Industry Summary Articles

After the Paris edition held last May, the Global Industrie show will be back in Lyon in March 2023. We will be pleased to welcome you on our booth G42 in hall 6. In the Sheet Metal – Metal Forming – Welding area, we will be presenting the latest innovations of our…

The EPLAN Partner Network was founded over two years ago and around sixty companies have joined in the meantime. Strategic partners such as Phoenix Contact, Siemens and Rockwell Automation, plus technology partners – including ABB, Lapp Kabel, Wago and Weidmüller – come together under one guiding principle: providing the highest…

Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC) announced its Technology Showcase, a reference library of use cases and case studies demonstrating the value of digital twins at the different phases of the lifecycle. The reference library provides insight into various digital twin technologies, building blocks, methodologies, and techniques, based on domain-specific scenarios with value-driven…

Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Forma Vision, a provider of live-streamed, volumetric video technology that enables 3D holographic images of people, objects and environments to be beamed into the metaverse from any office, home or other location. Until now, the metaverse opportunity has been constrained to enterprise…

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, announces that is has entered into exclusive negotiations with Mitel Networks (“Mitel”) for the sale of its Unified Communications & Collaboration Services businesses (“Unify”). This constitutes a new step in the implementation of the Atos divestment program as announced at the Group’s Capital…

ALICE Technologies announced that it has hired former Autodesk Construction Solutions executive Morgan Hays as Senior Vice President, Product. ALICE Technologies’ construction optioneering platform helps general contractors and owners worldwide to leverage the power of artificial intelligence to plan, bid, and build their large-scale infrastructure and commercial projects more efficiently and with…

CoreLogic® announced that Selma Hepp has been appointed as Chief Economist. Selma was named Interim Chief Economist in July 2022. Prior to her interim role, Hepp served as an Executive of Research and Insights in the Office of the Chief Economist. Selma leads the economics team, which is responsible for…

Cosmo Tech, the world’s leading developer of Simulation Digital Twin technology, has welcomed two new investments from global professional services company Accenture and Sam George, former Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Mr. George has also joined the Cosmo Tech Board. In an era where uncertainty reigns and where organizations seek resilience in the…

The Nemetschek Group, one of the global leading software providers for the construction and media industries, participated in a financing round for the robotics startup KEWAZO. The investment is a strong continuation of the Nemetschek Group’s venture strategy of driving efficiency and innovation in the construction industry. Stakeholders in the construction…

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in collaboration with IBM formally launched an AI Center of Excellence on Tuesday, January 17, as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week’s World Future Energy Summit. The Center aims to advance collaboration to improve the adoption of AI technology and help drive…