Bentley Motors, the iconic high performance luxury car manufacturer, has implemented Icona Solutions’ innovative perceived quality simulation software, aesthetica, at its design and manufacturing plant in Crewe, England.

Theorem’s Process Manager (TPM) can achieve massive reductions – in some cases, by as much as 75% - in the man-hours required for the time consuming process of controlling and managing data exchange across high-end CAD systems including CATIA V5, Pro/Engineer and NX, and visualisation systems such as JT, ProductView and 3DXML.

Before his tragic and untimely death rally champion Colin McRae MBE was working with SPC chief designer, Simon Carrier to develop a new concept 4WD rally car, the Colin McRae R4. This car was to be the latest in a long line of competition vehicles that allowed rally drivers to exceed the achievements of their predecessors

The ability of Theorem Solutions TPM process management tool to radically reduce both the cost and time required for CAD translations in the automotive industry has been conclusively demonstrated at Cosma International, a Worldwide supplier of automotive components

Photovoltaic panels convert about 15% of the energy they capture from the sun into electricity, leaving 85% to be dissipated as heat. This creates a major thermal design challenge since every degree of temperature rise in the photovoltaic panels reduces the power produced by 0.5%

Scott Tools has used the latest CADCAM technology from Vero Software in the development and production of the revolutionary Plasticut, a safe and simple to use pipe cutter for plastic plumbing pipes for both professional and DIY use

Bartek Design Ltd. is a design and technical program management consultancy, based in Ireland and Germany, with a worldwide client basis. The majority of its work with Pro/ENGINEER is injection moulds & automation machine design. When doing on-site contracts it often has to update and modify existing tools and machines to suit its client's new manufacturing requirements

Our industry tends to lack showmen and leaders with visible passion but this is something that Dassault Systemes' (DS) has almost uniquely embodied in its enigmatic CEO, Bernard Charles. At this year's Catia developers' forum in Paris, Charles was on-hand to officially launch the latest generation of the company's flagship product development system, Catia V6

Tecnica UK Ltd is using a new High Performance Compute system (HPC system) to reduce processing time of its complex 3D computer simulations – in use during the forge design process – by up to 80 per cent (40 hours down to 8 hours)