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Wellspring, the world’s leading provider of Tech Transfer, Intellectual Property Management, and Innovation Management software solutions, announced significant leadership appointments following its recent acquisition of Sopheon, a major player in enterprise innovation management solutions. These strategic hires are set to enhance Wellspring’s position as a leader across the innovation management ecosystem. The newly appointed leadership team, composed of industry veterans with deep expertise in technology, is expected to spearhead these efforts. "Wellspring is thrilled to announce three new leaders joining its executive team to drive our ambitious growth plans and support the next generation of products," said Sean Downs, CEO of Wellspring. "At Wellspring, we recognize that innovation is at a crossroads, and we are leaning into that change to bring revolutionary technology that shapes the future of innovation. Our solutions empower organizations to unlock new possibilities, streamline operations, and drive impactful change.” Jacob Chappell, Chief Revenue Officer Jacob brings over two decades of experience

Learn how digital transformation is enabled by digital thread and digital twins. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 3 October 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that executive consultants Don Tolle and Sandeepak Natu, Co-Directors of the Simulation-Driven Systems Development Consulting Practice, will participate in a webinar, “The Value of SPDM to Physics-Based Simulation, Digital Thread, and Digital Twin.” The webinar, organized by Ansys, takes place on Friday, 18 October, at 11:00 AM EDT. The increased complexity of modern industrial products is pushing businesses to adopt digital transformation, enabled by digital thread and digital twins. This impacts manufacturing companies of every size globally. With digital transformation as the end goal, focusing on “model-based everything,” engineering organizations are challenged to be more efficient, productive, and collaborative using state-of-the-art modeling, simulation, and data analytics tools and processes. The intellectual

Sage, a leader in accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), is enhancing its supply chain software capabilities by acquiring Anvyl, a New York-based technology firm focused on the high-growth $20 billion supply chain software sector.  With this acquisition, Anvyl’s end-to-end supply chain software will allow Sage to deliver a cost-effective Supply Chain Execution (SCE) solution that provides SMBs with complete visibility across their entire supply chains, from purchase order creation to warehouse delivery. It combines intelligent purchase order management with a broad supplier network to be delivered through Sage Network, which is Sage’s platform of products and services that benefits customers by connecting business ecosystems. Mark Hickman, Managing Director, North America, Sage said: "Our acquisition of Anvyl reinforces Sage’s commitment to offering comprehensive back-office solutions for SMBs, particularly in supply chain management. This move aligns with our strategy to expand beyond financials, providing a broader range of tools

Leading Indian tire manufacturer Apollo Tyres Ltd relies on CONTACT Elements as its central platform for product development and testing. The low-code solution will foster collaboration, harmonize processes across locations, and support Apollo Tyres in meeting its sustainability goals.  Rising sustainability requirements and the dawn of e-mobility demand for tires with low rolling resistance made from eco-friendly materials. Apollo Tyres has set out to increase the percentage of sustainable raw materials used in their products to 40% by 2030. To achieve this goal, the company relies on a data-centric strategy and is implementing a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) based on CONTACT Software’s CIM Database PLM.  It takes about three years to develop a new tire. CONTACT’s solution is intended to speed up this process and foster collaboration and communication among teams. It will digitally support and harmonize global R&D processes, streamline test data management, improve traceability of tire specifications, and simplify

Caterpillar Inc. and Trimble announced the extension of their long-standing joint venture. The agreement includes expanded distribution of grade control solutions in the construction sector to accelerate innovation and customer adoption. Since 2002, the Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT) joint venture has led the industry in grade control solutions, delivering products that contribute to jobsite safety and productivity. The renewed agreement will increase industry reach and provide customers broader availability of interoperable grade control solutions via a flexible platform for use by Caterpillar, Trimble and other technology providers and equipment manufacturers. With a strengthened partnership, this agreement enables both Trimble and Caterpillar to increase innovation and differentiation, develop new offerings and pursue new industry and geographic opportunities. For Caterpillar customers, there are more ways to access the technology: Factory-fit grade options through Caterpillar Cat® Grade 3D Ready options allow upgrading at any point within the machine lifecycle Expanded aftermarket and digital offerings directly through Cat dealers Trimble customers

Centric Software® is pleased to announce that iconic western boot brand Dan Post Boot Company has selected Centric PLM™ to optimize product data management, efficiency and transparency. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Founded in the 1960s, Dan Post boots are synonymous with superior fit and fashion-forward design. Their handcrafted method starts with the finest exotic skins and premium leathers handled by the finest designers in the world. The company produces approximately 150 new styles each year through their two brands: Dan Post and Laredo. With an increasing amount of sampling, sourcing, materials and design data to juggle, they turned to an ‘all-in-one’ ERP and PLM solution in 2016. However, they ran

Faraday Technology Corporation, a leading company in the semiconductor industry, is expanding its use of Ansys technology to enhance its capabilities in developing advanced designs for multi-die 2.5D/3D-ICs — criticalfor artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, and 5G applications. With support from Ansys, Faraday will empower its customers to explore more robust design options for more innovative products. Faraday, a leading application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) design service and IP provider, supports customers with chip design projects. Recently, Faraday announced a 2.5D/3D-IC advanced package service to address exploding demand for multi-die designs that target products with better performance and lower power consumption. To meet this demand, engineers need the right multiphysics analysis tools to verify that chip designs include reliable signal and structural integrity and reliable power distribution before it goes to fabrication. This challenge is compounded by the trend toward developing denser chips that are more vulnerable to EM issues. Adding RaptorX into the

Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, announced that it has been chosen by leading New Zealand utility company, Genesis Energy, to provide sustainable and secure data-driven business practices. Genesis Energy has a diversified generation portfolio and nearly 500,000 customers for electricity, reticulated gas and LPG. The company aims to use quality data to drive internal efficiencies and to help customers on their energy transition journey. To prepare for more advanced data and AI solutions, Genesis Energy is looking to consolidate and streamline data from a complex and distributed ecosystem that included a data warehouse, data lake and various proprietary data solutions supporting its generation and retail operations. The utility provider is also seeking better availability and flow of data between business units. To address these issues, Genesis Energy decided to implement Informatica’s Cloud Data Governance and Catalog , underpinned by Informatica’s AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud ™ (IDMC). Leveraging the common metadata foundation

Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management (XM) category, expanded on its partnership with Lumen, a global enterprise technology platform and telecommunications company, to redesign Lumen’s customer and employee experience programs and improve the service it provides to customers. Powered by Qualtrics XM® for Customer Experience suite and Qualtrics AI, the new Lumen real-time customer insights platform combines feedback from more than two dozen sources, including customer interactions, service performance, and market-specific trends in unstructured feedback like social media or call center transcripts. These real-time insights into customer and employee experience performance allow Lumen to tailor its communication with every customer based on their specific needs and recent experiences. For example, call-center agents assisting a customer can see a Customer Health Score that fluctuates daily based on real-time operational inputs. The added insights enable agents to communicate with greater relevance, as well as empathy.  As a result of its partnership with Qualtrics, Lumen

507 manufacturers and more than 1,860,000 data sets are available with the latest updates in August and September 2024. New manufacturer catalogs Chenguang Cable – 10,656 new data sets with cables EISELE GmbH – 1,760 new data sets with fluid, connection splicers / line connectors EcoG – 1 new data set with PLC Hoshimoto Co., Ltd. – 10 new data sets with generals, lock systems and miscellaneous Mibu Denki Industrial Co., Ltd. – 12 new data sets with lights and terminals Ouneva Group – 109 new data sets with terminals People Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. – 10,097 new data sets with cables Shanghai UPUN Electric (Group) Co., Ltd. – 236 new data sets with terminals Suzhou cableplus Technologies Co.,Ltd. – 151 new data sets with cables Updates and new data 3M Company – 22 updated data sets with converters ABB LTD – 5 new data sets with converters ACREL Co., Ltd. – 82 updated data sets with measuring instruments Balluff GmbH – 30 new and 5