Morning coffee: deals, a coming IPO & lots of other news
Welcome to your Monday! Last week was a doozie, so let's get right to it. It’s the Economy … We've got good news, bad news and good news. On the good news side, US employers added 192,000 jobs in March. That's better than recent months but bad news because more people...
Stratasys snaps up 3rd production facility this week
The news from the additive manufacturing world just won't slow down, and this week seems to be focusing on building service capacity. This morning, Stratasys announced that it is acquiring "certain assets" of Interfacial Solutions, a Wisconsin production...
Materialise thinking public with F-1 filing
We're used to 3D printer news coming from hardware vendors like Stratasys and 3D Systems. But there are software vendors in this space, too, and the hardware vendors are looking to service bureaus to strengthen their ties with customers -- it's not all printers and...
Deals in AEC and 3D printing — no Foolin’
Remember how I wrote on Monday that the PLMish world was quiet, at least as far as acquisitions were concerned? I spoke too soon! Yesterday we learned of three deals, one in process modeling and two in 3D printing. Neither is an April Fool's joke, though there were a...
Morning coffee: recalls and virtual reality
Good morning! Hope you had an awesome weekend. Let's get this week off to a good start by recapping what happened last week. It’s the Economy … Economic news continues to be mixed. Depending on where you are in the world, it's looking up or slowing down; by industry,...
Nemetschek optimistic about 2014
Back in February, Nemetschek announced preliminary results that were pretty good -- growth accelerated towards the end of 2013, with Q4 coming in at €52 million, up 9% year/year. Full year revenue was up 6% to €186 million. Today the company confirmed those earlier...
Shipbuilding’s resource management challenge
A long time ago I took a job at Bath Iron Works, in the Hull Drawing Room. MIT hadn't taught me anything as practical as how a ship was actually built (although I could analyze the heck out of it), so the Drawing Room foreman sent me on rotation through the shipyard's...
Exa: strong end to FY14; optimistic for FY15
Exa Corporation, maker of PowerFlow and related CFD applications, reported results last night that delighted investors enough to boost the share up 11% at the open and up 4% as things calm down a bit in mid-day trading. One investor wrote that the combination of two...
Rethinking CAM: Let’s Go Back to Where It All Began
Did you know that CAD technology came about, in part, to feed our growing need for advanced manufacturing processes? By the 1970s, even the best machine operators couldn't manually generate the instructions for machining complex automotive and aerospace shapes and 3D...
Morning coffee: buying, selling and surveys
Welcome to a new week! We hope you had a fabulous weekend. Here in New England, we're veering between lovely spring weather and cold winter, with snow in the forecast yet again. Sorry that this post is later than usual; server issues have had the Schnitger Corp...