Jul 18, 2020 | Hot Topics
Super-quick: Siemens acquires Avatar Integrated Systems to add to Mentor portfolio Siemens announced yesterday that it has will acquire Avatar Integrated Systems Inc., maker of place and route software for integrated circuit (IC) design. Avatar’s Aprisa is a...
Jun 25, 2020 | Hot Topics
And it’s a wrap: Preventing virtual conference fatigue At some point, I’ll muster the energy to write about what I learned but right now I’d like to tell you about the experience of sitting through online user events from Altair, ANSYS, AVEVA,...
Jun 23, 2020 | Hot Topics
Quickie: Siemens adds UltraSoC to its semiconductor design offering Siemens just announced that it will acquire UltraSoC Technologies Ltd., maker of instrumentation and analytics solutions that “put intelligent monitoring, cybersecurity, and functional safety...
Sep 20, 2019 | Hot Topics
So much news these days: TechCrunch reported yesterday that Siemens AG has participated in a $33 million Series B financing round at Built Robotics via its Next47 investment division, joining other investors Building Ventures, Founders Fund, Presidio Ventures, Lemnos...
Sep 18, 2019 | Hot Topics
If you pay attention to the process industries (oil and gas, chemicals, and so on), you’ll know that much of the economic decision-making rests on the design of the chemical processes that transform crude into heating oil or petroleum by-products into commodity...
Jun 25, 2019 | Hot Topics
Siemens and ExOne, maker of sand and metal 3D printers, just announced a partnership targeted at bringing its binder jetting technology to prospects in the foundry, aerospace, automotive, energy and other markets. According to the announcement, Siemens’ MindSphere is...
Jun 12, 2019 | Hot Topics
And the news keeps rolling: Siemens Digital Industries Software (fka Siemens PLM Software) just announced that it will acquire select assets of ESTEQ, a PLMish distributor in South Africa. [Not in the deal is ESTEQ’s Test and Measurement business; it remains...
Jan 14, 2019 | Hot Topics
Last month I spent time with the Siemens Simcenter team and a couple hundred of their top customers, talking all things CAE. We covered CFD, how AR/VR fits into simulation workflows, where optimization can and should be applied, how to leverage the intersection of...
Oct 22, 2018 | Hot Topics
Sometimes I get to do really cool things, like this. A few weeks ago, I recorded a web episode of Allan Behrens’ series on all things PLMish and IoTish for disruptive live, “the UK’s first tech TV channel”. We riff on what happened (and what we...
