PLM goes green?
I believe in science. In the null hypothesis. In finding the root cause. And science says we are not doing nearly enough to reverse the damage already done to our planet by our homes, factories, cars, ships and planes, and to prevent further climate change. So when I...
Simcenter Amsterdam: making simulation a routine part of design
Last December I went to Amsterdam to attend Siemens' Simcenter Symposium. It's one of my favorite events because it brings together so many different … everythings: auto talks to aero, who talk to marine; STAR-CCM+ people learn about Amesim; and we all learned that...
Aras & ANSYS team up but no acquisition
This just came into the inbox: Aras Licenses Platform to ANSYS in Strategic OEM Deal Partnership will enable better processes and data management of simulations for digital thread traceability across the lifecycle You know Aras, the open source PLM platform, and you...
At AU 2019, AEC continued to rule
Did I go to AU in 2019? Why, yes, I did. But I had the flu so only participated in a fraction of what was going on and only now have the time to share what I learned. 13,000 people, 13,000 stories and I only got a tiny bit, sigh. Since I had to narrow down, I focused...
Hexagon ups the ante – announces deals in mining & geosystems
Altair started the year with an acquisition but we have to give props to Hexagon for the pace of their deals: closing one deal from 2019 and two brand new ones today. First the new news. Hexagon is acquiring Blast Movement Technology (BMT), maker of monitoring...
Altair starts 2020 with an EMAG deal
Surprise! One of the PLMish world's most acquisitive companies has done it again: Altair announced today that it has snapped up Spain's newFASANT, which makes software used for high-frequency electromagnetic analysis. newFASANT was founded in 2010, a spin-off from the...
Do we even still fax?
Hello and welcome back! I hope you had a bit of time off at the year-end and are not stressing too much over how many cookies you might (or might not, we'll never know) have consumed. I'm easing back in and discovered this marvelous headline among all of the emails...
Happy holidays from Schnitger Corp!
Quickie: Nemetschek adds to its media brands
Just across the newswire (well, into the inbox since that's how it all works nowadays): Nemetschek, best known for its BIM brands Allplan and Graphisoft, also has a media and entertainment division called Maxon. Nemetschek says that Maxon will merge with a company...
YII is all about the twins, ’bout the twins, no singles*
(* Massive apologies to Meghan Trainor, on whose All About That Base lyrics it is based. Great song, bad pun.) Last month’s Year in Infrastructure (YII) in Singapore, hosted by Bentley Systems, lived up to the hype: amazing infrastructure projects, technology galore...