Autodesk University Extension Coming to a Mumbai, India

After 20 years, when the Autodesk University started in US. The event has grown into numerous events being held worldwide. Its fact – very few Indian afford to make their way to Las Vegas for AU! There are two ways now to enjoy the excitement at AU, one: can attain the AU 2013 (Dec 3-5, 2013) Las Vegas Live through internet, check this link http://au.autodesk.com/au-online/live-stream or can join peers at Mumbai on Dec 19, 2013 for one day event.

AU Extensions (AUx) is smaller one day event that provide a great opportunity for design and engineering professionals to upgrade and validate their skills by obtaining Autodesk Certifications at the event and connect with peers and experts - without the cost of traveling to Autodesk University at Las Vegas.

The 1^st  AUx in India will be held on Dec. 19, 2013 at The Grand Hyatt, Santacruz, Mumbai. The day-long event will showcase technologies of the future from the Autodesk portfolio and also demonstrate novel applications of design technology by leading design and engineering professionals, animators, visual artists, architects and filmmakers. 

The registered users also have opportunity to certify themselves for the latest versions of Autodesk software like AutoCAD 2014 Certified Professional, Revit Architecture 2014 Certified Professional, Inventor 2014 Certified Professional, Civil 3D 2014 Certified Professional, 3Ds Max 2014 Certified Professional, Maya 2014 Certified Professional.

The event in Mumbai will also showcase innovative technology from Autodesk in 3D Printing, Reality Capture, Animation and also innovative projects undertaken by customers from Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing and Media & Entertainment industries. 

AUx Mumbai will also have industry specific sessions conducted by technical specialists and Autodesk customers. Notable speakers from Manufacturing, Architecture, Civil, General Design and Entertainment will have slots after keynote and lunch. 

I look forward to meet Lynn Allen, Customer Evangelist Autodesk Inc, who is also one of my favorite blogger for Autodesk products, tips and articles. Other is Mr. Sathiyaselan, Head Styling Studio Ashok Leyland, who have started the design studio at Ashok Leyland and developed world class vehicles with in-house design and development. If you are Autodesk ALIAS user, it’s for you!

I will be attaining “Manufacturing” track, the other speaker here are

Mr. Marx Mani Head COE, Titan Industries on Single-Minute Exchange of Design Using Autodesk Inventor

Mr.Jay Kansara, Faurecia, Mr. Santosh Deshpande Sr. Project Engineer on Simulation of corner effects in plastic components

Dr. S Mali (Dept of Mechanical Engineering), MNIT Jaipur on Digital Prototyping in Mechanical Engineering

Detlev Reicheneder, Sr. Industry Manager, Autodesk Inc on The New Industrial Revolution, The future of manufacturing is now

The other attraction at the event is the exhibition area featuring Autodesk authorized developers, solution providers, and strategic partners from India and Asian countries.

Check the event schedule here - http://www.autodesk.in/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=5967151&id=22358873

Registration for the event is required, check details here - http://www.endtoend.in/apps/forms/Autodesk/University/mailedsrc/form_1.html

See you at AUx Mumbai on Dec 19, 2013  

Siemens Scholarship - encouraging and promoting engineering education amongst meritorious students in India

 Siemens India today, announced the – Siemens Scholarship for the engineering students from the states of Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra, pursuing engineering (FE) in

-          Mechanical

-          Electrical

-          Electronics/Instrumentation

-          E&TC

-          Computer/IT

Siemens Scholarship would encourage and promote engineering education amongst the meritorious students from low income families to meet a part of their day-to-day expenses while pursuing higher studies.  In view of this, Siemens offers a limited number of scholarships to deserving candidates to pursue their education and launch a sustainable career in engineering, R&D or manufacturing.

DIPEX 2013, Engg Students Event

The first year engineering students with family income below 2 Lakhs, and 60% in SSC and HSC with Min 45% in CET can apply for the scholarship.

Annual Scholarship comprising of - Tuition fees, allowances for books, stationeries and other miscellaneous expenses.

Holistic development through training and mentoring at Siemens

Check details on following links -

http://www.siemens.co.in/en/about_us/index/siemens-scholarship-program.htm

http://blog.siemens.co.in/?p=4751

Link to application form - http://scholarship.siemens.co.in/Pages/Home.aspx

*Note your registration form number for future references

Japanese CFD Solutions Provider Cradle Expands its Services in India with an Affiliate Company Contravolts InfoTech Private Limited, Bangalore

Japanese producer of CFD solution, Software Cradle Co., Ltd has unveiled plans to expand in the India, with opening of an office in the silicon city of India, Bangalore.  It’s not just an office but an affiliate company, Contravolts InfoTech Private Limited India.

The Contravolts InfoTech Private Limited is based in Bangalore and was formed to market and support Cradle's computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for aerospace, automotive, electronics, and general industries applications. The company offers technical support, training, consultancy, and expertise to customers in India. The team is comprised of industry professionals, consultants, and academics from leading technical industries.

"India is an influential region in the field of technology.  Having a presence there will assuredly help Cradle reach a large market of engineers who are looking to enhance their skills with CFD software solutions," said Ichiro Komada, president of Software Cradle.

The establishment of Contravolts will allow Cradle to better support its customers throughout India and the surrounding area. Company has hired the professionals to offer tech support, training and services to their clients in India.  

The company has wide range of products like,

ScSTREAM - General Purpose Structured Mesh Thermal-fluid Analysis System
SC/Tetra - General Purpose Unstructured Mesh Thermal-fluid Analysis System
HEAT Designer - 3D Structured Mesh Thermal-fluid Analysis System for Electronics Cooling
CADthru – CAD Model Translator

Additionally, ContraVolts offers courses on MATLAB. The company would soon conduct seminars and webinars for the Indian design professionals from Bangalore office.

ContraVolts India site - http://www.contravolts.com

Cradle site - http://www.cradle-cfd.com

Tata Consulting Engineers India (TCE) to use Autodesk's Building Information Modeling (BIM) Solutions

Let us first take a look at ‘Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE)’ so that the readers outside India or those not aware about the Tata’s presence in this sector would understand the importance of the deal.  TCE is one of India's leading engineering consulting organizations. Established as Tata-Ebasco Consulting Engineering Services in 1962, the company is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited. TCE is ranked 188 among top international design firms for engineering in a ENR survey 2013. 

TCE offers a wide range of multi-disciplinary services in project engineering across several sectors. The firm has completed more than 7,000 assignments, including the engineering of several power plants, large urban water supply, and waste water projects, several chemical, automotive and industrial plants.

Around 4000 highly qualified professionals work for the TCE. I think 70% out of 4000 are some way or the other associated with the design. I mean they are using CAD, CAE or FEA tools. TCE’s offices are located at Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Jamshedpur, a subsidiary office in Qatar and branch offices in the USA and South Africa.

Last week, Autodesk and TCE announced a strategic partnership to deliver Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions to customers in plant, infrastructure, construction and building industry verticals.

Under this deal, Tata Consulting Engineers will leverage BIM solutions offered by the Autodesk Building Design Suite, Infrastructure Design Suite and Plant Design Suite to bring business value to its global customers in power, infrastructure, chemical, process and building sectors serving them in the key markets of Africa, Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe and India, through joint business development and engineering consultancy services.

Commenting on the announcement, J.P Haran, Managing Director, Tata Consulting Engineers said, “This partnership with Autodesk will help Tata Consulting Engineers add value by implementing BIM solutions in the building, infrastructure and plant solution space. Providing technology-enabled solutions also complements our larger strategic goals in spreading our business in the global markets.”

Pradeep Nair, Managing Director, Autodesk India & SAARC said, “BIM goes well beyond traditional CAD software that is popular in most developing countries. India’s 12th Five-Year Plan envisages infrastructure investments of USD 1 trillion. BIM will help us derive cost and time savings in such mega-projects, while ensuring sustainability. As the leading provider of BIM solutions we are delighted to partner with Tata Consulting Engineers to promote the adoption of BIM in India and other emerging markets.”

The adoption of BIM has seen significant increase worldwide in areas of building, infrastructure and construction management. According to 2012 McGraw Hill North America BIM SmartMarket Report the percentage of companies using BIM jumped from 17 percent in 2007 to 71 percent in 2012 in North America. In UK, BIM is a central theme in the government’s construction strategy designed to reduce carbon and costs as part of the overall economic development. In Singapore, BIM is an important component of public housing projects.

The deal is great step for both the companies; the happiest people with the deal are the design engineers in the TCE. Now, they would use Revit or AutoCAD Civil for their projects! Before, TCE was using MicroStation. Design engineers were finding it very difficult work with the MicroStation. Most engineers are use-to AutoCAD since their student life and thus find difficulties in using other tools. Also, the clients are demanding for the BIM. So, great partnership for Autodesk and TCE, hope they achieve excellence and customer satisfaction! 

TCE Website - http://www.tce.co.in 

A Conversation With Ed Caracappa, Director of Global Sales & Business Development at AMD.

I have been doing interviews with the legends of the CAD, CAE and PLM industry for a while now. I must admit, I always wanted to interview someone from hardware sector, especially graphics card! Which helps CAD, CAM, CAE software to enhance its performance and upgrade user experience.

I've always been curious to know something more about graphics card technology, to me; it was a great opportunity to interview Mr. Ed Caracappa, Director of Global Sales & Business Development, Professional Graphics at AMD. I tried to learn more about him, his company, products for CAD, AMD’s latest focus, direction and strategies for India. Here is the interview: 

 

With Mr. Ed Caracappa, Director AMD

Ed Caracappa, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your professional activities?

Well, I am an electrical engineering graduate from University of Arizona. I started my career as a production engineer with Motorola. But, soon realized that shop floor job does not interest me much! So, I switched to sales and marketing job. Before, joining AMD, I had an opportunity to work with esteemed organizations like NextComputing, LLC, Escape Studios and BOXX Technologies. I am with AMD since January 2012 and take care of global sales & business development.

Tell us about your organization?

Sure, AMD is fortune 500 company, our mission is to deliver the most visually rich and meaningful digital experiences to every technology user we touch. AMD is the second-largest global supplier of microprocessors. After acquisition of ATI Technologies in 2006 company dominated CPU as well as GPU market worldwide.

Established in 1969, with it’s headquarter at Sunnyvale, California. At present, we have more than 10,000 employees worldwide. With the long history of innovations, company has achieved its revenue targets. AMD has record growth of $5.42 billion for year 2012.

Please tell us about AMD’s latest FirePro W-series graphics cards and what are its advantages for professional CAD users?

FirePro W-series workstation graphics delivers incredible performance, superb visual quality and outstanding multidisplay design experiences to CAD/CAE professionals. We offer mid-range boards for mainstream CAD applications like AMD FirePro™ W5000, AMD FirePro™ W5000 DVI and AMD FirePro™ W7000.

AMD FirePro™ W8000 and AMD FirePro™ W9000 are dedicated boards for high-end CAD, CAE, FEA and CFD applications. All W-series cards are single-slot solution that provides smoother interactivity when working with complex 3D models and allows design engineers to quickly visualize and render designs.

AMD’s FirePro W-Series is based on the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture and offers more memory bandwidth, which makes it more than five times faster than competing solution. W-series is tested and certified for its enhanced 3D performance capability by all mainstream CAD/CAE vendors.   

What performance advantages with AMD FirePro graphics cards can be expected by CAD users and why?

Today, the CAD models are becoming increasingly complex, visually rich and used for further analysis, and simulation. Many organizations are using CAD models directly for creating marketing material and presentations. So, using right professional graphics solution has become very critical to accelerate the functionality of CAD tools that speeds up 3D rendering and visualization, allows large CAD models to load faster, run simulations in parallel without impacting the quality of the graphics.

AMD works closely with all relevant software vendors in the CAx space, and gets graphics hardware tested for every new release. Our cards are certified for all major CAD tools. Users achieve 3x graphics performance increase with SolidWorks 2013 when using the new AMD FirePro W-series graphics cards.

Recently we had a collaboration with PTC, we now offer powerful new GPU-accelerated functionality in PTC Creo Parametric 2.0 that speeds up 3D rendering of transparent surfaces by up to 900% through the use of “OIT” (order independent transparency) - an advanced OpenGL programming method. 

Similarly, Siemens PLM Femap and AMD FirePro have become best choice for the engineering and simulation professionals. Use of VBO's (vertex buffer objects) running on the AMD FirePro W5000 and W7000 graphic cards has resulted in exceptional Femap 11 software performance.

What is AMD Eyefinity technology and what impact it has on CAD workflow?

It’s a technology that enables user to run up to six independent and simultaneous displays with a single graphics card. It supports advance workflows, where CAD users switch between applications including analysis, simulation and data management. User can see more detail than ever, increasing his workflow productivity. Can manage multitasking more efficiently, and view more data, applications, and images at once.

What is your product roadmap for the professional graphics market?

We have product line that enhance and accelerate the user experience across PCs, gaming systems, digital devices, CAD applications and cloud servers.  The AMD Radeon is positioned for the gaming and main stream PC market. V and W-series are for the professional graphics card market. We also have partnered with the workstation OEMs, who use our cards for building professional workstations.  

AMD applications are developed using OpenCL (Open Computing Language). OpenCL can natively talk to a large range of devices and its easy synchronization makes it more flexible. So, we clearly have the advantage over our competitors when developing a new product with the open source language.

Tell us about AMD India, do you have design and development center in India?

India is unique! Lot of well educated and technically sound people coupled with passion, talent and potential are easily available.  AMD India plays a significant role in the design of microprocessors, AMD Family of Accelerated Processing Units (APU) SoCs, graphics and media solutions.

We have two design centers in India, located in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. With top-tier engineering talent, state of the art facilities, and world class management, AMD India has been delivering world-class, cost-effective System-On-Chips (SOCs), Hardware and Software platforms and high quality Intellectual Property.

AMD India is also responsible for AMD's sales & marketing activities in the 'India Region' (comprising of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka), and is focused on expanding our market share in the rapidly growing PC and graphics market in this region.

AMD India strives to recruit and retain the best talent, make AMD a great place to work, and be an integral part of the AMD family by continuing to contribute significantly to AMD's success.

Please share with us the AMD India strategy and how is your sales network here?

We have very good relationship with global OEMs. We work with them and offer bundle products for PCs, gaming systems, digital devices, CAD workstations and cloud servers. 

We also work with the local VARs of CAD vendors, like PTC and SolidWorks Re-sellers across India to fulfill the requirement of the CAD designers. VARs are the right people who can guide the CAD users to select the best and certified graphics card as per his requirement.  This year we had done 6 road shows in India and we are overwhelmed with the response our products got from the people across India. 

How are AMD products doing with small and medium companies in India?

It’s not only the automotive giants like Tata and Mahindra and Mahindra are our customers In India. We have had many wins especially in the education, consumer products, medical imagining, defense and R&D segments. Our client includes reputed companies like BHEL, TACO, DRDO and Godrej.

Small company like Hema Engineering in Pune also uses our graphics card to enhance and accelerate the functionality of their CAD tools.  There are many such small scale engineering and service providers using our solutions across India.

Any message for DailyCADCAM’s readers?

 I’m excited with the growth we had in India for last two years. Indian mechanical, civil, architectural, medical and film industry are breaking the new barriers with the high quality products, infrastructure and services. We have a deep passion for graphics and visual processing and AMD is eagerly looking forward to digitize your needs.

So designers, if you face any issue working with the large CAD models, 3D rendering and visualization, running simulations, whatever! Do talk to our local channel partners to get the best possible solution to accelerate you work.

Thank you, 

Siemens PLM Software Appoints Gautam Dutta as Director of Marketing India

June 25, 2013: India - Siemens PLM Software has announced the appointment of Gautam Dutta as Director of Marketing for India. Gautam is based in Gurgaon and takes over this role from Vivek Marwaha, who has moved to an Asia Pacific marketing role within the company.

Gautam brings over 25 years of experience in Aerospace, IT and PLM industries in India. He has held leadership roles in various organizations such as TCS, IBM, Silicon Graphics, PTC and ANSYS. Gautam has previously worked in Siemens PLM Software for four years up until 2010. He has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering and a master’s from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.  “I am very pleased to welcome Gautam Dutta back to Siemens”, said Suman Bose, Managing Director, Siemens PLM Software India. “His experience is an asset as our customers and partners will surely benefit from his industry knowledge, an important contribution as we further scale-up our Indian operations significantly over the next few years. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to Vivek for his contributions over the past many years of his leadership marketing role in India. I wish him success in his new role within the company”.

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with seven million licensed seats and more than 71,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies to deliver open solutions to help them make smarter decisions that result in better products. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm.

The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany) supports the entire value chain of its industrial customers – from product design to production and services – with an unmatched combination of automation technology, industrial control technology, and industrial software. With its software solutions, the Division can shorten the time-to-market of new products by up to 50 percent. Industry Automation comprises five Business Units: Industrial Automation Systems, Control Components and Systems Engineering, Sensors and Communications, Siemens PLM Software, and Water Technologies. For more information,

visit www.siemens.com/industryautomation.

A Discussion With David Street (Asia Director of Marketing and Business Development for ANSYS)

David Street (Asia Director of Marketing and Business Development for ANSYS)

 ANSYS needs no introduction among the CAD, FEA, CAE and CFD professionals. Today, 96 out of top 100 industrial companies on the FORTUNE Global 500 list are using ANSYS products to drive innovation. The Company offers a common platform of fully integrated multiphysics software tools designed to optimize product development processes for a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, civil engineering, consumer products, chemical process, electronics, environmental, healthcare, marine, power, sports and others.

The company now known as ANSYS was founded in 1970. The Company has grown both organically and through acquisition throughout its drive toward offering an integrated, full-spectrum portfolio of engineering simulation solutions. Today, the suite of engineering simulation tools from ANSYS is a solution set of unparalleled breadth that goes well beyond FEA and CFD to include interoperative structural, fluid flow, thermal, electromagnetics and related technologies.

ANSYS has more than 60 strategic sales locations throughout the world in addition to a substantial network of channel partners. Combined with its subsidiaries, ANSYS employs over 2,600 people, making it a truly global company.

 During, 2013 ANSYS Regional Conferences in Pune I had an opportunity to meet David Street, here is the interview.

David, can you tell us about yourself?

Sure, I have been with the ANSYS and the former Fluent organization for over 14 years, before that I worked as a process engineer in a Japanese chemical industry where I was responsible for utilizing computational simulation software to improve process plant performance. I am chemical engineering and PhD holder in CFD from University of Leeds, UK and MBA in Technology and Information Management from Theseus IMI in France. Presently, I work from Japan and look after the Marketing and Business Development for ANSYS in Asia.   

How is your experience with India?

Very positive, In India we are formally registered as 'ANSYS Software Private Limited' and operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of ANSYS, Inc., USA. We are headquartered in Bengaluru and have offices in Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Noida.

ANSYS Convergence 2013, Pune

We had two regional conferences ‘ANSYS Convergence 2013’ here in India this year. It is very hearting to see the overwhelming response from design community in India. We had around 1200 attendees in Bangalore and 400 for Pune event. Both venues had very good user presentations showcasing the unique ways in which customers are using solutions from ANSYS to solve challenging problems.

We have 396 employees working in India and good number of employees working on product development and supporting global teams in developing world class product.  

How is ANSYS Market in India?

India is rapidly growing economy; we have good growth in last financial year ended and see increasing demand for our applications in this region. 1/3 of the total revenue comes from ASIA and we see good opportunity as 2013 continues to unfold.

It’s not only the MNCs but the Indian companies like L&T, ISRO, Tata Motors and many medium and small size enterprises are using our solutions. Large number of Government sector, Automotive, Oil and Gas, Consumer Products and Power Sector companies are utilizing our tools for engineering simulation.

I read your recent press releases on acquisitions; can you elaborate the technologies that were added to ANSYS?

 Well yes. We have number of acquisitions recently. Last month we acquired Switzerland based company EVEN – Evolutionary Engineering AG, a leading provider of composite analysis and optimization technology relying on cloud computing. We are now offering the EVEN’s composite technologies through a product called ANSYS Composite PrepPost.

In 2012, ANSYS acquired Esterel Technologies, we now provide a solution to accurately model and simulate the behavior of the embedded software code. Our solution is now used in aerospace, rail transport, automotive, energy, medical devices and other industrial products to design, simulate and produce embedded software.

And, in 2011 we acquired Apache Design Solutions; it helped us to increase our simulation software portfolio in electronics industry.  

Now, we are working on developing complementary combination of cutting edge, customer-driven solutions with the companies we have acquired to accelerate development and delivery of new and innovative products to the market place. 

I see lot of developments in ANSYS. Would you like to highlight any technology/feature added recently?

Well, we always keep on adding new features with the new release. We work hard on providing solution to the customer enhancement requests. The functionality that I would like to share is HPC Parametric Pack license; it offers to run multiple simultaneous parametric analyses. A single ANSYS HPC Parametric Pack license enables execution of four simultaneous design points.  With this functionality more simulations are done in less time, it’s very cost effective. The companies now do not have to go for hiring more engineers to complete bigger tasks instead can go for the HPC Parametric Pack License.

Another thing that I would like to highlight is the Application Customization Toolkit (ACT). It  is easy to use tool to customize ANSYS simulation environment. Even the non-experts can utilize this tool kit to automate various procedures as per company requirement. We call these ACT users as ACTors (smiles).

Sachin Nalawade Editor DailyCADCAM with David Street ANSYS

Does ANSYS products support cloud computing?

Yes, cloud computing is ideally suited for analyst and engineers because it provides immediate access to flexible, HPC resources. We have already announced the cloud solutions in support with our partners, so that the small and medium enterprises would be benefited. At present the service is limited to our customers who already have the local licenses installed. We look forward to have it on mobile devices soon. So today's ANSYS cloud story is really a continuation of a long term focus.

How is your company’s collaboration with academic institutions in India?

We have academic partnerships in place with IITs, reputed Universities and engineering colleges throughout the country. Also, we are working towards better collaboration with the leading Universities, PhD aspirants and professors. To overcome the shortage of CAE manpower in India, we have developed a number of creative approaches to train the next generation of engineers, such as project sponsorships, student competitions and hands-on programs. 

Any message for DailyCADCAM.com users and Indian design professionals? 

   

If your company is looking forward to develop a world class product, the value of creating better product have never been greater then cost you pay for the development of wrong product. Our tools would not just allow you to meet the customer requirements, but exceed their product promises and remain successful in a competitive marketplace. If you have any query, come to ANSYS!

Thank you,

PTC’s Certified User Program through ATC Partners, India

Last Week, I had an opportunity to attain PTC’s Annual Authorized Training Center (ATC) meet,
L E A P 2013 at Hotel Hayatt Regency in Pune. It was great to meet Mr. John D Stuart. SVP Global Education and Country Manager PTC Romania, Eduarda Camacho, VP Partner Services, Mr. Sajith Mohan M.P Director – Education Program and Mr. Rafiq Somani AVP and Country Sales Manager, India

Over 100+ ATC partners participated for this year’s annual summit, shows success of the program started 6 years back. L E A P is great platform to network with other ATC partners and learn about best practices of successful ATCs.  It also provided a unique opportunity for partners to interact with senior management from PTC to gain further insights.

PTC announced the PTC Certified Professional Program, a comprehensive testing program that validates the skills of PTC Creo users based on the latest release –Creo 2. The ATCs would provide the high quality training services on PTC Creo software through In-centre training classes. On successful completion of the program, student would go for the certification test designed and developed by PTC.

While discussing, John D Stuart said “We want to set a new standard of excellence for using PTC Creo for product design and development in India. With our ATC partners we would provide world class training, material, methodology and certification” 

With John D Stuart. SVP Global Education and Country Manager PTC Romania

I think this is very good initiative by PTC, thousands of engineering students undergo training on various CAD products throughout India. Having a quality course content, trained instructor and the latest tools would help students to equip him with the right skills.

“Our motive behind starting the ATCs in India is to bridge the gap between opportunities and skills by bringing engineering students and industry closer to prepare every engineering student for a competitive, global industry” Said John D Stuart “We have target of training around 8000+ engineering students on Creo 2 this year” adds Eduarda Camacho

The industry always complains about the lack of required skills in the fresh engineering graduates. Such, well designed programs would definitely play a vital role to benefit both Industry as well as students. Using tool to its optimum would simulate the innovations in new product development and save time and cost on the product development.  Higher proficiency in using Creo would help students to land into good jobs in India and abroad as well.

“With very high competition among engineering students, they are often looking for ways to set themselves apart from their peers and gain a leg up on the competition,” said John D Stuart “Our Certified User program provides validation of their skills and helps them continue their pursuit of careers in design.”

PTC Certification Program Site

To support this activity, PTC have launched a special website http://www.ptcgsindia.com with simple UI, where the students will find the

-          List of ATCs in India

-          List of courses offered

-          List of trained Instructors

-          List of Students

This list includes the database of students; those who have registered for the ATC program and those who have passed the certification exams. The employers looking for the resources can directly access this list to hire a certified user. 

PTC provides course kit, which includes training manuals, scribbling pad, and pen. Also, monitor and make sure that the instructors follow the PTC training methodology. 

 I had chance to interact with the ATC partner GNA – IMT, Phagwara Punjab. Chitta Ranjan Tripathy of GNA – IMT said that “PTC ATC program is very unique; they provide and support us with the latest tools, world class training material developed by PTC University. So, students trained following the PTC methodology have edge over the other students at the time of interview, we easily get 100% placement for the PTC certified students”

 With Mr. Chitta Ranjan Tripathy of GNA – IMT

It was great to know that more then 500 students are trained on PTC tools by GNA – IMT every year and placed in local companies and MNCs in India and abroad. 

Another ATC partner said that “Creo is one of the best parametric tools, once students are trained on it. They can easily learn and understand any other parametric tool if requires”

  

“I am very delighted with the growth and quality of the Authorized Training Center (ATC) program in India. We are looking forward to implement similar certification program through ATC partners in US and Europe in future”   concludes John D Stuart

Check it.

 http://www.ptcgsindia.com/index.aspx

DesignTech Systems, Pune Wins ‘Top Partner in India’ Award at Siemens PLM's Annual GO! Partner Conference 2013

More than 500 participants from Siemens PLM Software’s channel partner ecosystem gathered in Bangkok for the annual GO! Partner Conference to discover the latest innovation in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) in Asia-Pacific. Hosted by Siemens PLM Software, a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software, and held from January 21 to 25, the 2013 GO! Partner Conference is a premier event for the company’s channel partners in the region to experience the latest solutions and to share best practices in the PLM marketplace.

With a focus on achieving strong market growth and expansion, the 2013 GO! Partner Conference delivered numerous go-to market strategies and tactics for channel partners to implement in local markets. For the first time, the ZEN (Zone Technical Enablement) event was hosted simultaneously with the GO! Conference. The event provided technical workshops surrounding Siemens PLM Software’s key products for channel partners to maximise their value.

“Despite the global economic slowdown in 2012, Siemens PLM Software recorded a strong year of growth as a result of its close collaboration with partners and customers,” said KC Yee, senior vice president and managing director, Asia Pacific of Siemens PLM Software. “As discussed throughout the conference, continued commitment from our partners and customers is imperative to driving further success in 2013. We remain dedicated to enabling our stakeholders to make better decisions and build better products via our ecosystem of results-driven solutions and products.”

In addition to solutions showcase sessions and keynote presentations delivered by Siemens PLM Software executives covering hot topics HD-PLM vision, market growth strategy, Channel Enablement and more, the conference celebrated its channel partner excellence with the annual partner awards and recognized the exceptional performance of its channel partners in the region. The categories in which partners were awarded included Asia Pacific Top Partner, Asia Pacific Top Country Partner and a host of other awards for exceptional sales and marketing performance.

The winners of these prestigious awards are:

·         Top Partner in India

·         DesignTech Systems Ltd

·         http://www.designtechsys.com

·         Asia Pacific Top Partner               

o   ISID (Information Services International-Dentsu, Ltd)  (Japan)

·         Asia Pacific Top New Partner

o   Shanghai Wit Information Technology (China)   

·         Asia Pacific Top Partner – Velocity series product

o   CADEX Technology Co. Ltd (China)

·         Top Partner in AuSSEAN

o   Atos (Australia) Pty Ltd

·         Top Partner in Greater China

o   UNITED DIGITAL SYSTEMS, CO

·         Top Partner in Japan

o   ISID (Information Services International-Dentsu, Ltd)

·         Top Partner in Korea

o   CITEK System Co. Ltd

“In just a few years, GO! Partner Conference has evolved from a channel partner event to the region’s premier PLM conference, generating meaningful conversations and driving innovation for the PLM landscape in Asia-Pacific,” said Angus Marshall, vice president, solution partner sales, Asia Pacific, Siemens PLM Software. “Siemens PLM Software is committed to creating the best ecosystem for our partners and the GO! Partner Conference is a perfect validation our continued efforts.”

FREE PTC Mathcad Express - Engineering Calculations Made Easy!

PTC is offering a free license copy of the PTC Mathcad Express. The tool that handles engineering calculations, specifically formulas and equations for various engineering disciplines (mechanical, chemical, electrical, and civil engineering).

The software was originally developed Allen Razdow (of MIT, co-founder of Mathsoft),with its first relase in 1986. It is consider as the first computer application to automatically compute and check consistency of engineering units.In April 2006, PTC aquired Mathsoft.  


Calculations are the important aspect of engineering and product development process. Today, many professionals still use calculators, do calculations by hand or use some programming laguages. These methods lead them to confusion when working with critical equations and formulas.

The new PTC Mathcad express is not just the upgraded version of PTC Mathcad explorer viewer that was offered free by PTC previously, but is a limited version of PTC Mathcad Prime 2.0. It is a free version of Mathcad that allows user to utilize some selected features of Mathcad Prime 2.0, for an unlimited time.

The features available with PTC Mathcad express supports equation editing, documentation,basic numeric functions and operators, units and X-Y plots. Its features also help to convert old Mathcad files to the Mathcad Prime file format.

Check the comparesion of features available PTC Mathcad Express and PTC Mathcad Prime...

Users can access all the capabilities of latest PTC Mathcad Prime 2.0 for first 30 days with the Mathcad Express download.

Ninety percent of Fortune 1000 companies, 500 government agencies and 2,000 colleges and universities around the world use PTC Mathcad to capture the strategic value in their engineering calculations. So, what you are waiting for....Download and try it now!

So, better to have this tool on your workstation to make your calculations easy!

Download

Download link - http://www.ptc.com/product/mathcad/free-trial/?3pe=MathcadExpressDailyCADCAMEN122012