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Long-term Ansys customer Vestas extended its use of Ansys simulation across its entire product chain to help it create safer wind turbine control solutions. Ansys solutions enabled a more complex wind turbine control system design that delivers additional value and numerous competitive advantages to Vestas customers in the race to net zero.  Wind turbine controllers are responsible for optimizing power performance and preventing component damage across the range of wind conditions. Instead of relying on third-party programmable logic controllers (PLCs), Vestas wanted to integrate more safety capabilities into a unique system design, with the flexibility to execute safety functions in more distributed, complex ways. To be successful, the Vestas team needed to address complex sensor fusion (merging data from multiple sensors) and create control algorithms requiring more system power. Vestas used Ansys SCADE’s Model-Based Software Development Environment to implement wind turbine controllers that successfully met its unique system design and certification requirements. SCADE supports product-agnostic variant

 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that it was selected to participate in the Microsoft Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes (RAMP) Phase II initiative. The RAMP program is an initiative within the Department of Defense (DoD) that NSWC Crane facilitates through the Strategic & Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S2MARTS) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) powered by National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL). The initiative focuses on the advancement of State-of-the-Art (SOTA), secure microelectronics design methods. As part of the Phase II program, Cadence is providing best practice recommendations and security integrations with its digital and verification design flows for advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs from select defense industrial base prototype designs. The plan is to have the secure design environment integrated into the Microsoft Azure-based deployment infrastructure to support state-of-the-art microelectronics development for mission-critical aerospace and defense applications. The RAMP program focuses on utilizing commercial best practices to establish design requirements for new and

Centric Software® , the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market leader, is celebrating its latest partnerships with three successful companies in India. 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. Retailer Trent Limited, apparel brand Ethnicity and jewelry manufacturer Derewala have become the first three companies in India to harness Centric PLM, the intuitive, configurable, easy to use, mobile, cloud-based PLM software. All three companies cited spreadsheet chaos, a widespread challenge across the industry, as a main driver for adopting PLM. Searching through numerous spreadsheets, files in multiple emails and out-of-date versions will be a thing of the past. With Centric PLM, all product development information can be found in a single, digital hub, accessible to all departments when they need it. Kripya, Centric’s trusted

Matterport, Inc., the leading spatial data company driving the digital transformation of the built world, announced that Damen Shipyards Group (“Damen”), a Dutch-owned shipbuilding company with operations in 120 countries and delivering 175 vessels annually, has adopted Matterport digital twins to facilitate remote collaboration for internal and external stakeholders. With access to Matterport’s rich, dimensionally accurate data, Damen has applied an innovative approach to drive customer satisfaction.  “When we discovered Matterport, we quickly realized the power of the digital twin to unlock collaboration and engagement with our designers and our customers,” said Jan-Jaap Eits, Assistant Project Manager at Damen Shipyards. “Today, we use Matterport to allow our customers to remotely review and inspect every compartment and detail of a vessel within a 3D space. Internally, our design and engineering teams have access to detailed measurements and layouts to further enable them to work more efficiently and avoid costly and time-consuming site

Infor, the industry cloud company, has announced that Galva Coat Industries LLC, a landmark plant in the industrial area of Abu Dhabi that produces a wide range of steel products, has selected Infor CloudSuite Industrial, a powerful cloud-based, industry-focused, enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, to enable the digitalization of the production process and delivery, in its effort to become the leading producer of lighting poles and guard rails across the region. Based in Abu Dhabi’s Musaffah industrial area, Galva Coat was founded in 1995 and specializes in the design, engineering and manufacture of various steel products. Galva Coat has been the pioneer and the market leader in the field of lighting poles in the UAE and Middle East for 25 years. The organization is widely recognized for its unmatched value system quality and relentless pursuit of excellence. Galva Coat uses highly sophisticated advanced technology, modern production facilities and skilled staff. Galva Coat has decided

Intech Additive Solutions partners with and licenses Polygonica from MachineWorks to enhance their Metal 3D Printing Ecosystem. Intech is home to a comprehensive range of Metal 3D Printers – iFusion SF1, iFusion MF, and iFusion LF along with its build preparation software, AMBuilder, and parameter optimization software, AMOptoMet. One of the main issues regularly faced in metal printing is compensating for part deviations that occur during the print process. MachineWorks’ Polygonica has a number of advanced mesh algorithms that help AMBuilder tackle this complex issue in a reliable and robust way. This ensures the successful build of the part with minimal deviations. “We are of course very pleased to announce that Intech is our second Polygonica customer in India. Moreover, we are very excited to be working with Intech. Their undoubted knowledge and experience in the metal additive industry will help the Polygonica team meet the ever more demanding requirements of handling

Microsoft has chosen to adopt the RISE with SAP solution on Microsoft Cloud, shifting the company’s SAP ERP software systems to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition. RISE with SAP will allow Microsoft to deploy new capabilities and technologies faster and run its business on a flexible cloud-first solution that is integrated with the other cloud solutions from SAP that Microsoft uses. Microsoft is the first public cloud provider to adopt RISE with SAP internally to transform some of its large SAP ERP deployments. The decision to adopt RISE with SAP builds on its wide adoption of SAP solutions. These include SAP SuccessFactors solutions, the SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution, SAP Business Technology Platform and other SAP solutions running on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft’s implementation of RISE with SAP will deepen Microsoft’s expertise with SAP solutions and establish best practices that can be shared to the benefit its and SAP’s joint

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that Trinchero Family Estates (TFE), a family-owned global wine and spirits producer, transformed and modernized its expanding business with the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. The initiative was completed in strong collaboration with PKA Technologies Inc., a HPE Platinum channel partner. “Our customers turn to the HPE GreenLake platform, that is underpinned by HPE’s powerful compute technologies, for its data-first, unified experience that allows them to modernize their organization by choosing and scaling cloud services based on their business goals,” said Neil MacDonald, senior vice president and general manager, Compute, at HPE. “We are honored to have collaborated with one of our key channel partners, PKA Technologies, to accelerate Trinchero Family Estates’ digital transformation for its worldwide wine and spirits operation and unlock faster value using composable compute services in one cloud platform.” Trinchero Family Estates embraces unprecedented online demands in the wake of COVID-19Family-owned Trinchero Family Estates (TFE) is based in Napa

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that it has been selected by Sodexo, the France-headquartered world leader in quality of life services, to transform and consolidate its legacy ERP estate on the TCS ERP on Cloud platform, with SAP SoH on Microsoft Azure, to drive its future growth. Sodexo’s rapid global expansion had resulted in a fragmented ERP estate on a legacy on-premise infrastructure, with disparate business processes across local instances across over seven countries. Additionally, the governance and technical support were localized, resulting in increased risk and fragility. To harmonize its operations and to enhance security, agility and operational resilience, Sodexo wished to consolidate this estate and make it future ready. TCS designed an ERP transformation roadmap incorporating best-in-class process designs and leveraging its strong partnership ecosystem. The new solution has upgraded the legacy estate, and modernized the underlying infrastructure by consolidating the disparate local instances onto the TCS ERP on Cloud

Logility, Inc., a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, announced stichd, a Netherlands-based product licensing company and division of PUMA, has chosen the Logility Digital Supply Chain Platform to support its ambitious growth strategy.  “Growth is our top priority. To continue achieving our goals, it was critical to find a planning platform with more sophisticated forecasting and clear visibility capabilities, but that is also easy for our employees to use,” said Rogier Wijnhoven, COO, stichd. “Logility not only had the technology we needed, but the apparel industry expertise and forward-looking vision we were looking for in a partner.”  stichd specializes in the design, production and distribution of high-quality bodywear, legwear, swimwear, and fanwear. As the company looks to expand, both in-store and online, demand volatility and complexity are increasing. In order to continue driving product availability while streamlining inventory, stichd needed a technology partner that can optimize working