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This free educational webinar will look at the business benefits of a multi-view BOM approach. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA March 8, 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a free educational webinar, “The Value Potential of Multi-view Bill of Materials.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 7, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour. Adopting a Multi-view Bill of Materials approach has value potential. In the Multi-view BOM approach, a consolidated information resource contains all the information and maintains all the relationships between data elements that are needed to support the perspectives of multiple communities, such as product, manufacturing, and service engineering. The basis of value with this approach is automated reconciliation and synchronization across domain views that can be created and managed with optimal autonomy. CIMdata’s research and industrial consulting activities have revealed that commercial PLM solutions have advanced to

Infor, the industry cloud company, announced that battery pioneer Britishvolt, the UK’s foremost investor in battery cell technologies and research and development, has selected Infor CloudSuite Automotive to manage business operations at its £3.8 billion, 38 gigawatt hours (GWh) gigaplant in Cambois, Northumberland, UK. 2022 will see phase one of the software rollout, comprising finance, procurement and HR, with phase two planned to complete in 2023 and encompass production, planning, inventory and warehousing, with 300 core enterprise resource planning (ERP) users supporting 3,000 employees. Britishvolt recently announced backing for its gigaplant from the UK government’s Automotive Transformation Fund, as well as an agreement with strategic partner Glencore to build a battery recycling ecosystem in the UK. Committed to ensuring maximum performance of all manufacturing and nonmanufacturing systems, Britishvolt undertook a thorough assessment of the market and a competitive tender process before choosing Infor CloudSuite Automotive. Britishvolt chose Infor CloudSuite Automotive for its out-of-the-box industry-specific capabilities, including the

Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, announced its collaboration with Telenor Norway, Telenor’s wholly owned Norwegian telecommunications operator, to successfully transform its finance and supply chain operations. Infosys was chosen to assist Telenor Norway on this ERP transformation program for its innovative and standardized solutions, reusable assets, skilled talent pool, and ability to accelerate solution deployment. In collaboration with Telenor Norway’s Business & IT teams, Infosys has implemented a future-proof, standardized Oracle Cloud ERP solution to help migrate from a legacy ERP system to enhance business agility and operational efficiency. The solution has been implemented across 10 Telenor entities in a record time of 9 months including modules like R2R (Record to Report), A2R (Acquire to Retire), P2P (Procure to Pay), O2C (Order to Cash) etc. Commenting on the successful ERP implementation, Terje Borge, CFO, Telenor Norway, said, “Telenor Norway needs to continuously raise the bar in its operational performance

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been selected as a strategic partner by Western Power, a state government-owned energy company, to assist in digitally transforming its software systems as part of the business’s drive to deliver a cleaner and more resilient energy supply to West Australians. Under the multi-year partnership, TCS has been selected as the primary systems integrator across multiple domains including asset management and network operations as well as secondary systems integrator for asset operations, finance, and the corporate domain. TCS will provide services that will help underpin Western Power’s commitment to the continual improvement towards network reliability, productivity of field services teams, and safety for customers. More broadly, the TCS partnership will support Western Power’s corporate strategy towards a modular grid, that is innovative and flexible through new tech plugs in and out of the grid. Western Power’s innovative changes in the operation of the grid will unlock future opportunities

Agiloft, the global standard in no-code contract lifecycle management (CLM), announced an alliance with HBR, a consulting firm focused on the legal industry, aimed at helping legal teams improve contract management operations, increase revenue, and gain insights into contract data. HBR Consulting provides law firms and corporate law departments with strategic guidance, operational improvement, and technology solutions that drive innovation while managing cost and mitigating risk. This mutually beneficial partnership enables clients to tap into HBR’s extensive expertise to achieve the best outcomes as they digitally transform their contract processes through the implementation of Agiloft. With contracts governing relationships, expenditure, and revenue across the enterprise, companies are realizing the importance of a CLM system to streamline the complex workflows surrounding the contract processes to save time, reduce cost, mitigate risk, and gain visibility into data essential to the business. HBR’s experience working with legal and business teams helps clients clearly define their CLM strategy,

Ansys announced it is collaborating with GF to deliver innovative, unique, and feature-rich solutions to solve some of the biggest challenges facing data centers today. With data being generated at a record pace, causing a surge of power consumption in data centers globally, there is an ever-increasing need for innovative solutions to accelerate data transmission while optimizing energy efficiency. To meet such rising demands, GF is focused on developing groundbreaking semiconductor solutions that leverage the potential of photons — instead of electrons — to transfer and move data, maintaining GF’s position as a leader in the rapidly growing optical networking space. GF Fotonix is GF’s next generation, widely disruptive, monolithic platform. GF Fotonix is the first in the industry to combine its differentiated 300mm photonics and RF-CMOS features on a silicon wafer, delivering best-in-class performance at scale. “Our engagement with Ansys is another example of how GF is partnering with the ecosystem leaders to

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced a collaboration with GlobalFoundries (GF) aimed at speeding silicon photonics IC development for 5G communications, hyperscale computing, healthcare, automotive, IoT and aerospace systems. Through this collaboration, the Cadence® photonics solution, an integrated electronic/photonic design automation environment (EPDA), has been optimized for the new GF Fotonix™ platform, its next-generation, widely disruptive, monolithic platform that is the first in the industry to combine its differentiated 300mm photonics and RF-CMOS features on a silicon wafer, delivering best-in-class performance at scale. The comprehensive Cadence photonics solution, which supports the GF Fotonix platform, consists of the Cadence Virtuoso® IC Design Platform, the Virtuoso Photonics Platform, the Spectre® Simulation Platform and the Voltus™-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution, which seamlessly integrate with other Cadence products and solutions. The solution offers mutual customers a production-proven design platform for electronic/photonic design, simulation and analysis, and includes a robust set of features and APIs for generating and editing complex

Kubotek3D, a leading supply chain software provider, announced the 2022 SP1 service pack release of the KeyCreator software products. This release provides updates to many CAD file translators, several new functions and options, and dozens of fixes. Updated CAD TranslatorsReading of CAD files in KeyCreator software has been updated to support the latest versions of seven major CAD file formats: Dassault Systèmes (DS) CATIA V5 R2022x (R32) DS SolidWorks 2022 DS Spatial ACIS 2022 Siemens Digital Industries Software (SDIS) NX Series 1980 (through 2000 build) SDIS Parasolid 34 SDIS Solid Edge 2022 SDIS/ISO JT 10.7 JT support in the Max tier of KeyCreator Pro has been expanded to support polygon mesh entities. Support for the 10.7 version of the JT format in this release is limited to the KeyCreator Prime and Drafting products. Support for CATIA V5 R2022 is limited to KeyCreator Pro. Standard Components Enhancement The 2022 SP1 release of KeyCreator Pro has added a new function which connects to

Elysium has released CADfeature 17.0 M1. Key Enhancement Support New CAD Version CAD Versions added in 17.0 M1 Supported Versions Solid Edge 2022 2019 – 2022 To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Elysium on CIMdata.com

Synopsys, Inc. announced that the Synopsys OptoCompiler™ solution will enable designers to leverage the new GlobalFoundries (GF) silicon photonics platform. GF's next generation, widely disruptive, monolithic platform, GF Fotonix™, is the first in the industry to combine its differentiated 300mm photonics and RF-CMOS features on a silicon wafer, delivering best-in-class performance at scale. OptoCompiler is the foundation of Synopsys' unified electronic and photonic design platform and is a complete end-to-end design, verification and signoff solution for photonic ICs. OptoCompiler combines mature and dedicated photonic technology with industry-leading simulation and physical verification tools to enable engineers to design and verify complex photonic ICs quickly and accurately. "With the extremely large amounts of data and high-power consumption, there is a need for innovative solutions to move data faster and more efficiently," said Mike Cadigan, senior vice president for Customer Design Enablement at GlobalFoundries. "GF Fotonix will help to solve these issues and we welcome Synopsys' support for our new platform.