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Wipro Limited today announced the launch of industry-specific solutions on SAP® Leonardo. The first set of solutions will focus on the utilities industry, while the next will cover the consumer and manufacturing industries.  SAP Leonardo is a holistic digital innovation system that comprehensively integrates future-facing technologies and capabilities into SAP Cloud Platform. Wipro will leverage SAP Leonardo themes such as IoT, blockchain, machine learning, Big Data, insights and analytics to build solutions that will support insight-driven decision-making for customers. To begin with, Wipro and SAP are jointly developing use cases that leverage blockchain technology for the utilities industry. Wipro plans to build micro-services as extensions to the SAP Leonardo portfolio on SAP Cloud Platform. These micro-services will be aligned with SAP’s future product roadmap. As part of the partnership, Wipro will develop industry-specific analytics “apps” on its insights-as-a-service solution, Data Discovery Platform, leveraging SAP Leonardo analytics, Big Data and data
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Siemens AG and Software AG announced a partnership to strengthen the presence of the cloud-based open Internet of Things (IoT) operating system MindSphere across industries. MindSphere supports industrial companies in their digital transformation and offers a development platform to a broad customer base where companies can integrate their own applications and services to promote IoT innovations. Software AG brings the highly scalable components of its Digital Business Platform to MindSphere, which help customers to flexibly manage networks of millions of end devices. "Working hand in hand with partners like Software AG, we are continuing to drive forward the expansion of our IoT operating system MindSphere, creating an ever more extensive global ecosystem. With MindSphere as a key component of our Digital Enterprise Suite we provide optimum support for manufacturing customers undergoing the digital transformation," says Dr. Jan Mrosik, CEO Digital Factory Division, Siemens AG. Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG,
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Siemens today announced that the latest release of MindSphere, the company’s open cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) operating system, will be hosted for the first time on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This provides the ability to develop robust industrial IoT solutions on a shorter timeline for customers across various industries, especially aerospace and defense as well as energy and utilities. “We are excited to be working with Siemens to host MindSphere on AWS,” said Terry Wise, vice president of global alliances, ecosystem & channels for Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Siemens’ deep industrial domain knowledge and experience, coupled with the global scalability and security available through AWS, provides its customers with increased capabilities to bring industrial IoT to businesses of all sizes.” MindSphere delivers a wide range of device and enterprise application connectivity protocol options, industry applications, advanced analytics and an innovative development environment that utilizes both Siemens’ open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
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REHAU Automotive, German automotive supplier and polymer specialist, will exclusively deploy Siemens software products to replace several legacy systems in engineering, manufacturing and quality management. With this decision REHAU becomes one of the first automotive suppliers to implement a company-wide manufacturing execution system (MES) and quality management system (QMS) integrated into a product lifecycle management (PLM) system for product and process digitalization and closed loop manufacturing. REHAU will replace all of its legacy software systems in 15 plants worldwide with the full scope of Siemens’ Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) portfolio in order to maintain a competitive edge for the on-coming fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0. “This is the lighthouse project for REHAU Automotive and is unique in our company’s history,” said Helmut Ansorge, member of the REHAU Automotive executive board. “Over the last decade, we developed homegrown, individual solutions for every site. As time went on, the complexity of
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MORE & MORE, a German womenswear fashion brand, has selected Centric Software to provide its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. MORE & MORE wanted a technology partner to provide innovative enterprise solutions to restructure their supply chain process with the goal of improving competitiveness and efficiency. The company chose Centric PLM for its reliability, ease of use and deep knowledge in the fashion industry. “We selected Centric because we were impressed by their adaptable and flexible Product Lifecycle Management platform,” explains Franziska von Becker, Global Brand Director of MORE & MORE. “Centric is a customer oriented company with great experience in helping apparel companies improve their product development process to deliver new products in a shorter time period with reliable quality.” Centric Software PLM will help MORE & MORE leverage best practices, streamline and align processes between internal teams and unlock greater external collaboration. “Centric PLM will help us
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Bestronics will host the Silicon Valley SMTA technical conference and expo in its manufacturing facility in San Jose, on Nov. 29, 2017. SMTA is a non-profit association of international companies and individuals dedicated to the advancement of the electronics industry through member education and interaction. The conference is free to pre-registered attendees and features a keynote by Microsoft executive Brian Toleno, technical presentations, and over 50 exhibitions by local electronics manufacturers and suppliers. “As manufacturing activity declined in the valley, so did interest in hosting technical forums here,” said Robert Boguski, SMTA Silicon Valley Chapter President and President of Datest. “With the resurgence in onshore high technology manufacturing, we’re very proud that the annual SMTA conference will be located here in Silicon Valley for the first time in nearly a decade. Bestronics has generously supported our organization by hosting regular SMTA chapter meetings in their San Jose headquarters, and this year
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Swarm Technology LLC is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance in connection with U.S. Patent Application 14/340,332 relating to Intent-Based Automation within the fields of IoT, Networking and Robotics. "We are thrilled to receive this Notice of Allowance from the USPTO," said Alfonso Iniguez, the company's founder and CEO. "With respect to robotics, our technology enables adaptive collective behavior. We are currently developing swarm robots for autonomous landmine detection. Upon obtaining our first investor, we intend to integrate swarm intelligence into drones for use in autonomous oil and gas inspection."  With respect to Internet of Things (IoT) applications, this strategically important patent involves intent-based plug-and-play edge processing, which is fundamental for scalable artificial intelligence. "Swarm's Solidarity Cell Architecture provides seamless heterogeneous interoperability, which DARPA refers to as dispersed computing," said Iniguez. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Swarm Technology on CIMdata.com
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Wipro Digital, the digital business unit of Wipro Limited, released a new report titled “Vision 2030: A connected future” that highlights the opportunities that experts and business leaders see for data and connectivity in creating a sustainable future. The report, jointly developed with Forum for the Future, an international sustainability non-profit organization, outlines a future vision for Internet of Things (IoT) driven connectivity and highlights the barriers that need to be overcome to realize this vision. One of the findings of the report is that while 98% of business leaders surveyed see great potential in data and connectivity and strongly believe it will contribute to a sustainable future, only half use data and connectivity to support such efforts. Vision 2030: A connected future recommends actions to close the gap between awareness and action.                                       
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Microsoft Corp. and SAP SE on Monday announced integrated offerings to provide enterprise customers with a clear road map to confidently drive more business innovation in the cloud. In a bold show of commitment, the two companies also announced they will be deploying each other’s cloud solutions internally. Through their unique partnership, the companies will co-engineer, go to market together with premier solutions and provide joint support services to ensure the best cloud experience for customers. SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud — SAP’s private managed cloud service — on Microsoft Azure will allow customers to run SAP S/4HANA in a secure, managed cloud. Additionally, Microsoft will deploy SAP S/4HANA® on Azure to help run its own internal finance processes, and SAP will move its key internal business critical systems to Azure. Finally, SAP Ariba is currently utilizing Azure and is exploring further use within its procurement applications. Together, SAP and Microsoft will help companies make the
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Materialise NV and Siemens Healthineers company announced today that they are joining forces to bring Materialise Mimics inPrint software to hospitals around the world. 3D printing technology is growing rapidly in the medical field, and soon it will be even more mainstream as 3D printing software becomes more accessible in hospitals. The partnership, announced at the 2017 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting, makes Materialise Mimics inPrint software, a dedicated solution for printing anatomical models in hospitals, available to radiologists through the Siemens Healthineers syngo.via open app platform. Adopting virtual 3D anatomical models facilitates surgical planning and collaboration between radiologists and surgical teams. 3D-printed anatomical models improve patient communication, training and education surrounding anatomically complex pathologies. “We believe 3D printing is going to revolutionize the medical industry and we are always looking for ways to improve accessibility of our 3D printing software to more patients and hospitals,” said Brigitte
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