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Centric Software^® is thrilled to announce the release of Centric AI Fashion Inspiration™ for emerging brands, a generative AI image tool for fast-growing companies in apparel, footwear and accessories. 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.

Emerging brands in the apparel industry face unique challenges. To stay competitive, they must rapidly introduce new products, often with limited resources. Design...

Kubotek Kosmos, a leader in engineering and manufacturing geometric software technology, today announced the release of KeyCreator 2025 Service Pack 1.

The newly released service pack upgrades several CAD translators to the latest versions. Coincidently, all three are related to Siemens Digital Industries Software products. Parasolid X_T reading and writing has been extended to support version 37. Support for JT files now covers read of the latest version 10.10. Read capabilities for NX 3D and drawing files are now handling the 2406 file format.

One noteworthy user-requested enhancement to PDF export has been introduced in this minor release. A new option in...

Centric Software^® is pleased to announce that outdoor brand and retailer Trespass is now executing their allocation and replenishment planning with Centric Planning™. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, price and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, consumer electronics, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Trespass is one of the UK’s most successful outdoor clothing brands retailing a wide range of products from specialist performance clothing to outdoor sports equipment, selling internationally and exporting to over 60 countries.

With Centric Planning now...

PTC today announced that it has appointed Robert Dahdah as Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer.

Dahdah joins PTC from Microsoft, where he served as Corporate Vice President of Global Healthcare and Life Sciences. Dahdah will be responsible for global sales and customer success for PTC’s Digital Thread group and the overall execution of the company’s vertical-focused go-to-market strategy.

“Rob is an accomplished go-to-market leader with a proven track record of delivering results, building winning teams, and creating a great customer experience,” said Neil Barua, President and CEO, PTC. “We look forward to Rob bringing focus, speed, and accountability to our Digital...

This series of four global events provides the first look at CIMdata’s analysis of 2024’s PLM market results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 19 November 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, today announces “Model-Based Systems Engineering: Optimizing the Systems of Systems” as the theme for its 2025 PLM Market & Industry Forum event series.

The event series will frame the topic of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and explore how industries are adapting to the rising adoption of MBSE beyond aerospace and defense, as well as automotive.

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This free educational webinar will review the significant events in the PLM economy in 2024 and help attendees make sense of them.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA November 12, 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The State of the PLM Economy.” This eagerly awaited annual webinar will take place on Thursday, December 12, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

If there is one constant in the PLM Economy, it is never dull. In this webinar,...

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Key Takeaways

• Oracle has built deep partnerships with the leading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers—AWS, Microsoft, and Google—to better support multi-cloud and hybrid enterprise architectures.
• After their success using the Redwood design system to revamp their Human Capital Management (HCM) offerings, Oracle accelerated Redwood’s application to their supply chain management (SCM) offerings, which include their product lifecycle management (PLM) capabilities.
• Redwood is essential to embed Oracle’s extensive artificial intelligence capabilities in their applications portfolio, including supporting user extensions of generative AI (GenAI) use cases. Oracle delivered over 100 AI use cases last year...

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GoEngineer Cloud PLM as a Service

Key Takeaways

• Companies of all sizes must effectively manage their vital intellectual property, their product designs, across their lifecycle.
• Many companies use ad hoc data management approaches while others implemented on-premises data and process management solutions to help manage their files, bills of material (BOMs), and support configuration management.
• Cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions offer more flexibility in licensing, reduce in-house support requirements, and can be expanded to more users and additional capabilities as business needs demand.
• Based on Dassault Systèmes expansive 3DEXPERIENCE platform, GoEngineer’s Cloud PLM Program is...

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Hexagon Integrates Multi-Discipline Battery Physics with Manufacturing

Key Takeaways

• Companies need new, robust digital solutions that enable the design, packaging, and manufacturing of the latest innovative battery subsystems.
• New battery technologies are emerging and evolving faster due to improved understanding as innovative options are assessed using advanced simulations.
• Hexagon provides simulation capabilities that leverage electrochemistry, physics, and test data, designed to aid battery engineers to innovate across all physics, from anode and cathode details to final battery packaging into products.
• Hexagon also provides virtual manufacturing, inspection, and calibration solutions that accelerate manufacturing and reduce scrap rates.
• Furthermore,...

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Applying new technologies to accelerate design, development, and decision-making

Key Takeaways

• The Retail Footwear and Apparel (RFA) industry is under increasing pressure to accelerate the design of seasonal releases and address sustainability issues across the entire value chain.
• Automated and visual processes are becoming key to successfully meet the challenges.
• Success requires businesses in the RFA industry to adopt new technologies and working paradigms to meet the increasing speed of change and the need for personalized offerings in a sustainable manner.
• RFA industry companies must optimize processes through digitally-driven decision-making and automation with reduced executive (physical)...