Feature Article

Winning designs: Design contest proves CAD software accelerates the innovation process

If you asked Benjamin Mahan about the value of CAD software, he might respond with a line from a credit card commercial: Priceless. Mahan, a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corp. Reserves, used the Pro/ENGINEER CAD package from PTC to design a special shield that is protecting the faces—and in some cases literally saving the lives—of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Simulation cycles: Dassault Systèmes to acquire Engineous Software; partners with Intercim for A&D

Dassault Systèmes will buy Engineous Software—a specialist in process automation, integration and optimization—to extend Dassault's SIMULIA simulation life-cycle management solutions on the Dassault V6 IP collaboration platform.
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Designs on DEK: Imaging specialist extends PTC solutions into project collaboration

DEK Printing Machines (DEK) is expanding its deployment of the PTC Product Development System (PDS) to include Windchill for content and process management. With existing use of PTC Pro/ENGINEER parametric CAD/CAM/CAE software for product design, Windchill will enhance internal project collaboration within six global sites, and external project collaboration with DEK suppliers and partners.
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Relevant ranking: CAM software market leaders named by CIMdata 

The NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment report offered by Ann Arbor, Mich.-based CIMdata names the worldwide computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software market leaders for 2007, and projected those expected to be market leaders in 2008.
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Research

Product innovation agenda: Profiting from innovation today and tomorrow

Innovation is hard to grasp, but product profitability is tangible and readily measured. Best-in-Class companies take different approaches to creating innovation and developing it into profitable products. This report serves as a guideline for what Best-in-Class companies have done to gain significant performance advantages in product innovation and profitability. In the December 2005 Product Innovation Agenda benchmark report, Aberdeen Group investigated how companies leverage product innovation. The Product Innovation Agenda 2010 report reassesses the 2005 product innovation agenda and looks at its relationship to the corporate agenda today and beyond.
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