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IMAGINiT Technologies releases utilities for Autodesk Revit, Civil 3D and Vault 2022 software

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IMAGINiT Technologies now offers more than 75 utilities that extend the capabilities of Autodesk Revit, Civil 3D and Vault 2022 software.

The new Utilities enable teams to improve both productivity and accuracy by removing redundancies and rework, as well as by reducing errors associated with manual updates and changes. As a longstanding Autodesk Authorized Developer, IMAGINiT’s dedicated team of software developers rigorously beta test the Utilities to ensure the highest quality user experience.

“For more than a dozen years, our software development team has been listening to customer challenges we encounter in the field, to student feedback from our training courses and to the technical issues resolved by our support center,” says Bill Zavadil, president, IMAGINiT Technologies. “Our unique combination of software development expertise supported by real-world insights from both our customers and application engineers, enables us to transform these challenges into purpose-built tools that give our customers a distinct competitive advantage.”

All IMAGINiT Utilities run directly inside the Autodesk software eliminating tedious and time-consuming tasks and boosting productivity. And to further minimize downtime, all utilities now include a direct link to IMAGINiT’s popular online education portal, ProductivityNOW, where subscribers can quickly find answers to their toughest questions.  

 IMAGINiT is launching new tools in each of the following three collections of Utilities.

IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit  

More than 40 unique IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit now fully support Autodesk Revit versions from 2018 through 2022. In response to customer requests, IMAGINiT is also including the most popular tools from their previously-retired Scan to BIM software to help teams work more efficiently with point clouds in Revit. These new tools dramatically reduce time spent on tedious tasks, allowing teams to use their time more effectively.

 IMAGINiT Utilities for Civil 3D  

The IMAGINiT Utilities for Civil 3D include three new Utilities designed to maximize team productivity by accelerating processes through automation, making critical data easy to extract and simplifying complex workflows. Each of the 17 Utilities fully support Autodesk Civil 3D software versions 2019 through 2022 allowing more users access to the full power of these productivity tools.

 IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Client  

More than a dozen IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Client now fully support the Autodesk Vault 2022 software release. Each of these Utilities are designed with the sole purpose to improve management processes, automate workflows and provide access to critical data.                           

 IMAGINiT Utilities Availability 

Available in standalone or network versions, IMAGINiT Utilities are complimentary to clients who have an active Autodesk subscription through IMAGINiT. Otherwise, companies may purchase and download individual IMAGINiT Utilities directly from the IMAGINiT eStore. 

 

New JEDEC industry standard for electronics cooling simulation

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Siemens Digital Industries Software announced the establishment of JEP181—a neutral file, XML-based standard from the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, which is the global leader in standards development for the microelectronics industry. The JEP181 standard simplifies thermal model data sharing between suppliers and end-users in a single file format called ECXML (Electronics Cooling eXtensible Markup Language).

The new standard was created to meet a significant challenge for electronics manufacturers: as increasingly powerful processors allow companies to pack more performance and functionality into their designs, the effective management of heat dissipation and other thermal factors has become essential to the successful design of their next-generation electronics products. Advanced electronics cooling simulation technologies enable the creation of highly accurate thermal models of new product designs. But the absence of a uniform format for the exchange of thermal simulation data throughout supply chains has created unnecessary duplication of effort and the potential introduction of errors into the stream.

Proposed through the JEDEC JC15 committee, the new JEDEC JEP181 standard simplifies thermal model data sharing. With this universal thermal model sharing standard, electronics manufacturers can reduce the time required to simulate and validate their thermal models.

“The JEP181 standard from JEDEC benefits thermal design engineers by providing wider availability of the key data necessary to validate the thermal performance of today’s advanced designs,” stated Ghislain Kaiser, senior director, Intel Corp. “This standardized format will allow more interoperability between engineering teams, leading to substantial time and cost savings by removing design barriers previously common in thermal engineering.”

Thermal model data availability and sharing is one of the key limiting factors in capitalizing on the benefits of thermal simulation throughout the product design process. Countless hours spent on mining product data sheets for thermal information, or re-implementing 2D engineering drawings within thermal simulation tools, can now be replaced by seamlessly importing commercial 3D simulation tools from software suppliers. The JEP181 standard is ideal for emerging technologies and trends such as miniaturization, 2.5D and 3D semiconductor packaging, and 5G technology– all of which demand increased power dissipation density.

“As a leader in industrial software solutions, our contribution to the new JEP181 standard can help drive the digitalization of design data to reduce both time and errors for today’s innovative electronics products,” stated Jean-Claude Ercolanelli senior vice president of Simulation and Test Solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Enabling a seamless digitalized software flow can radically increase the efficiency and accuracy of thermal simulation and thus, enhance the performance and reliability of digital twin prototypes and manufactured products.”

Siemens Digital Industries Software
www.sw.siemens.com

Radica Software integrates electrical CAD software with OpenBOM

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Radica Software, the developer of Electra Cloud electrical CAD software, has partnered with OpenBOM to integrate their online collaboration solutions. The integration creates a new feature that allows users of Electra Cloud to export and convert bills of materials (BOM) directly into OpenBOM with just a few clicks. This new feature is crucial for any team working on design projects using multiple software such as 2D/3D CAD drawing solutions, who can now have all BOM reports exported easily into a centralized location on OpenBOM and allow team members access the files in real-time. The new feature is particularly helpful to anyone using Onshape product design platform and at the same, it is also available to all users of Electra Cloud.
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Having a real-time access to BOM reports in a centralized location is crucial to speed up communication and collaboration between design, engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing departments.

Thomas Yip, CEO of Radica Software said, “Automation is key to making work efficient and productive. Previously, users of Electra Cloud ECAD had to manually export their bill of materials that contained a long list of parts, components, pricing info, and others into OpenBOM. We’ve been getting requests from users to make this process simpler and that motivated us to work with OpenBOM to solve the issue. This has kickstarted our partnership with OpenBOM.”

“The new integration between Electra Cloud ECAD software and OpenBOM helps engineers to streamline the information flow between engineers and the rest of the team. It eliminates the mistakes and supports modern connected SaaS application approaches,” says Oleg Shilovitsky, CEO and co-founder of OpenBOM. “By partnering with Radica Software, OpenBOM expands the line of CAD add-ins supported by OpenBOM and supports multi-disciplinary BOM collaboration,” continued Shilovitsky.

The integration also allows automatic extraction and synchronization of data via OpenBOM with accounting systems, which help improve purchasing processes for project owners. In addition, it provides users with real-time data and real-time collaboration, so they no longer need to worry about version control.

“One of the advantages of using OpenBOM is that it saves time and costs because it has ready-to-use templates, making creating a BOM report a simple task,” Thomas explained.

Both Radica Software and OpenBOM are also discussing potential deeper integration including allowing OpenBOM users to export data into Electra Cloud. Electra Cloud is the world’s first fully browser-based electrical CAD software with Vecta.io, a powerful graphics editor software, also developed by Radica Software, as its engine. The cloud-based software allows third parties to build their own custom vertical solution on top of Vecta.

Radica Software
radicasoftware.com

CAD/CAM Services announces first article inspection capabilities per AS9102

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CAD/CAM Services – a computer-aided design and engineering firm with expertise in 3D scanning, modeling, and conversions – announced the expansion of its inspection capabilities to include first article inspections (FAI) per customer or AS9102 standards.

The firm is certified for high precision conversions by both the aerospace industry and the Department of Defense; it offers in-depth inspection programs to provide OEMs with accurate CAD files. This ensures that all CAD drawings and models match the original specifications and are capable of producing parts and assemblies that meet all design requirements.

FAI is a comprehensive, independent and documented quality control process used by aerospace manufacturers to verify that a supplier conforms to all required physical and mechanical specifications. However, a number of other industries have also adopted the reports in recent years, including automotive manufacturing, shipbuilding, and general manufacturing.

CAD/CAM Services is known for its CAD Perfect conversions, and its engineers are capable of converting any CAD format file into any other CAD system. Its CAD engineers can also make the model (or drawing) compliant with any internal aerospace standard.

With its 3D scanning and reverse engineering expertise, the engineers can create replacement parts for both new and older aircraft to further assist aerospace suppliers. CAD/CAM models include full assemblies that are accurate to ±.002” over any X, Y, & Z axis.

In addition to AS1902 reporting, the firm can also supply any FAI reporting that a supplier may require, including Q-Checker.

CAD/CAM Services
www.cadcam.org

Siemens acquires Nextflow Software to speed simulations with advanced meshless technology

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Siemens announced that it has acquired Nextflow Software, an independent provider of advanced particle-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions. Nextflow Software will become part of Siemens Digital Industries Software, where its offering will expand the Simcenter software portfolio, part of the Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of software and services, with rapid meshless CFD capabilities to accelerate the analysis of complex transient applications in the automotive, aerospace, and marine industries such as gearbox lubrication, tank sloshing or electric motor spray cooling.

“Our customers need to leverage sophisticated simulations earlier and more often in their design process, and this is creating a strong demand for rapid and automated CFD of dynamic gas-liquid flows,” said Jean-Claude Ercolanelli, Senior Vice President, Simulation and Test Solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Meshless technology has emerged as a leading solution to greatly reduce the setup and solving times for this class of problems, accelerating time to results and prove the behavior of products at a reduced time and cost.”

Siemens Digital Industries Software is already positioned strongly in the CFD market, providing both CAD-centric and high-fidelity solutions across mechanical and electrical design scenarios. The addition of Nextflow Software’s Smooth-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technology into the Simcenter portfolio can enable analysts to leverage the complementary nature of meshless and mesh-based solvers to capitalize on each of their strengths, opening the door to new applications that were previously difficult to address.

“We are very excited to join Siemens and expand the scope of CFD simulation for our customers,” said Vincent Perrier, CEO of Nextflow Software “Today, there is no single validation approach that fits all industrial applications. As engineering problems become more complex and design cycles are shortened, analysts must find the optimal trade-off between accuracy and computation time. Nextflow Software’s SPH solutions nicely complement the existing CFD offering in the Simcenter Portfolio to overcome challenges of complexity and long run-times.”

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Nantes, France, Nextflow Software is a startup company focused on the development of innovative SPH meshless CFD methods. They have played a critical role in moving SPH from academic labs into the hands of analysts across industries, helping simulate complex transient problems faster and earlier in the product development cycle.

The transaction closed on June 1, 2021. Terms were not disclosed.

Siemens Digital Industries Software
www.sw.siemens.com

Vuforia Instruct offering streamlines the creation of 3D CAD-based work instructions

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From the stage of the Vuforia Live Virtual Event, PTC  announced the release of the new Vuforia Instruct out-of-the-box offering from the Vuforia Enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) Suite.

With PTC’s Vuforia Instruct, enterprises can leverage 3D CAD data to easily create, deliver, and scale interactive AR work instructions

The Software as a Service (SaaS)-based offering, available on the PTC Atlas platform, empowers original equipment manufacturers to extend the value of the digital thread all the way to their front-line workers. With Vuforia Instruct, enterprises can leverage 3D CAD data to easily create, deliver, and scale interactive AR work instructions, enabling them to optimize inspections for Quality and Field Maintenance use cases.

“We are thrilled to be working with PTC and Rockwell Automation to bring AR to our customers, and see tremendous opportunity to use 3D work instructions to address critical inspection steps within our maintenance, repair, and sanitation processes on our packaging equipment,” said Alexander Ouellet, Innovation Engineer, Harpak-ULMA Packaging. “The enhanced work instructions created with Vuforia Instruct enable us to upskill our customers’ employees, and even our own technical staff, on intricate procedures in mission critical environments. AR technologies will help our customers reap significant productivity gains by enabling them to improve the accuracy and timeliness of complex, manual processes.”

Approximately 67% of manufacturers are still utilizing manual paper processes for inspections. These existing methods are often error-filled, difficult to transcribe, and costly – ultimately becoming barriers to continuous improvement. Such inefficiencies can result in poor product quality or experiences, cost millions of dollars per year, and lead to loss of brand reputation, market position, customer satisfaction, and revenue. Vuforia Instruct enables companies to eliminate reliance on paper forms by delivering contextual visual guidance and references to front-line workers with built-in, real-time inspection feedback to capture critical insights.

“Vuforia Instruct enables organizations to transform the way they create and scale work instructions to their front-line employees,” said Michael Campbell, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Augmented Reality Products, PTC. “Leveraging existing 3D CAD data, organizations can now guide employees to exactly where work needs to be done and provide them with detailed instructions for critical inspection procedures in context. Such enhancements are critical to industrial organizations looking to increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce unplanned downtime.”

PTC
www.ptc.com

Verisurf 2021 software released

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Verisurf Software, Inc. announced its new Verisurf 2021 release. More than 25-years ago, Verisurf was the first company to develop PC-based software that could compare physical part measurements to the surface of a CAD model. Today, Verisurf continues to lead the way with its latest release of Verisurf 2021. From Boeing’s Digital Product Definition requirements to PTB and NIST, Verisurf exceeds industry and customer expectations for measurement and inspection automation, designed for today’s manufacturing enterprise.

Verisurf 2021 has new and enhanced features that increase measurement and inspection productivity, from CMM plan creation through execution, particularly for Renishaw PH20 5-axis touch-trigger, and REVO 5-axis scanning probes. Users can also look forward to additional CMM controller support, enhancements for GD&T feature control frames and ballooning, and updated Software Development Kit (SDK) for custom user interfaces, integration of robotics, and automating processes across the manufacturing enterprise.

“We work closely with our customers as we continue the ongoing development of the Verisurf software platform, and are committed to performance, ease-of-use, and universal compatibility with all popular CAD file formats and all new and legacy CMMs,” said Ernie Husted, President and CEO of Verisurf Software. “We have gained the trust of our customers by providing, and continually improving on, practical measurement solutions for Inspection and Reporting, Scanning and Reverse Engineering, Toolmaking, and Assembly Guidance,” added Husted.

Verisurf is the only measurement and inspection software dedicated to Model-Based Definition (MBD) and built on a CAD/CAM platform. This enables greater compatibility, workflow integration, and more complete end-to-end solutions customers require.

Verisurf 2021 highlights: (available on video: ‘Feature Focused’ videos, veri.surf/2021

• 5-Axis CMM programming with support for Renishaw PH10, PH20, and REVO heads
• External Productivity Utilities provide time-saving tools and shortcuts
• CAD Translator V8.0 with new assembly import and management features
• Thickness feature for Dynamic Surface Point improves CMM Plan creation
• Digital Product Definition compliance – Boeing, PTB, NIST
• Custom Clearance CMM Path added to Generate Path tool
• Power Surface option to Orient Starter Plane for surface fit
• Power Surface is enhanced to support point clouds or meshes in addition to existing wireframe capabilities
• Power Surface tools to use starter plane fit options such as least squares, minimum zone, or graphics view, plus an option to use point vectors to help for a better surface fit
• SolidWorks Inspection First Article & Balloon Dwg Reports using Verisurf – SOLIDWORKS Inspection added to Report Database output
• GD&T Feature Control Frames added to CMM Plans and Measured Features staying current with ASME and ISO protocols
• Verisurf Device Interface (VDI) upgrades for new laser trackers and CMMs
• Software Development Kit (SDK) Enhancements for communication with other cooperative devices
• Feature Align improvements use nominals from the Plan to automatically create a WCS, improving workflow and flexibility
• Best Fit feature includes multiple enhancements for automated CMMs and user-prompted inspection routines for manual and portable CMMs
• CAD is at the foundation of Verisurf software and 2021 includes new features and improved user experience for model-based inspection productivity.

Verisurf
veri.surf/2021

Keysight expands relationship with Ansys for wireless design workflow products

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Keysight Technologies, Inc., a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced an expanded collaboration with Ansys to integrate Keysight’s PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) RFPro environment with Ansys HFSS electromagnetic simulation.

As a result of this collaboration, radio frequency (RF) and microwave engineers can eliminate the time-consuming bottleneck of manually coupling design tools to simplify workflow and improve time-to-market. The initial collaboration between the two companies, originally announced in February 2021, improved the workflow between the companies products to speed time-to-market for 5G, aerospace and defense, as well as automotive applications.

“Keysight’s PathWave framework helps customers get to market faster from design through production. Developing open interfaces between design and test software products, enables end-to-end workflow solutions across system/circuit design, verification and manufacturing,” stated Tom Lillig, general manager of Keysight PathWave Software Solutions. “We have expanded PathWave beyond Keysight products, to connect Ansys HFSS with PathWave ADS RFPro. This partnership enables customers to solve large, complex development challenges, even faster.”

Keysight’s RFPro simulation solution is an electromagnetic (EM) environment for RF and microwave circuit designers and is seamlessly integrated within Keysight PathWave ADS. RFPro makes performing EM analysis easy, simplifying EM-circuit co-simulation and saving hours to weeks of simulation setup time.

“Ansys is committed to building world-class products in an open ecosystem,” said Steve Pytel, vice president of Ansys Product Management. “Collaborating with Keysight complements this strategy, enabling Keysight and Ansys to provide comprehensive solutions that address our customers’ engineering challenges.”

Keysight’s ADS RFPro was introduced in PathWave ADS 2019 and has generated broad adoption within the ADS user community. Keysight is now addressing customers’ larger workflow challenges with PathWave workflow solutions. HFSS is a trusted, widely used, finite element method (FEM) solver and now in addition to Momentum and Keysight FEM, ADS design engineers have access to HFSS as an additional simulation option within ADS RFPro.

Steve Pytel, vice president of Ansys Product Management also commented, “Many customers couple Keysight’s PathWave ADS and RFPro for RF circuit design with Ansys HFSS to verify and validate their assembled RF modules. The manual process to move design files between tools is time consuming and can create bottlenecks — especially as die-counts increase for complex RF modules in applications like 5G and 6G. We are collaborating with Keysight to alleviate this pain point — ultimately creating an efficient workflow that drives fast results for our mutual customers and spurs innovation within the industry.”

The PathWave ADS RFPro HFSS link option will be available in Keysight’s ADS 2022 and is expected to ship in the summer of 2021.

Keysight Technologies
www.keysight.com

ECAD/MCAD capability keeps electronic and mechanical designs in sync

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In the process of designing electronic products for industries like IoT, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation—mechanical and electrical engineers face multiple challenges. One of the greatest sources of frustration happens when mechanical and PCB designers collaborate on the same electronic design assemblies.

During the design process of any complex electronics product, both mechanical and PCB designers are continually importing, exporting, and converting files in an effort to keep mechanical and electronic designs in sync. This adds hours of manual labor, data loss, and rework to the design process – and yet engineers on both sides are still working in serial, and largely isolated from each other.

“Export and import of files is what most EDA companies are calling co-design,” says Ted Pawela, Chief Ecosystem Officer at Altium. “That’s like sending someone a letter in the mail and calling it collaboration. Altium CoDesigner simply keeps MCAD synchronized with ECAD so that electronic and mechanical design teams can truly work concurrently.”

Altium’s CoDesigner capability gives PCB designers using Altium Designer (with an active subscription) a much faster and easier way to collaborate with mechanical designers working with tools like PTC Creo, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, and Autodesk Fusion 360. Mechanical engineers can use CoDesigner capability at no cost and while staying in their favorite MCAD design environment.

“With CoDesigner capability, we can detect potential problems like we couldn’t before,” reports Jeremie Waller, Sr. Electrical Engineer at Quantel Laser USA, a division of Lumibird, a global leader in laser technology. “We can see silkscreens, hidden vias, make sure polarities are correct, where copper traces are—our models are now 100% complete, including overlay and copper. I don’t have to worry about board shapes, or connector placements, even in very tight spaces. With CoDesigner capability, we have the confidence that everything will fit exactly as planned when it goes to manufacturing,” Waller adds.

To set up CoDesigner, mechanical engineers only need to download a free plug-in from the Altium website or the MCAD plug-ins page inside Altium 365 for their MCAD tool. Once they’re ready to share, mechanical designers can just synchronize their MCAD tools with Altium Designer and Altium 365.

Paul Spendley is a Senior Electronic Engineer at YASA, LTD., a manufacturer that specializes in electric motors, controllers and powertrain solutions for hybrid and electric automotive and aerospace manufacturers. For Spendley, the combination of Altium 365 and CoDesigner has completely changed the way his team works.

As he explains, “MCAD/ECAD collaboration before CoDesigner was emailing STEP files; sometimes they would open, sometimes they wouldn’t. Components would get lost, so it would take us multiple iterations to get designs right. On the ECAD side, this required at least 3-4 steps that took about 10 minutes each; and on the MCAD side, it took hours.”

The addition of CoDesigner has changed this process completely. “Our mechanical designers always have the most up-to-date ECAD design. I can push the latest design changes directly to their MCAD tool—we have a two-way design process now,” Spendley reports.

Laine McNeil, Sr. Mechanical Engineer at Quantel Laser USA, concurs. “Before we started using Altium’s CoDesigner, there was an element of “Us vs. Them.” It is a much more collaborative process now. We no longer lack context when working with our PCB design teams.”

Eliminating hours of extra work using a simple plug-in

Altium’s CoDesigner gives mechanical engineers the ability to design alongside PCB designers in real-time, and empowers effortless product design reviews.

Accessing CoDesigner is easy for both ECAD and MCAD users. The MCAD CoDesigner extension is included in the standard Altium Designer installation, appearing as a panel that’s always available in the PCB editor. Once MCAD users install the aforementioned plug-in, CoDesigner is just as effortlessly accessible.

 For Thomas Pottle, Electronic Design Engineer at AERQ, a leading digital cabin technology firm, Altium CoDesigner has been a huge time saver. As Pottle explains, “Before we started using CoDesigner, we were manually transferring files over email, from ECAD to MCAD only. In just one project, I generated over 40 files in ECAD, with each taking about 30 minutes to upload into my MCAD software. This was especially frustrating when files didn’t work, and I had to spend hours trying to figure out why.”

Once AERQ’s electronics design team added Altium CoDesigner, their processes changed dramatically. “With CoDesigner, it’s just so much easier,” Pottle confirms.

“Using Altium 365 and CoDesigner has been a quantum leap in our design process. And CoDesigner’s right there inside Altium Designer—I can’t imagine not using it,” Quantel’s Jeremie Waller concludes.

Altium
www2.asx.com.au

 

 

CADfix PPS solution boosts AVEVA E3D design performance

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Leading interoperability solution provider International Technegroup Incorporated (ITI) has collaborated with AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, driving digital transformation and sustainability, to use ITI’s CADfix PPS model simplification solution to enhance the performance of AVEVA E3D Design, the advanced 3D design solution for the process plant, marine and power industries.

CADfix PPS automatic simplification of complex MCAD equipment assembly models

Fueled by the CADfix PPS automatic model simplification solution, AVEVA E3D Design has been enhanced with two new add-on products – AVEVA Model Simplification and AVEVA Native Model Simplification – which allow engineers to resolve the complex issues faced when importing very large and complex equipment assembly models. The advanced CADfix PPS automatic simplification wizard enables the rapid and automatic removal of small parts and unwanted computer-aided design (CAD) features, as well as the removal of internal parts and simplification of complex parts to basic shapes, which further helps to improve overall performance.

Brian Hughes, Senior Portfolio Manager of AVEVA’s Design & Execute software, said, “A plant layout includes many machines and large equipment installations. Having a CAD model of these installations with all the non-essential details can adversely impact performance in the layout tool. The new AVEVA simplification tools powered by CADfix PPS allow users to eliminate excessive details and small CAD features to seamlessly integrate the equipment model into the plant model. Customers can now significantly increase the performance of AVEVA E3D Design solution and enhance productivity across design teams.”

The new add-on products enable users to import into AVEVA E3D Design complex 3D CAD models of equipment items that have been created in external Mechanical CAD (MCAD) systems. During the import process, the equipment items can be simplified before being inserted into the typical design database to greatly enhance performance. Smaller models mean faster working, loading, clashing, and creation of drawings. The imported equipment items behave in the same way as other AVEVA E3D Design objects to ensure customers can work on projects more efficiently with ease and accuracy.

Andy Chinn, Director, ITI, said, “We are delighted to have worked with AVEVA to deliver the new model simplification products that extensively heighten performance and allow customers to shrink large files ahead of integration of CAD models into AVEVA E3D Design. It is rewarding to see CADfix PPS contributing to the enriched stability and usability of plant design systems containing large equipment models, saving days of non-productive geometry handling, and ultimately helping customers increase efficiency and get to production faster.”

ITI, a Wipro company
www.iti-global.com