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JWI Software Ltd (www.jwisoftware.com), a provider of cloud native software that is challenging manufacturers to rethink their Digital Engineering, Digital Factory and PLM technology stack, announced today the availability of Device Mate 3.0, the first ‘cloud to edge’ smart factory solution that enables device apps to be created, configured and updated in the cloud and then loaded into the edge in real time - without having to stop any machines or systems. Responding to the need of high-volume global manufacturers to digitalize their production processes to improve cost, quality, and delivery lead-times, Device Mate 3.0 enables digital twins to be easily configured for different devices (SMT/SMD, injection molding, sheet metal) as well as for the entire production line. “After years of working with some of the world’s largest manufacturers, we knew it was time to redefine the role, capabilities and future of industrial software,” explained Per Johnsson, CEO of JWI.

Centric Software is proud to announce market-driven, industry-first PLM technology for OEM and ODM manufacturers and their brand and retail partners.  Centric 8 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) streamlines the way manufacturers work by seamlessly connecting them to their brand and retail partners therefore dramatically improving efficiency and quality as well as shortening time to market.  Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury, consumer goods, home décor and manufacturing companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. In response to demand from brands and private label retailers who conceptualize and sell products and the manufacturers that produce them, Centric’s innovations in Manufacturing PLM fundamentally transform how brands, retailers and manufacturers share information and collaborate. “We are the first on the market to offer a Manufacturing PLM solution that enables brands, private label retailers and manufacturers to seamlessly share and harmonize tech pack data

  OpenText announced Yazaki, a leading independent automotive component maker, has selected OpenText Business Network to unify digital collaboration with its customers and suppliers in North and Central America and Europe.  One of the largest privately-owned automotive suppliers, Yazaki excels in research, development and delivery of vehicle power and data solutions to major automotive manufacturers around the world. The company chose OpenText Business Network Trading Grid Messaging Service (Trading Grid) to help synergize supply chain operations in two important regions to better serve customers.  With OpenText, Yazaki will accelerate customer and supplier onboarding by accessing the pre-connected OpenText community of more than 800,000 trading partners, the industry’s largest B2B cloud network. Automated provisioning will significantly reduce time required to add new trading partners to the platform while self-service and mobile capabilities will allow partners to easily connect and collaborate.  “We have built our business by delivering the right

Hexagon AB held its Capital Markets Day in Cobham, UK. President and CEO Ola Rollén and other members of Group Management provided an overview of Hexagon's growth opportunities and strategy, presenting how Hexagon will continue building on its legacy of making data actionable through integrated hardware and software solutions to drive autonomy, efficiency, productivity, quality and sustainability across a wide range of industries. By combining its core capabilities in reality capture, positioning, design and simulation, location intelligence and autonomous technologies, Hexagon has the unique leverage of being able to converge the physical and digital worlds. Hexagon's divisional leads showcased real-world examples of how the company's solutions are used in infrastructure, construction, mining, aerospace, automotive, and other industries.  The financial targets - revenues of 4.6-5.1 billion EUR and an EBIT margin of 27-28 per cent by 2021 - first introduced at the Capital Markets Day in 2016, were reiterated.

Tata Consultancy Services announced a new partnership with Elisa Smart Factory, part of the Finnish telecommunications company Elisa, to market and deploy the latter’s industrial IoT (IIoT) and advanced analytics solutions to a wide range of manufacturers across the world. TCS works with some of the leading manufacturers globally, helping them scale up product innovation and pursue their growth and transformation initiatives. It offers a comprehensive suite of services and solutions to help manufacturers build future-ready operations. The partnership with Elisa Smart Factory adds an expanded range of IIoT and smart factory solutions to this portfolio. TCS will customize, deploy and maintain these solutions for its customers, leveraging its deep contextual knowledge of their operations. These bespoke solutions will enable smarter decision-making across the supply chain, optimize product and operating costs, improve quality, and increase uptime, productivity and throughput. “Elisa Smart Factory solutions represent a tremendous opportunity for industry manufacturers,

The 2020 schedule will kick-off in Ann Arbor, Michigan in March. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 12 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces that the first public CIMdata Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate program of 2020 will take place at the Kensington Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan from March 2-6. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering. The program effectively prepares PLM professionals to address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation enabling them to help their organizations realize the benefits of PLM and its enabling technologies. The assessment-based program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and evaluations of achievement. The program is facilitated by a team of CIMdata experts. On successfully completing the program, participants will receive a CIMdata PLM Certificate and are invited to join CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community, a group

NAADAM, the ethical cashmere brand, has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software® provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury, consumer goods and home décor companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. What started as an unexpected visit to the Mongolian countryside turned into creating the fairest, most sustainable and affordable top-of-the-line cashmere the world as ever seen. Founded in 2013 by Matthew Scanlan and Diederik Rijsemus, NAADAM has a direct-to-consumer business model that keeps prices affordable while ensuring that goat herders in Mongolia who produce their cashmere are fairly rewarded and supported. NAADAM is growing rapidly and recently expanded its brands with the relaunch of the Thakoon designer womenswear brand. Previously, NAADAM had a PLM system, but needed a more all-encompassing solution to achieve transparency, improve vendor collaboration and sustain rapid growth. “We want to grow in a healthy

BIONIK Laboratories Corp., a robotics company focused on providing rehabilitation and assistive technology solutions to individuals with neurological and mobility challenges from hospital to home, y announced it has selected Propel, the product success platform built on Salesforce, to be its Product Lifecycle Management and Quality Management System solutions provider to accelerate new product development and manufacturing of InMotion™ products and services. Propel, based in Santa Clara, California, offers an integrated solution that uniquely combines next-gen Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Quality Management System (QMS) on a single platform. Completely built on Salesforce, the industry’s top-rated SaaS platform, Propel helps companies compete in different market and regulatory environments, and deliver quality products to market faster — all while reducing costs. BIONIK expects that Propel will help extend the definition of product success from concept to customer by configuring and deploying a secure, flexible, and compliant platform designed to enhance the

RIZE, Inc., a next-generation additive manufacturing company dedicated to providing safe industrial 3D Printing to all users, announced that it will partner with Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, to offer North American customers a solution to support a diverse set of applications and services to design and manufacture 3D printed functional prototypes, production tooling and end use parts. “We believe this will deliver smarter workflows in engineering and manufacturing and the adoption of Industry 4.0 methodologies. As a Dassault Systèmes customer we believe this solution delivers accelerated time to value to the industry.” Tweet this The jointly offered solution will enable users of Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform to seamlessly leverage RIZE 3D Printing technology to build intelligent parts with smarter workflows via connected, intelligent, interactive environments where hardware and software – in this case RIZE’s 3D printers and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform – allow users to easily design and print full-color 3D

PTC announced a strategic alliance with Magic Leap that will allow enterprise and industrial customers to combine the augmented reality (AR) capabilities of its market-leading Vuforia® Engine solution with the powerful Magic Leap 1 wearable headset. Vuforia Engine provides users with advanced computer vision and cross-platform reach, and supports the broadest range of devices on the market. Beginning this month, PTC will offer Vuforia Engine to Magic Leap 1 customers, who will have access to the latest AR innovations of Vuforia Engine, including its differentiated artificial intelligence (AI) -based Model Target technology. The combination of this software with Magic Leap’s robust hardware and leading spatial computing technology will offer customers a value-rich solution for the enterprise. “Industry leaders today need to have the flexibility to select the best hardware and software to fit their needs,” said Michael Campbell, EVP and GM, augmented reality products, PTC. “This collaboration enables our many industrial customers to pair our powerful