As modernization efforts continue across sea, air, land, space, and cyber domains, the aerospace and defense sector faces increasing demands to adopt new technologies, manage complex systems, and improve development timelines. PTC’s A&D Startup Program is designed to support startups in meeting these needs by providing tools and resources that assist in the development of new products.

Startups can access Creo+, known for its advanced modeling capabilities and support for complex assemblies, as well as Onshape, a cloud-native CAD platform with built-in PDM and real-time collaboration, ideal for agile teams with minimal IT overhead. Access to Onshape includes Onshape Government, designed specifically to help meet compliance needs, like ITAR and EAR, for U.S. federal and state agencies, defense contractors, and organizations working on regulated projects. Participants can also leverage Codebeamer+, known for its support for agile development with full requirements and test management, and end-to-end traceability, as well as Arena, a cloud-native PLM and QMS platform, ideal for enabling compliance and accelerating product development at scale.

Eligible startups can participate in the program for multiple years to help support growth toward key funding and revenue milestones. In addition to the free software, they will gain access to PTC’s ecosystem of venture capitalists, incubators, technology partners, and fellow innovators, plus opportunities for mentorship, exposure, and industry engagement.

To learn more about the program, visit PTC Solutions for Aerospace and Defense Startups.

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In the aluminum recycling and die casting industry, factors such as fuel use, process variability, and unplanned downtime affect both operational efficiency and sustainability. Indofen’s use of edge computing and real-time analytics has improved visibility into operations, enhanced process control, and supported faster decision-making. The integrated solution helps optimize fuel consumption, minimize downtime, and maintain product quality while supporting compliance with environmental and regulatory requirements.

Siemens Performance Insight is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio—an open digital business platform that accelerates digital transformation across industries. For the aluminum recycling and foundry sector, where energy intensity, process variability, and quality control are constant challenges, such solutions offer a clear path to sustainable and profitable growth.

Key benefits for the aluminum recycling and foundry sector: 

• Operational transparency: Real-time monitoring of furnace parameters such as fuel usage, metal charging, and temperature enables better control and consistency in output. 
• Energy efficiency: Data-driven insights help reduce fuel consumption and emissions, aligning with global sustainability goals and regulatory requirements. 
• Reduced downtime: Predictive alerts and performance analytics minimize unplanned stoppages, improving throughput and equipment lifespan. 
• Scalability: Modular digital solutions allow them to support and scale operations without compromising quality or efficiency. 
• Regulatory compliance: Enhanced traceability and reporting support adherence to environmental and safety standards.

For more information, visit siemens.com.

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Former Ansys president, CEO, and board member Ajei Gopal and former Ansys board member Ravi Vijayaraghavan are joining Synopsys’ board of directors, effective immediately.

Synopsys aims to support engineers in improving product development by offering tools that enhance performance analysis, cost-efficiency, and development timelines. Following its integration with Ansys, Synopsys now offers broader system design solutions for industries including semiconductors, high-tech, automotive, aerospace, and industrial.

Synopsys plans to introduce its first set of integrated capabilities in early 2026, combining multiphysics across the full EDA stack, including support for multi-die advanced packaging. The roadmap also outlines integrated solutions aimed at improving testing and virtualization of complex systems in automotive and other sectors.

This combination is expected to improve Synopsys’ financial position, with projected margin growth and increased unlevered free cash flow, supporting debt reduction within two years.

^{1 2023 TAM based on Synopsys management estimates}

For more information, visit synopsys.com.

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The annual awards ceremony recognizes and celebrates the achievements of women shaping the future of the built environment across the UK. This year’s winners will be unveiled at the official awards ceremony on September 18, 2025 at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in Manchester.

Astrid Prado, a Chartered Marketer and long-serving member of the Institute of Refrigeration (IOR), has been with Star Refrigeration since 2005. Over the past two decades, she has worked to shape the company’s communications strategy and has led transformative marketing initiatives across Star Refrigeration and its educational division, Star Learning Solutions. As part of her role, she focuses on raising awareness of the importance of sustainable cooling and heating solutions, as well as promoting greater inclusivity within the engineering sector.

Ms Prado has also been a vocal champion of progressive workplace policies, supporting the implementation of flexible working, enhanced parental leave, and shared caregiving responsibilities, through continued advocacy of their benefits to industry

She has also prioritized the promotion of educational and outreach programs, including the Little Stars STEM initiative, which engages primary school pupils with engineering concepts. These programs additionally help to inspire more girls into STEM, and Prado continues her strong advocacy for gender equality through co-chairing the IOR Women in RACHP (Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, and Heat Pumps) group and serving on the board of the International Network of Women in Cooling (INWIC).

Ms Prado’s commitment to diversity was recognized in 2019 when she was nominated for the Diversity Impact Award at the RAC Cooling Industry Awards, following her work on the industry’s first gender parity survey. The research found systemic barriers facing women in the sector and proposed actionable steps to create a more inclusive workplace.

Everyone at Star Refrigeration congratulates Astrid on this meaningful recognition and looks forward to celebrating with her and fellow nominees at the awards ceremony in September.

For more information, visit star-ref.co.uk.

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Main features

High-image quality and capability to print a wide range of photo products

• Featuring a 250ml high-capacity 6-ink system consisting of C (cyan), M (magenta), Y (yellow), K (black), SB (sky blue) and P (pink), which enables more faithful reproduction of skin textures and subtle color changes.
• Fujifilm’s proprietary image processing technology, IMAGE INTELLIGENCE², draws on decades of expertise in the photography field to automatically correct underexposure, backlighting, high-contrast, underexposure, and overexposure issues, producing highly precise prints.

Updated design, increased efficiency

• A new structural design increases the durability of the printer body, reducing the need for frequent hardware replacements and minimizing maintenance efforts. As a result of this design improvement, the printer can print a total of up to 400,000 sheets³ over the lifetime of the product. Additionally, with a 30% reduction in size over the prior model, DX400W fits seamlessly into a variety of challenging spaces.

Enhanced usability for diversified printing business needs

• In addition to USB connectivity, DX400W now supports wired LAN connections. The addition of LAN compatibility allows for more flexible functionality at retail, accommodating customer-specific installation environments. This not only improves convenience for retail photo shops but also caters to a wide range of applications in business and event settings, meeting diverse user needs.

Reduced waste with high-capacity ink

• Ink capacity has been increased from 200ML in the prior model to 250ML in DX400W, improving operational efficiency by reducing the need for frequent ink replacement. Additionally, DX400W uses pouch-style ink supply units instead of traditional cartridge-based systems.

The FUJIFILM Frontier DX400W photo printer will be available September 2025.

^{1 When compared to FUJIFILM Frontier DX100.}

^{2 Image Intelligence can be used by connecting workflow management software (MS Software) with the printer.}

^{3 The number of printable sheets varies depending on usage conditions.}

For more information, visit fujifilm.com.

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As AI, robotics, quantum computing, and edge workloads grow in complexity, traditional silicon-based architectures are hitting physical and architectural limits. Rising energy costs, slower data transfer, and fragmented chiplet packaging are constraining progress across industries. CDimension is solving these challenges at the foundation, starting with new materials and leading toward a monolithic 3D architecture based on atomically-thin chiplets designed to deliver up to:

• 100× higher energy efficiency
• 100× improvement in integration density
• 10× higher system-level operating frequency through reduced parasitic

Founded by Jiadi Zhu, an MIT Ph.D. in electrical engineering with deep expertise in 2D materials and monolithic 3D integration, advised by MIT professor Tomás Palacios, director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories and a global leader in electronic materials, CDimension combines deep technical innovation with a clear roadmap for real-world deployment.

At the core of the company’s commercial debut is a proprietary low-temperature process that enables the direct growth of ultra-thin 2D materials, such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂), onto finished silicon wafers without damaging underlying circuitry. The resulting layers are atomically thin, low-leakage, and energy efficient, supporting dense vertical stacking and enabling new levels of integration. While 2D materials have long held promise for next-generation chips, adoption has been slowed by manufacturing and integration hurdles. CDimension’s process overcomes these challenges with a Si back-end-of-line (BEOL) compatible approach that supports uniform, wafer-scale monolayer film growth across full silicon wafers, a key step in moving 2D materials from lab experiments to scalable commercial use. In internal testing, CDimension’s materials have demonstrated up to a 1,000× improvement in transistor-level energy efficiency compared to silicon.

In addition to MoS₂, CDimension provides a full suite of high-quality 2D materials, including n-type, p-type, metallic, and insulating films, via a wafer-scale deposition process compatible with silicon manufacture. This allows seamless integration with existing manufacturing workflows and forms the materials backbone of CDimension’s broader vision to unify compute, memory, and power in a single chip architecture.

CDimension’s 2D materials are now available for commercial sampling and integration at research-accessible cost. Early customers across industry and academia are already evaluating the technology in production-relevant settings and the company is expanding access to additional research and development teams.

To support early adopters, CDimension also offers customized services through its Premier Membership program, including monolayer deposition over 3D structures and on up to 12-inch arbitrary substrates for prototyping and fabricating 2D-material-based circuits.

While 2D materials are CDimension’s first commercial release, they are just the beginning. The company’s vertically integrated architecture is designed to deliver system-wide performance gains through monolithic 3D integration and localized power management. CDimension holds multiple patents and patent applications across its materials, integration methods, and chip architectures, giving system builders the hardware foundation they need to overcome today’s bottlenecks and scale for tomorrow’s demands.

For more information, visit cdimension.com.

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Mitsubishi Electric’s industry-leading CNC solutions leverage the cutting-edge interface bridging capabilities of Lattice CertusPro-NX FPGAs to create high accuracy, adaptability, and efficient real-time processing. These features are ideal for a variety of Industrial applications, including machine building, Automotive, and electronics.

For more information, visit latticesemi.com.

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Highlights include:

• Up to 10x faster performance using GPU-based material removal simulation
• New multiple Boolean APIs enhance performance for in-session Boolean ops
• Improvements to profile preparation including optimisations for saw-tooth profiles
• More targeted and faster pruning of large snapshot trees
• Improved eccentric turning, including support in the Application Framework Library

MachineWorks GPU runs material removal modeling and collision-detection tasks on the GPU instead of the CPU. GPUs typically have significantly more processing cores than CPUs, enabling improved performance for operations that benefit from data parallelization. 

Results from large three-axis and five-axis jobs are now returned more quickly, with mid-sized jobs computed in under a second.

For more information, visit machineworks.com.

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Vectorworks Landmark 2025 is a design and modeling software tailored for landscape architects and designers. It offers tools to support visual communication, improve collaboration, streamline documentation, align with industry standards, and increase workflow efficiency.

Green Industry Pros offers updates on products, trends, technologies, and business practices relevant to landscape contractors and maintenance professionals. It covers topics such as lawn care, installation, irrigation, and power equipment.

View the award recipients on the Green Industry Pros website.

For more information about Vectorworks, Inc., visit vectorworks.net.

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The new license agreement aims to address the growing market opportunity for metasurface optics projected to experience significant growth to reach $2B by 2029; largely driven by the industry’s role in emerging display and imaging applications.

For more information, visit st.com.

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