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Redefining production in the age of Digital Reality

Redefining production in the age of Digital Reality

May. 17 | Software is transforming every stage of the manufacturing process. Small companies with niche technologies are being gobbled up. By Kathleen Maher May Day is over and the workers of the world are still pretty much wearing their chains. Ironically, the...

Intergraph releases SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility

Intergraph releases SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility

Apr. 4 | ISO 15926 is the foundation of a semantic web for process and power plant design and operations. Its support by CAD vendors in the plant space has become ubiquitous. With the release of its SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility Intergraph is...

EdgeWise Plant 3.0 runs up to 12x faster with multicore processing

EdgeWise Plant 3.0 runs up to 12x faster with multicore processing

Mar. 14 | Other new features include enhanced pipe extraction, QA tools to verify accuracy, and real-time finishing tools. ClearEdge3D this week released EdgeWise Plant 3.0 with six major new features to optimize and accelerate 3D modeling workflows. The software...

Autodesk’s AEC division regroups

Autodesk’s AEC division regroups

Dec. 4 | Progress' new CEO, Jay Bhatt The surprise move put the AEC division under an unscripted spotlight at last week’s Autodesk University. It is a good time for a shake-up in the division; Bentley is gaining ground. In a move seen as positive by...

ClearEdge3D wins National Science Foundation grant

ClearEdge3D wins National Science Foundation grant

Oct. 3 | The maker of wicked fast 3D scan technology for feature extraction will work on eliminating blind spots and extending the technology’s use from single buildings or plants to whole facilities and city blocks. ClearEdge3D has won a research grant...

Aveva Plant portfolio update tightens 3D links

Aveva Plant portfolio update tightens 3D links

Sep. 29 | New features include deeper integration between modules, enhanced reporting capabilities, and extended language support. Elements from schematics may be compared with the master 3D plant model.  Aveva today announced the 12.1 release of Aveva Plant,...

Salamander Energy selects Aveva for enterprise asset management

Salamander Energy selects Aveva for enterprise asset management

Sep. 20 | The oil and gas exploration firm will use Aveva WorkMate to improve operations in Indonesia and Thailand. Asian oil and gas exploration firm Salamander Energy has selected Aveva operations management solutions for its on-going exploration work in Indonesia...

Kineo CAM finds a software shortcut for nuclear plant robots

Kineo CAM finds a software shortcut for nuclear plant robots

Aug. 31 | New technology skips the conversion of 3D point clouds to CAD geometry to create an automatic path finder. Nuclear plant operators use as-built models to determine access paths for equipment and mobile robots, which must traverse areas humans cannot generally...

Autodesk deal with Bayer Technology pushes Intergraph aside

Autodesk deal with Bayer Technology pushes Intergraph aside

Jul. 18 | Bayer will use a wide variety of Autodesk products in the design, construction, and operation of chemical and pharmaceutical plants worldwide. Four years ago Intergraph SmartPlant was supposed to do the same thing. Bayer Technology Services has signed...

New Edgewise Plant find pipes within massive 3D scans

New Edgewise Plant find pipes within massive 3D scans

Jun. 16 | The software automatically extracts pipe geometry from 3D point cloud data, reducing pipe modeling time 50% or more. ClearEdge3D (Warrenton, Virginia) is now shipping Edgewise Plant, a new software tool that automates the extraction of complex CAD geometry...