The Readers Have Voted…

By DE Editors

Desktop Engineering (DE) magazine is pleased to announce the winner ofits third annual Readers’ Choice Product of the Year Award: ACUITIVv4.0 from ACUITIV Software. DE readers votedonline from among a group of 12 products, each of which was a 2004Readers’ Choice monthly winner.

Readers were asked to vote on DE‘s website; through anemail blast, links from the homepage, and the magazine’s e-newsletter,DE Newslink. Readers were also directed to the voting page via an ad inthe magazine’s February issue. Votes were cast from January 15ththrough February 16th.

The award was presented to ACUITIV Software at National ManufacturingWeek at McCormick Place in Chicago, on Monday, March 7th.

ACUITIV’s CFDvisualization software was announced in the August 2004 issue of DE.ACUITIV v4.0 delivers a fully interactive, enterprise-class CFDvisualization solution for the automotive, aerospace and defense,power, and chemical processing industries. ACUITIV 4.0 providescustomers with a suite of interactive tools for transient modelvisualization, multi-PC visualization sessions, and steady-state modelsupport.

DE congratulates all of its 2004 Readers’ Choice Award monthly winners:Saelig, Iiyama, Measurement Computing, EUROCOM, MathRevolt, ConceptualProduct Development, ANSYS, ACUITIV Software, Omega, Design Science,and Alias. For more information about DE‘s monthly Readers’ Choiceawards, or to read about current and past winners, visit deskeng.com/Departments/Readers-Choice-Award.html.

Desktop Engineering is a monthlymagazine distributed to 63,000 design engineers and engineeringmanagers who use MCAD, data analysis, EDM/PDM/PLM, and data acquisitionhardware and software in the manufacturing and process industries.Desktop Engineering is published by Helmers Publishing Inc. (HPI),which was established in 1979. The company also publishes Supply ChainSystems Magazine, the premier magazine covering the integration of datacapture technologies across the supply chain and CSCO magazine, thepublication that provides insight to supply chain executives. For moreinformation on HPI’s magazines, visit deskeng.com, cscomagazine.com andscs-mag.com.