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Changing How We Engineer, Validate, Market, and Operate our Products ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 March 2018-CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled "Digital Twins," how they are changing the way we engineer, validate, market, and operate our products. The physics-based Digital Twin plays a key role in the business transformations needed to meet the increased complexity of cyber-physical products and their IoT-enabled operating environments, which demands thinking beyond traditional stage-gate oriented engineering approaches. Being competitive in the modern fast-paced business environment means applying the latest principles in organization, process, and technology to the business-essentially, moving to higher maturity levels than the competition. Market segment leaders are already striving to achieve the highest level of sustainable innovation for their businesses. In a Digital Twin strategy this means enabling a holistic "Cognitive Digital Twin" approach. This eBook explains how the Digital Twin can

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are not new topics, they have been around for decades just like 3D printing/additive manufacturing. Hardware and software advances in recent years are pushing AR/VR to the top of many technology trends lists. VR has been available for several decades, and even in consumer markets for the past few years. VR technology is somewhat easier to implement as it projects a complete environment and does not need to significantly account for the physical environment. Where as, AR overlays data in the existing environment, in real time, requiring the AR application to recognize objects in order to maintain registration and ensure that the data matches the environment's context. Modern smart phones and tablets, as well as commercially available headsets, have the computing performance necessary to support many of today's use cases, and software frameworks can support a range of devices from phones to head mounted

This educational webinar will look at what standards exist and what needs to mature to support a model-based enterprise strategy. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 March 2018-CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, "Model-Based Enterprise & Standards." The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour. Many companies are adopting Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) as a fundamental business practice. In doing so, these companies enter some uncharted waters concerning how to create a model that can become the base for their product lifecycle processes. For hundreds of years we have relied on drawings and associated documents to be the basis of product realization. With MBE, companies need guidance on how to move from what has been a well-established drawing-based enterprise practice into one that is model-based. A primary problem is that standards

CGS today announced that Intradeco Apparel, Inc., and Gerber Childrenswear LLC each selected BlueCherry® Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). BlueCherry PLM is an essential module within the BlueCherry Enterprise Suite of solutions, and can be deployed as a standalone solution or as part of the end-to-end BlueCherry offering for apparel and consumer lifestyle brands. CGS made the announcement at its annual customer fashion, apparel and consumer goods event, INSIGHT 2018, taking place this week in Las Vegas. Intradeco Apparel, a privately held company based in Miami focused on fashion basics, and Gerber Childrenswear, a leading marketer of children's everyday apparel and related products. Each entity began a search for a PLM solution to help increase overall productivity in product concept through product development and adoption. With such well-known brands as Fruit of the Loom, Izod, Jockey, Russell, Geoffrey Beene and Chaps, among others, Intradeco identified specific requirements that were needed in selection of

In the last financial year, over 560 exhibitors and around 15,300 visitors came from the United Kingdom to trade fairs in Frankfurt. Wolfgang Marzin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Messe Frankfurt, explained the background to the latest acquisition: “It is important for our company to promote commercial exchanges at European and global level at our 30 trade fair locations around the world. In addition, the UK is an attractive trade fair and export market for our international customers. Even Shakespeare, one of the most important figures in world literature, was aware of the importance of trade links between the United Kingdom and Germany in his day. He made mention of the ‘Frankfurt mart’ and the trading activities with his homeland there in his play ‘The Merchant of Venice’. Another important strategic factor for us today is the proximity to our British partners and organisers who are regular visitors to

ForeScout Technologies, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) added ForeScout CounterACT® to its select list of commercial technology products receiving Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG). The DoD issues STIGs for technology innovation from vendors that meet and help enforce the Pentagon’s rigorous security requirements for military agencies and contractors. Today’s announcement reflects ForeScout’s strategic role and expanding footprint across DoD customers, helping them gain foundational visibility of devices, including non-traditional Internet of Things (IoT) devices, connecting to their networks. “The DoD’s STIG validations by design are reserved for select, strategic vendors comprising keystone parts of the military’s IT assets, networked operations and security defenses,” said Wallace Sann, vice president of Global Systems Engineering, ForeScout. “This is a distinct achievement for our company and recognizes years of collaboration with partners and DoD agencies to integrate our technology and proven capabilities within the military’s demanding worldwide enterprise.” ForeScout

Leineweber GmbH & Co. KG’s BRAX, Eurex, Raphaela and BRAX Golf brands announces the successful integration of Assyst’s PLM GoLive to develop its products and collections even faster and more efficiently in the future. Leineweber now controls, manages and networks its entire development process with PLM GoLive – from article planning to the handover in production. “Our PLM system is based on a proven reference process that we have adapted to the individual requirements of BRAX,” says Michael Stöhr, Director PLM at Assyst. “BRAX is distinguished by the extremely high quality of its products – and the perfection with which they are developed in the company is also reflected in the new process.” Around 250 of the 1250 employees at BRAX have been working with the PLM system since January. “Together with Assyst, we have thoroughly prepared the introduction of PLM GoLive and involved our employees extensively in the development

Industrial Internet specialist, AMI Global, and Blacoh, a world-leading fluid controls manufacturer, today announced Blacoh's new embedded IIoT technology partnership with AMI. The integration of AMI IIoT technology into new Blacoh products will expedite the development of innovative solutions to address industry problems, and increase customer productivity. The technology will initially be deployed to expand the capabilities of Blacoh's patented SurgeWave™ product offering which is a transient condition monitoring system designed to analyze pumping systems and detect dangerous water hammer or rapid surges in pressure. Future developments will include fluid system products featuring cloud-networked sensors and software to more effectively measure, guide and control flow and pressure in process systems. The digital transformation of their products will also allow Blacoh and their customers to bring actionable insight from field data into business operations – providing a leap in understanding of process dynamics and performance compared to legacy systems. "The bottom line

Spinnaker Supprt today announced performance results for its full fiscal year ending December 31, 2017. The company reported record sales growth, employee count, and customer satisfaction level for the full year ending December 31, 2017. "2017 was another record year of growth and high-performance for Spinnaker Support," stated Matt Stava, Spinnaker Support CEO. "Demand for our unique and expanding blend of Oracle and SAP services has never been higher. Our customers are rating us at record high satisfaction levels because the value proposition we offer them is unparalleled in the industry. In 2018, we are off to the fastest start in the company's history and anticipate another record-breaking year." 2017 Company Highlights Increased net new sales by 44.2%, spearheaded by Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Technology, and SAP application services Opened new operations centers in Moscow, Seoul, and Tokyo, and expanded resources in Brazil Grew employee count by 35.4%, expanding resources across all nine operations centers Improved customer satisfaction level to 98.7%

Altair Engineering Inc. today announced that it will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2017, ended December 31, 2017, after the market close on Wednesday, March 21, 2018.  On that day, management will hold a conference call and webcast at 4:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. PT) to review and discuss the Company’s results for the fourth quarter.  A recorded version of this webcast will be available after the call and accessible at http://investor.altair.com. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Altair Engineering on CIMdata.com