Physical Prototypes: A Necessary Step or Needless Bottleneck? (14291)
Building and testing physical prototypes — an expensive, time-consuming task in traditional product development — is one area that manufacturers are critically examining to reduce overall design costs and speed time to market. Physical prototyping can be a major bottleneck, slowing down the product development process and seriously constraining the number of design alternatives that can be examined.

ANSYS MAKES FORBES FAST 15 LIST (14058)
SOUTHPOINTE, PA, ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS), a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that it has been included on the Forbes Fast 15 list, a first-ever formal compilation by Forbes magazine of attractive companies with potential to become rapidly growing technology businesses in the future. ANSYS was the only engineering software provider to make the list. To compile the Fast 15, researchers at Forbes scoured analyst reports and other news sources to identify strong performers among public U.S. companies in the technology sector.

LARGEST NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTOR OF ANSYS CONSOLIDATES AS SIMUTECH GROUP (14020)
SOUTHPOINTE, PA., ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS), a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that five of its North American channel partners have merged to become SimuTech Group. As a result of the restructuring, these long-established resellers of technology from ANSYS will be able to provide a higher level of service and support to existing and new customers. The newly formed company includes STI Technologies from Rochester, New York.; JLR The Engineering Solutions Co. based in Everett, Washington and Denver, Colorado; Ohio Computer Aided Engineering with offices in Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio; Advanced Engineering Technologies in Atlanta, Georgia; and ROI Engineering from Toronto and Montreal, Canada. While all of SimuTech Group’s offices historically have provided high-end service and support for ANSYS engineering simulation software to their respective customers, the combined company will allow each office to expand on its own internal areas of expertise and reach a broader customer base.

CGTech to Show VERICUT 6.2 at WESTEC (13800)
CGTech will exhibit the latest version of VERICUT CNC machine simulation and optimization software at the WESTEC SME show: WESTEC Booth 2628 Los Angeles, CA March 31 - April 3, 2008 VERICUT 6.2 features several enhancements that increase the ability of manufacturing engineers to develop, analyze, inspect and document the CNC programming and machining process

Explaining The Virtues Of Virtual Manufacturing: Companies can benefit from virtual manufacturing in three primary ways: faster market response times, lower production and equipment costs, and improved quality. (12033)
In the future, Web-based collaboration tools will emerge across the organization, enabling a common, company-wide simulation environment. Manufacturers establishing consistent data models and sharing can forge a sustainable competitive advantage.

Exton, Pa.'s Bentley Acquires TDV GmbH, Leader in Analysis and Design Software for Bridges (11118)
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world’s infrastructure. The company’s comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world’s No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.

Concurrent Delivers High Performance Linux Solution To Toshiba Tec For Next Generation Digital Multi-Function Peripherals (10443)
Concurrent (NASDAQ: CCUR) is a leading provider of high-performance, real-time Linux software and solutions for commercial and government markets. For 40 years Concurrent's best-of-breed products have enabled a range of time-critical solutions including: modeling and simulation, high speed data acquisition, visual imaging, low latency transaction processing and on-demand television. Concurrent's on-demand television applications are utilized by major service providers in the cable and IPTV industries to deliver video-on-demand (VOD) and, through subsidiary company Everstream, measure the effectiveness of interactive television.

Somerset, N.J.'s SommaTech Consulting Announces Strategic Collaboration with Pharmaceutical Technologies, Inc. (9809)
Compaction Simulation Accelerates Tablet Development and Scale-Up for Pharmaceutical Clients

Yokohama, Japan's JEDA Technologies to Integrate SystemC Verification Automation Tools with CoWare (9765)
Bringing Native SystemC Assertion-Based Verification Technology to Users of CoWare Platform Architect and Model Designer

Palo Alto, Calif.'s Agilent Technologies Completes Acquisition of Xpedion Design Systems, a Leading Provider of RFIC Simulation and Verification Software (7766)
Xpedion's and Agilent's combined technologies are used by virtually all key companies designing RFICs.