ANSYS buys Granta for materials intel

ANSYS buys Granta for materials intel

You saw this one coming, right? Two in one week, though …. ANSYS announced last night that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Granta Design, maker of materials intelligence solutions, critical for accurate simulations of material and device...
ANSYS buys Granta for materials intel

Hexagon adds j5 to factory operations offering

Hexagon today announced that it has added j5 International to its PPM division. j5 makes data collection solutions that replace papers, clipboards, spreadsheets and many of the (old school) processes used to gather operating data with a structured, configurable and...
ANSYS buys Granta for materials intel

Nemetschek acquires to boost building ops portfolio

Nemetschek just announced that its MCS Solutions business will acquire Axxerion, developer of facility and property management software, for €75 million. This adds to Nemetschek’s existing “Manage” offerings to address what the company sees as a...
ANSYS buys Granta for materials intel

Hexagon acquires Etalon to further autonomous production

Serial acquirer Hexagon just announced that is has bought Etalon AG, maker of equipment calibration products. Etalon’s metrology solutions measure geometry, analyze these measurements and, when needed, initiate compensation to ensure the dimensional accuracy of...
ANSYS buys Granta for materials intel

Quickie: DS to acquire IQMS for SMB ERP

Yet another acronym salad; sorry about that.Dassault Systèmes just announced that it plans to acquire IQMS, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) company focusing on the small and medium enterprise portion of the manufacturing sector, for $425M in cash. From the press...
ANSYS buys Granta for materials intel

Just in: Envenio becomes part of JUUL

Now this is interesting. Envenio, which offered cloud based, on-demand, GPU-powered CFD simulation, just sent out an email saying they’ve been acquired by JUUL and will cease independent operations at the end of December. Envenio’s EXN/Aero, is a...
ANSYS buys Granta for materials intel

PTC buys Frustum, as gen des heats up

Not sure what gen des is? Generative design is the use of assistive technologies to help refine a design. Need a chair to hold a certain sized person? Give a gen des tool a set of parameters, and let it design the chair for you — that’s called topology...