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Eplan Engineering Center is now Eplan Engineering Configuration.

VRED provides the ability to leverage real-time clusters for animation rendering.

OAO VNIPIneft, the Research and Design Institute for the Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry, has designed over 40 oil refineries and industrial facilities in Russia, the CIS countries, Bulgaria, Hungary, Egypt, India, Cuba, Poland, Turkey and Ethiopia.

EPLAN Experience knowledge-driven program aims to optimize engineering efficiency.

Latest version lets a user search for a desired part across all available catalogs automatically.

The interface includes bi-directional catalog part synchronization of the E-CAD and PLM part libraries. Synchronizations can be scheduled either regularly or created on demand.

The integration of Eplan Electric P8 and GX Works2 allows transferring data from electrical engineering directly into PLC programming.

Tianchen, a Chinese engineering contractor serving the chemical processing industry, has selected AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) as its 3D design solution.

By Bill Lydon, Editor A recent design and engineering conference emphasized the need for manufacturing automation and design engineers to collaborate instead of working in independent organizational silos. An open mind is required in order to embrace change and innovate.

The all-in-one circuit simulation tool, complete with integrated PCB layout and Bill of Materials (BOM) allows a user to scheme, simulate, PCB design, BOM export and purchase with one integrated tool.

The university will use ActiveCube to facilitate Cognitive Interactive Technology deploying robots and motion capture techniques to analyze what goes on in the brain when movement occurs.

Tupras is using AVEVA Everything3D, Diagrams, Electrical and laser scanning solutions in a major brownfield revamp program.

Vodokanal Engineering, a provider of water supply and wastewater projects in Russia, will use AVEVA PDMS as its 3D design modelling solution.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Siemens continues to make large investments in software for manufacturing industries aimed at increasing the productivity of design, engineering, commissioning, operations, and maintenance in discrete and process industries. Siemens COMOS is targeted at process industries and is analogous to Siemens PLM for the discrete industries.

The current 470,000 part data, including schematic macros, geometric dimensions and documents, can now be imported to engineering automatically.

Braskem, a petrochemical company in Brazil, will install AVEVA PDMS software to convert the engineering and design data of 12 of its plants.

Tebis America develops CAD/CAM systems for tool, die and mold manufacturing.

3D Systems acquired American Precision Prototyping (APP) and sister company American Precision Machining (APM) in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The kit has a PIC32 microcontroller (MCU), HCI-based Bluetooth radio, and everything that a designer needs for rapid prototype and development of Bluetooth SPP designs.

Subsidiaries have been founded in Japan and South Africa, with Turkey coming soon.