AVEVA unveils E3D to intrigued customers
For months, AVEVA has been blanketing the virtual airwaves with messaging around its new plant design product, dubbed "the future of plant design" or FoPD for short. Many users were at AVEVA World Summit last week in Paris to take back answers to: Would FoPD replace...
AVEVA’s H1 showed “good progress”
AVEVA today gave a quick update on results for its most recent six-month period: the company made "good progress" in the period ended September 30, 2012. As has been the case recently, the oil and gas vertical drove sales in the company's Engineering & Design...
Rand: new business area “exhilarating”
A couple of weeks ago, Rand Worldwide reported results for its fiscal fourth quarter and for the year ended June 30, 2012. FQ4 revenue was $22.6 million, down 3% from last year, with net income of $5.3 million. For the year, revenue was $89.4 million, essentially flat...
And buy more: 3D Systems buys Rapidform, Siemens buys Kineo,
Last week, I mused that acquisitions in the engineering software world are coming fast and furious -- and, today, we need to add at least two more to the list. On Monday, Siemens PLM announced that it has acquired the French company Kineo CAM, whose offerings are used...
MSC’s Digimat opens up use of advanced materials
MSC Software last month announced that it had acquired e-Xstream engineering, most known for its Digimat products for advanced materials simulation. This acquisition follows on the heels of a partnerships between MSC and HBM-nCode for fatigue testing, giving MSC what...
Buy some more: AspenTech and Siemens announce acquisitions
Yesterday, I marveled at how many acquisitions have gone down in the engineering software world in the last 10 days or so -- and today, we add two more to that list. The Siemens Industry Automation Division announced that it has acquired VRcontext, whose Walkinside...
Buy, buy, buy: DDD, Autodesk, Bentley, MSC, The Foundry
I go away for a couple of days, and what happens: merger mania. We'll dive into a one or two of these in more detail as the week goes on, but here are the high points: 3D Systems acquires a company with the coolest name ever: TIM, The Innovative Modelmakers B.V., a...
Siemens on PLM, Mars, shipbuilding and so much more
Get this: we're using Teamcenter to visualize a car, trying to assess the impact of a design change. First, we zoom in on the components that are in a specific area a foot forward of the steering wheel. Then we shift from a location-based view to a system view, as we...
Autodesk unveils cloud-y simulation
Autodesk recently announced the availability of Simulation 360, its cloud-based CAE solution for designers, engineers and architects. This is the latest offering to take advantage of what CEO Carl Bass has called infinite computing, where unlimited CPU capacity is out...
Exa & ESI: Positive signs in CAE
CFD has been hopping lately, with Exa announcing results from its first quarter as a public company, while ESI acquired OpenCFD from SGI and announced its own results for the most recent quarter. Here's a quick overview of the recent activity: Exa's July quarter was...