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SysON 2026.5 streamlines your modeling workflow with advanced multi-selection capabilities and batch actions, making element creation faster and more intuitive: Multi-selection actions Intuitive/Smart creation dialog Enhanced experience and new content To view the original press release, please click here. Search for SysON on CIMdata.com

At VivaTech 2026 in Paris, France, Siemens announced two new capabilities for the Eigen Engineering Agent, its purpose-built AI for industrial automation engineering. Launched in April 2026 at Hannover Messe, the agent moves AI beyond on-screen suggestions to action in the physical world. Industrial AI that acts, not just advises Most AI assistants generate suggestions. The Eigen Engineering Agent does the work: it plans, executes and validates industrial automation engineering tasks end-to-end. It understands the project, writes the control software, configures the system and keeps refining its work until it meets defined quality benchmarks. This allows automation engineers to focus on system-level decisions. The Eigen Engineering Agent works alongside the TIA Portal, Siemens’ engineering software platform, and is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. Productivity gains in the real world More than 100 companies in 19 countries are using the Eigen Engineering Agent, including ANDRITZ Metals (Austria), CASMT (China), and Prism Systems (United States). The

LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, announced the launch of BlueVerse for Databricks, a new offering that brings together LTM’s AI ecosystem, BlueVerse™, with Databricks, the Data and AI company, to accelerate AI-driven data monetization. BlueVerse for Databricks is designed to help enterprises drive tangible business outcomes from data and AI investments by addressing critical challenges in the secure and efficient management of data and compute resources, while optimizing business processes and providing pre-built industry solutions to unlock greater value from AI initiatives. LTM BlueVerse helps companies reimagine core business processes such as procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, hire-to-retire, and marketing operations as AI-optimized workflows. It also enables organizations to accelerate time-to-value through pre-built, industry-specific solutions for Manufacturing, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Media & Entertainment, and Retail & Consumer Goods, or through custom implementations that leverage BlueVerse domain-specific accelerators and models. BlueVerse for Databricks leverages Lakebase, Genie, and Agent Bricks to build these capabilities on Databricks, combining LTM’s

Carlson Machine Control’s industry-leading fleet management software Carlson Command has received numerous new features and improvements with version 2027, helping customers better manage their equipment and sites with more advanced and refined tools and solutions. On the main Command Map View there are now satellite, road and hybrid map image options, a refreshed user-interface with enhancements to menu arrangements for faster access to common features, and several other new or improved features: Refined integrated help bubbles Weather integration Pre-shift checklists  Advanced data editor Ability to view control points on the map  Improvements to grid surface management (live surfaces)  Improved scene controls Improved user permission systems For landfill and solar and pile driving customers, there are new live dashboard metrics, as well as KPI charts in the main Command Map View. Specific to solar and pile driving customers, there are now automatic map reports such as current block plot and machine traces. Support has also been added to allow remote access to Carlson

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions company, has announced a multi-year partnership with Elopak ASA, a global leader in paper-based packaging and filling equipment, operating in over 40 countries and serving customers in more than 70 markets. Under this partnership, TCS will be Elopak’s strategic IT partner, leading the transformation and management of its global ITs through a process centric operating model. This will help Elopak’s IT operations to be better aligned with the business priorities thereby improving agility, efficiency, and digital experience. Leveraging its AI-first approach, TCS will deploy advanced analytics and automation capabilities, including its proprietary Cognix™ – an AI powered, future-ready service delivery suite of solutions built on its Machine First™ philosophy. The strategic IT programme will support Elopak’s strategy to modernise its end to end IT services. This include setting up an integrated service desk and upgrading key enterprise applications. Merethe Johansen, CIO at Elopak, said, “Our partnership with TCS

Centric Software® is pleased to announce that Caracole has selected Centric PLM™ to drive product development and bring greater precision to its global luxury furnishings operations. Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated, end-to-end AI-powered enterprise solutions to take products from concept to commercialization. Fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, consumer electronics, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail teams can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, Caracole is a luxury furniture brand serving interior designers and retailers worldwide. The company presents collections with major industry markets and operates showrooms in High Point, Atlanta and Las Vegas. With partners spanning Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Caracole delivers curated assortments that combine craftsmanship, material innovation and refined design. As Caracole refined its product strategy and global operations, product information remained

At VivaTech 2026 in Paris, France, Siemens announced that European startups can now access its leading industrial software through the Siemens for Startups Program. Building on the existing global program, Siemens has put together three startup-specific software collections to make industrial software more accessible for early-stage companies in Europe. These collections are preconfigured for common product development needs and are tailored to startup budgets and speed while scaling as companies grow. The largest challenge facing startups is the step from lab result to industrial application. While universities and incubators lay the critical groundwork in this regard, they often hit barriers – due, for example, to a lack of reference customers, limited growth capital and still insufficient market integration. At this point, Siemens is playing a key role. As an established industry actor, the company can be a partner in technology transfers at an early stage, enable pilot projects in the real

Siemens announced a new edge-to-cloud integration with Databricks, the Data and AI company, and long‑time automation partner FFT Produktionssysteme GmbH (FFT). Together, the partners will connect production data directly to enterprise AI – without complex IoT middleware. This will help industrial customers transform their data into actionable insights and scale industrial AI across global operations. With the new integration, customers are able to stream contextualized shopfloor and plant data from Siemens Industrial Edge via the FFT DataBridge directly to the Databricks Platform, where it can be analyzed and used to train AI models centrally for implementation across global production networks. These models can then be deployed back to the edge for execution at the point of production. This approach helps industrial companies optimize their operations, reduce costs and increase productivity with low‑latency, data‑driven decision‑making. It lays the foundation for physical AI and future autonomous operations.  “Industrial AI only delivers value when data,

Cadence announced an expansion of its collaboration with HPE to accelerate digital twin-driven data center modernization, enabling customers to improve planning, optimization, and lifecycle operations for next-generation AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. The collaboration combines the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform, which virtualizes data center environments using AI, HPC, and physics-based simulation to significantly optimize end-to-end computational throughput, with HPE's sustainable data center modernization services and expertise. The standardization of the platform within HPE's AI-focused modular data center, AI Mod POD, also improves total cost of ownership, speeds deployment, and increases operational efficiency. "As AI reshapes data center requirements, digital twins provide a powerful foundation for designing and operating high-performing infrastructure. Working with HPE, we aim to help customers model and optimize complex environments using AI, HPC, and physics-based simulation—reducing risk while improving energy efficiency and supporting customers' sustainability ambitions." – Sherman Ikemoto, Group Director, Cadence As data centers evolve to

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of VPIphotonics on June 9, 2026, adding system-level simulation to its photonic design automation portfolio and enabling optical and electrical engineers to advance designs from component to complete link within a single environment. Demand for silicon photonics and co-packaged optics continue to grow across data center and AI infrastructure markets. As complexity rises and timelines tighten, engineering teams need simulation that carries a design across every domain without the manual handoffs that slow development and introduce error. Keysight's photonic design automation portfolio now reaches from device physics to full system behavior. RSoft handles device-level simulation for waveguides, gratings, modulators, and laser sources. Photonic Designer delivers comprehensive circuit-level design and verification for photonic integrated circuits. The acquisition of VPIphotonics now strengthens Keysight's circuit-level design capabilities and extends its photonic design automation portfolio to the system level with VPIphotonics Design Suite. This will enable Keysight to deepen and significantly enhance the