ANN ARBOR, MI, USA, Jul 17, 2020 – Representatives of the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) have published the results and conclusions from a sponsored project team that engaged with four leading software providers to validate the team’s recently defined multiple-view bill of materials (Multi-view BOM) requirements by benchmarking use cases using commercially available software. The benchmarks are the culmination of three years of effort by the team made up of domain experts from the nine-member companies and select Tier 1 suppliers. This effort follows the publication of their comprehensive position paper on the subject in February 2019.

The report documents the definition of use cases that encapsulate requirements for Multi-view BOM management within an aerospace original equipment manufacturer (OEM), and the findings and conclusions from evaluating the capability of commercially available PLM software to fulfill those requirements. The report concludes that the use cases are valid, and that commercial technology has matured to a level where the implementation of Multi-view BOM management within an aerospace OEM is a practical possibility, albeit with caveats.

The AD PAG members consider Multi-view BOM management to be foundational to their Digital Thread strategies. According to Shyam Rangaswamy, Product Manager, Digital Engineering Solutions for GE Aviation, “The Multi-view BOM benchmarks helped our company to better understand what capabilities do and do not exist in PLM software today for managing BOM configurations. The effort also allowed us to engage in meaningful conversations on BOM configuration management that align directly with our future vision.” Select tier 1 suppliers have likewise found benefit from being part of the project team. “The discussions with the PLM providers and demonstrations of different solutions have been of high value for Saab and have already brought good input to our ongoing implementation project. We will definitely bring the benchmark results into our strategic work with future PLM solutions,” says Magnus Manke, Senior Solution Architect – PLM & MBD for Saab Aeronautics.

According to James Roche, CIMdata’s A&D Practice Director, “The concept of linking multiple representations of a product, each tuned to the needs of creators and consumers in various domains along the lifecycle, is powerful. These benchmarks indicate that commercial PLM solutions have advanced over the last 3 to 5 years to a level where enablement of this core element of the Digital Thread is now technically feasible in industries as complex as aerospace & defense. This is a big deal.”

Since its founding in 2014, the Aerospace and Defense PLM Action Group, which is administered by CIMdata, has sponsored research and jointly staffed projects on a diverse set of prioritized industry and technology topics. These topics include Model-Based Definition, Multiple-View Bill of Materials, PLM Technology Obsolescence Management, Global Collaboration, and Model-Based Systems Engineering. As an outcome of these investments, the Group has released a series of direction statements and position papers that are freely available for downloading from its website at www.ad-pag.com. Making these materials available is consistent with the Group’s mission to engage proactively within the PLM ecosystem and advocate for common direction and positions within the aerospace and defense industry on PLM-related topics of importance to the members.

To download the paper visit https://www.cimdata.com/en/aerospace-and-defense/publications/mv-bom#

For more information, please contact CIMdata at info@cimdata.com.

Invitation

SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, Jul 17, 2020 – nPower Software / IntegrityWare, Inc announces the release of a new Power Shell product and technology for SOLIDWORKS. Power Shell introduces new technology to handle Shelling / Thicken cases that previously failed.

The new technology behind Power Shell solves a common problem with CAD software. For years, CAD users have struggled with Shelling. In most CAD systems, Shelling fails in many common circumstances (see table below for examples). CAD models with small radii, large shell thickness, tight corners, small features, disappearing features, narrowing areas, self intersections and other difficult geometry cause the standard shelling algorithm to fail. The new technology and new approach of Power Shell deal with these difficult geometric configurations so that it can Shell virtually any CAD model with any size of Shell thickness. Instead of spending time trying to modify your models so that the Shell tool can work, why not save valuable time and try the Power Shell tool?

Power Shell can shell out faces, or hollow out the interior of a model; it can offset inward or outward. And the Power Thicken tool can offset and thicken a surface model. These tools can handle extremely complex geometry including difficult organic shapes.

Power Shell

Power Thicken

The Power Shell and Power Thicken features are similar to other SOLIDWORKS features (like Shell and Thicken). They show up in the feature history tree and will update in a similar manner.

Power Surfacing is the premier industrial design solution for SOLIDWORKS. With its tight integration inside of SOLIDWORKS, and its rich and powerful feature set, Power Surfacing has become the tool of choice for industrial designers who want to quickly generate beautiful designs that can easily be turned into manufactured solutions.

Power Surfacing RE is the industry leading solution for reverse engineering organic meshes. It provides extremely accurate conversion of even the largest of scanned meshes; it is fast and efficient, creating light weight models out of extremely complex scans. If you need to convert complex, difficult scanned data into SOLIDWORKS geometry, Power Surfacing RE is the ideal solution.

Power Surfacing RE is built on top of the award winning Power Surfacing product. Power Surfacing is a subdivision surface (SubD) based organic modeling tool for SOLIDWORKS. Power Surfacing creates fully compatible SOLIDWORKS surfaces and solids that support all of the powerful SOLIDWORKS commands that you use on native SOLIDWORKS geometry.

nPowerSoftware is a certified SOLIDWORKS Gold Partner.

About Power Surfacing and Power Surfacing RE 

Power Surfacing and Power Surfacing RE are based on IntegrityWare’s SOLIDS++ geometric modeling Kernel, a unique, C# based, powerful hybrid modeling system that supports Solids, Surface and Polygonal modeling. nPower modeling tools provide the highest order of surfacing, solids modeling, analysis, and tessellation technologies.  In addition, Power Surfacing and Power Surfacing RE utilize the SubD-NURBS library product, which provides accurate conversion between SubD geometry and NURBS geometry.

Availability and Pricing

The new Power Shell product includes both the Power Shell and Power Thicken tools; this special tool combination can be purchased for $495 on the nPower web store (www.nPowerSoftware.com/store.htm), or through certified nPower Software resellers throughout the world. The Power Shell and Power Thicken tools are also included with the 6.1 release of both Power Surfacing and Power Surfacing RE.

Power Surfacing sells for $1,995. Power Surfacing RE sells for $2995.

About nPower Software / IntegrityWare Inc.

IntegrityWare Inc. is a company that specializes in advanced geometric modeling solutions. Founded in 1996, IntegrityWare has been providing advanced modeling solutions to a growing base of customers building industry-leading solutions. The SOLIDS++  modeling kernel is an Object-Oriented Non-Manifold Modeling kernel that provides a comprehensive suite of geometry and topology tools for Solids Modeling, Surface Modeling, Curve Modeling, Polygonal Modeling and Non-Manifold Modeling. SOLIDS++  has been in development for more than 10 years, with research and development of the most advanced modeling solutions. The SOLIDS++ kernel is currently licensed to developers needing to provide the most advanced geometric modeling functionality to their customers – such as Autodesk, MOI, Nemetschek, PTC, New River Kinematics, Tech Soft 3D, Bentley Systems, and Ford Motor Company.

1. For more information on IntegrityWare Inc, visit www.IntegrityWare.com.
2. For more information on nPower Software, visit www.nPowerSoftware.com

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT, USA, Jul 17, 2020 – Concepts NREC is expanding its network of software and engineering solutions and sales support to meet the rapidly changing needs across industries and in several regions around the world. Recent growth steps include the addition of a European sales office, a CAM software partnership in Switzerland, and sales representation in Turkey.

We are pleased to announce that Rifat Memis, European Sales Manager, is now established in Berlin, Germany. Rifat manages all sales initiatives and sales support in Europe, and can be reached directly at rmemis@conceptsnrec.com.

A new relationship with Euklid, 5-axis gear machining pioneers headquartered in Switzerland, provides Concepts NREC customers in North America and China with sales support for GearCAM, a gear tooling and milling software package for specialized gear industry techniques and optimized gear cutting strategies. Find your GearCAM sales team.

Most recently, we welcome the partnership of Kadir Ozdemir and SimuTek. Headquartered in Istanbul, SimuTek now offers Concepts NREC’s engineering services as well as our full CAE and CAM software solutions. Please direct all inquiries in Turkey to info@simutek.com.tr.

Dan Hinch, Corporate VP Sales and Marketing, notes “We are excited about expanding our team and accessibility to our customers. It’s a wide range of industries that utilize some sort of turbomachinery and we understand that having a strong network of partners working together to provide fast, integrated solutions is the best way to meet the individual and often custom needs of our growing customer base.”

About Concepts NREC

For over 60 years, Concepts NREC has been a strategic partner to many of the world’s leading turbomachinery OEMs and users. We provide the full cycle of integrated or a la carte solutions, from initial concept through design, software, manufacturing and testing, along with a full suite of online educational resources and professional development opportunities. Concepts NREC is AS:9100 and ISO 2016 certified. Let us help you push past what has been done to explore what can be done. For more information, visit https://www.conceptsnrec.com or contact info@conceptsnrec.com.

ANN ARBOR, MI, USA, Jul 17, 2020 – CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that it is offering a virtual-live Digital Transformation Short Course in the late Summer. The program, which is part of CIMdata’s world-class PLM Leadership education and training offering, will take place over two four-hour sessions on September 10 and September 17.

The “Digital Transformation Short Course” offers those participating in a digital transformation initiative the opportunity to gain a solid understanding of the critical concepts and industry-leading best practices. The successful completion of the course and the associated assessments leads to an Executive Certificate of Digital Transformation Leadership.

For many, digitalization is moving from a fuzzy concept to the newest data-driven disruption of the status quo. Those involved in a digital transformation journey need to not only understand what digitalization is but how to leverage it for business success. Attendance at this class will show how this is achievable.

For more information on CIMdata’s Digital Transformation short course, visit https://www.cimdata.com/en/education/digital-transformation-short-course.

• Together, industry leaders Siemens and SAP will deliver integrated end-to-end software solutions across product lifecycle, supply chain and asset management.
• ·    Partnership leverages expertise and technology of both companies to provide a true digital thread that helps enterprises eliminate process and information siloes, drives digitalization and delivers a comprehensive solution for the 4th industrial revolution (Industry 4.0).
• ·    SAP will offer Siemens’ Teamcenter software as the core foundation for product lifecycle collaboration and product data management. Siemens will offer SAP® Intelligent Asset Management solutions and SAP Project and Portfolio Management applications to maximize business value for customers over the entire product and service lifecycle and enable new collaborative processes between manufacturers and operators.

July 16, 2020: Siemens and SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announces a new partnership that will leverage their industry expertise and bring together their complementary software solutions for product lifecycle, supply chain and asset management so their customers can deliver new innovation and collaborative business models that will accelerate industry transformation globally. Through this agreement, both SAP and Siemens will be able to complement and integrate their respective offerings in order to offer customers the first truly integrated and enhanced solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM), supply chain, service and asset management. This will enable customers to form a true digital thread integrating all virtual models and simulations of a product or asset with real-time business information, feedback and performance data over the entire lifecycle.

“Digital transformation will be critical for the manufacturing industries to increase productivity, flexibility and accelerate innovation, so companies must come together in new ways to enable the digital enterprise,” said Klaus Helmrich, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries. “This exciting collaboration between two industry leaders is about more than just interoperability and interfaces; it is about creating a truly integrated digital thread that unites product and asset lifecycle management with the business that enables customers to optimize production of products.”

Silos between engineering and business have existed in enterprises for decades. This new partnership will help customers to break down these siloes so manufacturers, product design teams and service managers have the information needed to quickly create and manage customer-centric product and service offerings.

“As manufacturers design and deliver smarter products and assets, access to real-time business information across networks is critical to bring new and improved innovations to market faster,” said Thomas Saueressig, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE and responsible for SAP Product Engineering. “Bringing together expertise from SAP and Siemens to offer Industry 4.0-enabled business processes allows enterprises to create a digital thread for the entire product and asset lifecycle. With this end-to-end solution, teams across the business network can efficiently work together to design and deliver innovative products productively, profitably and sustainably.”

Going forward, both SAP and Siemens will be able to offer new solutions that combine their technologies in order to help companies shorten time to market by leveraging Industry 4.0-enabled data using intelligent assets and products. This will also give organizations the benefit of incorporating customer insights into product development through a comprehensive solution, from product design to service and asset management. As a first step in the partnership, SAP will offer Siemens’ Teamcenter®  software as the core foundation for product lifecycle collaboration and product data management and Siemens will offer SAP® Intelligent Asset Management and SAP Project and Portfolio Management solutions to maximize the business value for manufacturers and operators across networks. Both companies will collaborate to develop applications from an end-to-end lifecycle perspective to help customers achieve a seamless digital thread that improves overall business performance.

“Combining Siemens’ Teamcenter and SAP S/4HANA® software provides companies an end-to-end process capability from product design to decommission,” said Bob Parker, Senior VP of Industry Research at IDC. “The IT benefits of pre-integration of PLM, ERP, asset management and supply chain applications and the business benefits from having a more resilient response to changing market demand make this a compelling consideration for companies seeking a competitive advantage in the digital economy.”

For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software and the Xcelerator portfolio of software and services, visit www.sw.siemens.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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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.

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As the Experience Company powered by the Intelligent Enterprise, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP® system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers’ businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want – without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables more than 440,000 business and public customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people’s lives. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

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Update targets high-end 3D engineering software development for desktop, mobile, and cloud

Moscow, Russia: July 16, 2020 – C3D Labs is pleased to announce the release of C3D Toolkit 2020, a major update to its software development kit (SDK) used by developers of engineering software. The emphasis in this release is on advanced surface modeling, along with significant enhancements to all five modules in the toolkit:

• Geometry kernel — C3D Modeler
• Constraint manager — C3D Solver
• Polygonal mesh to B-rep converter — C3D B-Shaper
• Visualization engine — C3D Vision
• Data exchange — C3D Converter

The five modules are closely integrated with one other, and so together represent the most complete, all-in-one solution on the market today in building desktop, mobile, and cloud-based applications for 3D modeling.

After assessing the needs and requirements of software in many different industries, C3D Labs enhanced C3D Toolkit 2020 with powerful capabilities for developing innovative software products in the fields of building information modeling (BIM), virtual reality (VR), 3D scanning, and digital manufacturing — as well as for classic CAD, CAM, and CAE systems.

The 2020 release features new and improved tools for 3D surface and solid modeling, 3D sheet metal design, direct 2D editing, 3D visualization, and interoperability.

New and Improved Functions in Surface Modeling

When preparing the 2020 release of C3D Modeler geometric kernel, C3D Labs focused on complex surface modeling. This is considered the high-end of CAD functionality and paves the way for solving design tasks in the aerospace and shipbuilding industries. And so we added to the new version the following functions important in surface modeling.

New: Smooth Curve Construction. “Smooth” means that changes in curvature are smooth. Smooth curves can be built either on vertices or on tangents of reference polylines. Smooth curves are edited with a geometric determinant, which contains information about derivatives at individual points on the curve. You can achieve the desired curve shapes by changing the geometric determinant.

New: Conic Section Surface Construction. Conic section surfaces are obtained by moving a flat generatrix along a spine curve. As it moves, the generatrix changes its shape according to control functions. A conic section surface can be made to join two specified surfaces smoothly. The function allows you to build surfaces with five types of sections: conic section curves, sections in the form of NURBS, sections in the form of arbitrary splines, circular sections, and ruled sections.

New: Managing Offset Curve and Surface Distances. The distance of offset curves can now differ at either ends of the curves, and can change based on linear or cubic functions of the curves’ parameters, or remain constant (as in previous releases).

Improved: Simultaneous Extension of Multiple Boundary Faces. The boundary face extension function is improved to process multiple faces simultaneously.

New: Merge Multiple Faces. You can now replace two smoothly joining faces of a body with a single face.

Improved: Construction of Surfaces from Curve Meshes. When constructing a surface from curve mesh, multi-segment contours are available to define a network of curves. This extends the ability of building on this surface. Internal parameterization has been improved for the surfaces, making it possible to improve the smoothness of the junction between the cells of the surface in some cases.

Improved: Swept Shell Operations.  The new release adds the ability to explicitly control the movement of generation elements according to the normal of the surface on which the guide curve lie, if it is determined that such a surface can be used as a guide curve. This option generates different shapes of the sweep body. In addition, it is now possible to set simple convex bodies as the generatrix, and not just curves or faces, as in earlier releases. This allows ever more complex bodies to be created without additional construction.

Improved: Lofted Surface Domes. Sectional (or lofted) surfaces gain a feature for controlling the shape of surfaces when end sections are set as points. We called this option “the dome.” By setting the vector and coefficient, you can control the shape of the surface when approaching the point section.

Improved Functions in Solid Modeling

Improved: Expandable Surface Shell Cutting. When cutting solids with a surface, you can now control the extensions of the following surface groups: flat surfaces, rotation surfaces, and extrusion surfaces.

Other improvements. The median shell function has been improved to allow you to set a range of thicknesses, instead of working with a single value. Disconnected faces now extend towards one another until they intersect. Fillet processing is improved.

New Functions in Sheet Metal

C3D Modeler brings sheet metal modeling functions that are unique for geometric kernels.

New: Arbitrary Body Stamping. A new method in stamping sheet metal is to use arbitrary bodies, just like performing it physically with dies and punches. The thickness of the stamped section can be different from that of the sheet.

Coming soon: Flanges Along Curved Edges. Flanges can be added to single curved edge or even to a chain of several tangent edges. Curved edges flange can, of course, be flattened and bent again with the unfold and fold tools.

Improved Functions in Mesh to B-rep Conversion

First released in 2019, C3D B-Shaper kept the spotlight throughout the year. This new module transforms heavy polygonal meshes into optimal B-rep solids for editing and visualization in 3D software. Our B-Shaper is useful in the areas of reverse engineering, BIM, VR, and topology optimization. Over the last year, we kept testing its algorithms with thousands of incoming models to improve on the high-quality of conversion results.

Improved. In B-Shaper 2020, we simplified the mode of B-rep construction. If surface-surface intersections fail, then boundary edges are constructed, which is acceptable for visualizations.

New Function in Direct 2D Editing

New: Dynamic Transformations. In previous releases, C3D Solver’s cursor dragging allowed you to move geometric objects.​ In C3D Solver 2020, we extended dragging to transformations, such as translation (moving), rotation, and scaling, and implemented dragging best practices. For instance, before a transformation is attempted, Solver finds and fixes the largest number of geometric objects possible. It works for both a single transformation and for serial transformations (animation mode) in the same way and with the same efficiency.

Improved Functions in Interoperability

Improved: JT Support. The JT format is the most modern one on the market and so it is greatly valued by developers of 3D engineering applications. C3D Converter 2020 now reads the attributes of parts from JT by accessing the metadata of the file, and then transferring the model’s integral properties (volume, surface area, density, mass) to STEP and JT formats.

Improved: Mesh Translation. In C3D and JT, meshes are arranged differently from each other, and so C3D Converter in earlier releases quickly wrote only those meshes that lacked topology. After a deep rewrite of the mesh transformation algorithm, the 2020 release quickly exports meshes with topology to JT.

Improved: PMI Handling. C3D Converter 2020 now reads embedded fonts in JT to correctly display full PMI (product manufacturing information). As the C3D format itself does not support fonts, transferring PMI data through the C3D format is performed by marking PMI geometric objects with special attributes and then providing the ability to substitute fonts for the STEP format. This capability will be enhanced in future releases.

New and Improved Functions in 3D Visualization

C3D Vision is aimed at the precise visualization of geometric construction and high performance when working with big models, and so it has been developed especially for use in 3D engineering applications.

New: Interactive Tools. The 2020 release introduces a new group of interactive tools called “manipulators.” The basic manipulator is the SceneWidget, which is used as part of the object editing processes.

Among the other manipulators we developed, there are these:

• Hot-point widget with specific representations and behaviors
• Move manipulators that move along a specified axis
• Rotation manipulators that rotate about axes

Improved: Tool Selection. The tool for selecting geometric objects with a frame (window) is improved by letting users select either unifying or cutting frames, and their combinations – set by specifying the frame from left to right or from right to left.

Improved: Zooming. A new zooming feature available in C3D Vision is zooming by a frame.

Availability and Pricing

The 2020 edition of C3D Toolkit is available now.

The entire toolkit, as well as individual components, is available for testing in your programming environment at no charge. For details, see https://c3dlabs.com/en/evaluation/.

About C3D Labs

C3D Labs specializes in the technology-intensive market of software development toolkits. The company was founded in 2012 by ASCON Group, a well-known CAD and PLM developer in Russia, which began development of the C3D geometric modeling kernel in 1995. C3D Labs today provides the C3D Toolkit to engineering software for constructing and editing precise 3D models. As a tool for software developers, C3D Toolkit is the only package to incorporate five modules critical to CAD: 2D/3D modeling, 2D/3D constraint solving, mesh to b-rep conversion, 3D visualization, and data exchange.

Contact Info

C3D Labs

email: info@c3dlabs.com

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PITTSBURGH, PA, USA, Jul 16, 2020 – The newly launched Ansys 2020 R2 brings enhanced solving and collaboration capabilities, key for enabling globally distributed teams to further organization-wide innovation. Ansys’ (NASDAQ: ANSS) newly updated advanced digital engineering tools help engineering teams develop new products, sustain business continuity, improve productivity and win the race to market.

BELLEVUE, WA, USA, Jul 16, 2020 –  Tecplot, Inc. has announced the general availability of Tecplot 360 2020 Release 1.

Even Vector Spacing in Tecplot 360 2020 R1

Tecplot 360 2020 R1 Release Highlights:

Tecplot 360 2020 R1 natively supports high-resolution monitors. The software has been updated to the Qt 5 GUI (graphical user interface) toolkit, which has support for retina displays and 4K monitors. Mac users will be especially happy about this!

Linux users exporting images in batch mode can take advantage of hardware-accelerated graphics, yielding faster image export. A 4.6x speedup was seen in hardware-rendering tests. Rendering speed when using software-rendering saw a 2.3x speedup due to a newer version of the Mesa software rendering library.

Understanding surface flow is now much easier. Tecplot 360 2020 R1 will auto-detect a no-slip surface (a surface with zero velocities). And it will query the neighboring volume data for velocities before drawing the surface restricted streamtraces.

Vectors can be distributed evenly, making the flow easier to understand. This is especially helpful when grids are adaptive or irregular. Instead of displaying a vector at each node (too dense) or skipping nodes (still too dense in some areas and too sparse in others), vectors can have an even distribution which makes the flow much easier to see and understand.

“This release represents the most significant change to our graphical user interface (GUI) architecture in six years. The addition of native support for high-resolution monitors gives Mac users, and those with retina displays and 4k monitors a whole new meaning to visualizing their results,” says Product Manager Scott Fowler.

To view all Tecplot 360 2020 Release 1 updates, click here.

Download Tecplot 360

Tecplot 360 2020 Release 1 is available for download as Free Trial Software, or for customers through the MyTecplot Customer Portal.

About Tecplot 360

Tecplot 360 is a suite of CFD visualization and analysis tools that can handle large data sets, automate workflows, and visualize parametric results. Three powerful modules in this one tool include:

1. SZL Server, a client-server module for accessing data remotely.
2. PyTecplot, a Python API for automating workflows.
3. Tecplot Chorus is not included in this release, but it will be reintroduced in our next release.

Integrated XY, 2D and 3D plotting speeds data analysis and increases productivity. Easy-to-use, fast and memory efficient, Tecplot 360 produces visually powerful output to help engineers and scientists communicate CFD, other simulation and test data results to clients and stakeholders.

The Tecplot 360 2020 R1 suite of tools are available for customers on TecPLUS maintenance service and anyone who downloads a free trial of the software.

Special pricing is available for Academic users upon request, see Tecplot for Academics.

About Tecplot, Inc.

Tecplot, an operating company of Toronto-based Constellation Software, Inc. (CSI), is the leading independent developer of visualization and analysis software for engineers and scientists. CSI is a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:CSU). CSI acquires, manages, and builds software businesses that provide mission-critical solutions in specific vertical markets.

Tecplot visualization and analysis software allows customers using desktop computers and laptops to quickly analyze and understand (local or remote) information hidden in complex data and communicate their results to others via professional images and animations. The company’s products are used by more than 47,000 technical professionals around the world.

EXTON, PA, USA, Jul 16, 2020 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, announced that its Acceleration Fund has launched The Cohesive Companies, a wholly owned subsidiary, anchored by the acquisition of Atlanta-based Cohesive Solutions. The new business venture will include the services team from Bentley’s AssetWise business and the offerings of Bentley, Cohesive, and IBM’s Maximo to support the digital transformation of infrastructure owner-operators. The Cohesive Companies will act as a digital integrator to help infrastructure asset owners upgrade their enterprise environments to leverage digital twins—digital representations and simulations of a physical asset, synchronizing digital context (current existing conditions), digital components (engineering content), and digital chronology (lifecycle change management). Infrastructure digital twins can empower asset operators with immersive visualization and analytics visibility to predict and optimize performance.

Cohesive Solutions is the largest North American reseller of IBM’s Maximo enterprise asset management (EAM) software. With a successful track record of delivering integrated EAM solutions for owner-operators in utilities, energy, and facilities sectors, Cohesive Solutions’ domain expertise and consulting capabilities can now be extended to advance EAM to infrastructure digital twins.

As digital integrators for infrastructure asset performance, The Cohesive Companies’ unique charter is the convergence, through digital twin cloud services, of digital engineering models (ET), with IT and OT, for infrastructure and facilities assets. Asset performance digital twins can provide continuous operational insights, enhanced through machine learning, for reliability, efficiency, compliance, safety, resilience and decision support to adaptively sustain and advance fitness for purpose.

Noah Eckhouse, SVP Bentley Systems, and CEO, The Cohesive Companies, said, “Infrastructure asset owners know their success in going digital is based on both technology as well as experienced and dedicated resources for change management. I’m excited to fully meet the opportunity for asset performance digital twins with Bentley Acceleration Fund’s substantial commitment to this digital integrator venture. Building on Cohesive Solutions’ 25-year history while launching Cohesive Asset Performance with a large team of seasoned Bentley AssetWise consultants, The Cohesive Companies have hit the ground running, ready to drive change and deliver positive outcomes!”

George Lowry, President, Cohesive Solutions, said, “The Bentley Acceleration Fund’s digital integrator initiative for advancing infrastructure—by combining world-class software with best practices consulting, in going digital for asset performance—completes the reach of our mission, from the start, at Cohesive Solutions. Our founders are delighted to now extend our scope, as a long-standing IBM Business Partner, to include advancing Maximo with Bentley’s digital twin cloud services.”

Pierre de Wet, GM and VP, Cohesive Asset Performance, said, “The formation of The Cohesive Companies, as digital integrators, created an opportunity to bring my global team of AssetWise services professionals into the mix, with a specific focus on asset information, performance, reliability, and analytics. I’m excited to join Noah and George to broaden our digital integrator capabilities and to offer a deeper range of services for AssetWise.”

Terrence O’Hanlon, Founder and Chairman, Reliabilityweb.com and producer of MaximoWorld, said, “Cohesive Solutions builds upon a long history of success and expertise around IBM Maximo Enterprise Asset Management implementations, with a track record of improving asset performance. The combined solutions that will now be uniquely offered by The Cohesive Companies—adding AssetWise and digital twin cloud services to Maximo EAM expertise—hit it out of the park for owner-operators to realize critical organizational objectives!”

About The Cohesive Companies

A digital integrator investment of Bentley Systems’ Acceleration Fund, The Cohesive Companies provide consulting and cloud services to help infrastructure asset owner-operators advance their EAM and ALIM environments to infrastructure asset performance digital twins. Combining domain expertise in enterprise asset management (EAM) and asset lifecycle information (ALIM), The Cohesive Companies’ unique charter is the convergence, through digital twin cloud services, of digital engineering models (ET), with IT and OT, for infrastructure and facilities assets. The Cohesive Companies comprise Cohesive Solutions (the largest North American reseller of IBM’s Maximo EAM software) and Cohesive Asset Performance. www.cohesivecompanies.com

About Bentley Systems’ Acceleration Fund

Bentley Systems’ Acceleration Fund was founded in 2020 to invest in new and incremental participants in open ecosystems to advance infrastructure digital twins. The Bentley Systems Acceleration Fund is chartered to accelerate the creation and curation of digital twins, and to foster technologies and innovations so enabled, by nurturing new ventures, making minority investments, and acquiring and expanding digital integrators. Investments to date include Digital Water Works, Digital Construction Works, Virtuosity, and The Cohesive Companies. Chief Acceleration Officer Santanu Das welcomes queries from potential ecosystem participants at www.bentleyaccelerationfund.com.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a leading global provider of software solutions to engineers, architects, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators for the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley’s MicroStation-based engineering and BIM applications, and its digital twin cloud services, advance the project delivery (ProjectWise) and the asset performance (AssetWise) of transportation and other public works, utilities, industrial and resources plants, and commercial and institutional facilities.

Bentley Systems employs more than 3,500 colleagues and generates annual revenues of more than $700 million in 172 countries. From inception in 1984, the company has remained majority-owned by its five founding Bentley brothers. www.bentley.com.