Shipbuilding software provider SSI bought by exec team

Shipbuilding software provider SSI bought by exec team

This is cool — there aren’t that many providers of ship design software on the market and I’m a naval architect, soo it naturally caught my eye. This just hit the inbox, even though it reads as though it should have been sent a few weeks ago: As of...
Hexagon moves further into construction tech

Hexagon moves further into construction tech

A couple of years ago, at a HxGN Live, Hexagon’s Process Power and Marine group announced its entry into BIM — but not BIM as the rest of the world understood it at the time, a design tool. No, PP&M was going to repurpose existing assets for the...
It’s Pi Day!

It’s Pi Day!

Yes, the Boston area is digging out from the third major storm in two weeks, much of the news is lousy and uncertain — but it’s Pi Day! Today is March 14, which the US writes as 3/14 or perhaps 3.14. Hmm. That looks suspiciously like the first few digits...
What the heck is CFIUS, anyway?

What the heck is CFIUS, anyway?

A few of you have written to ask why the approval of a US government agency called CFIUS held up the AVEVA/Schneider merger, and to ask why a US government body even cared about the combination of a UK-listed company and a Paris-listed company. Great questions;...
Hexagon moves further into construction tech

Quickie: AVEVA+Schneider=DONE

Finally, finally: AVEVA announced today that at 8AM UK time on March 1, 2018 it more than doubled in size with the addition of Schneider Electric’s software people and products. Ex-PTCer Craig Hayman, as expected, took over as CEO last week and had this to say...
10 things: PLMish earnings show confidence and growth

10 things: PLMish earnings show confidence and growth

I’ve been recapping earnings for you for years but with the ready availability of the source materials it seems silly to just reproduce it all and make you hunt for my commentary. To make this more productive for you and for me, we’re trying something new: I’m...
Hexagon moves further into construction tech

Quickie: Altair nabs ElectroFlo CFD for electronics cooling

Altair just announced that it has acquired TES International’s technology and intellectual property and hired founder Ben Zandi to lead its thermal solutions software development efforts. Dr. Zandi founded TES to address electronics cooling and today (yesterday?) the...
10 things I think I think: SOLIDWORKS World 2018

10 things I think I think: SOLIDWORKS World 2018

SOLIDWORKS World is always a spectacle of maker-ness, designers competing to out-SOLIDWORKS one another in design competitions and learn from one another. It’s, as one speaker put it, nerd-heaven. This year was the twentieth anniversary event and many attendees...