ASSAM, India, Mar 17, 2021 – Hexagon’s PPM division announced that Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has implemented j5 Operations Management Solution (j5 OMS) to ensure safe, efficient and compliant operations of its industrial sites. The j5 OMS inauguration ceremony took place at NRL’s refinery site in Numaligarh in December 2020.

Numaligarh Refinery (NRL), Assam, India

The event was hosted by NRL and led by Managing Director Mr. S. K. Barua and the rest of the management team, including Director Technical Mr. Bhaskar Jyoti Phukan and Director Finance Mr. Indranil Mittra. The senior leaders and the j5 OMS Core Team members from NRL Operations Team were also present.

The inauguration ceremony marks the acceleration of NRL’s digital transformation journey as the j5 OMS adoption helps the company create a digital shift logbook and digitalize shift operations. The new j5 OMS combines the data collected by the employees with the information from historians, providing NRL’s Operations team with a single source of truth for Operations.

NRL will follow a phased approach for the j5 OMS deployment and has started the implementation with five refinery units: hydrocracker, solvent de-oiling, power and utilities, diesel hydrotreater and the Numaligarh Refinery Marketing Terminal (NRMT). A refinery-wide implementation of the solution is planned in first half of this year.

Hexagon’s j5 OMS combined with the j5 Connector for AspenTech will empower the NRL team with advanced business operations and technology transfer capabilities. This will improve shift-to-shift communication and help NRL reduce the risk of hazardous incidents, equaling industry-wide shift handover recommendations by experts. NRL’s personnel also will be able to collect measurements or observations in the field with industry-standard mobile devices.

Mr. S. K. Barua, MD at NRL, said,“Hexagon solutions will accelerate and support our digital transformation journey by enabling us to optimize our business operations. Hexagon solutions provide us with efficient, intelligent, and data-centric work processes with auditable traceability, supporting the entire facility lifecycle.”

“This partnership between NRL and Hexagon marks the first public service company j5 OMS adoption in India. Digitalizing the Operations workforce at the NRL refinery will enable NRL to not only see major advancements in the management of their daily operations but also ensure the best in market safety and sustainability standards. We look forward to successful adaptation of the technology,” said Mr. Chanpreet Sahni, Vice President for Hexagon’s PPM Division in India, following the inauguration ceremony.

About Hexagon

Hexagon is a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, and quality across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, safety, and mobility applications.

Our technologies are shaping urban and production ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

Hexagon’s PPM division empowers its clients to transform unstructured information into a smart digital asset to visualize, build, and manage structures and facilities of all complexities, ensuring safe and efficient operation throughout the entire lifecycle.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 21,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.8bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

About Numaligarh Refinery (NRL)

The Numaligarh Refinery (NRL) is an energy company owned by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Government of Assam, and Oil India Limited, located in the Brahmaputra valley in the region of Assam. The commencement of commercial operations started in 2000, and in 2019, the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs approved the Numaligarh Refinery Expansion Project (NREP) to expand the production capacity. www.nrl.co.in

PLANO, TX, USA, Mar 17, 2021 – Siemens Digital Industries Software announces the availability of the latest release of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ software, which has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status. This designation recognizes that Siemens has demonstrated deep experience helping customers optimize their HPC workloads for performance and efficiency using AWS’s elastic and scalable cloud infrastructure. The latest release of the multi-physics computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software includes new features to help engineers model the complexity of today’s products and explore design possibilities to engineer innovation faster than ever. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is part of the Simcenter portfolio of simulation and test solutions within Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software and services.

Siemens has further expanded the capabilities of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ related to turbomachinery, delivering improved productivity and increased insight into performance for better engineering decisions. Additionally, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ can now better model the complexity of today’s products through electromagnetic simulations.

“Siemens is proud to be one of the first AWS Partners to achieve AWS HPC Competency status,” said Deryl Snyder, Vice President of Computational Continuum Mechanics at Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Our team is dedicated to helping companies achieve their business transformation goals by leveraging the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides.”

Siemens has further expanded the capabilities of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ related to turbomachinery, delivering improved productivity and increased insight into performance for better engineering decisions. Across industries and applications, CFD engineers can benefit from increased productivity through consistent use of best practices and speeding the exploration of design possibilities. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ users can now open simulation files in read-only mode without consuming a license, giving users greater ability to check the set-up, make comparisons and leverage best practices across many simulations.

With Surrogate Models in Design Manager, engineers can predict the performance of thousands of variants either locally around the design of interest to analyze probability of failure, or globally across the design space to quickly create a database of performance results that can be leveraged by the simulation team.

Additionally, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ can now better model the complexity of today’s products through electromagnetic simulations. For all applications with electric circuits, including electric machines, circuit breakers and batteries, engineers can now save significant time with the new Electric Circuit Editor. Engineers can readily sketch sophisticated circuits with an easy-to-use and intuitive graphical interface, enhancing usability of the circuit model and saving valuable engineering time. This release further expands electromagnetic application coverage for electric machines with the introduction of a new excitation coil model, allowing the design of higher power density machines with closed coils such as those found in axial flux machines.

“Simcenter STAR-CCM+ continues to extend its capabilities to model the complexity of today’s products through integrated multiphysics CFD simulations,” continued Snyder. “These improvements enable users to leverage this increasing complexity as a competitive advantage to engineer innovation.”

For more information on how Simcenter STAR-CCM+ can deliver the most comprehensive digital twin, please see here.

For additional information on the AWS HPC Competency status recognition, please see here.

About Siemens Digital Industries Software

Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing and electronics design meet tomorrow. The Xcelerator portfolio helps companies of all sizes create and leverage digital twins that provide organizations with new insights, opportunities and levels of automation to drive innovation. For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services, visit www.sw.siemens.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Siemens Digital Industries Software – Where today meets tomorrow.

SANTA CLARA, CA, USA, Mar 17, 2021 – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors, bringing the uncompromising performance and efficiency of the “Zen 3” core architecture to premium business laptops. Paired with AMD PRO technologies that offer strengthened multi-layer enterprise-class security features and powerhouse productivity, the new AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors are built to meet the demands of the modern workforce. With broad availability from HP and Lenovo expected starting in Q2, the number of AMD-powered enterprise notebooks is expected to triple by the end of 2021.

“Navigating an increasingly distributed work environment requires more performance and security from our professional laptops. Businesses need to be confident they are investing in technology that will meet the needs of their employees, whether they are working remotely or from the office,” said Saeid Moshkelani, senior vice president and general manager, Client Business Unit, AMD. “The new AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors significantly increase the capabilities of ultrathin enterprise notebooks and deliver best-in-class user experiences with leadership performance, exceptional battery life and robust security features for every work environment.”

AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors

AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors are built to provide a powerful computing experience with security features for today’s demanding business environments.

1. Leading performance for top-level productivity and collaboration
   1. The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U processor, with 8 cores and 16 threads, delivers leadership CPU performance, offering up to 57%2 more multi-threaded performance than the competition.
   2. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U processor is designed for the increased demand in productivity, offering up to 23%3 faster performance for home and office productivity than the competition.
2. Enhanced power efficiency
   1. Built for all-day battery life and productivity, along with the optimized 7nm “Zen 3” core architecture, the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U processor offers up to 17.54 hours of battery life.
3. Modern AMD PRO Technologies
   1. AMD PRO security provides a multi-layered approach to security features by embedding defenses at every level, from silicon through operating system. AMD Memory Guard, exclusive to AMD Ryzen PRO processors and automatically enabled on Microsoft Secured-Core PCs, helps enable data and identity protection, while AMD Shadow Stack helps provide hardware enabled protection against malware attacks.
   2. AMD PRO manageability enables a full manageability feature set for simplified deployment, imaging and management that is compatible with modern IT infrastructures. AMD Ryzen PRO processors offer full support for Microsoft Endpoint Manager to deliver a flexible and integrated cloud management solution.
   3. AMD PRO business ready technologies bring enterprise-grade computing solutions designed for quality and reliability, in addition to platform longevity. AMD Ryzen PRO processors feature 18-months of planned software stability and 24-months of planned availability. ​

OEM Support

Starting in Q2, 2021, enterprise customers will be able to purchase Ryzen PRO processor-based systems from top PC vendors including HP and Lenovo.

“The need for powerful, secure PCs that prioritize productivity and collaboration is more crucial than ever as we continue to embrace a more distributed and hybrid workforce,” said Andy Rhodes, global head, Commercial Systems and Display Solutions, HP. “HP is committed to empowering employees and IT teams everywhere, and our continued work with AMD leads with innovation to deliver powerful and secure computing experiences to keep people connected and productive at home, in the office, or both.”

“At Lenovo, we have a long tradition of providing our enterprise customers with innovative systems that deliver excellent performance and security and we are pleased to continue delivering on this promise with new laptops powered by the latest AMD mobile processors,” said Jerry Paradise, vice president, Global Commercial Portfolio & Product Management, Lenovo PCSD. “The latest Lenovo ThinkPad laptop lineup with AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors will continue to deliver the incredible performance our business customers have come to expect from Lenovo and AMD.”

Tolearn more about Ryzen for Business, visit https://www.amd.com/en/processors/laptop-processors-for-business

About AMD

For 50 years AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies ― the building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms and the datacenter. Hundreds of millions of consumers, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research facilities around the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work and play. AMD employees around the world are focused on building great products that push the boundaries of what is possible. For more information about how AMD is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) website, blog, Facebook and Twitter pages.

PITTSBURGH, PA, USA, Mar 16, 2021 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced that Jim Frankola accepted an appointment to the Ansys Board of Directors, effective March 12, 2021 ­– bringing with him more than 25 years of business transformation, corporate governance and financial experience.

Jim Frankola

Frankola is the chief financial officer (CFO) of Cloudera, an enterprise data cloud company. He previously served as CFO of Yodlee, Inc., a data aggregation and data analytics platform company, and CFO of Ariba, Inc., a software and information technology services company. In addition to his CFO roles, Frankola has held various senior positions in financial and business management at global industry-leading companies including IBM and Avery Dennison Corporation, and served on the board of ActivIDentity Corporation, a credentials management and authentication company.

Throughout his career, Frankola’s expertise has helped businesses innovate to accelerate growth. Under his leadership, Cloudera and Ariba transitioned into software-as-a-service business models, re-platforming core technology and innovating go-to-market strategies, resulting in double-digit improvements in operating margins and organic growth.

“We are proud to welcome Jim to the Ansys board,” said Ronald W. Hovsepian, Ansys chairman of the board. “He has a decades-long track record of solving difficult business challenges as well as driving data-driven growth and business transformation. His proven ability to incorporate governance and financial know-how into strategic decision-making makes him an ideal addition to the Board’s Audit Committee.”

“Jim is an accomplished leader with an exceptional background in business strategy, development and cloud-based transformation,” said Ajei Gopal, president and CEO of Ansys. “His skillset and experience will help to lay the groundwork for Ansys to meet our aggressive growth targets.”

About Ansys

If you’ve ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane, driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a bridge or put on wearable technology, chances are you’ve used a product where Ansys software played a critical role in its creation. Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering Simulation, we help the world’s most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve the most complex design challenges and create products limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys is headquartered south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Visit www.ansys.com for more information.

CAMBRIDGE, UK, Mar 16, 2021 – Leading global interoperability solution provider, International Technegroup Incorporated (ITI), is pleased to announce the release of CADfix Viz, a new CAD to mesh conversion solution that maximizes the reuse of 3D digital assets for VR/AR/MR applications.

CADfix Viz is a user-friendly solution built on the proven CADfix model translation, repair, and simplification platform, designed to streamline the process of converting complex CAD models for use in VR/AR/MR visualization systems. Process automation reduces the engineering design labor and costs associated with large CAD model simplification and integration.

Large complex CAD models produce equally large mesh files with high triangle counts that frequently prevent effective data re-use in VR/AR/MR, mobile, and web applications. CADfix Viz generates robust, high-quality mesh with minimal triangles and reduced file size. Mesh can be simplified using a suite of simplification tools, removing unnecessary model features to reduce the triangle count. The conversion and simplification process is fully parameterizable, ensuring that appropriate levels of detail (LOD) are achieved in the resultant mesh. Utilizing the CADfix Viz batch processing capabilities, mesh representations with multiple LOD can be produced quickly with minimal user interaction.

Complex CAD assembly automatically exported to multiple LOD mesh representations

CADfix Viz offers extensive multi-CAD import support for industry neutral formats, such as STEP and JTOpen, plus support for native formats from all mainstream MCAD systems. CADfix Viz exports to a range of common formats used in AR/VR/MR applications, such as FBX, glTF and OBJ. CADfix Viz also exports to flavored FBX files suitable for use in the Unreal and Unity software applications, enabling the seamless transfer of complex assemblies containing multiple LODs.

CAD features such as small bodies, holes, protrusions, and hidden internal features, add complexity and significantly increase mesh sizes. CADfix Viz automatically identifies and removes overly detailed model features to reduce both mesh and file size. Meshes can be further simplified using wrapping tools to produce more rudimentary representations of components. Intelligent mesh decimation tools target complex areas of the model, prioritizing regions of dense mesh where the greatest triangle reduction can be achieved with minimal geometric change.

CADfix Viz is packaged with an intuitive user interface that provides automated model processing supported by interactive tools for additional control. A command-line batch option allows CADfix Viz to be integrated into automatic workflows to further streamline the conversion process. CADfix Viz is available now on the Windows platform and a Linux version is planned.

Andy Chinn, Director of ITI’s CADfix development center, comments, “We are excited to be releasing a new solution for visualization systems that benefits from our years of geometry and meshing expertise. The release of CADfix Viz means that complex 3D mechanical CAD assets can be quickly and automatically converted into optimized lightweight forms for immediate use in VR/AR/MR applications, helping our customers realize vital efficiency and cost savings.”

About ITI, a Wipro company

International TechneGroup Inc. began in 1983 with a mission to help manufacturers drive innovation and time to market by applying computer-aided product development to engineering problems. Today, ITI specializes in conversion, integration, validation and migration solutions for product data and related systems. Our customers recognize the value in having a trusted solution partner that provides more than just software. ITI solves complex product data interoperability problems so that the world’s leading manufacturers can focus on making great products. In 2019 ITI became a wholly owned subsidiary of Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company. ITI operates within the Engineering and Research & Development (ER&D) business of Wipro. ER&D provides customers with a platform to innovate and engineer the next generation of products and platforms at scale. For more information, visit www.iti-global.com.

About Wipro Limited

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company. We harness the power of cognitive computing, hyper-automation, robotics, cloud, analytics, and emerging technologies to help our clients adapt to the digital world and make them successful. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, strong commitment to sustainability and good corporate citizenship, we have over 170,000 dedicated employees serving clients across six continents. Together, we discover ideas and connect the dots to build a better and a bold new future. For more information, visit www.wipro.com.

LUCERNE, Switzerland, Mar 16, 2021 – BETA CAE Systems announces the release of SPDRM v1.5.0. SPDRM v1.5.0 is now available, with numerous important enhancements in both the back-end and in the SPDRM client. The most important enhancements and fixes are listed below.

Release Highlights

The menu bar in the SPDRM Client is redesigned, offering a more intuitive organization of all available functions per area of focus (e.g. Data, Process, Resources, etc.). The new menu bar supports the grouping of Generic Script Actions, allowing a better organization in cases where several custom actions are defined. Furthermore, this version introduces new customization options for the context menu of data objects when Script Actions are included, as it is now possible to configure the appearance of the context menu and even override built-in functions like Add, Export and Compare by custom-made alternatives.

Vast developments have taken place in the area of Process Management improving the overall user experience and efficiency. Starting with the Process Instance List, a default sorting of all Processes from newest to oldest is activated, allowing quick identification of the most recent tasks. Search of Process Instances is reengineered, with the introduction of a new search engine based on the BETA Query Language (BETA QL) which offers a Basic and an Advanced filtering mode with syntax and principles common across all the applications of the BETA Suite. Moreover, the Process Output Windows are reworked to enable easy focus on the messages communicated through the running processes. Contrary to the approach that was used until now, where a different tab would open for each running Node, in this version the output of all running nodes is collected in a single tab named “Running Process”. To enable the quick identification of the outputs of a particular Node of interest, the complementary tab “Selected Process” is used to show the log of each selected Node or Process and is refreshed each time the Node selection changes. In addition to these two visible by default tabs, the user can select a Node or a Workflow and pin its output to a dedicated tab. Finally, an new enhancement enables logs produced by the No-GUI clients to be visible in the GUI client of the same user.

Continuing in the Process Management area, new possibilities are introduced to facilitate the execution of time consuming and resource demanding tasks on remote resources. The BETA Apps Launcher (BAL), which comes as an evolution of the “host of SPDRM No-GUI clients”, is now able to launch not only SPDRM Client batch sessions but also any application of the BETA Suite that can run in batch mode (e.g. ANSA for CAD files translation and meshing, META for results processing, etc.). BAL is equipped with a queuing mechanism that enables the running of tasks asynchronously, according to resources availability (CPU, RAM). Moreover, an emergency handling mechanism is in place, and gets activated upon resource starvation. A set of new functions in the script API are introduced to handle the execution and monitoring of applications through BAL.

The direct interfacing of all the products of the BETA Suite with SPDRM has always been a unique feature of BETA’s Simulation Data Management offering, as it enables the full exploitation of data management functionality of SPDRM directly through ANSA, META and KOMVOS. Taking this interface a big step forward, SPDRM now provides access also to its Process Management capabilities directly through ANSA, META and KOMVOS. Using a dedicated module in the ANSA/META/KOMVOS Scripting APΙ, it is now possible to connect to SPDRM for Process Management to instantiate, execute and monitor the progress of SPDRM workflows.

This version does not come short of enhancements in the Data Management module. Several important improvements are introduced in the area of data deletion to facilitate efficient handling of deleted data: Restoration of a multi-selection of deleted objects is now possible in a single shot. Furthermore, partially deleted data are automatically switched to permanently deleted, as soon as all their dependencies are deleted.

This version also introduces a new logging mechanism that provides logs for functional monitoring through log analysis platforms (e.g. Kibana). This first release of the functionality enables the monitoring of process instantiation and execution, as well as data object creation, overwriting and spin-up.

Last, the licensing policy of SPDRM Client batch sessions (i.e. NoGUI client) is aligned with that of the ANSA/META batch sessions. From now on, a new license feature named “SPDRM_CLIENT_BATCH” is required to launch SPDRM Client NoGUI sessions. The SPDRM_CLIENT_BATCH license feature has the same “weight” with the existing SPDRM_CLIENT feature, i.e. 10 credits.

For more details about the new software features, enhancements and corrections please, refer to the Release Notes document.

Documentation Updates

Updated Documents

Updated installation guide, scripting API, and user’s guide.

Supported Platforms and System Requirements

The server software of SPDRM is currently available on Linux and MS Windows 64bits.

The client software of SPDRM is running under 64bit flavours of Linux and MS Windows.

The software requires a different license key to the rest of the products of BETA CAE Systems. This license key should be incorporated into the same license file, if such is already installed, and requires beta_lm, the proprietary license manager of BETA CAE Systems.

For details, refer to the System Requirements document.

Download

Where to download from

Customers who are served directly by BETA CAE Systems, or its subsidiaries, may download the new software and documentation from their account on our server. They can access their account through the “sign in” link at our web site.
Contact us if you miss your account details. The Downloads menu items give you access to the public downloads.
Customers who are served by a local business agent should contact the local support channel for software distribution details.

What to download

All files required for the installation of this version reside in the folder named: “SPDRM_v1.5.0” and are dated as of February 26, 2021.

These files should replace any pre-releases or other files downloaded prior to that date.

The distribution of this version of SPDRM is packaged in one, single, unified installation file that invokes the respective installer and guides the procedure for the installation of the required components (i.e. SPDRM server and client).

For the installation of the software on each platform type, download from the respective folders, the .tar.gz file for Linux or the .zip file for Windows.

Earlier software releases are also available in the sub-directory called “Previous_Versions” or in a folder named after the product and version number.

About BETA CAE Systems

BETA CAE Systems is a private engineering software company committed to the development of state of the art CAE software systems that meet the requirements of all simulation disciplines. The company’s products, the ANSA pre-processor/ EPILYSIS solver and META post-processor suite, and SPDRM, the simulation-process-data-and-resources manager, hold a worldwide leading position across a range of industries, including the automotive, railway vehicles, aerospace, motorsports, chemical processes engineering, energy, electronics, heavy machinery, power tools, and biomechanics.

Committed to its mission to produce best-in-class CAE software systems, BETA CAE Systems offers products that consistently exceed expectations and provides exemplary technical support to its customers. The company’s continuously growth attest to the high level of customer satisfaction and user confidence. For more information, visit http://www.beta-cae.com.