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Announced on the Google blog: Today, Google has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Xively, a division of LogMeIn, Inc. By 2020, it’s estimated that about 20 billion connected things will come online, and analytics and data storage in the cloud are now the cornerstone of any successful IoT solution. This acquisition, subject to closing conditions, will complement Google Cloud's effort to provide a fully managed IoT service that easily and securely connects, manages, and ingests data from globally dispersed devices. With the addition of Xively’s robust, enterprise-ready IoT platform, we can accelerate our customers’ timeline from IoT vision to product, as they look to build their connected business. Through this acquisition, Cloud IoT Core will gain deep IoT technology and engineering expertise, including Xively’s advanced device management, messaging, and dashboard capabilities. Our customers will benefit from Xively’s extensive feature set and flexible device management platform, paired with the security and scale

CIMdata’s Executive Consultant, Ken Amann, recently shared his views on service lifecycle management. In this blog post, Ken discusses how smart, connected products, interacting over the Internet are dramatically changing the products and systems we use and the way in which service is delivered.   Learn more by reading the full blog post at: https://www.cimdata.com/en/resources/cimdata-blog/item/9669-service-lifecycle-management-leveraging-iot-iiot-to-deliver-new-capabilities-and-business-models  CIMdata will delve into this topic at the upcoming PLM Market & Industry Forum events which will take place in this coming April. The theme for 2018 is "Industry 4.0 - Its Global Impact & Status."   For more information visit our PLM Market & Industry Forum web pages at http://www.cimdata.com/en/education/plm-market-industry-forums

The latest STRIKER CAD/CAM & nesting software is out. The 2018 version includes a comprehensive programming and nesting solution that addresses the unique requirements of CNC punching. STRIKER 2018's objective is to provide complete punch programming automation.  “Automating CNC punch programming can be much more difficult than automating laser programming,” states Mike Boggs, Striker Systems’ VP of Sales. “With a multitude of tooling, tool placement, and machine options, the biggest challenge to automation can be optimum tool selection and fit.” Special tools, tool sequencing, micro-joint placement, drop door support, and sheet repositioning must also be taken into consideration. STRIKER CAD/CAM has always included advanced automatic punching algorithms as well as flexible tool substitution capability. Release 2018 further refines this technology to minimize or eliminate user intervention in the tooling process.  “The level of programming automation that can ultimately be achieved is dependent on many factors,” says Boggs, “but it all hinges on a properly tooled part.” STRIKER

SimScale GmbH (“SimScale”) today announced a collaboration with Siemens PLM Software and Tech Soft 3D to optimize the simulation workflow through better CAD model handling. SimScale will bring the benefits of Siemens’ Parasolid® software and HOOPS Exchange to a browser-based CAE. The latest release of SimScale, available shortly, will integrate Parasolid and HOOPS Exchange to enable a more convenient and seamless simulation workflow, while at the same time further increasing simulation result accuracy—both in FEA and CFD. “Our vision at SimScale is to enable every designer and engineer to take full advantage of engineering simulation—independent of budget, hardware and know-how. This includes seamless interoperability with the customer’s CAD system as well as fast, robust and accurate preparation of CAD data to achieve reliable simulation results quickly. Integrating Parasolid and HOOPS Exchange will help us achieve just that.” said David Heiny, CEO and co-founder of SimScale. Parasolid is the industry-leading 3D geometric

Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced an enhancement to its e² studio integrated development environment (IDE) tool for the Renesas Synergy™ Platform. Through its ongoing partnership with IAR Systems®, the leading embedded development tools supplier, Renesas Synergy customers can now enjoy significant performance benefits by integrating IAR Systems’ advanced IAR C/C++ Compiler™ into the Eclipse-based e² studio IDE. Through its optimization technology, the IAR C/C++ Compiler can significantly reduce the application code, allowing developers to add more features to their Synergy microcontrollers (MCUs). The compiler’s industry-best execution speed for generated code is clearly documented in established speed benchmarks such as EEMBC® Coremark. Faster code execution speed enables an MCU to spend more time in low power modes to conserve battery life. Networked Internet of Things (IoT) devices use Synergy MCUs to monitor and/or control the surrounding environment and system components in home/building/industrial automation systems, home appliances, energy management systems, and healthcare

Wipro Limited today announced that it has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute® as a World's Most Ethical Company®.   The Ethisphere® Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, has announced the 135 companies spanning 23 countries across 57 industries who have been named to the 2018 World’s Most Ethical Companies® list.   The World's Most Ethical Companies designation recognizes organizations that have had a material impact on the way business is conducted by fostering a culture of ethics and transparency at every level of the company. It emphasizes Wipro’s commitment to value led leadership.   Being a 7th consecutive year honoree underscores Wipro's commitment to leading ethical business standards and practices that also ensure long-term value to key stakeholders including customers, employees, suppliers, regulators and investors.   Abidali Z. Neemuchwala, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Wipro Limited said, “It is an honor to be

Accenture is expanding its Industry X.0 Innovation Network in Europe with the opening of an industrial internet of things (IIoT) Innovation Center in Modena. The center will offer clients a way to explore, test and scale IIoT solutions and take advantage of the latest disruptive technologies to achieve new levels of efficiency and sources of growth through improvements in product development, engineering, manufacturing, customer experiences and cybersecurity.   The new facility is part of an extensive US$1.4 billion investment program by Accenture to expand its Industry X.0 business. Industry X.0 is how Accenture describes the profound shift of industrial manufacturing to digital products and services that will increasingly require new manufacturing methods and processes to produce and deliver them as well as support them in the field.    The IIoT Innovation Center in Modena is being established in collaboration with HPE COXA, a Modena-based company specializing in engineering activities for the automotive,

OpenText™ today announced that it has acquired Hightail, Inc. (“Hightail”), formerly known as YouSendIt, a leading cloud service for file sharing and creative collaboration with approximately 5.5 million customers globally spanning enterprise accounts, paid subscribers, and individual consumers. “The acquisition of Hightail underscores our commitment to delivering differentiated content solutions in the cloud that enable marketers and creative professionals to share, produce, and securely collaborate on digital content,” said Mark J. Barrenechea, OpenText Vice Chairman, CEO and CTO. “We are pleased to welcome Hightail customers and employees to OpenText today.”  Barrenechea further added, “I am excited about expanding Hightail capabilities as well as integrating Hightail into OpenText Content Suite, Documentum, Core, and Media Management, allowing our customers to seamlessly and securely collaborate with external trading partners and vendors.” Hightail is not expected to contribute significant revenue to OpenText's results for the fiscal third quarter ending March 31,

This major PLM industry event, now in its 25th year, will take place in conjunction with PDT North America in the Washington D.C. area in May. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 15 February 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the agenda topics for its PLM Road Map™ 2018 North America conference (PLM Road Map NA) which will be held in collaboration with PDT North America. Both events will take place May 15-17 at the Marriott Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA which is near Washington D.C. The theme for this year's event is "Charting the Course to PLM Value Together: Expanding the Value Footprint of PLM and Tackling PLM's Persistent Pain Points." Using a format that will offer a series of plenary and breakout sessions designed to facilitate conversations between conference speakers and conference participants, PLM Road Map NA will bring together the perspectives of leading thinkers from

Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced its new HyperLynx® printed circuit board (PCB) simulation technology for high-performance designs, now providing the industry’s first end-to-end fully automated serializer/deserializer (SerDes) channel validation solution. Today’s advanced electronics products require intelligent high-speed design tools to ensure that designs perform as intended. With signaling rates of 50 Gbps becoming commonplace, and protocols like Ethernet, pushing 400 Gbps bandwidth, traditional methods are insufficient. This is crucial for industries that demand superior high-speed performance such as automotive, networking, data centers, telecom, and IoT/cloud-based products. SerDes refers to the interfaces like PCI Express (PCIe) that are used anywhere high-bandwidth is required. However, today’s hardware engineers lack time to fully understand the detailed signal integrity requirements of these interface protocols and may have limited access to signal integrity (SI) and 3D EM experts for counsel. Mentor’s new HyperLynx release provides tool-embedded protocol-specific channel compliance— the industry’s first fully automatic