Home » MFG & PLM

MFG & PLM

Autodesk reports 11% first quarter revenue growth

Autodesk reports 11% first quarter revenue growth

May. 17 | Strong performance by suites drives results. Media and Entertainment revenue was down 5%. The interior of Autodesk's AEC headquarters in Waltham, Mass. (Source: Autodesk) Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) today reported a solid first quarter of fiscal year 2013....

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...

Nvidia launches the Kepler era of virtual GPU computing and accessible HPC

Nvidia launches the Kepler era of virtual GPU computing and accessible HPC

May. 15 | Nvidia says previously unobtainable performance opens the door to a variety of possibilities including streaming games like movies or doing sophisticated simulations from the cloud. Power efficiency gains are as important as the graphics gains. Nvidia...

3D printing industry grew nearly 30 percent in 2011

3D printing industry grew nearly 30 percent in 2011

May. 15 | The information comes from The Wohlers Report. Now in its 17th year, it has become the authoritative guide to additive manufacturing and related technologies.  The 3D printing products for manufacturing market grew at a 29.4% rate in 2011, says the new...

Siemens PLM says there’s new wind in the Velocity sails

Siemens PLM says there’s new wind in the Velocity sails

May. 14 | Now known as the Mainstream Engineering group, the Siemens PLM division responsible for Solid Edge says business is booming. A reference customer says SolidWorks should be worried. Last week at the Siemens PLM Software annual customer conference the company...

EOS bringing inventor Dean Kamen to Rapid 2012

EOS bringing inventor Dean Kamen to Rapid 2012

May. 14 | The maker of laser sintering 3D printing devices is sponsoring a user day at the annual additive manufacturing event.   The parts for this prosthetic arm were created using direct metal laser sintering on an EOS 3D printer. (Source: EOS). Prolific inventor...

Stratasys sets first quarter revenue record

Stratasys sets first quarter revenue record

May. 11 | The company has hired and trained 90 new sales reps for its expanding line of desktop 3D printers. Revenue guidance for the rest of 2012 is raised, due to the Objet acquisition. Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) reported first quarter record revenue of $45.0...

Autodesk Labs Factory.Modz() brings gameware physics to factory layout.

Autodesk Labs Factory.Modz() brings gameware physics to factory layout.

May. 10 | When customers wanted simple simulation and animation in Factory Design Suite, Autodesk raided the Media and Entertainment cookie jar for technology. When Autodesk released Factory Design Suite a year ago, it was to many people an unexpected addition...

New Modo Power SubD-Nurbs reverses the CAD pipeline

New Modo Power SubD-Nurbs reverses the CAD pipeline

May. 9 | Plug-in allows designers to start in Modo and pass a model to 3D CAD.   Making good on a promise from earlier this year, Luxology has released a plug-in for Modo 601 that converts models into Nurbs-based CAD models. The new plug-in will interest product...

3D Systems acquires another maker

3D Systems acquires another maker

May. 7 | FreshFiber makes custom cases for smartphones, selling them online and in high-end retail stores. 3D Systems has acquired another vendor of custom 3D printed consumer products. FreshFiber BV, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is best known for selling...