The Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC) announced the first testbeds as part of its Digital Twin Testbed Program. This collaborative member-driven program accelerates development, validation, and implementation, demonstrating digital twin evolution with agentic AI and enabling technologies. By providing unprecedented access to early-stage testbed development, members can model, simulate, integrate, rigorously verify, deploy, and optimize digital twin solutions while collectively advancing the core technologies that power tomorrow’s digital transformation. The Digital Twin Testbed Program implements DTC’s Composability Framework—utilizing the Business Maturity Model, Platform Stack Architecture, and Capabilities Periodic Table—alongside a capabilities-focused maturity assessment framework that incorporates the evaluation of Generative AI, multi-agent systems, and other advanced technologies. “We’re excited to announce these innovative digital twin testbeds,” said Dan Isaacs, GM & CTO of the DTC. “We’re seeing strong interest from members worldwide in participating in our collaborative testbed program. Our members are already utilizing this program to develop further and adopt intelligent and generative

OpenText announced that it received a 2025 SAP® Pinnacle Award in the Partner Solution Success category, which recognizes its outstanding contributions as an SAP partner. SAP presents these awards annually to the top partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP and helping customers run better. Winners and finalists in 24 categories were chosen based on recommendations from SAP, customer feedback, and performance indicators. “Our premier partner recognition program, the SAP Pinnacle Awards, reflects the outstanding performance and commitment of our partners to deliver customer value, exponential growth, and simplification. The winning partners of this award are recognized for their successful alignment with SAP’s business strategy, delivering innovative AI and cloud services and solutions to help businesses succeed,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE. “OpenText's continued leadership in SAP solution extensions underscores our role as a trusted partner in helping organizations optimize their SAP investments,” said Mark Barrenechea, CEO

SEMI, the industry association serving the global semiconductor and electronics design and manufacturing supply chain, announced it has partnered with Purdue University to launch an online course series focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and data analysis techniques for the semiconductor industry. Available through the SEMI University learning platform, the courses were developed to equip semiconductor professionals to integrate AI and data-driven approaches in today’s competitive industry landscape.  The full list of 10 online, self-paced SEMI U AI and data analysis courses in partnership with Purdue University are now available. The courses are taught by industry experts and offer a certificate from Purdue upon successful completion of each course module. “As global demand for semiconductors steadily grows over time, SEMI U is supporting the industry’s workforce needs through its flexible learning platform,” said Shari Liss, Vice President of Global Workforce Development and Initiatives at SEMI. “The rapid evolution of the industry warrants both extensive workforce development efforts as well

IFS, the leading provider of enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software, announced the appointment of Steven Elsham as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ultimo, an IFS company. Formerly Area Vice President at Salesforce, Elsham led Sales for Marketing, Commerce, Service & Revenue Clouds, and Slack. He brings a proven track record of scaling enterprise software businesses and a visionary approach to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. At a time when Ultimo is seeing a surge in customer demand for AI capabilities, Elsham, with over 20 years of experience in cloud technology, digital transformation, and AI strategy, is poised to lead the company into a new era of intelligent asset maintenance. His mandate is clear: to position the company as the most innovative EAM provider in the industry, enabling customers to unlock unprecedented efficiencies and value from their asset operations, augmented by the power of AI. Steven Elsham, Chief Executive

The latest VStitcher 2025.1.3 release delivers key updates designed to help fashion brands and product development teams work faster, reduce errors, and improve collaboration. While it’s a minor release, the improvements add value across design, development, and production. Here’s an overview of what’s new and how it helps your team. Keep Color Information Accurate and Consistent Previously, when importing Adobe Illustrator (AI) vector artworks, color names weren’t automatically preserved in VStitcher, requiring manual renaming to ensure production accuracy. With this update, color names from AI files are now automatically retained. Value for your team: Save time by eliminating manual color corrections Maintain consistency across designs and tech packs Improve accuracy and speed in color communication This ensures a faster design-to-production process for apparel designers and technical teams. Enhanced Tech Pack Clarity Tech packs are essential for clear communication between design and production teams, but before this update, style and material names could appear truncated, and repeated print images were sometimes unclear. The

Emerson, an industrial technology leader delivering advanced automation solutions, is empowering manufacturers across every industry to drive toward optimized autonomous operations with the most advanced industrial artificial intelligence (AI) and data solutions for online, mission-critical applications. Emerson’s extensive AI portfolio – supported by its recent acquisition of the Aspen Technology business and built on decades of domain expertise – will help organizations implement AI solutions that deliver consistent, sustainable value. AI tools have reached an inflection point as open AI frameworks and foundational models trained on vast amounts of data have become more robust and accessible. However, while today’s companies see industrial AI as an essential tool to help automate workflows, eliminate complexity and increase agility, the unsecure and unreliable nature of public generative AI (GenAI) technologies is not suitable for high-availability, mission-critical industrial manufacturing. Emerson tackles this challenge with an AI portfolio featuring local models with embedded knowledge and guidance grounded in first

Integrated Projects (IPX) and Cintoo introduced a joint workflow that turns any registered point cloud into fully modeled BIM and CAD files in just a few clicks. Built on IPX’s BIMIT production engine and Cintoo’s cloud-based scan platform, the service makes it simple—and predictable—for commercial and industrial real estate teams to order, track, and download accurate as-builts in BIM and CAD formats that empower renovations and prepare their portfolios for AI-driven digital-twin applications. Why This Matters Get transparent pricing. Square footage and scope drive an instant quote, so owners know cost and turnaround before they approve. Get standardized building data. Each model delivery meets LOD 200+ / LOA 20 and includes Revit, per-floor DWGs, reflected-ceiling-plan DWGs for MEPF, and an IFC—creating a series of digital assets delivered in a secure browser-based experience for downstream analytics, automation, and predictive tools. Save on the cost of as-builts. Accurate models reduce change orders, shorten renovation schedules, and

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that it is making its AI-enhanced electronic systems design technology more accessible to small and mid-sized businesses (SMB) with PADS™ Pro Essentials software and Xpedition™ Standard software. Built on Siemens’ Xpedition technology, these new offerings combine intuitive user experiences, integrated cloud collaboration and AI-driven automation to empower small teams and independent engineers with the same professional-grade capabilities trusted by the world’s most advanced electronics companies, at a fraction of the cost. “Today’s launch marks a major milestone in our strategy to democratize access to high-performance PCB design and bring the transformative power of AI to the PCB design workflow,” said AJ Incorvaia, senior vice president, Siemens EDA. “With PADS Pro Essentials and Xpedition Standard, we’re delivering scalable solutions that help smaller teams move faster, work smarter, and design with confidence without sacrificing quality or budget.” PADS Pro Essentials delivers a streamlined, cloud-connected design environment built on Siemens’ proven Xpedition

Through a strategic expansion of their longstanding partnership, Accenture and SAP SE have launched ADVANCE . For the first time, the two companies have worked together to create a pathway to the cloud for organizations pursuing high growth with annual revenue of up to US$5 billion to help create more connected, intelligent and responsive enterprises. Drawing on more than four decades of learnings from working with the world’s largest organizations, Accenture and SAP are applying their expertise and breakthrough innovations to help fast-track business transformation with streamlined finance, procurement, supply chain and workforce management, delivered through preconfigured services. The ADVANCE offerings leverage the power of SAP Business Suite—which brings together business applications, data and AI capabilities—combined with Accenture’s industry, innovation, implementation, delivery and operations expertise to provide connected experiences across the enterprise while building resilience and enabling sustainable, top-line growth. Available in ready-to-consume, right-sized packages, the solutions leverage AI to help companies modernize faster, in as few as six

Accenture, in collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, is providing an AI solution built on Dell Technologies infrastructure with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. This helps organizations – particularly those within regulated industries or those with substantial investments in on-premises infrastructure – capitalize on the burgeoning opportunities of agentic AI. This collaboration extends the reach of the Accenture AI Refinery™ platform, bringing agentic AI capabilities with a one-click deployment to Dell’s high-performance, NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure, helping companies realize value more quickly and reduce total cost of ownership. Accenture will further facilitate AI deployment with NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, a guide for organizations to build on-premise AI factories leveraging NVIDIA Blackwell and a broad ecosystem of AI partners. The solution helps organizations rapidly scale AI in private, on-prem environments. It provides support for key requirements, including data sovereignty and compliance to help meet regulatory and data residency mandates; resiliency and high availability to meet business continuity requirements,