Mentor expands CAE offering

Feb 7, 2012 | Hot Topics

Last month, Mentor Graphics announced that it had acquired Flowmaster, a developer of “1D” computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software. Just look at that sentence: Mentor, Flowmaster, 1D, CFD – how does that fit together, let alone in a...

Mentor: great results, takeover speculation

Mar 2, 2011 | Hot Topics

In the flurry of earnings releases last week came the following from Mentor Graphics: For the full year that ended on January 31, 2011 Mentor reported revenue of $915 million, up 14%, and for the fiscal fourth quarter, the company reported revenue of $307 million, up...

FloTHERM: Cool debottlenecking

Nov 8, 2010 | Hot Topics

I get to see a lot of interesting technology — some mega-packages, some more modest and some that just make me go “what a good idea!”.  Today Dr. Erich Buergel, General Manager of Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division (formerly Flomerics), told me about the...

News bits

Aug 21, 2010 | Hot Topics

Sorry, guys — it’s been crazy. There’s a lot going on the in the greater PLM universe and I wish I had time to offer a cogent analysis each happening, but I don’t. Rather than leave you hanging, here are several of the things I found most compelling last week:...

CD-adapco: strong growth seeding the cloud

Apr 5, 2010 | Hot Topics

CD-adapco announced at its London user event that it was growing very nicely in spite of a global recession, has a succession plan in place and is adding additional licensing options to its StarCCM+ offering.Steve MacDonald, President and co-founder of CD-adapco, has...

Mentor Graphics acquires Valor

Mar 18, 2010 | Hot Topics

Taking a page from the PLM playbook, Mentor Graphics announced on March 18 that it had acquired Valor Computerized Systems, extending its reach from design into manufacturability. The net price paid was about $50 million. Valor did not report revenue for the fourth...

Solvers and sunscreen

Mar 2, 2010 | Hot Topics

This is the third in a series of articles exploring business metrics and their usefulness in the engineering software space. The last post discussed the fact that the cost for keeping a specific customer may be higher than expected and may even exceed the revenue...

Mentor Graphics trying to make a splash with CFD

Jan 26, 2010 | Hot Topics

Mentor Graphics bought boutique CFD house Flomerics in 2008 to strengthen its offerings in the printed circuit board (PCB) and accelerate its entrance into markets outside the traditional (and volatile) electronics space. Before it became Mentor Graphics’ Mechanical...

CD-adapco sales up 22% last year – and so far this year

Mar 27, 2009 | Hot Topics

We’re not quite done with earnings announcements, it appears. And maybe 2009 won’t bethe disaster everyone forecasts. CD-adapco President Steve MacDonald said the followingat the company’s annual European user conference:“In the midst of constant...

CD-adapco’s stimulus bill: "No Engineer Left Behind"

Feb 27, 2009 | Hot Topics

CD-adapco today upped the ante on helping displaced engineers improve their skills andmarketability. "No Engineer Left Behind" is a global program — all others that I’m aware ofare US-based — offering training at any CD-adapco facility, a...