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Anaplan today announced a significantly strengthened relationship with Deloitte, one of the world's largest professional services organizations. The two organizations committed to an accelerated growth plan to help drive the value that joint customers achieve with Anaplan's connected planning platform in finance, sales, and supply chain.  "We are thrilled to work even more closely with Deloitte to share the connected planning message with the market," said Anaplan President and CEO Frank Calderoni. "Customers tell us that connected planning is a key driver of successful digital transformation, and this strategic alliance with Deloitte will help us deliver the benefits of connected planning to even more customers worldwide." Deloitte will endeavor to make investments to strengthen its Anaplan capability. These include certifying additional Anaplan consultants; using the Anaplan platform as one of the core components in its digital transformation offering; and developing sales-, finance-, and supply chain–specific planning solutions based on its deep

The Mevea seminar is where world-class experts are presenting the possibilities, practical examples and benefits of using Digital Twin throughout the whole product lifecycle for supporting the product development, sales/marketing, training and customer service. Mevea will organise the seminar focusing on Digital Twin and virtual technologies on Wednesday, 4 October at the Finnish Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, Finland (15 min from Helsinki Airport – Navigation address: Kuninkaalantie 5). Please click here to learn more. Search for Mevea on CIMdata.com

 PDF Key takeaways: The deployment of 3D model-based enterprise (MBE) processes is rapidly expanding across multiple industry verticals and the use of 3D PDF plays a central role in their effective implementation. Anark Corporation and International TechneGroup have formed a strategic partnership to provide users a production quality 3D PDF solution for 3D data and document publishing, including model-based definition (MBD), validation, and exchange through the integration of ITI’s CADIQ and Anark Core technologies supported by their combined implementation expertise. The exchange of product design and manufacturing data between an OEM and its supply chain partners is critical to meeting a product’s on-time and on-budget goals. Yet, the reality of packaging data for delivery often falls short in both content and quality, contributing to delays and cost overruns. Two leading solution providers have recently formed a partnership to deliver state of the art data exchange and validation to facilitate communication between product stakeholders based

NEC Corporation today announced the sales launch in China of Obbligato for SaaS, NEC's product lifecycle management (PLM) cloud service, which has been adopted throughout the world. While Asian IT markets have been growing steadily in recent years, manufacturers are rapidly expanding, aiming at developing new business, and seeing more cases where they design and develop new products to accommodate local specifications in China. This increases needs for PLM cloud services that allow an organization to efficiently and inexpensively manage technical information for products and related documents, such as design drawings, specifications, and bill of materials (BOM). Obbligato for SaaS capitalizes on the track record and knowledge of the Obbligato Series adopted by more than 850 global companies. This leading PLM software in Japan has defined and offered standard functions for operations regarding BOM management, design change management and data loss prevention, serving as a cloud service.

Yourmoon, a Chinese manufacturer of home textiles for domestic and international retailers, has gone live with Centric Software's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Yourmoon was founded in 1995 in the province of Guangdong, China, and manufactures home textiles such as pillows, quilts and cushions. The company supplies household textile products to some of the world's biggest retailers, including Walmart, Carrefour and Metro as well as numerous large retailers in the Chinese market. Spanning design, manufacturing and distribution, Yourmoon employs more than 3,200 people and produces over 1,000 different household products. Until recently, Yourmoon has acted primarily as a wholesaler. However, they are now undergoing a significant brand transformation. As Mr Zhu Hua, CIO of Yourmoon explains, "Yourmoon began looking for a PLM solution because we needed a platform to support our brand transformation strategy. We want be a lifestyle brand that can offer great shopping experiences to consumers, rather than just a

Dassault Systèmes is enabling Valmet, a leading developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries, to increase customer satisfaction by proposing more innovative customer-oriented experiences at each service and sales opportunity. Valmet is using the “Single Source for Speed” industry solution experience to unify and manage its product development and order fulfillment across its engineering and service centers in 30 countries. In a digital collaborative environment, its teams have greater visibility on what products and services should be included in a specific offering, as well as on what future resources will be needed as a project evolves. This will help to improve the reliability and performance of its customers' processes and enhance their use of raw materials and energy. Valmet’s teams will be able to interact, leverage skills and knowledge, and easily and securely access a digital, single source of real-time information related to products,

Ideate Software, a veteran Autodesk Developer Network member, announced today that Craig H. Dodge, director of Sales, and Richard Taylor, technical evangelist, will attend BILT EUR 2017. They will demonstrate proprietary Ideate Software tools that enhance the experience of Autodesk® Revit® software users. “Ideate Software tools streamline Revit workflows for professionals in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) community,” said Mr. Dodge. “This conference provides an ideal opportunity for us to connect with our customers and others in the community, listen to their challenges and show them how Ideate Software addresses those challenges, and learn of new issues with Revit workflows that we may address in future releases of our software.” BILT is the premier global BIM training conference for those who design, build, operate, and maintain built environments. It’s the only global, non-profit conference series dedicated to expanding BIM adoption through education Here are highlights of the tools developed by Ideate

Designlive Inc. and X3DMedia Limited, publishers of product development technology magazine, DEVELOP3D, have announced DEVELOP3D LIVE USA 2017, to be held at Boston University on 23 - 24 October 2017.   The event will bring together some of the world’s best practitioners of product development and manufacturing, as well as providers of advanced technologies for creating the inventions of the future.   Returning to Boston following its successful launch in 2016, this year’s two day conference and exhibition will focus on advanced product development and manufacturing technology.    Highlights include keynotes from some of the most revered design and engineering leaders alongside hotly anticipated, up-and-coming talent from the world of product development.  These include:  Hackrod - Founder Mike ‘Mouse’ McCoy will discuss his team’s ground breaking work to bring artificial intelligence and 3D printing to the automotive world VER - the creators of ESPN’s Front Row Cam will explain how robotics and 3D printing are bringing

WWF-India, in partnership with Capgemini, today launched One Planet Academy (OPA), the first environment education portal for students and teachers in India. Leveraging the affinity of today's learners towards technology, the website focuses on various environmental themes and is a digital hub for schools, teachers and students that brings under its ambit a digital training and resource centre. The OPA is designed to be a one-stop destination for educational information and interactive and engaging content on the environment and sustainable practices. The website encourages schools to adopt green practices, offers project and activity ideas for the teachers, along with online training courses, and houses games, comics, interactive maps etc, for the students. According to the Living Planet Report 2016, released by WWF, the global population of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles has declined by 58 percent between 1970 and 2012. The report also shows that India ranks fifth in

QuEST Global and Siemens have reached an agreement to build and deliver a suite of digital manufacturing solutions for customers across verticals. By adding the Siemens Digital Twin offerings, QuEST can now showcase a complete range of connected manufacturing solutions. This will be further bolstered by the establishment of two 'Digital Factory Innovation Labs', in Bengaluru and Belgaum, India. Speaking at the event, Dr. Ajay A. Prabhu, Chief Operating Officer, QuEST Global said, "This partnership underlines QuEST's continued commitment to our customers as they foray in their connected enterprise journey. We will now be able to provide comprehensive digital manufacturing solutions to marquee global manufacturers, enabling their smooth transition into Industry 4.0. Our customers will now be able to leverage the benefits of digital transformation, by virtually replicating their designs and manufacturing processes in real time. In addition to developing, testing and implementing end-to-end digital solutions, they can also validate their LEAN manufacturing ideas in our labs.