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Atos announces that it is working with Venator, a global manufacturer and marketer of chemical products, using Atos’ digital solution to automate the carbon footprint calculation of its products. This will enable Venator to deliver superior product data on the carbon footprint of its products to its customers and enables Venator to assess its portfolio and production network in terms of CO2 emissions and take action to reduce their PCF (Product Carbon Footprint). Venator produces a broad range of pigments and additives that bring colour and vibrancy to buildings, protect and extend product life, and reduce energy consumption. From October 2022 until March 2023, Venator works with Atos using this digital solution that calculates product carbon footprints (PCF) for the chemical industry to gather key insights in line with its existing ERP and data landscape. The PCF calculation tool (SCOTT) and methodology developed by BASF is based on Life Cycle Assessment methodology and calculates cradle-to-gate PCF. Atos was

Blackline Safety Corp., a global leader in connected safety technology, today announced that its G7c connected wearable for gas detection and lone worker protection is the first device of its kind to be certified to the newly-upgraded BS 8484:2022 standard in the United Kingdom. Due to stringent health and safety laws which outline the responsibilities of employers in significant detail, the UK is considered one of the safest places in the world to work. The country plays a leadership role in driving global regulations and the new standard is no exception. Authorization for providers to dispatch emergency response Lone workers are those who work by themselves without close or direct supervision, and are as a result, among the most vulnerable workers. Employers have a legal obligation to manage any health and safety risks before their employees can work alone. The British Safety Council estimates that up to eight million workers in the UK, or approximately 22%

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new application, analytics, and developer services for HPE GreenLake, edge-to-cloud platform, that enable organizations to drive a data-first modernization strategy for production workloads across hybrid cloud environments. Updates include:  HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise now offers expanded container deployment options for Kubernetes with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native toolchains to support customer’s DevOps and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) environments. Six workload-optimized instances for general purpose, compute, memory, and storage are now available on HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise with simple rate card pricing that delivers a straightforward pay-as-you-go consumption model. Expanded partner ecosystem momentum that now includes HPE GreenLake for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, and the recently announced HPE GreenLake for VMware. Enhancement to consumption analytics delivers improved usage and cost analytics of applications for the three hyperscaler public cloud vendors. HPE GreenLake for Data Fabric and HPE

IMSI® Design, a leading software developer of Home Design and CAD titles for over 30 years, today announced the release of new Windows versions for all of its award-winning FloorPlan® Home & Landscape Design software titles. These products are available now through the IMSIDesign.com and TurboCAD.com websites. “Our return to the original FloorPlan brand name underscores our commitment to providing comprehensive and value-priced home and landscape design software for consumers and professionals alike. The new Custom Workshop Pro toolset adds true 2D and 3D CAD design capabilities and greatly expands file interoperability to CAD and graphics file formats. This powerful set of tools lets you create any type of object – interior and exterior design fixtures, furniture, or household objects, and then save them to your library for reuse. This is a real game-changer!” said Bob Mayer, President of IMSI Design. “In addition, the new 360o Online Viewer is a great

Maxon, developers of professional software solutions for editors, filmmakers, motion designers and visual effects artists, announced updates to the company’s Maxon One offering. Magic Bullet now takes full advantage of the new ACES color mode that was introduced earlier this year, offering users better highlight roll off management, better use of dynamic range and improved color accuracy. New Redshift features include improved volume rendering capabilities as well as new shaders to render weaves, mosaics and tile patterns, offering amazing procedural options for architectural surfaces and abstract motion graphics. Cinema 4D receives stability enhancements for its recently released feature, Pyro and the Redshift Camera. Additionally, Maxon’s educational platform Cineversity has been relaunched to amplify Maxon’s commitment to providing educational resources to enable artists to learn and realize their creative visions with the Maxon One toolset. Red Giant Magic Bullet 2023.1 Maxon released a brand-new ACES powered color mode in spring to bring

PwC and SAP SE announced a new co-innovation strategy to make sustainability an integral part of standard business operations. The strategy is directed at creating trusted solutions to address key environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) business challenges. It covers carbon measuring, reporting and steering as well as supply chain decarbonization, climate risk and competitive analysis. The new ESG strategy builds on the strength of the existing alliance between PwC and SAP, which has successfully delivered business transformation solutions to clients in more than 80 countries. The strategy includes co-innovated solutions, created with PwC’s deep ESG and accounting expertise, aimed at enabling businesses to apply ESG metrics through their operations that are trustworthy, auditable and verifiable. The solutions leverage the SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises solution, along with the SAP Sustainability Control Tower solution and the SAP Product Footprint Management solution. Together, PwC and SAP help organizations leverage the solutions they need to fulfill compliance requirements and drive growth to

Virtualizing control systems with FactoryTalk® Logix Echo can help customers save significant engineering efforts and financial expenditure at every stage of a project from start to finish. Attention was dedicated to improving testing, giving users access to more than 20 variations of the 5580 ControlLogix® platform at their disposal. FactoryTalk Logix Echo simplifies the emulator experience by providing users the opportunity to download directly to FactoryTalk Logix Echo without modifications. The modern user interface (UI) paired with project downloads gives anyone the chance to learn how to use it. Having the emulation of the 5580 ControlLogix Ethernet port means that to other software, FactoryTalk Logix Echo looks like another controller, offering flexibility to expand your emulation to visualization or other controllers. Version 2 will be the first emulation platform to support safety controllers by introducing GuardLogix® 5580 controller catalogs. Users can download to GuardLogix controller types and emulate the execution of both Standard and Safety tasks in their project. The

In this update, we have added a new Solid Model option for the Cladding 5D operation. It works only if the part is loaded as a solid 3D model. If it is enabled, SprutCAM automatically sorts the passes by internal and external walls, depending on the Overlay side parameter. For example, 1st pass on the inner contour, 2nd pass on the outer contour, 3rd pass on the inner contour, 4th pass on the outer contour, and so on. If the Solid model parameter is turned off, then the sequence of passes along the contours can be different. For example, 1st pass along the inner contour, 2nd pass along the outer contour, 3rd pass again along the outer contour, 4th pass along the inner contour, and so on. What is made easier Added support for LNC robots in MachineMaker Added support for Regal robots in MachineMaker Added support for Universal robots in MachineMake What’s fixed Fixed a bug with

Uptake, a leader in industrial intelligence, announced the release of Fusion 3.1. Fusion 3.1 expands self-serve OT data exploration in a cyber-secure, single-tenant ADX cloud expanding its use for everyday decision making, and growing ease of ingestion for data science driven applications. “Operational technology data can offer incredible insights, but far too often its use is restricted by missing context and data access bottlenecks. Fusion 3.1 removes a critical barrier making basic OT data exploration accessible to everyone.“ Dave Shook, Chief Data Officer and Microsoft MVP. In addition to performance enhancements, Fusion 3.1 introduces the following new capabilities: Fusion OT Data Trender The brand new Fusion UI now features a Trender. In the past, Fusion users had to use an external product for trending - Time Series Insights Explorer. Now one of the most needed features for a Fusion AI, trending functionality for the analysis of Fusion data, has been incorporated into the base product.

Chaos launches V-Ray 6 for Revit, connecting two of architecture’s most trusted products into a single pipeline. With a new link to Enscape, architects and specialists can finally collaborate on photorealistic visualizations at any part of their process — without losing design intent. When paired with new tools for procedural clouds and remote collaboration, the best visuals in the world are only a few clicks away. “When we announced the Chaos Bridge, the first thing we heard was, ‘When can we get this for Revit?!’” said Ana Lyubenova, V-Ray for Revit product manager at Chaos. “Now, design decisions remain intact from conception to completion, so teams can iterate faster and not waste precious hours re-doing something that’s already been done.” Real-Time to Photoreal What starts in Enscape can now be rendered and edited in V-Ray 6, wherever it needs to be pushed to the highest levels of photorealism. This unbroken chain comes complete with support