Feb 12, 2019 | Hot Topics
I live on a street with the popular girl’s name, Kathleen. Every so often a boy, hoping to impress a girl (likely named Kathleen), steals our street sign. I’ve often wondered how someone monitors those thefts and then causes replacements to be made —...
Feb 11, 2019 | Hot Topics
Dassault Systèmes said today that it will acquire Trace Software’s elecworks electrical and automation design software product line in an asset transfer. Trace has been a SolidWorks applications partner since 1997; in 2012, Trace became a strategic partner so that the...
Jan 28, 2019 | Hot Topics
At last year’s Bentley Year in Infrastructure, I was introduced to something I had never seen before: pedestrian modeling. In my naïveté, I assumed that engineers observed humans moving through spaces and used that to inform how they design subway stations,...
Jan 25, 2019 | Hot Topics
Investors were underwhelmed at PTC’s fiscal first quarter 2019 earnings news, since the company said its bookings were at the lower end of its guidance, leading to weaker FQ2 revenue guidance. I’m a glass half-full type of person and prefer to look at the...
Jan 23, 2019 | Hot Topics
You saw this one coming, right? Two in one week, though …. ANSYS announced last night that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Granta Design, maker of materials intelligence solutions, critical for accurate simulations of material and device...
Jan 21, 2019 | Hot Topics
ANSYS just fired the next shot in the battle to control the electromagnetic (EMAG) simulation landscape, announcing that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Helic, which makes electromagnetic crosstalk solutions for systems on chips (SoCs). ANSYS says that...
Jan 17, 2019 | Hot Topics
Hexagon today announced that it has added j5 International to its PPM division. j5 makes data collection solutions that replace papers, clipboards, spreadsheets and many of the (old school) processes used to gather operating data with a structured, configurable and...
Jan 14, 2019 | Hot Topics
Last month I spent time with the Siemens Simcenter team and a couple hundred of their top customers, talking all things CAE. We covered CFD, how AR/VR fits into simulation workflows, where optimization can and should be applied, how to leverage the intersection of...
Jan 11, 2019 | Hot Topics
Nemetschek just announced that its MCS Solutions business will acquire Axxerion, developer of facility and property management software, for €75 million. This adds to Nemetschek’s existing “Manage” offerings to address what the company sees as a...
