AVEVA World Summit highlights value of the digital asset

AVEVA World Summit highlights value of the digital asset

Oct 22, 2014 | Hot Topics

I was in Berlin last week, a fascinating city to host one of the plant/marine engineering world’s premier events: the AVEVA World Summit.  The Summit brings together designers, constructors, operators and owners from across the world and across industries, to...
AVEVA’s marine woes may be over, eyes acquisitions in FY15

Is Hexagon’s strategy starting to pay off?

May 13, 2014 | Hot Topics

Hexagon has been on a quite a buying spree lately, adding point solutions for precision agriculture (Arvus) and mine modeling (Mintec), traffic safety (SAFEmine, initially targeted at mines) and multicopters (Aibotix), as well as precise positioning for all sorts of...
AVEVA’s marine woes may be over, eyes acquisitions in FY15

Deals in AEC and 3D printing — no Foolin’

Apr 2, 2014 | Hot Topics

Remember how I wrote on Monday that the PLMish world was quiet, at least as far as acquisitions were concerned? I spoke too soon! Yesterday we learned of three deals, one in process modeling and two in 3D printing. Neither is an April Fool’s joke, though there...
AVEVA’s marine woes may be over, eyes acquisitions in FY15

AVEVA hints at good Q3, is “performing well”

Jan 27, 2014 | Hot Topics

AVEVA today issued one of its periodic interim statements, press releases that don’t say much but hint a lot. The big headline: things are going well and conditions haven’t changed since the company’s November report. AVEVA said that business in...
2014 is just around the corner so let’s recap

2014 is just around the corner so let’s recap

Dec 30, 2013 | Hot Topics

Hope you’re enjoying your year-end holidays! Skiing? Sunning? Playing? We’re still trying to unplug (but failing miserably) and recharge (naps, lots of naps) before 2014 arrives, so this blog is going to be short and sweet. 2013 was a year when some of the...
AU: Intersection of CAM, clouds and reality

AU: Intersection of CAM, clouds and reality

Dec 13, 2013 | Hot Topics

Autodesk University 2013 was a huge, loud, in-your-face explosion of all things related to making stuff. In this context, “stuff” could be manufactured goods, buildings, bridges, movies or just about anything else you could imagine. I’ve written a...
AVEVA’s marine woes may be over, eyes acquisitions in FY15

Quickies: DS, 3D Systems, Hexagon buy; Exa reports

Dec 5, 2013 | Hot Topics

While I’m at AU with 10,000 of my dearest friends, the PLMish world keeps rolling with acquisitions and earnings. Early this morning, Dassault Systèmes announced that it has acquired an 84% controlling interest in Realtime Technology AG (RTT), a provider of what...
Autodesk U — complete with dancing robots!

Autodesk U — complete with dancing robots!

Dec 4, 2013 | Hot Topics

Autodesk University is awash in superlatives: biggest, loudest, most diverse … And it really is. Nearly 10,000 people here in Las Vegas and another 20,000 or 30,000 tuning in online. Manufacturing, construction, architecture, movie-making, robots, drawings, oh...
AVEVA’s marine woes may be over, eyes acquisitions in FY15

Hexagon’s Q3, Shell & rentals

Nov 6, 2013 | Hot Topics

While I was wandering in East and North Yorkshire, 3D Systems, Accelrys, FARO, Hexagon, Nemetschek and other companies announced results for the September quarter. Time for recaps so, first up, in keeping with the Plant/Infrastructure theme we have going, let’s...