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ZW3D successfully participated in the Sea Cleaners project in September. The Sea Cleaner Project, launched by Yvan Bourgnon in 2016, aims to reduce the plastic pollution present in the oceans which need a revolutionary giant ship capable of collecting all these plastics waste. “This environmental project is essential to ensure the protection of oceans,” said Julien Léger, Marketing Manager of ZW France. “The wishes of The Sea Cleaners are fitting with ZWSOFT because we want to contribute to any solutions or ideas which are innovative and ambitious to save our environment.”  In the form of a technical sponsorship, ZW3D provided Standard Version licenses to all the engineers and naval architects working on the project. ZW3D will also offer free training on ZW3D to designers who will work on the design of the ship. The vessel - Manta, designed by ZW3D, will be capable of collecting waste both on the high seas and near the

Wipro Limited today announced that it has become a silver member of The Linux Foundation and a bronze member of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL).   AGL is a collaborative open source project that is bringing together automakers, suppliers and technology companies to accelerate the development and adoption of a fully-open software stack for connected vehicle services. With Linux at its core, AGL is developing an open platform from the ground up that can serve as the de facto industry standard to enable rapid development of new features and technologies for the automotive segment.   Wipro is a strategic engineering and software partner to many leading automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and tier-1 suppliers, across the globe. This membership will enable Wipro to accelerate the adoption of open source for all the software needs inside a vehicle. Linux-based open source software will help to accelerate innovation and faster time-to-market for automotive customers.

Wipro Limited today announced plans to deliver the Wipro BoundaryLess Data Center (BLDC) solution built on Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack to help customers expand their infrastructure capabilities beyond the traditional walls of the enterprise datacenter. This joint offering will help Wipro’s customers benefit from an economic cloud model, in a hybrid environment across both on-premises data centers and the Azure public cloud. The Application Programmable Interface (API) compatible services of the Microsoft Azure Stack solution, running on premises, will enable workloads to be deployed on either Azure Stack or Azure public cloud without refactoring and changes. This will provide flexibility to enterprises in moving workloads back and forth based on business demands, security compliance and capacity requirements. Additionally, it will usher in agility and fast-paced innovation associated with cloud computing, enabling organisations to go beyond traditional data centers, transform and future-proof their business with a

Wharfedale Technologies has joined the ranks of Microsoft’s Global Black Belt Team, dedicated to helping the tech giant's business clients integrate their business processes with its Azure cloud computing platform. Wharfedale Technologies is a long-time SAP partner providing cloud technology services to Microsoft clients making the transition into the company's Azure cloud platform environment. Wharfedale Technologies' part in the Global Black Belt initiative is led by Senior Vice President Praveen Gadura. He is investing the company's considerable resources into top-down training on Microsoft Azure's value proposition, working alongside Microsoft's top SAP executives. About Microsoft Global Black Belt Team, which is part of a specialist sales team, a group of highly experienced sales and technical professionals, tasked with helping customers and partners accelerate their business transformation by adopting and leveraging new and advanced Microsoft Cloud solutions. This team is comprised of professionals with extraordinary technical acumen and business development skills. "One

Averna, a Test & Quality Solutions provider, announced today an agreement with PTC to become a ThingWorx® IoT Partner. Averna will open a ThingWorx Center of Excellence to help clients with IT/OT (operational technology) alignment as part of their industry 4.0 transformation. Averna will help customers leverage the power of an IoT Platform to give them complete product quality visibility across the entire lifecycle, as well as insight on manufacturing and assembly processes, and real-time monitoring of machines and systems' status and health. As an integrator and solution provider of ThingWorx, Averna will develop intelligent operational technology (OT) systems, combining both hardware and software, to help clients monitor events, processes and devices and make adjustments in enterprise and industrial operations. "Our partnership with PTC, will bring a disruptive offering of technologies, knowledge, methods, processes, services and workforce to business needs in the digital manufacturing era," said André Gareau, CEO of Averna. 

Christina Fuges writes: “When asked what type of assistance best fits their additive manufacturing (AM) needs, half of the attendees polled during a recent webinar answered that they need help with product lifecycle management (PLM). What does this have to do with AM? Plenty, especially as the focus on designing for AM and bringing AM into the production environment continues. When AM was primarily used for producing models, prototypes and one-off parts made of nonproduction-ready materials, governance of enterprise solutions like PLM was not necessary. But with advances in materials, machines and software for AM, along with demand for parts in lower volumes, AM is becoming a production process. To fully implement an AM part and process, information must be integrated with the digital thread, and that means managing data. The digital thread can be understood as a high-level description of what PLM does, connecting all the digital information (files,

IBM today announced that Faurecia, one of the world’s leading automotive suppliers, has selected IBM Cloud as a support of a major business transformation designed to accelerate digital manufacturing. Managing an ever-growing global enterprise of manufacturing and sales, Faurecia’s digital transformation is centered on seamlessly generating and communicating data, including data on production quality and manufacturing processes, to drive efficiency and productivity, while making production processes more visible and controllable. Faurecia selected IBM to build a global cloud solution to collect, manage and analyze data from every production machine across the company. By using the capabilities of cloud and analytics, non-quality can be drastically reduced allowing for better efficiency. At the core of the solution is a data lake in the IBM Cloud, a massive repository that stores data in its native form until needed and accessed. The data lake stores quality data from every product at different stages of the manufacturing cycle, in

Lantek has announced its results for the first half of 2017, which show substantial growth in its client portfolio and its sales, thereby consolidating its positioning as a leader on an international level. Currently, there are already more than 19,000 companies, in more than 100 countries, on five continents, that place their trust in the technology developed by Lantek which has its headquarters in Vitoria-Gasteiz. With a client base covering the most advanced countries in the world, Lantek experienced a growth of 15% during the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2016. The increase was notable in markets such as China, the USA, Korea and Turkey. Turkey is particularly significant with values above 20%, not to mention other countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom and France, where the results have also improved compared to the first half of the previous year.

PTC today announced it will demonstrate how IoT is enabling new business models and creating value across the industry at IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) on Oct. 3-5 in Barcelona. PTC will be located in booth C300 / TB2. At IOTSWC, PTC will showcase its ThingWorx® Industrial IoT Platform, which provides a broad and robust set of integrated IoT-specific development tools for developing innovative IoT solutions for a variety of industry applications. ThingWorx includes rapid application development functionality, connectivity, advanced analytics, machine learning, and augmented reality, and integrates with leading device clouds. These capabilities enable businesses to securely connect assets and create innovative applications and services, supporting digital transformation initiatives across industries. Demonstrations using Bosch Rexroth’s innovative CytroPac, a hydraulic system used to power industrial machines, will take attendees through the stages of product development, from the engineering phase through marketing and sales. In these demos, experts will show how ThingWorx solutions can be

ModuleWorks announces an agreement with Siemens PLM Software in the area of advanced CAM technology. ModuleWorks is providing and further developing advanced CAM programming technology to be integrated into the Siemens’ NX™ software, a leading integrated solution for computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE). The close working arrangement with Siemens PLM Software covers topics that range from core CAM processing, general 3x and 5x milling to focused complex applications.    “ModuleWorks’ proven software technology can help us to add valuable new capabilities to the NX CAM system, and to do so very quickly, helping us to provide faster, easier programming and increased machining efficiencies.”  said Vynce Paradise, Director of Advanced Part Manufacturing for Siemens PLM Software. “The benefits of this partnership are already available to thousands of existing NX CAM users. We will continue to collaborate closely with the ModuleWorks team on requirements for extended functionality and on special projects.”