Delcam India is currently seeking driven and highly motivated individuals or companies that are passionate about selling advanced CAD/CAM/CAI software solutions, to sign-up as Delcam resellers in the Punjab, Chandigarh, New Delhi & NCR, Gujarat, Bihar, Jharkhand, North-East, West Bengal, Odisha, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan regions.

India is among the fastest growing countries in the Asia Pacific region in the manufacturing domain, with a consequent rise in demand for CAD/CAM/CAI software.

In order to expand its reach in the above locations, Delcam India is looking to partner with prospective resellers to bring their acclaimed CAD/CAM/CAI solutions to the manufacturing industries in these regions.

Vineet Seth, Delcam’s Director for South Asia and Middle East said “While we have a network of direct offices in the country, we feel that there is a lot of potential in the market to add more partners to help us increase our geographic presence and reach into the manufacturing ecosystem across the country, leveraging on the strengths of our partners and resellers. With the Make-In-India campaign, the country is set to see a new wave of entrepreneurs plus expanded business horizons of existing organisations and we wish to take every measure to address their software and solutions requirements. With the right channel sales partners, we are certain that we can deliver our solutions even more effectively. I would therefore like to invite interested parties to get in touch with us.”

Delcam’s CAD/CAM/CAI software has helped thousands of companies around the world to meet complex and often unique requirements. Delcam’s Advanced Manufacturing Solutions provide essential tools to help manufacturing companies meet successfully their customers’ demands for high quality and rapid delivery. Fully-integrated design and manufacturing means that new part designs can be converted rapidly into manufacturing data for the machining of components directly or for the manufacture of tooling for mass production. Delcam’s software solutions are used by over 50,000 companies across the world in the Aerospace, Automotive, Toolmaking, Packaging, Footwear, Woodworking, Jewellery & Healthcare domains, amongst others.

Delcam’s business in India has expanded significantly since the establishment of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Delcam India, in the country in 2000. Since then, Delcam India has grown from its initial staff of three to more than 100 employees. In addition to the Pune headquarters, Delcam India operates successful regional offices around the country, to support its growing customer base of more than 2,500 customers.

To learn more about becoming a Delcam reseller in India, please write to resellers-dindia@delcam.com

Tell me something about yourself
I have been with PTC for over a year now, in my role I oversee the PTC’s overall business in India and am responsible for strategic growth, leading key partner relationships and strategic customer focus. I have over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining PTC I was a Senior Director – Technology Sales at Oracle and also held senior positions at IBM and LG Soft.

How was your 1 year experience working with the CAD industry?
My experience so far has been great! My vision for PTC is to reach out to manufacturing companies and product developing companies in India and help them achieve sustained product and service advantage through PTC’s world-class CAD, PLM and SLM Solutions across the entire product lifecycle. The introduction of Creo 3.0, Smart Connected Products and application of Internet of Things has helped us achieve this goal.

I look forward to drive PTC’s growth in India through strategic sales and better customer relations.

PTC is in a space that allows for intense competition from other players, what is PTC really bringing on board to its customers and partners?
PTC is the pioneer in product lifecycle management in India. PTC India has been successfully selling , implementing and supporting various products like Creo, Windchill , Servigistics and Arbortext and now Creo 3.0 – SLM products directly and through SSP (Strategic service Partners ) like ITC, TCS etc. We have been encouraging our partners to imbibe Enterprise consulting using our Service Advantage program to drive value based selling to Enterprises. The customer gets a complete solution either directly from PTC or through partners from Consulting, product positioning, implementing and getting the solution advantage – meeting/exceeding customer expectations.

Apart from this consulting and implementation, we also provide high end training to adopt our e-learning tools supported by trainers in precision learning programs. PTC University Academy program supports this initiative and many customers are enjoying the benefit in getting full advantage of the product through this knowledge.

With lots of productivity enhancements in Creo 3.0, like improved Multi-CAD Data Handling Capabilities, do you think it would be a greater success than previous versions?
Yes, it will be a greater success than previous versions. We expect all our customers to adapt to Creo 3.0 in the coming years. With PTC Cry 3.0, PTC introduced new Unite technology, which significantly enhances the ability to use CAD files from a variety of systems directly in PTC Creo. It also empowers innovation through more powerful; seamlessly integrated concept design tools, ensuring efforts undertaken in concept design can be fully reused in the detailed design process. Key productivity enhancements within the release further add to customers’ ability to focus on higher levels of innovation and product quality.

Also, we will continue to deliver on their strategy. PTC’s ground breaking Unite technology addresses the data and process-related challenges of CAD consolidation. Unite technology in PTC Creo 3.0 enables CAD data of varying formats to be used directly in the PTC Creo Parametric, Creo Direct, Creo Simulate, and Creo Options Modeler apps. As a result, this release enables significant efficiencies to be achieved when consolidating multiple CAD systems onto PTC Creo, as well as when collaborating with others using different CAD tools.These efficiencies enable improvements in on-time delivery; product quality and desirability by allowing design teams to spend more time innovating and less time on non-value add tasks such as recreating design intent and redundant file management

What you think about the companies that are still working on Pro/E Wildfire? Is there any communication gap that prevented them to switch to latest versions? What steps are taken to make these companies aware about Creo capabilities?
Many PTC users, for various reasons, stay with an older version. They are happy with the capabilities of Pro/E and have trained man power giving optimum results. But, many customers have upgraded to Creo since its launched. PTC Creo is much powerful, reliable and easy to use modeling tool that helps user to optimize productivity across a full range of mechanical design tasks.

We are conducting various events, webinars to educate and train our customers on the latest tools. Also, offering them the e-learning packages with over 6,000 hours of online training courses available at their fingertips.

How the IoT ( Internet of Things) is Transforming the Meaning of Product development. Help us understand the benefits of this and what impact would this have on the Indian customers?
Manufacturing companies are looking at innovative methods to meet and exceed customer expectations. Traditionally the products manufactured are related to only hardware, but at present software, as it evolved, began delivering a variety of utilities, and software and service have started generating a larger proportion of a product’s value.

Manufacturing companies are now looking at Internet of Things (IoT) to provide new services by connecting to the internet and companies. By 2025, economic impact of IoT worldwide is expected to be at least US $ 2.7 trillion and more than 80% of the manufacturing companies are expected to use IoT applications.

Indian manufacturing companies, particularly exporting will gain substantially because of adoption of IoT platform in the international market

PTC is the company that developed the first parametric, feature-based 3D CAD tool, and has started offering a new set of services by combining existing solutions with IoT.

In the IoT space, PTC offers ThingWorx Platform and design, specifically to leverage the internet world of People, Systems and Things. ThingWorx is the 1st Application Platform for the Internet of Things, enables users to Develop, Run, Iterate and Innovate Internet of Things Application 10 x faster. ThingWorx platform consists of a suite of tools and features to help an organization to quickly create connected applications. The Suite includes:

1. ThingWorx Composer (End to End Application modeling Environment)- makes it easy to model all things required for a connected application.

2. Codeless Mashup builder – Drag and drop application builder, reduces development time. These are some of many differentiators from other companies

Do you see high growth in PTC product sales after the launch of Make in India campaign, as PTC has a high presence in SPM manufacturers, OEMs, machine tools, etc.
Growth is inevitable from the Make in India campaign, both owing to the growth in domestic demand for Indian manufactured goods as much as the growth in exports. For example, amongst the automotive OEM, the country is emerging to be the 4thlargest commercial vehicle consumers in the world. This essentially entails expansion in capacity and thus, the need for technology from vendors such as PTC applied across the product life cycle.

How is PTC Windchill market in India? How has the response been from Indian companies for PTC’s PLM Solutions?
Within today’s highly competitive, geographically dispersed design and manufacturing environments, effectively managing product content has never been more important. The consequences of using outdated versions, losing files or failing to properly incorporate engineering changes can be severe, resulting in revenue and profitability declines as well as market share erosion.

PTC Windchill is the central repository for all product information. PTC Windchill remembers the entire history for every piece of product related content such as CAD models, documents, technical illustrations, embedded software, calculations and requirement specifications as well as the relationships between content. And, search tools within PTC Windchill to help you quickly find the information you need.

India is a very important market for PTC. We have customers in India who have invested in our flagship 3D product, Pro E for the past 20 years. Like any other Industry, Manufacturing Industry particularly Automobile Industry faces a lot of competition, both from domestic and international companies. Most of the companies look for reducing their manufacturing cost and India is no different. PTC has products in CAD, Application Life Cycle Management (ALM), and Service Lifecycle Management (SLM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and now platform for Internet of Things (IoT) to meet customer expectations. In the last three decades, PTC has grown from a CAD company to a software product and service solution provider for Manufacturing companies and many Indian companies are using PTC products for meeting their industry transformation.

How are you doing things differently in India, given the unique requirements of the market?
As I said India is a very important market for us and we have witnessed tremendous growth in India over the years. We try to deliver our best service to all our customers to ensure their satisfaction with our products and services. That is the reason why we launched core 3.0 in India as well. The main advantage of Creo 3.0 is the Unite technology, which significantly enhances the ability to use CAD files from a variety of systems directly in PTC Creo. PTC Creo 3.0 also empowers innovation through more powerful; seamlessly integrated concept design tools, ensuring efforts undertaken in concept design can be fully reused in the detailed design process. Key productivity enhancements within the release further add to customers’ ability to focus on higher levels of innovation and product quality.

The Unite technology that is being offered with our new product has truly integrated concept design tools, and continued emphasis on day-day productivity gains, this new release empowers our customers to bring greater efficiency to their product development process. We aim to deliver maximum customer satisfaction through our new products and service and we believe Creo 3.0 could do the best for the same.

What are your views on Direct modeling software, PTC Creo Direct? Why parametric modeling is still preferred choice in the Industry?
PTC Creo Direct is a stand-alone app that enables casual CAD users to create new geometry or modify any existing 3D CAD design, regardless of file format. Direct interaction with the geometry makes it easy for anyone to learn and use. That’s why it’s the ideal tool for people in concept design, analysis and manufacturing ― or for anyone else who’s new to 3D CAD or uses it infrequently. Because working with PTC Creo Direct is quick, flexible and intuitive, it’s ideally suited for tasks such as generating proposals, defining the initial design for tooling fixtures or capturing design input from customers in the field. By enabling better collaboration with your extended team, the software encourages innovation and enables your company to respond better to changing customer needs.

Direct modeling software is the best service to achieve faster design cycles by enabling more users to access and use 3D CAD data, including third-party design components. It has features like editing work with direct cut-and paste, push-and-pull and drag-and-drop technique and also to explore concepts and variations using a direct 3D CAD approach.

Parametric modeling revolutionized the approach to solid modeling. Engineers could build intelligence into models so that when a change was made, all the affected features would automatically update, saving time by avoiding manual and tedious updates to every little thing that changed. The convenience and features that parametric modelling provides makes it the preferred choice among customers.

With increased demand for simulation technology among Indian enterprises? How do you plan to tap the Indian market?
India is a growing market for us and we have a huge customer base here, we have been supporting customers for the past two decades. We have grown as a CAD company to a complete product and service advantage company, providing solution in CAD, ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), PLM (Product Life Cycle Management), and now IoT (Internet of Things) i.e., from manufacturing a product -from the design stage to retiring the product, we have solutions.

We are reaching out to our existing and new customers through our partners, and direct sales team and offering our complete suite of products so that they are able to use the same and take advantage of the technology to improve their product lifecycle roadmap.

Also, we have a huge focus in training and creating well trained resources in India, in order to meet the trained technical resources with enhanced knowledge by using PTC products. We have more than 100 Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) and more than 1000 colleges across India who uses PTC products as part of their training curriculum using PTC’s Global Standard Curriculum and training methodologies.

Could you talk about key focus areas for PTC’ India R&D center?
PTC has been re-engineering its traditional products, upgrading the developed ones keeping in the mind aspects like collaboration, cloud, mobility, sharing and communication. Our development teams in Pune, India is contributing significantly to its new business model.

Anything that you would tell design professionals about PTC Live Tech Forum 2015?
PTC Live Tech Forum 2015, the annual event being hosted by PTC for many years is one of the most unique and awaited technology events in India,PTC Tech Forum brings together PTC solutions experts and best-in-class industry presenters to exhibit their latest technology updates, present real-world best practices, and showcase how to use PTC solutions more effectively.

The event is a great platform to gain insight into PTC’s technology strategy and vision, learn best practices from peer companies leveraging PTC solutions. We would also like to showcase our offerings in Smart Connected Products and Internet of Things (IoT) to the participants and to educate them about its advantages.

The event unveils after 2 years in 2015 and we are bringing this event to 2 cities in India; Pune and Chennai during April.

Anything that you would like to highlight, related to India/Asia market.
India is emerging and is often coined in the term of the BRIC nations. As one of the leading economists of our times Ruchir Sharma suggests in his book, Breakout Nations – India’s growth story is to sustain and be realized despite the many external challenges. Manufacturing is a core contributor to India’s economic progress, and thus in the next decade or so Indian manufacturing outfits are not only going to improve the ‘process’ side of manufacturing but also “innovation”. PTC as leading technology providers for manufacturers will be playing a major role in the India’s growth story, and we at PTC India are very excited to witness the transformation in Indian manufacturing that will unfold with time.

Thanks Mr. Subash Nambiar for your time for the discussion. Hope our reader find it interesting to read this article. If you have any question, please write on the mail id given below and we will be glad to answer.

Graebert GmbH has released ARES Commander 2015 with following new commands, features and system variables:
New Commands:

CustomPaperSize. Manages custom paper sizes for built-in printers (PDF, PNG, JPG, SVG, or DWF).
DiscardDuplicates.

Removes duplicate or overlapping entities from the drawing.

EditTableCell. Inserts, deletes, merges, or resizes cells, rows, and columns in Tables ExplodeBlockX. Explodes Blocks and converts BlockAttribute values to SimpleNotes. Migration.

Migrates profiles, preferences, file location settings, and UI customizations from a previous version of the software.

• PowerTrim.

Trims multiple, adjacent entities by dragging the pointer across each entity. Extends or trims two entities where they intersect at a virtual corner.

• QuickModify.

Copies, moves, rotates, and scales entities in one operation.

• StackOptions. Sets the alignment and size for stacked text in annotations.

New Features:

• Dimension palette.

Appears when you insert or select a Dimension so you can change the properties and formatting of Dimension text.

• Paragraph Options dialog box.

Sets paragraph alignment, line spacing, indents, and tab stops for Notes.

• Note Formatting ruler. Sets paragraph indents and tab stops for Notes.

• Stack Properties dialog box. Controls the text, alignment position, relative scale, and type of stacked text to represent fractions and tolerances.
• AutoStack Defaults dialog box.

Sets defaults to automatically stack text that represents fractions and tolerances in annotations.

• Dynamic Block Grips. Modifies Dynamic Block references using grips. You can insert Dynamic Blocks and use them in drawings (although you cannot create them with the software).
• Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon Customization.

Creates and modifies quick access toolbars, ribbon tabs and panels.
New System Variables:

BTMARKDISPLAY. Toggles the display of value set increment markers in Dynamic Blocks.
GRIPDYNCOLOR. Controls the fill color of user-defined grips of Dynamic Blocks.
TABLEINDICATOR.. Toggles the display of the display of row numbers and column letters when editing Table cells in-place.
TABLETOOLBAR. Controls the display of the Edit Table pop-up toolbar to assist editing Table cells in-place.
TSPACEFAC. Sets the line spacing distance specified as a text height factor for Notes.
TSPACETYPE. Sets the type of line spacing used within Notes.
I am sure you will find these Commands, Features and System Variables very useful. Feel free to post your experience and queries.

You can download the ARES Commander edition from http://www.graebert.com/en/index.php?option=com_productselect&view=downloads

ARES Commander is a product from Graebert GmbH. Graebert GmbH is a leading developer of custom CAD software, solutions and services and has over 30 years of technology expertise…

Guest Post, Author: Amit Kumar
Mr. Amit is working as a Specification Writer in a CAD software development company Graebert GmbH. He is graduate Mechanical Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi, India followed by double MBA in Operations and International Marketing. He is using CAD software since 1997 and occasionally write for CAD tips and tricks. He is AutoCAD 2013 certified professional.

Altair HyperView Player is a plug-in and stand-alone utility that enables users to share and visualize 3D CAE models and results.

Available for following OS.

Windows – x86_64 (64-bit) – Vista/7/8.1
Linux x86_64 (64-bit) RHEL 5.9/6.2, SLED/SLES 11 SP2
Mac x86_64 (64-bit) Mac OS X 10.8

For Download visit – http://www.altairhyperworks.in/ResourceLibrary.aspx?keywords=&industry=All&product_service=All&category=Free%20Software%20Downloads&order_by=title

MfgTechUpdate, India’s leading machine tool portal announced a strategic partnership with DailyCADCAM.com, a leading business-to-business CAD media company based in Pune, India.

Part of Antech Media Solutions, MfgTechUpdate.com provides latest news updates, company case studies, expert views and interviews among other specifics to the machine tool industry. On the other side, DailyCADCAM connects influential decision makers to a dynamic network of information, news, events and ideas related to the CAD industry.

With this collaboration the two companies aim to become a one-stop solution for the machine tools and CAD professionals. From latest happenings and trends to employment opportunities, the partnership will provide all the necessary information. The partnership also aims to enhance the visibility of the advertisers, as they can leverage the reach of both the websites.

Talking about the collaboration Nishant Kashyap, Co-founder & Technical Editor, MfgTechUpdate.com said: “This is our second collaboration after CNCjobs.net this year. DailyCADCAM with its huge presence in the CAD industry will further support us to provide CAD related information in our website. I believe the partnership will benefit both the companies as well as both the sectors.”

Beginning January 1st, 2015, readers will be able to explore job opportunities and browse through machines on sale and read about the latest happenings in the industry on both the websites.

“Our partnership with MfgTechUpdate would help us bridging the gap between the design and manufacturing. We hope to share information on new technology, processes and automation with our readers to solve design and production challenges. Our collaboration is focused on providing better design to manufacturing information and playing a small part in facilitating ‘Make in India’ initiative,” said Sachin Nalawade, Editor & CEO DailyCADCAM.

AVEVA’s flagship Information Management software is quicker and more efficient with an improved user interface and faster deployment

AVEVA today announced a number of improvements to AVEVA NET, its powerful Information Management software. Customer feedback has already shown that these improvementsenhance both overall user experience and productivity, enabling significant savings across engineering projects and asset operations. This latest release benefits from simpler and quicker installation and an enhanced user interface that is both intuitive and tablet-friendly.

With improved 3D interaction and faster and more powerful search, visualisation and navigation capabilities, AVEVA NET 5.0 provides users with an optimal experience. It continues to maintain an open and agnostic approach to integration, accepting data from any source. In addition, AVEVA NET 5.0 is cloud ready, offering customers the benefits of greater system flexibility and scalability.

‘AVEVA NET is the benchmark that other solutions are measured against for speed and ease of installation’ said Derek Middlemas, COO & Head of Enterprise Solutions, AVEVA. ‘Helping our customers to gain a competitive advantage has always been a primary focus for us. Feedback from early adopters of this latest version has been extremely positive confirming faster deployment and unmatched productivity when exploiting digital asset information. Overall they are very impressed with the results.’

Mr. Middlemas continued, ‘AVEVA NET 5.0 marks a step change in the deployment of Engineering Information Management solutions and will once again set the standard for others to follow, as the Digital Asset strategy becomes a “must-have” for capital intensive industries.’

AVEVA NET 5.0 is the core technology underpinning AVEVA’s Digital Information Hub solutions, enabling EPCs and Owner Operators to rapidly capture, explore and interrogate their Digital Asset information. It also enables efficiency in the complex process of progressively handing over an asset’s data from its engineering and construction phase into its operations phase.

About AVEVA NET 5

AVEVA NET 5.0 delivers significant advances in fast and efficient search, navigation and visualisation of project and asset information for engineering and operations.

New features include:

• Clean, modern, efficient user interface
• Simple yet powerful engineering search
• HTML5-based 2D visualisation
• Enhanced 3D visualisation
• At-a-glance item Summary Views
• Configurable tag and document Content Cards
• New Basket feature
• Cloud-ready architecture

For more information visit www.aveva.com/aveva_net

Follow AVEVA on twitter @avevagroup
Watch AVEVA on YouTube www.youtube.com/avevagroup
For customer success stories read AVEVA World Magazine at www.aveva.com/Media-Centre/AWM

About AVEVA

For over 45 years, AVEVA software has enabled the creation of some of the world’s most complex power and process plants, vessels and offshore facilities. AVEVA’s Digital Asset approach ensures there is always an accurate digital representation of each physical asset. This allows engineering contractors, owner operators and ship builders to work more safely, more efficiently and with less risk throughout the life cycle of their projects and operations. For further information please visit www.aveva.com/ednotes

DEM Solutions is pleased to announce new EDEM®co-simulation solutions with three leading Multi-body dynamics (MBD) software packages;MathWorks Simulink®, Siemens LMS Virtual.Lab Motion and MSC Adams

Allowing manufacturers of heavy equipment to gain better insight into machine-material interaction

Providing capability to model and visualize dynamics of equipment movement and examine how loads exerted by bulk materials are distributed throughout the mechanical system

Richard LaRoche, DEM Solutions VP of Engineering & Software Development commented on the new solutions:

“Our customers designing heavy construction, mining and agricultural equipment have been looking to expand EDEM’s capabilities to integrate with MBD tools to gain crucial insight into machine-material interaction. Being able to predict the loads and forces acting on equipment is the key to optimising equipment performance and durability.

Without EDEM, design engineers have to rely on “rules of thumb” and guesswork for the forces exerted by bulk material. EDEM-MBD co-simulation enables engineers to look at equipment interaction with different types of materials and different maneuvers with a high level of fidelity.”

EDEM simulates the bulk material behaviour and provides a realistic representation of the loads and forces of a wide range of different materials,while the MBD solver controls and produces feedback on the motion of the equipment due to the force and torque imparted by the material. For example, by coupling EDEM and MBD codes, engineers no longer need to estimate how deeply a bucket will penetrate into the ground, or how long a truck body will take to empty, this can now be simulated and incorporated directly into the MBD model.

The EDEM-MBD solutions make use of the EDEM Coupling Interface – a programmable interface that enablesbi-directional communication between EDEM and other codes.By regularly exchanging information, the interaction between equipment and material can be more accurately modelled.Testing of design variations is performed virtually and the resulting changes in the material interaction are fed back directly to the model.

The new capabilitiesrepresent another milestone in 2014 for DEM Solutions as the Company pursues a strategy to make EDEM highly integrated with other CAE tools. DEM Solutions aims to works closely with leading CAE software companies to develop co-simulation solutions.

Further information on EDEM-MBD co-simulation can be found on the DEM Solutions website. DEM Solutions will also be hosting a number of webinars in early 2015 to introduce each solution. Dates will be announced on the company’s Events Pagein due course.

About:

DEM Solutions is a private company and the market leader in simulation software and services for the design and optimization of bulk particle handling and processing equipment. The Company’s ground-breaking Discrete Element Method (“DEM”) simulation technology and industry expertise provide many advanced engineering and operational benefits. DEM Solutions unique predictive modelling capability in all industries handling and processing bulk materials, enables the optimisation of equipment performance, increased productivity, operational efficiencies and enhanced product innovation. In addition to market leading EDEM® simulation software platform and EDEM BulkSim® software, the company provides simulation and engineering support services to blue-chip companies around the world in mining & energy, equipment manufacturing and process industries.

Founded in 2003, DEM Solutions is headquartered in Edinburgh (UK). The company also has global offices in Boston (USA), Yokohama (Japan) and Sydney (Australia) supporting direct sales into Europe, Americas, Japan, and Australia and channel sales in the rest of the world. The senior leadership team are Ian Williamson VP Sales & Marketing, Richard LaRoche VP Engineering and Software Development and Gordon Grant VP Finance.

Website: http://www.dem-solutions.com

Email: info@dem-solutions.com