Siemens to acquire FORAN marine design solutions
Siemens just announced that it is acquiring the FORAN software business from SENER, a Spanish engineering, procurement, and construction firm. FORAN’s solutions are used in the design and construction of ships of all sorts, and marine structures like offshore...PTC’s FQ3 was better than feared, leads to slightly raised expectations for FY20
PTC’s FQ3 was better than feared, leads to slightly raised expectations for FY20 PTC announced what it would announce on July 8, so last week’s earnings release wasn’t in any way a surprise — but the color and context around the news is what...AVEVA’s firing on all cylinders in H1, poised for $1B revenue in F2020
Hot Topics Schneider Electric reported results a couple of weeks ago that caused AVEVA (partly owned by SE) to say that everything was going to plan — optimistic but basically content-free. Last week, AVEVA remedied that by offering a flood of detail about its first...
Wartsila using AR to collaborate & educate
Wartsila’s combo of Virtual Towing Tank and Dive Inspections works to simulate and explain the results, in one technological leap.
DS deepens its bench in naval architecture
News broke this morning that Dassault Systèmes has acquired AITAC BV, a Dutch company that uses the DS suite of products to design superyachts, cruise liners, frigates, tugboats and other smaller ships. As a complement to its services offerings, AITAC devised Smart...
US shipbuilding: a study in contrasts
Did you know that US shipyards built 1260 ships in 2012? And that 99% of the units were commercial while 60% of the revenue seen by the builders was from the military? Me neither — I had suspected but had no idea it was this imbalanced. I also didn’t know...
Engineers RULE: Righting the Costa Concordia
Were you glued to the TV/Interwebs the day the Costa Concordia was righted? I definitely was. The cruise ship ran aground and capsized off the Italian island of Giglio nearly two years ago, where it has lain as engineers, regulators and environmental activists tried...
AVEVA H1 2013 revenue up 15%
Switching gears from the day’s activities here in Amsterdam but still staying with the infrastructure/AEC theme, here is a quick update on AVEVA’s solid results for the first half of fiscal 2013, with broad-based growth reported in many regions,...
