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3D Systems, the leading additive manufacturing solutions provider, and the Saudi Arabian Industrial Investments Company (Dussur) have signed an agreement intended to expand the use of additive manufacturing (AM) within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and surrounding geographies, including the Middle East and North Africa. The announcement was made during a ceremony in Riyadh on March 29, 2022. The purpose of the new Joint Venture is to enable the development of Saudi Arabia's domestic additive manufacturing production capabilities, consistent with the Kingdom’s ‘Vision 2030,’ which is focused on diversification of the economy and long-term sustainability. The Center for Innovation and Additive Manufacturing will initially focus on energy, with planned expansions into other industrial sectors as well as healthcare solutions. Commenting on the new Joint Venture, Dr. Jeffery Graves, president and CEO, 3D Systems said, “Our partnership with Dussur will accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing in the region, enabling diversification of

CADENAS expert actively contributes to the German BIM standardization roadmap as co-author CADENAS with its expertise actively contributed as co-author to the German standardization roadmap BIM, which was published at the end of 2021. The strategic plan was developed on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) by about 70 experts from different industries. It defines the future direction of standardization in the field of BIM. "The BIM standardization roadmap is an important milestone and trendsetting for the digital transformation of the entire construction industry," says Karsten Spieß, head of data management MEP/BIM, at CADENAS GmbH. Recommended actions for standardization & digitization for component manufacturers The BIM standardization roadmap identifies the prerequisites for the broad application of BIM in practice as well as a framework for proactive, strategic and targeted standardization in this future field. The basic prerequisite for functioning Building Information Modeling (BIM) that can be applied

Capgemini announced a multi-year-long engagement with Wharton’s Venture Lab to identify and mitigate energy transition and sustainability challenges as part of the Snider Consulting Center. This initiative brings together undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania with experts from Capgemini’s Energy and Utilities unit. The groups will explore sustainability solutions across cloud technology, analytics, and intelligent operations and how to expand greenhouse gas reduction initiatives. Capgemini’s work with Snider Consulting marks the first engagement with Wharton’s entrepreneurship center. As part of the collaboration, students will work with Capgemini solution architects to identify sustainability challenges across numerous global organizations and create a supporting solutions roadmap based on interviews with Penn alumni and Capgemini clients. The joint roadmap will outline approaches to improving data in sustainability reporting, operationalizing IT, and enhancing cybersecurity measures in shared energy grids through IoT, AI, and cloud technology. “As the entrepreneurship and innovation hub for the University of Pennsylvania, we are excited to

IFS, the global cloud software company, announced that Hg, a leading software and services investor, has agreed to become a significant minority shareholder in IFS and WorkWave. Long-term investor EQT remains the majority shareholder, with Hg and TA Associates as significant minority shareholders. The transaction values IFS and WorkWave at $10bln USD and sets both companies up to further grow their position as leading players in growing sectors. IFS is the software vendor for organizations who want to differentiate on service. The IFS Cloud platform is fully composable, with a broad industry depth, and packed with innovation so that companies can be their best when it matters to their customers — at the Moment of Service. With thousands of the world’s most respected brands as customers, IFS is a recognized provider across multiple sectors including Service Management (both Field Service Management and Enterprise Service Management), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Enterprise Resource Planning

Lantek, a multinational company that develops and markets CAD-CAM/MES/ERP solutions and pioneer in the digitization of companies in the sheet metal sector, once again consolidates its leading position in the market after announcing its turnover for 2021. Despite the pandemic, the company has set a record turnover of 26.6 million euros, increasing sales to machine tool manufacturers by 40%.  2020 was a record year record for the company, despite the Covid-19 crisis and its tough restrictive measures. Now, in 2021 in the face of the continued pandemic, the Spanish multinational has gone on to set a further all-time sales record, achieving total growth of 26% above 2020 levels. The number of active customers at the end of the year exceeded 29,000, with 3,400 new customers across 100 countries during 2021. International leadership Lantek continues to strengthen its growth in international markets with an increase in sales volume of 42% in Asia, 13% in America and 19% in the

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that Cheops Technology, one of the leading cloud computing and service providers in France, has selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to introduce a new flexible, secure cloud storage service for its SMB and healthcare customers. The new offering expands Cheops Technology’s iCod® portfolio of managed cloud services to meet increased demand from end customers to scale services to support mission-critical data growth. Cheops Technology specializes in delivering modernized infrastructure and technologies, cloud services and network security to a range of SMB and healthcare customers. Over the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered increased demand from its customers for new, reliable services that can scale and be flexible to support their mission-critical data growth. To address this, Cheops Technology wanted to find a way to efficiently and quickly expand its service catalogue and onboard new customers, without delays. Additionally, Cheops Technology wanted to expand and scale

Infor, the industry cloud company, announced that the family-owned Triballat Noyal group, leader in organic ultra-fresh products and pioneer of soy in France, has deployed Infor M3. The adoption of a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is part of a large-scale project to overhaul its information systems and its teams. The Triballat Noyal family group was founded in 1951, following the takeover of a small dairy company in Noyal sur Vilaine, near Rennes. Strongly rooted in pillar values for three generations, the company has been committed to organic, sustainable and local farming methods since the 1970s, and is a pioneer in the ethical and sustainable food industry. Today, the group has more than 1,300 employees spread across 17 sites in France and achieved a turnover of €335 million in 2020. Among the group's flagship brands are Sojasun, Vrai, Petit Billy, Merzer and Terres et Céréales. Due to the development of its activities in France and neighbouring Spain,

IFS, the global cloud enterprise software company, announced the Japan Airlines maintenance and engineering subsidiary, JAL Engineering Co., Ltd., has selected IFS to support fleet-wide long range maintenance planning. The IFS solution, to be deployed in the cloud, will provide long range planners with the unified information insights they need to quickly develop and share regulatory-compliant fleet maintenance plans that best support aircraft availability, task yield, and hangar utilization for nearly 200 aircraft. The IFS fleet planning solution replaces a JAL Engineering Co., Ltd. legacy fleet maintenance planning process that required extensive manual intervention. The IFS solution will allow the engineering team to manage more aircraft with reduced human intervention due to an efficient user experience, reduction in manual processes, real-time alerts, and automated processes. Deployed in the cloud, IFS’s planning and maintenance solution will improve visibility across the organization by providing real time planning updates. JAL Engineering Co., Ltd. staff will now be

CGS, a global provider of business applications, enterprise learning and outsourcing services, today announced Luca Faloni, a provider of exceptional Italian craftsmanship and style, has selected the award-winning, industry-leading BlueCherry® Enterprise Suite as its end-to-end ERP and PLM solution to support and expand its aggressive global growth strategy. “Our dream since day one has been to provide everyone – regardless of geography – with superior Italian craftsmanship from local artisans, who take exceptional pride in everything from their fabrics to their style,” said Phillipe Mensh, CEO for Luca Faloni. “Your business is only as efficient as the systems you use to manage and support it. We chose CGS not only for BlueCherry Enterprise Suite and their focused expertise in fashion and apparel, but also for their best-in-class implementation team. This combination of product, people and process is exactly what’s needed in a partner – one with a global footprint, yet feet on the

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company at the forefront of creating and building the future of space transportation and infrastructure for Low Earth orbit (LEO) commercialization, has implemented Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of software and services as the foundation of its next-generation digital engineering program. The company is implementing Xcelerator to establish a fully digital environment from engineering to manufacturing through sustainment, which will help realize goals to develop the future of space transportation, commercial space destination and infrastructure, and create enabling technologies that will build a vibrant, growing and accessible commercial space economy. “At Sierra Space, we are building a platform in space that will be the catalyst for the next breakthrough innovations to benefit life on Earth. Our revolutionary new space platform is being developed using a next generation digital engineering environment that we’ve created in collaboration with Siemens,” Tom Vice, CEO, Sierra