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IPS joined OPTFUEL, a European consortium researching biofuels to power automobiles, and will supply process simulation, design and optimisation technologies.

Hawkins comes to Autodesk from Logitech International where he has been CFO and senior vice president of finance and IT since 2006.

Instrumentation Design Office (IDO) software is a suite of integrated applications for creating and maintaining instrumentation engineering data for process plants.

Equipment includes Ovation expert control systems with HART communications, Scenario simulator, safety systems, and AMS Suite predictive maintenance software.

Honeywell will install its UniSim Operations Suite simulation solution at the Salalah Methanol Company (SMC) facility in the Salalah Free Zone in Oman.

Specs for certification of IEC 61131-3 editors have been updated for the first time since 1998.

DDS defines the mechanisms, programming interfaces and protocols that distributed applications use to communicate with each other.

Munich Regional Court in Germany approved an agreement that settles a lawsuit by Autodesk against Torsten Moses for copyright infringement of AutoCAD.

Systems to be installed at a 1,000 megawatt power plant operated by Fortum include Experion Process Knowledge System, Safety Manager, and UniSim Operator Training System.

Sustainable engineering refers to the design and manufacture of an goods and services while using the earth's resources more efficiently and producing less waste.

The eSimOptimizer system will be maximizing asset value for five of Enogex’s cryogenic gas plants in Oklahoma.

Invensys unveiled its Immersive Virtual Reality Process technology, a next-generation HMI that will revolutionize the way engineers see and interact with the plant and the processes they control.

About halfway through the design and prototyping phase, 3M realized they needed to improve the aesthetics of the design and needed new CAD data to revise the model.

Online Webinars on KOMPAS 3D Solid Modelling, 2D Drafting, Design and Release of Documentation are held in English for current and potential customers.

3D Solid Modeling in KOMPAS-3D helped PERMATECH to make its design projects visual and more straightforward for customers, and reduce number of corrections and iterations.

Orders decreased 19 percent in the fourth quarter but full-year EBIT nevertheless reached a record $4.6 billion.

Alan Commike has been promoted to the position of CTO. Commike joined the company in 2006, and was software platform manager.

Using the software will help Grant PUD to design their networks more quickly, help reduce operating costs to maintain the networks, and provide the utility with a strong foundation for future growth.

Survey shows most Americans believe highly automated factories are important to economic growth. The majority support a stimulus package to modernize U.S. factories.

By Metalio The digital factory offers a large database for factory planning. However difficulties arise when the real world does not correspond to the available digital representation, or when no digital representation is given at all. Augmented reality technology, which combines real and virtual data, becomes an interface between the real shop floor and the digital factory.