SOUTH FLORIDA, FL, USA, Apr 20, 2020 – Nano Dimension Ltd. (Nasdaq, TASE: NNDM), a leading Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME)/PE (Printed Electronics) provider, announced today the recruitment of AMTEST GROUP as the new agent for enhancing the Company’s access to the Eastern European market.

AMTEST GROUP is the market leader in Electronic Assembly Solutions and the fastest expanding equipment and consumable distributor covering Central and Eastern Europe. With successful operations established in eight countries – the Group works as “one company, with one culture and one goal – delivering excellence to its electronic assembly clients. This objective is supported with over 50 personnel and three “centers of excellence” facilities working continuously on next generation process challenges and research and development.

“I am sure that additively manufactured electronics will grow in the next years, and Nano Dimension is at the vanguard of the technology. AMTEST GROUP is excited to team up with the world leading 3D-printing electronics company and we are looking forward to bringing this technology to the markets in Eastern Europe,” said Andy Taylor, Managing Partner of AMTEST GROUP.

“We are excited to collaborate with AMTEST GROUP, a veteran of the electronics industry, that is as convinced as we are about the potential of the additively manufactured Electronics technology.” Said Valentin Storz, GM of Nano Dimension Europe. “With this Agreement we increase our accessibility to the manufacturing and industrial electronics markets in Eastern Europe, while maintaining our direct contact with customers.”

About AMTEST GROUP

AMTEST GROUP is the market leader in Electronic Assembly Solutions (SMT) and the fastest expanding equipment and consumable distributor covering Central and Eastern Europe with offices in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Established in London, 1973 AMTEST Group now consists of over 50 personnel (which includes 17 process engineers) all working within our territories and has become ISO 9000-2008 certified – delivering excellence throughout the Group territories. For more information, please visit www.amtest-group.com

About Nano Dimension

Nano Dimension (Nasdaq, TASE: NNDM) is a provider of intelligent machines for the fabrication of Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME). High fidelity active electronic and electromechanical subassemblies are integral enablers of autonomous intelligent drones, cars, satellites, smartphones, and in vivo medical devices. They necessitate iterative development, IP safety, fast time-to-market and device performance gains, thereby mandating AME for in-house, rapid prototyping and production. Nano Dimension machines serve cross-industry needs by depositing proprietary consumable conductive and dielectric materials simultaneously, while concurrently integrating in-situ capacitors, antennas, coils, transformers and electromechanical components, to function at unprecedented performance. Nano Dimension bridges the gap between PCB and semiconductor integrated circuits. A revolution at the click of a button: From CAD to a functional high-performance AME device in hours, solely at the cost of the consumable materials.

For more information, please visit www.nano-di.com.

SOUTH FLORIDA, FL, USA, Apr 20, 2020 – Nano Dimension Ltd. (Nasdaq, TASE: NNDM), a leading Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) / Printed Electronics (PE) provider, announced today that NaNoS, its fabrication facility for converting customers’ designs to proof-of-concepts, prototypes and short production runs of High-Performance Electronic Designs (Hi-PEDs) is fully operational in Nano Dimension’s USA HQ in South Florida. The Company is expanding similar NaNoS operations for APAC in Hong Kong and for Europe in Israel.

Shortening supply chain emerges as an urgent need of the electronic industry, coming into focus as a result of the current events. Overnight fabrication capability will now be available for North American customers. NaNoS only uses AME and PE, and accordingly it will be a unique service for the needs of a wide range of Hi-PEDs.

One of NaNoS’s first successful orders was prototyping PCBs, used for new breathing-support-ventilators in order to answer the present crisis, demanding fast response and short supply chain. Nano Dimension has successfully printed, overnight, fully functional PCBs for this purpose.

Simultaneously, direct sales, customer care, application engineering support, technical support and accounts-management will be performed by Nano Dimension teams from the new HQ in South Florida. The direct sales channel represents Nano Dimension’s goal to be in interactive ongoing contact with prospects and customers.

“Supporting DragonFly LDM machines’ sales and the new NaNoS is our transition to direct sales channel strategy, now in execution in cooperation with only selected high-quality resellers.  It is aimed to enable us to be swifter in providing optimal solutions for specific needs of prospects and customers for printed electronics,” said Amit Dror, co-Founder and Chief Customer Success Officer of Nano Dimension. “We intend to leverage the recent trends, following the recent events, leading to shortening the supply chains and bringing back production to the United States and Europe. Our DragonFly LDM digital prototyping-fabrication machines are a fast-to-market, ecologically friendly and economically efficient solution to complement or replace low-cost high-volume manufacturers in Asia. The ability to protect IP and electronic designs in-house and economically develop high-mix-low volume production capabilities in a short-supply-chain are an important added value proposition for customers wishing not to be exposed and dependent.”

About Nano Dimension

Nano Dimension (Nasdaq, TASE: NNDM) is a provider of intelligent machines for the fabrication of Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME). High fidelity active electronic and electromechanical subassemblies are integral enablers of autonomous intelligent drones, cars, satellites, smartphones, and in vivo medical devices. They necessitate iterative development, IP safety, fast time-to-market and device performance gains, thereby mandating AME for in-house, rapid prototyping and production. Nano Dimension machines serve cross-industry needs by depositing proprietary consumable conductive and dielectric materials simultaneously, while concurrently integrating in-situ capacitors, antennas, coils, transformers and electromechanical components, to function at unprecedented performance. Nano Dimension bridges the gap between PCB and semiconductor integrated circuits. A revolution at the click of a button: From CAD to a functional high-performance AME device in hours, solely at the cost of the consumable materials.

For more information, please visit www.nano-di.com.

PORTLAND, OR, USA, Apr 17, 2020 – Innovyze has announced Rick Gruenhagen as Chief Technology Officer. Gruenhagen assumes a key role on the executive team reporting to CEO Colby Manwaring. He will oversee the company’s overall product direction and development and will lead the engineering, product and infrastructure teams.

Gruenhagen brings over 20 years of experience in organizational leadership and innovative software engineering to his new role. Gruenhagen has served as CTO for Spireon where he led the development of their connected vehicle SaaS and hardware platforms.  Preceding Spireon, Rick served as Vice President of Software Engineering at Impinj, where he built the end-to-end technology platform that propelled the company into a successful Initial Public Offering.

Gruenhagen served in the United States Navy as a Lieutenant Commander and Naval Flight Officer. He held senior software engineering and development roles at some of the most prominent tech organizations in the world, including America Online, PayPal, Amazon, and Microsoft.

“I am thrilled to have Rick join us at Innovyze,” said Colby Manwaring, CEO of Innovyze. “Rick brings diverse and vast technology expertise to the CTO position based on key leadership roles at PayPal, Amazon, and Microsoft.  He has a proven track record of building SaaS-based platforms that effectively leverage Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. We are fortunate to have him join our organization.”

“I couldn’t be more excited to join the Innovyze, the leader in water system intelligence,” said Gruenhagen. “The strength of Innovyze’s existing products and its industry-leading computational models initially drew my interest. With the addition of Emagin AI to our technical portfolio, some of the most exciting work is yet to come.  It’s an honor to be able to take the lead in bringing AI and the Innovyze analytic capabilities into one Cloud offering.”

About Innovyze

Innovyze is a global leader in building innovative, industry-leading software for the water industry for over 35 years. Innovyze serves thousands of clients including the largest utilities, ENR design firms, consultancies and refining plants around the world.  Learn more at www.innovyze.com

PARIS, France, Apr 17, 2020 – ESI Group, a world player in virtual prototyping software and services for industrials, is joining Folding@Home (FaH) project in the United States, making the computing power of its servers available to accelerate research on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.

Launched 20 years ago at Stanford University, Folding@Home (FaH) is a distributed computing project for performing molecular dynamics simulations of protein dynamics. Its initial focus was on protein folding but has shifted to more biomedical problems, such as Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, COVID-19, and Ebola.

Folding@Home uses computer simulation to predict the dynamics of diseases like COVID-19 and understand the proteins’ moving parts thanks to 3D modeling. Watching how the atoms in a protein related to the virus move relative to one another is important because it captures valuable information that is inaccessible by any other means.

This project runs on the unused computing power of computers, phones and formerly PS3s from thousands of thousands of volunteers, both individuals and corporates.

ESI Group joined in March 2020 the fight to defeat COVID-19, combining their high-performance CPU and Graphics computing power with the Folding@Home network which is now pushing out an impressive 470 PetaFLOPS of raw compute power. Contributing to this project has provided an amazing look at the power of collaboration since the Folding@Home overall computational power now dwarfs the IBM SUMMIT supercomputer, considered as the fastest in the world, capable of 200 petaFLOPS, i.e. 1.88 billion calculations per second.

Taking the experimental structures as starting points, scientists and engineers can simulate how all the atoms in the protein move, effectively filling in the rest of the game that experiments miss. This can reveal new opportunities – new ways to render the virus ineffective and powerless against human immune systems.

One solution can be used to increase and accelerate simulations: multiply the computing power by using thousands of computers around the world. ESI Group is actively involved in this dynamic.

Folding@Home reports that it has seen a 1,200% increase in contributors, with Bitcoin miners also joining the fight, and over 400,000 new volunteers joining over the last two weeks.

James Hartley, North America IT Manager underlines: “We have truly embodied the values within ESI’s culture of passion, social responsibility and energy to bring this initiative to fruition, working together with our team in France to realign and support the efforts”

About ESI Group

ESI Group is a leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services. Specialist in material physics, ESI has developed a unique proficiency in helping industrial manufacturers replace physical prototypes by virtual prototypes, allowing them to virtually manufacture, assemble, test and pre-certify their future products. Coupled with the latest technologies, Virtual Prototyping is now anchored in the wider concept of the Product Performance Lifecycle™, which addresses the operational performance of a product during its entire lifecycle, from launch to disposal. The creation of a Hybrid Twin™, leveraging simulation, physics and data analytics, enables manufacturers to deliver smarter and connected products, to predict product performance and to anticipate maintenance needs.

ESI is a French company listed in compartment B of NYSE Euronext Paris. Present in more than 40 countries, and addressing every major industrial sector, ESI Group employs about 1200 high-level specialists around the world and reported annual sales of €139 million in 2018. For more information, please visit www.esi-group.com.

NEW YORK, NY, USA, Apr 17, 2020 – Today more than ever, people must be the change that they want to see in the world. The Edison Awards recognizes innovations and innovators who extend and strengthen civil society by taking ideas to commercialization that improve education, create better working conditions, and develop a healthier environment.

The 2020 Edison Award winning teams in the ‘Innovative Services,’ ‘Material Science & Engineering,’ ‘Social Innovation,’ and ‘Aerospace’ categories are reimagining the future and leading their industries.

Following an in-depth review by the esteemed Steering Committee, the final ballot was sent to 3,000 innovation leaders from the fields of product development, design, engineering, science, marketing and education, including professional organizations representing a wide variety of industries and disciplines.

The complete list of category honorees is showcased at www.edisonawards.com.

This year’s Edison Award Winners represent many nations including Australia, Canada, Philippines, Israel, Japan, China, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Dubai, and the United States. Being recognized with an Edison Award is one of the highest accolades a company can receive for the successful launch of a “game-changing” new product or service.

“Material science and engineering have never had a bigger impact on creating new industries and transforming legacy products into powerful and sustainable new solutions.  The Edison Awards salutes all material scientists and engineers for their continued ingenuity,” said Frank Bonafilia, Executive Director of the Edison Awards.

About Edison Awards

The awards are named after Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) whose inventions, new product development methods and innovative achievements changed the world and garnered him 1,093 U.S. patents that made him an innovation genius around the globe. For more information, visit https://edisonawards.com.

BOSTON, MA, USA, Apr 16, 2020 – PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) has launched the next generation of its Creo 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software, Creo 7.0. The software’s new capabilities put the power of artificial intelligence (AI) at designers’ fingertips, making simulation a seamless part of daily work.

“As a long-time Creo customer, we were excited to get early access to Creo 7.0,” said Adrian Marshall, manager of computer-aided design in product development, Royal Enfield. “Creo has helped us revolutionize the way we develop, produce, and maintain our motorcycles. We are sure that Creo will continue to benefit our design process and enable us to deliver the best possible customer ownership experience.”

To satisfy CAD consumers’ most common use cases, PTC incorporated the following capabilities into the next-generation product:

1. Generative Design: Incorporating Frustum® generative design technology, Creo 7.0 enables designers to leverage the power of AI to quickly produce optimized designs based on their engineering requirements and manufacturing constraints.
2. Simulation-Driven Design: Expanding upon PTC’s strategic alliance with Ansys, Creo 7.0 introduces fluid flow analysis in Creo Simulation Live – a comprehensive, real-time simulation solution that allows designers to iterate faster, and design with more confidence.
3. Multibody Design: Creo 7.0 introduces multibody design, a new set of design tools that enables users to complete many design tasks more efficiently while making their part design easier to manage, understand, and modify.
4. Additive Manufacturing: Creo 7.0 provides enhanced additive manufacturing capabilities, including improved support for Stochastic and custom lattices, giving designers greater flexibility when creating lattice structures.
5. Core Product Enhancements: As with every release, Creo 7.0 provides additional usability and productivity capabilities for all users, including enhanced draft capabilities, improvements to 2D mirror functionality, and multiple user interface improvements to the Sketcher tool.

Creo helps designers build better products faster by facilitating product innovation, fostering design reuse, and replacing assumptions with facts. Designers can go from the earliest phases of product design to a smart, connected product all within a single environment.

“Creo 7.0 is one of our most innovation-rich releases yet, allowing customers to leverage Frustum’s amazing generative design technology and an enhanced Ansys-powered Creo Simulation Live with real-time fluid-flow analysis,” said Brian Thompson, divisional vice president and general manager, CAD, PTC. “Creo 7.0 makes emerging technology a part of our customers’ everyday design workflows, helping to transform their digital product development processes.”

The Creo 7.0 launch follows PTC’s recent acquisition of Onshape, developer of the Onshape Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product development platform, demonstrating the company’s deep commitment to providing innovative technology – via multiple delivery models – to drive business value.

Availability

Creo 7.0 is now available worldwide.

About PTC 

PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) enables global manufacturers to realize double-digit impact with software solutions that enable them to accelerate product and service innovation, improve operational efficiency, and increase workforce productivity. In combination with an extensive partner network, PTC provides customers flexibility in how its technology can be deployed to drive digital transformation – on premises, in the cloud, or via its pure SaaS platform. At PTC, we don’t just imagine a better world, we enable it. For more information, visit https://www.ptc.com.

Luxembourg, Apr 16, 2020 – e-Xstream engineering, part of Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, has unveiled a new 10X Integrated Computational Material Engineering (ICME) solution that applies academic research with leading software and inspection solutions to dramatically accelerate innovation using by enabling manufacturers to design, engineer and test components virtually through simulation.

Integrated Computational Material Engineering (ICME) is an emerging technique that ensures optimal combination of materials and manufacturing processes to innovate and maximize performance, resulting in reduced costs and lead time.

10X ICME from Hexagon offers the industry the most complete and integrated solution portfolio to leverage the full potential of ICME. It is the first industrialised solution to apply ICME so that companies can exploit the ideal combination of materials with manufacturing processes to innovate and maximize performance, while also reducing cost and product lead time. By integrating design, engineering and testing, manufacturers can make informed choices early in product development to improve quality or reduce waste and also harness data to devise more efficient, connected design and engineering workflows.

ICME enables advanced materials such as carbon fibre composites to be selected and applied to their full potential by improving the accuracy of, and trust in, material simulations with better data and modelling. Using 10X ICME, it is now possible to predict how combinations of advanced materials such as composites and manufacturing methods from injection moulding to 3D printing will affect everything from the speed to the sustainability of future aircraft and cars. It reduces the amount of materials testing required and correlates measurement with simulation so manufacturers can more easily validate simulations. In addition, because materials data is made readily available, engineers can apply accurate values to make optimal designs rather than relying on approximations.

The digital integration of end-to-end supply chains will also cut material waste by significantly reducing dependence on extensive real-world prototyping and over-design. A single material-centric ‘digital twin’ of the entire manufacturing line from material development to final part performance will enable organisations to predict the performance of end products at concept stage. It also presents opportunities for data-driven customisation of advanced materials for specific purposes such as recyclability or energy-efficiency.

10X ICME significantly lower barriers to innovation by enabling ground-breaking new technologies such as lightweight blended wing airliners or ultra-quiet electric vehicles to be developed much faster than today. The solution is already being used by a major aerospace and automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to significantly accelerate the rate at which new designs can be brought from concept to reality. Initial customer projects using this new approach are being completed in half the time and at a third of the cost.

There are 10 pillars within the 10X ICME solution, which combine the different ICME technologies from the ecosystem to address specific use cases. Manufacturers can choose the pillars most pertinent to them today and mould their solution to their needs as the disciplines and processes derive value from evolve.

Developed in close collaboration with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and material suppliers to address their industrial needs, 10x ICME draws on cutting-edge material science research, Hexagon’s metrology, software and e-Xstream engineering material simulation technologies and a growing industrial partner ecosystem. It integrates the supply chain of materials suppliers, software tools, manufacturing eqipment and metrology to make the best possible use of data and enable real-world implementation for many manufacturing environments.

Dr. Waruna Seneviratne, Director, National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) commented: “As we develop advanced multi-functional materials and processes, it is essential that we have an understanding of how molecular changes impact structural properties. Although it is impractical to develop microscale models in structural level, multi-scale modelling that provides useful information to the next scaled up models is essential in understanding design challenges, optimize structures, and mitigate risks as we climb the building blocks of design and certification.”

Dr. Jan-Anders Mansson, Distinguished Professor of Materials & Chemical Engineering, Purdue University said: “We have been working with Hexagon and e-Xstream to integrate cutting-edge metrology, digital technology and material science, which is merged in our manufacturing testbed with Hexagon’s state-of-the-art hardware and software for Smart Factory solutions. The aim now is to develop a digital parallel of the whole end-to-end journey from design to manufacturing. We’ll be able to zoom in and out from a macro to micro level from line production to individual cell production.”

Roger Assaker, CEO, e-Xstream engineering, said: “Bringing together OEMs, Universities, materials suppliers and technology partners in a business-driven ecosystem has enabled us to develop the unique, end-to-end 10X ICME solution that has already helped early adopters complete projects in half the time and at a third of the cost. We believe connecting materials insights to engineering will accelerate the Fourth Industrial Revolution, enabling new products to be made efficient, safe and sustainable before the first prototype is even built.”

Guillaume Boisot, Head of Business Development, e-Xstream engineering commented: “ICME will enable automotive manufacturers to optimise the use of composites within their design processes, enabling lighter and more efficient vehicles designs and material-centric innovation for new mobility solutions. Looking at existing vehicle designs alone, optimising how composites are used will save manufacturers an average 22.5kg material waste per vehicle – that’s 2.1 million tonnes less composites used in new cars a year globally, so there’s a huge opportunity reduce waste and enable more efficient transport.”

About Hexagon | e-Xstream engineering

Hexagon is a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, and quality across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, safety, and mobility applications.

Our technologies are shaping urban and production ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

e-Xstream engineering, part of Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, provides Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) solutions to innovate and optimise product performance using the right materials and manufacturing process for the right application. Learn more at e-Xstream.com. Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division provides solutions that utilise data from design and engineering, production and metrology to make manufacturing smarter.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 21,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.9bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, Apr 16, 2020 – Today, Chaos Group releases V-Ray PLE for Maya, a new personal learning edition of its production renderer. V-Ray PLE helps new and self-taught CG artists explore the benefits of photorealistic rendering at their own pace, using a free non-commercial license that can be renewed every 90 days. With access to nearly every V-Ray feature, artists can build new skills as they try out some of the same tools used to bring Game of Thrones and Avengers: Infinity War to life.

V-Ray PLE for Maya comes equipped with all the major features of V-Ray Next, including scene intelligence, GPU production rendering and improved IPR. While renders are never watermarked, V-Ray PLE output is limited to 4K. Other limitations are mainly network or development driven: no batch rendering, distributed rendering or access to AppSDK.

V-Ray PLE for Maya has been in development for several months but was fast-tracked after COVID-19 to help more artists access the software from home. With more artists indoors, Chaos Group wanted to offer an engaging way to build new skills. To help them along, Chaos Group has also added a new set of learning materials to the V-Ray for Maya documentation page.

V-Ray PLE for Maya represents the pilot project for V-Ray personal learning editions. Chaos Group will leave the option open for other products in the future.

For more information, please visit the V-Ray PLE for Maya product page.

Pricing and Availability

V-Ray PLE for Maya is available now for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Licenses are free for non-commercial use and can be renewed every 90 days.

About Chaos Group

Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company’s research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com.