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Robert H. Chapman, Chairman and CEO, has announced that Tim Sullivan has been appointed to Barry-Wehmiller’s Board of Directors. A 25-year team member of the $2 billion global capital equipment and engineering solutions firm, Sullivan is currently Group President of two of its largest divisions, BW Papersystems and Paper Converting Machine Company. In addition to his role with Barry-Wehmiller, Sullivan is a member of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Notre Dame and an MBA from UCLA. “Tim has been instrumental in helping us grow from a $20 million single-market business into the thriving $2 billion and growing organization that we are today,” said Chapman. “His vast organizational knowledge, strategic thinking capabilities, and deep commitment to our Truly Human Leadership vision will ensure that Barry-Wehmiller remains an industry leader that offers fulfilling work for its team members while creating value for all

Tata Consultancy Services, a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been awarded Business Superbrands status for 2015, following the most recent evaluation of the long-running annual survey, which has been identifying the UK’s leading business-to-business brands since 2001. The process was managed by The Centre for Brand Analysis (TCBA) and questioned 2,000 individual business professionals from across the UK as well as the independent and voluntary Business Superbrands Council. The three audiences judged more than 1,200 brands, which they assessed on three key criteria: quality, reliability and distinction. Brands do not apply or pay to be considered for Superbrands status. TCS has established a strong reputation for its ability to deliver industry-leading IT services and digital transformation projects across a wide range of sectors in the UK. The company’s UK clients have ranked TCS number one for customer satisfaction for the second consecutive year in a major survey

NGC® today announced that Mark Burstein, president of sales, marketing and R&D for NGC, is a winner of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 2015 "Pros to Know" awards. The annual Pros to Know awards recognize supply chain solution providers and practitioners who show exceptional leadership in meeting industry challenges. Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s “Pros to Know” includes professionals proactively working to drive improvements in a number of categories—including manufacturing and production output; procurement; logistics; risk mitigation strategies; sourcing; financial operations; packaging and distribution; transportation; and much more. The publication’s editorial selection committee reviewed hundreds of entries before selecting this year's winners. As president of sales, marketing and R&D, Mark’s leadership is integral to many strategic areas of NGC’s operations. He joined NGC in 2002 and has served in numerous executive sales and marketing positions, including vice president of PLM and Global Sourcing Solutions. Mark is active in a number of

Amber Road, a leading provider of global trade management (GTM) solutions, announced today that it has acquired ecVision, a cloud-based provider of global sourcing and collaborative supply chain solutions for brand-focused companies. ecVision helps many of the largest brand companies in the world to effectively manage their relationships with product suppliers, raw material vendors, product testing and social compliance audit firms, and global logistics companies. Driven by the need to get the right products to market faster and respond to ever shortening ‘seasonal’ cycles, retail brand companies must collaborate with their suppliers and tier-n material vendors to speed innovation and manage product compliance with fine-tuned control over costs. “U.S. and European-based brand companies are under constant pressure to bring new products to market faster,” said Kevin O’Marah, Chief Content Officer at SCM World. “It’s all about accelerated merchandise innovation and rapid, profitable execution. More effective collaboration with Asian-based manufacturers is key to

KISTERS has announced the release 2015.0 of the 3DViewStation. The KISTERS 3DViewStation is known for the modern user-interface, high performance 3D-viewing and Digital MockUp (DMU), current and mature CAD-importers for i.e. Catia, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, JT, 3D-PDF and STEP plus a reasonable set of functional tools to view, analyze and communicate 3D-data as i.e. STEP, JT or 3D-PDF. 3DViewStation V2015.0 ships with a fresh Office compliant user interface and provides functionality, which can be leveraged by the user quite intuitively. The focus of the latest developments has been set to significantly enrich the 2D file format support. There have been several 2D file formats been added: besides 2D-PDF and CatDrawing KISTERS 3DViewStation now also supports DWF, HPGL, HPGL/2, Gerber, BMP, CALS, GIF, JPG, JPEG2000, PBM, PNG, PNM, PPM, TIFF. Support for DWG, DXF and Office is under development right now. Regarding 3D file formats KISTERS 3DViewStation now offers support for latest NX

Dassault Systèmes today announced the general availability of Release 2015x of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. R2015x offers a simplified and improved user experience with elegant and powerful enhancements that significantly increase productivity on premise, as well as on public or private cloud. All of Dassault Systèmes’ cloud customers were successfully and seamlessly upgraded to R2015x within a few hours and over the whole scope of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, including design and engineering, 3D design, IP governance and lifecycle, simulation and manufacturing, making it the largest cloud portfolio in the market. “Every single cloud customer is already taking advantage of the volume of new enhancements we’ve implemented in R2015x, demonstrating the power of the cloud model,” said Dominique Florack, Senior Executive Vice President, Research & Development, Dassault Systèmes. “We are the first to truly take advantage of this model, in its simplicity, for our customers of all types and sizes.” In the age of experience, as

Apparel and footwear industry software experts Xperia Solutions have launched the new Collaborativ™ Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software suite to speed up the product development cycle, lower costs, improve communications, and enable customers to rapidly bring apparel and footwear products to market. The software, which is integrated with the company’s Comprehensiv™ Enterprise System (ERP), is easy to learn and use. “Gaining every competitive advantage is critical for success in today's highly competitive fashion industry,” said Xperia Vice President of Sales and Marketing Alan Robezzoli. “Yet many apparel and footwear PLM solutions fail to deliver the ease-of-use needed to collaborate effortlessly and efficiently with a company’s internal development team and supply chain. Xperia's Collaborativ™ PLM Suite delivers on all of this and more.” Software benefits include:  A robust PLM functionality optimized for the apparel and footwear fashion industries. Easy-to-learn and quick-to-implement programs mean customers can be up and running in a few weeks. Increases efficiency and speeds up

ThingWorx, a PTC® business and Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, announced today that Smoove, a French developer of bikes and bike share systems, has selected the ThingWorx IoT Platform to power its bike-share service in cities throughout the world. This commitment extends Smoove’s 2009 selection of PTC Creo® and PTC Windchill® for the design and development of its bike components. Bicycle sharing is a service that is growing across large cities around the globe as an alternative to traditional motorized transportation in order to reduce traffic congestion and its associated environmental impact. The program makes bikes available for shared used to people on a short term basis, typically 30-45 minutes. With the prevalence of mobile, Internet-connected technologies, many apps can show nearby stations that have available bikes and open docks. To address this trend, Smoove has developed the Smoove Box which is placed on the bike to use the sensor systems currently present to guide

Atmel® Corporation is using engineering simulation solutions from ANSYS to model, analyze and optimize its broad Internet of Things (IoT) product portfolio from scalable embedded microcontrollers and microprocessors to wireless connectivity gateways. Power consumption, data security and communication standards compliance are critical design requirements for IoT applications. Striking an optimal balance among such concerns as power efficiency, antenna integration performance, security and cost is a key design challenge faced by engineers developing devices that enable the proliferation of IoT. Atmel's SmartConnect WINC1500 low-power WiFi 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11 b/g/n system-on-chip (SoC) and the latest ARM® Cortex®-M0+ microcontroller (MCU) deliver extreme low power, compact size and comprehensive connectivity. The Atmel design teams around the world leveraged ANSYS® HFSS™, ANSYS RedHawk™ and ANSYS Totem™ to design and validate these complex SoCs and platforms used across multiple IoT application segments. ANSYS simulation solutions help enable Atmel to meet stringent power/performance requirements, ensure reliable operations across a wide range of frequencies and deliver products

Simparel, Inc. (http://www.simparel.com), has recruited enterprise sales executive Jill M. (Simmons) Powers to lead Western U.S. business development efforts in the newly formed position of Strategic Accounts Director. Working from her Southern California base, Ms. Powers will focus her more than twenty years of industry experience and sales leadership to help apparel and other fashion-related companies in the region identify and leverage the business improvements available through the latest in ERP, PLM, SCM and other IT solutions.     “We are excited to have Jill joining the Simparel team,” said John Robinson, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “Having known and worked with her for many years, I am confident that our current and future clients will benefit from her expertise and professional approach. With her help, we look forward to expanding our footprint in the fast-changing and competitive West Coast market.” Powers most recently served as Senior Account Executive for merchandise management