MCKINNEY, TX, USA, Sep 8, 2020 – When SEA BOX, Inc. wanted to improve the understanding and skills of their engineering team on the topic of GD&T, they turned to Sigmetrix, a company that has been helping clients produce better products through mechanical variation management for over 20 years.

SEA BOX, Inc. specializes in the design, custom modification, and manufacturing of ISO shipping and storage containers, refrigerated containers, containerized shelters, modular building systems, and related parts and accessories for purchase or lease. Their team of approximately 250 professionals is split between engineering, quality control, management, fabrication, and production departments. Being able to communicate design intent between departments is critical.

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is used on engineering drawings and 3D models to unambiguously communicate acceptable limits of geometric variation for a part to function in the product(s) where it is used. Properly using GD&T on 3D models and drawings can facilitate clear and explicit communication to correctly convey the requirements to the manufacturing and inspection teams. The GD&T Courses offered by Sigmetrix allow students to easily grasp the connections intended throughout the GD&T language.  Starting with the most basic concepts and rules, the classes work through the GD&T language and its application from a functional, user-friendly standpoint.  The content is arranged with a focus on maintaining the communication of functional intent captured in engineering documentation between Designers, Manufacturing Engineers, Machinists, Quality Engineers, Inspectors, and Supply Chain personnel.

“We at SEA BOX recently had our engineering team go through the Comprehensive GD&T course and had a great experience. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic many of us were working remotely, and as such a traditional classroom setting was not feasible. Sigmetrix was extremely accommodating and hosted our courses in a live video conference format and made sure each of us had our course materials in a timely manner. The course was very well organized, and the instructor was excellent at communicating the details of GD&T at various levels of understanding. They were happy to take many questions and made themselves available before and after the daily course time (and even during their lunch break) to ensure that each of us felt comfortable and confident in the material covered,” reported Trevor Leeds, Mechanical Engineer/Project Manager at SEA BOX.

He continued, “Despite taking the course remotely it was very well planned in a manner that allowed myself and my colleagues to fully participate. The course materials are great resources and the instructor utilized very helpful and engaging props and examples to aid in communicating the complex concepts of GD&T. I strongly feel the structure of the course built a great foundation of essential concepts that made each section easily build on the last. My colleagues have shared, and I agree, that by the end of the course we all felt confident in our ability to read and interpret GD&T. We would certainly choose Sigmetrix again for GD&T training and consultation.”

Sigmetrix is dedicated to help everyone in the design, manufacturing, and inspection groups understand the language of GD&T, and its application, through their series of courses.

“Many organizations perceive standardizing on the language of GD&T isn’t worth the investment, but not using GD&T forces manufacturing and inspection personnel to guess far too often what the drawing  specifications mean. Hoping that downstream personnel guess correctly is not an acceptable business strategy,” said Stephen Werst, Director of Customer Success and Product Strategy at Sigmetrix. “We were pleased to be able to help the engineers at SEA BOX, Inc. improve their understanding of, and confidence working with, GD&T.”

About Sigmetrix

Sigmetrix has been helping companies produce better products for over 20 years through a combination of software solutions, training, and consulting services that focus on managing the impact of mechanical variation. For more information, visit their website at https://www.sigmetrix.com.

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PLANO, TX, USA, Sep 8, 2020 – Mendix World 2.0 – Siemens Digital Industries Software is leveraging the low-code application development platform to help customers across industries build contextual and personalized solutions and help enable data-driven decision-making processes. With the general availability of Mendix Data Hub and new Mendix for Industrial Edge services, Siemens can help customers achieve an end-to-end view of their plants, factories, and systems and provide domain experts with actionable insights through solutions that have been developed with the right data from across the organization. The Mendix platform extends the Xcelerator portfolio with the ability to build multi experience apps and share data from any location, on any device, on any cloud or platform, to more quickly realize the benefits of digital transformation.

The new Mendix for Industrial Edge platform empowers factory operators to create custom applications on the Mendix low-code platform that run locally as Edge Apps to collect data, have access to insights in near real-time and provide optimal user experiences to a variety of end users.

“Our vision at Mendix is not only to offer our customers a technology to let them develop applications faster and more efficiently, but to also extend Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio to help realize unprecedented scalability and flexibility for our customers,” said Derek Roos, Mendix CEO. “As part of Siemens, we are expanding the Mendix platform to help provide value to our industrial customers by enabling them to get value from their data, be that on a factory floor, across systems of record, or in a field service context.”

Enabling Data-Driven Decisioning on the Factory Floor

A key goal for digital transformation is factory automation, which can be slowed down by distance – both physical and organizational – between operational technology (OT) and organizations co-located at factory locations, and IT organizations housed at corporate headquarters. The new Mendix for Industrial Edge platform, announced at Mendix World Version 2.0, empowers factory operators to create custom applications on the Mendix low-code platform that run locally as Edge Apps to collect data, have access to insights in near real-time and provide optimal user experiences to a variety of end users. The Mendix low-code platform is designed to abstract much of the complexities and expand the talent pool for IoT application development, further empowering OT leaders to address their most pressing issues with limited IT intervention. Business developers, domain engineers and plant operations staff can now create Apps for Siemens Industrial Edge without programming skills. When combined with Siemens’ MindSphere, the industrial IoT as a service solution from Siemens, and other Xcelerator cloud solutions, customers can quickly realize the benefits of a completely integrated edge to cloud experience.

Unlocking, Extending, and Personalizing Data from Core Systems

Disparate legacy systems, containing data in various formats and heritage that supports complex physical models can challenge companies in providing developers and engineers secure access to the right data. To help organizations discover, understand, use, and curate data from across the enterprise, and employ it in software development, business intelligence, and other data-rich applications, Siemens announced availability of the Mendix Data Hub. In conjunction with the Mendix low-code development platform, the Mendix Data Hub can help organizations realize a dramatic decrease in application delivery time, as developers no longer waste time searching for the right data, seeking the right data owner, minding API calls, and securing access to the data they need.

Initially, the Mendix Data Hub will connect to the most common industrial data sources, such as Teamcenter software and SAP, with future releases expanding support for other common data services and databases, and industry-specific applications. The Mendix Data Hub can also be extended by eQ’s eQube Data-as-a-Service, as part of a newly expanded partnership between Siemens and eQ Technologic, with a rich set of over 60 smart connectors, providing support for industrial data and system integrations.

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 (DI)

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 AG

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. The company is active around the globe, focusing on the areas of power generation and distribution, intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems, and automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries. Through the separately managed company Siemens Mobility, a leading supplier of smart mobility solutions for rail and road transport, Siemens is shaping the world market for passenger and freight services. Due to its majority stakes in the publicly listed companies Siemens Healthineers AG and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Siemens is also a world-leading supplier of medical technology and digital healthcare services as well as environmentally friendly solutions for onshore and offshore wind power generation. In fiscal 2019, which ended on September 30, 2019, Siemens generated revenue of €86.8 billion and net income of €5.6 billion. At the end of September 2019, the company had around 385,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

ANDOVER, MA, USA, Sep 8, 2020 – Aras, the only resilient platform provider for digital industrial applications,  announced the availability of the latest open release of the company’s enterprise low-code platform, Aras Innovator Version 12 SP9, enabling organizations to accelerate the digital transformation of their product ecosystems with an end-to-end digital thread. The release includes significant functionality enhancements along with even faster performance in large global deployments. As an open release, anyone can download and use the release at no cost, allowing organizations to run their business on the Aras platform.

Companies need to continually transform to become more resilient, therefore creating an organization that can continually adapt to meet the unknown challenges of tomorrow. The future belongs to those that possess the agility to quickly pivot and take advantage of opportunity in a world of accelerating disruption.

This release extends Aras’ platform capabilities in five core areas that increase the velocity with which manufacturers of complex products can transform their processes. The five core areas include:

1. Improve User Productivity Across the Platform
   A streamlined user experience created by a simplified interface makes Aras Innovator even easier to use and learn, while a navigation redesign helps users find the information they need faster. Additional productivity improvements span all aspects of the suite.
2. Enhance Visualization to Accelerate Navigation and Analysis
   As product designs increase in complexity, manufacturers must be able to easily view and navigate their product data. Through a series of new updates, Aras has bolstered the power of its digital thread and digital twin visualization capabilities. Users can visualize relationships in the digital thread with Aras Graph Navigation; navigate PLM data in context of 3D models with Aras Dynamic Product Navigation; and visualize relationships with hierarchical display with Aras Tree Grid View – all of which help break down internal information siloes and create a clear through-line of product information to aid in informed decision-making.
3. Expand Functionality with New Platform Applications
   Aras continues to build new applications across the lifecycle that expand the platforms breadth of functionality. Users can now manage requirements with context in PLM data using Aras Requirements Engineering and manage system models with traceability using Systems Architecture. Aras has also continued its incorporation strategy of acquired applications. Users can now capture and manage context for any physical asset with Digital Twin Core and manage simulation processes and results in the digital thread with Aras Simulation Management.
4. Optimize Core PLM with Updated Platform Applications
   Aras has strengthened its engineering capabilities by regularly releasing enhancements to streamline the user experience in order to support product complexity. Users can define and manage product data across the lifecycle with Aras Product Engineering; connect and manage documents in the digital thread with Aras Office Connector; simplify electronic component selection with Aras Component Engineering; and unlock product data for the enterprise with SOLIDWORKS PDM Pro Connector.
5. Advanced Configurability with New Low-Code Features
   Aras has extended its platform’s modeling engine by adding new low-code capabilities that improve Client Modeling through advanced security options and a streamlined Technical Documentation Framework, enabling organizations to continue to customize the application landscape and build with Aras to support new business initiatives.

“Business processes change quickly and often, without concern for the ability of supporting systems to change with them. It is critical for organizations to implement a strategy that enables them to adjust, adapt, and adopt when they need to,” said Peter Bilello, President & CEO of CIMdata. “By taking a sustainable platform approach, organizations are enabling the enterprise to get their work done in the most efficient way possible and can ensure end-to-end optimization and connectivity that is critical to an organization’s digital transformation.”

“At Aras we use our own platform as the basis of our worldwide product development processes, and even through recent periods of disruption we’ve been able to accelerate our release cadence to deliver a continuous flow of new functionality to our customers,” said John Sperling, SVP of Product Management at Aras. “We are excited about the new capabilities we’ve delivered in 12.0 SP9, and confident that Aras Innovator will take your product development processes to the next level, just like it did for us.”

Availability

Aras Innovator 12 SP9 is available for open users to download now. To learn more about the Aras Innovator platform, visit www.aras.com. Existing subscribers can start planning their next Aras upgrade by going to the Subscriber Portal.

About Aras

Aras provides a resilient platform for digital industrial applications. Its open, low code technology enables the rapid delivery of flexible, upgradeable solutions for the engineering, manufacturing and maintenance of complex products. Aras’ platform and product lifecycle management applications connect users in all disciplines and functions to critical product data and processes across the lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain. Airbus, Audi, Denso, GE, GM, Honda, Kawasaki, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, and Nissan are investing in the platform to manage complex change and traceability. Visit www.aras.com to learn more and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

PUCHHEIM, Germany, Sep 7, 2020 – High quality laser scan system manufacturer SCANLAB GmbH has a new affiliate company. TecInvest Holding AG, the parent company of SCANLAB GmbH, is taking a 25 percent stake in the Israeli firm HOLO/OR Ltd. They are recognized as a pioneer in developing diffractive optical elements for industrial applications. By integrating these innovative micro-optical components, such as beam shapers, into its scan solutions, SCANLAB can multiply the fields of application for its products.

Israel Grossinger, Owner and President of HOLO/OR

Diffractive optical elements (DOE) can be used to specifically shape laser beams. To achieve the ‘diffractive effect’, DOEs employ microstructures etched into a substrate using a lithographic process. Glass is typically the substrate – but plastics, metals or semiconductors can also be used. The Israeli company is regarded as an experienced player and leader in this market segment.

Founded by Israel Grossinger 31 years ago, HOLO/OR is one of only a few suppliers capable of producing DOEs, e.g. beam splitters and shapers, with high damage thresholds that can stand up to high-power lasers. Its expertise encompasses not just design and fabrication, but also a unique in-house simulation software.

Step-by-Step Integration

TecInvest Holding, the parent company of SCANLAB, acquired a quarter of all HOLO/OR shares in August 2020. Over coming years, the holding company will take over all remaining shares in several steps. The acquired company will retain its independence and collaborate closely with sister company SCANLAB on a number of projects. In addition to planned technical innovations, synergies in sales will also be achieved.

“I am very pleased in finding a suitable partner to whom I can gradually transfer responsibility for my company – and thereby entrust ‘my life’s work’ to good hands. As a founder and entrepreneur, one has not only responsibility for his team, but also a wish to see his vision carried forward. And this is exactly what our collaboration feels like,” states Israel Grossinger, Owner and President of HOLO/OR.

“Talks with the team in Israel were very constructive right from the beginning and driven by shared ideas. We’re convinced the gained optical expertise will result in a new generation of highly integrated scan systems,” says TecInvest Holding Executive Board Member Dirk Thomas in explaining the new investment’s advantages.

About SCANLAB

With over 35,000 systems produced annually, SCANLAB GmbH is the world-leading and independent OEM manufacturer of scan solutions for deflecting and positioning laser beams in three dimensions. Its exceptionally fast and precise high-performance galvanometer scanners, scan heads and scan systems find application in industrial materials processing and the electronics, food and beverage industries, as well as biotech and medical technology. For 30 years, SCANLAB has secured its international technology leadership through pioneering developments in electronics, mechanics, optics and software, as well as the highest quality standards. For more information, visit https://www.scanlab.de/en.

About HOLO/OR

HOLO/OR Ltd., founded 1989 in Israel, develops, designs and manufactures diffractive optical elements (DOEs) and micro-optical elements. These components are being used for various applications mainly involving high precision and high-powered lasers. Over the last three decades, HOLO/OR has gained considerable expertise in the design, simulation and manufacturing of DOEs, using its in-house software and tools.

PUCHHEIM, Germany, Sep 7, 2020 – SCANLAB GmbH is marking its 30th anniversary as an OEM manufacturer of scan systems that guide and position laser beams. Residing in the Greater Munich area, the supplier of high-quality laser technology components has successfully practiced a one-site strategy. With 30 years of photonics market presence, the pioneering company looks back at continuous growth while also being well positioned for the coming years.

Christian Huttenloher, COO (L) and Georg Hofner, CEO (R), SCANLAB GmbH

Founded in 1990, SCANLAB began small. For its first five years, the company’s fewer-than-ten employees worked from a subleased 100 m2 office in the Munich suburb of Planegg. A broader audience saw its self-developed scan head and associated control electronics for the first time at Munich’s 1995 Laser tradeshow. The system attracted considerable interest along with several orders – and a success story commenced. By 1999, the company had already hired its 30th employee.

Meanwhile, SCANLAB developed into a system supplier, offering a diverse range of galvanometer-based scan solutions. Suitable control electronics and assorted software products rounded out the product palette. The company continues to keep its Research & Development, production and customer service departments, along with most of its sales team, in a single site in Puchheim, near Munich. By this means, all expertise is bundled under one roof, which leads to efficient pathways and quick reaction times. Consistently positive business growth in recent years confirms the strategy’s correctness. Today, SCANLAB employs some 380 employees from 38 nations, and supplies customers across countless European, Asian and North American countries.

When asked about his secret to success, CEO Georg Hofner replied: “Always striving for organizational flexibility, as we see change as an opportunity. Afterall, technological and societal changes are facts of life. Companies must show some resilience and be able to respond adaptively. We’ve succeeded at doing this for 30 years and we aim to continue.”

Solid fundamentals and financial independence also contribute to the company’s favorable prospects. Despite major challenges, like the current Covid-19 pandemic, only limited course corrections were necessary. The only downer, which the management calls, is that the anniversary in 2020 cannot be celebrated as it would do the occasion.

About SCANLAB

With over 35,000 systems produced annually, SCANLAB GmbH is the world-leading and independent OEM manufacturer of scan solutions for deflecting and positioning laser beams in three dimensions. Its exceptionally fast and precise high-performance galvanometer scanners, scan heads and scan systems find application in industrial materials processing and the electronics, food and beverage industries, as well as biotech and medical technology. For 30 years, SCANLAB has secured its international technology leadership through pioneering developments in electronics, mechanics, optics and software, as well as the highest quality standards. For more information, visit https://www.scanlab.de/en.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sep 7, 2020 – NUMECA is delighted to announce the official release of FINE/Turbo, FINE/Design3D and FINE/Agile version 15.1. FINE/Turbo is a flow integrated environment for rotating and non-rotating flow analysis in external and internal turbomachinery applications. FINE/Design3D is an integrated environment for the design and optimization of turbomachinery channels and blades, bringing together the best-in-class preliminary turbomachinery design tools and the fastest and most accurate CFD suite as recognized by the worldwide turbomachinery community.

Increased usability for an easier optimization workflow in FINE/Design3D and new wall distance computation algorithm in FINE/Turbo

FINE/Design3D – Increasing the usability for an easier optimization workflow

An additional step in the complete integration of Concepts NREC’s design system AxCent is the availability of AxCent output parameters. The geometric analysis of the turbomachinery, like the computation of curvature, area, and throat, is a response that can be studied or optimized in FINE/Design3D.

The layout of FINE/Design3D is also improved to better include design parameters in the project and define their bounds, with new filters and commands to handle projects with thousands of input variables.

New filters and quantities for a better integration with AxCent

To limit the user’s effort to set up an optimization project, the vast majority of the actions to set up a SCREENING computation are made available as Python commands: a macro can be automatically recorded and used to generate a similar “screening” computation from the GUI or from a command line.

FINE/Turbo: New wall distance computation algorithm

The distance to the nearest wall is necessary for most of the Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) turbulence models, but getting the distance field using brute-force or recursive methods can require substantial time. In this new release of FINE, a new method combines vector distance transform and wave-front propagation for a speedup between 1 and 2 orders of magnitude.

About NUMECA International

NUMECA International is a leading developer and provider of Grid Generation, Multi-physics – CFD software systems for analysis, design, and optimization of industrial products and processes, with an emphasis in the domains of turbomachinery, marine, aeronautics, aerospace, energy, chemical processes and multi-physics. NUMECA offers an extended suite of software systems covering a broad range of applications for both internal and external flows, including fluid-structure, fluid thermal, aero-acoustic interactions.

Driven by creativity, innovation & quality, we proudly turn our passion into innovative software toolsets that support the world’s leading industries. For more information, visit www.numeca.com.

TROY, MI, USA, Sep 4, 2020 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high performance computing (HPC), and data analytics, extended its multi-year OEM agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to offer the newly enhanced version of Altair PBS Professional workload manager and job scheduler across HPE’s industry-leading HPC systems, including HPE Apollo Systems and new line of HPE Cray supercomputers. HPE Pointnext Technology Services, which provides advisory and professional services to design and deploy solutions, will also be used to offer support for Altair’s latest software offering.

“Altair and HPE have forged a strong relationship that delivers compelling value for users of the world’s most popular HPC systems,” said Sam Mahalingam, chief technology officer at Altair. “This new agreement and the latest release of PBS Professional demonstrate our determination to keep developing and deploying solutions that meet the industry’s need to massively scale and continually update its HPC capabilities and resources.”

Key enhancements include massive improvements in throughput, support for both high performance and high-throughput workloads, effortless access to on-demand cloud resources, and new freedom to control and optimize budgets throughout an organization.

“We look forward to continuing our long-standing collaboration with Altair to offer our customers advanced options to target HPC and AI workloads,” said Pankaj Goyal, vice president of HPC and AI Product Management at HPE. “By offering the new release of Altair PBS Professional with our secure, high-performing and versatile HPC systems, we are enabling customers to optimize utilization, and improve productivity and efficiency for their most challenging workloads.”

Altair first signed an OEM agreement with HPE, a world leader in HPC and AI infrastructure solutions, in 2017. Previously, Altair had multi-year agreements in place with organizations acquired by HPE including SGI beginning in 2012 and Cray beginning in 2015. The decision of HPE and Altair to renew their commitment to strategic collaboration will ensure that HPC users can immediately benefit from the added functionality, flexibility, and efficiency of the latest iteration of PBS Professional.

To learn more about Altair’s HPC solutions, register for the Altair HPC Virtual Summit on September 9-10, 2020 at https://web.altair.com/altair-virtual-hpc-summit.

About Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR)

Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics. Altair enables organizations across broad industry segments to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.