Centric is pleased to announce that it will host two live case studies, one with Crocs and one with tentree, at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market.

Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, held August 3 to 6 in Salt Lake City, Utah, caters to the outdoor sports market and is the largest outdoor sports show of its kind. Outdoor Retailer Summer Market also features educational conferences giving retailers, brands and manufacturers the opportunity to learn about industry trends as well as industry solutions and innovations.

The first Centric seminar will focus on footwear and will be lead by...

BigLever Software, a leader in the Product Line Engineering (PLE) field, today announced that the company's CEO, Dr. Charles Krueger, and vice president of customer success, Dr. Paul Clements, will spotlight modern PLE practices and successes at the 26th annual International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Symposium, taking place at the Edinburgh International Convention Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 18-21, 2016.

INCOSE has long been a premier driving force behind maturing the discipline of systems engineering. In recent years, INCOSE's leadership has acknowledged the growing importance of PLE in the systems engineering community, naming PLE one of the five...

Lantek has reached an agreement with Polish company Promotech to supply its world leading sheet metal software with Promotech’s pipe profile cutting machines which can cut pipes up to diameter of 1500 mm and length of 12 metres with oxy-fuel or plasma.

Promotech has been manufacturing and supplying welding and cutting machinery since 1987 and has over 300 products including : portable welding and cutting tractors; mag drills;  plate and portable and fixed pipe bevellers; gantry welding systems; pipe profile cutting machines; portable CNC cutting and welding machines for door frames in wind towers and for nozzles on...

Gerber Technology recently held Gerber New Products & Integrated Solutions Conferences in Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. These one-day conferences were a great success and was well-attended by representatives of both local and foreign apparel companies.

The aim of the conferences was to present Gerber's newest solutions in helping apparel brands and manufacturers implement software and automation solutions, and satisfy their most challenging creative and production requirements. At the conferences, Gerber Vietnam general manager Ngo Duong spoke about Gerber global as well as the company's strategy towards Vietnam local market.

There were...

Altair and Progresstech have today, at the International Farnborough Air Show, signed a Memorandum of Understanding under which Progresstech will leverage its engineering expertise and market positions to promote and distribute Altair's software technology and methods in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The terms of the partnership include the promotion of Altair's HyperWorks Suite, solidThinking products and Altair's methods for lead time reduction and weight optimization. Altair will support Progresstech to leverage and build competence in Altair's optimization methodology and both companies will engage jointly in engineering projects when beneficial to the companies' clients. Both parties...

Infor today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Starmount, a modern store systems provider serving large and mid-market retailers. When the acquisition is complete, Starmount will provide point-of-sale, mobile shopping assistant, and store inventory management products along with a data-rich commerce hub to engage shoppers, streamline operations, and support consistent cross-channel customer interactions. The acquisition is expected to enable Infor to accelerate delivery of Infor CloudSuite Retail, a new, modern suite of enterprise applications delivered in the cloud and designed for today's retailing landscape. 

As retailers struggle to force outdated software to meet the new...

Nano-electronics research center imec and Synopsys, Inc. today announced an interconnect resistivity model to support the screening and selection of alternative interconnect metals and liner-barrier materials at the 7nm node and beyond. With the continued scaling of advanced process nodes, the impact of parasitic interconnect resistance on the switching delay of standard cells rises considerably. The new model developed through this collaboration enables the evaluation of interconnect material and process options through simulations in the early stages of technology development, when wafer data is not available, and in the process optimization and integration stages of technology development, where it reduces...

ESTECO today announced the release of modeFRONTIER 2016 that enables multidisciplinary engineering practices to consolidate specialized expertise and streamline teamwork by allocating software resources where needed.

The philosophy behind modeFRONTIER 2016 benefits your entire organization by reducing complexity, improving efficiency and cutting development time. Depending on the step of the engineering problem at hand, it is now possible to access different functionalities within the same installation through dedicated modules (modeSPACE and modePROCESS) or directly in modeFRONTIER, according to the profile of the user.

“Our customers are at the forefront of innovation, often leading the market with...

Infor today announced its partnership with Travis Perkins, the UK's largest distributor of building materials.

Travis Perkins operates more than 20 businesses spanning the trade, construction and home improvement markets with more than 2,000 outlets across the UK. Embarking upon its most significant investment in information technology to date, Travis Perkins  selected Infor CloudSuite™ to deliver a variety of strategic, technical, and financial benefits with the goal of enhancing the experience for its customers and employees across the business.

 "We have a national footprint and an evolving customer base who are increasingly relying on digital technology to...

TXT Retail announced that HR Group (Hamm Reno), one of the largest shoe distributors in Europe with approximately 500 retail stores and 1,800 wholesale points of sale in 20 countries, has successfully completed its implementation of TXT PLM.

Felix Finger, Hamm Reno Group’s Executive Director IT & Logistics commented, “The TXT PLM project is another step in optimizing our process to bring products to market in a predictable fashion, giving us the ability to make sure our stores and customers get the products they desire.”

Today the €586m retailer sells around 25 million pairs of shoes, textiles and accessories...