Key takeaways:

• At the same time that overall product complexity is increasing, manufacturers must also produce custom product configurations, often in small quantities
• Better collaboration between engineering, process and product planning, and manufacturing is required to manage growing product and variant complexity
• Collaborative manufacturing provides a key solution for analyzing the product mix to understand its impact on production, allowing companies to optimize overall production throughput
• Siemens PLM Software is enhancing their PLM portfolio with focused solutions designed to help customers define, sell, and produce today’s complex products more efficiently

Introduction

Manufacturing enterprises face many challenges. Two...

PTC today announced a series of industry-first innovations across its PTC Integrity™ product family of software and systems engineering solutions. The new capabilities will help customers reduce barriers to process modeling, make higher quality, more profitable product line engineering decisions, and manage and re-use assets more easily in the Internet of Things (IoT) era.

Smart, connected products are the future of manufacturing, and intrinsically more complex to design, build and service. Products that once operated in isolation are now part of an ecosystem with lifetime interdependencies. Capabilities that used to be implemented through a single engineering discipline, such as a...

Datakit releases version 2015.3 of its CAD data reading and writing interfaces. This version offers several new features:

• The Siemens™ NX™ format writing is now available.
• T he writing of SOLIDWORKS™ and COLLADA™ formats and the reading of SOLID EDGE™ 2D format have been added to CrossCad/Ware SDK, enabling software vendors to support these formats in their own software.
• The latest versions of Inventor™ 2016 and CATIA™ V6R2014x are now supported.

These improvements benefit:

• Components provided by Datakit to software vendors (CrossCad/Ware), enabling them to support many CAD formats in their own software.
• The stand-alone converter CrossManager, enabling...

Zuken announces that electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider Enics has invested in CR-8000 Design Force, part of Zuken’s next generation product-centric design platform.

Enics chose CR-8000 as part of an ongoing investment program to ensure they can meet their customers’ future technical requirements and further reduce time-to-market. Enics is one of world’s largest EMS providers, working primarily in the energy, industrial automation, transportation, building automation and instrumentation sectors.

Patrik Modig, Site Manager for Enics Västerås Enics had used Zuken’s CR-5000 single-board PCB design software almost 10 years, during which time they expanded significantly across Europe and Asia. Key factors that prompted their decision to...

RLM Apparel Software Systems Inc. announces that Billy Reid, a leading worldwide designer and seller of luxury men’s and women’s clothing, footwear and accessories, will begin implementation of RLM’s cloud-based solutions suite. Approximately 25-30 users will use the system’s full range of capabilities across their Design, Production, Sales, Customer Service, Logistics and Finance departments, including an out-of-the-box integration to Joor.

Billy Reid’s Development and Production Teams will utilize the sourcing and raw materials portion of the RLM PLM package to manage their fabric purchases, bills of materials, contractors, and costs. In addition, Billy Reid plans to implement RLM’s Warehousing module for...

Atos today announced successful completion of a project with Coca-Cola Hellenic, one of the largest bottlers and vendors of The Coca-Cola Company's products in the World, and the largest based in Europe.

Under the contract with Coca-Cola Hellenic, an international team of Atos migrated the mailbox system for 25,000 users from in-house Lotus Notes to Microsoft Office 365. The project was delivered on time and on budget following the proven methodologies and expertise of combined on and off-shore internal team, together with the cooperation from Coca-Cola Hellenic staff.

"This was an important project for us, leveraging the collaboration of our organization to...

CGTech will demonstrate the new version of VERICUT® CNC machine simulation and optimization software at the EMO show in Milan, Italy, October 5-10.
 VERICUT 7.4 includes many enhancements that further simplify the process of simulating a CNC machine.  Changes to how users interact with VERICUT further improve VERICUT’s workflow and simplify day-to-day NC programming and simulation use.

 “This release increases the ability of manufacturing engineers to simulate the entire CNC machining process in order to produce better results and reduce the time spent in the programming and machining cycle,” said CGTech Product Marketing Manager Bill Hasenjaeger. “VERICUT is constantly refined to...

Trimble announced that it is partnering with DIgSILENT GmbH of Germany, an industry leading developer of highly specialized power system analysis software and services, to enhance its energy solutions for electric utilities.

With DIgSILENT add-on capabilities integrated with Trimble Energy software solutions, electric utility customers will be able to perform a wide range of DIgSILENT PowerFactory® network calculation functionalities directly from Trimble Network Information System (NIS) and Distribution Management System (DMS) solutions and use the calculation results in utility network planning and operations.

Additional DIgSILENT PowerFactory functionality with Trimble Energy solutions include optional modules for load-flow, short-circuit analysis, and power quality and...

Lantek, leader in the development and marketing of CAD/CAM/MES/ERP software solutions for the sheet metal industry, announces a global strategic partnership with Air Liquide Welding through the company’s distribution channels which cover 90 countries around the world.

“The partnership fits well with both companies stated objectives of building long term technical partnerships and win-win strategic alliances. Lantek has an extensive distribution network covering customers in over 100 countries and additionally has its own offices in 15 countries, so this maps well with Air Liquide Welding’s distribution network, and will enable us to deliver the best sales...

Altair today announced a business collaboration with Microsoft to build and offer high-performance computing (HPC) solutions on the Azure cloud computing platform. This follows Microsoft’s decision to name Altair’s PBS Works suite as its preferred workload management solution for Azure manufacturing clients.
As part of the collaboration, Altair will work closely with Microsoft to develop turnkey solutions allowing users to access cloud high-performance computing (HPC) resources in Azure from any web-enabled device. These solutions will leverage Altair’s PBS Works platform in Azure to enable intuitive web portal access and secure workload management for rapid, scalable access to Azure HPC...