SOMERVILLE, MA, USA, Jan 11, 2021 – Formlabs, a leading 3D printing company, today announced Castable Wax 40 Resin at CES 2021, a game-changing jewelry material with industry-leading casting reliability. Castable Wax 40 Resin is the 30th proprietary resin to be added to Formlabs material library, and the 12th in the last year. The introduction of Castable Wax 40 Resin at CES further demonstrates that the next era of 3D printing won’t be driven by hardware, but by materials. End-use products are only as good as the materials that make them, and the groundbreaking materials that Formlabs develops represent 3D printing’s role as a driving force of innovative, customized consumer products across industries.

Formlabs is now not only a leader in 3D printing hardware but also in resin development. Since becoming one of the first 3D printing companies to vertically integrate their material development, Formlabs has introduced more than a dozen new resins and its material science department has played a crucial role in spurring innovation throughout 2020, including providing the FDA approved, biocompatible materials needed to 3D print COVID-19 test swabs during the shortage in early 2020. Biocompatibility is a major mover in 3D printing, and Formlabs is leading that drive. In the past year, Formlabs has introduced 6 new biocompatible resins expanding their use in dental application by nearly double.

With the launch of Castable Wax 40 Resin, Formlabs continues to focus on bringing reliable, accessible, production-oriented jewelry products to market. It’s easy for jewelers to go digital with Castable Wax 40 Resin. With unmatched casting reliability, Castable Wax 40 Resin produces results similar to blue carving wax, the traditional material used in lost wax casting. They achieved this by developing a 40 percent wax-filled material that is capable of supporting traditional casting conditions. Castable Wax 40 Resin provides jewelers with greater versatility and design freedom than traditional processes all while digitizing their workflow to enable greater efficiency. Castable Wax 40 Resin provides extraordinary end results in a hybrid workflow such as lost wax casting.

“The advancements happening in material science are providing the 3D printing industry with a new level of utility and versatility,” said Dávid Lakatos, Chief Product Officer at Formlabs. “When revolutionary materials are combined with the unique structures 3D printers can create, the end products better meet the needs and expectations of consumers. With our rapidly growing array of materials, we are able to continually expand the list of industries that can benefit from 3D printing.”

The latest material in Formlabs’ library, Castable Wax 40 Resin, demonstrates the company’s commitment to incorporating user feedback into the material development process. Formlabs worked with GIA, the world’s foremost authority on diamonds, colored stones, and pearls, and Rio Grande, one of the largest jewelry findings, tools, and equipment suppliers in the world, to develop the qualities of Castable Wax 40 Resin that make it ideally suited for end-use jewelry.

Kathy Bui, Formlabs Engineering Vertical Lead, added: “Resins can be soft and stretchy, tough and sturdy, strong and rigid and they can also be biocompatible and FDA approved to be in contact with the skin or mucous membranes. At Formlabs, we’re always working on pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in additive manufacturing and materials are central to that. New materials unlock new applications, from everyday products like a pair of shoes used in a marathon to medical devices and surgical guides that assist in the operating room.”

For more information on Formlabs’ material science development and Castable Wax 40 Resin, click here. Castable Wax 40 Resin is available to users starting today.

About Formlabs

Formlabs is expanding access to digital fabrication, so anyone can make anything. Headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts with offices in Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, Hungary, and North Carolina, Formlabs is the professional 3D printer of choice for engineers, designers, manufacturers, and decision makers around the globe. Formlabs products include the Form 3, Form 3B, Form 3L, and Form 3BL powered by an advanced form of stereolithography (SLA) called Low Force Stereolithography (LFS)™ 3D printing, Form Wash and Form Cure post-processing solutions, Fuse 1 SLS 3D printer, and Form Cell manufacturing solution. Through its Factory Solutions offering for industrial users, Formlabs provides the factories of tomorrow with the flexibility and versatility needed for demanding, evolving industrial applications. Formlabs also develops its own suite of high-performance materials that continue to push the boundaries for 3D printing, as well as best-in-class 3D printing software. For more information visit formlabs.com.

PITTSBURGH, PA, USA, Jan 11, 2021 – Navantia and Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) are substantially decreasing the design time and boosting the performance of next-generation navy vessels, such as F-110 frigates and S-80 submarines. Through a new strategic agreement, Navantia engineers will leverage Ansys’ solutions as part of the Shipyard 4.0 Integrated Business Management System — Navantia’s leading-edge technology platform that includes digital technologies across the operational lifecycle of navy ships to improve product quality and speed production.

Ansys HFSS Simulates Electromagnetic Field Radiation from Three Ship Antennas

To enhance ship design, maximize construction speed and minimize development costs, engineering processes and procedures must ensure that simulation tools and data are fused across the enterprise digital ecosystem and throughout a vessel’s lifecycle. This collaboration equips Navantia engineers with Ansys’ comprehensive suite of simulation solutions to spur the development of highly advanced frigates and submarines — significantly lessening vessel signatures, decreasing the impact of external and environmental threats and producing lightweight and optimized components.

Integrating Ansys’ solutions drastically improves Navantia’s simulation process and data management capabilities and automates engineering workflows across Navantia’s digital thread to heighten operational efficiency. Additionally, physics-based digital twins will help ship engineers monitor performance and maintenance requirements of deployed vessels, helping to promote the safety and productivity of naval warfighters.

“Ansys is furthering Shipyard 4.0’s mission by providing industry-leading simulation solutions and digital twin technology to our entire digital enterprise. This serves as a formidable force multiplier for increasing our innovation capacity and represents a dynamic new direction for engineering smart products and services,” said Donato Martinez, chief technology officer at Navantia. “Under this new agreement, Ansys will empower our engineers to create a multitude of bold new designs, improve simulation fidelity, dramatically boost product performance and cut development time and cost.”

“Together with Navantia, we are building highly advanced smart ships that provide lifesaving abilities,” said Prith Banerjee, chief technology officer at Ansys. “Ansys will support Navantia by enhancing a clear digitization strategy within an open environment and enabling a robust shared knowledge infrastructure for their engineering teams, which will improve collaboration. Additionally, Ansys solutions will drive engineering productivity, creating highly efficient workflows that were inconceivable only a few years ago.”

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.

IRVINE, CA, USA, Jan 11, 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 inaugural EON-XR Global Event on January 26, 2021.

For the livestream event, EON Reality will welcome 5,000 of its top partners, clients, and industry connections to see what the future holds for its flagship platform in the new year. In addition to going over the recent EON-XR 8.2 update in detail, the event will reveal exciting upcoming features and hear updates from some of EON Reality’s biggest partners and power users around the globe.

The stream will also feature presentations about the future of EON-XR from EON Reality’s executive, product development and customer success departments to provide insight into the new offerings from every angle.

“I am super excited about the inaugural EON-XR Global Event, because I truly believe this is an opportunity to show the world what we have been up to. Although I’m disappointed we won’t be able to do it in-person, there’s no better way to demonstrate the remote capabilities of EON-XR than hosting an event like this over the internet. I look forward to reconnecting with all of our existing partners as well as making new connections both during and after the live event.” Dan Lejerskar, Founder of EON Reality.

The EON-XR Global Event begins at 8AM PST / 17:00 CET on January 26 and will last approximately one hour. Full agenda to come in the following weeks.

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.

MUMBAI, India, Jan 8, 2021 – Siemens Limited has launched the 8th edition of Siemens Scholarship Program. Based on the German model of Dual Education, the program hones youth to become industry-ready engineers, and launch a sustainable career in engineering, R&D or manufacturing.

Entries open for Siemens India Scholarship Program 2020 – 2021, up to February 15, 2021

Under this program, Siemens provides financial assistance to deserving meritorious students. Additionally, internships, mechatronics, soft skills trainings, projects and mentorships provided by Siemens will also acquaint these bright minds with the dynamics of the industry, thereby leading to their holistic development. The scholarship program is available for students throughout the four years of graduation and 50% of scholarships is reserved for girls. As of 2020, 735 students from 77 government engineering colleges across 23 states in India have been part of the Siemens Scholarship Program.

Sunil Mathur, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, said, “Siemens Scholarship Program is a unique answer to India’s challenge of preparing industry-ready engineers. Siemens Scholars who have graduated from this program have turned role models in their communities. The lives of these students are completely transformed as they go through the program based on the German model of Dual Education and subsequently get employment in some of the best companies in the country. This is where Siemens is truly making real what matters.”

The scholarship program follows a stringent selection process.

Eligibility:

1. First-year students of Government Engineering colleges from the following streams can apply:
   1. Mechanical / Production
   2. Electrical
   3. Electronics
   4. Instrumentation
   5. Electronics & Telecommunication
   6. Computer Science /Information Technology
2. Age: Up to 20 years
3. SSC: Minimum 60% aggregate
4. HSC or equivalent result: Minimum 50% aggregate and minimum 60% PCM aggregate
5. Annual family Income: Not more than Rs. 2 lakhs
6. Last date for receiving applications: February 15, 2021
7. Link for application: www.siemens.co.in/scholarship

About Siemens Limited

Siemens Limited focuses on intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems and on automation and digitalization in the process, discrete & hybrid manufacturing industries. The Company brings together the digital and physical worlds to benefit customers and society. It offers broad expertise across the entire energy value chain, along with a comprehensive portfolio for utilities, independent power producers, transmission system operators, the oil and gas industry, and other energy-intensive industries. With its products, solutions, systems, and services, it addresses the needs of energy transition, including storage and sector-coupling solutions. It is also a supplier and service provider of intelligent mobility solutions for rail, road and inter-modal transport for passenger and freight services. Siemens Limited is the flagship listed company of Siemens AG in India. As of September 30, 2020, Siemens Limited had Revenue from continuing operations of INR 9,581 crore and 9,258 employees. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.co.in.

ROCK HILL, SC, USA, Jan 8, 2021 – 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) has completed the sale of its Cimatron and GibbsCAM software businesses to a subsidiary of ST Acquisition Co., an affiliate of Battery Ventures, on January 1, 2021, resulting in purchase price proceeds of approximately $64.2 million, after certain adjustments and excluding $8.9 million of cash amounts transferred to the buyer.

Using a portion of the proceeds from the sale, the company paid off approximately $21 million of outstanding balances under its senior secured term loan facility. With the paydown of the term loan, the company is now free of any outstanding debt but continues to have availability under its senior secured revolving credit facility, which remains fully undrawn at this point. The company also terminated the previously announced at-the-market equity program (“ATM Program”), under which no shares of common stock were sold during the fourth quarter of 2020.

Additionally, the company is providing preliminary financial data for the quarter ended December 31, 2020. The company expects revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020 will be in the range of $170 million to $176 million and fourth quarter non-GAAP operating income in the range of $11 million to $19 million⁽¹⁾. The GAAP operating (loss) income for the fourth quarter is expected to be in the range of $(8.6) million to $0.5 million. This non-GAAP operating income range compares favorably to the non-GAAP operating income of $5.6M reported in Q4 2019 and $0.0M reported in Q3 2020. The GAAP operating loss for Q4 2019 was $(4.7) million and for Q3 2020 was $(67.6) million.

Dr. Jeffrey Graves, President and CEO of 3D Systems, said, “In the summer of 2020, we laid out a four-stage plan to deliver increased value to our customers and shareholders. This plan included: reorganization into two business units, Healthcare and Industrial Solutions; restructuring of our operations to gain efficiencies; divesting of non-core assets; and investing for accelerated, profitable organic growth. We are pleased to now see significant progress from these efforts, as reflected in accelerated top-line growth and rapidly strengthening operating margins. Our Team’s ability to deliver over 20% consecutive-quarter revenue growth in both business units, while executing large scale restructuring, was particularly gratifying to see. This was even more impressive when viewed with a backdrop of continuing headwinds from the COVID virus, which impacted our operations and those of our customers. Having surpassed our prior year, pre-COVID revenue performance in Q4, and with continued strong focus on operational execution, we are excited about the trajectory we are on as we enter the new year.”

Dr. Graves continued, “The divestiture of Cimatron and GibbsCAM, which were businesses focused on subtractive technologies, was an important step in our plans to refocus our company on our core mission – ‘to be the leader in enabling additive manufacturing solutions for applications in growing markets that demand high reliability products.’ These divestitures strengthened our balance sheet, enabling us to both pay off our debt and terminate the ATM Program much earlier than originally planned.”

Dr. Graves concluded, “With the benefits of our organizational alignment, our technology and application leadership, and our relentless focus on operational execution, we are more optimistic than ever about the exciting future we see ahead in 2021 and beyond.”

The company has not yet completed its financial and operating closing procedures for the fourth quarter and full year 2020, including but not limited to, review of various estimation accounts, recording of the divestures completed late in the fourth quarter, completion and review of reconciliations, and various other year-end closing procedures. Additionally, the preliminary financial data above has not been subject to audit, review or other procedures by the company’s independent registered public accounting firm. As a result, actual results may differ materially from the preliminary results shown above and will not be publicly available until the company reports its fourth quarter and full year 2020 results in late February 2021.

⁽¹⁾ See Appendix for reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP operating loss.

Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Financial Results Timing

3D Systems will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2020 and file its Form 10-K after the U.S. stock markets close on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. The company will hold a conference call and simultaneous webcast to discuss these financial results the next morning, Thursday, February 25, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

Conference Call Details:

1. Date: Thursday, February 25, 2021
2. Time: 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time
3. Listen via webcast: www.3dsystems.com/investor
4. Participate via telephone: 201-689-8345

The webcast replay will be available approximately two hours after the end of the conference call at www.3dsystems.com/investor.

About 3D Systems

More than 30 years ago, 3D Systems brought the innovation of 3D printing to the manufacturing industry. Today, as the leading Additive Manufacturing solutions partner, we bring innovation, performance, and reliability to every interaction – empowering our customers to create products and business models never before possible. Thanks to our unique offering of hardware, software, materials, and services, each application-specific solution is powered by the expertise of our application engineers who collaborate with customers to transform how they deliver their products and services. 3D Systems’ solutions address a variety of advanced applications in Healthcare and Industrial markets such as Medical and Dental, Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, and Durable Goods. More information on the company is available at www.3dsystems.com.

About Battery Ventures

Battery partners with exceptional founders and management teams developing category-defining businesses in markets including software and services, enterprise infrastructure, online marketplaces, healthcare IT and industrial technology. Founded in 1983, the firm backs companies at all stages, ranging from seed and early to growth and buyout, and invests globally from offices in Boston, San Francisco, Menlo Park, Israel, London and New York. Follow the firm on Twitter @BatteryVentures, visit our website at www.battery.com and find a full list of Battery’s portfolio companies here.

LUCERNE, Switzerland, Jan 8, 2021 – BETA CAE Systems announces the first bug-fix release of ANSA/EPILYSIS/META and KOMVOS v21.0.x series, version 21.0.2. Apart from fixes in the detected issues, this version also hosts noteworthy enhancements and implementations.

Known issues resolved in ANSA

GUI

ANSA would terminate unexpectedly by pressing the exit button on the License confirmation window, after the execution of kill user command.

Data Management

DM Browser poor performance could be detected when opening the Reports Table for several DM items containing many attached Reports, when SPDRM was the back-end. After performance improvements, Reports Table activating speed has been accelerated by 4-5 times.

Modular Run Management

In case more than one manual Loadcase Headers were saved in DM, only the one that contained the current Header would be saved correctly.

Shell Mesh

Auto CFD spacing and CFD meshing functions have noticeably accelerated execution speed.

Volume Mesh

Unexpected termination might occur when the function Extrude [Revolute] from the Structured Mesh menu produced more than one volumes, according to Connectivity, PID or Part of the source area.

LS-DYNA

Unexpected termination could occur when ICFD_MATERIAL was selected to be reported at D.INFO report.

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

Known issues resolved in EPILYSIS

Units

EPILYSIS would produce misleading results due to erroneous unit-related operations, such as fluid-structure coupling cases or MNF calculation when specific unit abbreviations were specified.

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

Known issues resolved in META

Read Results

The reading performance of META has been significantly boosted in numerous cases, such as FLUENT .dat result files, Animator databases of models with many RBE elements or simply PIDs from the new Converge .h5 format

NVH Calculators

Spotting on FRF Assembly, unexpected termination could occur when deleting and recreating a component, while keeping the same name.

Furthermore, in certain cases where Linear Combination nodes were used as responses, calculations could be incorrect, depending on the included Loadcases.

Fluent

Reading “Volume Fraction” scalar results of Fluent .cdat files would lead to unexpected termination.

Project Files & METADB

Unexpected termination would occur when saving META project, in case functionality relevant to annotations attributes had been applied, whereas annotations had been copied among models.

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

Known issues resolved in KOMVOS

Input Model Definition

Input Model Definition would not work for CATProduct files, ProE files or JT format trees.

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

Compatibility and Supported Platforms

ANSA files saved by all the first and second point releases of a major version are compatible to each other. New major versions can read files saved by previous ones but not vice versa.

META Project files saved from version 21.0.2 are compatible and can be opened by META version 16.0.0 or later. To be readable by META versions earlier than v16.0.0, they have to be saved selecting the option “Version 16.0.0” or “Version <16.0.0”.

*Support for Mac OS has been discontinued.

**Support for 32-bit platform has been discontinued for all operating systems.

Download

Where to download from

1. Customers who are served directly by BETA CAE Systems, or its subsidiaries, may download the new software, examples and documentation from their account on our server. They can access their account through the “sign in” link at our web site.
2. Contact us if you miss your account details. The Downloads menu items give you access to the public downloads.
3. 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 “BETA_CAE_Systems_v21.0.2” and are dated as of December 18, 2020. These files should replace any pre-releases or other files downloaded prior to that date.
The distribution of this version of our pre- and post-processing suite is packaged in one, single, unified installation file, that invokes the respective installer and guides the procedure for the installation of the required components.

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

In addition to the above, optionally, the META Viewer is available to be downloaded for each supported platform.

The tutorials and the example files reside in the folder named “TUTORIALS”. This folder includes the complete package of the tutorials and example files, and a package with only the updated ones.

The Abaqus libraries required for the post-processing of Abaqus .odb files are included in the installation package and can be optionally unpacked.

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.

LONDON, UK, Jan 8, 2021 – AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software announced it has attained a Gold Application Development competency and Silver Cloud Platform, Data Analytics, and Data Center competencies, demonstrating a ‘best-in-class’ ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world and distinguishing itself within a small percentage of the Microsoft partner ecosystem. A portfolio of competencies showcases that AVEVA is committed to focusing on on-demand, business solution areas, along with ensuring it can meet the evolving needs of our mutual customers.

To earn a Microsoft competency, partners must successfully complete exams (resulting in Microsoft Certified Professionals) to prove their level of technology expertise and, for Gold competencies, designate these certified professionals uniquely to one Microsoft competency, ensuring a certain level of staffing capacity. Partners must also submit customer references that demonstrate successful projects and pass technology and/or sales assessments. For gold competencies, partners must also implement a yearly customer satisfaction study and, for many competencies, meet a revenue commitment.

“AVEVA is enabling industrial organizations to embrace innovative digital platforms that will allow them to deploy faster, reduce energy consumption and emissions, and work more collaboratively, “commented Steen Lomholt-Thomsen, Chief Revenue Officer at AVEVA. “These Microsoft competencies not only showcase our technology expertise, but also demonstrate our commitment to supporting customers and embracing innovation. By deploying our solutions, customers can be empowered to deliver better business outcomes, which will in turn help to accelerate their own success.”

“By accomplishing a portfolio of competencies, partners demonstrate true commitment to meeting customer technology needs today and into the future,” said Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. “These partners’ proficiency and expertise of Microsoft technology is instrumental in helping our mutual customers continue to drive innovative solutions.”

All 17 Microsoft technology competencies differentiate a partner’s specific technology capabilities, helping customers find qualified solution providers with expertise in discrete areas quickly and easily.

Application Development

Earning the Application Development competency helps partners differentiate themselves as a trusted expert to their customers through development and deployment of commercial or custom applications built using core Microsoft technologies like Windows Server and Windows 8 operating systems, the Windows Azure platform, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 development system, Microsoft BizTalk Server and emerging cloud-based and web business models. By gaining access to a comprehensive set of benefits through the Application Development competency, partners can acquire new customers and help them be more productive and profitable through deployment of business applications, advanced web portals or rich client user interfaces that run on premises or in the cloud.

Cloud Platform

The Cloud Platform competency is designed for partners to capitalize on the growing demand for infrastructure and software as a service (SaaS) solutions built on Microsoft Azure. Differentiate your company with the Cloud Platform competency, and you will be eligible for Signature Cloud Support, Azure deployment planning services, Azure sponsored credit, direct partner support, eligibility to deploy certain on-premises, internal use software on Microsoft Azure, and access to the cloud platform roadmap.

Data Analytics

The Data Analytics competency recognizes partners who demonstrate expertise in specific aspects of Microsoft BI solutions to deliver, deploy, and support BI projects. Differentiate your company with this competency and receive access to internal use software licenses, technical and presales support, training for your IT professionals, developers, incentives, and marketing through the Partner Marketing Center and Pinpoint. Strengthen relationships with your customers by becoming a provider of SQL Server deployment planning services or SharePoint deployment planning services.

Data Center

The Datacenter competency recognizes partners who are transforming data centers into more flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. Partners can deepen customer relationships by becoming a provider of Private Cloud, Management, and Virtualization Deployment Planning Services. Differentiate your company with this competency and receive access to internal use software licenses, technical and presales support, training for your IT professionals, incentives, and access to the Microsoft Partner server and cloud site with exclusive content and resources to help you win new deals to deliver projects successfully.

The Microsoft Partner Network helps partners strengthen their capabilities to showcase leadership in the marketplace on the latest technology, to better serve customers and to easily connect with one of the most active, diverse networks in the world.

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.

AURANGABAD, MH, India, Jan 8, 2021 – MSC Software Corporation (MSC), a global leader in computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation software and services announced the launch of a new Technical Excellence Center and laboratory at MGM University, Aurangabad. The center is set up in collaboration with Pune based start-up, SSIG Manufacturing Advancements Pvt. Ltd.

The center aims to impart the most sought-after technology skills that are currently not a part of the regular curriculum. These skills are required in the Industry to save the time the Industry spends on training the recruits and make the student ready to employ. Hexagon | MSC Software could see this need and thought ahead of time for the benefit of both students and Industries, deploying the Industry software for students to learn real-life scenarios and projects. Hexagon | MSC Software has implemented a unique combination of diverse courses like Additive Manufacturing, Reverse Engineering, Electric Vehicle Drive and Mattery Management system, Advanced Driver assistance system, Drones, etc. along with MSC Software and Partner Hardware companies. With the help of Skill Connect, a digital platform to showcase their potential, projects/learnings. In turn, companies can get a trained and certified workforce with the appropriate skill set.

“It is the need of time to make the students globally competent by giving them inputs to induce appropriate skillsets. With this vision, MGM trust came forward to collaborate with Hexagon | MSC through SSIGMA, and this center is getting established to serve the students community. Having this center in collaboration with Hexagon | MSC Software, a first of its kind in our campus is a matter of pride.” – expressed Shri. Kamalkishor Kadam, Chairman Mahatma Gandhi Mission Trust along with Shri. A.N. Kadam, Secretary Mahatma Gandhi Mission and the Chancellor, MGM University. He also added, “Thanks to Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence and MSC Software Corporation and SSIGMA for joining hands with us for this venture and supporting our vision to take the technical education ahead with new dimension.”

Speaking about the launch, Sridhar Dharmarajan, EVP, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Division and M.D., MSC Software, Indo-Pacific said, “The vision behind the TEC is to create the Industry ready skills in students, which are currently not taught as part of the curriculum but are required by Industry. These courses will not only help the students to know the current trend, but also help faculty members build their knowledge on the latest technologies.”

“We narrowed down on Aurangabad since were looking to set up the TEC in tier 2 cities as students from these cities may not otherwise have access to state of the art labs and training as compared to students from tier 1 cities. I would also like to mention Dr. Mrs. Geeta Lathkar, who has been instrumental in implementing this project,” he added.

“Our University has students from developing cities like Pune & Nasik and from cities like Akola, Jalna, Parbhani, Nanded and surrounding geography as well. We thoroughly understood the concept and felt that Academia need to take a step forward in this. We worked along with Hexagon | MSC team and implemented the industry interface courses. I am sure this will help our students from Rural areas. Getting exposed to such latest technology concept and opportunities to implement those is otherwise difficult” said Dr. Mrs. Geeta Lathkar – Director – MGM Engineering Nanded Campus who was instrumental in getting this center established. “These students may not get the opportunity like the Tier1 City students get for employment. We are happy to offer them this opportunity to get top-notch industry knowledge, training and certification from a company like MSC Software.”

“The need for relevant know-how is more important than ever. SSIGMA focusing on imparting the industry interface courses which are generally not a part of regular curriculum. Our goal is to bridge this gap, make the future graduates more employable” said Mr. Sudarshan Lathkar – SSIGMA. “This TEC in association with MSC Software is a step in this direction.”

Aurangabad is strategically connected to Pune, Nasik and also to North Maharashtra. Aurangabad also has 4 Industrial areas in its vicinity namely Waluj, Chikhalthana, Jalna Road MIDC, and Chittengaon. More than 200 companies are operating here. A majority of them are auto suppliers apart from giants like Bajaj, Auto,Skoda, Varroc, Endurance that are working with multiple auto OEMs.

About Hexagon | MSC Software

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.

MSC Software, part of Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, is one of the ten original software companies and a global leader in helping product manufacturers to advance their engineering methods with simulation software and services. Learn more at mscsoftware.com. Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division provides solutions that utilise data from design and engineering, production and metrology to make manufacturing smarter.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 21,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.9bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

SUNRISE, FL, USA, Jan 7, 2021 – Nano Dimension Ltd. (Nasdaq: NNDM), an industry leading Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME)/PE (Printed Electronics) provider, announced that it has sold a DragonFly LDM system for additive manufacturing of High-Performance Electronic Devices (Hi-PEDs) to an Academy of Engineering Physics in the Pacific Rim. The DragonFly LDM system is the only technology in the world that uses digital files and 3D simultaneous printing of dielectric and conductive materials to rapidly produce high performance multi-layered electronic parts. The new customer is a leading research institution, focused on research involving plasma physics, material sciences, materials chemistry, and chemical engineering.

Yoav Stern, CEO and President of Nano Dimension, commented: “The fact that another highly respected research institution has chosen our DragonFly LDM system to enhance their research capacities, demonstrates the power and potential of our world-leading technology. Though our sales pipeline has been affected by the pandemic, we are very pleased with this contract, as it is representative of our primary target markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. Importantly, this contract suggests that the Asia Pacific Region may be in the early stages of recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, which would bode well for our sales opportunities in that region. As Covid-19 vaccines become widely available in 2021 and pandemic related restrictions are lifted, we are confident that the commercialization of our technology will be accelerated. ”

The DragonFly LDM system is being deployed in a wide range of industries, including academic and research institutions, defense, aerospace, autonomous automotive, robotics, and biotech. Its ability to enable on-site prototyping in a matter of hours instead of weeks; create products with better performance; reduce the size and weight of electronic parts and devices; enable innovation; and protect IP, which is critically important, represents a paradigm shift in how industry and research institutions will research, develop, and produce Hi-PEDs.

Yoav Stern added: “Thanks to shareholders’ support, we now have approximately $425M (not including $250 million Registered Direct Offering which was priced on December 27, 2020) in cash and are well positioned to capitalize on our near-term initiatives. During the latter phases of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are focusing our efforts on developing next generation systems with high volume production capabilities. With the support of Needham & Co., we are also actively pursuing M&A opportunities, targeting companies that complement our technology and that will strengthen our sales and distribution channels.”

About Nano Dimension

Nano Dimension (Nasdaq: NNDM) is a provider of intelligent machines for the fabrication of Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME). High fidelity active electronic and electromechanical subassemblies are integral enablers of autonomous intelligent drones, cars, satellites, smartphones, and in vivo medical devices. They necessitate iterative development, IP safety, fast time-to-market and device performance gains, thereby mandating AME for in-house, rapid prototyping and production. Nano Dimension machines serve cross-industry needs by depositing proprietary consumable conductive and dielectric materials simultaneously, while concurrently integrating in-situ capacitors, antennas, coils, transformers and electromechanical components, to function at unprecedented performance. Nano Dimension bridges the gap between PCB and semiconductor integrated circuits. A revolution at the click of a button: From CAD to a functional high-performance AME device in hours, solely at the cost of the consumable materials. For more information, please visit www.nano-di.com.