PLM Industry Summary Sara Vos, Editor Vol. 18 No 14 Friday, 8 April 2016 Contents

CIMdata News ______2 CIMdata Announces Successful 2016 North American PLM Market & Industry Forum and Releases Its 2015 PLM Market Analysis ______2 Walt Disney Imagineering’s Journey to Model-Based Systems Engineering to be Shared at CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Workshop ______4 Acquisitions ______4 Accenture to Acquire Majority Stake in IMJ to Expand its Digital Capabilities in Japan ______4 HCL Technologies Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire the Business of Geometric Limited ______5 Company News ______7 Addnode Group’s Subsidiary Cad-Q Changes Name to Symetri ______7 AMS CAD + CAFM Solutions Partners With NexGenCAM to Provide CAM Efficiency Software ______7 Applied Software Names Construction Industry Veteran Clay Smith as Chief Operating Officer ______8 BigLever Software and No Magic Partner to Enable a New Dimension in Model Based Systems and Software Engineering ______8 Cadence and University of Oxford Foster the Advancement of Formal Verification Innovation ______10 CCE’s EnSuite-View Just Had a Blowout Month ______10 Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Divest Its Equity Stake in Mphasis to Blackstone ______11 IBM and SAP Announce Plans for Major Investments to Drive Clients’ Digital Transformations ______12 Intespace successfully tests and validates multimillion-dollar satellites and payloads with advanced LMS testing solutions: a Siemens PLM Case Study ______13 Murphy Surveys now producing ARCHICAD-ready point cloud models for faster, accurate building surveys ______16 New Study: 70% of Executives Have Started Digital Supply Chain Transformation ______17 Plastic Ingenuity Unveils New 3D Experience Packaging Solution ______19 Printing Innovator and Leader, Vyomesh Joshi Takes Helm as 3D Systems’ Chief Executive Officer ____20 SQS partners with Siemens PLM to provide end-to-end business process quality assurance for software based systems ______20 Synopsys Extends Verification IP Portfolio for Automotive Applications ______21 Vortex Bladeless Wind Energy Project Team Receives Altair CAE Suite Donation______22 Events News ______22 Dassault Systèmes Announces Four Global Events Dedicated to Design, Science, Manufacturing and Marketing in the “Age of Experience” ______22 ESI Presents Leading Casting Simulation Software ProCAST at CastExpo 2016 ______24 Fujitsu to Host Fujitsu Forum 2016 ______24 Rand 3D to be a Sponsor at the COE 2016 Annual Conference______25 Financial News ______25 Hexagon publishes the annual report 2015 ______25 Implementation Investments ______25 Altice Group and PTC Partner to Deliver Global IoT Services and Solutions ______25 Caterpillar Deploys Dassault Systèmes’ “Single Source for Speed” Industry Solution Experience ______26 Dassault Systèmes and Ipsen sign collaborative agreement to develop innovative programs to support Ipsen’s drug discovery ______27 Nano Dimension Uses SOLIDWORKS to Design 3D Printer ______27 Copyright © 2016 by CIMdata, Inc. All rights reserved. CIMdata, Inc. 3909 Research Park Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 Tel: +1 (734) 668–9922 Fax: +1 (734) 668–1957 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.CIMdata.com CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Paradigm, Dassault Systèmes partner on predicting reservoir behavior ______28 Toshiba Machine Selects Aras Innovator to Improve Design Processes, Enhance Product Quality, and Manage Global Product Information ______29 Zamasport Chooses Lectra Fashion PLM ______29 Product News ______30 ANSYS Releases Latest Version of Savant and EMIT ______30 aPriori Continues to Accelerate the Pace of Innovation with aPriori 2016 R1 ______31 BOXX Introduces First FLEXX Product and More at GTC 2016 ______32 C3D Labs Upgrades Software Development Toolkit for 2016______33 Cadence Unveils Next-Generation Virtuoso Platform Featuring Advanced Analog Verification Technologies and 10X Performance Improvements Across Platform ______35 Gerber Launches OMEGA 6.0: Faster, Easier and More Powerful ______36 Introducing openBoM: a Cloud Based BoM Tool for Manufacturing Companies and Hardware Startups that Facilitates Data Handoff in Distributed Environments ______37 Maple T.A. 2016 Enables Easy Authoring of STEM Testing Content ______38 Renga Architecture's Colorful New Release ______39 Solving The Decades Long Interoperability Issue While Turbo-Charging 3D Applications, Kubotek Announces KCM — The Next Generation Modeler ______40 Synergis Partners with 4D Technologies to Offer CADLearning On-demand Learning Products for Autodesk Solutions ______41 Tech Soft 3D’s HOOPS Exchange Now Available Directly from Siemens PLM Software ______41 CIMdata News

CIMdata Announces Successful 2016 North American PLM Market & Industry Forum and Releases Its 2015 PLM Market Analysis 5 April 2016 CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the successful completion of its 2016 North American PLM Market & Industry Forum—the first in a series of five global events. This year’s North American Forum was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 31 March 2016. There were 58 PLM industry participants, representing 22 leading global PLM software and service providers. CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forums represent the world’s premier event for software and service providers focused specifically on the PLM market and the issues concerning its development and growth. Participants gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan to hear CIMdata’s perspective on the state and trends of the PLM market, as well as a detailed discussion of CIMdata’s research and viewpoints on the 2015 PLM market results. CIMdata’s extensive analysis and forecasts regarding market growth across PLM domains, industries, and regions, and the performance (revenue and market share analysis) of leading PLM software and service providers were shared. The theme for the event was “It’s a Material(s) World: This Changes Everything.” The agenda included sessions covering emerging trends in the market. The topics covered were based on the findings and activities of CIMdata’s PLM Knowledge Councils—a set of collaborative research communities that bring together leading end user companies and PLM software and service providers to help advance the state-of-the-art and best practices in emerging product lifecycle management disciplines.

Page 2 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary In the annual “State of PLM: Today’s Market and Leading Trends” address, Peter Bilello, CIMdata’s President, stated that, “The global PLM economy is robust, with significant expansions, shifts, and repositioning taking place. Changes in software subscription models, the use of the cloud, the evolution of PLM-related services, and turbulence in specific global financial markets all had an impact on the state of the industry over the last year.” He added, “PLM solutions and industry’s use of these solutions are maturing, which is forcing CIMdata to change how it views and describes the capabilities that are needed to enable a PLM environment. Of critical importance is the momentum in which PLM is transforming into a Product Innovation Platform. With this in mind we, as an industry, need to continually rethink PLM and how we enable our clients to design, deliver, and support innovative products and/or services.” Commenting on the PLM market in 2015, Mr. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Vice President of Research, said, “Calendar year 2015 was a strong year for PLM, but also a very strong year for the US dollar. Since we publish our numbers in US$, the weakness of major currencies in areas that spend heavily on PLM dragged down CIMdata’s reported results.” Recent statistics compiled by CIMdata show that the PLM market experienced a 2.8% growth in calendar year 2015 to US$38.7 billion. Mr. Przybylinski added, “If we look at revenues in constant currencies, growth would have been a more robust 8.2% to US$40.7 billion. In this view, there was growth in almost all segments, with digital manufacturing and simulation and analysis (S&A) leading the way.” “Companies in many industries continued investing in PLM to achieve short-term benefits as well as long-term strategic value throughout the product lifecycle and across their extended enterprises. CIMdata has long defined PLM as a strategic imperative to achieving long-term strategic value.” noted Mr. Przybylinski. The North American PLM Market & Industry Forum is the first in a global series, with the next session scheduled for 7 April in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Additional Forum sessions take place on 11 April in Pune, India, 15 April in Shanghai, China, and 21 April in Tokyo, Japan. The PLM Market & Industry Forums provide the first look at CIMdata’s PLM market estimates. The full analysis will be released in the CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series. For more information, please see www.CIMdata.com. About CIMdata CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Since its founding in 1983, CIMdata has delivered world-class knowledge, expertise, and best-practice methods on PLM solutions. These solutions incorporate both business processes and a wide-ranging set of PLM-enabling technologies. CIMdata works with both industrial organizations and providers of technologies and services seeking competitive advantage in the global economy. In addition to consulting, CIMdata conducts research, provides PLM-focused subscription services, and produces several commercial publications. The company also provides industry education through PLM certificate programs, seminars, and conferences worldwide. CIMdata serves clients around the world from offices in North America, Europe, and Asia- Pacific. To learn more about CIMdata’s services, visit our website at www.CIMdata.com, follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CIMdataPLMNews, or contact CIMdata at: 3909 Research Park Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA, Tel: +1 734.668.9922. Fax: +1 734.668.1957; or at Oogststraat 20, 6004 CV Weert, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 (0) 495.533.666. Click here to return to Contents

Page 3 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Walt Disney Imagineering’s Journey to Model-Based Systems Engineering to be Shared at CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Workshop 7 April 2016 CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Matthew Loew, a senior project manager at Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), will make a keynote presentation at CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Knowledge Council workshop taking place in Troy, Michigan on April 27. The event is being held in conjunction with NAFEMS’ Engineering Analysis & Simulation in the Automotive Industry: Emerging Standards & Practices event. Drawing on inspiration from the Walt Disney quote, “We keep moving forward, opening up new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths,” Matthew Loew’s presentation, “Model-Based Systems Engineering Requirements from a User’s Perspective,” will discuss the real-world engineering and cultural challenges, lessons learned, and business opportunities in implementing a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach at WDI. A vision for applying these tools and techniques, starting in the earliest "Blue Sky" phase to define the Creative Intent all the way through the final Commissioning, will also be shared. Matthew Loew’s role at WDI is to help lead efforts in the Ride Engineering organization to move from a process that is predominately document-based to one that is model-based. Mr. Loew has a passion for building and leading high-performance engineering teams supporting new product development projects. He has been active in large-scale engineering projects in the entertainment, transportation, defense, energy, industrial, and heavy equipment sectors for 20 years and has led multiple projects to drive the development of new machines and systems by introducing advanced Modeling & Simulation and MBSE methods. CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development workshop is a must-attend event for industrial organizations and PLM software and service providers involved in systems modeling and simulation. It offers independent education and a collaborative networking environment where ideas, trends, experiences, and relationships critical to the industry take root. The theme for the workshop is “Driving Industry to Model-Based Systems Engineering.” Presentations and interactive sessions will address the following critical areas: industry standards, MBSE requirements, co-simulation, and the integration of SysML models with modeling and simulation tools. Attendees should expect to gain a solid understanding of current best practices and of the work that CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Knowledge Council is undertaking. Mr. Donald Tolle, CIMdata’s Director, Simulation-Driven Systems Development Practice will serve as the facilitator for this workshop. He will be joined by CIMdata’s Executive Consultant for Simulation, Dr. Keith Meintjes. For more information on attending the CIMdata workshop or the NAFEMS’ event visit the CIMdata website at: http://www.cimdata.com/en/education/knowledge-council- workshops/sdsd-workshop-2016 Click here to return to Contents Acquisitions

Accenture to Acquire Majority Stake in IMJ to Expand its Digital Capabilities in Japan 5 April 2016

Page 4 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Accenture is expanding its digital capabilities in Japan by acquiring a majority stake in IMJ Corporation (IMJ), a full-service digital agency. The acquisition, once completed, will enhance the capabilities of Accenture Interactive in the local market, bringing together leading edge creativity, deep knowledge in advanced digital technology and consulting capabilities from Accenture and IMJ to provide seamless end-to-end digital marketing services.

The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. Upon completion of the transaction, Accenture will establish a combined management structure with IMJ. Financial terms are not being disclosed.

Founded in 1996, IMJ currently has approximately 600 employees and is one of Japan’s leading digital agencies. It provides a wide range of digital marketing services, including strategy, content design and development, customer acquisition, campaign management and data and analytics. Utilizing its marketing mix optimization offering and creative talents, the agency specializes in helping clients in the consumer goods, beverage, automotive, telecommunications, financial services, entertainment and retail industries grow their businesses.

“Acquiring a majority stake in IMJ provides us with enhanced capabilities to deliver digital services in this dynamic market,” said Atsushi Egawa, country managing director at Accenture Japan. “What attracted us to IMJ is their know-how and deep insights into the evolving needs of Japanese consumers, and their ability to drive ROI in web and mobile integration for leading brands. Through this acquisition, we will combine Accenture Interactive and IMJ capabilities into a unified go-to-market offering that delivers an even deeper and broader set of digital solutions to clients.”

“Our corporate vision of ‘enriching the consumer experience through the power of digital’ aligns with Accenture’s mission to transform clients through the power of digital,” said Shinji Takeuchi, president and chief executive officer of IMJ. “By combining Accenture Interactive’s comprehensive suite of digital marketing services with IMJ’s digital expertise that has evolved from 20 years of web integration experience, we can provide leading edge user experiences to help local and global companies better compete in this fast-growing market.” Click here to return to Contents

HCL Technologies Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire the Business of Geometric Limited 4 April 2016 HCL Technologies Limited (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today announced an agreement to acquire (through demerger) all of the business of Geometric Limited, except for the 58% stake that Geometric owns in the joint venture – 3DPLM Software Solutions Ltd., with Dassault Systèmes. In consideration of this acquisition, HCL will issue 10 equity shares of Rs. 2 each to Geometric shareholders for every 43 equity shares of Geometric of Rs. 2 each held by them. In total, HCL will issue 15,640,546 equity shares of Rs. 2 each. Geometric is one of India’s leading PLM consulting, mechanical engineering and manufacturing engineering services providers. HCL’s global engineering services business, with revenue of around $1.2 billion in calendar 2015, is a leader in this space, and has an industry leading position in hardware & software engineering, product development & testing, embedded, digital and mechanical engineering. The acquisition strengthens

Page 5 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary HCL’s presence significantly in the PLM consulting as well as mechanical and manufacturing engineering space. It also significantly strengthens HCL’s automotive and industrial practices. The business that HCL is acquiring, in one of the largest acquisitions in the engineering services space, has more than 60 global clients in USA and Europe, majorly in automotive and industrial engineering segments. As of December 2015, it employs 2,606 people across 13 global delivery locations in the US, France, Germany, Romania, India and China. HCL will inherit several unique Geometric processes, methodologies and intellectual properties in PLM and digital manufacturing, along with highly specialized professionals in the PLM consulting as well as mechanical and manufacturing engineering space. The transaction thus creates a unique portfolio of end–to–end engineering and R&D capabilities across the full product lifecycle – hardware, software, mechanical & manufacturing engineering and PLM consulting. G.H Rao, President, Engineering and R&D Services, HCL Technologies said, “We are looking forward to an exciting journey and extend a warm welcome to the employees, customers and partners of Geometric. With broad end–to–end capabilities and rich experience across PLM consulting, mechanical and manufacturing engineering that Geometric brings in, the synergies allow us to take advantage of the rapidly growing manufacturing engineering and PLM services market. It also provides several cross–sell and up–sell opportunities as the customers will benefit from a unique services portfolio of end–to–end engineering, R&D, digital technologies and internet of things capabilities.”

Manu Parpia, CEO and MD of Geometric Ltd. said, “I welcome this as a truly synergistic transaction, as both our employees and customers will benefit. Our customers will have access to a wide range of engineering services which complement Geometric’s offerings. Geometric’s employees will have the opportunity for growth as they can serve HCL Tech’s large customer base.” Headquartered in Mumbai, Geometric was incorporated in 1994 and is listed on the Bombay and National Stock Exchange. For the Fiscal Years ended March 2014 & March 2015, the revenues were INR 7,871.2 million & INR 8,139.3 million respectively. For the nine–month period ended Dec 31, 2015, the revenues were INR 6,735 million. The transaction is expected to be accretive on Cash Earnings per Share. The acquisition would take place through a Scheme of Arrangement which would be subject to the approval of the Hon’ble High Courts at Mumbai and Delhi in addition to the approval of the regulatory authorities. HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company working with clients in areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its emergence on global landscape after its IPO in 1999 and listing in 2000, HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, today operates out of 32 countries and has consolidated revenues of US$ 6.1 billion, as on 31st December 2015 (on Calendar Year basis). HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value creation, offering an integrated portfolio of services including Enterprise Digitalization, Internet of Things, Engineering Services Outsourcing and Next Generation IT Outsourcing that focuses on transformation-led infrastructure services, applications services and business services. HCL leverages its extensive global delivery capabilities and integrated innovation labs across the world to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Media, Publishing & Entertainment, Retail & CPG, Life sciences & Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Travel, Transportation & Logistics and Government. With 103,696 professionals from diverse nationalities, HCL Technologies focuses on creating real value for customers by taking “Relationships

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Addnode Group’s Subsidiary Cad-Q Changes Name to Symetri 4 April 2016 The change of the name marks the company’s transformation from a CAD provider to a broad supplier of software and services for the construction and facility sector, manufacturing and marine industries. Addnode Group’s subsidiary Cad-Q started off in 1989 as a supplier of CAD systems. The company has since then gradually changed into becoming a strategic business partner providing software and services for design, construction and product data information. As a part of the transformation process, the company now changes its name to Symetri. Symetri has approximately 300 employees and a strong portfolio of software and services that help customers to analyze, simulate, design, construct and manage products and facilities. Customers are mainly within construction, real estate, manufacturing and marine industries. “We have gradually turned our customer offering to include more and more software and services for optimization of workflows, data management and quality improvement. Cad-Q is no longer an accurate name of the company. The name change to Symetri reflects our transformation to a broad and diverse customer offering,” says Staffan Hanstorp, President and CEO of Addnode Group. Symetri is a part of Addnode Group’s business area Design Management. The business area had net sales of SEK 828 M in 2015 and is the leading supplier of software and services for design and construction in Northern Europe. Click here to return to Contents

AMS CAD + CAFM Solutions Partners With NexGenCAM to Provide CAM Efficiency Software 7 April 2016 AMS CAD + CAFM Solutions, a leading provider of CAD & CAFM software and services for Northeast United States, is excited to announce a new partnership with NexGenCAM, providers of CAM efficiency software. Through this partnership, AMS CAD + CAFM Solutions is now authorized to sell HSM Integrated CAM software, the next generation of CNC machine tool programming, to the CAM Industry. With Integrated CAM software, CNC programmers, designers, and engineers can now rapidly produce machined parts designed in virtually any CAD system. This means companies can achieve higher productivity, reduced costs, and shorter time to market. "We are always looking to provide our clients with products that can help to improve their productivity," explains Brad Whittemore, President of AMS CAD + CAFM Solutions. "With our new partnership with NexGenCam, we are excited to provide our Manufacturing clients with the best-in-class CAM software solutions." "We are pleased to add AMS CAD + CAFM Solutions to our partner team covering the Northeast. Their

Page 7 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary reputation and dedication to customer service is exactly what we look for in a successful partner," says Mark Fischer, Managing Partner of NexGenCAM. As an initial venture, AMS CAD + CAFM Solutions and NexGenCAM are co-hosting a free webinar "CAM Efficiency with HSM" onApril 27 from 3 pm – 4 pm ET. Join this webinar to see how upgrading to CAM software that runs inside of CAD greatly reduces speed and simplifies CNC programming. Click here to return to Contents

Applied Software Names Construction Industry Veteran Clay Smith as Chief Operating Officer 4 April 2016 Applied Software®, a leading systems integrator to the AEC, construction and manufacturing industries, today announced that Clay Smith has joined the company as its chief operating officer. Smith offers nearly two decades of executive experience leading manufacturing, sales, engineering and software development organizations from start-up through high-growth transitions. Prior to joining Applied Software, Smith was vice president, BEM Software Solutions, at Southwire, Inc. "With his excellent track record of leading high-growth construction industry companies, Clay is uniquely qualified to help guide our next phase of growth and is a welcome addition to our executive team," said Richard Burroughs, president of Applied Software. "Clay has guided companies in aggressively seeking continuous improvement and successfully leveraging new business opportunities presented as part of the changing nature of the construction industry." Smith is a former U.S. Army Aviation Officer and holds a bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Click here to return to Contents

BigLever Software and No Magic Partner to Enable a New Dimension in Model Based Systems and Software Engineering 4 April 2016 BigLever Software, a leading provider of Product Line Engineering (PLE) solutions, announced today that the company has partnered with No Magic, a premier standards-based modeling, simulation and analysis solutions provider, to deliver an integrated PLE and Model Based Engineering (MBE) solution – the No Magic MagicDraw/BigLever Software Gears Bridge. This new integration enables companies to achieve competitive advantage through the reduction of complexity, greater efficiency, increased product quality, enhanced scalability and portfolio diversity, as well as improved cross-functional alignment between engineering and operational roles. “Product engineering organizations need a new approach for harnessing the ever-growing complexity of managing product variation across a product line portfolio,” said Dr. Charles Krueger, BigLever Software CEO. “PLE has emerged as a game-changing engineering paradigm for addressing this need. By partnering with No Magic, and bringing MagicDraw into the PLE Ecosystem, we are creating a new dimension for Model Based Engineering with MagicDraw – one that combines PLE’s innovative feature-based variation management capabilities with the powerful visualization, analysis, verification, and validation capabilities of MBE.”

Page 8 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary PLE addresses product complexity by dramatically simplifying the creation, delivery, maintenance, and evolution of a product line portfolio. It uses a shared set of engineering assets, a managed set of features, and an efficient means for automating production of assets for the product line. BigLever’s Gears PLE solution and methods enable a unified feature-based approach across the full lifecycle, from portfolio planning to multi-discipline asset engineering and testing, product management, manufacturing, sales, and service. By providing a “single source of feature truth,” PLE enables a holistic view into the feature variations for a product family, thereby eliminating the need for different variant management mechanisms across tools, processes and organizational functions. “The No Magic global team is delighted to announce this partnership with BigLever,” said Gary Duncanson, President and CEO of No Magic. “Our strategic alliance facilitates the work taking place by our commercial and defense sector customers as they endeavor to meet their large-scale product line and design variant deployment requirements. PLE has been of critical importance in many industry domains, including the automotive sector. The integration of PLE and Model-based Systems Engineering represented in this unique partnership simplifies and mitigates product design complexity, while at the same time providing equally impressive industry results of a two-to-ten-time gain in engineering metrics.” No Magic’s MagicDraw MBE platform is used by enterprises to replace document-driven artifacts with integrated and traceable models. The MagicDraw/Gears Bridge extends MagicDraw to operate seamlessly, efficiently, and effectively as part of the unified PLE lifecycle toolsets used by a growing number of systems engineering organizations. The new Bridge allows engineers to use Gears PLE concepts and constructs as first-class systems engineering mechanisms for managing product line diversity in MagicDraw models, as a highly scalable alternative to traditional clone-and-own or manual variant management approaches. MagicDraw models can now be seen as shared assets within Gears-based production lines, and automatically configured for different products by making feature choices in a Gears feature profile. One of the most respected providers of standards-compliant modeling, simulation and analysis solutions in the industry, No Magic is positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Business Process Analysis Tools, and in the 2014 Gartner MarketScope and 2015 Market Guide for Enterprise Business Process Analysis*. The Cameo Suite supports the full enterprise application lifecycle from business requirements/planning through and including final testing with award-winning, OMG® standards-compliant products that efficiently model organizational structure, business processes, applications, information and technology. No Magic's MagicDraw supports multiple domain-specific models based on UML including BPMN, SysML. fUML, DoDAF/UPDM, MDD, SOA, unit testing, data modeling, simulation, concept and ontology. Professional services include training, consulting, custom applications and MagicDraw product customizations such as custom modeling domain diagrams, requirements management, team collaboration, design and analysis. BigLever Software, Inc., the leading provider of systems and software product line engineering solutions and services, dramatically simplifies the creation, evolution, maintenance and delivery of a product line – a portfolio of similar products or systems with variations in features and functions. BigLever’s patented Gears solution enables organizations to reduce development costs and bring new product line features and products to market faster, enabling businesses to more reliably target and hit strategic market windows. BigLever is based in Austin, Texas. Click here to return to Contents

Page 9 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Cadence and University of Oxford Foster the Advancement of Formal Verification Innovation 7 April 2016 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and the University of Oxford today announced a move to foster the advancement of formal verification innovation with the appointment of Dr. Ziyad Hanna, Cadence vice president of R&D, as a visiting professor in Oxford's Department of Computer Science for the next three years. Through Dr. Hanna's appointment at Oxford, a globally distinguished university, Cadence further expands its Cadence® Academic Network footprint. Dr. Hanna brings more than 25 years of industry experience to Oxford. He currently leads the R&D team for the Cadence JasperGold® formal verification platform, having joined from Jasper Design Automation, which was acquired by Cadence in 2014. Before joining Jasper, Dr. Hanna was also a senior principal engineer and a group leader at Intel, working on formal property verification and equivalence checking. A senior IEEE member, he has mentored dozens of research projects, delivered many visionary talks for the industry and academia, and served in more than 50 program committees to advance academic research. Dr. Hanna has co-authored over 30 articles and holds 15 U.S. patents, and he earned both his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in mathematics and computer science at Tel Aviv University and his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Dr. Ziyad Hanna, vice president of R&D at Cadence Oxford's Automated Verification Group, based in the Department of Computer Science, is one of the largest and strongest academic research groups in the field worldwide, and Cadence has one of the largest corporate investments in formal verification and formal equivalence research and development. Through this appointment, Dr. Hanna is using his real-world experience to enhance Oxford's automated formal verification research program, while also gaining exposure to the university's practical and industrially oriented research, which is what the Cadence Academic Network works to foster. "The University of Oxford appoints visiting professorships to highly distinguished individuals who are regarded as world leaders in their field and can further enhance our research excellence," said Thomas Melham, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. "The appointment of Dr. Hanna to Oxford highlights the commitment of Cadence to further the research and development of innovative technology, including formal verification. His visiting professorship provides Cadence with early insight into new academic research directions for addressing the hardest verification challenges that many chip design and system companies encounter." "Oxford's work in verification spans a wide range of research, from fundamental investigations into model checking to practical, machine-assisted methods applicable to real-world design and verification problems in software and hardware systems," said Dr. Hanna. "It's an honor to be working with Oxford's renowned Department of Computer Science. This appointment enables me to collaborate closely with Oxford's leading verification researchers to tap into the university's research, which can drive formal verification innovation and bring talented Oxford graduates to Cadence." Click here to return to Contents

CCE’s EnSuite-View Just Had a Blowout Month 4 April 2016 CCE, a leading provider of advanced interoperability technology and engineering services, reported over 1,000 downloads of its free CAD software on CCE Labs, in the month of February alone, led primarily

Page 10 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary by EnSuite-View, CCE’s free 3D CAD viewer. Downloads have been steadily growing, with February being the month with the highest amount of downloads, since the October 2015 release of EnSuite- View. “EnSuite-View, our free CAD viewer, is a great tool to have for professionals working in the supply chain, especially in the automotive industry, who deal with multi-CAD data. Interestingly enough, in the month of February, downloads were led by users mainly from North America, Czech Republic, and Germany; all three geographical areas being major, international automotive hubs. This is a testament of how our CAD tools enhance productivity within the automotive industry, as well as other industries that use our technology,” said Vinay Wagle, CCE’s VP of Sales & Marketing. EnSuite-View is a free and easy-to-use software that allows users to view all major CAD formats, as well as neutral formats, without requiring a license of any CAD system. In addition to providing viewers for all major CAD formats and standards, EnSuite-View features advanced productivity tools which allow users to analyze models and assemblies. For users simply looking to access critical engineering information that resides in CAD data, EnSuite-View is the answer. For users looking for a more advanced version of EnSuite-View, check out EnSuite-Lite and EnSuite, each equipped with a larger set of significant features. Incorporated in Michigan, CCE has more than 25 years of CAD/CAM/CAE software development experience, as well as an extensive background in related services. Since 1989, CCE’s focus in CAD technology & application development has spearheaded its mission to deliver customers value through innovative, disciplined, and communications-focused technology, products, and services. CCE has offices located in Farmington Hills, Michigan and Fort Lee, New Jersey. Click here to return to Contents

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Divest Its Equity Stake in Mphasis to Blackstone 4 April 2016 Hewlett Packard Enterprise group companies today signed a definitive agreement to sell its equity stake in Mphasis Limited, an IT services provider in Bangalore, to private equity funds managed by The Blackstone Group, one of the world's leading investment firms. Under the terms of the agreement, Blackstone has agreed to purchase at least 84% of HPE's stake in Mphasis for INR 430 per share. Blackstone will purchase the maximum amount of the remaining 16% stake that is permitted by Indian securities laws and subject to the outcome of a mandatory tender offer between signing and closing. At the proposed price, HPE's stake is valued at approximately $825 million. While HPE's decision to exit its equity position in Mphasis aligns with its current capital allocation priorities, the agreement is not expected to have any adverse impact on HPE's ongoing commercial relationship with the company. In fact, HPE plans to renew the current master services agreement with Mphasis for another five years in connection with this transaction. "While our financial relationship is changing, the business and commercial relationship with Mphasis remains an important part of our service delivery strategy," said Mike Nefkens, EVP and GM of HPE Enterprise Services. "We remain committed to our strategic partnership with Mphasis and to providing our customers with the high level of service and support they expect from HPE."

Page 11 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary The transaction is expected to close in the second half of fiscal 2016, subject to agreed closing conditions. HPE recognized approximately $650 million of revenue and $110 million of operating profit from Mphasis, on a fully consolidated basis, in fiscal year 2015. HPE recognized approximately $75 million of pre-tax earnings, representing its 60.48% ownership of Mphasis, in fiscal year 2015. The sale of the equity position in Mphasis is not expected to impact HPE Enterprise Services' ability to achieve its previously provided FY16 operating margin outlook of 6-7% or longer-term 7-9% operating profit margin target. Click here to return to Contents

IBM and SAP Announce Plans for Major Investments to Drive Clients’ Digital Transformations 6 April 2016 IBM and SAP SE today announced plans across both companies to drive the modernization of clients’ systems and processes and accelerate them into the digital economy. Specifically, the companies plan to co-innovate solutions that increase customer value through cognitive extensions, enhanced customer and user experiences and industry-specific functionality -- all enabled with SAP® Business Suite 4 SAP HANA® (SAP S/4HANA) software, available on-premise and in the cloud. The companies intend to co-locate resources in Walldorf, Germany and Palo Alto, Calif. deepening their long-standing partnership and delivering a distinct blend of market-leading capabilities. In addition, the companies will showcase new solutions and thought leadership to clients in IBM, SAP innovation centers around the world. "The future of business strategy and business value will proceed from the foundational elements of this announcement -- cognitive, cloud and the design of consumer-quality experiences in every industry," said Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president, IBM Global Business Services. "We’re formalizing a complementary set of capabilities to simplify and speed outcomes for clients evolving to become cognitive enterprises." “Today’s announcement builds on SAP’s commitment to enable strong, growing businesses that can seize the amazing opportunities of the digital economy,” said Rob Enslin, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE and president of Global Customer Operations, SAP. “SAP S/4HANA is the reimagined suite of core business applications that has once again set the standard for the industry. I’m delighted that IBM and SAP will collaborate closely to give customers a clear roadmap to innovating new business models and outcomes that were never before possible.” As clients change business models to capture new market opportunities by rethinking processes, work patterns and end-user experiences, the companies expect that the collaboration will include: • Cloud-based solutions: The companies will draw on the successful, strategic partnership between IBM and SAP for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud services announced in October 2014 to scale the IBM cloud platform to meet the unpredictable demands of digital transformation. In addition, IBM and SAP will collaborate on industry-specific cloud solutions and expand current SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud services to include ongoing application maintenance and support services.

Page 12 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary • On-premise solutions: SAP and IBM will enable client engagements for hybrid and on-premise offerings with SAP HANA on IBM Power systems, supported through the new IBM Power Systems Center of Excellence for SAP HANA in Austin, Texas. • Cognitive capabilities: IBM will develop cognitive solutions for SAP S/4HANA and line-of- business solutions that harness the power of IBM’s cognitive APIs to drive more informed decisions by a broad range of business users and across all C-suite professions. • Customer and user experience: IBM Interactive Experience (iX), the world’s largest digital agency; SAP Global Design, the group behind the award-winning SAP Fiori® UX; and the SAP Customer Engagement and Commerce team will work together on pre-designed experiences that can be further customized for clients’ customers and employees. The collaboration will also apply IBM’s iOS design skills for mobile user experiences. • Integrated services: The companies will develop collaborative consulting models drawing on proven, agile services and support methodologies from both organizations. • Industry-specific road maps: IBM’s Institute for Business Value and SAP’s Value Engineering organization will co-create digital transformation road maps by industry and by C-suite role. Click here to return to Contents

Intespace successfully tests and validates multimillion-dollar satellites and payloads with advanced LMS testing solutions: a Siemens PLM Case Study 7 April 2016 Aiming for the stars Launched from the European Space Port in French Guiana in December 2013, the Gaia spacecraft is taking precise positional measurements of approximately one billion stars and radial velocity measurements of the brightest 150 million objects. Set to operate until 2018 and possibly 2019, Gaia will be sending back information about the composition, formation and evolution of the galaxy we live in, the Milky Way. Scientists hope that the mission’s data will shed some light on some of the basic questions about space. Gaia’s spectrophotometric observations from each of the billion stars will help determine the origin, structure and development of galaxies, solar systems, planet systems, quasars and even asteroids. Built by Astrium (now known as Airbus Defence and Space) for the European Space Agency (ESA), Gaia is a complex two-ton machine packed with sophisticated instrumentation including a billion-pixel spectrophotometric array aligned to two telescopes, an atomic clock and a 10-meter sunshade. The spacecraft is orbiting 1.5 million kilometers from Earth and sending back data that could possibly answer the mysteries of the universe. How do Gaia and other priceless space payloads make it from the launch pad to the depths of space with everything intact and in perfect working order? For people like Paul-Eric Dupuis and his team at Intespace in Toulouse, France, the answer is simple: use the latest simulation and testing solutions in one of the most advanced test facilities with some of the world’s most experienced people, hand-inhand with customers. The Intespace secret: 30 years of experience

Page 13 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Intespace is a leading specialist in environmental aerospace testing with more than 30 years of experience. Part of the international space testing scene since 1983, the company’s 20,000-square-meter test facility is located in the Airbus Defence and Space production site. Intespace’s shareholders are Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space, and the site connects directly to the satellite integration room. Dedicated mostly to projects for Airbus Defence and Space, Intespace has invested more than €11.5 million in the site since 2000. The facility attracts attention from outside the French aerospace community, including from the United States, whose DIRECTV 15 satellite was tested at Intespace and launched in 2015 from French Guiana. A test campaign every week Since more and more satellite integrators and component manufacturers are counting on Intespace’s expertise to test and validate their multimillion-dollar payloads, the company is very busy at times. Intespace relies on LMS™ solutions from product lifecycle management (PLM) specialist Siemens PLM Software, including LMS SCADAS™ hardware and LMS Test.Lab™software. “My team has many shakers with two acquisition systems to run tests campaigns,” says Carine Pont, mechanical test manager at Intespace. “The smaller one, featuring a 128-channel LMS SCADAS hardware control system, is used about 10 to 12 times a year. The 96-channel LMS SCADAS control system on the big multi-vibration system shaker gets used every week. Our campaigns aren’t always on big satellites. Testing subsystems, like telecom satellite reflectors, is a main part of our job as well. Just recently, we were quite excited because we completed the first test campaigns on the telescope for the CHEOPS mission.” The team at Intespace has the right to be excited. CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) is a special project organized by ESA and the Swiss Space Office. Scheduled to launch in December 2017, CHEOPS is a spacecraft that will carry a single payload: a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope developed by Almatech. It will orbit around the Earth at a height of about 800 kilometers to study the formation of extra-solar planets similar to ours. Europe, North America and beyond The CHEOPS telescope, Gaia and the American DIRECTV 15 satellite are just a few of the many projects the center handles annually. Intespace manages all the volume with its highly advanced and efficient process based on years of experience. “Intespace always had a very efficient way of testing based on our own software, DynaWorks,” explains Paul-Eric Dupuis, Intespace’s chief technical officer (CTO) and research and development (R&D) director. “This software is really a collection of all the experience that we have accumulated these past 30 years in the space industry. Today, we have a clear process that we intend to put to work.” For the testing side of the solution, the team had been using a custom-built, one-of-a-kind system since 2000. This system was integrated into the DynaWorks® process and for quite some time worked very efficiently. “After a few years, we discovered there were some issues with maintenance,” explains Depuis. “After 15 years, we found ourselves without spare parts. The supplier wasn’t willing to reinvest anymore.” A quest for new testing equipment

Page 14 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Intespace decided to keep the aspects that worked and find a different solution for the testing equipment. The old data acquisition system was completely programmable. The entire preparation and all of the various sensor setups could be automated and traced back into the DynaWorks platform. An entire batch of valuable setup information, including types of sensors and channel cable connections, was sent to the data acquisition station on the floor to program the amplifiers and channel connections. After the test run, all the collected data was sent back to DynaWorks for post-processing and archiving. Efficiency and security was something Intespace wanted to enhance with its new hardware choice, but this time with a supplier willing to provide support and essential spare parts. For the next system, the call for bids was quite strict regarding these specifications. Industry-standard excellence Intespace contacted more than eight suppliers. In the end, they selected the LMS environmental dynamic testing solution featuring dedicated LMS SCADAS™ hardware and LMS Test.Lab™ software. “The LMS solution opens the right doors for us to send the information as effectively and test as efficiently as possible today,” claims Dupuis. “Combined with DynaWorks, it is the fastest and most efficient solution on the market. Previously, we took about 30 minutes to get the data back and something like 20 minutes to program the amplifiers. It is much, much faster today. With these speeds, the test center can perform a full campaign within a five-day work week. And by a full campaign, we mean three-axis sine tests and acoustic tests. I don’t think any other test center can do this.” Besides high-quality tools and an efficient process, Dupuis is quick to credit the in-house knowledge and the Intespace testing teams’ experience. “We have excellent test engineers and technicians who work hand-in-hand with our customers,” explains Dupuis. “Everything is under one roof. We have all the facilities and the integration laboratory and we know our job. We have more than thirty years of experience in this area. We always try to keep all our processes up-to-date to have the best solutions to offer to our customers.” High-quality, dependable tools This is music to the ears of Pont and her team of 12 engineers and technicians who recently used their new LMS environmental testing solution on the CHEOPS telescope. “This was the first test campaign with our new LMS system,” states Pont, “We really noticed a difference. It was very efficient for data acquisition and programming.” On the hardware side, one big difference is that the acquisition boards are universal so it is easy to attach whatever type of sensor required, and it is extremely easy to program the acquisition channels. “Thanks to the monitor output function on the control system’s VCF4 data acquisition cards that we specifically requested from LMS solutions, we can record a redundant copy of the control channels on the acquisition system. Since this is supported in the setup definition software, chances of making setup mistakes are kept to a minimum,” adds Pont. The LMS SCADAS hardware is also a compact, singular unit. Compared to other systems, there are less connection points as well as universal cabling. This improves the quality overall. “With our LMS testing system, we have a much bigger dynamic range,” Pont says. “We can perform 0.1 or 0.2g sweeps. We couldn’t perform tests with so low a range with our previous system. We were very satisfied with these results as well.” “With our old acquisition system, we had to wait quite a while before we got all the information from

Page 15 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary the time-history data, and now we practically get it immediately after the run,” Pont explains. “Instead of minutes, it takes seconds. We can easily see a factor of 10 in terms of time-saving improvements with our new LMS system.” Also during the test, the team noticed other improvements, such as the online, real-time spectral data from LMS Test.Lab that contributes to overall time savings during the test runs. “With our new LMS testing solution, our job is getting easier,” says Pont. “We will have fewer issues and a smoother process, and the data gets into the hands of the analysis team much faster than before. They are reassured that the data is correct and they get it faster - as much as 10 times faster.” 512 channels The LMS environmental testing solution at Intespace totals 512 channels of LMS SCADAS hardware equipment. Updated and installed in June 2015, it is one of the largest data acquisition systems dedicated to vibration qualification testing, including data reduction and vibration control. Besides the 512 channels, Intespace thought it would be helpful to have some additional capabilities in the LMS data acquisition cards, including the ability to copy the analogue signal input at an output or electrical grounding selection for each channel. The team in Breda, The Netherlands, especially developed the new voltage/charge/floating/4-channel (VCF4) card with this request in mind. “The excellent quality of the LMS products is really appreciated by our technicians who use it every day,” adds Dupuis. “Siemens PLM Software took into account our specifications and developed this special card, having its best experts from The Netherlands come and make sure that the product really matched the requirements. We understand that it is actually a standard available product now delivered with the same high level of hardware and software support as the other LMS SCADAS products. That is a true business partner.” Taking the partnership a step further Intespace’s core business is the test center itself, but to support its testing activities the organization has a software division and an engineering division. Besides the test center in Toulouse and the software development for the DynaWorks platform, Intespace is also known for its engineering division, which has more than 25 years of experience consulting in the environmental testing business for the international aerospace community. “We started our consulting work in Brazil 25 years ago,” says Dupuis. “We have done so much consulting work at test centers around the world over the last two years that we have gained a tremendous amount of experience. We try to pass this on to our customers continuously. For example, our engineering team is involved in several projects worldwide in Argentina, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Turkey and last year in Korea.” “At Intespace we never impose, we propose to have our customers use different data acquisition systems along with our DynaWorks software solution for managing the test campaign itself,” says Dupuis. “The most useful combination is the LMS testing data acquisition solution and DynaWorks. Most of the time, customers request – actually impose upon us – to take the LMS solutions as well. That is perfect for us since we know that LMS testing solutions bring significantly increased efficiency and a much lower risk factor to each and every test campaign.” Click here to return to Contents

Murphy Surveys now producing ARCHICAD-ready point cloud models for faster, accurate building

Page 16 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary surveys 7 April 2016 Murphy Surveys Limited are partnering with GRAPHISOFT UK Ltd to deliver point cloud modelling services and ARCHICAD models to the UK and Ireland markets. This partnership comes after successful pilot projects with ARCHICAD users in the UK working with GRAPHISOFT and Murphy Surveys to deliver models created in ARCHICAD directly from point cloud surveys undertaken by Murphy Surveys. The workflow developed has allowed Murphy Surveys to become the first market- leading UK and Irish survey company to offer such services, and further reinforces ARCHICAD as a market leader in the creation of existing buildings in a BIM environment. The workflow allows Murphy Surveys to use point cloud technology within ARCHICAD to create native detailed models in a very short amount of time. This leads to reduced reworking and lower costs further on in the project due to more variables being known at an early stage. “The addition of point clouds within ARCHICAD 19 has enhanced the workflow from ‘Survey to BIM’,” said Enzo Labrosciano, BIM Manager at Murphy Surveys Ltd. “We have been fortunate to partner with GRAPHISOFT on this and have worked with them to ensure that the deliverable is not compromised by the software, but the software adapts to the needs and are very pleased with the results,” he added. ARCHICAD user Stuart Archer from Waugh Thistleton Architects explains that “having a model created directly from a point cloud not only saved us time and money upfront at the outset of the project, but the fact that it was provided in native ARCHICAD format meant that we could start work on the model immediately, delivering the project in a shorter timeframe and with higher accuracy.” “Further enhancing these benefits, Murphy Surveys can also be commissioned to build models using customer templates meaning a practice’s own BIM standards are adhered to and even less rework is required,” said Adrian Girling, Managing Director of GRAPHISOFT UK Ltd. Click here to return to Contents

New Study: 70% of Executives Have Started Digital Supply Chain Transformation 5 April 2016 Executives see a large gap between the current state of Digital Transformation across their extended global supply chains and what they expect to see just five years from now. These are the results of a global research study, 'The Current and Future State of Digital Supply Chain Transformation' conducted by Capgemini Consulting and GT Nexus, an Infor company. Most research studies conducted on the topic so far have examined Digital Transformation within organizations, or between organizations and their customers. This new research project is the first of its kind that explores the current state and future of Digital Transformation especially between organizations and all of their partners across the extended value chain. The study surveyed 337 executives from some of the largest global manufacturing and retail organizations across Europe and North America. Key findings of the research study include: Digital Transformation of the Supply Chain is important

Page 17 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary • 75% of respondents say Digital Transformation of the supply chain is "important" • 50% say that Digital Transformation is "very important" • 70% say they have started a formal Digital Supply Chain Transformation effort Progress has been slow so far • >30% of respondents said they are "dissatisfied" with progress so far • Only 5% are "very satisfied" Key technology enablers have been identified, but are not widely used yet • Supply Chain Visibility Platforms/Tools (94%), Big Data Analytics (90%), Simulation Tools (81%) and Cloud (80%) are seen as the biggest technology enablers of Digital Supply Chain Transformation • But 48% of respondents admit that right now "traditional" methods such as phone, fax, email are still the dominant ways to interact with supply chain partners Dramatic changes are expected within just five years • Today only 15% of respondents say that the majority of data from the extended supply chain is accessible to their organization. In five years, that number jumps to 54% • Today only 23% of respondents say that the majority of data from the extended supply chain is analyzed and used for decision making. In five years, that number jumps to 68% • Five years from now, 95% of respondents expect more processes with suppliers to be automated • Five years from now, 94% expect to receive more real-time status updates from across the entire supply chain The expected benefits of Digital Supply Chain Transformation include, but go well beyond cost reductions for logistics, inventory and maintenance, improvements in customer service and higher overall equipment effectiveness. Perhaps more importantly, Digital Supply Chain Transformation is expected to dramatically improve an organization's agility. Agility is necessary to respond to changing market conditions, to new market entrants that can threaten existing business models or to unexpected supply chain disruptions. Such disruptions have already caused major harm to the financial performances and reputations of countless organization over the years. Mitigating the impact of these unforeseen disruptions has become a main priority and a major driver behind the need to digitally transform. But according to the study, current levels of collaboration and visibility across the network are still low. That limits agility. "75% of respondents say Digital Transformation of the supply chain is important, but a massive gap exists today between where companies are today and where they expect to be in just five years from now," said Mathieu Dougados, Senior Vice President, Capgemini Consulting. "Transformation initiatives inside the four walls of the enterprise pose significant challenges within themselves. But in today's globalized and outsourced world, Digital Transformation can only be successful if companies approach it with a holistic view of their entire value chain. That value chain can include hundreds of partners. So connectivity between partners, cross-company access to data, and the use network-wide analytics become the key focus areas."

Page 18 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary "Supply chain transformation is a massive undertaking that requires leadership and vision at the C-level, and a holistic transformation approach that fosters automation, connectivity, data sharing and collaboration across the entire value chain," said Kurt Cavano, Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at GT Nexus. "This survey showed that manufacturers and retailers clearly have an idea of where they need to be and what digital technologies will get them there in the next five years. But it's going to be a real sprint given the current reliance on outdated, analogue technologies such as phone, fax and email to collaborate and execute in the global supply chain. Meanwhile, risk of supply chain disruptions runs high, with an expensive cost to pay." Click here to return to Contents

Plastic Ingenuity Unveils New 3D Experience Packaging Solution 6 April 2016 Plastic Ingenuity, the national leader in innovative packaging solutions from proposal to finished product, is proud to debut a groundbreaking new technology to promote collaboration between manufacturers and real world shoppers. Perfect Shelf, a 3D experience solution from Dassault Systèmes, bridges the gap between retailers, consumers, and product design engineers. The digital modeling system creates highly realistic aisle views with shelves, fixtures, products, lighting, and even promotional materials. The tool creates the opportunity for specific, high quality design work, in addition to manufacturing and prototyping cost savings. A major factor in the consumer shopping experience around the world, product shelving quality plays a key role in brand awareness, sales margins, and overall product revenue. With a smart digital simulation, the very essential experience of a product’s performance in-store can be assessed and adjusted nimbly. The result is less cost with a better product, fewer errors, and ultimately a better experience for consumers everywhere. Plastic Ingenuity combines the innovative new software with a team of in-house packaging design engineers to create promising new opportunities for clients. Not only are design solutions better informed with improved labels and artwork quality, enhanced interaction, and superior merchandising strategy, but they come with significant cost savings and customer-friendly results. “The real-world trial and error process can be more than just frustrating — it can get very expensive,” says Plastic Ingenuity’s Marketing Director, Rob Helmke. “With a smart digital simulation, the very essential experience of a product’s performance in-store can be assessed and adjusted nimbly. The result is less cost with a better product, fewer errors, and ultimately a better experience for consumers everywhere.” The technology has been shown to boost client sales at up to 10% per category while actively improving margins, in some cases at up to 5% — and all at 1/3 of the time and cost of traditional design solutions. Hailed as a gateway to the future of brick-and-mortar retail and consumer shopping experiences, the Perfect Shelf platform creates a direct channel from designer to final end buyer. The tool informs brand manufacturers and retailers of what consumers want, including real time display performance and forecasting tools, allowing for the best possible shelf layouts. The collaboration with Dassault Systèmes complements Plastic Ingenuity’s already rich thermoforming, tooling, extrusion, and design service offerings.

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Printing Innovator and Leader, Vyomesh Joshi Takes Helm as 3D Systems’ Chief Executive Officer 4 April 2016 3D Systems Corporation today announced management team changes to accelerate the company's growth strategy. Effective immediately, the 3D Systems board appointed Vyomesh Joshi (VJ) as President and CEO. VJ is a visionary who forever changed Hewlett-Packard's printing business from the ground up. As a seasoned and known leader, VJ is committed to leveraging the strength and heritage of 3D Systems and transforming its business to help participate in the revolutionary changes taking place in nearly every corner of every industry. Mr. Joshi succeeds Interim-President and CEO Andy Johnson, who will continue in his role as 3D Systems' Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. VJ is known for being a transformational and highly engaged leader with significant experience in developing and managing a broad product portfolio, all while driving operational excellence. While leading HP's $26 billion printing business, VJ was responsible for doubling the printing business operating profits during an 11-year period. "I am incredibly excited about the future of 3D Systems. We have a tremendous opportunity to help customers take advantage of the era of manufacturing transformation, including mass customization," said VJ, President and CEO. "While the company has a strong history in place, it is clear that we need to develop new and innovative products with unprecedented quality and service levels to drive sustainable growth and profits." "We are pleased to announce VJ's appointment as President and CEO of 3D Systems," said Wally Loewenbaum, Chairman of the 3D Systems Board of Directors. "VJ's significant experience scaling and strengthening technology-driven businesses, his expertise in product development and innovation, and his proven track record of operational excellence make him the ideal candidate to lead our company into its next era." Lastly, "On behalf of the entire board, I want to thank Andy for his dedication and leadership as Interim- President and CEO," continued Loewenbaum. Click here to return to Contents

SQS partners with Siemens PLM to provide end-to-end business process quality assurance for software based systems 6 April 2016 SQS, a market leader in quality management and software testing for Product Life Cycle Management (PLM), has partnered with Siemens PLM to provide an innovative end to end testing solution for ten clients. Since 2015 SQS and Siemens have been supporting these North American and European firms in the Automotive, Aerospace, Hi-tech, Oil & Transport sectors, where the commercial engagement was either fixed price or output based. Its ten years working with Siemens helped SQS to identify the newest product releases and, using the vast product knowledge of SQS’ SWAT team of PLM specialists (Subject Matter Experts) and

Page 20 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary functional experts, it was then able to create this new and innovative end to end testing solution, testing Siemens Teamcenter while new releases were still being developed. This had the added unique advantage of allowing SQS to deliver a solution six to nine month ahead of competitors. SQS’ SWAT team designed the heat maps for the PLM products (such as Siemens Teamcenter) and its integration with CAD and ERP products (like NX, Catia, AutoCAD and SAP) for their different major and patch releases. The heat maps were built based on new enhancements and known defects for upcoming releases and patches, usage patterns and trend by the end users and technology maturity of the different functional areas. The heat map of latest product releases helped each of the clients to define the right testing scope for them whilst also mitigating the risk of testing efforts being left unused or only partially used, in turn meaning higher test coverage for the right modules and applications. It also resulted in significant time, cost and risk savings for the clients’ upgrades and quicker migration of their customised PLM environments. After revolutionising the art of the subject matter and business expertise into the science, SQS will showcase this end to end innovative testing solution during the PLM World Conference that is going to be held on 16-19 May 2016 in Dallas, US. Click here to return to Contents

Synopsys Extends Verification IP Portfolio for Automotive Applications 5 April 2016 Synopsys, Inc. today announced the expansion of its VC Verification IP (VIP) portfolio with CAN 2.0/FD/TT (ISO 16845 compliant), LIN, FlexRay™, and Ethernet Audio Video Bridging (AVB) protocols for the verification of automotive applications. These verification IP titles include test suites and spec-linking technology required to verify compliance to automotive standards. With the increase in demand for state-of-the-art integrated electronics in automobiles, Synopsys' comprehensive VIP portfolio enables system-on-chip (SoC) teams to design next-generation electronic systems for safe, secure, smart, and connected automobiles. Synopsys VC VIP enables SoC teams to design next-generation automotive chips with ease of use, fast integration and optimum performance. Synopsys source code test suites for protocol features, spec- linking and coverage enable SoC teams to accelerate verification closure of automotive designs with critical requirements of compliance, quality and time to market. Synopsys VIP is natively integrated with the Verdi® Protocol Analyzer debug solution and features advanced debug ports. The VIP also features error injection capabilities, built-in-protocol checks, built-in coverage and verification plans. "We continue to expand our VIP portfolio with new products for the automotive segment, as protocols are developed and standardized," said Vikas Gautam, group director of VIP R&D and corporate applications for Synopsys' Verification Group. "With the introduction of Synopsys VIP for CAN 2.0/FD/TT, LIN, FlexRay, and Ethernet AVB, we provide our customers with advanced capabilities for verification of automotive SoC designs." Click here to return to Contents

Page 21 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Vortex Bladeless Wind Energy Project Team Receives Altair CAE Suite Donation 7 April 2016 Altair is supporting the Vortex Bladeless, a Wind Energy Spanish Crowd Funding Project by providing free software licenses, training, and engineering services. Vortex Bladeless was founded in 2013 as an R&D company, exclusively dedicated to the development and marketing of Vortex, a multi-patented bladeless electric wind generator. The project focuses on the development of generators able to capture the kinetic wind energy by 'vortex shedding' and transform it into electricity. This new technology seeks to overcome issues related to traditional wind turbines such as maintenance, amortization, noise, environmental impact, logistics, and visual aspects. Currently, the company's focus is on the development of small wind products, with mass power generation devices planned for the future. The Vortex engineers have started to implement Altair's finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions for two-way Fluid Structure Interaction (2W-FSI) simulations in their development process, and have already benefited from Altair's expertise via training and support sessions. In particular, the use of AcuSolve, HyperWorks Virtual Wind Tunnel, and OptiStruct has helped engineers to move towards a simulation driven design approach, leading to reduced development time and cost. "We are grateful for Altair's support of our project," said David Yañez, Co-Ceo Technology at VORTEX. "Without simulation our product would be developed at a much slower rate and it would cost a lot more, because we would need many more prototypes. We feel very confident that Altair's solutions suit our needs. This applies not only for the software capabilities but also for the highly valued support Altair brings to this partnership. Since the virtual demonstration of the product is one of our milestones, we truly believe that Altair's contribution has a great impact on our day-to-day work." The collaboration started with a technical project to simulate the aerodynamic behavior of the device. For this the Altair ProductDesign engineers performed a fluid-structure interaction study with AcuSolve and OptiStruct. Thanks to the CAE model of this first project, the engineers were able to predict the movement of the vortex bladeless device with different wind intensities. With the final Vortex Bladeless product the engineers expect to reduce manufacturing costs by 53%, operating costs by 51%, and maintenance costs by as much as 80% compared to traditional wind turbines. "We are proud to take part in such an innovative project and happy to support it with licenses, training, and services," said Stefano Deiana, country manager of Altair Spain. "The wind energy sector is a very important, growing market and current solutions have known obstacles, especially regarding maintenance issues, noise, and the environmental impact. Those could be solved with a product like the Vortex Bladeless." Click here to return to Contents Events News

Dassault Systèmes Announces Four Global Events Dedicated to Design, Science, Manufacturing and Marketing in the “Age of Experience” 8 April 2016

Page 22 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Dassault Systèmes today announced the launch of its “Age of Experience” Event Series, a new conference concept to explore megatrends and value creation strategies in key business domains experiencing disruptive change. Inspired by the collaborative environment of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the “Age of Experience” Event Series unites 3DEXPERIENCE platform user communities and thought leaders across twelve industries to exchange ideas, applications and expertise in design, science, manufacturing and marketing. Solar-powered airplanes, smart homes and offices, 3D simulated human hearts … technology is breaking down barriers between virtual and reality and inspiring new generations of makers, engineers, scientists, brand evangelists and CEOs to create the disruptive experiences that are defining our era. “Age of Experience” event attendees will imagine and explore the future through the power of collective knowledge. Networking opportunities with thought leaders and Dassault Systèmes executives, customer testimonials, round tables with brand user community members, hands-on training and technology and application seminars will offer new perspectives for delivering sustainable innovations capable of harmonizing product, nature and life. In the “3DEXPERIENCE playground,” Dassault Systèmes will partner with HTC to showcase virtual reality for the enterprise. In this context, each “Age of Experience” event will feature an interactive 3D area where the HTC Vive virtual reality system will bring Dassault Systèmes applications to life through its unique totally immersive, room-scale experience. “The ‘Age of Experience’ we live in is impacting key industrial domains and transforming the way that software companies develop solutions,” said Monica Menghini, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, Dassault Systèmes. “The four global events are open to communities that need to touch innovative thinking and the game-changing 3DEXPERIENCE software solution firsthand for design, science, manufacturing and marketing.” The first two “Age of Experience” events are: • Design in the Age of Experience, Milan, Italy, April 11-12. Designers must tackle the extreme complexity of multiple design and engineering disciplines to achieve a balance of form, function and experience. This event will explore how nature can inspire the design of efficient solutions to human challenges, connecting the dots from fiction to function and between designers and specialists in systems engineering, simulation and big data technologies. Keynote speaker: John Maeda, Design Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, designer, technologist and former president of the Rhode Island School of Design. • Science in the Age of Experience, Boston, USA, May 23-25. The use of simulation in medicine is bringing the world closer to a realistic representation of the ultimate example of complex systems engineering: the human body. This event will draw expertise from simulation science and chemistry, biology and materials science for a greater understanding of each discipline. Keynote speakers: Martin Karplus, PhD, theoretical chemist and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry; and Lonnie Love, PhD, Group Leader, Automation, Robotics, and Manufacturing Polymer Systems Additive Manufacturing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Two other events, Manufacturing in the Age of Experience in Shanghai, China, and Marketing in the Age of Experience in London, England, will be hosted at later dates. Click here to return to Contents

Page 23 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary ESI Presents Leading Casting Simulation Software ProCAST at CastExpo 2016 5 April 2016 ESI Group, pioneer and world-leading solution provider in Virtual Prototyping for manufacturing industries, announces its participation at CastExpo, 16-19 April 2016 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Sponsored by the American Foundry Society (AFS), CastExpo is the largest metal casting trade show in North America. ESI will showcase on booth 1915 its leading casting simulation software, ProCAST, which addresses a large number of casting processes for diverse metals and alloys. Developed over the past 25 years, ProCAST has helped foundries, big and small, improve cast part quality, reduce manufacturing defects, and lower scrap rates. ESI ProCAST is a versatile, precise and comprehensive casting simulation solution, enabling foundries to tackle easily both typical and complex casting issues. Using ProCAST, manufacturers quickly understand and fix casting defects caused by shrinkage, gas porosity, mis-runs, inclusions, and a variety of other defects linked to microstructure and mechanical evolution. Based on powerful Finite Element technology, ProCAST expands the scope of typical casting simulation to stress evaluation that predicts distortion, residual stress, hot tearing and cracking; addressing both the casting process and subsequent heat treatment. The software covers typical casting processes from sand casting to die casting, investment casting and permanent mold casting. Other less common casting processes or casting-related processes also benefit from ProCAST modeling. These include semi-solid and core blowing processes, centrifugal casting, lost foam, and continuous casting. ESI ProCAST also targets the typical foundry concerns of filling, solidification, and porosity prediction and provides a simple and efficient analysis setup without compromising the accuracy of the evaluation. It helps foundries reduce costs and lead times and is used at all stages of mold and process development and for cast part quality assessment. Requiring minimal training, ESI ProCAST meets the needs of factory shop floor technicians as well as it does for experienced casting process engineers. At CastExpo ESI’s technical representatives will run demonstrations of ProCAST and explain simulation capabilities through case studies. Join ESI on booth 1915 to meet our Technical Engineers and to find out more about Casting Simulation. Sam Scott, ESI North America, will deliver a technical presentation entitled “Effective Gating for Copper Alloy Sand Castings” in the technical session “Quality Pouring Practices to Achieve Clean Castings” during the Copper Alloys track, on Saturday April 16, 2016 at 9:15 AM. Sam will demonstrate gating and risering strategies to obtain high quality castings – targeting methods applicable to copper, but also valid for a wide variety of other alloys. Click here to return to Contents

Fujitsu to Host Fujitsu Forum 2016 Fujitsu today announced that Fujitsu Forum 2016, the company's largest annual event, will be held May 19-20 at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan. The theme of this year's Fujitsu Forum will be "Human Centric Innovation: Driving Digital Transformation."

By transcending boundaries between companies and industries, and connecting people, information and infrastructure, Fujitsu believes it can contribute to creating new value for customers and strengthening their competitiveness. Fujitsu Forum 2016 will introduce the ways Fujitsu ICT can support society and companies in advanced initiatives and their digital transformations.

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The rapid advance of digital technology is making our lives more convenient and prosperous, and is also having a huge impact on how companies conduct business, the economy, and even society as a whole.

In order to support customers' digital transformations and help them create and develop new businesses, Fujitsu will hold Fujitsu Forum 2016 with the theme of Human Centric Innovation: Driving Digital Transformation. Fujitsu Forum 2016 will introduce a variety of front-line efforts at business transformation, as well as MetaArc, the digital business platform that supports them, in addition to such advanced technologies as AI, IoT, big data, and mobile technology. Moreover, together with its efforts at open innovation, Fujitsu will suggest places where innovation can be generated. Click here to return to Contents

Rand 3D to be a Sponsor at the COE 2016 Annual Conference 7 April 2016 Rand Worldwide today announced its Rand 3D division will be a sponsor at this year’s COE 2016 Annual PLM Experience & TechniFair. The conference will be held at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter April 10-13, 2016. As a certified Dassault Systèmes Partner, Rand 3D offers software and training solutions for the CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, and SIMULIA brands. “For more than 10 years Rand 3D has supported users of Dassault Systèmes software and the COE community, and this year we’re pleased to show our support through our sponsorship of the COE event,” said Meghan Foster, director of sales for Rand 3D. In addition to meeting with conference attendees to share Rand 3D’s extensive knowledge and expertise of the Dassault Systèmes 3D Experience platform, Rand 3D is inviting COE attendees to a webcast to learn more about CATIA Composer. This webcast was created in response to numerous requests from clients asking for support using this application. Click here to return to Contents Financial News

Hexagon publishes the annual report 2015 7 April 2016 Hexagon's Annual Report 2015 is now available at Hexagon's website www.hexagon.com. The printed version of the Annual Report will be distributed to shareholders and subscribers and can also be ordered from the Hexagon head office or via the company's website from 18 April. Click here to return to Contents Implementation Investments

Altice Group and PTC Partner to Deliver Global IoT Services and Solutions 4 April 2016

Page 25 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary The Altice Group, a leading multinational cable, fiber, telecommunications, contents, and media company, and PTC today announced the deployment of PTC’s industry-leading ThingWorx® IoT platform across two Altice Group businesses: SFR, the leading cable television and internet-access provider for enterprise customers in metropolitan France, and Portugal Telecom, the country’s leading integrated service provider in fixed broadband, mobile operations, and business services for small to mid-sized businesses (SMB). This agreement reflects the shared strategy between the two companies to facilitate IoT implementations across SMBs, and to offer a complete, secure, and scalable IoT platform for the rapid development of IoT applications. The Altice Group is a fast-growing global enterprise with presence in Western Europe, the United States, Israel, and the French Overseas Territories. The Group provides very high speed services (high- quality pay television, fast broadband Internet, and fixed-line telephony) and, in certain countries, mobile telephony services to residential and corporate customers. With PTC ThingWorx technology, the Altice Group will be able to offer a wide range of IoT applications to its customers. “After a thorough review of IoT technology options, we selected the ThingWorx IoT platform to get us to market much faster and to reach a wider group of constituents – SMB to enterprise – in a secure and scalable manner,” said Michel Combes, CEO, SFR. “This is an important next step in driving our IoT strategy and the many innovative services and solutions that we are working to bring to market.” ThingWorx is an innovative platform for rapidly developing and deploying applications that recognize and capitalize on the opportunity and value to be found in the emerging IoT market. The fast, simplified, and unified approach by ThingWorx to develop IoT applications enables companies to iteratively innovate business processes significantly faster than conventional methods and tools, thus accelerating time to value, reducing cost and risk, and transforming how products, people, and systems connect and interact. The ThingWorx platform makes it easy for partners, such as the Altice Group, to deliver the most relevant solutions and provide access to a large number of devices, machines or natively compatible connected modules. Companies that require access to more specific business solutions can also rely on a set of certified technology partners in the ThingWorx ecosystem. The platform provides companies with a large variety of application program interfaces for ease in sharing data with third-party solutions. “The launch of IoT services and solutions across SFR and Portugal Telecom opens up new areas of business, broadens our coverage, and gives us new reach in the European market,” said Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO, PTC. “We are looking forward to working with the Altice Group as they build their IoT footprint and bring exciting new value to customers around the globe.” Click here to return to Contents

Caterpillar Deploys Dassault Systèmes’ “Single Source for Speed” Industry Solution Experience 4 April 2016 Dassault Systèmes today announced that Caterpillar Inc. is deploying the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. With the “Single Source for Speed” industry solution experience, Caterpillar can virtually evaluate the performance, quality and durability of future products before committing to physical prototypes. “Single Source for Speed” leverages SIMULIA applications to virtually predict real-world behavior of component parts, large scale structures, and complete systems before manufacture and start-up. With a

Page 26 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary deeper understanding of a product’s function earlier in the design cycle, heavy equipment manufacturers can quickly detect and resolve design issues, explore design alternatives and better comply with requirements, without physical testing. “Heavy mobile machinery and equipment manufacturers design some of the most complex products in the world under highly competitive market conditions,” said Philippe Bartissol, Vice President, Industrial Equipment Industry, Dassault Systèmes. “Although simulation plays a central role in testing and validating, it is often performed late in the design cycle using a variety of niche tools. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform helps companies like Caterpillar reduce development costs and satisfy their customers with robust product performance.” Click here to return to Contents

Dassault Systèmes and Ipsen sign collaborative agreement to develop innovative programs to support Ipsen’s drug discovery 5 April 2016 Dassault Systèmes and Ipsen, a global specialty-driven pharmaceutical group, today announced their collaboration for innovative programs using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Ipsen has selected the “Designed to Cure” industry solution experience to accelerate its research and development (R&D) transformation and discovery of new therapeutic solutions. The platform offers data integration, modeling and simulation capabilities to gain a more comprehensive view of the dysregulations linked to diseases as well as improves and shortens the identification of higher quality drug candidates. The project also aims to optimize the R&D processes of Ipsen’s multi-disciplinary teams located in the heart of the leading biotechnological and life sciences hubs in France, the U.K. and the U.S., as well as those of its worldwide network of drug development partners including world-class scientists, Biotechs, clinical research organizations, and other stakeholders. “After more than five years of partnering with Dassault Systèmes on the BioIntelligence, we are pleased to achieve a key step in our collaboration with the deployment of this set of cutting edge innovative tools,” said Claude Bertrand, Executive Vice President, R&D and Chief Scientific Officer, Ipsen. “Ipsen as a key scientific partner has ‘open innovation’ in its DNA and this new collaborative and innovative digital platform will support Ipsen’s commitment to achieve therapeutic breakthroughs in patient care.” “The virtual world offers the pharmaceutical industry opportunities to reinvent collaboration, connect unrelated disciplines and simulate human biological complex phenomena like never before,” said Jean Colombel, Vice President, Life Sciences Industry, Dassault Systèmes. “Our partnership with Ipsen on the adoption of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform furthers the promise of the 3D experience approach by bridging life sciences disciplines and delivering innovative patient experiences.” Click here to return to Contents

Nano Dimension Uses SOLIDWORKS to Design 3D Printer 6 April 2016 Nano Dimension’s ‘Lamborghini-like’ 3D printer offers electronics professionals the ability to rapidly produce functional multilayer PCB prototypes in-house. Using a combination of SOLIDWORKS 3D design software, Nano Dimension was able to visualize the DragonFly 2020 3D Printer and its

Page 27 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary components with accurate 3D illustrations of the design and renditions of the product, before actual production.

Lena Kotlar, the R&D Mechanical Manager at Nano Dimension and designer of the DragonFly 2020 3D Printer, credits the SOLIDWORKS solutions for allowing her team to design the complex and unique printer so rapidly.

“Every bit of the unit -- mechanical parts, the housing, wires and cables -- was designed with SOLIDWORKS,” Ms. Kotlar said. “We used the software’s simulation capabilities to ensure the parts would work correctly together and the unit would function properly while building 3D printed circuit boards.”

The SOLIDWORKS ecosystem enabled the creation of the DragonFly 2020 3D printer with unparalleled efficiency thanks to the tightly integrated innovation capabilities of the SOLIDWORKS ecosystem, including simulation, mechanical design, visualization, and data management.

The DragonFly 2020 3D Printer features a unique, non-bulky, streamlined design, based on inspiration from nature, the automotive industry, and Nano Dimension’s dragonfly logo, Kotlar said. While most 3D printer companies outsource their designs, Nano Dimension’s in-house design process using SOLIDWORKS ensured the system would remain unique and uninfluenced by designs for more generic 3D printers.

The DragonFly 2020 3D Printer is targeted for commercial availability later this year. Click here to return to Contents

Paradigm, Dassault Systèmes partner on predicting reservoir behavior 5 April 2016 Paradigm has announced the availability of Reservoir Driven Production Risk Management (RD PRM), a combined software and services offering that integrates advanced rock, fluid and stress characterization to help users better understand how the reservoir changes with time. Targeted at asset managers, drilling and completion engineers and reservoir engineers, RD PRM leverages Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA applications, powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and enables optimal production decisions while lowering operational risks. “Dassault Systèmes and Paradigm bring unique technology and expertise to the partnership,” said Arshad Matin, president and CEO of Paradigm. “Dassault Systèmes brings decades of experience in advanced modeling, engineering and simulation in multiple industries built on the SIMULIA Abaqus Unified FEA suite. Paradigm is the recognized leader in delivering high science software solutions to the upstream oil and gas industry. The partnership enables the companies to focus on some of the most pressing problems our customers face to optimize production while lowering cost.” The initial offering will focus on the following key challenges: Optimize completion strategies in unconventionals: With falling rig counts and a growing backlog of drilled, but not yet completed wells (DUC) in shale plays, operators are increasingly focused on identifying the best strategies for refracing existing wells or building more optimal fracing strategies for

Page 28 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary DUCs. The offering will help operators identify these strategies as part of their completion plans. Anticipate fault reactivation: Producing hydrocarbons from highly stressed faulted reservoirs either through primary depletion or enhanced recovery production can result in unanticipated fault reactivation, leading to potential material impacts, loss of production and possibly the reservoir itself. By integrating a high fidelity geological model with state-of-the-art geomechanical simulation, customers can optimally manage their reservoir and control production risks. “The initial focus area for the partnership will be on the unique challenges of oil and gas operators,” said Scott Berkey, CEO, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “However, proven subsurface intelligence and models can be applied to multiple industries. With Dassault Systèmes’ experience in providing industry solutions that improve decision making in many areas, including mining, geothermal, urban planning and defense, we have started exploring how Paradigm’s subsurface intelligence can impact other industries.” Click here to return to Contents

Toshiba Machine Selects Aras Innovator to Improve Design Processes, Enhance Product Quality, and Manage Global Product Information 7 April 2016 Aras®, the next leader in enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, today announced that Toshiba Machine has selected Aras Innovator® to streamline design and manufacturing processes as the company continues to expand internationally. Aras is expected to improve the company’s design processes for made-to order products, improve collaboration with ERP, and increase product quality. After replacing a replace a legacy product data management system that was unable to meet the needs of the design department for product design improvement, Toshiba Machine will use Aras for bill of materials and related CAD data and document management for their made-to-order products. In the future, the company plans on using Aras to standardize global design processes and streamline international collaboration with ERP. Toshiba Machine chose Aras based on the following criteria: • Ability to manage the entire design process • Web-based platform ideal for global expansion, including the company-wide management of design-related documents/deliverables and the expansion of overseas production • Enhancement of design work as an upper process to enhance the product quality • Lower overall total cost of ownership “With highly customizable and upgradable PLM solutions, this is the technology platform that will help Toshiba Machine to achieve success as their business continuous to grow and expand,” said Peter Schroer, CEO of Aras. Click here to return to Contents

Zamasport Chooses Lectra Fashion PLM 7 April 2016

Page 29 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Lectra is pleased to announce that Italian apparel manufacturing company Zamasport has chosen Lectra Fashion PLM to improve its product development processes for luxury brand collections. Founded in 1966, Zamasport has built a sturdy reputation for its expertise in developing entire collections of the high-end range, from creating the first prototype of a garment up to its production. Initially designing and distributing knitwear through its brand Callaghan, the company eventually branched out into manufacturing, becoming a crowd favorite among luxury brands. Today, the company develops more than twenty collections per year for premium brands. Due to its success and globalization, Zamasport finds itself facing demands for higher-volume orders to be delivered on time while maintaining high quality standards. “We are a very dynamic company and our top priority right now is to gain momentum and flexibility in order to fulfill our clients’ demands. Simulating product development cost estimates in advance will save us a huge amount of time. To do so, we need a comprehensive system where accurate information from different divisions can be aggregated and shared. We have been a Lectra customer for over twenty years, so Lectra Fashion PLM came naturally as the first choice to us. We have experienced firsthand the effectiveness of Lectra’s design, marker-making and automated cutting solutions and in-depth expertise, which gave us the perfect fit and quality of our garments. This drew customers to us in the first place. We are happy to work with a trustworthy and reliable partner such as Lectra,” says Amedeo Cioffi, General Manager Zamasport. Zamasport will implement Lectra Fashion PLM in their product and collection development process. Specifically made for the fashion industry, this user-friendly solution will serve as a collaborative platform for all teams involved in the design-to-production process. The teams will be able to communicate and share accurate information in real time, enabling them to hasten their decision-making process. As a result, fabric waste, overlapping tasks and errors will be avoided, dramatically reducing time to market. “Zamasport is a world-class manufacturer catering to leading luxury brands. The professionalism of its staff is reflected in their desire to keep up with the evolving needs of its clientele. Given our longstanding partnership and level of mutual trust, we are excited to embark on this new chapter with Zamasport,” says Fabio Canali, Managing Director Lectra Italy. Click here to return to Contents Product News

ANSYS Releases Latest Version of Savant and EMIT 5 April 2016 Customers of ANSYS can now design their innovative electronic products faster and more cost- effectively thanks to the latest release of ANSYS® Savant™ and ANSYS® EMIT™ software. The industry-leading engineering simulation solutions give engineers the power to design and predict the performance of installed antenna and radio frequency (RF) environments quickly and more accurately for a range of products – from wearable and mobile devices to autonomous vehicles. Product design is changing with the advent of the Internet of Things and the widespread growth of wireless devices. Guaranteeing that the proper operation and coexistence of RF systems and antennas in increasingly restricted and complex environments is critical. Savant and EMIT work in conjunction

Page 30 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary with ANSYS® HFSS™ software, enabling users to optimize a complete workflow to simulate the entire electromagnetic environment, including antenna synthesis and design, installed antenna performance and RF system analysis. The new releases of Savant and EMIT feature significant advances in solver technology, design flow automation and high-performance computing for applications that include wireless system planning, platform co-site interference, coexistence and defense for electronics devices. They also provide a seamless and comprehensive simulation workflow for antenna and RF system performance in real-world environments. Savant enables engineers to predict and analyze antenna performance on large-scale platforms through HFSS integration. This delivers a comprehensive workflow for simulating antennas and antenna installations and to predict performance and interaction among multiple antennas within a large, complex operating environment – creating a faster and more reliable approach to simulate installed antenna performance for ships, cars and airplanes. EMIT provides users with a RF system-level modeling and simulation capability that assesses the impact of radio frequency interference on all systems in an environment when confronted with multiple interfering signals and noise. Engineers can perform detailed automatic diagnostics for each receiver and rapid evaluation of interference mitigation measures to ensure that each system operates as intended in its installed environment. "Since acquiring these products from Delcross Technologies a few months ago, we've worked quickly to integrate them into the ANSYS environment," said Matthew Commens, HFSS lead product manager, ANSYS. "Our customers will greatly benefit from the seamless integration of Savant and EMIT with HFSS and believe that they will be an important piece of our simulation platform moving forward." Click here to return to Contents

aPriori Continues to Accelerate the Pace of Innovation with aPriori 2016 R1 5 April 2016 aPriori, a leading provider of product cost management (PCM) software solutions for the enterprise today announced an important update to the company’s flagship product - called aPriori 2016 R1. aPriori continues to push the boundaries for “democratization of cost” by implementing solutions that have appeal across all product design and build teams. aPriori PCM Solutions address Design Cost Analysis, Should Cost Negotiation and New Business Development challenges and help customers improve product profitability, accelerate time to market and win new business. Highlights of the aPriori 2016 R1 product release include: User Experience Upgrades for Design Engineers: • A new Part Summary view to quickly understand a high-level cost breakdown and manufacturing processing steps that are contributing to a component cost. At a glance, design engineers can know whether labor, material, or tooling are predominant cost drivers; and if the part is meeting cost and mass targets. • A simplified, side-by-side Comparison capability to analyze cost and manufacturing differences between alternative designs or manufacturing scenarios, enabling engineers to more easily consider cost/value tradeoffs.

Page 31 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary • Design to Cost guidance to help identify areas of a part that are expensive or difficult to manufacture. The first release of this capability is a beta version that supports milled parts. User Experience Upgrades for Cost Engineers: • Formula Dependencies that enable an expert user to drill into the detailed assumptions of a cost scenario for review and refinement. A cost engineer can quickly access the detailed inputs for a cost scenario, modify inputs and see resulting cost, supporting productive supplier collaboration and negotiation. • Significantly improved system performance working with large assemblies that contain hundreds to thousands of parts. Cost Model Enhancements: • Improved cost estimates for parts machined on 4-axis Milling machines, including improved determination of setups/part re-orientations, finish-machining operation assignment, and automatic-evaluation of 4-axis Mill routings. • Flexible controls for a cost or manufacturing expert to refine part setup and operation sequencing assumptions and estimate assembly-level milling operations on a component. • Numerous refinements to casting process models which improve the completeness and precision of the cost estimates. “Our product development team worked extremely hard on this release,” said Julie Driscoll, vice president of strategic marketing and product management. “We spend a lot of time working side-by-side with our customers, understanding how they interact with the system, learning the types of information that are most valuable to them, and observing how they leverage that information in their interactions with other members of their product team, suppliers and even their own customers. The aPriori User Council has also been enormously valuable in helping us define and prioritize new product enhancements. When you are working with some of the smartest design and cost engineers from companies like Whirlpool, Boeing, Honeywell and American Axle & Manufacturing, it really helps streamline and accelerate our pace of product development.” Click here to return to Contents

BOXX Introduces First FLEXX Product and More at GTC 2016 5 April 2016 BOXX Technologies, the leading innovator of high-performance computer workstations and rendering systems, today announced that FLEXX G2, the first product in a rack-mounted computing ecosystem ideal for graphics intense 3D content creation and compute, will debut in BOXX booth #631 at the 2016 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), April 4-7, in San Jose, CA. Featuring modular compute nodes for power users, BOXX FLEXX will allow IT departments to centralize hardware resources without sacrificing the performance essential to their organization’s creative professionals. “At larger companies equipped with dedicated IT, the consolidation of hardware into a data center is the emerging trend,” said Shoaib Mohammad, BOXX VP of Marketing and Business Development. “But for creative pros, virtualization is not always the best fit due to performance limitations and software overhead. BOXX FLEXX is the solution, enabling IT departments to advance towards centralization

Page 32 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary while maintaining the power and performance their creative teams require.” FLEXX features all the power of BOXX workstations, rendering, and simulation products, with an easy- to-implement design allowing for IT consolidation. FLEXX will enable users to mix and match up to five modules in a single 4U shelf, all accessible via the 3D-focused technology of PCoIP. The FLEXX G2, an NVIDIA Tesla-based Intel® Xeon® module hosting up to two virtualized power users (each with a dedicated GPU) will demonstrate NVIDIA Iray. The FLEXX G2 and additional high performance FLEXX modules will be formally announced and ready to ship during Q2 2016. BOXX booth #631 will also be home to APEXX 5R, a re-engineered, rack-mounted variation of the popular APEXX 5 tower, the most advanced workstation on the market. The liquid-cooled APEXX 5 can be custom-configured with a multitude of expansion cards, hard drives, memory, and CPU cores. Ideal for GPU rendering or driving multiple displays, APEXX 5R features dual Intel® Xeon® processors for up to 44 cores (88 threads), the most expansion slots of any professional workstation, and eight full-size hard drives. Rounding out the BOXX GTC demos is the APEXX 4 workstation featuring four liquid cooled, overclocked NVIDIA GTX Titan X GPUs for V-Ray RT rendering. “For over 20 years, our customers have benefited from BOXX innovation, performance increases in processor speed, and the emergence of the GPU, as well as new features and applications all designed to help them get their jobs done faster,” says Mohammad. “Our demos at GTC 2016, especially the introduction of our first FLEXX module, are the next phase of that evolution coupled with another BOXX philosophy—never compromise on performance.” Click here to return to Contents

C3D Labs Upgrades Software Development Toolkit for 2016 5 April 2016 C3D Labs is pleased to announce that it has updated the portfolio of components for engineering software development. In version 2016, a brand-new C3D Visualization module joins the C3D Geometric kernel, C3D Parametric kernel, and C3D Conversion module. Also new is the ability of customers to license each module separately, or as a complete C3D Toolkit. This unbundling gives software developers the freedom to choose the most suitable combination of tools for their projects. C3D Modeler 2016 increases the performance of the modeler, with tests showing a significant acceleration of calculations on 3D models. In addition, the modeler is updated with the following features: • Triangulation of triangular and flat rectangular faces, approximations of spheres by icosahedrons, and the elimination of crowding at the intersections of cylinders and ellipses • Construct shell rings by segmenting sections pulled on an arc and another arc, segment, or point • Stamping operations expanded from plane-bottomed structures to spherical stamping • Transform polygonal models to b-rep bodies, optionally merging faces • Find lathe axis of non-closed bodies, and draw silhouette lines when rotating the surface around the lathe axis • Bodies can be cut using plane curves and surfaces, while retaining all parts of the body

Page 33 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary • Construct extruded, revolved, and swept bodies using guiding paths; when constructing extruded and revolved contours, parameters can now specify negative values to force bodies to lie in the same direction • Extrude plane contours through to unidirectional surfaces; construct bodies and surfaces using axial lines and guiding contours that can be represented in flat form or lie on surfaces; greatly simplified process of creating lofted bodies and surfaces with sections to create the desired shape C3D Solver 2016 benefits from the completion of its API (application programming interface), along with the addition of journaling for 3D geometric constraints. C3D Labs is working on making the .c3d format store geometric relationships as a system of geometric constraints for assemblies: it embeds specific information about mates in 3D models in C3D’s native format. In addition, the solver is updated with the following features: • Linear and angular patterns; set the alignment of elements selectively; distances between elements does not need to be the same • Define circles with variable radii and create models of filleted three-dimensional contours (popular for structures based on skeletons, such as pipelines and trusses) • Added constraints for tangency of a line and a circle; coincidence of a point and a circle; and fixed radius • Processing accelerated 2-2.5x for large systems of constraints in assemblies of 50,000 or more objects C3D Converter 2016 benefits from a new algorithm that makes translation of 3D models with complex structures simpler and more straightforward. The API is unified making the management of C3D objects simpler, and includes expanded documentation. In addition, the translator is updated with the following features: • Supports latest releases of Parasolid 25.0 and ACIS 22.0 • Manages metric units when exporting to Parasolid • Imports basic attributes from X_T and X_B formats, and bi-directionally transmits them to SAT • Transmits assembly structures to VRML format • APIs use a standard C++ library for sending text data so that developers can control the conversion of text when creating 8-bit representations, the standard for all formats C3D Vision 2016 is a brand-new component that significantly improves visualization of 3D models. It specifically increases the quality of 3D model renderings, and speeds the processing of large assemblies. C3D Vision incorporates a new system of managing 3D scenes and animations through its ready-to-use feature manager. Included is a design tree for 3D models, scene graph and interactive tools for scene manipulation. All of these functions have become an integral part of modern design products. To ensure the maximum performance in static graphics, C3D Vision gives users control over levels of detail and the accuracy of triangulating grid calculations. For dynamic scenes, C3D Vision hides edges when rotating 3D models; anti-aliases polygons; removes minor elements of scenes (pixel culling) and elements outside scenes (frustum culling); synchronizing the vertical sync’s screen refresh rate with the scene update frequency; and speeds up visual computing

Page 34 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary through hardware acceleration. When it comes to shaders, the following are available: • Object sampling • Shadow rendering • Mirroring WHAT’S NEW IN C3D TOOLKIT 2016 We respond to requests by our customers, and so constantly expand the list of available tools for creating software based on our C3D components. We’ve added support for MS Visual Studio 2015, developed a version C3D Toolkit for Android, and allowed C3D to be compiled for other platforms, such as Apple's iOS and Samsung's Tizen. AVAILABILITY AND WEBINAR All customers of C3D Labs’ components with a valid technical support contract have access to C3D Vision 2016 as of today. You can download the update from our FTP server, and then immediately use it for application development. Head of C3D Labs Nikolay Golovanov has prepared a detailed manual on C3D, and updated the Russian-language version of his geometry modeling book, “Geometric Modeling: The Mathematics of Shapes.” On April 21, 2016 at 5:00 pm (GMT +03:00), C3D Labs will hold a webinar devoted to the new C3D Toolkit release. Participants will receive answers to the questions they put to C3D developers. Registration is required. Click here to return to Contents

Cadence Unveils Next-Generation Virtuoso Platform Featuring Advanced Analog Verification Technologies and 10X Performance Improvements Across Platform 5 April 2016 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced the delivery of the next-generation Virtuoso® platform which offers designers an average of 10X performance and capacity improvement across the platform. The platform includes new technologies within the Cadence® Virtuoso Analog Design Environment (ADE) and enhancements to the Cadence Virtuoso Layout Suite to address requirements for automotive safety, medical device and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The next-generation Cadence Virtuoso ADE product suite addresses the challenges that come with the emergence of new industry standards, advanced-node designs and the requirements for system design, enabling engineers to fully explore, analyze and verify designs to ensure that design intent is maintained throughout the design cycle. Enhanced data handling provides up to 20X improvement in loading waveform databases in excess of 1GB and a 50X improvement in versioning and loading set-up files into the environment. The suite's key technologies include: "The new Virtuoso ADE Verifier technology and the Virtuoso ADE Assembler technology run plan capability make our design teams more productive," said Yanqiu Diao, deputy general manager, Turing Processor business unit at HiSilicon Technologies Co., Ltd. "Through our early use of the new Cadence

Page 35 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Virtuoso ADE product suite, we've found that we can improve analog IP verification productivity by approximately 30 percent and reduce verification issues by one-half. Our smartphone and network chip projects should benefit from these latest capabilities." "Customers have continually placed their trust in the Cadence Virtuoso platform for more than 25 years, taping out thousands of designs each year," said Tom Beckley, senior vice president and general manager, Custom IC & PCB Group at Cadence. "The need to do custom design has never been greater, and increasing complexity is driving the need to further simplify the design process so our customers can meet design schedules. Cadence remains at the forefront of custom design innovation with the delivery of our next-generation Virtuoso platform, which enables fast, accurate custom design." Click here to return to Contents

Gerber Launches OMEGA 6.0: Faster, Easier and More Powerful 5 April 2016 Gerber Technology, a worldwide leader in sign making and specialty graphics systems, is proud to introduce Gerber OMEGA™ 6.0: an upgrade which builds on the work- and time-saving design and output applications of earlier OMEGA software releases. Gerber OMEGA software is a complete suite of layout, design, output and conversion tools created specifically for use in the sign and specialty graphics industries. The OMEGA software tools are designed to integrate with vinyl cutters, the GERBER EDGE® family of thermal printers, and Gerber CNC routers. "OMEGA 6.0 is an important release for new and existing GERBER EDGE customers, as it includes many features that streamline and assist the creative production process," states Dana Goodale, Director of Product Management for Gerber Technology. Gerber OMEGA 6.0 includes the following enhancements: • Find My Font - Gerber OMEGA Edition matches unknown fonts to fonts on your computer, or to an online database of 130,000+ fonts; • New Apply button allows viewing of Composer design effects while in dialog boxes; • Raster-to-vector conversions and decal cut provide better results due to included convenient presets; • Bitmap Fill creates custom patterned vector fills to objects with fast, efficient rendering; • Logos and images can be integrated with QR codes; • Export larger image files, up to 32,000 pixels; • The PLT File Information Extraction Tool extracts design and production information to a CSV file that can be used for estimates or costing; • And many additional features. Plus, OMEGA 6.0 includes all the popular features of OMEGA 5.0 and other previous releases. "The Find My Font feature is a huge time-saver and the new Apply button eliminates the tedium of toggling in and out of dialog boxes to view applied graphic effects," said Goodale. Customers in beta testing have provided enthusiastic feedback about the new features that OMEGA 6.0

Page 36 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary offers. Goodale summarizes, "We listened to our customers and have developed an even greater product that we're proud to offer.” Click here to return to Contents

Introducing openBoM: a Cloud Based BoM Tool for Manufacturing Companies and Hardware Startups that Facilitates Data Handoff in Distributed Environments 7 April 2016 Manufacturing is changing and with it comes a need to change the way BoMs are managed. The change is brought about by several trends in the market. These include globalization of manufacturing and supply chain, a growing number of new hardware developers, a surge in the maker movement, increased reliance on contract manufacturing, and variety of new manufacturing practices including adoption of internet and mobile tools and technologies. “Technology is dramatically changing the way manufacturing works,” said Oleg Shilovitsky, CEO and co-founder of Newman Cloud, Inc., “Manufacturing companies that used to be under one roof are now building businesses around distributed global manufacturing networks. These new distributed manufacturing environments have created a demand for new types of cloud applications that help companies manage and support distributed working environments.” Bills-of-Materials (BoMs) are a fundamental part of every engineering and manufacturing process. The changing technological landscape has only exacerbated traditional challenges involved with BoM management such as, controlling product costs, Requests for Quotes (RFQs) processes, coordinating between engineers and other product stakeholders, and managing change orders with contract manufacturers (CMs) in distributed environments. openBoM, a wholly owned product and brand of Newman Cloud, Inc., tackles these challenges with features that include: • An ability to track BoM records and revisions; • Viewing history of changes to a BoM; • Flexible BoM configuration with fully customizable properties; • Sharing BoMs with team, manufacturers and suppliers; • Simultaneous BoM editing across organizational and geographic boundaries; • Tracking part usage across multiple BoMs with intelligent “Where used” queries; and • Integration with MCAD and ECAD tools to import BoM and changes. “We learned after personally engaging with over 100 hardware development companies and discussing their challenges,” said Oleg, “that there was an urgent need to develop a new tool that combines the latest proven cloud and data management technologies with the demands of working with BoMs across distributed manufacturing networks.” A public beta version of openBoM is now available on http://www.openbom.com for purchase on a monthly or annual subscription basis. As a full cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product, openBoM requires no installation or special skills to use. “We are confident our first commercially available version of openBoM,” said Vic Sanchez, COO and co- founder of Newman Cloud, Inc., “will provide our customers affordable relief of their BoM pain from day one.” Newman Cloud, Inc. was co-founded by Oleg Shilovitsky and Vic Sanchez, both experienced software

Page 37 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary industry veterans. openBoM, a wholly owned and branded product of Newman Cloud, Inc. is a cloud data management tool that removes the traditional pain of managing BoMs across organizational and geographic boundaries. Newman Cloud, Inc. is headquartered in the Boston, MA area. Click here to return to Contents

Maple T.A. 2016 Enables Easy Authoring of STEM Testing Content 6 April 2016 Maplesoft™, a leader in software products for technical education and research, announced today the release of the latest version of its popular testing and assessment tool, Maple T.A.™. Maple T.A. is a powerful online testing and assessment system designed especially for courses involving mathematics, making it ideal for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Maple T.A. 2016 provides major enhancements for content authors, making it faster and easier to create and modify questions and assignments. After extensive consultations with customers, the basic authoring workflow has been completely redesigned to make it easier to create content. As a result, the process of authoring new questions and assignments is more intuitive and flexible, and the learning curve to become a productive author is greatly reduced. In addition, several types of questions, including sorting, clickable image, and interactive Math App, are now much easier to create. As well, authors can now apply a consistent style and appearance to all their questions, without having to modify each individual question. Other enhancements to Maple T.A. 2016 include a redesigned content repository, making it substantially easier for educators to manage their collection of Maple T.A. questions and assignments, and to search for content, both locally and from the Maple T.A. Cloud. Maple T.A. 2016 also provides the ability for instructors to upload and grade scanned documents, the ability for authors to develop questions in HTML5, and enhancements to essay questions. As well, Maple T.A. 2016 includes officially certified Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) connectivity tools that can be used to integrate Maple T.A. with many course management systems, including Canvas, Brightspace, Sakai, Blackboard, and Moodle. "Maple T.A. offers institutions a valuable tool that allows educators to truly assess their students' understanding of STEM courses in ways no other system can, while working within the framework of their existing course management technologies," says Paul DeMarco, Director of Development for Maple and Maple T.A. "The enhanced authoring environment of Maple T.A. 2016 provides educators more flexibility and control of their testing content, whether they want to assemble assignments using questions contributed by instructors from the Maple T.A. user community, or create new questions using step-by-step authoring tools. Feedback from our customers helped us streamline the user experience, and we are grateful to our passionate users who contribute to Maple T.A.'s success." In a few weeks, Maplesoft will also be releasing a new version of the Maple T.A. MAA Placement Test Suite (PTS), which offers the renowned placement tests from the Mathematical Association of America in the online testing environment of Maple T.A. Based on Maple T.A. 2016, the latest release of PTS will offer the streamlined content management, LTI connectivity, and other new features of Maple T.A. Maple T.A. 2016 is available as both a Maplesoft-hosted or school-hosted solution. Interface translations are available for French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and more. Click here to return to Contents

Page 38 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Renga Architecture's Colorful New Release 4 April 2016 ASCON Group, the developer and integrator of high-performance CAD/AEC/PLM software systems, is pleased to announce the newest release of its architectural design system, Renga Architecture v2.3. This release adds color, works with table data, links to KOMPAS-3D, and many more useful functions. Until now, Renga Architecture displayed graphics exclusively in monochrome, but now it adds two new display modes, wireframe and color. Wireframe mode shows just the model's edges (lines without surfaces). Originally developed for Renga Structure, our upcoming building structures design system, wireframe display mode helps to see insides of buildings, and is especially useful when creating the new objects. The second new display mode, Color, visually differentiates objects. Object colors are set in the model by default. Tables is the new tool for creating forms, such as specifications, lists, and BOMs (bills of material). Data from spreadsheets can be copied into tables in Renga. After tables are placed in drawings, they can be formatted, such as hiding parts of their content, copying, and reformatting. Tables are the second step towards the full-function Reports tool, which in a later release will generate specifications from 3D model data automatically. This new release of Renga Architecture imports C3D files from our KOMPAS-3D mechanical CAD design system. This lets architects use in Renga 3D objects with complex forms, such as lifting mechanisms and other equipment created in KOMPAS-3D. Imported objects are shown correctly in views, sections, and plans. Data from the imported elements are incorporated into reports and when exported as CSV (command-separated value) files. Floors (height marks) can now have multiple views. This new function allows several designers to work on a single project, dividing tasks into sections. When the work is united into the one model, duplicate views overlaid. The duplication of views visually shows two or more versions of design proposals, allowing architects to create special building functions for multi-use designs. Renga continues to expand the capabilities of styles, and so styles are now available for columns and beams. Styles allow architects to apply different parametric sections of concrete and metal beams and columns. To create a style, all that is needed is to choose a profile from in the style editor, and then set sizes. Several parametric sections are available immediately -- T, L, triangular, rectangular, and elliptical – and in the future Renga will allow architects to create any shape of profile section for columns and beam; should they need to use more complex profiles right now, they can import them from other CAD systems in IFC 2X3 format. The new Flip command applies to windows, doors, ladders, walls, and sections. It makes the architect's work easier as it makes changes in seconds, as it works with multiple objects at once. For example, a large number of windows are positioned incorrectly, but the architect no longer needs to rebuild each window individually. Using the Flip command, the architect selects all windows that need changing, and then clicks Flip. Beams gain another useful property, rotation angle. This means that beams can be rotated about their longitudinal axis to position them in models with slanted portions. When users want to change model views in drafting mode, they can now select the view they want and simply press Enter to switch 2D view for editing. This quick action makes drawing significantly faster.

Page 39 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary We are pleased to add the Polish language pack to Renga, prepared in collaboration with partner Usługi Informatyczne SZANSA Sp. z o.o.. Renga Architecture is now available in three languages, Russian, English, and Polish. Click here to return to Contents

Solving The Decades Long Interoperability Issue While Turbo-Charging 3D Applications, Kubotek Announces KCM — The Next Generation Modeler 7 April 2016 Kubotek Creation Engineering – Masters of Geometry – proudly announces the immediate availability of its KCM geometric modeling kernel. KCM solves the decades long CAD interoperability problem and supercharges compute intensive 3D modeling applications. KCM is available for integration into current and existing CAD/CAM, ray tracing, robotics or other 3D modeling applications. Software developers using KCM can now take full advantage of multiprocessor technology available on all modern computers. The KCM modeler is written from the ground up to be truly thread-safe, unlike older modelers whose thread-safety measures were added after multi-core processors became the norm. Older modelers programmed their thread-safety after the fact by using mutexes, severely limiting the speed at which the computer can utilize multiprocessor capabilities. Mutexes severely limit data flow while ensuring integrity of data in a multiprocessing environment. With KCM’s mutex-free thread-safe code, one customer’s application achieved an almost 100% increase in speed for every processor added to its application, boosting their application's speed by 10x. This has given the company a significant competitive advantage in its market. Paul Stallings, PhD., Vice President of Development at Kubotek, and Chief Architect of the KCM geometric modeler, compares mutexes to the classic gas station bathroom key: “Imagine a service station that serves hundreds of travelers per day, and in that service station, there is only one restroom available. In order to access that restroom, you must wait in line for the key to unlock the door. And of course, the line grows longer during peak times. The frustration and discomfort felt by the travelers waiting in line is the same as software users who need to wait for their data to compute. Anyone using software powered by KCM will need not a key because data will flow freely, quickly and safely.” Interoperability has been a decades-long problem in the CAD industry. As the only modeler architected with the express goal of working with other people’s data, Kubotek’s KCM solves this issue for CAD developers. As a variable precision modeler, it works exceptionally well with other CAD file formats, even if the file formats haven’t been written to that format’s exact specifications. This means when other modelers fail to import foreign geometry KCM will succeed. And in the rare case where there is an issue, the KCM translators provide application developers clear feedback on the points of failure. Stallings says, “Parasolid® and ACIS® have served the CAD and 3D software communities well over the last 20 years. They are solid, mature modelers and were great for their day. It is now time for the KCM modeler to bring software developers to new levels of speed, interoperability and a future of new possibilities. KCM is the next generation modeler.” Kubotek is also announcing KCM options that can be purchased with, or separately from, the KCM modeler including: • CAD Translators, including these read/write options: ACIS®, Parasolid®, IGES®, STEP®, STL, OBJ, and read-only options of CADKEY®, CATIA®, Inventor®, ProE®/Creo®,

Page 40 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary KeyCreator®, NX®, SolidWorks® • KCM Display to create display views for the KCM modeler which supports different rendering modes and creation, selection and modification of objects and view manipulation • KCM Dialog – a very simple yet powerful way of creating dialog box interfaces in a cross- platform environment, and • KCM License provides a complete licensing option for software developers KCM geometric modeler and options are available immediately. Click here to return to Contents

Synergis Partners with 4D Technologies to Offer CADLearning On-demand Learning Products for Autodesk Solutions 6 April 2016 Synergis Engineering Design Solutions, a division of Synergis Technologies, LLC and an Autodesk Inc. highest-rated value-added reseller in the Americas, today announced that it has partnered with 4D Technologies, Autodesk Authorized Publisher and developer of the industry leading CADLearning products, to deliver expert content and flexible learning tools that are accessible online, 24/7. Now available to Synergis customers through the Synergis Learning Portal, CADLearning can be used to provide self-paced training, product help, and performance support for designers and design teams. "Our customers are actively seeking new opportunities for learning and training," said Kristen Tomasic, vice president of Synergis Engineering Design Solutions. "Synergis wants to ensure they have the opportunity to select training that enhances classroom or custom training, and fits their learning style, time frame, and budget. With CADLearning, our Autodesk users are presented up-to-date learning material, helping to increase their knowledge, retention, and better utilize the full capability of Autodesk software." The Synergis Learning Portal is for new users who want to learn Autodesk software from A-Z, experienced users looking to answer specific questions or overcome barriers in their design work, and anyone who wants an on-demand tool to reinforce classroom learning. Businesses of all sizes can help their Autodesk users build skills and knowledge in the latest design tools with CADLearning content which includes not only videos, but also exercise files, and assessments. With delivery of CADLearning content and custom content from Synergis consultants or internal staff, companies are provided a single source for on-demand learning and training. Click here to return to Contents

Tech Soft 3D’s HOOPS Exchange Now Available Directly from Siemens PLM Software 8 April 2016 Tech Soft 3D today announced that its market-leading HOOPS Exchange data access software development toolkit can now be licensed directly through Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software business. This agreement follows a May 2015 announcement regarding the integration between Siemens’ Parasolid® software and Tech Soft 3D’s HOOPS Exchange technology to help developers enhance data re-use by providing comprehensive access to a broad range of CAD formats.

Page 41 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary The expanded agreement gives Parasolid users another channel to conveniently license the complementary toolkits through a single source. Both toolkits are also available directly from Tech Soft 3D. “The integration of our solutions gives Parasolid developers access to comprehensive data import-export technology, while this new agreement enables us to offer the combined solution through a single offering,” says Jim Rusk, senior vice president, Chief Technology Officer, Siemens PLM Software. “Many of our Parasolid customers require advanced data translation capabilities. Our ability to offer one stop shopping for this integrated solution simplifies the buying process and is a win for Siemens and our customers.” “Our mission to help developers deliver great applications was the driving force behind this expansion of our 15-plus year partnership with Siemens’ Parasolid team,” says Ron Fritz, CEO of Tech Soft 3D. “Not only have we created a fully-leveraged integration between our technologies, but we’ve expanded the sales channel so more development teams have access to this optimized solution.” Development teams who license the integrated technologies together benefit from several optimizations, including: • Models of any supported format are loaded into Parasolid through a single API. • Many leading engineering applications, including NX™ software, Solid Edge® software, SolidWorks® and many others, are based on Parasolid. Those that leverage Parasolid and HOOPS Exchange together can have geometry natively imported without any kind of translation, so data remains pristine. • For applications not based on Parasolid, the integration uses advanced functionality within Parasolid to map the CAD data format to a valid Parasolid model, for resolution of issues such as inconsistent tolerances, sliver faces and geometric discontinuities. • The complete model definition is imported, preserved and associatively accessible to the Parasolid geometry, including PMI (both visual and semantic), GD&T, product structure, tessellation (facets) and more. All Tech Soft 3D toolkits are purpose-built with integrations that further optimize the development experience. Its data access, visualization and 3D PDF publishing SDKs integrate together and with modeling kernels to leverage additional efficiencies and deliver unmatched performance, power and speed for cloud, desktop and mobile applications. Click here to return to Contents

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