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Procore Technologies, Inc., a leading global provider of construction management software, announced the launch of a new solution, Procore Workforce Management, which features two key products — Field Productivity as well as, Workforce Planning, formerly known as LaborChart.  Paired together, Field Productivity and Workforce Planning offer the industry’s most comprehensive construction workforce management solution, allowing contractors visibility into their workforce to accurately forecast and manage human resources to help meet or beat estimated schedules and budgets. “The skilled labor shortage is the most pressing challenge our industry faces,” said Tooey Courtemanche, Founder, President and CEO of Procore. “It’s also the number one thing stopping them from capitalizing on the massive demand that exists for construction. Our new Procore Workforce Management solution will help our customers manage their most precious resource more effectively, their people, so they can take on more work and ultimately grow their businesses.” By enabling real-time capacity tracking without administrative burden, double entry, or complex

Simulations Plus , Inc., a leading provider of modeling and simulation software and services for pharmaceutical safety and efficacy, recently invested in the creation of their Concierge Program , facilitating value-added strategic partnerships with customers through alliance management. The Concierge Program is designed to provide customer support through true partnership and planning. It includes regular meetings and communication, detailed understanding of customers’ future needs, key performance indicators to measure progress, and a central point of contact to provide guidance and answers along the way. To date, multiple large pharma, contract research organizations (CROs), and regulatory partners have enrolled in the Concierge Program. These customers have already experienced the benefits of this program and have accelerated their development programs, aligned with the strategic vision of Simulations Plus. Examples of recent successes include bespoke training programs for regulatory scientists in Canada, Europe, and South America, customized software development for new research programs, and escalated consulting support to

VOLTA comes with a new cloud deployment option for any Kubernetes-compliant environment. modeFRONTIER adds a Python bridge for RSMs, enabling you to train and evaluate your Python models as modeFRONTIER native RSMs. HPC & CLOUD VOLTA new Microservices architecture: ready to work in a cloud environment  Companies that are currently investing in cloud systems can now benefit from a new way of deploying VOLTA - cloud deployment (Kubernetes-compliant environment), enabling them to centralize application management and reduce costs. The existing standalone option remains available for all those who want to deploy VOLTA as a single application. We’ve decided to transition from a monolithic to microservices architecture. While a traditional monolithic architecture guarantees good performance, it isn’t suitable for lots of concurrent users and geographically distributed installations. This is because each component of the application can’t scale independently. VOLTA cloud deployment provides you with several advantages: Scalability: handle the increase in demand of hardware resource without impacting

 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes returned to an in-person analyst event on 22-23 June 2022, with nearly 30 analysts from around the globe in attendance in Velizy, France or online. The sessions emphasized Dassault Systèmes’ Industry Solution Experiences, an expansive platform-enabled solution offering that spans the product lifecycle embedding applications and technology from their numerous brand portfolios. While Dassault Systèmes’ long-term focus has been in Manufacturing, they look to Life Sciences and Infrastructure & Cities as engines for stronger growth moving forward. Dassault Systèmes reported 11% overall growth for 2021. Medidata has been a major contributor to their success over the last two years, particularly in the cloud. CIMdata was pleased to attend the 3DS Industry Analyst Days, hybrid session convened by Dassault Systèmes on 22-23 June 2022. Many attendees from the global firms represented attended in person with others joining remotely. The ambitious agenda packed a lot of content into the 1.5-day event.[1] Mr. Bernard Charlès,

Sandvik has completed the previously announced acquisition of the assets of US based company Peterson Tool Company, Inc., (“PTC”) a leading supplier of machine-specific custom insert tooling solutions. The product offering includes custom carbide form inserts for high-production turning and grooving applications, primarily within the general engineering and automotive segments. The company will be reported in the GWS Tool business unit in Walter, a division within the business area Sandvik Manufacturing and Machining Solutions. In 2021 the company had revenues of 9 million USD and an EBITA margin neutral to Sandvik Manufacturing and Machining Solutions. Impact on Sandvik’s earnings per share will be limited, yet slightly positive. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Sandvik on CIMdata.com Search for Peterson Tool Company on CIMdata.com

With the global drive toward climate-neutral aviation gaining pace and the rebirth of interest in supersonic travel, innovations in aircraft configurations require careful and diligent use of aerodynamic and structural design optimization. Siemens Digital Industries Software today announces that it entered into an agreement to acquire ZONA Technology, Inc., a renowned specialist in the field of aeroelastic simulation solutions. The addition of the ZONA Technology, Inc. technology to Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio will assist customers in making their digital threads as comprehensive and as efficient as possible to help speed innovation, ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of more sustainable aerospace invention.  The ZONA Technology, Inc. technology will become part of Siemens’ Simcenter™ software portfolio, allowing the creation of a unique end-to-end airframe structure design and certification analysis digital thread, beginning with early concept studies, through high-fidelity aero-structural optimization and to the structural certification and documentation. The combination of ZONA Technology, Inc. high

The US start-up Guardhat, a company that develops innovative products to improve work conditions for industrial workers, is setting up an office in Vilnius. Here Guardhat will establish an excellence center that will become the first Guardhat site in the European Union. In 2022, the company plans to hire 30 software specialists. Guardhat develops a platform and smart wearables designed to protect workers from injuries and improve work conditions and efficiency in remote or hazardous environments. The company’s inventions have been recognized by numerous awards, including Time magazine’s Best Invention of the Year. In Lithuania, Guardhat will create an excellence center where the local team will be responsible for software development and ensuring the life cycle of Guardhat products. “Lithuania is a start-up hotspot that generates a lot of great talents contributing to the success of many foreign companies that invest in Lithuania. In addition, Lithuania has an investment-friendly environment and a strategically

ESI Group, a global simulation and virtual prototyping software partner for the industry, will be present at the Farnborough International Airshow (18 and 22 July 2022). ESI Group will present an outline of aircraft Acoustics for both interior and exterior noise. Besides, The Group will illustrate how virtual reality solutions help power industry 4.0, showcasing and demonstrating its solution for human-centric virtual simulation and collaborative work with IC.IDO.  2 software solutions presented: ESI’s flagship Virtual Reality software IC.IDO for human-centric process validation and product integration: facilitating agile design processes, robust manufacturing, and safe maintenance operations.  ESI’s vibro-acoustics software VA ONEfor aircraft interiors and electric aircraft like eVTOL concepts: meeting interior noise level comfort and optimizing exterior noise impact in urban areas  Promising progress in the aircraft industry thanks to digitalization and virtual realityDigitalization plays a major role in developing sustainable aviation, hydrogen planes, electric aircraft, urban mobility, eVTOLs... Virtual reality helps industries achieve sustainability goals, to

Oracle and Claro announced a partnership to jointly offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services to public and private sector organizations and enterprises in Colombia. Claro will become the host partner for an Oracle Cloud region in Colombia, which will enable Claro to offer OCI platform services along with professional and managed services to help customers adopt cloud solutions. In addition, to help improve its customer service and billings processes, Claro will migrate over 100 on-premises servers running mission-critical workloads to OCI. “Partnering with Claro accelerates the technology modernization of businesses and consumers across Latin America. Our collaboration with Claro will also accelerate cloud adoption, stimulate economic recovery, and spur competitiveness in these countries,” said Germán Borromei, managing director, Oracle Colombia and Ecuador. Claro has one of the broadest managed and professional services offerings in the Colombian market, including cloud infrastructure and platform-as-a-service capabilities. Businesses from all industries and the public and private sector in

ZWSOFT attended MTA 2022 in Vietnam from July 6th to July 9nd with the latest versions of ZWCAD and ZW3D.  The MTA Vietnam exhibition acts as a bridge between the international manufacturing industry and the Vietnamese market. It is the largest manufacturing event in the country, bringing the most modern and diversified manufacturing products, technologies and solutions in the world to the domestic manufacturing industry. During the exhibition, ZWSOFT Vietnam presented its all-in-one CAD/CAE/CAM solutions which attached over 1,200 visitors from across the country. Many visitors showed their interest in new features of ZWCAD and ZW3D such as sheet set manager and enhanced full machine simulation. Most of them were satisfied with the solutions which meet their requirements, especially easy-to-use commands, a familiar interface, and strong DWG compatibility. In the first three days, visitors were invited to participate in the lucky draw organized by ZWSOFT. Each visitor had the chance to win a