It can be tough to keep up with all the great things that reporters and bloggers write about us, so check out these news highlights for Dassault Systèmes North America for February!
February 5, 2016 – Desktop Engineering: SolidWorks World 2016: Remaking the Company in the Image of IoT
The ghost of IoT haunts MCAD companies. Once, the M in the MCAD was a mark of distinction. But in the era where software, circuits, and chips account for a large part of the products and their functions, the capital M that — in many cases, unfairly — brands a program as strictly mechanical is an albatross around one’s neck. This year, SolidWorks takes dramatic steps to break the mechanical mould.
February 10, 2016 – Engineering: SOLIDWORKS Will Launch a New CAD Program This Year
Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS introduced a brand new product for mechanical design at its recently held annual user meeting. SOLIDWORKS Xdesign, which is not yet scheduled for release, is quite unlike the company’s flagship and chief money maker, the desk-bound SOLIDWORKS. Xdesign runs on any laptop or mobile device from a browser—and it’s cloud-based.
February 10, 2016 – Slate: A Digital Twin of Your Body Could Become a Critical Part of Your Health Care
For 35 years, Dassault Systèmes has been making 3-D “digital twins” of real objects like bridges, buildings, and automobiles to test, virtually, how they will behave in the real world. Using such a digital twin, engineers can see how a bridge flexes during heat waves, how buildings sway during earthquakes, and how cars behave during head-on collisions. That allows them to identify—and perhaps fix—weaknesses, ideally before shoddy bridges, buildings, and cars have a chance to hurt anyone. This time, Dassault Systèmes wants to take its concept of digital twins into medicine and to simulate the human body.
February 16, 2016 – Product Design & Development: Top 5 from SolidWorks World 2016
SolidWorks World 2016 just wrapped up, but not everybody was able to make the trip out to sunny Dallas. So, Product Design & Development has compiled the top five takeaways from the trade show.
February 21, 2016 – Huffington Post: Women in Business Q&A: Kathy Allen, COO Americas, Dassault Systèmes
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Dassault Systèmes NA COO Kathy Allen shared her experience as a woman in a male-dominated industry and shed light on both the challenges and triumphs of working at Dassault Systèmes, while providing advice and insights for other women in the field.
February 2016 – Consumer Good Technology: Acting on Impulse
The ice cream market in France is both highly competitive, driven by the impulse purchase, and highly attuned to innovation with more than 80 new products being introduced on store shelves each year. As a result, market growth relies heavily on new flavors and formats as well as strategic store aisle placement, shelving and product visibility to inspire consumer impulse purchases. Find out how General Mills France is using Dassault Systèmes’ “Perfect Shelf” technology to drive this demand!
For more on building the perfect ice cream aisle, check out this post.
