How you can help: print PPEs with Carl Bass
I'll add this to the master list in a moment, but don't want this to get lost (and I haven't figured out how to make that post stay on top, and and and): Ray Kurland emailed me to say that Carl Bass (former CEO of Autodesk and maker extraordinaire) is printing...
How your tech skills can help in the pandemic
The world may be a sucky place right now, but people are (mostly) awesome. Protocol just published a list of projects that can use your/my/everyone's tech wizardry. That inspired me to go through my inbox and pick out all of the other ones I've been emailed about so...
AVEVA adds production accounting toolset
AVEVA just announced that it has acquired accounting software from MES Enter to, as the company puts it, "complete AVEVA’s value chain optimization solution". The new AVEVA Production Accounting (fka MES ENTER ErrorSolver) becomes part of AVEVA's Value Chain...
ESI on the impact of Covid-19: “It’s a 3-month event”
ESI Group held an investor update today, in which they expanded on the 2019 results reported last month. (You can read my recap here.) I'll write more about the company's vision, strategy, etc. as discussed in today's session, but I wanted to share one very important...
Totally OT: Capybaras balance oranges
I could (and probably should) write something PLMish but let's save that for later. Instead, I'm going to share a moment of zen, courtesy of HIRO@sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUqCWkPlLLc If you speak Japanese, you can understand the naturalist's explanations;...
Funny & wise from Mel Brooks’ family as we all try to flatten the curve
Last one for today, I promise. Too good not to share: https://twitter.com/maxbrooksauthor/status/1239624352305303552 The title image is of a much younger Mel Brooks, in the classic movie, Spaceballs. So goofy.
PLMish ideas on whiling away social isolation
Right up front: I'm not qualified to give medical advice so you won't see any of that here. Go to cdc.gov, who.int, or another reputable source for the protocols that will ensure your safety and that of elders and those with compromised immune systems. That said, why...
Hexagon adds CAEfatigue to simulation portfolio
Coronavirus or not, business seems to crank along, even if at a slower level. Hexagon today announced that it is acquiring CAEfatigue Limited, a provider of fatigue simulation solutions. Hexagon's explanation of why fatigue matters is interesting: they use an...
Quickie: Autodesk extends sale of multi-user subs to August, pushes back named user start date
I wrote last week that Autodesk was going to start transitioning customers to named user licenses in May. A couple of readers shared a change to that policy from Autodesk's CEO Andrew Anagnost, in a note about the company's response in the time of Covid-19: [W]e are...
Bentley ups the ante on BIM CDEs, acquires UK’s GroupBC
Bentley Systems just announced that it has acquired GroupBC, the UK-based maker of the BC Projects and BC Enterprise SaaS solutions. You may know that the UK leads the world in BIM focus and implementations, which has spawned a lot of tools to help projects reach...