2009 Coast-To-Coast Tours Launched
 WAGO Corporation’s Innovation in Automation Tour (IIAT) will spend 40 weeks touring the U.S. and Canada. |
Germantown, WI – For 2009, WAGO Corporation’s Innovation in Automation Tour (IIAT) will spend 40 weeks touring the U.S. and Canada.
- Designed as mobile tradeshows, the IIAT vehicles are equipped with comprehensive product panels and pick-up-and-play displays.
- Visits are managed by WAGO product specialists to address specific application needs.
Read more about WAGO’s innovation tour at www.pddnet.com
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Company VP Promotions
Newburyport, MA— Ferraz Shawmut announces the promotion of Fred Rampone to vice president, distributor sales and Stephen Reynolds to vice president, strategic accounts.
- Rampone will manage the regional management team and distributor sales within the United States.
- Prior to joining the company, he held positions with Powell Electrical Manufacturing Company and G&W Electric.
- Reynolds will manage the deployment of corporate-wide resources to provide comprehensive product and service solutions to strategic accounts.
- Prior to joining the company, he was a marketing manager with Kearney and a field service engineering manager with GE-Hitachi.
Read more about Rampone and Reynolds’ promotions at www.pddnet.com
Multi-Year Deal Renewed
Plano, TX– Siemens PLM Software announces that Cimatron has renewed its agreement to use three of Siemens PLM Software’s D-Cubed component software products.
- CimatronE offers mold and die design applications for modeling, electrode design and NC tool-path generation.
- The 3D DCM is used for parametric part positioning in support of mold and die assembly modeling.
Read more about Cimatron’s renewed agreement with Siemens at www.pddnet.com
New Global Initiative/Online Resource Center
Plano, TX– Siemens PLM Software announces a new global initiative and online resource center designed to show medium to large enterprises how implementing a PLM strategy can help them address today’s global business challenges.
- Research by industry analysts further validates the need to deal with the challenges of globalization and why.
- In its new initiative, Siemens PLM Software shows how top performing customers have addressed global business challenges to implement concurrent processes that reduce time-to-market by up to 30 percent.
- Offered in the online resource center are videos and white papers that provide analyst perspectives on today’s global business challenges.
Read more about Siemens’ global initiative at www.pddnet.com
Company Supplies Trace Chemical Detector System
Bedford, MA- Sionex Corporation announces that Wyle has selected Sionex’s microAnalyzer as a candidate trace-chemical-detection engine to improve cabin air quality monitoring in the International Space Station.
- The microAnalyzer may replace the previous-generation Volatile Organic Analyzer (VOA).
- The space station implementation is under the Environmental Health System portion of Wyle’s Bioastronuatics contract with NASA.
- The microAnalyzer will be installed on the International Space Station where it will undergo extensive field testing.
Read more about the selection of Sionex’s microAnalyzer at www.pddnet.com
Company Expands In Nevada
Las Vegas, NV – U.S. CAD announces its expansion into Nevada and Southern Utah with the opening of its Las Vegas office.
- U.S. CAD will now offer its state-of-the-art solutions to the growing civil, mechanical and architectural design, building engineering and geospatial industries throughout Nevada and Southern Utah.
- The Las Vegas office is U.S. CAD’s sixth location.
Read more about U.S. CAD’s expansion at www.pddnet.com
Annual Conference Opens In Two Weeks
Research Triangle Park, NC – Convergence 2009, showcasing the widest range of innovative digital shape sampling and processing (DSSP) applications ever presented in one place, will kick off on February 24 in Savannah, Georgia, USA.
- Bo Burlingham, author of the best-selling book Small Giants, and Ping Fu, president and CEO of Geomagic, will be the keynote speakers at Convergence 2009.
- Burlingham will address the central theme of Small Giants.
- Fu will share her vision of how emerging technologies will shape the future of global design and manufacturing.
Read more about the Convergence 2009 conference at www.pddnet.com