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 PDF Key Takeaways Effectively addressing sustainability factors throughout the product lifecycle is becoming a critical business imperative. Customers increasingly expect products—and the processes behind their development, delivery, and operation—to align with ever more stringent sustainability standards. Companies that embed sustainability evaluations early in their development process and across their supply chain will have a competitive advantage in the marketplace, improve their efficiency and resiliency, and meet sustainability goals, which leads to long-term profitability Manufacturers across all industries need to adopt an integrated approach to calculating both cost and carbon footprint earlier in their design and development processes. Teamcenter Product Cost Management provides the ability to make better decisions based on cost and carbon insights across the extended enterprise, which can lead to greater efficiencies, reduced product cost and carbon footprint, and greater resiliency. Siemens solutions for integrated Design, Manufacturing and Supply Chain are designed to enable companies to achieve better end-to-end sustainability and carbon footprint visibility

Centric Software® is delighted to announce the release of a success story featuring its customer, OTS, a leading Italian manufacturing company. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and related goods like cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Founded over 20 years ago, OTS is headquartered in Piove di Sacco, Italy. Specializing in ready-to-wear clothing, OTS today serves high-end clients such as Kering and the LVMH Group, offering end-to-end services from design to the finished product. Renowned for its professionalism, reliability, precision, and commitment to sustainability, OTS has earned the trust and admiration of the world’s most prestigious fashion brands. In the past few years, OTS has seen exponential growth with increasing numbers of samples in the range of thousands

Oracle Corporation announced fiscal 2025 Q2 results. Total quarterly revenues were up 9% year-over-year, in both USD and constant currency, to $14.1 billion. Cloud services and license support revenues were up 12% year-over-year, in both USD and constant currency, to $10.8 billion. Cloud license and on-premise license revenues were up 1% in USD and up 3% in constant currency, to $1.2 billion. Q2 GAAP operating income was $4.2 billion. Non-GAAP operating income was $6.1 billion, up 10% in both USD and constant currency. GAAP operating margin was 30%, and non-GAAP operating margin was 43%. GAAP net income was $3.2 billion. Non-GAAP net income was $4.2 billion, up 12% in both USD and constant currency. Q2 GAAP earnings per share was $1.10, up 24% in USD and up 23% in constant currency, while non-GAAP earnings per share was $1.47, up 10% in both USD and constant currency. Short-term deferred revenues were $9.4 billion.

Infor, the industry cloud complete company, today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Consumer Goods Competency status. As an AWS Partner, Infor has earned the AWS Consumer Goods Competency designation, which recognizes its expertise in delivering validated solutions to help consumer goods brands overcome operational challenges within the industry. By leveraging deep industry knowledge and proven AWS solutions, Infor empowers clients to streamline their operating models and achieve greater efficiency at scale. Infor has achieved the AWS Consumer Goods Competency, distinguishing itself as a provider that has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success. This competency showcases Infor’s ability to support customers in reinventing how they develop, manufacture, distribute, and market their products to manage changing consumer demands and heightened competition. Infor is well-equipped to handle challenges for its customers by providing curated solutions that drive innovation and transform operating models. By leveraging Infor's expertise and solutions, consumer

IBM has unveiled breakthrough research in optics technology that could dramatically improve how data centers train and run generative AI models. Researchers have pioneered a new process for co-packaged optics (CPO), the next generation of optics technology, to enable connectivity within data centers at the speed of light through optics to complement existing short reach electrical wires. By designing and assembling the first publicly announced successful polymer optical waveguide (PWG) to power this technology, IBM researchers have shown how CPO will redefine the way the computing industry transmits high-bandwidth data between chips, circuit boards, and servers. Today, fiber optic technology carries data at high speeds across long distances, managing nearly all the world's commerce and communications traffic with light instead of electricity. Although data centers use fiber optics for their external communications networks, racks in data centers still predominantly run communications on copper-based electrical wires. These wires connect GPU accelerators that

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 10 December 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a whitepaper titled “Critical Digital Transformation Elements: Leveraging MCAD consolidation to improve digital transformation results” and a related commentary “Supercharge Digital Transformation by Consolidating CAD to NX.” The white paper discusses how integrating Mechanical Computer-Aided Design (MCAD) improvements with digital transformation initiatives can yield significant business benefits. It underscores the importance of MCAD data in driving these initiatives. It also highlights the challenges of using multiple MCAD systems, including increased complexity, costs, and risks in the product development lifecycle. Key points addressed include: Streamlining Engineering and Design Workflows: Essential for improving process efficiency, enhancing traceability, and promoting the reuse of data and designs. Role of Modern MCAD Software: Siemens NX™, part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, is highlighted for its capabilities in managing complex engineering, design, and manufacturing tasks across various industries. Strategic

 PDF Key Takeaways Mechanical CAD data migration has been a very difficult problem for decades. MultiCAD support is needed sometimes, but a single CAD solution is much more efficient and effective. CAD data is foundational to digital transformation improvements, and using multiple CAD solutions adds complexity, cost, and risk to product design and realization processes. The Siemens Content Migration Manager for CAD Solutions (CMM) enhances NX’s utility by maximizing the transfer of design intelligence from legacy CAD data to support the reuse of CAD models, drawings, and designs, thereby enriching the digital transformation initiative. Introduction Engineers have been using mechanical CAD software for over 50 years to develop product designs. Techniques have evolved from 2D wireframe to parametric 3D models during the first 30 years, and over the past 20 or so years, capabilities have been extended and optimizations implemented. Current modeling kernels can create virtually any shape, addressing issues that vexed developers for years, such as

L'industrie du futur et la digitalisation des entreprises industrielles font émerger des solutions informatiques qui n'étaient pas très connues il y a 10 ans : les solutions PLM. Que sont-elles, qu'apportent-elles, en quoi ces solutions sont-elles stratégiques pour les entreprises, comment s'articulent-elles avec les ERP, qui en sont les principaux acteurs ? Qu'est-ce qu'une solution PLM ? Pour développer, produire et entretenir un produit, différentes fonctions et organisations d’une entreprise doivent collaborer : la R&D d'abord, puis le bureau d'études, puis le bureau des méthodes, les achats, la production, la qualité, le marketing, la maintenance, etc. Il y a encore quelques années, tous ces départements intervenaient successivement et séparément, et organisaient des échanges d'informations pour permettre à chaque département de travailler sur la bonne version du produit, au sein de son propre cycle de la chaîne de valeur (R&D ; Production et ventes ; Maintenance et support). Par exemple, il fallait s'assurer que

The industry of the future and the digitalization of industrial companies are bringing to the forefront information technology solutions that were not very well known 10 years ago: PLM solutions. What are they, what do they bring, why are they strategic, how do they coordinate with ERPs, and who are the main players? What is a PLM Solution? To develop, produce, and maintain a product, different functions, and organizations collaborate: R&D first, then the design office, then the methods office, purchasing, production, quality, marketing, maintenance, etc. Until a few years ago, all these departments intervened successively and separately, and were the subject of information exchanges that all had to be synchronized to ensure that each department was working on the right version of the product within their part of the value chain (R&D; production and sales; maintenance and support). For example, it was necessary to ensure that when purchasing was looking for a

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the trusted global leader in computing benchmarks, today announced the availability of the SPECworkstation 4.0 benchmark, a major update to SPEC’s comprehensive tool designed to measure all key aspects of workstation performance. This significant upgrade from version 3.1 incorporates cutting-edge features to keep pace with the latest workstation hardware and the evolving demands of professional applications, including the increasing reliance on data analytics, AI and machine learning (ML). The new SPECworkstation 4.0 benchmark provides a robust, real-world measure of CPU, graphics, accelerator, and disk performance, ensuring professionals have the data they need to make informed decisions about their hardware investments. The benchmark caters to the diverse needs of engineers, scientists, and developers who rely on workstation hardware for daily tasks. It includes real-world applications like Blender, Handbrake, LLVM and more, providing a comprehensive performance measure across seven different industry verticals, each focusing on specific use