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Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today that the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of world motor sport and the federation of the world's leading motoring organizations, has selected Siemens as “Official Sustainability PLM Software Supplier” and has adopted solutions from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to collaborate with…

Centric Software® is delighted to announce the release of a success story about its customer, Helinox.  Helinox is a leader in premium-quality portable furniture and accessories for the outdoors and home. Since its launch in 2009 in South Korea, Helinox has grown its success across 30 countries including the US, Europe,…

Accenture and Ohio National Financial Services, Inc. have collaborated to modernize the life insurer’s core systems, transforming its processes and helping it achieve significant top-and bottom-line business results. The modernization program consolidated Ohio National’s business onto the Accenture Life Insurance and Annuity Platform (ALIP), improving operating efficiencies and supporting US$50…

Trimble announced that one of the largest forest companies in Sweden, Sydved, has selected Trimble’s CFHarvest to manage and increase the productivity, efficiency and sustainability of its forestry harvesting operations. Sydved is the first Swedish forest company to implement CFHarvest. CFHarvest is a forest harvesting management and tracking system that…

PTC announced the availability of the Onshape-Arena Connection, a new functionality that connects its cloud-native Onshape® product development and Arena® product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. The Connection enables product data to be shared instantly between the Onshape and Arena solutions with the click of a button, helping companies to accelerate the product development process and simplify…

Altair, a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), signed a definitive agreement to acquire RapidMiner, a leader in advanced data analytics and machine learning (ML) software. RapidMiner’s low-code platform is used by more than one million people of all skill levels to develop production-scale data pipelines and ML…

Trimble announced it has acquired privately-held B2W Software, a leading provider of estimating and operations solutions for the heavy civil construction industry. Financial terms were not disclosed. With the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and other infrastructure legislation across the globe, construction organizations are fast tracking…

AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, driving digital transformation and sustainability, and Aras, which provides the most powerful low-code platform with applications to design, build, and operate complex products, have entered into a strategic OEM partnership to deliver industrial “Asset Lifecycle Management” solutions. AVEVA will license the Aras Innovator® platform…

Blackline Safety Corp., a global leader in connected safety technology, announced the appointment of Jason W. Cohenour, former President and CEO at Sierra Wireless, as a new member of its Board of Directors. Mr. Cohenour brings many years of executive leadership, sales, operations, and international M&A experience to the Blackline Safety Board.…

The College International pour la Recherche en Productique (CIRP) is the world’s leading organization in Production Engineering Research and was founded in 1951. CIRP unites leading researchers and CEOs on the design, optimization, control and management of processes, machines, and systems. The members of the CIRP are specifically chosen as the number…