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Trebing + Himstedt presents individual schedules for digital transformation and offers standardized SAP services in the new online service shop.  Something with industry 4.0, but what exactly? Or I know what it should look like, but what do I have to do, in which order, to get there? These or similar questions will be answered at this year's Trebing + Himstedt booth in Hall 7, Stand B12 from 23 to 27 April 2018.  Using the following six-step model, visitors will be able to determine their own status and determine the further schedule for digital production.  Strategy Readiness Roadmap Technology Prototyping Realisation  "No matter what level you are at in the process of digital transformation, we will show you tools and methods to help you find and continue on the right path in a structured and focused way," says Steffen Himstedt, Managing Director of Trebing + Himstedt. At the booth, an industry 4.0 toolbox will be presented for

Siemens Corp. has given $75,000 in cash, hardware and software to Lawrence Technological University. The university will use the donation to equip a new laboratory for its industrial engineering programs. The donation will take place in a March 13 noon event on the LTU campus, and a March 14 formal presentation at noon at the Manufacturing in America conference and exhibition at Ford Field in Detroit. Industrial engineering deals with the optimization of complex processes and systems. Industrial engineers work to eliminate wasted time, money, energy and materials. LTU offers fully accredited bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in industrial engineering. “Like Lawrence Technological University, we see the great potential growth in high-tech manufacturing jobs in the United States,” said Raj Batra, president, Siemens Digital Factory, U.S. “And we also see the need to close the skills gaps and make a positive impact on workforce development. We are honored that our

The Bosch Connected World - #BCW - is one of the largest conferences on digital transformation. “The future lies in the net," said Volkmar Denner, Chairman of Bosch, at the start of BCW 2018, which attracted more than 4,000 visitors to Berlin. The event is focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and thus around 20 billion devices, which will be networked with each other and with the Internet in two years' time. The 70 exhibitors - including numerous departments from the Bosch Group, young start-ups and IT companies such as Microsoft and CONTACT Software - showed what is already possible today and where the journey is heading. A significant part of Bosch's products and systems are designed to solve the problems of road traffic. The production facilities of the future will also be networked like the car and its surroundings. The vast amounts of data are stored, viewed and

D3 Technologies announced today the acquisition of the Autodesk division of JVH Engineering, Inc. based in Grandville, Michigan. JVH Engineering, Inc. will continue normal operations with its industrial automation business, but the addition to D3 will operate as JVH CAD Solutions, a Division of D3 Technologies. The entire JVH CAD Solutions team will be joining D3 Technologies, including General Manager Rick VanWort, who has been leading the CAD division of JVH Engineering, Inc for 7 years. JVH CAD Solutions will continue to serve clients throughout Michigan and Northern Indiana. “Our clients continue to have the same great customer service and support from the trusted JVH employees over the years, and they will also now have access to an expanded manufacturing portfolio. Operating as a division of D3 Technologies will add a lot of value to our available services.”- Rick VanWort, GM of JVH CAD Solutions. D3 provides many Autodesk manufacturing

Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced the latest release of the FloMASTER® 1D thermo-fluid system modeling product. Combining integration with 3D mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) with new physics and an improved user experience, the latest release of the FloMASTER tool is the result of extensive years of research and development, and accuracy validated by running more than 13 million unit test runs. The new FloMASTER release offers significant advancements in productivity through automated connectivity to 3D CAD design tools. The new "CAD-to-FloMASTER" (CAD2FM) functionality enables design engineers to rapidly create representations of their 3D systems. CAD2FM automatically abstracts the 3D descriptions of piping networks into a collection of connected FloMASTER components, reducing manual, labor-intensive and error-prone measure and re-enter methods. "With the new CAD2FM capability in the FloMASTER release, we managed to massively speed up the conversion process of our piping systems from a 3D MCAD model to a system

InfluxData today announced the significant growth and popularity of Telegraf, its open source project used for collecting and reporting metrics. Telegraf, a plugin-driven small footprint agent, is proven easy to use and extend for collecting and reporting metrics. As a result of its popularity, Telegraf has built a vibrant and growing community of users and contributors. The growth and breadth of agents Telegraf supports has increased more than 80 percent over the past 12 months, driven by community demand. This is a proven testament to Telegraf’s ease of use, minimal memory and disk footprint, and ability to enable the developer community to quickly extend collecting metrics from a variety of local or remote services. “We started the Telegraf project 3 years ago with just six plugins from a small contribution by our own engineers,” said Paul Dix, Founder and CTO at InfluxData. “Our goal was to make it easy to

PTC today announced that technical athletic apparel company lululemon has upgraded to the latest version of PTC FlexPLM® retail software. The upgrade delivers greater functionality and an improved user experience and enables further process efficiencies. PTC FlexPLM offers comprehensive retail PLM capabilities, including line planning, specification management, merchandising, and other essential PLM capabilities for managing a retailer’s complete assortment of products. Designed for retail’s precise needs, PTC FlexPLM enables companies to achieve faster time-to-value and to develop more innovative products more quickly. “We are thrilled to continue our long-standing collaboration with lululemon. At PTC, we understand that retail has become increasingly digital. To compete, retailers and brand owners need to transform their traditional processes in order to capitalize on new opportunities,” said Eric Symon, general manager, retail, PTC. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for FlexPLMon CIMdata.com

Centric Software is delighted to announce the signature of a new partnership with Auchan Retail. The retail distribution giant selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution to improve collaboration between multi-category product development teams for textiles, consumer electronics and household appliances, school/toys/office, home & deco and outdoor pursuits. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury and consumer goods companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. “We want to harmonize our work practices and have a centralized and reliable database for our teams, especially in sourcing and quality, in order to guarantee better collaboration between business lines,” explains Catherine Tran, Information Systems Portfolio and Product Manager in Auchan Retail’s Corporate Product Department. The objective for Auchan Retail is to grow its global brands in all regions where the company is present. “Our decision to choose Centric PLM was influenced by the

SAP today announced the appointment of Cathy Smith as managing director of SAP Africa. Cathy brings more than 25 years of leadership and technology experience to the role and is the first female leader of SAP Africa. Steve Tzikakis, regional president for EMEA South at SAP, says Cathy is an experienced and inspirational leader who joins the business at an exciting time in the continent’s history: “Africa is on the cusp of exponential growth and development enabled by digital technologies. As one of the foremost experts in driving digital transformation on the continent, Cathy is imminently suited to leading our Africa operations. We have great confidence in her ability to realize our innovation vision across our customer base.” Cathy joins SAP from Cisco, where she was managing director for Sub-Saharan Africa, leading the development and execution of the company’s go-to-market sales and digital transformation strategies for the region. Prior to that,

Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced that its Tanner EDA group is partnering with VPIphotonics to deliver dynamic and cost-effective design and analysis solutions for companies developing devices for the emerging silicon photonics market. Silicon photonics brings fiber optics directly into ICs for speed-of-light wired communication infrastructure and computing applications, as well as for more affordable LiDAR systems, which is seen as an essential step for the mass deployment of the autonomous vehicle market. Through this partnership, Mentor is leveraging VPIphotonics’ 20-plus years of photonic simulation for active/passive/hybrid integrated circuits and systems. The collaboration places unique capabilities in the hands of the designers of complex optoelectronic and photonic integrated circuits and systems. “With its standard interface to Calibre verification tools, native Open Access data model and quick PDK turnaround times, Mentor’s Tanner EDA technology provides the right environment for photonics IC designers to scale their innovations from the