Look to the moon, thank an engineer
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. We all know about the incredible bravery of the astronauts to risk everything to go there and (perhaps not) come home--but amidst all the hoopla, spare a thought for the engineers who made it...
AspenTech acquires IoT and AI companies
Artificial intelligence, AI, means many different things, depending on the industry, use case and technological sophistication of the user. AspenTech, which makes chemical process design software as well as solutions that help process plants manage their assets more...
Autodesk invests in actual construction startup
You know that Autodesk invests in tech startups. Did you know that they also invest in makers of actual, physical things? Apparently, they do! Autodesk just announced that it has increased its investment in Factory_OS, a "volumetric modular construction start-up" that...
AEC Quickie: NEMT sells, RIB buys
You might remember that Nemetschek co-owned a company called DocuWare, which is focused on document management and the AEC workflows that surround project documents. The companies have been intertwined for at least a decade but now DocuWare is being acquired by Ricoh...
Schnitgercorp.com update!
Hello -- and thanks for checking in. We apologize if you experienced errors when using the website earlier today; we were working behind the scenes to make the site load faster, search more quickly and be more secure. We think we've squashed all bugs and put the...
Hexagon preannounces, cites weakness in China
And so it begins. Hexagon announced today that "the impact of increased geopolitical uncertainties on global trade, especially within the electronics business of the Manufacturing Intelligence" (MI) leads Hexagon to believe total revenue for the June quarter will be...
Super-quick: Hexagon’s Rollén acquitted — again
Hexagon just issued this announcement: Ola Rollén acquitted from all charges for the second time 2019-06-26 20:15 GMT+02 Ola Rollén, Hexagon’s President and CEO, was today acquitted for the second time from the insider trading allegations by the Norwegian economic...
Carbon raises another $260 million to advance 3DP
And one more bit of 3D printing news: Carbon, a company that's billed as a "3D printing poster child" by Venturebeat says it has raised $260 million in venture round led by Madrone Capital Partners and Baillie Gifford, with other partners Sequoia Capital, Adidas...
ExOne and Siemens partner for IoT-enabled 3DP
Siemens and ExOne, maker of sand and metal 3D printers, just announced a partnership targeted at bringing its binder jetting technology to prospects in the foundry, aerospace, automotive, energy and other markets. According to the announcement, Siemens’ MindSphere is...
Hexagon adds to its additive bench
One of the things I learned at Hexagon's HxGN LIVE conference (but haven't had time to write about yet, sorry) is that the company is on a mission regarding 3D printing (3DP). Planning, prepping, simulating, doing. Today, Hexagon announced that it is acquiring...
Quickie: DS invests in BioSerenity telehealth startup
Hot on the heels of its planned acquisition of Medidata, Dassault Systèmes announced that it is the lead investor in a €65 million Series B financing round for BioSerenity, a startup developing telehealth solutions. BioSerenity combines textiles, wearable sensors and...
DS + Medidata = PLMish for Life Science
Last week, Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced that it was buying the US firm Medidata for $5.7 billion. It's a deal that has a lot of people in the automotive and aerospace industries, long DS' sweet spot, wondering, why? First, though, DS' why. DS says Medidata will...
One more: PTC acquires AR agency TWNKLS
When so many conferences happen at the same time, news blizzards also happen. PTC announced today that it has acquired PTC TWNKLS, a European company that creates tailor-made augmented reality (AR) applications and offers related services. PTC says the acquisition...
Siemens acquires South African distributor ESTEQ
And the news keeps rolling: Siemens Digital Industries Software (fka Siemens PLM Software) just announced that it will acquire select assets of ESTEQ, a PLMish distributor in South Africa. [Not in the deal is ESTEQ's Test and Measurement business; it remains...
HxGN aims to help us save ourselves
Back in Vegas! I'm at Hexagon's user conference, HxGN LIVE, most of this week--so yes, not at PTC LiveWorx or Siemens Realize LIVE (so much LIVE, no?)-- with a daunting schedule of meetings and sessions. I hope to learn what makes this agglomeration of software,...
DS buys Medidata clinical trial software
Super quick: Dassault Systèmes announced that it is buying Medidata Solutions for $5.8 billion in cash. Medidata is publicly traded in the US and makes software used in clinical drug trials. This had been rumored for a while, with DS CEO Bernard Charlès telling...
Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners
Missler Software announced in April (yes, I know it's old news, but it is important news, nonetheless) that it will now be known as TOPSOLID. It's not as random as it sounds: the Topsolid CAM product has a great (if expensive) reputation and few knew that it was made...
RIB takes majority stake in BSD to aid AEC collab, gain access to US market
Yesterday, RIB Software and Building Systems Design (BSD) announced that RIB is acquiring a majority in BSD. RIB, you may recall, makes desktop and cloud solutions for the construction industry that harness the data in BIM models and uses it to enable construction...
Wipro snaps up ITI
This is a really big deal: Wipro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire International TechneGroup Incorporated (probably better known as ITI), maker of the interoperability solutions that make the PLMish world possible. I saw the news from the Economic Times of...
Bentley’s 2019 corporate update: again no drama, solid growth
Bentley's spring business update call turned out to be an interesting view into the company and its products -- but we learned few new details about how the company is doing. A couple of weeks ago, Bentley released its "annual report", the key points of which I...
