Rick Seibt

With its acquisition of U.S. software producer UGS Corp., of Plano, Texas, the Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) Group will expand its product spectrum in automation technology to include industrial software for planning, design and simulation in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

Penton Media's Design Engineering group, anchored by Machine Design magazine, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with PARTsolutions®, LLC, a leading provider of publishing solutions for 2D/3D digital parts catalogs, to launch the Machine Design CAD Library, a powerful, new resource for design engineers.

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Machine Design magazine announces a joint initiative with IDES (www.ides.com) to provide an engineering plastics search engine. IDES, the industry leader in plastics data management since 1986, provides specialized vertical search engines that focus exclusively on engineering and technical information for plastics materials. It publishes over 60,000 plastic material data sheets from 500 global resin suppliers.

GlobalSpec, the leading specialized search engine and information resource for the engineering community, and Machine Design, a leading publication of applied technology serving design engineers in the original equipment market, process and consulting services, today announced a strategic partnership.