Deals in AEC and 3D printing — no Foolin’
Remember how I wrote on Monday that the PLMish world was quiet, at least as far as acquisitions were concerned? I spoke too soon! Yesterday we learned of three deals, one in process modeling and two in 3D printing. Neither is an April Fool’s joke, though there...
Morning coffee: recalls and virtual reality
Good morning! Hope you had an awesome weekend. Let’s get this week off to a good start by recapping what happened last week. It’s the Economy … Economic news continues to be mixed. Depending on where you are in the world, it’s looking up or slowing down;...
Nemetschek optimistic about 2014
Back in February, Nemetschek announced preliminary results that were pretty good — growth accelerated towards the end of 2013, with Q4 coming in at €52 million, up 9% year/year. Full year revenue was up 6% to €186 million. Today the company confirmed those...
Shipbuilding’s resource management challenge
A long time ago I took a job at Bath Iron Works, in the Hull Drawing Room. MIT hadn’t taught me anything as practical as how a ship was actually built (although I could analyze the heck out of it), so the Drawing Room foreman sent me on rotation through the...
Exa: strong end to FY14; optimistic for FY15
Exa Corporation, maker of PowerFlow and related CFD applications, reported results last night that delighted investors enough to boost the share up 11% at the open and up 4% as things calm down a bit in mid-day trading. One investor wrote that the combination of two...
Rethinking CAM: Let’s Go Back to Where It All Began
Did you know that CAD technology came about, in part, to feed our growing need for advanced manufacturing processes? By the 1970s, even the best machine operators couldn’t manually generate the instructions for machining complex automotive and aerospace shapes...
Morning coffee: buying, selling and surveys
Welcome to a new week! We hope you had a fabulous weekend. Here in New England, we’re veering between lovely spring weather and cold winter, with snow in the forecast yet again. Sorry that this post is later than usual; server issues have had the Schnitger Corp...
Creative Market + Autodesk brings “mousemade” to makers
According to TechCrunch, Autodesk just acquired Creative Market, a startup that acts as a marketplace for digital content like fonts, icons and templates. Autodesk hasn’t made an official announcement yet, but TechCrunch cites a blog post by Creative Market...
