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Infor®, the industry cloud company, today announced that Palais des Thés, French house known for its exceptional teas, has opted for Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise, a cloud-based ERP platform with features designed and developed for the food retail sector. At the same time, the retailer has chosen the Infor Factory Track module, a solution for automating and simplifying stock and production operations that manages automation in factories and warehouses, from receipt of raw materials to processing and packing to dispatch of finished products, while integrating inventory, operations planning, and the associated work and attendance times. Launched at the beginning of 2022, this transformation project aims to provide Palais des Thés with the management system needed to support its strong growth, while moving it towards greater standardisation, and addressing major challenges of warehouse and logistics management. Laurent Chaumont, CIO at Palais des Thés, says: "Our old ERP deployed in 2012 was no longer

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today that the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli America's Cup team is using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software and services to design, simulate and optimize its racing yacht for the forthcoming America’s Cup challenge (37ᵗʰ America’s Cup).“The Siemens Xcelerator as a Service portfolio provides critical tools to Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli that allow the team to design, analyze and evaluate all aspects of the boat’s hydraulics and fluid-dynamic performance,” said Matteo Ledri, Head of CFD, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team. “Using Siemens’ software, the hull, foils, rudder and sails can be analyzed as part of the digital twin, to understand how each surface responds to the changes in the project parameters, thus speeding up our work.” The hull, foils, rudder and sails are designed and analyzed virtually using Simcenter™ STAR CCM+™ software to understand how sails, hull and the complex hydrodynamics of the hydrofoil respond to

ENO, a premium jewelry manufacturing solution dedicated to mastering the art of jewelry craftsmanship, has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software® provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Founded in 2005 and based in California, ENO is a multi-generational family business rooted in the jewelry and accessories industry. The company offers the complete product development process from concept to design to quality assurance, packaging, social compliance guidance and logistics. Calling themselves a one-stop-shop, ENO “believes consistency in execution is vital to the longevity of a product and a brand.” Tracey Valdez, Director of Enterprise Operations at ENO says, “We grew from a four-person team to 25 people. We have a showroom in New York City and a design

Aspen Technology, Inc., a global leader in industrial software, today announced a partnership with Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, that positions AspenTech to introduce a unique, integrated modelling and optimization solution that will enable capital intensive industries to achieve practical and economic solutions for Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU). The new solution is based on technology developed by Aramco collaboratively with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST). Aramco, through its subsidiary Saudi Aramco Technologies Company (SATC) has licensed the technology to AspenTech as part of its broader capabilities to optimize carbon emissions reduction. It will aim to address the identification of the most promising carbon capture and utilization paths by simultaneously considering economics, process design and operations constraints and CO2 reduction. The goal of this innovation is to enable businesses to make evidence-based decisions in support of adopting carbon management strategies that

Trimble announced today that it has agreed to acquire Transporeon, a leading cloud-based transportation management software platform, in an all-cash transaction valued at €1.88 billion. Transporeon's software platform provides modular applications that power a global network for 145,000 carriers and 1,400 shippers and load recipients with an integrated suite of best-in-class sourcing, planning, execution, monitoring and settlement tools. Trimble will acquire Transporeon from Hg, a leading software and services investor and current majority shareholder in the business. Transporeon's open platform integrates with more than 3,000 global ERP and transportation management systems, enabling a dense network to facilitate more than 25 million on-platform transports in 2022. Transporeon helps customers increase competitiveness, lower costs, reduce waste and solve complex freight problems through automation, real-time insights and network participation. Transporeon operates predominantly in Europe, as well as in developed markets across the Americas and Asia. Consistent with its cloud software model, Transporeon has a strong

This PLM-focused event will take place in May. Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Stockholm, SWEDEN 13 December 2022—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce that PLM Road Map & PDT 2023 North America will be an in-person event at the Marriott Hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA. The theme for the conference is “The Digital Thread in a Heterogeneous, Extended Enterprise Reality: A call for PLM Professionals to share their knowledge and experience.” The event will take place on May 3rd and 4th. PLM Road Map & PDT 2023 will focus on the interests of the PLM Professional. With this in mind, our agenda will offer a mix of reports and case studies from industry experts, covering technologies, processes, and people. PLM Road Map & PDT 2023 seeks to advance our understanding of the Digital Thread. It will offer insights into where industrial end-user companies are today and how they plan to

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 13 December 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled “The Kubotek Kosmos 3D Framework Enables Application Interoperability.” Software developers of new applications must maximize their client reach by appealing to as wide an audience as possible. The barrier they face is that engineers use a wide variety of design and manufacturing tools, each with its own proprietary database structure and numerical accuracy. To maximize revenue, solution providers’ new applications must interoperate with a broad range of data formats, including popular industry-standard formats. This eBook introduces the Kubotek Kosmos 3D Framework, a suite of multi-platform component software solutions implemented to support the development of specialized design capabilities and design, simulation, and manufacturing utilities. Software developers access component resources through an established application programming interface (API) to gain use of functions that would otherwise cost multiple person-years to

MathWorks and Infineon Technologies AG today announced a hardware support package for the MathWorks Simulink® products that supports Infineon’s latest AURIX™ TC4x family of automotive microcontrollers. Automotive engineers designing advanced electric vehicles, sensor fusion, and radar signal processing functions can use the hardware support package, even before silicon is available, to validate use cases, rapidly and automatically generate the embedded software, and test algorithms. “Our newest AURIX TC4x microcontroller family will give customers unparalleled real-time safety and security performance,” said Marco Cassol, Director of Microcontroller Product Marketing for ADAS, Chassis, and EE Architecture applications at Infineon Technologies. “Support for these chips from the widely used MathWorks capabilities for model-based design enables engineers to get an earlier start on pre-silicon software development and automate code generation to accelerate that development. The resulting time-to-market benefits could significantly impact our customers’ success.” “This close collaboration with Infineon will enable our mutual customers to accelerate the

DXC Technology has unveiled its new global digital broking platform, DXC Assure Broking, with an early adopter, Lockton, the world's largest independent insurance brokerage. Lockton is using DXC's cloud-based platform for its UK retail business with a view to expanding across other geographies and sectors. Running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), DXC Assure Broking is an integrated, modular solution for commercial insurance brokers built on the DXC Assure Digital Platform. Covering business development, policy administration, claims, reporting and analytics, it delivers a digital customer experience, reduces costs, increases efficiency, and accelerates time to market for new products and services. It is the natural successor for DXC's current portfolio of broker solutions: Brokasure Desktop, Brokasure Enterprise and GLOBAL XB. DXC Assure Broking supports Blueprint Two digital services as part of the core solution to transform the London insurance market. DXC is supporting the Blueprint Two transition with options for digital enablement via a

Wipro Limited, a leading technology services and consulting company, announced that it has been recognized as a ‘Gold’ employer by the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI) 2022. Awarded to the top employers by IWEI, the gold employer is the highest of 3 levels, where an organization is credited with ‘embedding inclusion in the workplace.’ Highlights of Wipro’s efforts in this journey include recognition of Wipro’s leadership in India to advance LGBTQ+ inclusion in the workplace, from organizational policies to external communications. It also demonstrates a long-term and in-depth commitment towards LGBTQ+ inclusion, where Wipro has implemented several initiatives enabling its employees to become active allies for the LGBTQ+ community. In the past year, Wipro launched an LGBTQ+ Handbook to improve awareness, encourage learning, and help champion LGBTQ+ inclusion while developing allyship in the workplace. To ensure inclusion as a way of life, Wipro implemented a global policy on prevention of LGBTQ+