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Dot Foods has selected Tenzing to be the hosting and managed services provider in conjunction with the implementation of the EnterWorks’ Enable® Product Information Management (PIM) platform. Dot Foods delivers to distributors in the challenging less-than-truckload (LTL) sector in every state and over 35 countries and is a founding member of the GS1 US Foodservice Initiative. Dot Foods’ mission is to develop innovative solutions to help their food industry partners increase sales and profits. The decision to invest in a PIM/MDM platform and in the new hosting capabilities is rooted in the desire to strengthen content and supply chain capabilities as well as further their ecommerce growth across their extensive trading network. As part of extending the company’s leadership in an increasingly complex and digital food industry, the company leadership chose EnterWorks’ Enable, an enterprise-wide application and GS1-certified solution to provide trusted product content for the 127,000 products Dot Foods carries. Dot

Vero Software’s Italian reseller, Vero Solutions, are highlighting three specialist VISI CAD/CAM suites focusing on plastic mould automation and verticalization, at the forthcoming MECSPE exhibition in Parma. “These three tools integrate perfectly with each other, automating an entire plastic mould project,” says Marketing Executive Nicoletta Gianotti. “The VISI Mould solution is dedicated to the complete design of the mould and allows the designer to define the tool structure by importing data either from the supplier or with custom moulds. Based on this choice, the user can select different templates, by selecting the relative plates loading them by supplier or by defining a modelled plate as custom plate by using the CAD functionalities.” She says visitors to the Vero Solutions stand at the exhibition will see how a custom plate can be added to the mould structure and modified, by assigning the proper attributes. And where the supplier provides template, VISI

PTC today announced that Staples Solutions, the leading provider of workplace products, services, and solutions to businesses across Europe, has gone live with PTC’s market-leading retail solution PTC FlexPLM® to enable the acceleration of product development through improved efficiency. Staples Solutions is the leading provider of workplace products, services, and solutions to small, mid-sized, and large businesses in Europe. The company offers office supplies, technology products and services, facilities and break-room supplies, furniture, copy and print services and a wide range of other product categories. “We are developing an aggressive growth strategy initiative for our private label. With the flexibility and comprehensive capability of PTC FlexPLM, we expect to significantly improve employee efficiency and speed of innovation,” said Aini Chong, brand manager, Staples Solutions. “Ultimately, we selected FlexPLM due to its out-of-the-box capability to manage our complex product portfolio, rapid deployment approach, robust cloud architecture, and overall user friendliness. After a 14-week

PTC announced the release of its bi-annual “State of Industrial Innovation” research report series. Based on data gathered from PTC’s customer base, the series provides a data-driven, objective view into the current state and future plans for the adoption of Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and augmented reality (AR) technologies. Each report provides a glimpse into the industries driving adoption, the functions and use cases being deployed across the value chain, and the types of business value generated. “As the technologies and business models surrounding the Industrial IoT and AR continue to mature, there are sure to be sequential trends in adoption,” said Mike Campbell, EVP, ThingWorx Platform, PTC. “PTC’s combination of market experience and access to an extensive volume of adoption data enable a truly comprehensive view of the state of these rapidly evolving markets.” As cited in “The State of the Industrial Internet of Things” and “The State

Stellar Acquisition III, Inc. (“Stellar”) announced today that it has entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) to combine with Phunware, Inc. (“Phunware”). The transaction values Phunware at an enterprise value of $301 million, on a cash-free, debt-free basis, with the transaction consideration to be paid in newly issued equity securities of Stellar. The transaction with Phunware enables Stellar to enter two of the most innovative and rapidly growing sectors within the technology space: mobile cloud software and blockchain. Phunware’s mobile application lifecycle management platform delivers mobile marketing automation, analytics and business intelligence, alerts, notifications and messaging, content management, location-based services, audience engagement, audience monetization, vertical solutions, big data and cryptonetworking. The platform processes over 4 billion events per day, totaling over 1.4 trillion events per year. This amounts to petabytes of actionable data across thousands of mobile application portfolios. Currently, Phunware receives revenue from a large

 PDF Key takeaways: One of SOLIDWORKS' stated "big ambitions is…to be the Amazon for your ideas and dreams to design and make." Dassault Systèmes' continued investment in SOLIDWORKS illustrated its strategic commitment to add value for SOLIDWORKS' users and ensure that SOLIDWORKS remains a design platform of choice. SOLIDWORKS and its partners continue to emphasize additive manufacturing as a major area of investment, development, and enablement. The 20th annual SOLIDWORKS World conference was held February 4-7, 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California. A large and enthusiastic crowd of more than 5,000 SOLIDWORKS users attended the conference. Over the course of the four-day event attendees heard from more than a dozen keynote speakers, as well as had the opportunity to attend more than 200 breakout sessions where additional insight could be gained in a wide range of topics (e.g., design, manufacturing, 3D CAD, simulation, electrical design and schematics, communications, collaboration, and data

Selerant today announced the release of its new DevEX Baseline System for food and beverage manufacturers. From idea to label, Selerant’s core DevEX PLM platform enables companies to unify and control critical aspects of New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI), including innovation and R&D, specification and formulation management, product portfolio management, compliance, and packaging. “DevEX Baseline for food and beverage saves time, resources and overall implementation costs by leveraging our state-of-the-art predefined templates, documents and configuration tools that are all tightly integrated within Selerant’s proven and world-class project management best practices,” said Federico Fontanella, Director of Product Management at Selerant. DevEX Baseline’s three configuration profiles offer PLM options for any food and beverage company, regardless of size or maturity of existing processes around PLM: Express Configuration is for companies that need standard product data and do not have well-defined business processes for change control of the product data. Standard Configuration is for companies that want to control

Patti Engineering, Inc. today announced its participation in Manufacturing in America 2018, hosted by Siemens and Electro-Matic Products. The event will take place March 14-15, 2018 at Ford Field in Detroit. Patti Engineering will be exhibiting for the 9th consecutive year and will present two technical seminars for conference attendees. The Manufacturing in America (MiA) conference brings together executives, engineers and enthusiasts from the manufacturing community to network, learn about the newest technologies, and share best practices. MiA is held annually in Detroit, which has the second largest concentration of engineers in the country. Patti Engineering's interactive exhibit will feature MindSphere, the Internet of Things (IoT) platform from Siemens. Patti Engineering is the first Hybrid Operational Technology (OT) Partner for MindSphere in the US. The exhibit will be located both on the field and at their booth on the concourse. For the second year, the MiA presents The Summit, exploring how digitalization is shaping

Ambrosus and the Swiss Coffee Alliance are proud to announce a groundbreaking new partnership. Combining Ambrosus' proprietary sensor-to-Blockchain technology and the SCA's robust network of farmers, roasters, product developers, manufacturers and retailers, this partnership has the potential to transform the $81-billion global coffee market, unearthing new operating efficiencies. Ambrosus Chief Executive Officer Angel Versetti said, "Swiss Coffee Alliance is one of the largest coffee trade-groups in Europe, and in the world. They play a vital role in the import/export dynamics of this market. We are excited to help the Alliance integrate the Ambrosus Blockchain into its consulting infrastructure, so we can together drive sustainable transformation, transparency and trust throughout global coffee value chains."   Claudinei Monteiro, the SCA's chief technology officer, shared Versetti's enthusiasm, saying: "This is a truly transformative partnership that captures the full essence and spirit of Swiss ingenuity. With the Swiss Coffee Alliance's deep sector-expertise and Ambrosus' unrivaled decentralised supply-chain solution, we

Centric Software is delighted to announce the release of a success story about its customer, Shoes For Crews. Shoes For Crews was founded in 1984, when husband-and-wife team Stanley and Arna Smith were running a home-based business producing nurses’ shoes and uniforms in New York. Shoes For Crews started with a shortlist of six PLM vendors, which they quickly whittled down to two contenders. In December 2016, after a competitive process of applying PLM solutions to real-world data and scenarios, Shoes For Crews announced that it chose Centric. “I’ve been doing PLM in the apparel and footwear space for the last fifteen years or so, I’m pretty familiar with the different players out there,” says Pam Buckingham, Director, PLM & Product Development. “I had never worked with Centric personally, but upon lots of homework, investigation, interviews with colleagues and asking the Centric reps a million hard questions, Centric rose to