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OpenBOM announced the enhancement of OpenBOM integrations with Autodesk line of products including Autodesk Fusion360, Autodesk Eagle and Autodesk Inventor. By doing so, OpenBOM offers unmatched capabilities to manage Parts, Bill of Materials, Vendors, and Purchase Orders and streamlining design to purchase process for engineering prototyping teams and small-to-medium sized manufacturing companies. Unmatched real-time collaboration capabilities of OpenBOM combined with unique data management and availability of OpenBOM from Amazon Web Service infrastructure makes OpenBOM available for teams and manufacturing companies across the globe.

Autodesk strategy of cloud platform development is well aligned with OpenBOM multi-tenant SaaS data management...

Centric Software announces that the latest release of its flagship Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution, Centric 8 PLM version 7.0, is now available. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury and consumer goods companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Developed with Centric Software's customer partners and Customer Advisory Board, Centric 8 v7.0 offers a variety of powerful innovations designed to bring brands, retailers and manufacturers closer to consumers by accelerating digital transformation, speeding time to market and increasing agility. Centric PLM users now can source a product from...

Tesco, a leading UK retailer of consumer goods, has partnered with Centric Software®. Choosing to implement Centric’s market-leading Retail Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution, Tesco aims to share information more efficiently across internal teams and with external suppliers. “With Centric Retail PLM in place, we expect to experience a much more simple, efficient way of working. We want to enable our colleagues to trust the data they work with and collaborate in real time” comments the Tesco PLM Programme Team. Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric Software says of the partnership: “We are very excited to announce that Tesco...

CEAD, a Netherlands-based provider of large-scale, composite 3D printing, and Siemens are expanding on an existing collaboration and will be jointly presenting their latest development, the AM Flexbot, at Formnext next week. The new system is a modular, hybrid technology for precision, large-scale parts.

Specializing in polymer and fiber-reinforced 3D printing, CEAD is perhaps best known for its CFAM Prime 3D printer. Based on its patented Continuous Fiber Additive Manufacturing (CFAM), the gantry-based 3D printer is capable of printing fiber reinforced parts measuring up to 4 x...

Rockwell Automation announced strong market momentum for its PTC partnership and joint digital transformation solutions. This performance includes a year of major achievements spanning new customers and use cases, innovations designed to accelerate the integration of OT and IT systems, and wide-spread industry recognition for the two companies’ combined industrial software suite, FactoryTalk InnovationSuite™, powered by PTC.

“In the past year, the Rockwell Automation and PTC teams have worked closely to integrate and optimize FactoryTalk InnovationSuite to the needs of a very fast growing, dynamic market,” said John Genovesi, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Accounts...

Rockwell Automation announced strong market momentum for its PTC partnership and joint digital transformation solutions. This performance includes a year of major achievements spanning new customers and use cases, innovations designed to accelerate the integration of OT and IT systems, and wide-spread industry recognition for the two companies’ combined industrial software suite, FactoryTalk InnovationSuite™, powered by PTC.

“In the past year, the Rockwell Automation and PTC teams have worked closely to integrate and optimize FactoryTalk InnovationSuite to the needs of a very fast growing, dynamic market,” said John Genovesi, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Accounts...

Siemens announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire MultiMechanics, Inc., developer of MultiMech finite element software that helps companies virtually predict failure in advanced materials at an unprecedented level of speed and accuracy. The company plans to integrate MultiMechanics into Siemens Digital Industries Software, which will add the ability for customers to create a digital twin of materials by closely integrating materials engineering with part design, performance engineering, and manufacturing through the unique TRUE Multiscale™ technology for a broad range of material-driven applications. MultiMechanics’ technology helps companies to efficiently predict material properties and behavior, including failure starting at...

Topcoder, a Wipro company, and the world’s largest technology network and on-demand digital talent platform, today unveiled Talent-as-a-Service (TaaS) at the 2019 Topcoder Open and Innovation Summit in Houston, USA. TaaS is an innovative open workforce model that provides highly skilled technology talent on-demand and empowers enterprise teams to scale quickly with proven resources from anywhere in the world. 

According to the January 2019 Gartner 4Q18 Emerging Risks Survey*, “Sixty-three percent of respondents indicated that 

The declining bee population is not just a problem for honey lovers; it’s a threat to the global food supply.

Oracle announced a partnership with The World Bee Project CIC in 2018, offering the use of its cloud storage and AI analytics tools to support the organization’s goals and innovations such as its BeeMark honey certification.

The World Bee Project is the first private organization to launch a global honeybee monitoring initiative to inform and implement actions to improve pollinator habitats, create more sustainable ecosystems, and improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods by...

­Mastercam, CAD/CAM software developed by CNC Software, Inc., was proud to be on display as a sponsorship partner of Team Witch Doctor in season 9 of Discovery’s BattleBots series. Team Witch Doctor, led by Andrea Gellatly, competes in the BattleBots competition on the Discovery Channel. The collaboration was a great benefit to company culture and provided a strong platform from which to promote the benefits of STEM education.

Gellatly leads a team including her husband Mike Gellatly, Paul Grata, Christian Chiriboga, Steven Sharp, Katheryn Sharp, Jennifer Villa, and Rick Pease. They actively promote robotics and educational efforts to...