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Longwatch, Inc. announced support of the Wonderware ActiveFactory trend chart object. This enables users to link plant video directly with Wonderware’s graphical data trend charts automatically. The result is the ability to see exactly what was happening in the plant when trend pens were in a particular condition.

Active Sensing, Inc has been honored with Desktop Engineering magazine's prestigious Editor's Pick of the Week award for its recently-released PDXpert PLM 2010 Edition product lifecycle management software.

Catalog Data Solutions Inc. today announced the ability for any company to promote their online CAD models and drawings on 3DModelSpace.

Altair Engineering, Inc announced today that Altair ProductDesign has successfully collaborated with Daimler to achieve crashworthiness performance targets on the smart fortwo passenger vehicle through the joint development of the car’s multiple safety systems. Following the successful release of the new generation of the smart fortwo in Europe 2007, the latest published results from NHTSA and IIHS show that this small premium vehicle also passed the US ratings with outstanding results.

Longwatch announces the Operator’s Console Recorder, a software module that automatically records images being shown on multiple HMI or SCADA operator’s displays. The module takes its signals directly from each HMI screen’s video software driver, so it records the actual video being sent to the HMI. The software can accommodate video signals from an unlimited number of HMIs to show what operators were watching at the time of an event, alarm or process upset.

Altair Engineering, Inc. announced today that EADS Innovation Works — the global network of Technical Capability Centers operating the corporate Research & Technology laboratories — has recently benchmarked the HyperWorks CAE platform for functional and physical simulation tasks and has again recommended its use to the engineers of the EADS Group and its divisions Airbus, Eurocopter, EADS Astrium and EADS Defence & Security. The Simulation and Graphical Technologies Team of EADS Innovation Works has been using HyperWorks successfully for more than seven years. The department is constantly looking for the best tools to guarantee the technical innovation potential of EADS with a focus on the long-term horizon. The strategic decision for the HyperWorks suite will help EADS engineers in many different areas to develop their products better and faster. Dealing with highly complex systems the special research emphasis is placed on uncertainty management and methods to enhance the robustness,

Altair Engineering, Inc announced today that MECAPLAST Group, France, one of the leading European automotive suppliers, has extended its use of HyperWorks to optimize its automotive products for weight and performance. Altair’s CAE software family will be used within the Finite Element Analysis Department for the Body Skills Centre of the company, which is working closely with the Design Department and the Test & Validation Laboratory of MECAPLAST Group to evaluate technical specifications of its customers via simulation and to provide mechanical improvements toward a ‘right-at-first-time’ solution. In addition, the department is also working on the optimization of injection molded trim components taking into account tooling constraints.

Field Precision has added support for parallel processing to Aether, a 3D code for time and frequency-domain electromagnetic simulations. The measured speed improvement is close to a factor of 2X on a dual-core computer.

Baldor has released a powerful new software estimating tool that enables users to evaluate the energy efficiency of electric motors and variable speed drives. Known as BE$T, the Baldor Energy Savings Tool can be downloaded free of charge from the company’s website. The software analyses the efficiency and annual electricity usage of users’ existing motors, and calculates the cost savings that can be achieved by replacing them with equivalent higher efficiency models. Built-in motor performance and pricing information enables the software to suggest optimum replacements and to estimate the investment payback period.

Active Sensing, Inc. today released PDXpert PLM 2010 Edition product lifecycle management software, which now offers a new bill of materials Markup Wizard, file content indexing, and other significant productivity enhancements.