopting a solution-based approach to next-generation product design, Entuple follows a unique model in representing technology leaders in the area of electronic design automation. As part of its mission to provide holistic solutions, Entuple has also established partnerships with a range of companies in its core technology areas, including next-generation silicon platform solutions with a focus on the communications market.
Headquartered at Pune, India, ATeN Systems and Technologies Pvt Ltd is a leading CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM software solution provider in the higher and technical education sector. ATeN provides software solutions through its own network of channel partners across India. ATeN is currently helping several state higher and technical education departments in setting up Centers of Excellence for engineering design and manufacturing. ATeN also has an engineering services division that specializes in providing engineering services in the area of CAE/KBE/styling/reverse engineering to automotive and aerospace companies in India and abroad.
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Delcam India celebrates 10th anniversary at Technical Summit
Delcam held its annual Asian Technical Summit in Pune, India, from 19th to 21st October as part of the celebrations to mark the tenth anniversary of the founding of its Delcam India subsidiary. The Summit is held each year to present the latest developments from the company to its leading customers, academicians and the technical media in the region. This year’s meeting, which was sponsored by HP and DMG/Mori Seiki, and supported by Haas, was the tenth in the series and the first to be held in India. Close to 100 delegates attended from 11 countries.
In the last ten years, Delcam India has grown from its initial staff of three to more than 125 employees. The company is based in new, purpose-built headquarters in Pune that cost around $1 million when it was constructed in 2006. It also operates 14 regional offices spread across the country, to support a growing customer base of over 1,200 customers.
The Summit comes at a time when Delcam is on target to achieve record sales this year, having staged a strong recovery from last year’s downturn. 2009 was the worst year in the CAM industry’s history, with overall sales down by 15% according to the latest report from US analysts CIMdata. This sharp decline caused many of Delcam’s competitors to suffer heavy losses, and to reduce their investments in research and development and customer support.
In contrast, Delcam increased its expenditure in both areas and is now reaping the rewards as the business climate improves. As might be expected, Delcam’s sales in Asia are showing the fastest growth in 2010, but the company’s Sales Partners in many other countries are also confident of seeing their best-ever results this year.
The Summit included a presentation by Peter Beckingham, British Deputy High Commissioner in Mumbai, to Delcam’s 35,000th global customer, Southern Spars, a specialist in the design and construction of carbon fibre spars and components from New Zealand.
Other highlights of 2010 reported at the Summit included the receipt of the company’s third Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for the development of design and manufacturing software for dental restorations, and the confirmation from CIMdata that Delcam remains the world’s leading specialist supplier of CAM software, with the largest development team in the industry. Indeed, Delcam continues to increase its investment in research and development, which grew to £5.0 million in the first half of this year from £4.7 million during the same period of last year.
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