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 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes, continues to follow through on implementing its vision to enable sustainable innovation through the use of its 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, supported by the BIOVIA, GEOVIA, and SIMULIA brands. SIMULIA continues to improve its Additive Manufacturing simulation and process capabilities to take advantage of the latest advances in material sciences and manufacturing. Industry’s next big challenge is to enable the cultural change required to make better use of already available simulation and prediction technology. The second Dassault Systèmes' Science in the Age of Experience conference brought users from various industries and academia from around the world together in the Midwest digital manufacturing capital of Chicago. In addition to Dassault Systèmes’ brands BIOVIA and SIMULIA a third brand, GEOVIA, participated in this year’s event. The GEOVIA brand, formerly Gemcom Software before its acquisition by Dassault Systèmes in 2012, with its current focus on mining, has the general objective to model and simulate our

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces three changes in its management team. As of 1 July 2017, Alan Christman has been elected to the role of Chairman Emeritus and will continue to be an adviser to the Board of Directors. Alan served as Chairman of CIMdata from 2009 through June 2017. John MacKrell has been elected to Chairman following seven years as the corporation’s Vice President. Stan Przybylinski has been elected to the corporate Vice President position and to membership on the Board of Directors. Stan had served as Vice President of Research since 2013 and will continue to head CIMdata’s highly regarded research activities. Peter Bilello, CIMdata’s President and Managing Director, stated, “Al has been a valuable CIMdata team member for more than 25 years, and I look forward to continuing to work with him and the rest

Information and communication technology (ICT) service provider, T-Systems South Africa, have extended their partnership with Dassault Systèmes into the South African market. In looking for a disruptive approach to the market, ICT company Fujitsu South Africa, have brought their Industrial Kiosk to the partnership, which will bring a revolutionary approach to PLM that caters to the rugged environments and heavy demands of the industrial sector. These solutions launched officially at the Dassault Systèmes "Innovate the Future" event held at T-Systems in Midrand on the 4th July 2017. The combination of Dassault Systèmes' unique 3DExperience Platform with Fujitsu's industrial computer kiosks with built-in track pads and palm vein user authentication, all neatly packaged as part of T-Systems' extensive value-added solution, result in a unique end to end PLM products and services offering. With this partnership, T-Systems and Dassault Systèmes plan to offer Dassault Systèmes' 3dExperience Platform from the cloud, a first

IBM today is announcing a collaborative development initiative with Lightbend, the provider of the world’s leading Reactive Application Development Platform, to help advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive solutions in the enterprise. The resulting joint solutions will be designed to provide a complete toolchain for Java and Scala developers to easily build and deploy AI and cognitive applications in both on-premise and cloud environments. Developers are turning to Scala for their most complex use cases due its ability to handle streaming data and massive scale. Scala is the language of cognitive development. Modern frameworks such as Spark, Kafka and Akka are written in Scala. The confluence of data volume and the introduction of cognitive/AI technologies is increasing both opportunity and complexity for developers building enterprise applications in the new era of cognitive computing. Lightbend’s popular Reactive Platform is powered by an open source core and brings developers

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence today launched GLOBAL Advantage HTA (High Throughput and Accuracy), an enhanced metrology solution for the aerospace industry. Increased production demand for higher performance aircraft engines spurred the design of the new GLOBAL Advantage HTA measurement solution for compressor blades. The technology-driven, high-accuracy measurement system is tailored to provide a step-change improvement in measurement throughput, while delivering high-density measurement data for enhanced aerofoil geometry analysis. The GLOBAL Advantage HTA Platform is based on Hexagon’s advanced HP-O Multi optical scanning probe technology for high-speed non-contact measurement of aero- and land-based compressor blades in shop-floor environments. Utilising frequency-modulated laser interferometry technology, GLOBAL Advantage HTA provides rapid non-contact scanning at single-micron uncertainty to verify blade characteristics including aerofoil, platform, root, shroud and other features. Highly-polished blade surfaces are easily measured, without the need for the secondary coating and cleaning operations required for many non-contact technologies. Using BladeSmart inspection software from Hexagon,

IBM today announced that American Airlines will use IBM Cloud as the foundation for a massive cloud transformation designed to make internal processes more efficient, faster, easier and adaptable to better handle site traffic during high volume periods. Building on the strategic cloud partnership signed with IBM in 2016, American Airlines will migrate to the IBM Cloud a portion of its critical applications, including aa.com, its customer-facing mobile app and its global network of check-in kiosks. In addition, other workloads and tools, such as the company’s Cargo customer website, will also be moved to the IBM Cloud. “In selecting the right cloud partner for American, we wanted to ensure the provider would be a champion of Cloud Foundry and open-source technologies so we don’t get locked down by proprietary solutions” said Daniel Henry, American’s Vice President Customer Technology and Enterprise Architecture. “We also wanted a partner that would offer us the agility to innovate at

The third edition of the Internet of Things Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) which will take place on 3-5 October at Fira de Barcelona's Gran Via venue will be the biggest ever. As part of the Barcelona Industry Week, the leading global event on industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will bring together over 220 companies and 250 international experts to discuss and showcase the latest products and applications of this disruptive technology that will change the business models in many industries and is already increasing production through automated processes. The Congress program will feature 8 tracks -Manufacturing, Utilities, Connected Transport, Healthcare, Buildings & Infrastructure, Open Industry, Blockchain and Quantum Computing- and will tackle some of the key challenges companies around the world are facing in an ever-growing digitalized world to help them seize the full potential and benefits IoT solutions are bringing. Among the key companies showcasing at IoTSWC 2017 are ABB, Accenture Digital,

Popular PLM education program will take place in Andover, Massachusetts from October 2-6, 2017. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 July, 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to the Boston area from October 2-6. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering. The program helps prepare PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. The program is facilitated by a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a CIMdata PLM Certificate and are invited to join CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community. The program is built on CIMdata’s over 30 years of experience guiding industrial companies in successfully defining and implementing best-in-class PLM strategies and

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our Visualize 3D SolidWorks-JT product. V19.4 supports SolidWorks 2014, 2015 and 2016 along with Jtk 8.0.0. Our Visualize 3D products are aimed at creating visualization data for users of digital mock-up, virtual reality or desktop applications. Using JT with additional 3D PMI data as part of a Model Based Definition process allows the user to reduce the overall design costs associated with the creation of conventional 2D drawings. Sharing SolidWorks data using the neutral ISO standard JT format allows organisations to protect the intellectual property of their designs while allowing users to explore the shape, and more easily understand the 3D definition. The IP protection can be enhanced by restricting the JT representation to be tessellated data only. Enabling SolidWorks users to create high quality JT files enables them to share JT data with their customers and suppliers,

IronCAD announced a major update to Multiphysics for IronCAD (MPIC), a seamlessly integrated multiphysics simulation tool for IRONCAD that provides fully coupled multiphysics for stress, thermal, electrostatic and fluid analysis. This major update includes new patented Extended Markup Language Data (XMD) technology, which represents a huge technology leap in encapsulating model data and provides easily expanding analysis features for advanced XMD design analysis tools. Several other enhancements to MPIC include: ·         Updated unit system for flexible customization to accommodate different industries with single-button control. ·         The existing moving-least-squares (MLS) FE tying has been further refined to automatically detect the intended/unintended small gaps/overlap of parts in large assembly analysis without requiring laborious geometry modifications. ·         Analysis report improvements that include direct links for easy review. IronCAD customers will also benefit from new automatic parts contact/impact analysis as the default setting has been refined specifically to help CAD users solve general mechanical