Feb 17, 2016 | Hot Topics
You don’t see this every day: AspenTech says that Yokogawa has outbid it to win KBC, which it just last month said would acquire. AspenTech says it “does not intend to revise its offer of 185 pence for each share of KBC Advanced Technologies plc (KBC)...
Feb 16, 2016 | Hot Topics
Kishore Boyalakuntla, SolidWorks Brand User Experience Leader, joked that SolidWorks World is a bit like Disney for engineers — and, you know, it is! This year’s event had a slightly different vibe: it was less serious, more maker and decidedly not DS-centric. Yes,...
Feb 16, 2016 | Hot Topics
A lot of PLMish companies release earnings news and (as you no doubt know) I fall behind in writing longer posts about each. So, a compromise where I do quick summaries of a few companies while working on longer-form versions for others. This week, Mensch und Maschine...
Feb 11, 2016 | Hot Topics
3D Systems has been battered lately, as the consumer market for 3D printing hasn’t developed the way the company envisioned. A management shakeup, exiting the Cube businesses — it’s been a tough six months. Then, this morning, the news that Q4...
Jan 31, 2016 | Hot Topics
PTC last week rolled out its vision for the augmented reality-enabled enterprise: access to all sorts of data related to an object, served out on tablets, watches, phones and other devices, with the specifics of the data tailored to the needs of the user. This vision...
