Start with the news release Software increases machine-tool accuracy from Heidenhain, which we summarised at the time by saying "Heidenhain has introduced Kinematicsopt software, which compensates for the effects of rotary table/swivel-head spatial error and for geometrical positioning and component error in machine axes. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Geometric enhances nesting software library from Geometric: "Geometric has announced the release of Nestlib 2010 R1, with improvements in material utilisation for sheet metal punching and inventory management. ".
 
In February 2010, we covered the news from Ward CNC Machinery - take a look at Ward to demonstrate CNC machining at Mach which says: "Ward CNC will display at least 12 high-performance machines from its principal ranges on its 500m2 stand at this year's Mach exhibition. ".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Delcam, Delcam adds Parasolid to tooling design software, as well as Prima open house to feature sheet metal cutting from Prima Industrie UK, and ERP software utilises Web 2.0 Community Server from IQMS AB.