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IFS Unleashed 2026 Key Takeaways IFS is sustaining strong growth while expanding beyond its asset-management foundation. Recent acquisitions and partnerships reinforce its push into AI agents, supply chains, robotics, and broader industrial operations. IFS Intelligence moves AI from assistance to governed execution. Cowork, Loops and Runway support human-led work, autonomous…

How MathWorks Connects AI to Engineering Context, Simulation, and Evidence Takeaways Adoption of AI in engineering is real but early, and the obstacles are practical: data, integration, and trust. According to CIMdata’s 2026 AI in PLM study, fewer than one in five industrial organizations use agentic AI, data quality is…

Oracle: Unleashing Agentic Applications Across the Enterprise Takeaways A Shift to Outcome-Driven Execution: Oracle is redefining enterprise software by shifting the focus from systems of record to systems of outcomes. Breaking Down Organizational Silos: Oracle is leveraging foundational transactional data across its enterprise footprint; domain-specific artificial intelligence agents effectively remove…

How Nora IPLM uses a connected digital thread, cloud-native architecture, and AI to simplify product lifecycle management Takeaways Manufacturers need increasingly sophisticated lifecycle capabilities, but SMBs face many of the same competitive pressures as large enterprises with significantly fewer engineering, IT, and administrative resources, more constrained budgets, and limited tolerance…

How Autodesk Fusion and Fusion Manage help SMBs scale without creating enterprise PLM complexity Takeaways Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face many of the same competitive pressures as large enterprises but with significantly fewer engineering, IT, and administrative resources; more constrained budgets; and no tolerance for long deployments typically required…

Today, 5 October 2026, PTC announced an agreement to be acquired by Schneider Electric in an all-cash transaction valued at $22.6 billion. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies, with closure of the transaction anticipated by Q3 2027. Upon closing, Boston-based PTC will…

 PDF At the Farnborough International Airshow, 23 July 2026 Takeaways Dassault Systèmes is fully committed to AI as a major new source of value and revenue, and to virtual twin as the foundational construct for navigating and extracting value from the enterprise product information asset. Several startups provided persuasive examples…

 PDF Keysight emerges as a trusted Design Engineering Software provider Key Takeaways Keysight Technologies has been a global leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA), electronic test, measurement, and engineering software for a decade, helping companies design and validate complex systems with confidence. Keysight’s acquisition-led expansion over the past five years…

 PDF Industrial Intelligence: The convergence of the comprehensive digital twin, lifecycle intelligence, and adaptive execution Takeaways Realize LIVE 2026 keynotes and sessions covered the breadth and depth of Siemens Xcelerator solution portfolio, from planning, design, simulation, manufacturing, supply chain, and of course, AI across discrete and process industries. The conference’s…

 PDF How Agentic AI Helps Manufacturers Tame Product Variant Complexity Takeaways The traditional engineer-to-order (ETO) model is hitting a breaking point. Relying on “clone-and-modify” practices does not scale; instead, it triggers a costly “variant explosion” where a lack of configuration visibility can cause, by some industry estimates, 30% to 50%…