Position Papers

Aerion Supersonic, a leader in civil supersonic aircraft, has selected the Xcelerator portfolio from Siemens Digital Industries Software. Aerion’s AS2 is the first-ever privately built supersonic commercial aircraft. Designed to be inherently environmentally responsible, the AS2 is the first supersonic aircraft with the ability to accept 100 percent synthetic fuel. It is also the first to be designed without an afterburner. Using Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, Aerion can use advanced design and simulation software to speed aircraft development, as well as achieve superior levels of performance in flight and excellence in operations. Aerion joins innovative start-ups, aerospace industry leaders and governments around the world that trust Siemens as the partner that provides flexible and adaptable software to meet the rapidly changing industry challenges of today, by leveraging insights and data to adapt products to meet the needs of tomorrow. “We see Siemens as a critical partner with a fully-aligned solution to our

Altair, a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high-performance computing and data analytics, announced that BENTELER Automobiltechnik GmbH, a division of BENTELER Group based in Paderborn, Germany, has renewed and expanded its relationship with Altair. BENTELER has been using Altair solutions throughout its departments worldwide to accelerate development cycles and drive innovation for 15 years. Altair HyperWorks pre- and post-processing tools have become the preferred solutions in the development of BENTELER products, while Altair OptiStructTM and Altair RadiossTM are frequently used for customer projects. In addition, BENTELER also relies on Altair PBS ProfessionalTM as its preferred high-performance computing (HPC) workload management platform to improve efficiency throughput the company’s computational infrastructure. As new topics and new technologies arise, BENTELER will evaluate OptiStruct for nonlinear analysis and Altair SimSolidTM for computer aided design (CAD) assembly simulation. “We look forward to intensifying our successful cooperation with Altair,” said Hinderk van Lengen, department head, Chassis CAE at BENTELER Automotive. “Altair’s modeling and visualization solutions

Sonepar, a world leading distributor of electrical products, solutions and related services, has selected CBX Software’s Retail Product Lifecycle Management (Retail PLM), a cloud solution to enable and strengthen its own direct sourcing throughout Asia Pacific. CBX Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to private label general merchandise, furniture, pet, fashion, hardware, home décor and value brand retailers. Retailers and Brands with large private label operations use CBX to achieve their strategic product development, sourcing, and digital transformation goals. Sonepar, founded in 1969, is a family-run French company which has 48,000 associates and annual sales totaling €24 billion. Through its 170 operational subsidiaries and 3,000 branches, the Group has a presence in 48 countries, supporting more than a million professional clients across the construction, manufacturing and energy sectors. In order to scale their direct sourcing operations supply chain automation, Sonepar needed to replace its internal costing/quotation system for its global sourcing office with an automated, end-to-end, product request to delivery, centralized

Accenture opened its third Innovation Hub in India, expanding its innovation capabilities for clients. The Accenture Innovation Hub in Pune provides an immersive environment for clients to co-innovate with Accenture experts in a variety of industries and across a range of advanced technologies, including extended reality, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, blockchain and quantum computing, among others. Part of Accenture’s global innovation network, the Innovation Hub in Pune will seamlessly integrate with the Innovation Hub in Bengaluru and the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, and will bring best of innovations and capabilities from India using state-of-the-art collaboration technologies. “Rapid technology innovations are increasing the competitive pressure on businesses across the globe. At Accenture, we are focused on helping our clients predict and prepare for these changes by applying advanced technologies to shape their future,” said Bhaskar Ghosh, group chief executive, Accenture Technology Services. “Our new Innovation Hub in Pune will bring together the best of

Dassault Systèmes announced the launch of “The Only Progress is Human,” a global initiative to increase awareness of today’s societal and environmental challenges, and to inspire people to use the virtual world to imagine sustainable innovations for a better future.   During a two-year period, Dassault Systèmes will engage with the public through 10 “Acts” that focus on some of the most pressing issues humanity faces in health, cities, energy, water and other areas.  These Acts will illustrate how virtual twin experiences empower people to address challenges ranging from, ‘How can we better control our health in the future?’ to, ‘How can we safeguard our most precious resource?’ and drive progress by reimagining the future, changing the way products are designed and made, and creating human-centric and real-world experiences.   The first Act, focused on emotion and the challenge, ‘How can virtual worlds change the way we experience emotions?’ will take place

The Electronic System Design Alliance, a SEMI Strategic Technology Community representing members in the electronic system and semiconductor design ecosystem, today welcomed Avery Design Systems as a member after its 10-member Governing Council approved Avery’s membership application. Already a member of SEMI, the global industry association representing the worldwide electronics product design and manufacturing chain, Avery wanted more involvement in the ESD Alliance because of its focus on the design community. “Being part of SEMI’s broader mission and global reach is part of the ESD Alliance’s attraction to the design community,” states Chilai Huang, Avery’s president and chief executive officer. “For an emerging company such as Avery, the Export and License Management and Anti-Piracy Committees offer a central resource for informed information to address a variety of vexing issues.” Huang also noted the ability to receive the detailed Market Statistics Service (MSS) data as another resource to help Avery make engineering and

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has transformed QIAGEN’s GeneGlobe, a genomics-based research platform for biology and biomedical researchers, to improve customer experience. QIAGEN is a leading provider of sample to insight solutions for customers in life sciences and molecular diagnostics. To cater to the expectations of a large proportion of researchers who are digital natives, it was looking to transform its GeneGlobe research platform. The company partnered with TCS given its deep contextual knowledge, strong digital capabilities in cloud and microservices, as well as expertise in designing intuitive, customer-centric platforms. TCS adopted a cloud-based microservices architecture and revamped the GeneGlobe platform by leveraging industry-best DevOps practices and design thinking approaches. The new platform, GeneGlobe – Design & Analysis Hub, offers an intuitive interface, helping researchers to find the right product in just three steps. Powerful algorithms link products to biological targets, so researchers can explore

 PDF Key takeaways: In what should be reassuring to the historical SOLIDWORKS base, Dassault Systèmes reiterated that SOLIDWORKS on the desktop will continue to be available and will be updated. The 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS solution offering continues to be expanded and provides SOLIDWORKS users with enhanced levels of sharing and collaboration. Dassault Systèmes’ 2019 acquisition of IQMS, and subsequent re-branding to DELMIAWORKS, appears to have made significant strides over the last year. CIMdata attended the 3DEXPERIENCE World 2020 event in Nashville, TN, in February of 2020. This event superseded the very successful and well attended SOLIDWORKS World events that had been held for many years. The name change represents an emphasis on how SOLIDWORKS fits into and receives benefits from the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform. What it does not signify is a diminution of SOLIDWORKS as the brand of an extremely popular and successful mechanical CAD and related technologies that now have over a million licensed

DXC Technology highlighted how it is helping enterprises accelerate the adoption of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) technologies to support immersive experiences in ways that can significantly improve productivity, quality and efficiency. DXC is using AR, VR and MR technologies today to transform the future of work, and the company is seeing widespread implementation to improve safety, connect remote workers, assist with complex tasks and enhance training and collaboration – all in ways that drive business results and profitability. “Digital transformation in the workplace is edging towards an inflection point as enterprises are incorporating immersive solutions that connect the real world with the virtual world,” said Maria Pardee, DXC’s senior vice president and general manager, Workplace and Mobility. “DXC is using the power of AR, VR and MR to align the next-generation digital capabilities employees want so they can be more mobile and independent, with the critical security, production

Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, announced it is partnering with Snowflake, the cloud data platform, to help enterprises build automated data warehouses using the Birst full-stack analytics and BI platform. Birst is a single, integrated, end-to-end platform for building automated data warehouses natively on Snowflake, eliminating the need for separate ELT/ETL (extract, load & transform, and extract, transform & load), data modeling, data preparation and analytics tools. In addition, the Birst platform will provide enterprise data governance and fine-grained control/security, at the row and column level, within Snowflake, along with auditing and built-in usage tracking. Joint customers can use Birst’s self-service data preparation capabilities to blend end-user-created data with enterprise data in Snowflake, providing true self-service for business users and analysts. Birst and Snowflake both run natively in AWS (Amazon Web Services), which speeds data processing and querying, while obviating the need to export data out of Snowflake. “We