Design

congatec AG enhances its successful COM Express™ product family with the introduction of the conga-CAx, which utilizes the new industrial temperature versions of the ultra low power Intel® Atom™ processor Z5xx series and the Intel® System Controller Hub US15WPT.

Altium has announced a new release of its TASKING TriCore VX-toolset. Enhanced with next generation Viper compiler technology, version 3.2 offers new features linked to Infineon's 32-bit TriCore microcontrollers, including support of the latest variants TC1167 and TC1197 for the industrial market, and the TC1767 and TC1797 for the automotive market.

InfoLink Process Historian from Canary combines several software packages, including Canary’s Trend Historian and Trend Link software, Software Toolbox’s symbol library, and optional XLReporter from SyTech, to provide a real-time and historical view of a process. With just a few keystrokes, an operator can call up historical data from any point in the past, and review trends, HMI screens and reports exactly as they occurred.

Altium continues to make it easy for electronic designers to take advantage of programmable hardware. The company has announced another new daughter board for its desktop NanoBoard reconfigurable hardware development platform.

CCE announced today that it has added several key capabilities in the latest update of EnSuite version 2.2 – its flagship software for sharing detailed product knowledge across the extended enterprise, with ease. “We are very excited at the latest EnSuite update that comes packed with productivity tools for people in Manufacturing Support and Supply Chain job functions”, says CCE’s V.P. of Sales & Marketing, Mr. Vinay Wagle. He adds, “The focus of EnSuite continues to be in providing critical engineering information to non-CAD-savvy users in the extended enterprise in a simple, intuitive way and this latest update does just that.”

Wonderware United Kingdom today announced the introduction of Industry Application for Facilities Management as part of the Wonderware Industry Solutions for Facilities Management offerings. The new application enables more efficient management of facility operations and features a library of templates, graphics, faceplates and symbols for the development of consistent, open applications across the facility enterprise.

Wonderware United Kingdom, a division of SolutionsPT Ltd, today announced that future releases of Wonderware’s industry-leading mobile workforce and decision support system software, IntelaTrac, will leverage new Microsoft technologies for improved presentation and reporting functionality for the mobile workforce.

The need for safety, security, and the protection of people working in facilities around the world is increasing every day. 3M’s Occupational Health and Environmental Safety (OH&ES) division was tasked with developing a new face shield for welders. About half-way 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.

CCG Facilities Integration Incorporated of Baltimore, Maryland, a leading consulting engineering firm specializing in mission critical facilities, used FloVENT software from the Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division (formerly Flomerics) to optimize the design of Dupont Fabros Technology’s (DFT’s) ACC4 data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The challenge was to design a system to cool the extremely powerful and hot computing and communications equipment occupying the data center while maintaining a Tier 4 level of functionality – the highest possible. “FloVENT provided the ideal tool for optimizing the performance of ACC4 because of its ability to accurately model the room, the IT equipment and complete cooling system,” said Margaret Sam Sheehan, Director of Mechanical Engineering for CCG.

GKS Inspection Services, a global provider of dimensional inspection, 3D laser scanning, and terrestrial scanning services since 1981, has expanded its roster of capabilities to include Computed Tomography (CT) scanning services and systems sales, which are available at their locations worldwide. High-accuracy CT scanning enables 3D scanning of parts with very complex internal geometry. Visual access is not required for CT scanning so the process is very thorough and nondestructive.