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The ASME Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, together with ROSEN Group, announced the opening of the Call for Projects for the 2026 Hermann Rosen Award for Pipeline Innovation. Endowed by the ROSEN Group and awarded annually, the prize recognizes emerging innovators whose work has the potential to meaningfully advance pipeline safety, integrity, and performance. The winner will receive a USD 25,000 award to support the further development of their idea. This year’s announcement comes at a special moment for ROSEN as the company marks its 45th anniversary. This milestone reflects four and a half decades of engineering excellence and continued dedication to advancing technology that serves society. The award stands as a testament to that heritage: a bridge between founder Hermann Rosen’s original vision and the innovations that will shape the industry’s future. “As ROSEN celebrates 45 years of innovation, this award emphasizes our

Accenture and Databricks, the Data and AI company, are helping global organizations unlock the full potential of their enterprise data and scale adoption of AI applications and agents. As part of a strategic expansion of their partnership, the companies are launching the Accenture Databricks Business Group, with a focus on helping clients adopt Databricks as their core data and AI platform. Together, the companies will help clients leverage Databricks’ newest innovations including Lakebase for serverless Postgres databases built for AI, Genie to let any employee chat with their data, and Agent Bricks for high-quality agents built on enterprise data. Organizations struggle to scale AI due to fragmented data and legacy infrastructure that silo information and stall innovation. To deliver real impact, companies need a unified data foundation and industry expertise to centralize governance, move AI from experimentation to production and make data and AI more accessible to teams across the business. Accenture

 PDF Technical and architectural best practices for implementing AI across PLM-centric Digital Threads Takeaways AI in PLM environments must be grounded in authoritative lifecycle data and governed by digital thread semantics. Retrieval-based approaches tied to product structures, configurations, effectivity, and change context are more reliable than unconstrained generative methods. Embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines are lifecycle infrastructure, not implementation details. They require versioning, refresh policies, authorization filtering, and traceability back to source artifacts. Model orchestration is essential to scale AI responsibly. Different tasks require different models, routing logic, latency targets, and cost controls, which must be explicitly designed and governed. AI outputs that influence engineering, quality, or compliance decisions must be explainable and auditable by design. This includes visibility into retrieved sources, lifecycle state, configuration scope, and the workflow context in which the output was generated. Workflow embedding determines whether AI is usable in practice. AI that operates outside change management, requirements, test, quality, and service

Fuse EDA AI Agent autonomously orchestrates multi-agent workflows across Siemens' complete electronic design automation (EDA) portfolio, from design conception through manufacturing sign-off, increasing engineering efficiency and design quality Builds on top of the Fuse EDA AI system, which provides an advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework, multimodal EDA data support, secure agentic orchestration with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent Skills support, along with an open framework for third-party integration Supports NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, Nemotron models and NVIDIA AI infrastructure for enhanced tool calling and reasoning capabilities Siemens announced the Fuse™ EDA AI Agent system, a purpose-built domain-scoped autonomous AI agent that plans and orchestrates multi-tool and multi-agent complex semiconductor, 3D IC and printed circuit board (PCB) system workflows that span across design, verification and manufacturing sign-off. Supporting NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, advanced Nemotron models and NVIDIA AI infrastructure, the Fuse EDA AI Agent manages workflows across Siemens' comprehensive EDA portfolio, delivering automation that significantly

EON Reality, together with AI Ventures, announced the formal launch of a landmark academic partnership with the University for Business and Technology (UBT) — a European university ranked #6 in the world for Industry & Innovation (WURI Global Rankings), recognized by the British Accreditation Council, aligned with the European Bologna Process, and holding 500+ university transfer partnerships across the EU and USA. Under the terms of a signed Memorandum of Understanding, students on EON’s Global Virtual Campus will now have the option to receive formally accredited university credentials — from course-level Certificates through to Master’s Degrees — co-issued by UBT across EON’s entire library of 9,000 courses spanning 17 industry segments. WHY THIS MATTERS EON AI Ventures owns and operates the Global Virtual Campus — built on the XR and AI technology platform developed by EON Reality, its strategic partner. EON Reality brings 25 years of industry leadership and a platform downloaded over 136 million times across 4,400+ institutional customers in 80+

OnceMore® from Södra, the world’s first large-scale process for recycling blended fabrics into high‑quality dissolving pulp, will begin using TextileGenesis, a Lectra company, to strengthen traceability from raw material to retail across the value chain. OnceMore® produces dissolving pulp made from blended textile waste and wood sourced from responsibly managed Swedish forests. By integrating TextileGenesis, OnceMore® supports the growing need for verified data and secure, transparent tracking throughout increasingly complex supply chain. Traceability as a foundation for circular MMCF and regulatory readiness The implementation marks a key milestone for scaling circular MMCF, highlighting the role of digital traceability. It establishes a verified digital chain for OnceMore® materials, ensuring full chain–of-custody from pulp and fiber production through to finished garments. By unifying material movement and supply‑chain data into a single system, the rollout enhances transparency across tiers and geographies and increases supplier participation. Traceability from raw material to retail will give OnceMore® and its

The Capital Markets Day will be held on November 24–25, 2026, in Tampere, Finland, at one of Sandvik business area Mining’s largest sites. The agenda will include presentations by CEO, CFO and business area management, as well as guided site tours where Sandvik will showcase its leading offerings. More information and link to registration will be communicated in due course. Stockholm, March 17, 2026 Sandvik AB To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Sandvik on CIMdata.com

Syncron, the global leader in aftermarket lifecycle management software, announced the appointment of Osama Solieman as Executive Vice President of Customer Experience. Osama will lead Syncron's post-sales organization, encompassing professional services, technical support, and customer enablement, and report directly to CEO Josh Weiss. "As we scale, the quality of our customer experience is a direct competitive advantage—and a direct reflection of whether we're actually delivering on the outcomes we promise," said Josh Weiss, CEO of Syncron. "Osama has built and run exactly the kind of customer organizations we need to take our own to the next level. This hire is a signal of where we're headed." Osama joins Syncron from ETQ, a Hexagon company and global leader in SaaS-based Quality Management Software, where he served as Chief Customer Officer. Over his tenure at ETQ, he held progressive leadership roles including VP of Professional Services and Director of Professional Services, building and scaling

IBM announced at GTC 2026 an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises operationalize AI at scale. Advancing efforts across GPU-native data analytics, intelligent document processing, on-premises and regulated infrastructure deployments, cloud, and consulting, the collaboration aims to give enterprises the data foundation, infrastructure, and expertise to move AI from pilot to production. Enterprises are making significant investments in AI, but too many remain stuck between experimentation and production at scale. The barriers are consistent: data is fragmented and difficult to access; infrastructure wasn’t built for advanced AI workloads; AI deployments don’t support the compliance and residency requirements of regulated industries; and many organizations still need the guided expertise to implement and deploy the technologies. An announcements from IBM and NVIDIA are designed to close these gaps. "In the next wave of enterprise AI, the model layer will rely on the data, infrastructure, and orchestration layers – and on businesses that can bring

The Board of Directors of Capgemini SE, meeting on March 16, 2026, deliberated on the change in its composition to be proposed to the next Shareholders’ Meeting of May 20, 2026. Messrs. Xavier Musca and Frédéric Oudéa having indicated their desire not to seek reappointment[1], the Board of Directors warmly thanked them for their respective contributions to the work of the Board of Directors and its committees, and particularly as Chairman of the Audit & Risk Committee for the first one, and Lead Independent Director and Chairman of the Ethics & Governance Committee for the second one. Based on the report of the Ethics & Governance Committee, the Board of Directors decided to propose to the 2026 Shareholders’ Meeting, i) the renewal of the terms of office of Mr. Paul Hermelin and Ms. Maria Ferraro and ii) the appointment of Ms. Véronique Weill[2] and Mr. Luc Rémont as members of the Board of Directors, for