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 PDF Key takeaways: A global stalwart in mid-market enterprise resource planning, IFS is taking on today’s market challenges, relying on the cloud, and delivering on IoT and AI. EQT, their private equity owners since 2015, have continued to invest in the company, its products and ecosystems, and M&A, extending their years of strong financial performance. IFS’ investments, particularly on the cloud, seem perfectly timed to hit the cloud adoption wave evolving enterprise software. With these investments, and the work in IFS Labs and R&D, the company is well positioned for the years ahead. CIMdata recently attended the IFS World Conference 2018, held in Atlanta, Georgia on 1-3 May 2018. IFS’ largest event ever totaled about 1,400 people, including 75 partner firms, IFS staff, and customers and prospects. Founded in 1983, IFS is known for IFS Applications, their component-based enterprise offering shown in Figure 1. Version 10 was launched in 2018. IFS also has other strong offerings,

Announced on the Onshape blog: “Today we are introducing Onshape Enterprise, a new premium edition of Onshape designed for modern companies with sophisticated design processes that include multiple contributors across multiple locations. Onshape Enterprise helps these companies accelerate their unique design processes while protecting IP to a degree that is impossible with old CAD and PDM. We’ve been working on Enterprise secretly for over a year and some of our most sophisticated customers have had production access for six months. They love it. Here’s why... In larger companies, an ever increasing number of internal and external stakeholders across many locations need access to design data for products that are produced with increasingly complex and encumbered design processes. As these companies strain to make decades-old CAD and PDM technology operate in their complex environment, they are forced to choose between being agile or having some semblance of control. They experience chronic

PROSTEP announces their Premium Sponsorship at Siemens PLM Connection Americas 2018 held in Phoenix, AZ on June 4-7, 2018. The event provides PROSTEP experts the opportunity to educate the audience in PLM, secure data exchange, and 3D PDF technologies to expand knowledge of PLM connections and interoperability. PROSTEP, together with Siemens, will provide a co-presentation titled Managing Simulation Data in a Multi-PLM Environment.  Other presentations include 3 Keys to a Successful Siemens, Benefits of MBD Enabled 3D PDF in Enterprise, Secure Additive Manufacturing Data Exchange using Blockchain Technology, and How to Securely Exchange Data Outside Your Enterprise.   To register for Siemens PLM Connection Americas 2018, please visit the website. For more information about PROSTEP, please visit www.prostep.com. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for PROSTEP on CIMdata.com

Vanguard Software signed a deal in which NexInfo will sell, implement, and support Vanguard Software's unified cloud platform for Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and forecasting. Vanguard Software Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Neal Goffman believes the partnership will help Vanguard increase its presence in the Oracle ERP user market, as well as among users of other top-tier enterprise systems, including SAP and Microsoft. "NexInfo's experience with Oracle and other top-tier systems will help Vanguard extend its reach into those user communities," said Goffman. He added that the deal also complements NexInfo's strong base of enterprise system makers with a best-of-breed plugin platform for forecasting and planning. "It's a stronger go-to-market offering for all involved," he said. Vanguard Software's cloud platform includes applications for sales forecasting, demand planning, inventory optimization, budgeting and forecasting, sales and operations planning (S&OP), and IBP with full financial integration. NexInfo is an Oracle Platinum Partner that specializes in value

Big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, or Industry 4.0, they are the buzzwords in news headlines and industry forums every day and all around the world. At their core these trends are all focused on data integration and finding ways to effectively streamline operations to address an ever increasing on-demand world. “The simple fact is, no matter what buzzword you use, Gerber has been the first to actively support our customers in their pursuit of Industry 4.0 and the proof is in the actual working micro-factory we are displaying on the show floor with our partners,” said Scott Schinlever, president & chief operating officer, Automation Solutions at Gerber Technology.  The wide variety in the textile, fashion and apparel industries means that different supply chains demand different approaches. Some require mass production with speed and efficiency in high volume, while others demand small batch or short run production to increase speed

CONTACT Software Schweiz AG can look back on an excellent business year and expects continued growth in 2018 and beyond. High investments in research and development are a matter of course for the globally oriented Swiss industry - and here more and more companies rely on the open CONTACT Elements platform.  "Our flexibly scalable offering for PLM and IoT has met with a great response in mechanical engineering, the electrical industry and other high-tech sectors," says Michael S. Murgai, Managing Director of CONTACT Software Schweiz AG. "The excellent references we have and our cooperation with HSR help in this respect." The HSR University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil is in constant knowledge transfer with the industry. With research institutes such as the IPEK (Institute for Product Design, Development & Design), the VPE Symposium and other professional events, it is regarded as a top address for virtual product development. The HSR is

Altair is pleased to have been part of a collaborative effort with the Museum of Ingenuity J. Armand Bombardier for the inauguration of its temporary Exhibition Inspiring NATURE, inspired TECHNOLOGY: Biomimicry and Transportation which is now open to the general public. Altair’s OptiStruct®, RADIOSS®and Inspire™ were used in the design of a vehicle frame structure which is prominently showcased at the museum.  Biomimicry is an approach for creating solutions to human challenges by emulating designs and ideas found in nature. The original designs for velcro, aircraft winglets, innovative water filtration materials and adhesives were all inspired by studying phenomena in nature. Using Altair's optimization technology, designers and engineers are able to investigate structurally-efficient concepts based on biomimicry principles to exploit ideas from nature by generating innovative material layouts using the loads and forces the product is subjected to as inputs. “The Grand opening of the expo was a great success. Some

How to fully leverage Additive Manufacturing from one-off prototypes to end production. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 23 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled “Industrializing Additive Manufacturing.” Hobbyists and early adopters used Additive Manufacturing (AM) machines to make freeform organic shapes they couldn’t make any other way. Now, driven by investments by industrial companies seeking to improve engineering processes and make better products faster and cheaper, attempts are being made to use AM for industrial end-use product production. Big challenges remain such as materials, regulatory compliance, speed, price, and reliability, but momentum in key areas such as material science help improve material print properties such as the build-rate to resolution ratio, meaning end-use production quality parts are now possible. There is low or no cost penalty for geometric complexity when using AM. What this means is AM manufactured components can have

The new release of Edgecam, from Vero Software, contains 54 items of new or enhanced functionality which improve productivity for manufacturers using a range of cutting technologies and machining strategies. They include significant changes to the Pre-Drill Approach Roughing cycle, creating features from wireframe entities, 3D milling cycles in mill/turn Rotary mode, 28 new technology databases in the Wire EDM module, and Tombstone. Edgecam Brand Manager John Buehler says every user will benefit from at least one of the enhancements…the most significant of which, has been a complete transformation to the Tombstone Manger, thanks to 13 enhancements. The new ‘Add Tombstone’ function ensures users never overwrite their master tombstone assembly file (referred to as ‘Seed file’). The originating file is always protected, guaranteeing that vital information is never over-written. The number of components that can be inserted onto the Tombstone is now limitless, reflecting best industry practice. Once inserted,

ModuleWorks successfully tested its latest calculation strategies for rotary and geodesic machining using a barrel mill tool for accelerated, high quality finishing. The trial was conducted at the Hommel and Okuma Technology Center in Langenau, Germany on an OKUMA MULTUS-B200W Multitasking CNC machine with MMC Hitachi Tool standard stock items, including barrel mill tools. The selected workpiece was a spiral mandrel distributor that provided a realistic and technically sophisticated challenge for the new multi-axis milling algorithms. A key focus of the trial was to test the new barrel mill machining strategies for pre-finishing the walls of the workpiece. The barrel shape of the tool generates smaller cusps and delivers a high-quality surface finish while using large step overs that significantly accelerate the machining process. Using a taper barrel tool optimizes performance further because the walls can be machined using the large barrel section of the tool and the inner corners