How you can help: support businesses that make PPEs

How you can help: support businesses that make PPEs

Apr 2, 2020 | Hot Topics

How you can help: support businesses that make PPEs You don’t come here for politics, so we’ll leave all that aside, and point out that many businesses that are working to make personal protective equipment (PPEs), often without knowing if or how...
DS announced Q1 will be 2.5-5% below guidance

DS announced Q1 will be 2.5-5% below guidance

Apr 1, 2020 | Hot Topics

DS announced Q1 will be 2.5-5% below guidance And so it starts (continues, depending on your perspective); After the stock market in Paris closed, Dassault Systèmes announced that it expects Q1 revenue to be 2.5% to 5% below the low end of its previous guidance, which...
How you can help: Join the GrabCAD ventilator challenge

How you can help: Join the GrabCAD ventilator challenge

Apr 1, 2020 | Hot Topics

How you can help: Join the GrabCAD ventilator challenge This just came in from Stratasys — can you help? A dozen Boston area anesthesiology residents have launched an eight-week hackathon hosted on GrabCAD.com to design a rapidly deployable, minimum viable...
DS announced Q1 will be 2.5-5% below guidance

At least in AEC, 2020 looks … OK

Mar 31, 2020 | Hot Topics

At least in AEC, 2020 looks … OK European companies report preliminary results for a financial year in February and then follow up with a final report at the end of March. Nemetschek and RIB Software reported on schedule (see the reports here and here,...
How you can help: print PPEs with Carl Bass

How you can help: print PPEs with Carl Bass

Mar 30, 2020 | Hot Topics

How you can help: print PPEs with Carl Bass I’ll add this to the master list in a moment, but don’t want this to get lost (and I haven’t figured out how to make that post stay on top, and and and): Ray Kurland emailed me to say that Carl Bass (former...
How your tech skills can help in the pandemic

How your tech skills can help in the pandemic

Mar 29, 2020 | Hot Topics

How your tech skills can help in the pandemic The world may be a sucky place right now, but people are (mostly) awesome. Protocol just published a list of projects that can use your/my/everyone’s tech wizardry. That inspired me to go through my inbox and pick...
AVEVA adds production accounting toolset

AVEVA adds production accounting toolset

Mar 26, 2020 | Hot Topics

AVEVA adds production accounting toolset AVEVA just announced that it has acquired accounting software from MES Enter to, as the company puts it, “complete AVEVA’s value chain optimization solution”. The new AVEVA Production Accounting (fka MES ENTER...
Totally OT: Capybaras balance oranges

Totally OT: Capybaras balance oranges

Mar 24, 2020 | Hot Topics

I could (and probably should) write something PLMish but let’s save that for later. Instead, I’m going to share a moment of zen, courtesy of HIRO@sea: If you speak Japanese, you can understand the naturalist’s explanations; if not, just watch the...