LAKE MARY, FL, USA, Jul 10, 2020 – FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), the global leader for 3D Metrology, AEC, and Public Safety Analytics, announced the release of its most portable and advanced handheld 3D forensic scanner: Freestyle 2. Ideal for investigators and re-constructionists who require fast and complete scene documentation, Freestyle 2 provides immediate real-time visualizations with photorealistic reality capture capabilities. The result is unmatched confidence that what is captured is accurate while offering unparalleled access to even the most confined spaces.

Versatile and lightweight, Freestyle 2 can scan distances ranging from 0.4m to 10m or from small discrete objects at a crime scene investigation to entire vehicles (interior and exterior) as well as interior scenes. This is all made possible by the scanner’s infrared laser, which projects a 100 x 100 grid of invisible dots onto the target and is interpreted by two cameras built into the device’s T-shaped extremities. When used in conjunction with the color capture camera, all work in concert to create photorealistic images in real time. Combined with a proprietary tracking engine that enables users to make natural movements while scanning, the handheld device is easy to use even for untrained operators.

“We believe Freestyle 2 is the most intuitive, portable and easy-to-use handheld scanner on the market today,” said David Dustin, FARO’s Director of Industry Solutions, Public Safety. “This compact device is a game changer for the public safety arena given its remarkable degree of photorealism and data capture.”

Designed for normally illuminated interiors and outdoor spaces (10,000-45,000 lux) including overcast conditions, Freestyle 2 is also capable of generating usable data even in complete darkness. Thus, documenting scenes has never been easier. In addition, the device’s one-hand operation leaves the operator’s other hand free to open doors, balance or brace themselves against objects for a better, more stable capturing angle, and provides the ultimate on-scene flexibility to reach in, under, and around objects. Plus, haptic feedback alerts the operator when adjustments are required to the user’s scanning technique to ensure the highest quality data is always being captured.

As a fully self-contained solution, with Freestyle 2 there is no bulky computer to worry about, no tablet to carry, no annual calibration, and no long cables to trip over or interfere with your shot. Eliminating these restrictions provides for easier completion of white balance calculations as well as on-site compensation.  The device also features a training mode that generates a live display of data capture quality along with integrated training videos.

“At a time when law enforcement and other agencies are understaffed and under significant time pressure, investigators and re-constructionists around the world stand to gain significant benefit from our innovative and intuitive Freestyle 2,” added Dr. Michael Carris, FARO’s VP of Product Marketing.

For more information about FARO visit: www.faro.com.

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TROY, MI, USA, Jul 10, 2020 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high-performance computing (HPC), and data analytics, is pleased to announce the addition of six new products to the Altair Partner Alliance (APA). The new additions extend the simulation and design capabilities of Altair’s customers towards finite-element analysis (FEA) for the marine industry, paint shop processes in the automotive industry, bolted joint analysis, electromagnetics, structural simulation, and the simulation of slender composite structures. With these additions, Altair customers will be able to further increase the efficiency of their development processes in various industries.

Alsim PAINT SHOP delivers full control over the paint shop process.

Only available through Altair, the APA provides access to a broad spectrum of complementary software products available through its licensing model at no additional cost. The APA’s continually expanding list of partner software, across a broad range of disciplines, serves the needs of thousands of companies ranging from automotive, aerospace, and defense to consumer products, biomedical and heavy equipment.

The recent additions to the APA include:

1. Alsim PAINT SHOP by Engineering Software Steyr (ESS), a toolbox delivering a scalable suite of products that cover the whole paint shop process from pre-treatment to baking, delivering full control over the most expensive process in automotive manufacturing.
2. Alsim MERGE by Engineering Software Steyr (ESS), processes complex three-dimensional (3D) input data in a variety of formats and provides users with simulation-ready surface meshes. Key benefits include one-click data import and fast runtimes with no requirement for manual intervention.
3. µWave Wizard by Mician, a software suite offering synthesis and optimization tools with built-in hybrid solvers that complement Altair’s electromagnetic solutions. The solvers subdivide complex structures into components, which are subsequently simulated individually. Instead of using the conventional approach of drawing a complex structure entirely in 3D, elements can be cascaded with predefined library elements.
4. MAESTRO by MAESTRO Marine, a structural design, analysis, and evaluation software fully dedicated to the specific needs of the shipbuilding and marine industries. The software includes graphic modeler MAESTRO Basic, MAESTRO Hydrodynamic Loading and Analysis, and MAESTRO Structural Optimization to support reviewing naval architecture and marine engineering.
5. Cobra by Cetim, widely used in the gas, petroleum, agriculture and construction industries to address complex bolted and screwed joints with critical safety and security issues. The software contains unique experience in bolted-joint analysis, review, verification, failure analysis, and dimensioning, as well as analyzing dynamic assemblies of transportation vehicles.
6. VABS by AnalySwift, a powerful tool for helicopter and wind turbine rotor blades that is able to simulate slender composite structures, such as propellers, landing gear, or entire wing sections and is directly integrated with Altair’s environment for pre-processing and Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The cross-sectional analysis tool can calculate ply-level details with the accuracy of 3D FEA in a matter of seconds and reduce an original 3D slender solid into a simple engineering beam model.

“I am thrilled to welcome these five partners, all leaders in their respective fields, to the APA,” said Stephanie Buckner, senior vice president, corporate development at Altair. “The APA seeks strong and differentiated technologies that cover diverse domains and a vast array of industries to meet the specialized needs of our customers. Through the careful effort of identifying, evaluating, and offering the best software applications to our customers, more than 60 percent of our customers who access APA products use multiple technologies.”

As the APA continues to grow, the program’s success strengthens Altair’s presence in the market. The expansion of the APA is in line with Altair’s commitment to expand customers’ exposure to the tools they need for successful design and simulation through a single unified environment and licensing. For more information, please visit www.altair.com/apa.

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.

EXTON, PA, USA, Jul 10, 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 invested in launching Virtuosity, a Bentley company. Virtuosity exclusively offers Virtuoso Subscriptions that bundle — with a Bentley infrastructure modeling, simulation, or construction application — the virtually delivered services of Virtuosity’s experts to accelerate and advance the success of an infrastructure practitioner.

Virtuoso Subscriptions are now available, at virtuosity.com, for Bentley applications including MicroStation, OpenBridge, OpenBuildings, OpenFlows, OpenRail, OpenRoads, OpenSite, OpenTower, OpenWindPower, AutoPIPE, ContextCapture, LEGION, MOSES, PLAXIS, RAM, SACS, SoilVision, STAAD and SYNCHRO, and Bentley’siTwin Design Reviewcloud service. Virtuosity’s expert services, accessible through Virtuoso Subscription “keys,” include a range of training and one-to-one mentoring activities, and on-demand learning and content, increasingly integrated during actual application usage.

Allan Murphy, Virtuosity CEO, said, “The world’s infrastructure professionals have all gained a new appreciation for what can be achieved through online collaboration. We think this is the perfect time to inaugurate our commercial innovation: a virtuoso subscription that enhances the functionality of a software application through intrinsic assistance from subject matter experts. We’re marshalling and virtualizing our domain expertise to help every infrastructure practitioner perform with the confidence of a virtuoso!”

Werner Felber, Managing Partner, Boley Geotechnick GmbH, Beratende Ingenieure, said, “With Virtuoso Subscriptions, professionals across our international teams can support projects more effectively. Virtuosity’s experts will help keep us current in going digital by constantly leveraging what’s new in Bentley’s applications to ensure our competitiveness in the market and the best results for our customers.”

About Virtuosity, a Bentley Company

Virtuosity is the exclusive global provider of Virtuoso Subscriptions for Bentley Systems’ infrastructure modeling, simulation, and construction applications. Every Virtuoso Subscription—procured through the ecommerce site virtuosity.com—uniquely bundles, with a Bentley software application, virtually delivered services of Virtuosity’s experts to accelerate and advance the success of an infrastructure practitioner.

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.

CAMBRIDGE, UK, Jul 10, 2020 – Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Cambridge, UK-based UltraSoC Technologies Ltd., a provider of instrumentation and analytics solutions that put intelligent monitoring, cybersecurity and functional safety capabilities into the core hardware of system-on-chip (SoC). Siemens plans to integrate UltraSoC’s technology into the Xcelerator portfolio as part of Mentor’s Tessent software product suite. The addition of UltraSoC to Siemens enables a unified data-driven infrastructure that can enhance product quality, safety and cybersecurity, and the creation of a comprehensive solution to help semiconductor industry customers overcome key pain points including manufacturing defects, software and hardware bugs, device early-failure and wear-out, functional safety, and malicious attacks.

The combination of Siemens and UltraSoC technology can benefit the entire semiconductor product lifecycle, including structural, electrical, and functional capabilities of SoCs.

“Siemens’ acquisition of UltraSoC means that for the first time our customers can access not just design-for-test, but a comprehensive ‘Design for Lifecycle Management’ solution for system-on-chips, including functional safety, security and optimization,” says Brady Benware, Tessent Vice President and General Manager, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “By utilizing design augmentation to detect, mitigate and eliminate risks throughout the SoC lifecycle, customers can radically improve time-to-revenue, product quality & safety, and profitability. UltraSoC has a fast-growing business and impressive customer list and, as part of Siemens, can complement Tessent to create a truly unique offering in the market.”

UltraSoC is a pioneer of embedding monitoring hardware into complex SoCs to enable “fab-to-field” analytics capabilities designed to accelerate silicon bring-up, optimize product performance, and confirm that devices are operating “as designed” for functional safety and cybersecurity purposes. Tessent is a market leader in SoC design-for-test (DFT) solutions, and has established strengths in the field of automotive functional safety via its Tessent Safety Ecosystem. These two highly complementary offerings are the foundation of a complete package of solutions, encompassing semiconductor design and production, functional safety, cybersecurity, and functional optimization of products in the field.

The combination of Siemens and UltraSoC technology can benefit the entire semiconductor product lifecycle, including structural, electrical, and functional capabilities of SoCs. It also supports Siemens’ comprehensive digital twin with UltraSoC providing monitoring of the real device.

“This acquisition accelerates UltraSoC’s vision at a much larger scale with the incredible team, assets, industry know-how and footprint of Siemens,” said Rupert Baines, CEO, UltraSoC. “Being part of one of the world’s foremost technology companies will allow UltraSoC to better serve our customers by accelerating R&D, leveraging a much larger pool of go-to-market resources, and an enormous global infrastructure. It has been clear since our initial meeting that UltraSoC and Siemens share a vision on how technology businesses can transform their operations end-to-end, from design conception to field deployment and we are excited to join the community.”

UltraSoC‘s products are widely used in the automotive, high-performance computing, storage and semiconductor industries. The company was recently selected as a participant in the DARPA AISS (Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon) program; and is a member of the Secure-CAV consortium, an ambitious collaborative project that aims to improve the safety and security of tomorrow’s connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Siemens’ acquisition of UltraSoC is due to close in the fourth quarter of Siemens’ fiscal year 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

About Siemens Digital Industries Software

Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing and electronics design meet tomorrow. The Xcelerator portfolio helps companies of all sizes create and leverage digital twins that provide organizations with new insights, opportunities and levels of automation to drive innovation. For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services, visit www.sw.siemens.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Siemens Digital Industries Software – Where today meets tomorrow.

About Siemens Digital Industries

Siemens Digital Industries (DI) is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization. Closely collaborating with partners and customers, DI drives the digital transformation in the process and discrete industries. With its Digital Enterprise portfolio, DI provides companies of all sizes with an end-to-end set of products, solutions and services to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain. Optimized for the specific needs of each industry, DI’s unique portfolio supports customers to achieve greater productivity and flexibility. DI is constantly adding innovations to its portfolio to integrate cutting-edge future technologies. Siemens Digital Industries has its global headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and has around 76,000 employees internationally.

About Siemens AG

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for more than 170 years. The company is active around the globe, focusing on the areas of power generation and distribution, intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems, and automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries. Through the separately managed company Siemens Mobility, a leading supplier of smart mobility solutions for rail and road transport, Siemens is shaping the world market for passenger and freight services. Due to its majority stakes in the publicly listed companies Siemens Healthineers AG and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Siemens is also a world-leading supplier of medical technology and digital healthcare services as well as environmentally friendly solutions for onshore and offshore wind power generation. In fiscal 2019, which ended on September 30, 2019, Siemens generated revenue of €86.8 billion and net income of €5.6 billion. At the end of September 2019, the company had around 385,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

LEVIS, QC, Canada, Jul 10, 2020 – Creaform, the worldwide leader in portable and automated 3D measurement solutions, announced that the Go!SCAN 3D has been added to the company’s lineup of non-destructive testing (NDT) technologies for the oil and gas industry.

“The Go!SCAN 3D white light scanner requires less preparation time, so technicians can carry out inspections on a pipe faster, reducing time spent in the ditch. It is really the ideal surface inspection tool for service companies looking for measurement speed and affordability. The Go!SCAN 3D really complements Creaform’s NDT offering, which already included the well-known HandySCAN 3D handheld scanner. The HandySCAN 3D remains the go-to solution for NDT integrity teams looking for high resolution, optimal accuracy, or 3D scanning on large surface areas,” said Jérôme-Alexandre Lavoie, Product Manager at Creaform. “Both 3D scanners are equally viable solutions for pipeline inspection teams but deliver different benefits. Compared to traditional methods, such as a pit gauge, our 3D scanners offer unmatched accuracy, repeatability, and on-site reporting.”

The Go!SCAN 3D offers the same performances of the previous generation of HandySCAN 3D — but enables faster field deployment. In addition, Creaform has released a new version of its NDT software, Pipecheck 6.0. Pipecheck 6.0 features an additional module for wrinkle analysis. This module will enable technicians to identify and assess wrinkles on pipelines, which can greatly impact the long-term integrity of pipes and drive maintenance costs up.

“NDT and NDE service companies as well as pipeline owners can now benefit from a module that, when used with a 3D scanner, improves the reliability of assessing wrinkles on energy pipes,” added Mr. Lavoie. “Quality data regarding wrinkles can be captured faster, which inevitably leads to engineering teams making better decisions. This wrinkle analysis module will ultimately help save on overconservative maintenance costs as well as carry out more effective preventative maintenances and repairs.”

Join us for our webinar on September 23 and get the chance to ask an expert about Pipecheck´s Newest Features for Asset Integrity Assessment.

About Creaform

Creaform develops, manufactures, and sells 3D portable and automated measurement technologies and specializes in engineering services. The company offers innovative solutions for applications such as 3D scanning, reverse engineering, quality control, non-destructive testing, product development, and numerical simulation (FEA/CFD). Its products and services cater to a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, consumer products, heavy industries, healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, power generation, research and education.

With headquarters and manufacturing operations in Lévis, Québec, Creaform operates innovation centers in Lévis as well as Grenoble, France, with direct sales operations in Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Singapore. Creaform is part of AMETEK Ultra Precision Technologies, a division of AMETEK Inc., which a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, with annual sales of approximately $5 billion. For more information, visit https://www.creaform3d.com.

MANCHESTER, NH, USA, Jul 9, 2020 – Newforma, provider of Project Information Management (PIM) software for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners (AECO) worldwide, announces Newforma Project Center v12.4 is generally available. This release includes the highly anticipated integration with Autodesk BIM 360, the latest updates for integrations with Autodesk Revit 2021, AutoCAD 2021, and Navisworks 2021, and more.

“As project information continues to become fractured across cloud services and file storage locations, it’s getting increasingly hard to manage. Newforma Project Center remains unique with its powerful search and centralized dashboard, which helps you get the information you need regardless of where it’s stored,” said Aaron Kivett, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Newforma. “Adding integration with BIM 360 strengthens Project Center’s ability to bring people, data, and processes together to help design professionals deliver projects brilliantly.”

Project Center v12.4 Release Highlights 

Autodesk Integration Updates

Annual updates for integrations with Autodesk Revit 2021, AutoCAD 2021, and Navisworks 2021.

Autodesk BIM 360 – Early Adopter
The integration with BIM 360 further streamlines collaboration for Newforma customers, providing increased flexibility to view, search, and manage their BIM 360 files directly within Newforma Project Center. Other features of the new BIM 360 integration include the ability to:

1. Connect one, or more BIM 360 folders to a Newforma Project
2. Upload, view, download, edit, and delete files hosted on BIM 360 from within Project Center
3. Transfer, share, archive, and create relationships to files hosted on BIM 360
4. Search the contents of files hosted on BIM 360
5. Quickly view files, including Autodesk Revit models, hosted on BIM 360 using the Forge Viewer

New Restricted User Role

While most internal users need access to all projects within a firm, some circumstances require restricted access to projects. The new role provides flexibility to restrict project visibility only to projects that they are team members on.

About Newforma

Newforma’s industry-leading Project Information Management (PIM) software streamlines communication, manages files, and simplifies construction administration for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners. Our software will reduce the amount of time spent on administrative tasks, streamline project workflows, and power real-time collaboration for project teams. Newforma software has more than 122,000 users in more than 1,200 firms. For more information, visit www.newforma.com.

ANDOVER, MA, USA, Jul 8, 2020 – Aras, the only resilient platform provider for digital industrial applications, today announced the release of a new application, Digital Twin Core, adding to the set of Aras low-code capabilities for creating and managing digital twins. The Aras Digital Twin Core application provides powerful new functionality for defining the digital twin configuration – the virtual representation of a specific physical asset or unique product instance. This provides the necessary context to interpret and analyze Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data for complicated scenarios such as predictive maintenance, performance optimization, over-the-air software updates and others.

Current digital twin initiatives focus on maintenance effectiveness, recalls, closed-loop quality, product innovation, and production throughput. Problems occur during analysis due to a lack of context or inaccuracies about that asset or product.

“As a real-world asset is maintained, updated and retrofitted, companies need the ability to easily reflect the real-time accurate status of the digital twin configuration,” said Peter Schroer, Founder and CEO of Aras. “Without an accurate configuration twin, companies risk analysis misinterpretations that lead to incorrect actions, safety issues and liability scenarios.”

Aras Digital Twin Core creates and manages the exact digital representation of an individual physical asset and its changes over time. This digital twin configuration mirrors a specific unit in operation such as an individual vehicle by VIN or aircraft by tail number. Digital Twin Core provides a low-code editor for modeling, adapting and extending highly sophisticated configuration twin representations. When combined with Aras 3D dynamic product navigation and graph views users gain advanced visualization to see digital twin relationships throughout the product structure.

Related Aras functionality further extends Digital Twin Core capabilities for complex scenarios. Connectors to existing systems – such as ERP, PDM, CAD and others – provide connectivity to derive and persist configuration twin data from other sources and ensure digital thread traceability across the lifecycle. Open APIs enable connections with IoT cloud services and data lakes to bring together configuration twins with time series sensor data for analysis. Then, simulation management with Aras enables the combination of configuration twins in simulations with real world loading data for insights into wear & tear, stress impacts, and other effects that result from ongoing operation of the asset.

“As manufacturers continue to digitally transform and product, supply chain, and operation complexity increases, manufacturers and owner operators are using digital twins to optimize product and asset quality and improve the customer experience. The ability to manage an assets configuration as it changes overtime is a foundational element to an effective digital twin strategy,” said Jeff Hojlo, Program Director of Product Innovation at IDC.

About Aras

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