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Minerva today announced that the company is official sponsor at the ACE Europe 2017 conference held in Munich, Germany on 21st to 22nd of November. The gathering is the premier event in Europe that connects the most innovative product development, IT and manufacturing teams from Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, High Tech Electronics, Industrial and Medical Device Manufacturing to shape the future of PLM. The conference brings together industry and technology leaders to connect and collaborate on strategies to address the growing complexity in global product development, systems engineering, manufacturing, quality and the supply chain. With its community-based format, the ACE global series offers an open learning environment for everyone, from companies expanding Aras, to businesses that are just starting a PLM initiative or replacing a legacy PLM or PDM system.  For more details, agenda and registration, please click here. Search for Minerva on CIMdata.com

Siemens has entered into a strategic partnership with Ingegneria Dei Sistemi (IDS), an independent engineering and systems technologies company based in Italy, to provide high-frequency electromagnetic (EM) engineering solutions to the market. As such, the Simcenter™ portfolio will have a more complete offering, with the additional ability to engineer the electromagnetic performance of systems with regard to antenna design and installation, EM Compatibility (EMC), EM Interference (EMI), EM hazards and more. This strategic partnership fits into Siemens’ goal to address the engineering needs of smart systems with convergence of product lifecycle management (PLM) and electronic design automation (EDA) software. By further complementing solutions from Mentor, the partnership reinforces Siemens’ offerings in autonomous driving (AD) and the Internet of Things (IoT). “Partnering with Siemens creates tremendous leverage on our 40 years of EM expertise, having successfully solved the toughest EM problems in highly demanding industries like naval, space and aviation,” said Mauro Bandinelli,

Infosys today announced that it has launched a private cloud solution in collaboration with Micro Focus SUSE, a pioneer in open source software, providing software-defined data center infrastructure and application delivery solutions. This solution will help businesses significantly accelerate their digital transformation journey by being hardware agnostic, enabling faster time to market through rapid adoption, providing faster delivery of services, and greater infrastructure agility and control. Infosys and Micro Focus SUSE have jointly invested in a center of excellence to develop validated reference architectures, accelerators and factory based migration solutions which will help customers in rapid adoption of private cloud built on SUSE OpenStack. This partnership aims at strengthening Infosys’ association with Micro Focus SUSE and positions Infosys as a strategic Global Platinum partner, backed by over 500 architects and consultants having data center transformation and migration capabilities. SUSE OpenStack Cloud is an automated cloud computing platform that enables organizations

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei joined hands with Infosys and Wapwag, a provider of smart water affair solutions. Together they released a series of important innovative practices including smart robots/ machine tools and smart water affairs based on open edge computing IoT, accelerating the implementation of industry applications. Under the trend of digital transformation, industries such as manufacturing and water management are developing towards intelligent IoT. However, the network edge still faces many challenges such as having many heterogeneous connections and difficulties in data analysis, data processing, and device management. The smart industrial robots or machine tools solution jointly released this time by Huawei and Infosys, based on open edge computing IoT, supports the interconnection with industrial robots or machine tools of different vendors, quickly adapts to intelligent data processing requirements in different industrial manufacturing scenarios, helps manufacturers anticipate faults, and improves maintenance efficiency of robots or machine tools. Mike

Seamlessly connecting the disconnected with an end-to-end, extended enterprise approach. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 26 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new whitepaper focused on Configit’s end-to-end configuration lifecycle management approach titled “Configuration Lifecycle Management: Seamlessly Connecting the Disconnected.” Product complexity is increasing, in part due to the incorporation of embedded electronics and software in today’s smart, connected products. This increase in the level of complexity must be handled by an efficient configuration management methodology with appropriate enabling technologies. Traditional configuration management approaches can no longer manage the complexity and disconnects that many companies are facing and it becomes necessary to enable new methodologies and technologies that support a holistic, end-to-end, multi-disciplinary, and lifecycle oriented process of configuration management. Mr. Peter Bilello, CIMdata’s President stated, “For most companies, product complexity is increasing well beyond their ability to support it with traditional configuration management approaches and

NGC Software today announced that Byer California, the creators of on-trend, affordable clothes for young women, has implemented NGC’s PLM. Byer California has improved workflow and standardized product development with NGC’s solution, providing complete visibility and control from concept to delivery. Prior to implementing NGC’s PLM solution, Byer California used a legacy PDM application to create spec packages. Although the immediate need was to replace the legacy application, the company took the opportunity to broaden the scope to include other product development areas, such as design, preproduction and production. “After extensively reviewing other PLM software providers, we selected NGC Software because of its long history working with manufacturers and clear understanding of Byer California’s needs,” said Nadine Manfredi, director of strategy and solutions, Byer California. “The user interface was clean and easy to use, and NGC offered it in a way that wasn’t overly complicated, allowing us to easily support the technology

PROS® today announced that three members of its executive team will present at the 2017 Microsoft Ignite and Envision conferences, scheduled for Sept. 25-29 in Orlando, Fla. PROS is a platinum and gold sponsor of Microsoft Envision and Microsoft Ignite, respectively. At the conferences, PROS will demonstrate its seamless integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and provide insights into its cloud solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. PROS will take the stage in three sessions: PROS Senior Vice President, Communications, Tim Girgenti will deliver a presentation at Microsoft Envision on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 9:45 a.m. titled “Accelerate Your Journey to Modern Commerce.” To fully implement modern commerce, dynamic pricing science is one of the most strategic competitive weapons in digital transformation. Girgenti will present examples of how dynamic pricing science and opportunity detection have advanced businesses along the modern commerce journey to meet their customers’ needs. Dewey Forrester, PROS Vice President of Global Alliances and Business Development, and Peter Boit, Icertis Executive Vice President, Business Development and Operations, will join Microsoft Corporate Vice President

solidThinking has announced the agenda for the 2nd European CONVERGE in Essen, Germany on October 17th, 2017. Inspiring presentations from Zaha Hadid, Faraone, Stephan Henrich Robotikdesign und Architektur, Sagrada Família Foundation, Elise Alfred Wegner Institut, thyssenkrupp Elevators, PROTIQ, and TU Dresden will cover topics spanning from architecture to design and engineering. The Master Classes offered on the afternoon of October 17th will provide deeper insights on how to design for style, function and design for industrial 3D printing.  “Our 2nd European CONVERGE conference agenda offers many highlights,” says Dr. Pietro Cervellera, Country Manager Altair Engineering GmbH. “With seven impressive presentations about architectural, design and engineering topics and the two master classes, attendees will get insights on innovative product design and development topics as well as how design and technology intersect to create the products of the future. I'm very much looking forward to the event and am certain that

Accenture will be the ‘Exclusive Digital Transformation Partner’ of GITEX Technology Week 2017 for the third year in a row. On the first day of the event, Accenture Digital Group Chief Executive Mike Sutcliff will be headlining the Grand Keynote session with an Artificial Intelligence case study, as part of the findings from Accenture’s ‘Middle East Technology Vision Report 2017’ that provides an in-depth look into the region’s technology trends. His Excellency Helal Saeed Almarri, Director General, Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing and the Dubai World Trade Centre Authority said: “We are proud to welcome back Accenture as the GITEX Technology Week Exclusive Digital Transformation Partner. Accenture’s continued participation year after year is a testament to its commitment to providing insights and bringing best practices to the Middle East. In line with the UAE Vision 2021 and Dubai Plan 2021, our nation is heavily focused on digitalization which is why

Telenor Group and Wireless Trondheim are joining forces to open a new IoT powerhouse to boost innovation, build competencies and promote Norwegian competitiveness. The IoT ProtoLab will be open to startups, developers and students looking to rapidly prototype and develop IoT products and services.  Opening in early 2018, the IoT ProtoLab will be a centre for IoT research and innovation, specifically focusing on next generation Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies and applications. It will also enable the exchange of data, sharing of experiences and collaboration with ongoing projects at the Telenor-NTNU AI-Lab. The lab was established as part of Telenor's initiative to prepare Norway for a digitised future, contribute to national competitiveness, increased innovation and new competencies. "The people and companies shaping tomorrow's society are the ones that are able to utilize and apply data in new ways. Telenor is committed to help build these capabilities in Norway. The IoT ProtoLab