A record crowd gathered in Boston last week for the annual LiveWorx® digital transformation event, where attendees explored how digital transformation is becoming a reality for an ever-increasing number of manufacturing companies around the world. 

The event brought together more than 6,400 of the industry’s greatest minds from more than 40 countries (with approximately 7,000 more live-streaming the event) for four days of interactive workshops, facilitated industry networking, cutting-edge demos featuring the latest enterprise technology innovations, and more. It spanned disruptive technologies and topics including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), the industrial internet of things (IIoT), Industry 4.0,...

PTC announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has named PTC its “2019 Technology Partner of the Year for Edge and IoT Solutions.” PTC was recognized for its innovative solutions and delivery of meaningful business results for PTC-HPE joint customers. In 2018, PTC won “Momentum Partner of the Year for Intelligent Edge Solutions,” and this year’s recognition represents PTC’s ability to build on that achievement.

The HPE Partner of the Year Awards recognize organizations across HPE’s partner ecosystem that have demonstrated outstanding performance, raising the standard for business excellence and customer satisfaction. Since 2016, through the HPE Technology Partner Program,...

Altair announced that they signed a new reseller agreement for the entire Balkan & Adriatic region with Weiss Simulation d.o.o. Based in Zagreb, Croatia, Weiss Simulation will take over sales responsibility for the entire Altair portfolio, including Altair HyperWorks™, Altair solidThinking™, Altair PBS Works™, and Altair SmartWorks™. Customers of Weiss Simulation include companies in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Slovenia, and Serbia.

“With Weiss Simulation joining our reseller community we gain a strong partner for the Adriatic and Balkan markets,” said Kimon Afsaridis, regional managing director Eastern Europe, Altair. “I am confident that, with Weiss Simulation on...

Siemens and Rolls-Royce signed an agreement today at the International Paris Air Show in Le Bourget (France) for the sale of Siemens' eAircraft unit. Through its Vision 2020+ company strategy, Siemens intends to sharpen its portfolio's focus. For this reason, the company's business with electric and hybrid-electric systems for aircraft will have substantially better growth perspectives with new owners closely connected to the aerospace industry. Closing is subject to the usual conditions and is expected to take place in late 2019. The partners have agreed not to disclose the financial details of the transaction.

"Our eAircraft team, under...

In collaboration with NUM Taiwan, the Taiwanese laser machine manufacturer Legend Laser, Inc., has developed a unique multi-axis system for the precision cutting of thin sheet metal parts. Based on NUM’s latest-generation Flexium+ CNC platform, the system combines high dynamic performance linear motors with a pulsed fiber laser, and is expressly designed for 24/7 operation in a standard production environment.

Founded in 1995, Legend Laser specializes in the design and manufacture of a diverse range of laser marking, micro-machining and micro-tube processing systems. Initially concentrating on the domestic and Chinese markets, the company nowadays serves a worldwide customer...

International TechneGroup Limited (ITI),  developers of the CADfix CAD geometry translation and repair software, have partnered with LEMMA, creators of ANA*, an engineering analysis software suite. The new agreement is for the delivery of a customized CFD geometry clean-up solution called CADfixforLEMMA to the ANA* analysis community.

Located in the French Riviera, LEMMA is a scientific consulting company and software supplier with unique expertise in Computational Fluid and Structure Dynamics (CFSD). As part of their ANA* Suite, LEMMA develops ANAMESH, a fully integrated toolbox used for mesh generation. Using the CADfixforLEMMA solution, ANAMESH customers can import CAD files from multiple formats, repair...

Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. today announced the release of CloudGuard Log.ic, a solution which delivers cloud-native threat protection and security intelligence. Using CloudGuard Log.ic, customers can now see every data flow and audit trail in today’s elastic cloud environments, and make sense of cloud data and activities to expedite forensic investigation processes.

CloudGuard Log.ic effectively detects cloud anomalies, blocks threats and intrusions, and delivers context-rich visualization to enable thorough investigations into security incidents in public cloud infrastructures such as AWS. Log.ic joins Check Point’s CloudGuard family of cloud security products.

An upcoming cloud security survey...

Visual Next announced a new partnership with California based JB Britches / Alpha Design Group. Founded in 1978, JB Britches dba ADG manufactures and distributes fine quality menus and boy’s apparel & accessories and has made excellence a tradition.

Headquartered in Simi Valley, CA, with offices in New York, Seattle, and Italy, and production facilities in Italy, Mexico, China, India and Peru.

JB Britches / ADG will utilize Visual Next’s PLM, ERP, WMS, SFA, POS suite of software to manage design, sourcing, production, and sales. “One of the main challenges with the growth of our business has been organizing all...