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Trace One and BRC Global Standards have evolved their long-standing relationship to form a unique strategic partnership. By combining the BRC Global Standards’ 26,000+ customers, including suppliers, retailers, certification bodies and auditors from 130 countries, with Trace One’s 20,000+ customer base, it will create one of the largest retail collaborative networks in the world. This partnership leverages Trace One’s 16+ years of Private Label expertise, with the BRC Global Standards’ experience in global supply chain assurance, enabling the delivery of industry leading solutions and significant speed to market benefits. In addition, by combining the power of both established networks into one platform, it will allow all customers to take advantage of identifying trusted partners and products, conducting audits, centralizing and sharing key documentation and managing both compliance and risk. “BRC Global Standards is a highly trusted brand, and we are proud to evolve our relationship into a strategic partnership,” said Christophe Vanackere,

Parcus Group announced today that it has signed an agreement with Palestine Telecommunications Co. (Paltel) to provide training services around telecom product development and product lifecycle management. “Winning another telecom carrier contract this time with Paltel, confirms the benefits of our telecom specific orientation, and our rich training experience. Our aim is to, by close collaboration with our customers, improve telecom service creation and product development processes to deliver market competitive products while increasing staff productivity and skills at the same time” said Igor Glavanic, Managing Director of Parcus Group. “We are pleased to be collaborating with Paltel in this important undertaking.” “Paltel is developing its capabilities towards a more agile business. Parcus Group was able to demonstrate they had the skills and know-how to undertake the training required. They are focussed on business improvement, and we believe their telecom specific product development methodology will complement our market knowledge, and contribute positively to

inRiver today welcomed Eric Waller as CTO and head of product development. Waller brings more than three decades of experience in software engineering, software architecture, information technology strategy, and systems engineering for business applications and data center operations. An enterprise user experience visionary, Waller will expand upon the award-winning user interface and feature-rich platform that customers have come to expect from inRiver. “More than 1,000 brands worldwide leverage inRiver Product Marketing Cloud and PIM solutions to go to market faster with maximum impact,” said Thor Johnson, CEO at inRiver. “We are growing quickly. Adding Eric to inRiver’s leadership team will accelerate development and continue the quality and innovation that we’re known for.” Waller joins inRiver from Pansophic Learning, where he drove technology strategy and operations worldwide for both online and traditional schools that spanned early learning through higher education. Over the course of a thirty-year career, Waller has held a number of

Today, Airborne and Plataine officially sealed their partnership during the JEC World 2018. -Minimize waste and optimize factory logistics-  Last year Airborne was one of the first companies worldwide to introduce a fully automated kitting solution. Today, Airborne and Plataine emphasize the further development of automated composites kitting solution by joining forces. One of the key advantages of an automated kitting system is that it can facilitate the use of Plataine's strong expertise in the field of digitizing and optimizing complex manufacturing processes using AI-based algorithms that create optimized cut-plans (nesting), with the ability to mix product plies using the same raw material, and create an integrated method for dynamic nesting. Adopting these strategies to minimize material waste and optimize factory logistics, comes to its fullest extent when integrated into Airborne robust hardware solution for automated kitting. The new partnership displays the ultimate example of system optimization by perfectly aligning hardware and software. Plataine

Accenture will open an Innovation Hub in Zurich today, accompanied by an evening event for clients. The hub focuses on the creation of new customer experiences, spanning a range of design, innovation and technology capabilities in one location. It allows clients to tap into the full spectrum of skills needed to co-create innovative digital solutions with speed and agility – all in a creative, inspiring space. Customers today are no longer satisfied with passively consuming products; they demand engaging, interactive brand experiences. The Innovation Hub in Zurich helps clients meet that demand through the Accenture Studios, where they can envision, design and create products and services that enable real impact and transform the end-to-end customer journey. In the Accenture Interactive Studio, clients can get hands on with and apply the latest digital technologies to reimagine customer experiences. The innovative workspace is equipped with all the tools needed to rapidly build and test prototypes.

CIMdata’s Executive Consultant, Dr. Keith Meintjes, recently shared his views on artificial intelligence and machine learning.  He summed it up as follows:  "It's an audacious thing to say, that human knowledge is a constraint on our imagination and innovation. Don't we all know that companies succeed because of their human capital, their intellectual property, their collective tribal knowledge? Perhaps, but we also all know that knowledge can be an inhibitor." Dr. Keith Meintjes, CIMdata  Learn more by reading the full blog post at: https://www.cimdata.com/en/resources/cimdata-blog/item/9775-removing-the-constraints-of-human-knowledge  Don’t forget to share it with your colleagues and let Keith now what you think!

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the introduction of Device Lifecycle Management, a new IIoT cloud-based service for the management of information on plant assets. This is an information management support service for the digitized asset data of the IIoT era. The Device Lifecycle Management service allows customers to digitalize the management of all device information and helps customers to improve the efficiency of plant maintenance management and the quality of data management. Development Background Digitization of asset information is an important key to the automation of and the realization of efficiency in asset management. Many of Yokogawa’s customers have already introduced solutions such as computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) to optimize efficiency, but not all have met their initial targets for improvements in the efficiency of their maintenance operations because they have encountered challenges in making full use of all their asset data. This solution was developed to meet this need. Features

PTC today announced the release of the Creo® AR Design Share solution, which further expands the ability of product designers and engineers to use augmented reality (AR) in product design. AR is an essential technology for product designers, allowing them to share designs instantly, experience their product at scale, and better collaborate with colleagues anywhere in the world.    Creo is the only CAD software on the market with easy-to-use AR capabilities integrated into the software. Now with Creo AR Design Share, powered by the ThingWorx Studio™ solution, users will be able to create and share experiences easily.  “Creo AR Design Share takes a complex technology and makes it easy-to-use and accessible in a way that enables companies to fundamentally change the way they design and develop their products,” said Mike Campbell, EVP, ThingWorx Platform, PTC. “With AR, designs are brought to life in full-scale and in real-world context, giving a

LEDAS Ltd. and C3D Labs announced the successful integration of their products. The LEDAS Cloud Platform (LCP) was bridged with C3D to achieve better performance and quality when working with real-life user models. Before this, LCP had already been coupled with an open-source B-rep geometric kernel and 3D modeling library, so that the new integration was achieved smoothly and in a short timeframe. This proved that LCP can be easily bridged with any general-purpose geometric modeling kernel. LEDAS Cloud Platform provides most popular and most requested cloud capabilities — data storage and management, 3D visualization, communication and collaboration — by bringing them to users through Web browsers. Several applications have been developed on the LCP platform to deliver even more complex and specific user functions, such as editing and analyzing 3D models on the Web. These applications were developed much more quickly than usual thanks to the added value of LCP available to licensees. LEDAS, as

Cortona3D announces the launch of RapidAuthor 10.1, a new version of its leading authoring tool that enables enterprises to reuse existing PLM data and CAD assets to author lightweight, interactive 3D/2D technical publications. RapidAuthor 10.1 offers new import configuration abilities to improve visual quality of 3D graphics. Normal-per-vertex information can be imported from CAD geometry, as well as additional types of VRML geometry nodes e.g. Text and Extrusion.     RapidAuthor for Teamcenter 10.1 provides significant improvements in data update. It is possible to select in the Update Wizard, which metadata values should be updated. Metadata conflicts, when metadata value changes both in source data and in the project, are highlighted in the Update Wizard and such updates are not accepted by default, the change in the project has priority. Cortona3D has re-designed 3D PDF generation to empower 3D PDF Publishing in RapidAuthor 10.1 that allows for lifting some technological limits