MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, USA, Mar 23, 2021 – Synopsys is pleased to announce the second iteration of Simpleware AS Cardio – AI-enabled solution for Cardiac CT scans. Additions to this fully automated segmentation and landmarking tool are driven by feedback from the customers and partners. This further development helps the already powerful solution to better address Cardiology needs.

Segmented heart in Simpleware AS Cardio showing automatically segmented blood pools, muscle tissue, and a selection of landmarks.

Simpleware AS Cardio offers a fully automated solution for the segmentation and landmarking of structures of the heart – one of the major bottlenecks of the cardiac modeling process. Simply import your CT image data and produce a fully segmented model of the heart in just a few minutes with only one click!

Simpleware AS Cardio is part of Simpleware family of tried and tested Auto Segmenters that are powered by AI technology and use cutting-edge Machine Learning algorithms to perform complex and time-consuming segmentation tasks automatically, and in just a few minutes. The algorithms are trained by experts and results are verified by clinical professionals, offering consistency between users that can be scaled up to process large batches of data up to 50 times faster than traditional methods.

Benefits of Using Simpleware AS Cardio:

1. Fully automated: One-click solution to eliminate hours spent on tedious manual processes.
2. Fast and effective: Get results in 1 – 3 minutes on a standard engineering specification laptop.
3. Accurate and reliable: Simpleware ML algorithms are trained by experts and verified by clinical professionals.
4. Secure: Protect your patient data on your local hardware, avoiding the need to transfer confidential data onto servers outside of your control.
5. Consistent and repeatable: Eliminate inconsistencies between users and need for multiple reviews.
6. Scalable: Boost your throughput, and efficiently process large numbers of datasets 20 – 50 times faster.
7. Less Segmentation – More Innovation: Free up engineering time for more complex and high-value tasks.

The new features include the segmentation of Coronary arteries and a range of additional landmarks including those placed on the right ventricle; tricuspid valve, the atrial appendages (among others). This new offering will allow the Heart CT tool to be used in a wider range of applications by more institutions.

As with any of Simpleware’s Auto Segmenter modules, Simpleware AS Cardio includes the ability to define and automatically detect specific regions of interest. All processes can also be fully scripted (along with features from Simpleware ScanIP) using Python or C# to integrate into your pipeline, including batch import and image processing, with subsequent model export or result sharing – Simpleware AI solutions fit seamlessly within your wider workflows.

About Simpleware 

Synopsys’ Simpleware software provides an industry-leading, comprehensive 3D image processing platform for handling 3D scan data. Accurately process images with a wide range of tools for visualizing data, obtaining image statistics and carrying out segmentation. Generate high-quality models for design, simulation and 3D printing applications. For more information, visit https://www.synopsys.com/simpleware.

About Synopsys

Synopsys technology is at the heart of innovations that are changing the way we live and work. The Internet of Things. Autonomous cars. Wearables. Smart medical devices. Secure financial services. Machine learning and computer vision. These breakthroughs are ushering in the era of Smart, Secure Everything―where devices are getting smarter, everything’s connected, and everything must be secure.

Powering this new era of technology are advanced silicon chips, which are made even smarter by the remarkable software that drives them. Synopsys is at the forefront of Smart, Secure Everything with the world’s most advanced tools for silicon chip design, verification, IP integration, and application security testing. Our technology helps customers innovate from silicon to software, so they can deliver Smart, Secure Everything. For more information, visit https://www.synopsys.com.

Invitation

VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France, Mar 23, 2021 – Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) today announced that it is a founding member of the European Green Digital Coalition, a first-of-a-kind group of leading technology companies with a joint mission to support the green and digital transformation of the economy both inside and outside Europe.

The EGDC was formally established by the European Union on March 19, 2021 on the occasion of the “Digital Day 2021” conference, to emphasize the key role that digital networks, technologies and applications can play in delivering environmental and climate benefits that can transform the economy in response to concerns about climate change, the depletion of natural resources, pollution and biodiversity loss.

“Dassault Systèmes is a world leader in Product Life Cycle Management (PLM). Our science-based industry solution experiences are widely recognized across most of the manufacturing industries sector. Our roots are in Europe.  Headquartered in the EU, we are proud to play a role as founder of this important coalition that reflects and actively supports the EU’s commitment to the environment,” said Bernard Charlès, Vice Chairman and CEO, Dassault Systèmes. “As part of our purpose to harmonize product, nature and life, we have a strategic ambition to become the world’s leading partner for reinventing a sustainable economy. Sustainable innovation can only be achieved by leveraging virtual worlds to imagine radically new materials, products and processes that reduce industry’s carbon footprint, and advance the circular economy. By working with other sectors as part of this coalition, we can take actions to drive this innovation and the role of our customers in contributing to a better world.”

The EGDC will commit to investing in the development and deployment of green digital solutions in a wide range of sectors; developing standardized impact assessment methodologies for such solutions; and working across sectors to create deployment guidelines for them.

Dassault Systèmes’ commitment to the EGDC aligns with its purpose to provide business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations that harmonize product, nature and life.  The company has outlined a sustainability strategy for 2025 to actively reduce both its own environmental footprint and that of its customers – from multinational corporations to startups.  In addition to committing to set its own science-based emissions target and prioritizing partnerships with stakeholders to drive the role of digital technology in global sustainability efforts, this strategy involves helping its customers reduce their emissions by using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to create virtual twins.

Already, the company’s white paper with Accenture has confirmed the power of virtual twin technology for significantly reducing global carbon dioxide emissions.  Five use cases in the construction, transportation and mobility, consumer packaged goods, life sciences and high tech industries showed that the use of virtual twins could reduce global CO2 emissions by 7.5 gigatons between now and 2030, which is roughly equivalent to the global emissions of the transportation industry every year.

About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, is a catalyst for human progress. We provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating ‘virtual experience twins’ of the real world with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, our customers push the boundaries of innovation, learning and production.

Dassault Systèmes’ 20,000 employees are bringing value to more than 270,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries. For more information, visit https://www.3ds.com.

VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France, Mar 23, 2021 – Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) is helping the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris – part of AP-HP, Europe’s largest university hospital system – evaluate the risks of coronavirus infection during the COVID-19 pandemic by using airflow simulation technology. AP-HP is relying on Dassault Systèmes’ 3D simulation solutions to reinforce its existing hospital safety measures for reducing exposure risks in both patient care and workplace environments.

When France entered its second nationwide lockdown in October 2020, Dassault Systèmes’ simulation engineers collaborated with hospital teams and the Paris architect Arnaud Delloye.  The hospital wanted to evaluate the refurbishment of a post-operative monitoring room before starting any work.  They simulated different scenarios in the room shared by a dozen infected and uninfected patients, and examined possible solutions that would complement the hospital’s existing safety measures, in order to proactively reduce the risk of exposure for the uninfected patients as well as staff.

Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA simulation software was used to model and analyze the airflow as well as the deposits of droplets in the room.  Simulation enabled them to determine that the optimal solution combines a dedicated exhaust fan above each infected patient, an airflow system similar to one that the architect had created for a Paris restaurant, and a partition.  The combination of the hospital staff’s medical and site expertise and Dassault Systèmes’ simulation offered a new approach for the purpose of scientific understanding.

This project is the latest in a pro bono program by Dassault Systèmes since the pandemic’s outset that has already enabled another AP-HP hospital in Paris, Bichat – Claude Bernard, to rearrange a hospital trauma bay, optimize the layout of patient beds, help understand surface contamination, and add air filtration systems during an unprecedented health crisis.  Each project is part of a targeted approach that must take an area’s particular characteristics into account in order to identify risks and solutions specific to that space.  As part of this ongoing collective effort, the projects have also included inputs by students from France’s leading engineering university, Ecole Polytechnique. In the coming weeks, Dassault Systèmes will simulate and identify virus propagation risks in two AP-HP hospital cafeterias in order to recommend measures that reinforce those already in place for hospital personnel.

“We must continue to take a proactive approach in helping minimize the impact of this virus on our fellow citizens and healthcare systems,” said Claire Biot, Vice President, Life Sciences Industry, Dassault Systèmes. “Simulation can be used to improve safety in hospitals, nursing homes and specialized clinics, as well as to optimize the floor plans of hospitals that have not yet been built. This collaboration is all part of our mission to harmonize product, nature and life, and make the world a better, safer, healthier place.”

About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, is a catalyst for human progress. We provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating ‘virtual experience twins’ of the real world with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, our customers push the boundaries of innovation, learning and production.

Dassault Systèmes’ 20,000 employees are bringing value to more than 270,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries. For more information, visit https://www.3ds.com.

MOSCOW, Russia, Mar 23, 2021 – Nanosoft, the developer of DWG-compatible CAD systems, announces the release of nanoCAD Construction 20 – a new version of CAD application for construction engineers.

nanoCAD Construction is based on the updated nanoCAD Plus 20.1 platform and provides users with new possibilities for modern design.

nanoCAD Construction was developed to support 2D parametrical design useful for different AEC specialties. Key features of nanoCAD Construction are based on Library of parametrical design elements. It includes 2D parametrical items.

Overview of new commands and improvements

1. Automatic enumeration of objects. New command Object numbering (SPNUMOBJ) provides automatic numbering of objects that have an editable text attribute.
2. Text formatting control in tables. The font in the cell can be adjusted in height, set the color and thickness of the text lines.
3. Implemented a new dimension type – Offset dimension. The command allows you to set dimensions on splines.
4. Addition functionality for manipulation with IFC-data:
   1. Now it is possible to update the imported IFC file
   2. Save IFC with merging of changes
   3. The object tree settings are implemented on the IFC tab
   4. Optimized storage structure of project data
   5. Accelerated work with IFC projects
5. Improved Space Object:
   1. Rooms now have a marker showing the area including finishing
   2. Baseboard length calculation takes into account doorways
   3. Improved “Statement of finishing of premises” report. It displays total area of surfaces with the same finish
6. Other changes:
   1. Implemented tabulation in leaders and tables
   2. Array along the trajectory with the offset from the beginning and end of the trajectory
   3. Technical Requirement formatting is improved.
   4. Updated database objects

A full list of changes can be found in “What’s new”  section.

Pricing and Availability

Price of nanoCAD Construction license starts from $260. Owners of valid subscription for nanoCAD Construction can upgrade to a new version free of charge.

You can purchase nanoCAD Construction 20 or download trial version on the nanocad.com website.

About Nanosoft

Nanosoft is a community of CAD professionals who have been working in the CAD software industry since the 1980s. We are focused on creating high-quality, cost-effective software solutions for the CAD industry. One of our most important goals is to provide our customers the ideal vehicle for upgrading from unlicensed (pirated) CAD software to legitimate software. For more information, visit http://www.nanocad.com.

TOLLAND, CT, USA, Mar 22, 2021 – CNC Software, Inc., developer of Mastercam, the world’s leading CAD/CAM software platform, has announced that its U.S. industrial channel will now also serve its educational customers throughout the country. This move brings the company’s global distribution channel into alignment and supports efforts to bring educational customers and industrial manufacturers closer together for mutual benefit.

With this change, educational institutions gain the benefit of greater connection with the industrial network of manufacturers using Mastercam. They gain direct access to the industrial channel’s deep knowledge of the Mastercam product, advanced technical support, post integration, training, and onsite assistance. Additionally, the Resellers form a much-needed conduit between educational and industrial customers. This connection will enable better partnerships between schools and their local industry, which can lead to more effective and successful job placement for students.

“Our industrial Mastercam Resellers provide a valuable connection between manufacturing firms and educational institutions tasked with preparing students to join the workforce, and they have the talent and expertise to support both. We identified this channel realignment as a way for us to help U.S. schools better prepare students with strong technical skills in CAD/CAM and CNC machining, to meet the immediate needs of industry,” shared Doug Nemeth, Director of Sales for the Americas, Mastercam.

The company maintains an education department dedicated to supporting the educational market through sponsorships and involvement with organizations such as WorldSkills, SkillsUSA, Project MFG, National Robotics League, First Robotics, NASA HUNCH, and SAE International, as well as a partnership with TITANS of CNC Academy. The department also manages the Mastercam Educators Alliance, connecting instructors with each other, training opportunities, and subject matter experts in support of teaching excellence.

“This is the next step in Mastercam’s commitment to engaging with the next generation of CAM users,” said Peter Mancini, Education Product Manager, Mastercam. “We consider the needs of schools and educators teaching Mastercam in all of our business and software development decisions, so that students receive the skills they need to fill rewarding jobs in industry—and industrial users gain a supply of skilled workers for a growing number of vacancies.”

For more information about Mastercam, visit www.mastercam.com.

IRVINE, CA, USA, Mar 22, 2021 – EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, is excited to announce the next EON-XR Global Event for April 28, 2021.

Following the massive success of January’s event, the EON Reality team is back with another can’t-miss spectacle featuring dozens of our biggest and best partners from all around the world.

Register today to hold your spot, as digital seats are limited and we reached capacity well ahead of time for the last event.

To register, visit https://eonreality.com/

About EON Reality

EON Reality is the world leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education. EON Reality’s 21 years of success are tied to its belief that knowledge is a human right and should be available, accessible, and affordable for every human on the planet. To carry this out, EON Reality has developed the de-facto standard for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer software that supports devices from mobile phones to large immersive domes. EON Reality’s global development network — with more than 20 locations worldwide — has created the world’s leading AR/VR library for education and industry with over 8,000 applications and over 40 million users worldwide. For more information, visit https://eonreality.com.

LAKE MARY, FL, USA, Mar 22, 2021 – FARO (Nasdaq: FARO), a global leader of 3D measurement, imaging, and realization solutions for the 3D Metrology, AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction), and Public Safety Analytics markets, announces changes to its Board of directors.

The Company is pleased to announce Mr. Jeroen van Rotterdam’s appointment to its Board of Directors.

Mr. van Rotterdam brings a comprehensive background in multiple technologies, including cloud development and security, with nearly 25 years of experience with EMC Corporation, several startups, and most recently, Citrix Systems.

“FARO is uniquely positioned to drive increased long-term shareholder value through its extensive suite of 3D software applications targeting customer solutions in the 3D Metrology, AEC, and Public Safety and Analytic markets. FARO’s ability to capture, analyze and provide 3D data positions it well to increase the value it realizes from its existing 15,000 customers,” stated Board Chairman John Donofrio. “Jeroen’s depth of experience is highly relevant to FARO’s strategy and complementary to our current board composition.”

Mr. van Rotterdam will be included in the Company’s slate of nominees for election to the Board of Directors at the Company’s 2021 annual stockholders meeting.

Board of Director Departures

Effective the date of FARO’s 2021 annual stockholders meeting, Mr. John E. Caldwell will be retiring from the FARO Board and Dr. Jeffrey A. Graves has chosen not to stand for re-election.

“Mr. Caldwell has been a highly effective FARO board member since 2002, providing valued leadership, insights and mentoring throughout his tenure. Dr. Graves was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of 3D Systems in May 2020, and as a result, is limiting his involvement in outside directorships,” stated Mr. Donofrio. “The Company thanks Mr. Caldwell and Dr. Graves for their meaningful contributions.  They will be missed.”

“As the Company executes its transformational strategy with an emphasis on software-enabled solutions to drive long-term competitive differentiation and increased customer value, board renewal aligned with FARO’s strategy will continue. We expect to announce further additions to the Board over time,” stated Mr. Donofrio.

About FARO

For 40 years, FARO has provided industry-leading technology solutions that enable customers to measure their world, and then use that data to make smarter decisions faster. FARO continues to be a pioneer in bridging the digital and physical worlds through data-driven reliable accuracy, precision, and immediacy. For more information, visit www.faro.com.

COLOGNE, Germany, Mar 22, 2020 – Siemens has used its Mendix low-code platform to create more than 100 applications in less than a year by empowering over 10,000 employees as Mendix users and more than 1,000 as Rapid and Advanced Developers. The Mendix low-code application development platform is at the core of the cloud services in Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of software and services and is fast becoming a leader and trendsetter for the industrial, manufacturing, and process industries. Siemens will discuss how it has used Mendix to accelerate application development and present use case examples at the Hamburg IT Strategy Days 2021 event this month.

Mendix platform helps enable IT and business to work together collaboratively to build applications needed to run the business.

The Mendix platform helps enable IT and business to work together collaboratively to build applications needed to run the business. By leveraging the App Factory concept, which provides business and professional developers access to pre-built building blocks that enable them to quickly add functionality and features to the applications they are building, Mendix is accelerating application development. App Factories are one of many ways that low-code technology, as part of Siemens’ industrial software offering, can meet the increasing demand for rapid digitalization for IoT and Industry 4.0.  Employees without programming knowledge can participate as citizen developers, bringing their business domain knowledge and expertise to the process to both accelerate development and help enable finished applications to solve the business problem the first time, reducing rework and more quickly delivering business value. Siemens Global Business Services (GBS), used the Mendix low-code platform to build numerous solutions. For example, GBS developed a freight claim management application which supplements logistics data from various data sources to recourse claims as a service.

For Siemens CIO Hanna Hennig, the Mendix platform and the effort of citizen developers are a typical success story inside Siemens’ strategy for the future: “Progress needs growth mindset and empowerment. As a Siemens subsidiary, Mendix has the freedom to grow independently, for example in non-industrial sectors, while Siemens can be the bridge to the industrial sector, where low-code can play a relevant role. With its App-Factory-Framework, Mendix provides a comprehensive approach to scale into organizations and create value return of investment. At the same time, Siemens benefits from the ingenuity of Citizen Developers in the organization that develops fascinating new digital processes and products for the business.”

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.

About Siemens Digital Industries 

Siemens Digital Industries (DI) is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization. Closely collaborating with partners and customers, DI drives the digital transformation in the process and discrete industries. With its Digital Enterprise portfolio, DI provides companies of all sizes with an end-to-end set of products, solutions and services to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain. Optimized for the specific needs of each industry, DI’s unique portfolio supports customers to achieve greater productivity and flexibility. DI is constantly adding innovations to its portfolio to integrate cutting-edge future technologies. Siemens Digital Industries has its global headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and has around 76,000 employees internationally.

About Siemens

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for more than 170 years. Active around the world, the company focuses on intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems and on automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries. Siemens brings together the digital and physical worlds to benefit customers and society. Through Mobility, a leading supplier of intelligent mobility solutions for rail and road transport, Siemens is helping to shape the world market for passenger and freight services. Via its majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, Siemens is also a world-leading supplier of medical technology and digital health services. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power that has been listed on the stock exchange since September 28, 2020. In fiscal 2020, which ended on September 30, 2020, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €57.1 billion and net income of €4.2 billion. As of September 30, 2020, the company had around 293,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.