PTC today announced that C&A Europe, a leading fashion retail business, has selected the PTC FlexPLM® retail product lifecycle management (PLM) solution to manage the development of its fashion products and provide a single source of information for merchandisers, designers, developers, buyers, and external production teams, supporting profitability and future growth plans.

With dispersed operations and a need to increase operational and inventory efficiency, C&A carried out an in-depth product evaluation before selecting PTC’s retail PLM solution. This decision was based on PTC’s vast experience and success in large retail and fashion projects, as well as its robust...

Visual 2000 International Inc. announces it has attained a Gold Application Development Competency, demonstrating its commitment to meet customer’s evolving needs and distinguishing its best-in-class capability in the top one percent of Microsoft’s partner ecosystem.

To earn Microsoft Gold Competency, partners must successfully complete rigorous exams to prove their level of technology expertise, and must ensure a high level of staffing capacity for their chosen competency. Among other requirements, Visual 2000 submitted customer references, implemented a yearly customer satisfaction study and passed technology and sales assessments. Charles Benoualid, Visual 2000’s VP of Research and Development, noted “I am...

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today announced that it won the prestigious National Intellectual Property Award 2016. In addition, both the Indian Intellectual Property Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have jointly conferred on TCS the WIPO Award for Innovative Enterprise.

Hon'ble Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India, presented both the awards to TCS at a function organized by the Indian Intellectual Property Office and Confederation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CII).

Speaking about the award Santosh Mohanty, Global Head - Components Engineering group, TCS said, "We are honored to receive both these esteemed...

Accenture and Dassault Systèmes are building a proof of concept (PoC) to show how digital technologies can improve efficiency and create more agile manufacturing in industries such as heavy industrial equipment and aerospace.

Working with a large industrial equipment company, Accenture and Dassault Systèmes are building and implementing a three-phase solution that harnesses digital technologies to create a link between engineering and the manufacturing shop floor for non-repetitive manufacturing companies. The adaptive solution provides a new level of continuity for product assembly including the sequence in which parts are built, and provides a better level of insight into...

Abstract: The need for innovative model-based design and analysis technologies that can connect performance analysis data, processes, and knowledge across functional domains is becoming critical as product complexity continues to grow even while product development cycles continue to be shortened by competitive and regulatory requirements. VCollab is one such innovative technology.

Conclusions:

The effective utilization and deployment of VCollab’s CAX technology provides several significant business benefits to engineering organizations:

• Increased productivity, effectiveness, and corporate leveraging of scarce CAE analysis resources and domain expertise.
  • CAX provides a common language for intelligent processing, rapid visualization, sharing, and automated reporting...

Industry 4.0 is a collective term embracing contemporary automation, data exchange, and manufacturing technologies, directed at the value chain organization which draws together Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Services (IoS).

Industry 4.0 facilitates the vision and execution of a "Smart Factory" where cyber-physical systems monitor physical processes, create a virtual copy of the physical world, and make decentralized decisions.  Over the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems communicate and cooperate with each other and with humans in real time. Via the Internet of Services, both internal and cross-organizational services are offered and...

Daniel Harari, Lectra CEO, and Christophe Dervyn, Global Safety Textiles (GST) CEO, are pleased to announce that GST has chosen the Lectra FocusQuantum® solution for mass production of one-piece woven (OPW) airbags in China, to meet the increasingly stringent requirements of global tier-1 automotive suppliers.

Lectra shares a very close relationship with German group GST, the leading independent producer of textiles and cushions designed specifically for the airbag industry and supplier to the majority of airbag manufacturers. Following six months of successful testing of Lectra’s new generation of airbag cutting technology in a real production environment in...