MCKINNEY, TX, USA, Apr 7, 2020 – Sigmetrix, a company focused on enabling clients to design better products through mechanical variation management, announced the availability of their academic program for their Computer-Based Fundamentals of GD&T Training Course (ASME).

Many institutes of higher education have struggled with a way to effectively include GD&T training into their curricula where it would add significant value for their students. Sigmetrix is offering a computer-based tool to help educators augment their existing curriculum with a flexible, self-paced course covering the fundamentals of the language. The ability to author and understand GD&T is becoming more important than ever as industries shift to improve the way their part requirements are defined and communicated throughout the companies and their supply chains.

Educators will be able to enrich their curriculum with this new computer-based course that will allow students to access our Level 1 training course that includes a combination of videos and slides along with quizzes and tests. This course is designed to engage students and help them learn faster and more deeply by enabling them to focus on new concepts at their own pace. Interactive quizzes that give immediate results will support understanding of the material and will help develop the student’s intuition.

1. There are 21 units including an introduction that covers the major concepts in GD&T. Each unit is 10 to 60 minutes in length depending on the concepts covered and the student’s pace.
2. Intuitive user portal contains all the content in one window.
3. Mobile app for iOS and Android allows users to download course to take it offline.
4. Quizzes at the end of modules allow students to ascertain their grasp of the concepts and revisit material when needed.
5. Reference materials included: The Journeyman’s Guide to GD&T, GD&T Update Guide: ASME Y14.5-2009, and GD&T Visual Glossary.

“We receive many inquiries for computer-based GD&T Training.  It’s a complex topic, and while some of the advanced concepts are more clearly conveyed with an instructor leading the dialog, we wanted to develop a course covering the fundamentals of the language to meet the demands of the market,” stated Stephen Werst, Director of Customer Success & Product at Sigmetrix.

Sigmetrix provides a complete portfolio enabling customers to build better products through mechanical variation management.  They offer many solutions that can:

1. Maximize the return on your MBD investment
2. Improve profitability by balancing quality with manufacturing cost
3. Achieve faster time to market by reducing design and prototype cycles
4. Bring more innovative products to market through better understanding of mechanical variation
5. Capture and communicate critical product and process knowledge within your organization

Contact Sigmetrix for the academic program detail at sales@sigmetrix.com, or visit https://www.sigmetrix.com/services/academic-program/.

About Sigmetrix

Sigmetrix is a global provider of comprehensive, easy-to-use software solutions that help users achieve robust designs through tolerance analysis and the correct application of GD&T. With over 25 years of research and development, Sigmetrix products eliminate the error between as-designed assemblies and as-produced products. For more information, visit www.sigmetrix.com.

PASADENA, CA, USA, Apr 7, 2020 – Bluebeam, Inc., leading developer of innovative technology solutions for the global architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industries, and part of the Nemetschek Group, announced the formation of a Australian subsidiary, Bluebeam Australia Pty Ltd., to better serve customers in a region experiencing rapid growth in civil and commercial construction.

Headquartered in Brisbane, Bluebeam Australia officially launched in January 2020. Regional Director Kelly Furtado will oversee the launch of a regional sales, marketing and services organization that will serve the ANZ market with the continued assistance of its network of resellers.

Bluebeam, Inc., founded in 2002 and headquartered in Pasadena, CA, develops innovative technology solutions that set the standard for project efficiency and collaboration for more than 1.7 million design and construction professionals worldwide. Bluebeam Australia Pty Ltd. Joins Bluebeam, Inc. in the United States, Bluebeam Limited UK Ltd. in London, England, Bluebeam AB in Stockholm, Sweden, Bluebeam Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark and Bluebeam GmbH in Munich, Germany, to provide localized services to a rapidly evolving global construction industry.

“Expanding into Australia marks a milestone in Bluebeam’s growth as we continue to develop solutions that transform the way our industry builds, globally” said Bluebeam CEO Jon Elliott. “We are especially excited about the opportunity to forge new partnerships in one of the fastest growing and most important global AEC industry segments and work directly with customers who are advancing construction every day.”

“The construction industry in Australia is rapidly evolving as companies turn to digital solutions to increase productivity and efficiency,” said Kelly Furtado. “Recent reports project a 6.3% increase in commercial construction in 2020 and a 11.1% increase in civil construction by 2022 mainly due to government-led infrastructure spending. With projects growing more complex and schedules remaining tight, teams need simple, scalable, easy-to-use digital solutions that help them do their jobs better, faster, and more accurately. Bluebeam’s solutions are specifically designed to solve the real problems construction professionals face every day so they can finish their projects on time and under budget.”

For more information, visit https://www.bluebeam.com.

LONDON, UK, Apr 6, 2020 – ENGYS is pleased to announce the new release of ELEMENTS 3.2.1, an open-source based CFD software suite for vehicle design applications produced by Streamline Solutions LLC.

The product combines two simulation environments in one package: a dedicated virtual wind tunnel wizard for modelling external vehicle aerodynamics, and a general purpose CFD interface for solving other vehicle design applications (e.g. UHMT, HVAC, in-cabin flows, aeroacoustics, etc). The default methodology and best practices for external vehicle aerodynamics provided with this version of ELEMENTS have been widely tested and validated to conform to the latest regulations on alternative drag prediction methods proposed as part of the Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP).

The new version of ELEMENTS 3.2.1 offers a wide range of extended capabilities and several refinements to remove known issues found in the previous release 3.2.0. Some of the new exciting features added in this version include:

1. Enhanced display rendering for remote client-server connections to HPC systems with multiple computational nodes.
2. Faster I/O thanks to added support for solution fields in binary format.
3. Extended support for the python-based macro journaling system in ELEMENTS-GUI.
4. New mapped boundary conditions to map fields from either a boundary patch or a volumetric distance-based source.
5. New TAITherm coupling thermal boundary condition.
6. Added support for porous media in cylindrical coordinate system.
7. New vectors visualisation object.
8. Added support for box and sphere types for slice and clip visualisation objects.
9. Added support for nested hierarchy of visualisation objects.
10. Added support for fields visualisation inside volumetric cell zones.
11. New options for colour legends and backface/frontface visualisation.
12. New block-coupled density-based compressible flow solver for subsonic, transonic and supersonic regimes in ELEMENTS-Coupled add-on module.

To learn more about ELEMENTS, please visit our website or contact ENGYS to schedule a demonstration of the software and discover several success stories from automotive OEMs, tier-1 suppliers and motorsport teams who are already benefiting from using ELEMENTS.

About Streamline Solutions:

Streamline Solutions LLC, a joint venture formed between ENGYS and Auto Research Center, was founded in the USA in early 2012 to serve the vehicle design software market, covering automotive, motorsports, commercial and military applications. The company develops and promotes the software ELEMENTS, a CFD analysis and vehicle design optimization suite powered by open-source technologies developed by ENGYS. Streamline Solutions combines ENGYS’ leading-edge software development and support, a long and reputable participation in the open-source software business, with ARC’s proven vehicle design expertise and world leading wind tunnel and experimental facilities for validation purposes. For more information, visit https://engys.com.

LONDON, UK, Apr 6, 2020 – ENGYS is delighted to announce the release v3.2.1 of HELYX, a general-purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software solution for engineering design and optimisation based on ENGYS’ own open-source simulation engine (HELYX-Core). The new release also includes updates for all of HELYX’s add-on solver modules, namely: Adjoint, Coupled, Marine and Hydro.

HELYX 3.2.1 offers a wide range of extended capabilities and several refinements to remove known issues found in the previous release 3.2.0. Some of the new exciting features added in this version include:

1. General: Added support for solution fields in binary format.
2. General: Added support for Centralized Boundary Conditions system to read/write boundary fields from a single unified file rather than decomposed files.
3. General: Extended support of GUI action for the python-based macro journaling system.
4. General: Enhanced software rendering engine optimised for HPC systems with multiple computational nodes.
5. Setup: New Joule heating electrical modelling for CHT cases.
6. Setup: New mapped boundary conditions to map fields from either a boundary patch or a volumetric distance-based source.
7. Setup: New TAITherm coupling thermal boundary condition.
8. Setup: Added support for porous media in cylindrical coordinate system.
9. View: New vectors visualisation object.
10. View: Added support for box and sphere types for slice and clip objects.
11. View: Added support for nested hierarchy of visualisation objects.
12. View: Added support for fields visualisation inside volumetric cell zones.
13. View: New options for colour legends and backface/frontface visualisation.
14. HELYX-Coupled: New block-coupled density-based compressible flow solver for subsonic, transonic and supersonic regimes.

For a complete list of additions and changes, users can refer to the Release Notes provided with the software.

If you are not a user of HELYX already, check out the HELYX product page to learn more about this CFD package or contact ENGYS for further information or scheduling a demonstration of the software.

About ENGYS

ENGYS develops, supports and delivers best-in-class CFD software solutions based around open-source technologies, offering a variety of expert products and services focused on CFD and MDO. The company’s main software products include HELYX, ELEMENTS, HELYX-OS and several specialised add-on modules for adjoint based optimisation and advanced flow simulations. ENGYS operates globally through a network of offices in the UK, Germany, Italy, USA, Australia and South Africa, in addition to local distributors in Japan, South Korea, China, USA and Benelux. For more information, visit https://engys.com.

LONDON, UK, Apr 6, 2020 – AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, announced that it has acquired  production accounting software from South Korean based company MESEnter to extend AVEVA’s value chain optimization solution.

MESEnter’s software offering, previously branded MES ENTER ErrorSolver and now re-branded AVEVA Production Accounting, has been proven and tested by major producers in the continuous process industries since 2005. It helps improve accuracy of planning models, manage operations performance, identify loss detection and faulty instrumentation and ultimately move operations towards a plant-wide reconciliation.

“AVEVA’s leadership in optimizing across the value chain continues to create new opportunities as part of the digital transformation of refinery, petrochemical and mining operations,” said Harpreet Gulati, Senior Vice President, Planning and Operations at AVEVA. “The addition of this technology also provides another integral piece in AVEVA’s process operations portfolio.”

The newly added software will enable AVEVA to further drive profitability across the value chain for its customers. AVEVA Production Accounting software furthers AVEVA’s commitment towards its Value Chain Optimization strategy to help customers eliminate information silos and integrate critical business processes across their operations.

Building a holistic Value Chain Optimization Strategy 

This is yet another example of AVEVA’s continued focus to bring together a complete portfolio geared towards optimizing its customers’ value chains to help drive their digital transformation strategies. The newly acquired software will enable customers to close the loop with prescriptive performance management of their operations, ensuring that actual performance helps to drive decision-making for future planning.

“AVEVA has been a long-time partner of MESEnter and so this technology acquisition makes absolute sense. It presents a great opportunity for operators to efficiently leverage the value available from production accounting to help with material balance and data reconciliation across the plant”, said WS Cho, CEO of MESEnter.

AVEVA Production Accounting software has a user-friendly interface which provides a graphical flowsheet environment for creating and maintaining the plant balance models. It allows easy navigation from area to area, utilizing intuitive screens from managing data connections, reconciliation steps, model configuration and more. It can also be configured to perform reconciliation around smaller areas of the plant such as compressors, pumps, exchangers, tanks or groupings of process equipment.

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in engineering and industrial software driving digital transformation across the entire asset and operations life cycle of capital-intensive industries.  The company’s engineering, planning and operations, asset performance, and monitoring and control solutions deliver proven results to over 16,000 customers across the globe. Its customers are supported by the largest industrial software ecosystem, including 4,200 partners and 5,700 certified developers. AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with over 4,400 employees at 80 locations in over 40 countries. For more details visit: www.aveva.com

LONDON, UK, Apr 6, 2020 – AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, announced that it has strategically partnered with Axonify, a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company and a leader in the microlearning space, to offer adaptive microlearning powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of AVEVA Unified Learning.

This strategic partnership with Axonify makes AVEVA the first leading digitalization company to deliver microlearning solutions for industrial operations staff. This is part of an overarching framework designed to help companies build competence, improve worker performance and drive behavioral change. The training program drives measurable outcomes for organizational competency needs, all enabled by three key aspects:

1. A single integrated platform from one vendor encompassing simulation for training with rich extended reality capabilities, and tools for designing learning and development programs
2. Flexible deployment enabling customers to choose cloud, hybrid, or on-premises implementation
3. Harnessing of AI to fill knowledge gaps with personalized training

AVEVA designs, develops and implements experiential learning with specific expertise in simulation, virtual and augmented reality, and blended enterprise learning with knowledge rooted in operations experience. Axonify prides itself on being a modern learning solution for frontline employees that actually works. The learning experience is fun, fast, personalized and designed to make critical information stick. And employees love it—83% of users log in 2-3 times a week, which translates into meaningful behavior change that drives the business results.

New Partnership Places AVEVA Ahead of Competitors

Through industry analysis and at the ARC Industry Forum in February 2020, AVEVA conducted research with clients, competitors and analysts.  This research further highlighted that its partnership with Axonify is in fact novel, and a key differentiator for AVEVA Unified Learning in industrial operations and manufacturing space, enabling digital transformation and organizational change by improving retention by 90%, engagement by 80%, while measuring the business impact of training compared against KPI’s.

“The whole process of learning in the industrial environment is going through disruptive change, with tools such as AI, AR, and VR playing a key role for a workforce that is both going through a generational transition as well as becoming location independent,” commented Craig Resnick, Vice President, ARC Advisory Group. “The partnership between Axonify and AVEVA will not only help to bring these critical training technologies to AVEVA customers, it will also help customers adapt to the new normal caused by disruptions to businesses like the COVID-19 pandemic, where remote training goes hand in hand with the remote workforce who may not have had the benefit of legacy experience of the factory floor and needs being able to remotely monitor, operate and control industrial processes.”

AI-enabled Microlearning – Adaptive to meet Individual training needs

In education, AI enables trainers to monitor learners as they complete lessons, while simultaneously offering course corrections and suggestions to them when needed. This actively engages them during the learning experience. Real-time learning analytics adapt to the specific learner’s needs creating a customized training experience. Personalization makes the training efficient and relevant—both a magnet for existing learners and a great tool for attracting new ones.

“We are excited to have entered into this strategic partnership with Axonify, as together we can truly transform the way that global organizations approach the learning lifecycle of their employees,” commented Amish Sabharwal, Global Head of Engineering, AVEVA. “Microlearning shifts training away from ‘one size fits all’ classes to daily, easily digestible question-based sessions that can be tailored to meet individual needs based on cognitive science principles. Our research shows that without reinforcement, people typically forget up to 90% of content learned during training within 30 days. AI-enabled microlearning will protect the training investment and ensure that recipients instinctively know all the crucial information when they most need it.”

“We are delighted to be partnering with AVEVA at a time when industrial organizations are starting to increasingly take up digital transformation,” commented Christine Tutssel, SVP of Global Sales and Co-Founder, Axonify. “Employee knowledge is a foundational element of an organization’s digital transformation strategy and the Axonify platform is proven to drive learning retention, knowledge growth and most importantly behavior change in a way that traditional methods can’t. We are also able to support the rapid pace of change that today’s industrial organizations require as they embark on building out their digital competencies.”

AVEVA Unified Learning combines the latest technologies with sound instructional design to deliver competency-based experiential learning, so that operators perform better in less time. This can be deployed on premise, on the AVEVA Cloud, or as a hybrid cloud solution for a complete enterprise-wide, multi-site training solution. This partnership delivers microlearning in concert with simulation, XR, and other tools as part of one integrated framework.

About Axonify

Axonify is the modern learning solution for frontline employees that actually works. Why does it work so well? Because the experience is fun, fast, personalized and designed to make critical information stick. And employees love it—83% of users log in 2-3 times a week, which translates into meaningful behavior change that drives business results. More than 160 customers in 150+ countries around the world, including Walmart, Bloomingdale’s, Levi’s and Merck, trust Axonify to fuel their people’s performance to keep pace with their business. Founded in 2011, Axonify is headquartered in Waterloo, ON Canada. For more information, please visit www.axonify.com 

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in engineering and industrial software driving digital transformation across the entire asset and operations life cycle of capital-intensive industries. The company’s engineering, planning and operations, asset performance, and monitoring and control solutions deliver proven results to over 16,000 customers across the globe. Its customers are supported by the largest industrial software ecosystem, including 4,200 partners and 5,700 certified developers. AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with over 4,400 employees at 80 locations in over 40 countries. For more details visit www.aveva.com.

Mumbai April 3, 2020: COVID-19 is impacting the lives of people globally as well as in India. The Indian Government has taken consequent measures for safety to minimize the incidence of infection. The Siemens Group of Companies in India would like to contribute to fight COVID-19 and commits Rs. 20 crore towards the following:

• Providing critical medical care equipment such as Ventilators & Analyzers to several healthcare facilities across India
• 40,000 PCR test kits to be delivered to Indian Council of Medical Research
• Setting up a test lab at the National Cancer Institute in Jhajjar, Haryana, which is converting an 800-bed hospital into a Covid-19 critical care-center
• Creation of Isolation Units at select Siemens’ facilities
•  Support to migrant and temporary workers

BEND, OR, USA, Apr 3, 2020 – Tech Soft 3D, the leading provider of SDKs to engineering software companies, announces the launch of the Tech Soft 3D Innovation Lab, an online space that will showcase innovation at Tech Soft 3D, R&D projects and integrations with exciting new technology.

 new Tech Soft 3D Innovation Lab at labs.techsoft3d.com

With the Innovation Lab website, developers will have access to videos and demos of new tools, sample code, and pre-releases of the HOOPS toolkits and components. Currently featured projects include a solid modeling engine running in the cloud, tools for 3D printing, a preview of massive model streaming, and an Android AR demo that you can try yourself. These demos and tools will help to drive innovation when building 3D applications for AEC, BIM, PLM, Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS), AR/VR, Metrology, CAM, CAE, EDA and Additive Manufacturing.

“We firmly believe that the best path to innovation is by opening up and sharing our work with our community,” said Jonathan Girroir, Senior Manager at Tech Soft 3D, and the mastermind behind the TS3D Innovation Lab. “We invest significantly in making sure that our tools are not only the best on the market but provide the functionality that our partners are looking for to drive their business to the next level.”

Tech Soft 3D software tools power hundreds of top engineering software applications such as SOLIDWORKS eDrawings, GrabCAD, Desktop Metal, Aras Innovator, RIB iTwo and Xometry. In a fast-moving marketplace, component technologies can free Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to focus on market differentiation and accelerate their development cycles. Tech Soft 3D compounds this benefit with their HOOPS Platforms – tightly integrated SDKs and modeling kernels with complementary functionality that provide unparalleled 3D technology.

Visit labs.techsoft3d.com to check the latest in engineering software.

About Tech Soft 3D

Tech Soft 3D is the leading global provider of development tools that help software teams deliver successful applications. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Bend, Oregon, Tech Soft 3D also has offices in California, France, England, and Japan. The company’s toolkit products power nearly 500 unique applications running on hundreds of millions of computers worldwide. For more information, visit techsoft3d.com.

CAMBRIDGE, UK, Apr 3, 2020 – Ansys Granta announces the release of Ansys GRANTA EduPack 2020. GRANTA EduPack is the new name for CES EduPack, the leading software used by educators at over 1,000 universities and colleges to introduce engineering students to materials and material selection for mechanical design. Besides a fresh look for the EduPack software, GRANTA EduPack includes databases to support biomedical and design courses, and extended software functionalities to support project work.

Originating in the work of Professor Mike Ashby and collaborators at the University of Cambridge, CES EduPack was developed for over twenty years by the team at Granta Design in partnership with the Materials Education community. Following the 2019 acquisition of Granta by Ansys, the work of the Ansys Granta Education Team continues, as demonstrated by this latest release, which also reflects the Team’s new home by refreshing the EduPack brand and user experience.

GRANTA EduPack 2020 provides a comprehensive database of materials and process information, powerful tools and teaching resources to support a wide variety of approaches to materials education. The GRANTA EduPack software is an engaging, interactive, visual way to support students of materials from an introductory level through to advanced capstone design projects. The new release offers:

1. For introductory materials teaching: tools to support the introduction to materials from multiple perspectives and to drive student progression. New databases for biomedical and design courses augment existing resources targeted at areas including mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and materials science.
2. For advanced engineering course work: resources that help to give teaching ‘real world’ relevance, now including additional advanced materials selection tools and the ability to export materials data into simulation software for design projects.

Materials property chart in the new GRANTA EduPack user interface

GRANTA EduPack 2020 download instructions will be sent to current EduPack customers with an active license during the next two months, enabling preparation for its use in teaching during the next academic year.

About Granta Design Ltd. 

Granta is the materials information technology, experts. The company develops market-leading software for managing materials and process information in engineering enterprises and a series of tools for applying that data to key materials and product design decisions. Granta serves sectors as diverse as aerospace, defense, energy, medical devices, automotive, motorsports, manufacture of consumer and industrial equipment, materials production, and publishing. Customers realize multi-million dollar benefits in reduced cost, enhanced product performance, improved quality, and faster design turnaround. Granta was founded in 1994 as a spinout from the University of Cambridge and the work of Professors Mike Ashby and David Cebon. For more information, visit https://www.grantadesign.com. Follow @GrantaDesign on Twitter.