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CIMdata's Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, recently sat down with Brian Hunter, Manager of Quality Control at NovaCentrix, so that he could learn more about the company’s PLM cloud strategy.   NovaCentrix (www.NovaCentrix.com) is the leading provider of photonic curing tools, conductive inks, and materials expertise that helps customers develop and produce next generation printed electronic devices. The company’s headquarters is in Austin, TX.  Among the topics on the table for discussion were:   What are some of the key product development/innovation issues faced by your company? Do you have any programs/initiatives in place to address these issues? What is the role of cloud in your current enterprise software landscape? What challenges did you face in selling cloud-based PLM internally? What challenges/issues do you face? What benefits/positive aspects of cloud-based PLM do you expect? What is your general timeline for deployment?  Learn the answers to these questions and more in the

Accenture reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2018, ended Nov. 30, 2017, with net revenues of $9.5 billion, an increase of 12 percent in U.S. dollars and 10 percent in local currency over the same period last year. Diluted earnings per share were $1.79, an increase of $0.21, or 13 percent from the first quarter last year. Operating income was $1.49 billion, an increase of 12 percent over the same period last year, and operating margin was 15.6 percent, consistent with the first quarter last year. New bookings for the quarter were $10.0 billion, with consulting bookings of $5.9 billion and outsourcing bookings of $4.0 billion. Pierre Nanterme, Accenture’s chairman and CEO, said, “We delivered excellent financial results for the first quarter. I am particularly pleased with our broad-based revenue growth of 10 percent in local currency – including double-digit growth in four of our five

ESI Group is exhibiting at CES 2018 in Las Vegas, USA, next January 9th through 12th. At the heart of the Smart Cities marketplace, ESI’s booth will feature three live and immersive demonstrations showcasing how virtual reality (VR) and real-time physics-based computing can now be used to fully experience a product, process, or venue remotely. ESI’s collaboration with customer AP&T will be featured on the booth, demonstrating an immersive and interactive Smart Factory. Furthermore, the French Opera house from the city of Rennes will join ESI to demonstrate how today’s smart technology makes culture accessible to all. At CES Smart Cities, ESI will illustrate the technological leaps accomplished in recent years via three main demos, giving visitors of our booth 1813 at the Westgate Pavilion, a glimpse of tomorrow’s smart and connected world.  1. Virtual Reality Debuts at the Opera The team on ESI’s booth will offer a fully immersive virtual visit of the opera

Altair Engineering, Inc. and solidThinking are excited to showcase a preview of Click2Cast 2018 for the first time at EUROGUSS, taking place from January 16-18, 2018 in Nuremberg, Germany. Powerful geometry creation and editing capabilities have been added for users to be able to design and optimize the entire casting process within a single environment. For the first time, component designers and downstream analysts will be able to communicate within a single user environment, including a broad range of tools that will help make changes to the component, evaluate areas of porosity, create remedial risers or sleeves, or cooling lines, re-evaluate and optimize the process for producing a high-quality part.  “Click2Cast has seen great adoption across the globe for being fast, easy, accurate and affordable, and as such, a fine balance between usability and function had to be attained in the development of the new release," says Ravi Kunju, Vice President of

The media research company said in a regulatory filing to the US SEC: "Nielsen has committed to purchase services from TCS from the Effective Date through the remaining term of the Agreement (the 'Minimum Commitment') in the amount of $2.25 billion, including a commitment to purchase at least $320 million in services per year from 2017 through 2020, $186 million in services per year from 2021 through 2024, and $139.5 million in services in 2025.” At time of newsletter publication, there are not yet any associated press releases announcing the deal. Search for TCS on CIMdata.com

The 3D CAD platform of choice among metal fabricators and custom machinery manufacturers, IronCAD has added a game-changing bulk drawing feature for detailers to its 2018 release. With IronCAD 2018’s Bulk Drawing Creation, detailers can save countless hours spent transforming 3D views into 2D drawings and sheets by using predefined templates that automatically create the foundation for downstream production drawings. Dozens of 2D drawings can be effortlessly and rapidly generated from assembly files on demand, tremendously reducing the number of hours spent preparing drawings for detailing. Fabricators and machinery manufacturers will also benefit from the 2018 release’s security and productivity enhancements created specifically for collaborative design workflows. IronCAD’s new Shrink Wrap feature makes engineering data available for collaboration while protecting the specifics of the intellectual property by creating outline shapes for assemblies, reducing file sizes, and restricting access to distributed design data. Using IronCAD’s Shrink Wrap system, designers can safely

Dassault Systèmes will illustrate how industry, startups, entrepreneurs and makers are using the virtual world to invent sustainable solutions in digital health, vehicle technology, and smart cities – key themes of this year’s event – during CES 2018 in Las Vegas January 9-12. Startups from the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab and the SOLIDWORKS for Entrepreneurs program –Digital Orthopaedics, Dracula Technologies, EEL Energy, Leka, L’increvable, Perseus Mirrors, SYOS, XSun and XYT– will be featured at Dassault Systèmes’ booth #8300 in the North Hall. Here, they will detail how collaborative technology ecosystems enable them to develop and deliver new concepts in consumer-focused sectors such as personalized patient care, energy and water use. “Parents and therapists of children with special needs often struggle to help them engage with their surroundings and make progress in different areas of learning,” said Ladislas de Toldi, CEO, Leka. “The 3DEXPERIENCE Lab is enabling us to develop a multi-sensory robotic ball with lights, sounds and vibrations to engage children, closely follow their progress, and provide a

PTC today announced that four customers have expanded use of its Creo® suite of computer-aided design (CAD) software, and one customer has selected Creo. These companies hail from diverse backgrounds in technology, engineering, retail and transportation, and all leverage the PTC CAD software to improve their product design and development process. Creo delivers one of the most scalable and robust 3D CAD product development solutions on the market today. The variety of features, capabilities, and tools enable some of the most innovative companies from across the globe to imagine, design, and create better products. Customers that selected PTC Creo or expanded their PTC Creo portfolio include: ABB, a technology leader that works closely with utility, industry, transportation, and infrastructure customers to write the future of industrial digitalization and realize value Car Studio Yaris, a design and engineering service provider, including reverse engineering, technical documentation, prototype, and 3D additive printing KTM, a leading European motorcycle manufacturer

Perfecto today selected Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as its 2017 Global System Integrator Partner of the Year. Perfecto and TCS have partnered to help organizations realize their business objectives and leverage Perfecto’s technology to enable digital transformation to succeed by delivering innovations to market faster. Perfecto and TCS work jointly to assure the digital application landscape of global customers by creating and deploying innovative solutions. This synergy stems from the digital competencies of TCS powered by Perfecto's cloud-based test and monitoring environment. Perfecto partners with various global system integrators to address DevOps pain points and pave a clear path to release. “We are happy to be selected by Perfecto as the Global Partner of the Year,” said Raman Venkatraman, Vice President & Global Head of the Alliances & Technology Unit at TCS. “This partnership is a reflection of our dedication to working with Perfecto to deliver the fast feedback development teams require

Today, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Materialise entered into a finance contract to support Materialise’s ongoing research and development programs for growth from 2017 to 2020. The contract provides a credit of up to EUR 35,000,000 drawable in two tranches. The first cannot exceed EUR 25,000,000 and can be drawn during the first year of the contract. The second tranche can be drawn during the second year of the contract, subject to a specified debt ratio being met. The duration of the loan will be between six to eight years starting from the disbursement of the respective tranches. Loans under the contract will be made at a fixed rate, based on the Euribor rate at the time of the borrowing, plus a variable margin. The margin is initially equal to 1.86% and varies in function of certain EBITDA levels and debt ratios. The contract contains customary securities, covenants and undertakings. To