COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jun 29, 2020 – 3Shape announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has appointed Jakob Just-Bomholt as Chief Executive Officer, effective August 1st. Jakob leaves a position as Executive Vice President of Falck A/S, a global emergency and health care company. Prior to joining Falck in 2017, Jakob worked in various top executive positions at the shipping and logistics company, A.P. Moller-Maersk.

Jakob Just-Bomholt, New CEO, 3Shape

3Shape’s current Co-CEOs and Co-founders Tais Clausen and Nikolaj Deichmann will remain active at 3Shape in new roles as Co-Vice chairmen of the board.

Jørgen Jensen, Chairman of 3Shape’s Board of Directors said: “Jakob has the leadership track record and scope of business experience we believe are essential to head 3Shape in its continued growth, including a strong focus on leading with innovation, and commitment to our people and core values. Under Tais and Nikolaj’s lead, 3Shape has developed the dental market’s strongest digital product portfolio and we believe that Jakob is the right person to take the company into the future. Speaking on behalf of the board, we look forward to working closely with Jakob as Chief Executive Officer.”

“At the same time, we are delighted that we will continue to benefit from Tais Clausen and Nikolaj Deichmann’s industry experience and entrepreneurial spirit through their active roles on the Board of Directors as Vice-Chairmen. They have both been strong leaders at 3Shape and are recognized as true pioneers in the dental and hearing industries,” concludes Jørgen Jensen.

The new CEO, Jakob Just-Bomholt said: “I am truly honored to take the lead of 3Shape as Chief Executive Officer. I look forward to working to further develop the company together with the 3Shape team in order to deliver true value to our customers and partners for better patient care. 3Shape brings fantastic products to the market and I am excited to be a part of 3Shape’s innovation journey.”

About Jakob Just-Bomholt

Jakob Just-Bomholt has held various leadership positions in international companies. Before joining 3Shape as its CEO, Jakob headed Falck’s Emergency Service division consisting of 14,000 employees worldwide. Before Falck, Jakob came from a long career at A.P. Moller-Maersk from 1997 to 2017.

During 2011 to 2015, Jakob successfully built a new business at A.P. Moller-Maersk from scratch, the Seago Line, which today still actively trades in the Intra-European market. Jakob is 45 years old and lives just north of Copenhagen. He is married to Christina and they have 3 children aged 14, 12 and 10.

Invitation

ST. ROMAIN, France and MOSCOW, Russia, Jun 29, 2020 – TraceParts,  a world leading supplier of 3D digital content for engineering, announces the immediate onboarding of Samson Simonian to actively promote its 3D Catalogs and Digital Marketing Services to Industrial Part Vendors in Russia.

Samson Simonian brings over 30 years of engineering experience and unique specific knowledge of the distribution of industrial components in Russia.

“We’re very excited to have Samson now working with us in Russia to market TraceParts Lead Generation exclusive digital programs to part manufacturers and distributors, CAx software vendors, 3D Printing & Quick Prototyping Service vendors and high-end Computer Hardware vendors.

Samson will help us strengthening TraceParts global footprint while expanding the reach of our 900 part catalogs used by more than 3.9 Million Engineers and Designers worldwide.” explains Gabriel Guigue, TraceParts co-founder and CEO

“I’m delighted to join the TraceParts family to complement their already existing European, North American, Chinese, Brazilian and Turkish operations.

TraceParts CAD-content platform is not only a very comprehensive engineering resource but it also offers a unique User Experience (UX) to millions of engineers to make their design job easier and faster than ever. And this is a true game changer for Russian industrial marketers to promote their products and services!” says Samson Simonian

Russia is one of the top 10 leading countries for the use of CAD, CAM and PLM applications and several hundreds of manufacturers and distributors are already promoting their industrial components inside this territory.

About TraceParts

TraceParts is one of the world’s leading providers of 3D digital content for engineering. As part of the Trace Group founded in 1990, the company provides powerful web-based solutions, such as CAD part libraries, electronic catalogs and product configurators.

TraceParts offers digital marketing services to help part vendors, 3D printing suppliers, software and computer hardware vendors promote their products and services and generate high-quality B2B sales leads.

The TraceParts portal is available free-of-charge to millions of CAD users worldwide. It provides access to hundreds of supplier catalogs and more than 100 million CAD models and product data-sheets that perfectly meet the specific needs of design, purchasing, manufacturing and maintenance processes and operations.

ST. ROMAIN, France, Jun 29, 2020 – Trace Software International is excited to announce the launch of the newest editions of archelios Pro. The software is an excellent tool for the feasibility and bankability study, simulation, 3D design, and sizing of any photovoltaic project.

As the solar market becomes more and more complex and challenging, the company has launched a new PV software’s offering. Trace Software International has used its expertise to create four different PV tools’ proposals, aimed at delivering more value and satisfying the needs of a wide range of professionals roles within the solar industry. Each product line is adapted to the size of the PV project and comes with features and benefits tailored to the specific requirement of the activity.

archelios Pro Free

The free version of archelios Pro is giving users access to a wide range of powerful features to manage PV projects that do not exceed a power of 36 kWp.

Privacy and Easy Access 

The software ensures easy and secure access to the web application. The registration process is very simple as it consists of creating login credentials ( company name, user name, email address, and password). All the personal information will be kept strictly confidential as envisaged in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Collaborative Workflow for Enhanced Productivity 

The complexity of solar projects requires a high level of coordination of documents, processes, and responsibilities among all operators. Thanks to the automatic saving of and a .a3d file when creating the project, all the relevant stakeholders will work on a single model, ensuring the uniformity and the consistency of all the data as well as better management of information and an improvement on the productivity.

Bankability of the PV Project 

Solar bankability studies are essential to evaluate the economic viability and profitability of any PV project, give assurance to decision-makers, and guarantee the optimal ROI. The free version of archelios™ Pro provides economical and financial indicators and editable reports that support the decision-making process. Users can pass to the next step of the photovoltaic project with total peace of mind.

Economic Assessment of the Energy Output of the PV Modules 

The user can import the hourly rate profile of the PV installation, including the electricity feed-in tariffs, hour by hour, over the year. Besides, archelios™ Pro – free edition- estimates the price of each self-consumed kWh. More reliable data allow rigorous predictions.

Accurate Solar Power Generation Forecast 

To predict the generation of electricity by a solar power plant, it is necessary to take into consideration the solar radiation, ambient temperature, weather, and the geographic location of the PV panel. The user can rely on METEONORM, a powerful database providing data about the solar radiation for a certain geographical site and Google Maps providing the automatic calculation of the far mask (natural relief) and the evaluation of the data from the near mask (close modules). The user can count on reliable data regarding the weather forecast, the solar potential, and the environmental parameters.

Easy Location Management 

Fully responsive, this option makes it possible to locate a site on Google Maps by entering an address in a search box. The user can access a large verified database.

Indication of Optimal Inclination and Tilt of the PV Array 

The performance of photovoltaic panels is influenced by their orientation and tilt (inclination), which affects the amount of producible energy. The software assists the user in the analysis process by indicating the optimal orientation and tilt of the PV array. In this way, it is possible to optimize the amount of electricity that can be supplied for each site.

Calculation of the Solar Radiation on a Tilted Solar Panel

The free version of archelios Pro enables the user to calculate the expected solar production on a tilted solar panel. This option allows the user to select the best site related option and the optimal configuration for the PV array to avoid losses in energy production.

Proper Sizing of the Electrical Components of the PV Installation 

Maximum safety is guaranteed as the software is provided with advanced functionalities that assist the user in the dimensioning and sizing of the inverters and the PV modules. The user can make more reliable choices in the selection of the electrical equipment, in a quicker time. Besides, an extensive database of inverters references is included to enhance the project’s quality and level of detail.

Self-Consumption Operating Mode for Grid-Connected System

The free version of archelios Pro guarantees a detailed electrical analysis for the self-consumption operating mode. It is possible to establish the optimal design and sizing conditions based on the self-consumption term. The software features enable the user to save design time, enhance the performance, and empower the accuracy of the calculations to provide a project as close as possible to the production conditions. In detail, the user will benefit from:

Greater flexibility and customization

The user can evaluate the most suitable self-consumption operating mode profile for the project as he can choose from a pre-entered database.

Powerful calculations made easy

To maximize the net benefits, the calculations will be carried out on simulation-based methods. The user will be able to take into account the real annual consumption profile, or the monthly invoices and import only partial profiles.

Peak power output calculation available

The free version of archelios Pro provides the user with an indication of the peak power required to achieve a selected self-generation rate. This can only mean better accuracy.

Optimal sizing of the battery energy storage system

To reduce operational costs, the user can size the battery energy storage system according to the expected autonomy.

To get archelios Pro free, click here.

About Trace Software International

Trace Software International is part of Group Trace, bound together by the common mission of delivering excellence in construction and energy solutions. The group is also formed by BIM&CO – one of the world’s leading manufacturers of digital product data for the construction industry, Green Systèmes whose main mission is to optimize the energy performance of buildings and equipment, Trace Parts– one of the world’s leading providers of 3D digital content for Engineering and Cythelia, manufacturer of software for the PV market. Trace Software International has subsidiaries in France, Spain, Morocco, Germany, China, Brazil, and the USA apart from a worldwide presence via distributors or authorized partners. For more information, visit https://www.trace-software.com.

ANN ARBOR, MI, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jun 26, 2020 – CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce that PLM Road Map & PDT 2020 will take place in November as a virtual event. The event will address the critical topic of “Digital Thread—the PLM Professionals’ Path to Delivering Innovation, Efficiency, and Quality.” The event will take place in two half-day sessions on November 17th and 18th. This event will replace the live event initially set for Stockholm, Sweden, on the same dates.

We aim to offer an event tailored to the interests of the PLM Professional. With this in mind, our agenda will present reports from teams of industry domain experts working to remediate pain points that inhibit the Digital Thread and case studies from program managers responsible for Digital Thread strategies and implementations within their companies.

“This year, we are excited and look forward to providing a virtual-live and highly valuable global event that will offer PLM professionals the opportunity to learn with others across multiple industries,” stated Mr. Peter Bilello, President & CEO of CIMdata. “As in the most recent years, our theme in 2020 will focus on the elements that are vital to enabling a successful PLM strategy—equipping the PLM Professional with insight on how to get the most out of the processes, data, and the technologies that enable PLM,” added Mr. Bilello.

“Digitalization and collaboration are more important than ever,” says Håkan Kårdén VP Marketing Eurostep Group. “So is the Digital Thread, with the re-use of high-quality data, inside large enterprises as well as across enterprises to facilitate resilient and agile value networks. We look forward to, this time on-line, contributing to the important PLM community with a must-attend event that will present ideas as well as practical advice on how to plan and implement a Digital Thread,” added Mr. Kårdén.

For more information about PLM Road Map & PDT Fall 2020, please visit the CIMdata website at https://www.cimdata.com/en/education/plm-conferences/plmrm-pdt-fall-2020.

WATERLOO, ON, Canada, Jun 26, 2020 – Maplesoft, a provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics, today announced they will now provide direct sales and support to all customers in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The move to localized sales and support in these countries highlights the importance of these markets to Maplesoft. As a result of this shift, Maplesoft’s current partner, CANdiensten will cease to distribute Maplesoft products by the end of 2020.

Maplesoft representatives in sales, customer service and technical support are now available to immediately support new and existing customers of Maple, the technical computing and calculation management software, and MapleSim, the advanced system-level modeling and simulation tool, as well as all related products. Additionally, Maplesoft customers in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg can now take advantage of the benefits provided by Maplesoft Client Success, a team dedicated to helping Maple users more effectively utilize Maplesoft products.

“We are looking forward to directly interacting with our extensive user base in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. A direct presence in these countries will allow us better opportunities to connect with our customers in order to more effectively understand their needs and support them,” said Laurent Bernardin, Maplesoft’s President and CEO. “We thank CANdiensten for many years of a close and successful partnership.”

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft has provided mathematics-based software solutions to educators, engineers, and researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for over 30 years. Maplesoft’s flagship product, Maple, combines the world’s most powerful mathematics engine with an interface that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems. Building on this technology, the product line includes solutions for education and research, system simulation, calculation management, and systems engineering.

Maplesoft products provide modern, innovative solutions to meet today’s technical challenges, from exploring math concepts on a smartphone to reducing development risk in complex engineering design projects. Maplesoft products and services are used by more than 8000 educational institutions, research labs, and companies, in over 90 countries.

Maplesoft is a subsidiary of Cybernet Systems Group. For more information about Maplesoft, visit www.maplesoft.com.

LUCERNE, Switzerland, Jun 26, 2020 – announces the release of v7.0 for BETA License Manager, with extended capabilities and highly anticipated features.

Note that some of the implemented new features are dependent to the version of the BETA CAE Systems software products. This means that they are compliant only with specific versions of the software of BETA, as marked in the documentation accordingly.

However, all previous software versions will continue working either with BETA LM v6.4 or v7.0.

There are many new things to look forward to in this new version:

Enhancements

The capability to filter the licensed features, so as to idle, limit, allow or deny their usage, based on user, group of users, IP address or hostname, has been introduced.

The new time-based licensing scheme offers flexibility through a time-based batch credit system, designed to serve a huge number of small jobs (e.g. ANSA/META scripts in a DOE study).

New potential arises with the Virtual Machine support – as well as with the teamed network interface support.

Abundant developments took place providing enhanced performance, better stability and enriched reporting, such as: BETA software suite version & GPU, as well as detailed shared BETA software suite information in beta_lm_stat, total clients connected and total/average waiting time in beta_lm.log and many more.

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

Communication with License Manager

BETA suite would fail to cycle through all the available License Servers, when trying to re-acquire license credits.

On top of that, as far as the Idle User Timeout is concerned, ANSA would fail to turn in Idle Status, while remaining in Launcher window mode.

Network Interfaces

When switching network interfaces, the Shared Licensing feature would not always be respected.

Moreover, BETA License Manager might fail to generate a valid host key, in case of teamed network interfaces.

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

Compatibility

In principle, BETA LM Tools 7.0 does not require a new license file. Existing license files are compatible with the new license manager unless the existing license file had been issued for a Virtual Machine.

The new version is compatible with all the previously released BETA CAE Systems software.

Future versions of BETA CAE Systems software will continue to be compatible with the previous version of BETA LM Tools.

Improvements apply to all versions of BETA CAE Systems software with performance being further increased for software released after the 14th of September 2015.

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Where to download from

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.
Contact us if you miss your account details. The Downloads menu items give you access to the public downloads.
Customers who are served by a local business agent should contact the local support channel for software distribution details.

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.

ANN ARBOR, MI, USA, Jun 25, 2020 – CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata Simulation and Analysis (S&A) Market Analysis Report. This report deepens the S&A market analysis conducted as part of the CIMdata 2020 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The well-known PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during the calendar year 2019. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, revenues of leading PLM providers, and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth. The 2020 S&A MAR is a 120+-page report containing over 40 tables and charts of data detailing the worldwide S&A market along a number of dimensions. It also includes an update on CIMdata’s S&A segmentation, a discussion of trends in the S&A industry, and updates on the top S&A solution providers.

S&A Market History and CIMdata Growth Estimates

According to Mr. Don Tolle, CIMdata’s Practice Manager for Simulation-Driven Systems Development, “Today detailed geometric modeling, simulation, and analysis for virtual prototyping and verification/validation still makes up the majority of the S&A market segment. But to support the development of and lifecycle support for smart, connected products, systems-level behavior modeling, simulation, and analysis are increasingly recognized as must-have core competencies to enable the digitalization of product development, manufacturing, and in-service lifecycle operations by leveraging physics-based Digital Twins. The emergence of physics-based digital twins and real-time data analytics from IoT-enabled smart systems offer access to unprecedented product performance knowledge from today’s products. Both end-users and design engineers can benefit from this knowledge. End-users, in how best to optimize their product use and effectiveness. And design engineers who can leverage this knowledge to create innovative new products to meet ever more demanding customer and regulatory requirements.

“To meet these industry challenges, there is a strong industry focus on creating collaborative product innovation platforms that enable cross-domain digital process threads (including mechanical, electronics, software, controls, chemistry, materials, and other physics) that can be shared, continuously improved, and managed throughout the product development lifecycle. The major software and services solution providers are investing heavily in R&D to create new model-driven, integrated MBSE, PLM, and S&A capabilities as well as adding new leading-edge technologies by acquiring or partnering with smaller, innovative solutions providers.”

As shown in the following chart, in 2019, S&A revenues grew to nearly $7.2 billion, an increase of 11% over the $6.4 billion in 2018. According to Mr. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Vice President, “The S&A segment had another solid year, just below our forecast. CIMdata continues to see S&A move ‘upfront’ in the product development process (i.e., to the left side of the Systems Engineering Vee), helping companies evaluate multiple design concepts and optimize performance before committing to the final hardware and software design. For the first time this year, CIMdata is including a chart detailing our estimate of the S&A market revenue breakdown by application segment. This initial estimate was developed, in part, through our consulting work with the financial and PLM communities over the last decade. We include it in the S&A MAR this year, and we welcome feedback from the S&A solution community to help efine it.”

The COVID-19 pandemic will cause all of the PLM segments CIMdata measures to take a pause, with S&A one of only two segments CIMdata estimates will have growth in 2020. For 2020, CIMdata forecasts that the S&A sub-sector will grow only 0.6% overall and have revenues of just under $7.2 billion. CIMdata expects that S&A will continue to be one of the more rapidly growing segments within the tools sector of PLM over the next five years, and forecasts that this market sector will reach $10.3 billion in 2024, with a 7.6% CAGR.”

The 2020 CIMdata S&A Market Analysis Report is available for purchase at http://www.cimdata.com/en/research/plm-market-analysis-report-series.

BEND, OR, USA and WESSLING, Germany, Jun 25, 2020 – Tech Soft 3D, the leading provider of engineering software development toolkits, and OPEN MIND, a leading developer of CAD/CAM software solutions worldwide, today announce that HOOPS Exchange, the industry’s fastest and most accurate CAD data access and reuse technology for manufacturing and architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) workflows, will be integrated into hyperMILL and hyperCAD-S to ensure that all CAD and PMI data is transferred seamlessly between applications.

PMI (Product and manufacturing information) data is transferred seamlessly

“Tech Soft 3D is a trusted, reliable development partner who helps us implement specific requirements and accommodate customer requests,” said Dr. Josef Koch, CTO at OPEN MIND Technologies, AG. “This kind of responsiveness is critical in our industry, as well as interoperability with multiple CAD formats – HOOPS Exchange is the leading product in this area and was an easy choice for us. We are very happy to be able to offer our customers the ability to work with any CAD file type now, and not to fear any loss of data integrity when sharing files.”

hyperMILL is a modular complete CAM solution for 2.5D, 3D, 5-axis, HSC/HPC, and mill-turning processes, and also includes special applications and highly efficient automation solutions. The CAM software provides technology-leading geometry analysis and tool path calculations. There are specialized routines designed for efficient programming and machining of these components on 5-axis milling or mill-turn machines. Robust CNC post processors are also provided to assure strong communication to machine tool controllers.

“Digital transformation is happening at lightning speed within the manufacturing industry and we are committed to helping our partners, such as OPEN MIND, keep pace with this rapid momentum,” said Lionel Vieilly, Product Manager at Tech Soft 3D. “Fast access to the full integrity of data, being able to use that data without the need for an additional translator, extreme performance with low memory usage – these are all paramount to quickly building robust, sophisticated 3D applications and we are proud to be the ones our partners look to as the gold standard.”

About Tech Soft 3D

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

About OPEN MIND Technologies AG

OPEN MIND is one of the world’s most sought-after developers of powerful CAM solutions for machine and controller-independent programming.

OPEN MIND develops optimized CAM solutions that include a high number of innovative features not available elsewhere to deliver significantly higher performance in both programming and machining. Strategies such as 2.5D, 3D as well as 5-axis milling/mill turning, and machining operations like HSC and HPC are efficiently built into the hyperMILL® CAM system. hyperMILL® provides the maximum possible benefits to customers thanks to its full compatibility with all current CAD solutions and extensive programming automation.

OPEN MIND strives to be the best and most innovative CAD/CAM manufacturer in the world, helping it become one of the top five in the CAM industry according to the “NC Market Analysis Report 2020” compiled by CIMdata. The CAD/CAM solutions of OPEN MIND fulfil the highest demands in the automotive, tool and mold manufacturing, production machining, medical, job shops, energy and aerospace industries. OPEN MIND is represented in all key markets in Asia, Europe and America, and is a Mensch und Maschine company. For more information, visit www.openmind-tech.com.