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FACTON, the leader in Enterprise Product Costing (EPC), today announced that president Ruediger Stern will be a featured speaker at an upcoming event produced by the Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA) on July 27, 2017. The event, titled “Sales & Purchasing: Partners in New Business Pursuit Conference” will be at the Edward Hotel & Conference Center in Dearborn, Michigan, and begins at 8:00am ET.  Mr. Stern will share insights on how enterprise product costing software can accelerate quote response times and improve customer relationships. His presentation will include examples from real-world case studies focused on how automotive suppliers and OEMs have improved costing processes. The FACTON Enterprise Product Costing (EPC) Suite consists of specific solutions that address the product costing requirements of company departments and divisions – from top management, controlling and production to development, purchasing and sales. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for FACTON on CIMdata.com

Trimble announced today that it has added its first distribution partner in Latin America to its Vantage™ network—a global network of independent distribution partners that provide growers, advisors, retailers, co-ops and local OEM dealers with precision agriculture expertise for the entire farm. Trimble and Geo Agri have worked together for more than 20 years and have developed a strong relationship that promotes and delivers Trimble precision agriculture solutions to farmers in Brazil. Both companies recognize the growth potential of farming, and as a result, have jointly developed a growth plan for a new Vantage distribution network in the region. Committing to this new plan, Geo Agri will be the first Vantage distribution partner in Latin America—Vantage Centro-Sul. Vantage Centro-Sul will be headquartered in the current Geo Agri office in Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil and will offer Trimble total farm solutions throughout the states of Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais and Goiás. As part of Vantage Centro-Sul's expansion plan, it will also

Solvay, Anzu Partners, and Invest Nebraska are together investing a total of $1.9 million in MultiMechanics, whose virtual testing software enables to accelerate innovation in new materials. Solvay Ventures has made the investment as part of Solvay Group’s Research & Innovation function.   Solvay is a world leader in metal replacement materials. This joint investment will enhance the development of Solvay’s pipeline of high performance polymer and composite materials, and expand its position in aerospace, automotive markets and other markets.   “Solvay’s decision to invest in MultiMechanics is part of our ambition to accelerate innovation in complex materials and to expand the use of composites in the automotive and aerospace industries. MultiMechanic’s accuracy, speed and its efficient integration with commonly used commercial finite element software packages, is changing the way we develop new materials and interact with our customers,” said Nicolas Cudré-Mauroux, Solvay Group General Manager Research & Innovation.  “Our customers greatly benefit

Bluebeam, Inc., a Nemetschek Group subsidiary, today announced two major additions to their C-Suite, including promoting Jon Elliott to Chief Executive Officer and hiring Jim Atkinson as Chief Revenue Officer.   Prior to his appointment as CEO, Elliott held the role of Chief Operating Officer at Bluebeam. He brings nearly two decades of experience in global operations, sales leadership and finance, with a background in global hardware, software and services companies ranging from small, privately held technology companies to large, publicly traded multi-national corporations in the media & entertainment and musical instrument industries.    "Bluebeam has been a major contributor to the Nemetschek Group's growth since their acquisition. Jon has been driving changes to structure Bluebeam to continue their rapid expansion and I am convinced that he will do a great job in leading Bluebeam's next evolution of growth," said Sean Flaherty, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bluebeam and Chief Strategy Officer of the Nemetschek Group. "We

Hundreds of startup companies around the world are leveraging ANSYS engineering simulation technology to create innovative products that will change the way we live, work and play. From wearable robotic devices to remotely piloted aircrafts to motorized skateboards, ANSYS plays an integral role in making next-generation products a reality. As even the simplest products gain complexity, engineering simulation becomes more pervasive across the product lifecycle and into operations. While established companies use simulation, startups often forgo it because of limited funding, forcing them to rely on costly and time-intensive physical prototypes. Launched less than a year ago, the ANSYS Startup Program gives low-cost access to ANSYS' leading suite of engineering simulation products to startups around the world. The program has been an early success with startups, with hundreds joining since its inception. "Pervasive Engineering Simulation can play an unparalleled role in product development for companies large and small, regardless of industry," said

 PDF Siemens PLM Software, in conjunction with Siemens AG, is taking a fresh approach to solving challenges in today’s energy industry. To drive further progress, the company recently held an Energy Executive Council event in Houston, Texas, with attendance from key influencers throughout the industry, including independent oil companies (IOCs); oilfield services firms; oilfield equipment manufacturers; and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms. The energy industry has traditionally adopted highly customized engineering processes for developing projects, and has struggled to reuse design information from project to project as well as to integrate that information throughout the lifecycles of projects. Lack of information integration and reuse has resulted in higher costs due to errors and process friction, ultimately leading to longer, more expensive project cycles. Combined with problems with information handover from each successive stage in major capital projects, this sets the stage for annual efficiency penalties that an IOC will struggle to

Arrow Electronics, Inc. has signed a global distribution agreement with Bosch Sensortec to supply Bosch Sensortec products. Bosch is a leading supplier of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) sensors worldwide. It has built on an initial base in automotive applications to expand its offering to consumer electronics markets and now provides a diverse portfolio of MEMS devices for the internet of things (IoT). Arrow offers an extensive range of IoT solutions, from component level through to complete secure, end-to-end deployable services. Since 1995, Bosch has designed and manufactured over eight billion MEMS sensors and holds more than 1,000 patents on MEMS technology. Its in-house expertise is fuelling a roadmap of products, together with supporting software and reference designs, that enable mobile and IoT devices to feel and sense the world around them. Bosch Sensortec is now offering an extensive range of highly integrated sensor products to meet the requirements of IoT nodes

X-Rite Incorporated and its subsidiary Pantone LLC today announced that Allegorithmic's material authoring tool, Substance Designer, will natively support the Appearance Exchange Format (AxF™) in September. Developed by X-Rite, AxF is a vendor-neutral format that enables the communication of all aspects of a physical material's appearance – color, texture, gloss, refraction, translucency, special effects (sparkles) and reflection properties – in a single, editable file to improve design virtualization. AxF allows Substance Designer users to create physically correct, virtual materials that reduce design time and offer the most compelling, photorealistic 3D images possible. X-Rite and Allegorithmic will showcase the AxF integration in Substance Designer at SIGGRAPH 2017, July 30 – August 3 in Los Angeles. AxF is the foundational component of the X-Rite Total Appearance Capture (TAC™) ecosystem, a solution that brings a new level of accuracy and efficiency to the capture, communication and presentation of physical materials in the virtual world. Traditionally, the capture

Unilever has signed a deal with Accenture to implement Accenture Cloud Trade Promotion Management (TPM) and Accenture Cloud Retail Execution (RE) to create a single system for trade and marketing operations.   Built on the Salesforce platform, the Accenture Cloud solutions combine Accenture’s front-office consumer goods industry expertise and Salesforce’s #1 CRM solution with built-in cloud, mobile, social, data science and artificial intelligence capabilities. By moving to the cloud solution, Unilever will be able to integrate its mobile applications, unify its front and back-office information, and enhance its trade and sales activities.   Accenture has also been selected to provide Accenture NewsPage allowing Unilever to simultaneously build a single system for the management of their third-party distributor network.   “Today’s consumers are better connected, better informed and more digitally savvy, making them more prone to switching and harder to please, so consumer packaged goods companies need to work ever more closely with their customer partners to

Dassault Systèmes today announced that the Center of Excellence for Aerospace & Advanced Manufacturing, representing eight institutions of higher learning including Washington State University, Bellingham Technical College, Clover Park Technical College, Everett Community College, Lake Washington Institute of Technology, North Seattle College, Olympic College, and Renton Technical College, has selected the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to develop and refine the future workforce of the state of Washington. The 900 cloud-based user deal with the Center of Excellence will help the eight participating academic institutions train and prepare students with hands-on experience designing, engineering and manufacturing in the new Experience Economy. Through the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s intuitive, web-based user interface, collaborative environments are easily created.  Students can start multidisciplinary projects on campus, continue at home, and discuss issues using online communities or screen-sharing sessions, always having the latest version of their work at their fingertips.  At any time, educators can remotely monitor projects, manage idea-maturity, provide