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AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software driving digital transformation and sustainability, announced a global partnership with Alizent, a global leader in solutions enabling and accelerating the digital transformation of asset intensive industries. Aware of the increasing complexity that future industrial environments will require, AVEVA and Alizent combine forces to empower industries such as energy, power, water, food and beverage, and metals and mining to transform critical asset maintenance operations. The partnership will provide customers with bespoke solutions having enhanced confidentiality and cybersecurity, increased operability, and with continuous evolution over the long term. Leveraging seamless Industrial AI powered data within the cloud, users will be able to connect, automate, monitor and optimize industrial assets, processes and operations. Kim Custeau, Senior Vice President, APM and MES, AVEVA said, “Customers across asset-intensive industries are seeking holistic, innovative and tailor-made digital solutions that enable them to transform current business and asset-management processes to drive improved productivity and

L&T Technology Services Limited, a leading global pure-play engineering services company, announced that it has launched a next-generation IoT-based engineering practice on Digital Twins for the manufacturing and industrial sectors. LTTS has collaborated with Microsoft and Bentley Systems to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) that will address and accelerate the Digital Twin and Digital Thread requirements of new-age manufacturing companies. Microsoft Azure’s scalable and secure platform provides the tech backbone to support global organizations seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions. Azure Digital Twins uses IoT spatial intelligence to create a digital representation of physical environments, thereby gaining insight to drive better products, optimize operations and costs as well as create greater customer experiences.  By combining mechanical 3D simulation models with real control system logic, LTTS has been able to devise and create highly interconnected and dynamic digital twins for many manufacturers across the globe. The CoE, based in Chennai, India, will provide an opportunity for global

PTC has appointed Amar Hanspal to its Board of Directors, effective April 1, 2022. Hanspal brings more than 30 years of experience driving strategic and operational excellence through a combination of product expertise, strategic team leadership, and high-performance execution. Throughout his career, Hanspal has driven innovation and digital transformation at a global scale. Most recently, Hanspal served as Chief Executive Officer of Bright Machines, which focuses on factory automation combining robotics, machine vision and machine learning software. As Chief Product Officer and then co-CEO at Autodesk, Hanspal was instrumental in transitioning the company from an on-premises technology and software licensing model to a SaaS-based products and subscription model. He also drove investment into new growth areas for the company, including software for construction and digital fabrication.  "With his experience and his level of achievement, Amar brings a depth of knowledge about our market and our business that will be a tremendous asset to our

Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced that it has joined the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) on the governing board to help address the growing threat to the software supply chain. The OpenSSF is a cross-industry organization hosted at the Linux Foundation that brings together the world’s most important open source security initiatives to help identify and fix security vulnerabilities in open source software and develop improved tooling, training, research, best practices, and vulnerability disclosure practices. In addition to developing and contributing best practices for secure coding and software components for the projects under the OpenSSF banner, Wipro’s leadership and open source experts will join other members in setting direction through governance and working committees of the foundation. "We are thrilled to now count Wipro as a key strategic partner in the OpenSSF community," said Brian Behlendorf, General Manager, OpenSSF. "With their massive global technology team

Accenture will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. EDT tomorrow, March 17, to discuss its second-quarter fiscal year 2022 financial results. A news release containing these results will be issued before the call. To participate, please dial +1 (877) 692-8955 [+1 (234) 720-6979 outside the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada] and enter access code 6450548 approximately 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the call. The conference call will also be accessible live on the Investor Relations section of the Accenture Web site. A replay of the conference call will be available online at www.accenture.com beginning at 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday, March 17, 2022. The replay will also be available via telephone by dialing +1 (866) 207-1041 [+1 (402) 970-0847 outside the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada] and entering access code 6300496 from 11:00 a.m. EDT Thursday, March 17 through Wednesday, June 22, 2022. To view the original press release, please click here. Search

Deltek, the leading global provider of software and solutions for project-based businesses, highlighted several key factors that contributed to its record growth in 2021, including momentum with its Deltek Costpoint solution within the government contracting industry and in particular, small businesses. In 2021, Deltek saw an influx amongst small business customers, citing a nearly 20% increase in its SMB business since 2020 – with its Costpoint solution accounting for nearly a third of all new SMB deals. Deltek Costpoint is the industry’s leading solution that delivers more innovation and greater intelligence through an all-in-one system across the project lifecycle for government contractors. It centralizes the management of projects, people and finances, and scales seamlessly as needs grow, enabling small to enterprise size businesses to win new clients, manage project profitability and improve client satisfaction at every stage. Additionally, the integrated cloud offering enables the secure storage of data and is consistently enhanced to meet the most

BIMsmith, the leading building product research platform for building professionals, and Construction Specialties, a leading manufacturer of wall protection, wall covering, handrails, crash rails, and corner guards, have partnered to provide a new suite of Building Information Modeling (BIM) resources to the architecture and design community. The partnership involves the creation of digital product models for Construction Specialties. The new digital assets are custom-built to operate within Autodesk Revit, the leading BIM software platform. Representing key physical and performance data, the new models are pivotal to equipping architects, interior designers, engineers, and other professionals to design with products by Construction Specialties in their BIM projects.  As a result of the partnership, the Construction Specialties BIM Library is also now available to architects and designers worldwide on BIMsmith Market, the leading platform for building professionals to perform product research.  “For over 70 years, Construction Specialties has delivered products and services that make buildings better,”

Essig PLM, a pioneer in the development and implementation of product lifecycle management software solutions, today announced the availability of its ProductCenter Nexa PLM application. ProductCenter Nexa delivers a CAD agnostic solution approach for product development that enables companies to manage complex products and processes by connecting resources and information. With the addition of ProductCenter Nexa to its offering, Essig PLM leverages its extensive industry knowledge and delivers a reliable and scalable solution to facilitate the digital transformation initiatives of manufacturers worldwide. ProductCenter Nexa is a practical, cost-effective PLM solution with flexible license models that supports SMBs and global, multi-site organizations. “We are very excited and proud to announce the release of ProductCenter Nexa. Our team has worked extremely hard,” said Joe Daly, CEO of Essig PLM.  “We are committed to delivering software and service solutions that help companies manage and improve the design through manufacturing process. For small shops looking to gain control

Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. has released its third service pack for the Vectorworks 2022 product line focused on improvements to Vectorworks Cloud Services for all design customers. Other highlights include new storage integrations with Vectorworks Cloud, updates to Datasmith file exchange for a direct link to Twinmotion and support for .glTF within the MVR export from Vectorworks Spotlight. Significant Re-Engineering Gives Vectorworks Users a Better Experience on Cloud and Mobile Platforms Key enhancements to Vectorworks Cloud Services include a new storage integration with OneDrive, improved integrations with Google Drive and a direct connection of the Nomad mobile app to the iOS Files App. Customers can access and process files directly from their preferred cloud storage solution, making it easier to work with existing file structures and saving time. Additionally, region-specific cloud storage will improve Cloud sync speeds and file upload and download speeds. Customers will now also be able to use Redshift

I recently spent some “quality” “Zoom” time with my colleague, Jim Roche, who is CIMdata’s A&D Practice Director. Jim was excited to talk about his upcoming presentation, The Multi-View BOM Value Potential, at the CIMdata PLM Market & Industry Forum, which takes place over the late March to early April time frame as a live event in North America and as virtual events in EMEA. The first thing on the table in our discussion touched on the hype surrounding the Multi-view BOM For decades, the Digital Thread has been core to the PLM vision. The concept of linking multiple representations of a product, each tuned to the needs of various creators and consumers along the lifecycle, is powerful. With recent advances in PLM technology, enablement of the Digital Thread has become technically possible, even for industries producing complex products, such as automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, military vehicles, and medical devices, where quality is