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IBM has been announced as a Founding Partner of the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit at Think 2018, a conference where thought-leaders from around the world gather with the aim of building a smarter business world, held in Las Vegas from 19-22 March. The Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit was established in 2015 to build bridges between manufacturers, governments and NGOs, technologists, and investors in harnessing the transformative impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) to regenerate the global economy. As a joint initiative by the United Arab Emirates government and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit is the world’s first-ever cross industry forum, committed to promoting a roadmap for manufacturing that echoes the evolution of technology, international trade, and global best practices.  Committed to global good, the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit aims to ensure not only the future prosperity of the

Centric Software announces that Urban Revivo (UR), a leading Chinese fast fashion retailer, has successfully gone live with Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution after just four months. UR was founded in 2006 and has experienced incredible success, becoming the number one fast fashion company in China. With rapid growth and ambitious plans for global expansion, UR decided to select a PLM solution to support their product development and merchandising infrastructure. In September 2017, UR began implementing Centric 8 PLM. The implementation was completed in January 2018, finishing in just four months. “The deployment was perfect!” exclaims Budwhite Zhang, CIO at UR. “We were impressed by the Centric team’s great knowledge, program management skills and regular updates on their progress. We knew that a PLM system would assist us with planning collections and leveraging design and development work. We also wanted to take much better control of the

Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced a definitive agreement to purchase privately-held Cape Networks based in Cape Town, South Africa, and San Francisco. Cape Networks will become a part of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, and will expand Aruba’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered networking capabilities with a sensor-based service assurance solution that gives customers a simple, proactive, and network-agnostic tool for measuring and monitoring SaaS, application, and network services. The solution helps organizations deliver the best possible end user experience by enabling IT to get ahead of service quality issues before they occur, accelerate time to resolution, and lower cost of operations. Due to the proliferation of mobile, cloud and IoT, the need to diagnose end-user application availability and performance of mission critical services has become essential for business success. By applying a sensor-based and network agnostic approach to service assurance, Cape Networks proactively tests the availability and performance of services and

Complimentary webinar will show the importance of developing a realistic ROI for gaining executive support for PLM. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 27 March 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Tom Gill, Practice Manager for PLM Enterprise Value & Integration, will participate in a webinar, titled “ROI for PLM Deployments in the Food and Beverage Industry.” The webinar will be broadcast twice on April 11 & 12, 2018. Sponsored by SpecPage, the webinar will show how the use of PLM by food and beverage companies to address speed-to-market, product cost, traceability, and regulatory compliance issues can have a significant business impact. The benefits of using PLM include: Revenue growth Accelerated time-to-market Controlled product management i.e. data governance Product and process cost reduction in the lifecycle Cost avoidance To learn more or to register for the free webinar visit: https://www.specpage.com/lp/webinar/ About Tom Gill Tom Gill is CIMdata’s Practice Manager for PLM Enterprise Value & Integration.

Theorem Solutions announces the latest release of CADverter V20.3 for CATIA V5i to NX. CATIA V5i-NX is a uni-directional direct database converter between the Dassault Systemes’ V5 and Siemens’ NX modelling applications. It can be packaged with our NX-CATIA V5i to create a bi-directional product. It has been developed using the Spatial (Dassault) Interop Development Environment and supports all CATIA V5 revisions from V5 R15 to V5-6R2017, and NX 9, 10 and 11. In this latest version, the new Theorem Unified Interface (UI) is supported for both interactive and batch processing. There are also interactive import/export menus in NX that are available for users. Designed for companies who have limited or no access to the CATIA V5 application, but who need to create or read NX data, the CATIA V5i -NX CADverter is a high quality, cost effective translation solution designed to help solve the issue of working with and sharing incompatible data

Visual Next is proud to announce their sponsorship of the NAUMD 2018 conference and expo taking place in St-Louis, Missouri from March 25th to March 28th, 2018. Along with their entire best-of-breed End2End suite of apparel specific business software, Visual Next will demonstrate their Uniform Customer Portal (UCP) module, built specifically for uniform manufacturers and distributors to sell their products faster and more sustainably. Visual Next sponsored the NAUMD convention last year in Nashville, Tennessee where Charles Benoualid, VP of Research and Development presented on the subject of taking on modern uniform industry business challenges by implement omnichannel strategies and leveraging the latest technological innovations. “We are looking forward to attending the NAUMD conference again this year to gain an even better understanding of the uniform market’s greatest challenges, and discuss what the future holds,” proclaimed Philippe Lafortune, Sales Director at Visual Next. “Visual Next has been creating world-class business management software for over

Stark Aerospace has deployed Plataine's Industrial IoT (IIoT) solution to enable a major increase in production capacity while meeting demanding standards of quality and on-time delivery. The global defense contractor implemented Plataine's Material and Asset Tracker (MAT) solution within two weeks to digitize, manage and optimize advanced manufacturing processes to the most demanding technical specifications. Plataine's solution provides factory staff with actionable insights & recommendations to improve the factory's efficiency and streamline the entire manufacturing process. Sensors attached to production floor assets such as raw material rolls, kits, parts and layup tools, collect real-time data about assets' location and status, and digitize Stark's manufacturing processes, also enabling full traceability and auditability of the Digital Thread. Stark has expanded its manufacturing facilities to allow production of several new product lines. The firm used to extensively rely on paperwork and manual processes to manage its operations. The inevitable outcome has been inefficient utilization of material, human

Rubicon Global has been officially certified as a “Great Place to Work” following a Great Place to Work® review, which featured a 2018 Trust Index© Survey of Rubicon employees.  Rubicon’s mission is to solve the global issue of waste and create a more circular economy. Rubicon’s goal is to help businesses, governments and organizations confidently execute on their sustainability goals, always with an eye towards those solutions that have long-term economic viability. Rubicon works to find new efficiencies and cost savings in every customer’s waste stream and to develop new and innovative ways to reduce, re-use and recycle materials. In earning this certification, Rubicon joins an esteemed list of technology companies such as Salesforce, Dropbox and Expedia, as well as leading Fortune500 companies such as American Express, AT&T and Cisco, which have long been models for 21st Century workplaces. Reviewed companies are given ratings based on current employees’ feedback via an anonymous survey.

OpenText today announced that Malcolm Gladwell, author of five New York Times bestsellers, and Billy Beane, legendary baseball executive, will be keynote speakers at OpenText Enterprise World 2018. These world-class speakers join Mark J. Barrenechea, Vice Chair, CEO and CTO, OpenText on the Enterprise World stage, where he will address the future of technology, and the intelligent and connected enterprise. "The future of business is radically changing and the nexus of forces are epic: digital, cloud, AI, IOT, security, millennial workforce and consumers, quantum computing and more.  Businesses need to transform legacy platforms to digital platforms in order to compete and win the future," said Barrenechea. "Enterprise World 2018 is the world's leading Digital and Enterprise Information Management forum, and an incredible opportunity for our customers and partners to hear first-hand how OpenText's purpose and promise is inspiring new ways to work and engaging both humans and machines in the digital experience." Barrenechea will

In order to fully understand the impacts involved in the textile supply chain, and where we can make even better choices, ISKO has worked to obtain Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) of all of its 25,000+ denim products, in line with ISO 14040 and ISO 14044. An LCA is a globally recognised methodology used to assess and quantify the environmental footprint of a product, considering impacts across the entire product lifecycle from raw material to finished product. By understanding the environmental footprint of any product, we are able to identify any areas where improvements can be made, and allow our customers to make fully informed decisions. In order to ensure the validity and replicability of the LCAs, publicly available and independently verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPD®) have been produced by ISKO, in line with ISO 14025. ISKO has become the first denim manufacturer globally to obtain pre-certified EPD®s for all of