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Digital manufacturing company Protolabs announced today that it has become a founding member of MIT’s newly formed Center for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies (ADAPT) — a consortium focused on scaling new manufacturing technology through research, education, actionable insights, and an MIT-based ecosystem that pairs industry and academia. “We’ve experienced firsthand the tremendous progress that additive manufacturing has made over the past decade, and we’re quickly approaching another important milestone in 3D printing’s rapid ascent into industrial manufacturing space. My hope is that ADAPT will not only evolve additive manufacturing as a viable digital manufacturing solution for prototyping, but also end-use production. We are thrilled to be a founding member of ADAPT to help make that a reality,” said Vicki Holt, President and CEO at Protolabs, which provides industrial 3D printing along with injection molding, sheet metal fabrication, and CNC machining services. Joining Protolabs as founding members of ADAPT are Autodesk, General Motors,

On January 1st 2019 Mr Augras will become the Managing Director of Eurostep SARL. Mr Augras has extensive experience in industries like aerospace and defence, automotive, AEC, etc. delivering a broad range of services, from architecture services to implementation projects. Previous to joining Eurostep Mr Augras was leading the PLM practice of Capgemini Paris. “We are very pleased to announce this,” says Håkan Kårdén, CEO Eurostep Group. “Mr Augras’s knowledge in PLM solutions from vendors like Siemens and Dassault Systemes will bring valuable experience to Eurostep as we are increasing our base of ShareAspace clients and delivering mission critical collaboration solutions,” ends Mr Kårdén. “Joining Eurostep is an opportunity for me to deliver services and solutions for architecture governance, helping clients to address the challenges of distributed engineering and heterogenous IS landscapes,” says Mr Augras. “With ShareAspace, it becomes more easy to run continuous business processes within the engineering supply chain across

Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd. (Mimaki), headquartered in Nagano Prefecture, Tomi City; President, Kazuaki IKEDA, has announced Mimaki’s participation in the “ADAPT (Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies)” consortium launched by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (hereinafter called MIT) as one of the founding members. “ADAPT” is a consortium directed by MIT professor John Hart, who leads MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity. With the aim of supporting the advanced additive manufacturing industry, ADAPT will promote research and education for next-generation manufacturing technology based on AM processes, including 3D printing. “We’ve been given an opportunity to install our UV flatbed inkjet printer [UJF-7151 plus] and 3D printer [3DUJ-553] at MIT to support AM-related classes and research activities. Working towards ADAPT’s vision of amalgamation and evolution of AM technology and digital production sought by MIT professor John Hart, Mimaki will continue to contribute to ADAPT activities through our inkjet technology and mass customization printing solution. And, we will feed back synergy

Supply & Demand Chain Executive has selected CBX Software, a leading provider of Retail Product Lifecycle Management (retail PLM), global sourcing software and extended supply chain software, as a recipient of an SDCE Green Supply Chain Award for 2018.   The Green Supply Chain Award recognizes companies making green or sustainability a core part of their supply chain strategy, and are working to achieve measurable sustainability goals within their own operations and supply chains. The awards also recognizes providers of supply chain solutions and services assisting their customers in achieving measurable sustainability goals. “This year’s award recipients place a critical emphasis on green initiatives within their companies and supply chains,” says John R. Yuva, editor for Supply & Demand Chain Executive. “Entries provide examples of innovative approaches and impressive metrics of sustainability programs.   “We congratulate this year’s honorees for their commitment to sustainability and recognize their tremendous achievements,” Yuva adds. “Our honorees serve

ConnectWise announced today that it has acquired Sienna Group, a leading managed security services provider (MSSP), as the company’s first major step to lead managed service providers (MSPs) into the world of cybersecurity. “The acquisition of Sienna Group will enable us to form the Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to educate MSPs on best practices of every aspect of cybersecurity,” said Arnie Bellini, CEO of ConnectWise. “The Sienna Group has more than 130 years of combined cybersecurity experience and understands how to provide those services to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Our mission is to leverage this expertise to educate, support and consult MSPs in the delivery of cybersecurity services because we want every MSP to learn how to safeguard its clients’ systems and critical data.” According to Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime has risen to $6 trillion annually, or 7 percent of the world’s economy. And the frequency and intensity of cyberattacks continues to

BigLever Software today announced its next generation Gears solution – Enterprise Gears. The new solution delivers a web-based interface that makes Gears fully accessible for all users, and a server API that enables the seamless integration of PLE with other tools, processes and enterprise systems. With Enterprise Gears an organization can advance and accelerate its digitalization efforts by implementing a leading-edge Feature-based PLE approach throughout the enterprise and across product lines. "Organizations face enormous challenges in managing the complexity of product variation across the interconnected engineering and operations lifecycle,” said Dr. Charles Krueger, CEO of BigLever Software. “This complexity continues to grow with the Internet of Things (IoT) and other emerging digital technologies. Digitalization is vitally important for companies to remain competitive, yet these efforts can be greatly impeded when a unified, enterprise-wide variant management solution is missing. Enterprise Gears allows organizations to leverage the full power of Feature-based PLE to

Anta, the largest sportswear company in China, has selected Centric Software to provide its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Anta Sports Products, Ltd. is the largest sports equipment and apparel company in China and the third largest in the world. Founded in 1994, Anta’s main focus is the design, development, manufacture and marketing of its own ANTA brand sports shoes, clothing and accessories for a range of sports including running, football, basketball, cross training and tennis. In 2017, Anta’s market value exceeded 100 billion Hong Kong dollars (12.75 billion USD). Anta has ambitious plans to develop its position in the Chinese and international markets over the next ten years and an industry-leading PLM solution is critical to realizing Anta’s ‘single-focus, multi-brand, omni-channel’ business strategy. “The Anta brand is striding out into the world and can be a truly international brand that attracts customers from all over the globe,” says

Dassault Systèmes today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IQMS, a leading manufacturing ERP software company, for $425 million. With the acquisition of the California-based IQMS, Dassault Systèmes extends the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to small and midsized manufacturing companies seeking to digitally transform their business operations. IQMS’s software – on premise EnterpriseIQ and software as a service WebIQ – deliver an all-in-one solution to mid-market manufacturers for managing engineering, manufacturing and business ecosystems by digitally connecting order processing, scheduling, production and shipping processes in real time. By integrating IQMS’s solutions into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud, Dassault Systèmes will provide these manufacturers with an affordable system for operations that improves the collaboration, manufacturing efficiency and business agility needed to serve their customers successfully. The manufacturers – many of them SOLIDWORKS users – also gain the flexibility to rapidly scale up as a business grows. In parallel, these manufacturers can

The Key Role of Modeling & Simulation in Enabling Closed-Loop Lifecycle Performance Engineering. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 December 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a whitepaper titled “Evolving from Digital Prototype to Physics-based Digital Twins.” While the concept of a digital twin has been around for several decades, since the early days of NASA, it has gained a great deal of attention within industrial manufacturing companies over the last several years with the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in the context of Industry 4.0. While the use of physics-based digital prototyping methods and their associated performance simulation technologies such as FEA and CFD have grown exponentially over the past 40+ years, their use has been largely limited to new product design and development activities, including final verification and validation of designs prior to release to manufacturing. With the deployment

With the growth of the Industrial Internet of Things and millions of smart, connected systems, the concepts of digital twin and digital thread are gaining rapid acceptance across many industry segments and promise to revolutionize the way that companies design, build, and maintain tomorrow’s complex cyber-physical systems and interconnected “systems of systems.” The physics-based digital twin is enabled by digital modeling and simulation technologies supporting closed-loop lifecycle performance engineering and will be key to realizing the promised business benefits of digital transformation. Download Full White Paper Here   Request Download First Name(*) Please let us know your name. Last Name(*) Invalid Input Email(*) Please let us know your email address. Company(*) Please write a subject for your message. Job Title Invalid Input Please check your email for a link to the requested content. Key Takeaway 1 Increased complexity of cyber-physical products with ever expanding embedded software and electronics along with Internet of Things-enabled operating environments demand thinking beyond the traditional engineering design silos and associated