Founded in late-2015 with a vision of bringing both technology and transparency to the forefront of manufacturing, Suuchi Inc., provides a complete end-to-end solution for its clients.

In April, the company closed a round of Series A funding resulting in $8 million raised. Also new is the company innovation dubbed the Suuchi Grid, a digital cloud-based shop-floor and product lifecycle management (PLM) technology. The Grid is a one-stop hub for communication, holding one version of product data and eliminating the troubles that come when data is dispersed in multiple locations. Users - employees and clients - can tap...

Lectra announces the signing of an agreement with the shareholders of the Belgium company Retviews to acquire 100% of capital and voting rights.

Founded in 2017, Retviews has developed an innovative technological offer that enables fashion brands to analyze real-time market data, in order to increase their sales and margins. Today, more than 30 brands use Retviews in France and Belgium.

“By uniting with Retviews, we confirm once again our ambition to help our customers to quickly enter the era of Industry 4.0. Thanks to artificial intelligence algorithms, Retviews’ offer enables brands to make the best decisions...

From the Dassault Systemes blog:

In June 2018, Dassault Systèmes acquired a majority stake in software firm Centric PLM. We spoke to Philippe Loeb, Vice-President, Home & Lifestyle, Consumer Packaged Goods & Retail Industries at Dassault Systèmes, about this new addition to the Group. 

Why is the acquisition of Centric PLM important for Dassault Systèmes?

Centric PLM is a US firm focusing on providing ready-to-use solutions for companies in the fashion and retail industries. Its software allows information to flow smoothly between fashion companies and their suppliers. That’s crucial in this industry; you have very little...

Open Design Alliance (ODA), leading provider of CAD interoperability and component technology, announced today the release of Drawings SDK 2020. Drawings is a development platform for desktop, mobile and web applications that work with .dwg and .dgn data.

“Drawings 2020 marks a significant milestone for several of our longer-term .dwg technology initiatives,” commented Neil Peterson, ODA President. “The first of these is Common Data Access (CDA). CDA is a platform-neutral framework for accessing model structure and property information in a common manner for all ODA-supported formats. For example, CDA will allow applications to access data from .dwg, .dgn,...

Announced on the MagiCAD blog:

“On 10th July 2019 MagiCAD Construction Solutions launched a brand new version of Cubicost Takeoff for Architecture & Structure.

The RICS HQ provided an apt location for the final stage of a series of worldwide events spanning Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia & Hong Kong that have attracted some 1000 professionals.

The afternoon featured informative talks on surveying & digital construction from a host of guests including Operations Director at RICS, James Fiske. Digital Transformation was the key theme of the afternoon with a call to arms for all surveyors to adopt BIM technology into...

Entercoms Inc. announced the debut of SpareX today. SpareX is a cloud-based digital spare parts planning technology product that completely overhauls and simplifies spare parts planning.

SpareX enables companies to have all the warranty support and revenue generating spare parts available at the right place, at the right time while optimizing the total cost to serve in positioning the spare part. SpareX provides the functionality to create a best-fit forecast, identify and automatically correct one-time demand outliers, generate new buy and repair purchase orders, set target stock levels across a multi-echelon network and generate replenishment and redistribution orders. The underlying...

BehrTech announced the launch of MYTHINGSTM, a wireless IIoT connectivity brand and product family that will simplify and accelerate the deployment of robust, scalable and integrable Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). MYTHINGS is the first software platform to implement MIOTY (TS UNB), the only LPWAN software to comply with the ETSI standard TS 103-357.

MYTHINGS was created to facilitate full-scale LPWAN deployments in demanding industrial and commercial environments. The MIOTY protocol is at the core of MYTHINGS, allowing LPWAN networks to be implemented for long range communication and with the longest battery life and highest interference immunity of any wireless connectivity solution...

Infor announced that APP Group has selected Infor Retail CloudSuite to support their exponential growth and global expansion. APP Group manages two global leading brands, Mackage and SOIA & KYO, and is dedicated to the design, production and wholesale and retail commercialization of luxury outerwear and accessories.

APP Group will implement a suite of solutions including Infor CloudSuite Fashion, Infor Demand Planner, Infor Nexus, and Birst analytics to accelerate its direct-to-consumer expansion. Infor’s platform is expected to enable APP Group to standardize processes across the enterprise while maximizing the availability of inventory across all fulfilment channels. APP Group will modernize and consolidate their multiple ERPs with CloudSuite Fashion...

UL, the developer of SPOT, today announced a partnership with AVAIL, an enterprise content management solution for design teams. AVAIL improves productivity of industry professionals by providing access to the vast amounts of digital content across an architecture engineering and construction (AEC) design firm’s network. This integrated approach for product sustainability data will enable users to access and manage product- and manufacturer- specific digital content, such as sustainability certifications, directly from UL’s SPOT integration with the AVAIL Marketplace.

This partnership enables users to streamline access to SPOT’s comprehensive sustainability data by leveraging AVAIL’s search and filtering functionality, increasing the quality...

IBM and AT&T today announced a multi-year strategic alliance. Under the agreement AT&T Communications will use IBM's expertise to modernize AT&T Business Solutions' internal software applications, enabling migrations to the IBM Cloud. In addition, IBM will provide infrastructure to support AT&T Business's applications. AT&T Business will utilize Red Hat's open source platform to manage workloads and applications. The improvements will allow AT&T Business to better serve enterprise customers.

IBM will also make AT&T Business its primary provider of software defined networking. AT&T Business will help transform IBM's networking solutions with their latest technologies including 5G, Edge Compute, and...