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PTC today announced that several of its offerings, available via PTC Cloud, have received an esteemed FedRAMP certification after a rigorous evaluation showed that PTC’s security practices and controls meet the U.S. Federal Government’s high security standards for cloud services. FedRAMP’s authorization covers PTC’s product lifecycle management (PLM) and service lifecycle management (SLM) solutions and leading ThingWorx® IoT platform, hosted within the PTC Cloud FedRAMP environment. As more and more companies are adopting cloud-based hosting strategies, the complexity of cloud security becomes a growing concern. FedRAMP is an assessment and authorization process used by the U.S. Federal Government to ensure proper security is in place when accessing cloud computing products and services. Federal agencies must ensure that the cloud computing systems they use are FedRAMP certified before they can use them in production. PTC Cloud offerings have earned FedRAMP Moderate SaaS certification and also meet the DFARS security requirements and NIST
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Centric Software Partners with DRYKORN

Centric Software announces that DRYKORN has selected Centric Software to provide its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. In the past decade, DRYKORN has expanded rapidly. As Florian Reusch, Chief Digital Officer at DRYKORN explains, the company outgrew its existing systems for managing merchandise planning and product development. “We were working with a combination of Excel spreadsheets, email, Word documents, PDFs and a PDM system which our needs had outpaced,” says Reusch. “Information was distributed across different formats and channels, which made it difficult for people to access the data they needed. There was no centralized database, and our existing system was not set up to handle timelines, merchandise planning or workflows.” “We used to just produce two big collections a year, but now the market demands more segmented collections within smaller windows. Every time we did a pre-collection or a trend update, it had to be handled using a
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In their pursuit of becoming a world class supplier of sub-systems and components for the aerospace industry, Aeronamic has selected Aras Innovator as their new PLM platform. Aeronamic is a Dutch high-tech company that develops, manufactures, tests and maintains complete high-speed rotating systems for the aerospace industry. Their products can be found in Airbus and Boeing aircrafts as well as on F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Gulfstream Business Jets. Aeronamic looked for a platform with an intuitive architecture that could enable the storage of all important data in one central location. “We, as a company, want to grow. To do so, we have to take care of this labour intensive data-handling structure. We need to be able to share information. Mouth-to-mouth communication for information exchange is no longer a viable strategy”, says Ronny Blaauwgeers, Director of Manufacturing Engineering at Aeronamic. He continues: “Ultimately, everybody decided that Aras is
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International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) is proud to announce that their UK operation, International TechneGroup Ltd., has expanded its organization at their offices in Landshut, Germany (Munich). ITI is enjoying an increase in demand for CAD consolidation projects as part of PLM system migrations with major companies throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the DACH region). Customers are working with ITI to deploy the Proficiency solution to successfully migrate intelligent, fully-featured CAD models between the major CAD systems. This ensures the retention of their investment in legacy design data and provides instantly reusable models in their new design system.As Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) initiatives continue to expand across Europe, the need for 3D CAD model validation throughout the product lifecycle is rapidly becoming a mission critical issue for engineering enterprises. MBE model stability and robustness, as well as the validation of derivative 3D models converted for delivery to customers and manufacturing partners
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

DeSL Opens San Francisco Office

Discover e-Solutions Ltd. (DeSL) announces the opening of a San Francisco location. “The decision to expand our presence to San Francisco area was a logical step in our strategy,” stated Julian Mussi, Vice President of Business Solutions for DeSL. “Along with the ability to service our current and future clients, the San Francisco area is rich with talent providing the opportunity to further expand staffing and capabilities in our software engineering, professional services and customer support departments.” The new location, DeSL’s third office, supports the company’s global strategy and accelerated growth. Search for DeSL on CIMdata.com
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Congatec has acquired Real-Time Systems GmbH (RTS), headquartered in Ravensburg, Germany. Founded in 2006, RTS is a leading provider of hypervisor software for real-time applications in the embedded market. “The congatec strategy is to simplify the use of embedded computing technologies,” explains Jason Carlson, CEO of congatec. “As the connected IIoT and Industry 4.0 world is getting more and more complex, one of the most important strategic levers to meet this objective is to invest in software.” Getting the chance to acquire a market-proven and established hypervisor technology that perfectly matches the IIoT and Industry 4.0 needs is a significant milestone for congatec. RTS will become a wholly owned subsidiary of congatec. The company will continue to operate independently, doing business as it always has, providing it’s software to run on any x86 hardware, but now with worldwide sales and technical support teams ready to support the product. “If customers
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Mentor®, a Siemens business, today announced Mentor Embedded Linux® (MEL) support for the latest AMD Embedded processor families, EPYC™ Embedded 3000 and Ryzen™ Embedded V1000, targeting industrial, medical, networking, storage, and edge computing devices. Based on the high-performance x86 "Zen" architecture, these two new AMD product portfolios represent a new age of embedded processors, providing superior performance and a suite of on-chip security features. Mentor provides "out-of-the-box" embedded Linux support for hardware-accelerated applications, enabling the development of high-performance machine vision and machine learning applications with exceptional integration. This is achieved by enabling OpenCV vision libraries and TensorFlow™ libraries, with security enabled throughout the device. Mentor is the leading commercial embedded Linux supplier to support this capability. Visit the AMD Booth (Hall #1 - Booth 360) at Embedded World 2018 to see machine vision and machine learning demos running on Mentor Embedded Linux. "Mentor Embedded Linux provides regular security updates and
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Sundiro Honda Motorcycle Co., Ltd. has carried out a sophisticated system selection focused on optimizing its engineering and collaboration processes, selecting CIM Database PLM and CONTACT Workspaces as the best solution. With the PLM applications from CONTACT Software, the company aims to provide product data and documents centrally and manage its dynamic development projects consistently and efficiently. “CONTACT's open component architecture convinces with state-of-the-art web technology and powerful applications for the product development process," says Biao Zhang, Director General Research & Development at Sundiro Honda. "So we have the option to expand our PLM environment step by step and are well positioned to meet future market requirements." Sundiro Honda is a Chinese-Japanese joint venture with around 3,800 employees, in which Sundiro Holding and Honda each hold 50% of the shares. The company has meanwhile launched more than 50 motorcycle models with Honda technology for passionate bikers and racing. Each year,
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Capgemini today announced that it has been selected by Terumo BCT to set up two global innovation and development (I&D) centers in India. Working together, Capgemini and Terumo BCT will use the I&D centers to help build next-generation platforms for Terumo BCT’s devices.   Capgemini was selected, due to its knowledge of the medical devices sector, its expertise in innovative technologies for next-generation connected healthcare, including the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as its agility and ability to scale for a faster launch to market. Under the agreement, Capgemini will deliver a multi-disciplinary engagement across research and development, product engineering, and usability engineering. “As technology helps us unlock the potential of blood and cellular therapies, it makes perfect sense for us to collaborate with Capgemini. Their global expertise and best practices from other industries will help us bring about the next-generation of connected medical devices,” said Palani Palaniappan, Executive
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Tata Technologies today announced a close association with NIO China, a leading new-generation electric car company, in the complete product development process of NIO’s range of electric vehicles. The association between the two companies commenced with collaborative engineering for NIO’s first electric all-aluminum vehicle, the ES8, which NIO intends to be their first product positioned in the Chinese electric vehicles mass market. Talking about this association, Mr. Warren Harris, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer for Tata Technologies, said, “ES8 is an important milestone for the automotive industry. The 7-seater high-performance electric SUV is a mobile living space on wheels. It has been a privilege for Tata Technologies to partner with NIO on this breakthrough product. Our close working relationship in the areas of Lightweighting, Connected Vehicles and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a great example of the type of partnerships that will define the future automotive ecosystem. Moreover, our ability to serve
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