GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UK, Jul 30, 2020 – Renishaw is committed to maintaining global supply chains and supporting its customers worldwide. During these uncertain times that means adapting, and helping industry to adapt, to new priorities and requirements. As Tarquin Adams, Renishaw’s Group Marketing Manager, explains, “In these unprecedented times for industry, smart manufacturing and automation are now more important than ever. In the past, we have been able to speak to our customers at exhibitions, trade shows and seminars, and visit their factories for consultations and to deliver training. Now we are keeping those conversations going with enhanced access to our support and expertise online, including the launch of some exciting new digital initiatives.”

With a wave of global trade show and exhibition postponements this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Renishaw has launched its own online virtual exhibition, called ‘Virtual-Expo’. The rationale behind this new initiative is to bring Renishaw’s traditional exhibition offering to customers in an engaging and interactive digital format, accessible 24/7. By visiting www.renishaw.com/virtualexpo visitors will be able to discover the latest metrology innovations and Industry 4.0 technologies, and see how they are being applied throughout key manufacturing industries. A variety of content can be readily accessed, including product videos, customer testimonials and downloadable brochures, with the ability for Virtual-Expo visitors to request a private online demonstration with one of Renishaw’s product experts.

In addition to creating Virtual-Expo, Renishaw has also developed and launched a series of smart manufacturing webinars to help global manufacturing audiences improve their productivity and reduce costs. Hosted by Renishaw’s industry experts, each 30-minute webinar aims to demonstrate how applying smart manufacturing concepts can enable increased automation, and lead to greater efficiencies and flexibility in factories.

The webinars have been designed to provide audiences with detailed insights that address relevant industry challenges, such as how to optimise manufacturing process capability, how to use metrology data to improve productivity, and how to reduce manufacturing and quality costs in these challenging times. As Paul Maxted, Renishaw’s Director of Industrial Metrology Applications, explains, “Smart manufacturing and automation in CNC machining are now more important than ever. If you work in manufacturing, intelligent processes will help you adapt to the ever-changing needs of industry. Our new webinar series aims to share our extensive knowledge as a manufacturer ourselves with the global manufacturing community on a range of topics that we know will really resonate with them. We look forward to welcoming audiences across different manufacturing industries to what we believe to be 30 minutes of topical and engaging insights.”

To explore Renishaw’s webinar schedule and to register for your place, please visit www.renishaw.com/webinars

Invitation

“This is one of the biggest releases of the year for our interoperability products. Not only have we added support for all the latest CAD versions, we have also included many user requested advanced productivity tools. We continue to invest not only in our paid products like EnSuite and EnSuite-Lite but also on the free cloud-based CAD viewer, EnSuite-Cloud. Clearly, in these challenging times, being able to help remote workers in any way provides much gratification,” said Vinay Wagle, CCE’s V.P. of Sales & Marketing.

All of CCE’s EnSuite-branded products are built using CCE’s proprietary CAD interoperability technology that is currently being licensed by several top CAD Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). As a result, all of CCE’s viewer and translator products are completely CAD independent. Users do not need licenses of the CAD systems to view files of those systems.

About CCE

Incorporated in Michigan, CCE has more than 25 years of CAD/CAM/CAE software development experience, as well as an extensive background in related services. Since 1989, CCE’s focus in CAD technology & application development has spearheaded its mission to deliver customers value through innovative, disciplined, and communications-focused technology products and services. CCE has offices located in Farmington Hills, Michigan and Fort Lee, New Jersey. For more information on CCE’s products and services, visit www.cadcam-e.com.

AUGSBURG, Germany, Jul 29, 2020 – CADENAS GmbH, a software specialist for digital CAD product catalogs, now provides planning data for automation and switching technology products from Siemens via its platform for 3D CAD models. Users of Siemens PLM solutions will now have direct access to digital Siemens components such as switches, controls, relays etc., which are available within Siemens NX, Solid Edge, Teamcenter as well as the CADENAS portal, enabling engineers to quickly integrate them into their product designs.

Intelligent CAD data as an important step towards Industry 4.0

With its portfolio of services, the Siemens technology group is considered a pioneer in Industry 4.0. Siemens is demonstrating what is possible in this area by providing a portfolio of hardware and software products that enable a seamless data link between development, production and suppliers. “Siemens plays a pioneering role when it comes to comprehensively representing constructions as digital twins. Intelligent, native 3D CAD data of the individual components are required to simulate and optimize the virtual representation of a design in advance. Here CADENAS, with its many years of know-how in the creation of digital parts catalogs, makes another important contribution to the holistic implementation of the Industry 4.0 strategy of Siemens,” explains Thorsten Reichenberger, Senior Business Development Digital Business at Siemens.

Step-by-step enrichment of digital parts data from Siemens components

Today, automation and low-voltage switchgear from Siemens comprises more than 50,000 products and systems. Access to planning data and CAD data for these components was previously only possible via Siemens’ own online platform, the Siemens Industry Mall. In order to use the planning data in NX, Solid Edge or Teamcenter, a manual import was necessary. The planning data itself was mostly available in the neutral STEP format.

SIRIUS 3RB3 overload relay as 3D CAD model based on CADENAS technology for parts catalogs in Siemens NX.

As part of the cooperation between Siemens and CADENAS, the first step was to make the basic data available within the CADENAS platform which is also integrated directly into NX, Solid Edge and Teamcenter as a component library. Users of the Siemens PLM solutions can now find these components with just a few clicks and insert them directly into their product design without changing systems or the need to store the files locally. Additionally, the digital product catalog is available via various channels: The online download portal at https://siemens.partcommunity.com, the Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions and in the mobile app for 3D CAD models from CADENAS.

Siemens contactor with all planning relevant information in Siemens Teamcenter powered by CADENAS.

“As an OEM partner of Siemens, we can make a significant contribution with our many years of know-how from over 800 successful catalog projects to further extend Siemens’ lead in Industry 4.0,” says Walter Leder, COO of CADENAS GmbH.

Simulation of systems with the Mechatronics Concept Designer

Software solutions for simulation, such as the Mechatronics Concept Designer (MCD) from Siemens PLM, make a decisive contribution on the way to Industry 4.0: As an integrated solution for automation development within the 3D CAD software NX, the MCD in combination with the intelligent digital components from CADENAS, enables virtual testing of the commissioning of technical systems in advance and digital coordination of the control system details. This significantly shortens the lead time until the start of production.

“The aim of the cooperation between CADENAS and Siemens is to support manufacturing companies by improving the flexibility and efficiency of their design and production processes, helping bring products to market faster. This consistently increases efficiency, minimizes the error rate and significantly shortens development cycles. All in all, this means a sustained increase in competitiveness for companies,” says Reichenberger.

The new 3D CAD models download portal from Siemens is available to CAD users at https://siemens.partcommunity.com.

About CADENAS GmbH

CADENAS is a leading software developer in the areas of Strategic Parts Management and parts reduction (PARTsolutions), as well as Electronic Product Catalogs (eCATALOGsolutions). With its customized software solutions, the company acts as a link between the component manufacturers with their products and the purchasers.

With its 380 employees at 18 international subsidiaries, the name CADENAS (Spanish: process chains) has been standing for success, creativity, support and process optimization since 1992. For more information, visit www.cadenas.de/en.

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 intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems, and automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries. Through the separately managed companies Siemens Energy, the global energy business of Siemens, and Siemens Mobility, a leading supplier of smart mobility solutions for rail and road transport, Siemens is shaping the energy systems of today and tomorrow as well as 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 (as part of Siemens 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 www.siemens.com.

PITTSBURGH, PA, USA, Jul 29, 2020 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) is reshaping how engineering students learn physics principles through the launch of free, online Ansys Innovation Courses, a new addition to the Ansys Academic Program. Accelerating the future of engineering education, the on-demand program integrates real-world simulation case studies within physics theory short courses to teach complicated physics concepts and phenomena.

As universities worldwide shuttered to reduce the spread of COVID-19, many physics-based curriculum pivoted from classroom-based instruction to online learning. Only by coupling online courses with the power of simulation can students visualize and reinforce complicated physics concepts. From undergraduates beginning their engineering journey to professionals mastering new skills, Ansys Innovation Courses lower the barrier to quickly learning physics with simulation-based lessons that span many physics principles.

Ansys Innovation Courses extend beyond physics theory and reinforce concepts with high-fidelity Ansys simulations and real-world case studies. Available to anyone but developed for students and early-career engineers, Ansys Innovation Courses’ comprehensive educational experience features online lecture videos led by Ansys experts, handouts, homework, tutorials and quizzes. The program also includes several courses from Ansys’ academic partners, such as Cornell University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC).

“Ansys Innovation Courses provide students with a unique online learning environment that no textbook can match. I’m proud to help contribute to this important initiative through the development of electromagnetics instruction materials,” said Kathryn Leigh Smith, assistant professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNCC. “Supplementation of lecture material with animations and demonstrations that leverage cutting-edge Ansys simulations enables students to fully grasp these fundamental principles, and their application to solving today’s engineering challenges.”

“In these uncertain times, remote learning has become the new normal. Ansys Innovation Courses empower students to supplement their traditional education, take control of their own learning and rapidly absorb physics concepts,” said Prith Banerjee, chief technology officer at Ansys and executive sponsor of the Ansys Academic Program. “Merging the two worlds of physics theory instruction with simulation delivers a dynamic new way for students to learn — both at the grassroots undergraduate level and for engineers seeking to refresh their skillsets.”

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.

MUNICH, Germany and WESTFORD, MA, USA, Jul 28, 2020 – Zuken announces the 2020 release of its E3.series electrical and fluid engineering tool suite featuring expanded functionality across the complete range of applications from schematics and cable planning through to 2D and 3D cabinet and wire harness design and documentation. E3.series is widely used in the manufacturing industry to design large, complex electrical cabling, control cabinet, and wire harness designs for advanced applications in the machinery, power, automotive, transportation, and aerospace and defense industries.

In addition to numerous ease-of-use productivity improvements, E3.series 2020 features significant enhancements in the areas of tabular editing, the embedding of office documents, 3D cabinet layout, and 3D PDF support.

1) General usability enhancements: Users will benefit from improved productivity from GUI enhancements that include new technology and icons offering a range of short-cuts. Office documents can now be embedded leveraging the Windows OLE protocol and permanent properties windows provide full component information with a simple click.

The user interface has been updated with new technology and icons

2) Extended tabular search, filtering, and editing:  Previously separated search operations are now combined into one single Boolean search function covering multiple devices, sheets, and connection lists. Users can now search, modify, and update large schematic and wiring plans without navigating through numerous sheets.

Search operations were combined into one single Boolean search function covering multiple device lists, sheets, and connection lists

3) 3D Cabinet Layout: Dynamic contours can now be defined in the project with the move and copy/paste commands, and viewed in the cabinet design tree. The component placement functionality supports multiple component placement directions speeding design activities. The complete cabinet design can now be viewed in a fully interactive 3D PDF; a new output option.

Cabinet layouts can be exported to fully interactive 3D PDF models

E3.series delivers a concurrent electrical engineering environment supporting advanced requirements for electrical planning and documentation, cabinet and wire harness design, and manufacturing outputs. Its object-oriented architecture provides the user with a unified design representation across multiple views delivering consistent design information to help eliminate errors, improve quality, and reduce design time.

“With the digitization and networking of engineering and manufacturing processes in the manufacturing industry, electrical and fluid engineering is emerging from a specialist activity to become part of an end-to-end engineering workflow,” says Joachim Frank, Managing Director of Zuken E3.

“Through the combination of powerful electrical engineering capabilities and cabinet layout functionality, we are providing a solution that combines advanced electrical and mechanical engineering capabilities for the specific needs of electrical engineers.”

For details of E3.series 2020 click here.

Partner in the Smart Cabinet Building Initiative

Zuken’s E3.series has been selected to provide the engineering backbone for the recently launched Smart Cabinet Building Initiative. The initiative is comprised of a multi-company cooperation that includes Weidmüller, Komax, Armbruster, and Zuken. The goal of Smart Cabinet Building is to offer integrated solutions for today’s challenges in the field of control cabinet engineering and manufacturing.

The base for networking today’s disconnected process steps is the “digital twin,” a complete digital description of the electrical cabinet and its components created in Zuken’s E3.series. For more information about the Smart Cabinet Building Initiative, visit https://www.smart-cabinet-building.com.

About Zuken

Zuken is a global provider of leading-edge software and consulting services for electrical and electronic design and manufacturing. Founded in 1976, Zuken has the longest track record of technological innovation and financial stability in the electronic design automation (EDA) software industry. The company’s extensive experience, technological expertise and agility, combine to create world-class software solutions. Zuken’s transparent working practices and integrity in all aspects of business produce long-lasting and successful customer partnerships that make Zuken a reliable long-term business partner. For more information, visit www.zuken.com, blog.zuken.com, or www.linkedin.com/company/zuken.

VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France, Jul 28, 2020 – Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) today announced that Batz Group, a products and services supplier for the automotive sector, has deployed the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Spain-based Batz Group has been a Dassault Systèmes customer for many years, and decided to migrate all applications to the platform to improve its business processes and become more competitive in the global market.

As the transportation and mobility industry shifts to new technologies and increases vehicle complexity, suppliers like Batz Group must find ways to strengthen their capabilities and resources in order to quickly provide major worldwide original equipment manufacturers with the high-quality die and systems that reflect this evolution. Batz Group will use the “Bid to Win” industry solution experience based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to increase its agility and process control, improve the quality and safety of its automotive tooling and control systems, and reduce its time to market.

Batz Group can integrate project management on one digital platform, removing the barriers that divide stakeholders in different departments and enabling them to work more quickly and efficiently.  Teams can securely collaborate in real time throughout the product lifecycle, and access and share up-to-date information on development changes, product data, and requirements management with their customers and suppliers involved in a project.

“The supplier business is becoming more competitive, so we decided to integrate document management, CAD management, materials lists and project management into Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform,” said Jose Angel Fernandez Gutiérrez, CAD/CAM & PLM Manager, Batz Group. “We’ve experienced significant improvements since implementing it:  more orders, fast access to project data, reduced production times and less risk of lower product quality or increased production costs. Our products get to market faster.”

“Automotive industry suppliers are working in an era of unprecedented opportunities to thrive, yet growing global competition and constantly changing customer needs can lead to lost business if unprepared,” said Laurence Montanari, Vice President, Transportation & Mobility Industry, Dassault Systèmes. “The 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables suppliers like Batz Group to overcome industry challenges and transform market opportunities into marketplace advantages.”

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 www.3ds.com.

TROY, MI, USA, Jul 28, 2020 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high-performance computing (HPC), and data analytics, announced the acquisition of S&WISE Co., Ltd., a Seoul-based leading provider of polyurethane foaming simulation.

Schematics of automotive steering wheel

The acquisition will allow Altair to offer customers the most advanced solution for polyurethane foam processing on the market. S&WISE accurately simulates the injection, foaming, and gelling processes, accounting for the important effects of chemical reactions during the process. An enhanced version of S&WISE’s solver will be released within Altair Inspire PolyFoam, providing the ease-of-use and productivity of other Inspire solutions. Customers will be able to:

1. Check manufacturing feasibility early
2. Reduce manufacturing defects
3. Reduce cycle time by designing accurate gating locations and feed rates
4. Leverage the best-in-class solver technology with a fast, highly accurate solution
5. Utilize the included material database for commonly used foaming and tooling materials

Defects prediction of a refrigerator cabinet

“Polyurethane foam is used in a vast array of industries and products including automotive interiors, recreational equipment, and medical devices. S&WISE enables us to offer another critical manufacturing simulation and design solution to our customers,” said James Scapa, Altair’s chief executive officer and founder.

The S&WISE solver and technology complements Altair’s existing Inspire manufacturing simulation offerings including casting, forming, mold-filling, extrusion, and additive manufacturing. S&WISE brings deep technical knowledge and more than a decade of experience serving global manufacturing customers.

“We are thrilled to join the global powerhouse that is Altair,’ said Lee Sungyoon, chief executive officer and founder of S&WISE. “Our solutions will bolster their already outstanding portfolio of solvers and solutions.”

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.

GAITHERSBURG, MD, USA, Jul 27, 2020 – Xometry, the largest U.S. marketplace for custom manufacturing, has unveiled its 2D Technical Drawing Marketplace, an innovative platform to expand access to prospective job orders for 3,000+ American machine shops.

The 2D Technical Drawing Marketplace offers engineers and designers the ability to get quotes from Xometry’s network of highly-qualified U.S. shops — including ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D-certified and ITAR registered facilities — for projects which lack 3D files. Xometry will guarantee the quality of the work.

“COVID-19 has disrupted international supply chains, and our domestic machine shops are feeling pressure as well,” said Randy Altschuler, CEO and Co-founder of Xometry. “Giving our Partner Network — top-rate American shops who are largely working in 2D already — access to 2D file quotes from our strong customer base is a win-win. Manufacturers get access to new project opportunities, and US-based customers have an easy path to reshore work and restore their supply chain.”

A Xometry survey found 53% of mechanical engineers worked with parts that lacked 3D CAD files, representing a potential $37 billion market. Specifically these files are often used for legacy parts and in sectors where Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) issues are common, such as aerospace and defense.

“Xometry is driven by the success of its Partner Network,” said Jenn Ryan, Senior Vice President, Xometry Partner Network. “We recognize this is an uncertain time for American small businesses and we want our Partners to know we are working hard to bring them new customers and new jobs. We’re expecting a heavy volume of new RFQs to come now that we service 2D technical drawings.”

About Xometry

Xometry is the largest marketplace for custom manufacturing, connecting customers with optimal manufacturing solutions through proprietary AI algorithms. Xometry provides on-demand manufacturing and industrial supply materials to a diverse customer base, ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. Our nationwide network of thousands of partner manufacturing facilities enables us to maintain consistently fast lead times while offering a broad array of capabilities, including CNC machining, 3D printing, sheet metal fabrication, injection molding, and urethane casting. Xometry’s customers include BMW, Dell Technologies, General Electric, Bosch, and NASA. For more information, visit http://www.xometry.com.

WALTHAM, MA, USA, Jul 27, 2020 – AMC Bridge, a vendor of choice for software solutions in the areas of computer-aided design, engineering, manufacturing, and construction, is pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Parnell-Hopkinson as its new Business Development Director, UK and Europe, reporting to President of AMC Bridge.