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Centric Software® is pleased to announce that Pair of Thieves has selected Centric PLM™ to drive speed to market and innovation. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, market, sell and replenish fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care products as well as multi-category retail, to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Pair of Thieves, based in Culver City, CA was founded in 2012 with the mission of revolutionizing the men’s underwear industry. Frustrated by the lack of stylish and comfortable options available, they set out to create a brand that would redefine what it means to wear great underwear. Drawing inspiration from their own experiences and lifestyles, they launched their first collection featuring bold designs, trend-right colors and premium fabrics. The company later expanded to socks, undershirts and loungewear. Autumn Rockhill, Senior Product Development Manager at Pair

High-tech machinery manufacturer SAS Softec is growing rapidly. With CIM Database Cloud, the company establishes a central database and standardizes processes for maximum efficiency and scalability. SAS Softec is currently undergoing a significant growth and transformation phase. This presents the company with considerable challenges: rapid production growth necessitates an expanding workforce. To manage the administrative workload and ensure swift, qualified onboarding, standardized processes are essential. As an innovation driver, the manufacturer of production systems for semiconductors, electronics, glass processing, and photovoltaics supports its customers from concept to implementation. This comprehensive approach requires not only company-wide data consistency but also compliance with the highest quality standards and all necessary certifications. To address these requirements and ensure sustainable growth, SAS Softec opted for CIM Database Cloud from CONTACT Software. Its combined project and workflow management allows the company to standardize processes and simplify cross-team collaboration. Requirements Engineering streamlines requirements management, and the xBOM Manager synchronizes engineering,

DeSL (Digital e-Solutions Ltd), a leading provider of digital transformation solutions for the fashion, retail, and footwear industries, is proud to announce the luxury lingerie company Van de Velde has selected DeSL’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Total Quality Management solutions to drive its digital transformation journey. With this new partnership, Van de Velde is transitioning away from disconnected, manual processes, and Excel based systems into a unified digital platform built to support product development collaboration, efficiency, and quality. “Our product creation and quality processes were heavily reliant on manual actions, isolated data, and a dependence on key individuals,” shared Annelies Sierens, Business Process Owner from Van de Velde. “We chose DeSL because their solutions addressed all core challenges meeting our full list of requirements. DeSL’s intuitive, end-to-end platform modernizes collaboration across teams and suppliers, accelerates development cycles, and provides the insights we need to make data-driven decisions at every stage.” DeSL’s PLM solution will empower Van

Accenture has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in CLIKA, a high-performance AI compression platform company. The investment will expand Accenture's intelligent edge and infrastructure engineering capabilities and fast-track AI deployment for edge devices. As the demand for edge AI surges, enterprises are grappling with deployment complexity, infrastructure strain, and a fragmented hardware landscape. CLIKA’s unified platform directly addresses these challenges by simplifying the process of optimizing and deploying AI to edge devices such as smartphones, IoT endpoints, autonomous vehicles and industrial robotics. Together, the two companies will build enterprise-ready edge AI offerings for secure edge deployments at scale. The collaboration will help bring high-performance, compact AI models to real-world devices across industries, unlocking strategic advantages and new business opportunities to clients globally. Raj Wickramasinghe, global lead for Infrastructure Engineering, Accenture, said, “Edge computing is now a critical part of the AI lifecycle. Today’s enterprises need seamless intelligence at the edge. Through this investment and collaboration, we

Trimble® announced Coastline Equipment as the newest Trimble Technology Outlet. Based in Long Beach, California, Coastline will now sell Trimble grade control, site positioning systems and correction services technology directly to customers using John Deere and Hamm earthmoving equipment. This includes dozers, excavators, motor graders, soil compactors, mini-excavators and compact track loaders. Coastline will also sell Trimble technology for LevelBest/ATI and HitchDoc attachments. Trimble technology from Coastline includes the Trimble Works subscription bundles, offering contractors simple, low risk ways to scale operations, providing flexibility in selecting and utilizing the right civil construction technology, hardware coverage and price point for their business needs. Trimble Technology Outlets are a new and important part of Trimble's civil construction distribution strategy. By adding authorized resellers representing a wide variety of manufacturers to the Trimble distribution channel, it becomes easier for users of a wide range of machine types to purchase, install and utilize Trimble technology for improved jobsite productivity and profitability. As

The strategic partnership combines CONTACT’s PLM, MES, and IIoT solutions with Razorleaf’s implementation expertise to accelerate time-to-value for customers in the USA and Canada.  In highly competitive global markets, manufacturing companies strive to automate their processes and accelerate their product launches. Now, CONTACT Software joins forces with Razorleaf to help them achieve these goals. The strategic partnership combines CONTACT’s composable Elements platform with Razorleaf’s in-depth knowledge of the North American market and proven expertise in consulting and implementing digital thread solutions. Together, they bring single-platform PLM, MES, and IIoT solutions to manufacturing companies, empowering them to design, manufacture, and operate smart products more efficiently and improve customer satisfaction.  CONTACT Elements enables companies to merge data silos into a single source of truth and seamlessly exchanges information with third-party apps. It can be hosted in the cloud, embeds sustainability data directly in product development, and includes platform-wide AI capabilities. Built on a composable architecture, CONTACT

The Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC™) announced that the Digital Engineering Hub (DEHub) at Rowan University has joined the consortium. DEHub is a first-of-its-kind academic research and development center where digital engineering methods are researched, practiced, taught, incubated, and translated from ideas to commercialized applications. DEHub’s focal areas include materials discovery, accelerated materials testing, digital manufacturing, condition-based asset monitoring, robotics, and automation. To support these applications, DEHub is housed in a state-of-the-art facility at Rowan University’s Main Campus in Glassboro, NJ. It offers access to many technological testbeds, including one developed for DTC in collaboration with several members, focusing on metal additive manufacturing. Joining the DTC is a milestone for DEHub’s strategic development as it further promotes its public-private partnerships and collaborations. “We welcome DEHub @ Rowan University as a member of the DTC and their involvement in our testbed program,” said Dan Isaacs, GM and CTO of the DTC. “Their lifecycle experience with real-time, AI-powered advanced

Honeywell announced the appointment of Peter Lau as President and CEO of its Industrial Automation business, effective October 15, 2025.  A former President of Honeywell's Security, Fire and Electrical Products businesses, Lau is returning to succeed Lucian Boldea, who is departing the company at the end of the month to pursue another opportunity. Lau will be based in Charlotte, N.C., and will report to Vimal Kapur, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell. Lau most recently served as President and CEO of FARO Technologies and as a member of the company's Board of Directors, guiding a strategic transformation that ultimately led to its successful acquisition. Lau also strengthened the company's position as a leader in 3D measurement, imaging and realization technology by committing to operational excellence, delivering a set of customer-driven products and solutions to accelerate growth. In his prior role at Honeywell, Lau led three of the company's global businesses, which focused on global security and the detection and control

Honeywell announced the future Board of Directors for Solstice Advanced Materials ("Solstice"), a pure-play specialty materials company that will be created following its planned spin-off from Honeywell. Solstice will hold leading market positions in refrigerants, semiconductor materials, protective fibers, and healthcare packaging solutions. Dr. Rajeev Gautam, former President and CEO of Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT) business, will lead the 10-person Board as Independent Chair as previously announced. The Board will also include David Sewell, President and CEO of the Solstice Advanced Materials business, alongside prominent leaders with deep experience in the industrial, technology, chemicals, and materials sectors. "This is an exceptional and strategically diversified group of directors, who will bring cross-sector insight and proven leadership across the industries and technologies that will shape Solstice's future," said Vimal Kapur, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell. "With their guidance, Solstice will be well-positioned to drive growth and deepen customer relationships from day one." David Sewell added, "Solstice will enter this next chapter with

OpenText™, a global leader in information management, announced it is expanding its collaboration with HPE and joining the HPE Unleash AI partner program to accelerate enterprise AI adoption through HPE Private Cloud AI. This powerful collaboration brings pre-validated, secure, and scalable AI industry solutions to market faster than ever through the combined capabilities of OpenText™ Aviator AI solutions and HPE Private Cloud AI, a turnkey enterprise AI factory within the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio co-developed with NVIDIA. “The Unleash AI program empowers innovative software partners like OpenText to simplify AI deployment and accelerate the impact of real-world AI outcomes,” said Robin Braun, Vice President of AI Business Development for Hybrid Cloud, HPE. “With OpenText, we’re delivering AI solutions that combine deep industry expertise with secure, scalable private AI infrastructure—helping organizations unlock the power of their data to transform how they work.” Delivering Business Value through AI Innovation This collaboration is a launchpad for clients seeking to