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The renowned Research and Application Center Industry 4.0 has awarded the open and modular platform CONTACT Elements as "Factory Software of the Year 2020". CONTACT Software wins the coveted title for the third time in a row.

The manufacturing industry continues to drive the digital transformation. The increasing demand for customized and intelligent products presents companies with the challenge of implementing new technologies, procedures and business models faster and at the same time mastering the increasing complexity.

 The Research and Application Center Industry 4.0 at the Chair of Business Information Technology, Processes and Systems at the...

Fujitsu announced the commercial debut of its "FUJITSU Healthcare Solution Online Healthcare Solution" in the Japanese market, offering medical providers a powerful new tool to support COVID-19 countermeasures in medical frontlines and promote the digital transformation of doctors’ work in hospitals and other medical institutions. The new solution connects all of Fujitsu’s electronic medical record systems, ranging from those for small clinics to larger hospitals, with availability in Japan commencing on November 25, 2020. 

The offering will securely link with Fujitsu's HOPE LifeMark-Concierge application; available since 2016, which allows patients to make appointments and payments using a smartphone,...

As the world moves ever closer to being able to distribute an effective vaccine against COVID-19, a leading supplier to the pharmaceutical industry is manufacturing packaging components and delivery systems ready to support the vaccine, once it’s readily available.

West Pharmaceutical Services has 25 manufacturing sites around the world, including a plant in Cornwall where they manufacture tools for elastomeric packaging components.

Their mould tools are produced on a range of 24 Makino V80S 5-axis vertical mills, Haas VF, VM and mini mills, and Ingersoll V5 CNC machines programmed with the market-leading EDGECAM software. Interim Production...

To address traffic congestion in the city of Chengdu, China, Chengdu Urban Construction Investment Management Group Co., Ltd. (CUCIMG) was tasked with designing a CNY 1.38 billion infrastructure redevelopment package. The centerpiece of the package is a 4.3-kilometer roadway system that will integrate 64 existing roads, with the main new road designed for speeds of 60 kilometers per hour and new auxiliary roads designed for 40 kilometers per hour. It would also include new and reworked intersections to optimize traffic flow and accommodate the varying road speeds. The organization would need to construct new bridges, tunnels, green spaces, and pedestrian...

AFRY, the international provider of engineering, design and consulting services, has opted for the latest BIM solutions from ALLPLAN for the design of its major infrastructure construction projects. The engineers use Allplan Bridge for modeling, structural analysis, and design of curved bridges and Allplan for all other engineering structures in their projects. AFRY is thus pursuing the goal of designing intelligent traffic infrastructure efficiently and across teams while ensuring high model quality.

AFRY was created in 2019 from the Swedish company ÅF and the Finnish company Pöyry. Headquartered in Stockholm, the service provider employs 17,000 people, making it...

The ever increasing level of networking in the automotive industry means that information security plays a key role when it comes to organizing business relationships. The German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) has defined uniform requirements for this purpose and compliance is checked by means of regular audits: Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange, or TISAX for short. Last year the PLM consulting and software company PROSTEP was certified in accordance with TISAX and it has since extended the scope of this certification. In addition to company headquarters in Darmstadt, the branch offices in Berlin and Munich have recently also...

DXC Technology announced a new relationship with Infinia ML to further advance machine learning and data analytics to help customers manage and drive stronger performance and value from their IT estates.

DXC will utilize Infinia ML machine learning capabilities across its Enterprise Technology Stack to automate document processing, boost performance of mission-critical IT systems, guide enterprise decision making, and enhance customer service/support. In addition, Infinia ML will audit artificial intelligence (AI) systems to ensure they perform at the highest level.

Infinia ML will strengthen DXC’s ability to support customers...

OpenText™  announced that Webcor, a premier provider of commercial construction services throughout California, worked with OpenText to improve their security expertise, find and mitigate threats, and reduce the company’s cyber risk profile. During a presentation today at Enfuse On Air 2020, the companies discussed how OpenText experts helped Webcor improve their overall cyber resilience.

“OpenText was very effective in risk mitigation, and in defining the scope of work necessary to improve our security posture,” said Kim Bates, Vice President, CIO at Webcor. “They gave us the security framework that we needed to implement at Webcor. Without...

Hexagon’s PPM division announced that Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the largest oil and gas exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman, has completed phase three of its Information Management digital transformation journey with Hexagon. This stage of the project included implementing Hexagon’s Digital Twin technology and SmartPlant® Enterprise for Owner Operators (SPO) platform to enable PDO’s maintenance and operations teams direct access to the digital twin across the complete business lifecycle.

Using Hexagon solutions enables PDO to digitally transform its information management and project collaboration by providing a single source of truth platform where all the lifecycle...

 Aspen Technology, Inc. announced that Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery (Hengli), a leading Fortune Global 500 refinery in China, has chosen Aspen DMC3TM software to accelerate digitalization at its integrated refining and chemical plant in Dalian, China. With this deployment, Hengli can achieve operational speed and sustainability via patented adaptive process control technology in pursuit of its intelligent plant strategy.

Ricky Li Xianyou, Vice President, Hengli, said: “To strengthen the company’s industry leadership, Hengli has selected Aspen DMC3 software as part of the company’s holistic approach to future proof its intelligent plant concept....