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The 2016 Prime Source Forum (PSF), the international platform that offers solutions and intelligence exchange for the fashion industry, is to open its doors in three weeks in Hong Kong.

Senior executives and senior stakeholders from the apparel and footwear supply chain have signed up for attending this event receive the latest industry updates and network with the peers.

The 2016 Prime Source Forum is the international platform that offers solutions and intelligence exchange for the fashion industry.

Some of the companies represented at the event include Academy, adidas, ALDI, BlueSign, Clarks, Coats, Cotton Council, Crocs, CTI, Dassault...

Edgecam, the production machining CAD/CAM software, will demonstrate their major new release at the Smart Manufacturing Workflow Open House which is taking place at CIS’ Product Proving Centre in High Wycombe.

The Open House, hosted by CIS, is a 5-Axis event held in partnership with Grob and Edgecam. The focus of the two days is Smart Workflow, which considers all the stages of the manufacturing process and many suppliers will be available for discussions on a number of topics including CAM, tool pre-setting, spindle tooling, balancing, shrink fit machining, metrology, work holding and fixturing. 

Edgecam will also showcase...

PTC today announced that the PTC Academic Program has released a series of online courses available worldwide through Udemy, an established provider of MOOCs. These courses focus on general product development and business strategies associated with the IoT and include presentations, demos and use cases. Participants who utilize these courses will gain specific IoT knowledge that will enable them to extend current education, freshen job skills and prepare for a new career in today’s IoT world.

A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model that seeks to deliver learning content online to any person who wants to take a course,...

Aras®, a leader in enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, and CGI Business Consulting today announced their partnership. The intent of the relationship is to deliver specialized intellectual property (IP) and expert integration services with Aras for global companies.

As part of the high-end business consulting activities in the Research & Development (R&D) domain, CGI Business Consulting will now include the Aras Innovator platform & suite in the business transformation practices and methodologies.

With Aras Innovator, CGI Business Consulting plans to develop operational frameworks and IP for system engineering, advanced manufacturing engineering, and compliance processes including Advanced Product Quality...

Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. today announced the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, in connection with the companies’ proposed combination. The expiration of the waiting period occurred at 11:59 p.m. EST on Feb. 22, satisfying one of the conditions to the closing of the proposed transaction. The transaction remains subject to approval by EMC’s shareholders, regulatory clearance in certain other jurisdictions and other customary closing conditions.

As announced on Oct. 12, 2015, the combination of Dell and EMC will create the world’s largest privately-controlled, integrated technology company. The company...

Synopsys, Inc. today announced that it has collaborated with Mindtree to deliver a complete Bluetooth Smart IP solution consisting of Synopsys' DesignWare® Bluetooth® Smart PHY IP on TSMC's 55-nanometer (nm) and 180-nm processes and Mindtree's BlueLitE link layer and software stack IP. The interoperable Bluetooth Smart IP solution addresses the growing requirements for wireless connectivity in ultra-low-power system-on-chips (SoCs) for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Synopsys' PHY IP operates below one volt supply to extend battery life and is compliant with the Bluetooth Smart v4.2 specification. The PHY IP offers an integrated antenna matching network to ensure proper...

ZW3D, one of the world's leading suppliers of advanced CAD/CAM solutions for the manufacturing industry, today announced that it has been chosen by Goldlok Toys Holdings Co., Ltd. (Goldlok), a professional Chinese toy maker. Established in 1989, Goldlok specializes in creating quality, price-competitive, battery-operated toys, such as electric trains, robots, jets & planes, etc. Their products are mainly exported to East Asia, America, Europe & Australia, etc.

In a bid to further expand their export business, Goldlok invests a lot in upgrading their tools in designing & manufacturing toys of high quality. Thus, optimizing the 3D design platform...

NGC Software today announced that Brian Brothers, developers of the popular urban menswear brand Jordan Craig, is implementing NGC’s fashion PLM and Supply Chain Management (SCM) system. The rapidly growing apparel brand reviewed apparel software solutions from other leading PLM vendors and chose NGC based on its extensive knowledge of the fashion industry and the strength and flexibility of its best-in-class enterprise solution.

NGC’s PLM/SCM system will provide Brian Brothers with an enterprise platform that easily shares information among its design and production teams, improving collaboration, accuracy and responsiveness.

“We need...

Wipro today announced a partnership with SugarCRM, the company that enables businesses to create extraordinary customer relationships with the most innovative, flexible and affordable CRM solution in the market, to offer Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions to enterprise customers.

As part of the partnership, Wipro is establishing a new SugarCRM practice within Wipro’s CRM service line. The company is also building a SugarCRM Center of Excellence (COE) with SugarCRM-trained and certified employees who can attend to customers worldwide. Wipro currently has more than 55 COEs designed to offer clients the best technologies available for transformative business solutions.

“We look...

Wipro, Cognizant and Accenture have entered the fray to bag a business process outsourcing contract from ride-hailing app Uber to improve its mapping and thereby the experience for its customers and drivers. Uber has floated a request for proposal (RFP) for the Uber Map Improvement Group. The attempt is to enhance its mapping assets, including to ensure faster pick-up times.

Uber is learnt to have told IT/BPO service providers that it would launch map improvement at scale beginning March and is looking to onboard 500 to 1,000 operators, running in two shifts, by the end of 2016 or early...