GE would like to offer you market access through the global online business portal: https://londvolota.jte.zone/

This is an online marketplace where you can:

• advertise your offering
• search for opportunities
• advertise opportunities that you may have available and require providers for

This is a free service that GE is offering to you for one year.

Should you be interested in taking advantage of this opportunity kindly contact our partners on this programme at senzo@southernact.co.za. Alternatively, should you have specific questions kindly engage Senzo directly on +27 79 841 0677.

• Applications are now open for the GE Africa Innovation and ANSYS simulation software challenge.
• The programme aims to assist twenty emerging enterprises, who have limited funding, and product revenue below USD 5 million, in gaining access to engineering simulation software to build and test virtual prototypes of new products.
• Entrants who qualify for the challenge will have access for one year to the ANSYS multiphysics simulation portfolio via the ANSYS Startup Program.

Johannesburg – 22 May 2017 – GE Africa Innovation Centre (GE AIC) and Qfinsoft, ANSYS channel partner for South Africa, are collaborating to provide start-up companies and emerging enterprises with the opportunity to access the ANSYS’ multiphysics simulation portfolio, through a challenge, ‘Simulating the Future in Africa’, which will grant the winners one year’s free access to the ANSYS Startup Program.

The challenge aims to build a cohort of African startup companies and enterprises, who will design products and processes, using ANSYS software, that can be incorporated into the industries that GE operates in in Africa – industrial manufacturing, power, oil and gas, renewables, energy connections, transportation, mining, aviation, and healthcare.

ANSYS engineering simulation software enables users to design, build, modify and test complete virtual prototypes and bring their innovative products to market faster and more cost-effectively.

Entrants who qualify for the challenge will have access for one year to the multiphysics simulation portfolio within the ANSYS Startup Program – including structural, fluids and electromagnetics suites, and the ANSYS Customer Portal, which enables users to access online technical support, product tutorials, documentation and a technical support knowledge base.

The first 2017 challenge launches on 22 May 2017, and closes on 30 June 2017, and will be repeated later in the year. Participants must meet entry criteria and are required to complete the submission form on: http://geafricainnovationcentre.com/ge-ansys-challenge. Ten winning enterprises will be targeted per challenge.

In launching the challenge, Gunter Halfar, leader of the GE Africa Innovation Centre noted that, “While South Africa has produced, and continues to produce, highly accomplished engineering graduates, the cost of establishing a business, and access to opportunities for emerging enterprises, remains a hurdle. This challenge provides the opportunity for free access to software tools for one year, as well as a regular access to one of the largest engineering enterprises in the world (GE) and a key supplier of software globally in ANSYS.”

Paul Lethbridge, senior manager of the ANSYS Startup Program concurred that. “ANSYS is thrilled to be a partner in this challenge:  Putting our simulation tools into the hands of entrepreneurs, dreamers and inventors will enable them to create a radically better future.”

Entrants are required to:

PROPOSAL

• Submit a proposal that describes an innovative product or system, that could either be an incremental improvement on an existing one, or a radically disruptive one, that would be of benefit to Africa, primarily in the sectors and extended eco-systems that GE operates in Africa : Industrial manufacturing, power, oil and gas, renewables, energy connections, transportation, mining, aviation, and healthcare.
• Provide a description of your current organization, your future growth plans, and what value it would be for you, and your clients, for you to be a recipient of the GE Ansys Simulation Software license for one year.

COMPANY DETAILS

• Certificate of company incorporation, tax number, and directors certificate
• Identity details of directors and share-holders in your company
• 2 – 4 case studies of projects you have recently worked on
• 2 – 4 References
• Key Contact: Email and Cellphone details

QUALIFYING CRITERIA:

Entrants must meet the following criteria in order to be considered eligible for the GE & ANSYS SIMULATION SOFTWARE CHALLENGE:

• An organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
• Privately held company.
• Less than five (5) years old.
• Less than $5M USD Revenue per year for the entire company (at time of application). Revenue may not be counted per department, or company subdivision.
• Must enter into License agreement with ANSYS directly
• Primary user(s) of ANSYS software license(s) has previous exposure to the use of modelling and simulation software within the manufacturing environment.

Consultant companies or companies that provide consulting services (as part of their business model) are not eligible to enter as ANSYS Startup Program licenses may not be used to provide consulting services.

ALL ENTRIES THROUGH THE WEBSITE: http://geafricainnovationcentre.com/ge-ansys-challenge

GE Africa Innovation Centre ANSYS Simulating the Future Challenge. 23 May 2017

GE has increased its efforts to create partnerships with key stakeholders and build a sustainable supply chain in localized areas. For this reason GE has adopted an approach of taking local Small and Medium sized companies from potential to qualified suppliers as a GE differentiator on the African continent.