MSC + Hexagon: “Where Simulation Gets Real”

MSC + Hexagon: “Where Simulation Gets Real”

Jul 13, 2018 | Hot Topics

“This is where simulation gets real.” That’s what Paolo Guglielmini, the CEO of MSC Software, told users in his standing room only keynote at last month’s HxGN LIVE conference in Las Vegas. You might remember that Hexagon acquired MSC in 2017, with the...
ESI’s FQ1 hints at upward momentum for H2

ESI’s FQ1 hints at upward momentum for H2

Jul 6, 2018 | Hot Topics

ESI reported results back at the end of May –travel and US holidays sometimes get in the way of timely blogging– and they were, at best, mediocre as reported. Currency movements, customers opting for subscriptions and not perpetual licenses, and changes in...
5 quick take-aways from Siemens Automation Summit

5 quick take-aways from Siemens Automation Summit

Jul 2, 2018 | Hot Topics

I spent last week at the Siemens Automation Summit, learning lots and speaking with many, many people who program PLCs, HMIs and otherwise make manufacturing facilities hum. I’m still trying to figure out what to write about in more detail, but here are a five...
PTC’s LiveWorx foreshadows digital transformations

PTC’s LiveWorx foreshadows digital transformations

Jun 22, 2018 | Hot Topics

PTC’s LiveWorx foreshadows digital transformations Technology. Business partnerships. Longtime customers, dragged forward. New customers to be wooed. PTC’s annual user conference, now called LiveWorx, is barely over and there is so much to digest and to...
Autodesk acquires Assemble as race to digitize construction stays hot

Bentley steps up 4D, acquires Synchro

Jun 20, 2018 | Hot Topics

Bentley just announced that it has acquired Synchro Software to boost its 4D construction offerings. Think of Synchro as software for virtual design and construction, enabling visual planning, scheduling, and project management. This lets asset owners, constructors...
Quick update on PTC + Rockwell

Quick update on PTC + Rockwell

Jun 19, 2018 | Hot Topics

I’m at PTC’s LiveWorx user conference this week. Yesterday, CEO Jim Heppelmann gave a bit more detail on the partnership with Rockwell Automation, announced last week. A quick recap: Rockwell is buying 8.4% of PTC’s shares for around $1 billion. PTC...
Autodesk acquires Assemble as race to digitize construction stays hot

Hexagon snaps up SPRING’s NCSIMUL for machining

Jun 19, 2018 | Hot Topics

Hexagon just announced that it is acquiring SPRING Technologies, whose NCSIMUL optimizes the machining workflow from CNC programming to CNC simulation, managing cutting and tool libraries, real time machine monitoring and technical content publication. Hexagon CEO Ola...
HxGN LIVE merges old and new, urges epic leaps forward

HxGN LIVE merges old and new, urges epic leaps forward

Jun 17, 2018 | Hot Topics

HxGN LIVE, the Hexagon group’s annual userfest, brings together thousands of people from manufacturing to fire/rescue/police to construction to mapping professionals. Walking the halls, it’s hard not to run into someone who does something I know nothing...