Commentaries & Highlights

Tata Consultancy Services and Rolls Royce have announced the expansion of their long-standing partnership in order to exploit future data innovation opportunities. The partnership will help Rolls-Royce accelerate its ‘Digital First’ vision, deliver further value to customers, improve existing services, accelerate development and deployment times and create new areas of growth. This digital transformation for Rolls-Royce will be supported by TCS’ Connected Universe Platform, a platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that accelerates the development and deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. As part of this agreement, TCS,  will provide IoT digital platform capability, allowing data to be captured, shared and analysed more quickly  across Rolls-Royce so that new products and services can be developed at pace. This will enable Rolls-Royce to use data to innovate within all of its businesses and collaborate more effectively with partners and customers. Rajesh Gopinathan, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services said: “TCS is honoured to

The Altair Partner Alliance (APA) is pleased to announce the addition of Optenni’s Optenni Lab to its software offering. Optenni Lab is a software tool for the synthesis and optimization of matching circuits for multiband, broadband, multi-antenna and tunable antenna systems. Optenni Lab can also be used for demanding radio-frequency amplifier matching problems. "Matching circuits are key and widely used in the RF chain, where they can have a big impact on the performance of any wireless device, including its range and battery life. Designing and tuning matching circuits can be a tedious task and Optenni Lab offers RF and antenna engineers an intuitive, fast, and easy-to-use matching circuit synthesis and optimization software," said Dr. Jordi Soler, Director of Global Business Development, Electromagnetic Solutions at Altair. "Our fruitful collaboration with Optenni started many years ago, where we have been and still are selling Optenni Lab as a separate tool and licensing

ANSYS announced today that it has acquired 3DSIM, developer of premier additive manufacturing simulation technology. The acquisition of 3DSIM gives ANSYS the industry's only complete additive manufacturing simulation workflow. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Additive manufacturing is the fastest-growing engineering market segment. While it has the potential to transform the industrial manufacturing landscape, companies have several hurdles to overcome before they can broadly replace existing manufacturing methods. Printing metal is particularly challenging because it often involves a laser, which optimizes the metal's density for each application. But it can also melt the metal in unexpected ways, causing product failure. Additionally, rapid heating and cooling causes stresses that can deform the product. The combined ANSYS-3DSIM simulation solution will mitigate those risks, leading to stronger, yet lighter components in the future. Headquartered in Park City, Utah, 3DSIM develops powerful simulation software for metal additive manufacturing. 3DSIM's software tools empower manufacturers, designers, materials scientists and

Global consulting firm Kalypso today announced the availability of Product Lifecycle Intelligence (PLI), an application of machine learning that helps organizations improve product development results through data-driven insights. Product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) have traditionally provided business leaders and product innovators a way to manage product data and align around a single source of truth. But in today’s digital world, the value of this data alone is no longer enough. PLI mines operational insights from data accumulated within mature PLM environments, as well as within integrated business systems such as ERP, quality and manufacturing platforms. “Companies today are swimming in data. PLI provides a structured approach to extracting insights from PLM and other datasets to make better product development decisions,” said Jordan Reynolds, senior manager at Kalypso. “While PLI allows leaders to describe and diagnose a problem, the real power and benefit lies in the ability to predict the impact of

Aras® announced that MacGregor, a leading provider of cargo handling solutions and services with the goal of becoming the leader in intelligent cargo handling, has selected Aras Innovator® as their PLM backbone. Aras Innovator® will be implemented across more than 10 sites. Key drivers in MacGregor’s selection was expected flexibility, platform capabilities, speed of implementation, breadth of functionality and upgradeability including customizations. Working with Aras gold certified partner Minerva, MacGregor plans to implement Aras Innovator® to streamline the related processes. “We are excited to implement Aras Innovator,” said Pär Dehlin (Director Product Lifecycle Management). “The Aras Innovator Suite will enable us to have a backbone on top of the current engineering data solutions we have, and over time incorporate more and more functionality from these solutions into Aras. We have defined a roadmap where we step-by-step will harmonize our engineering systems landscape by extending the functionality of Aras over

Dassault Systèmes today announced that the 3DEXPERIENCE platform was chosen by Blutec Srl to support its 300 million euro automotive industrial project in collaboration with Invitalia, the Italian Ministry of Economy’s agency for investment and business development.  Blutec will relaunch an automotive industrial site in Termini Imerese, Sicily that was shut down in 2011 and repurpose it to manufacture hybrid and electric vehicles for the international automotive industry, as well as gradually reemploy the former facility’s 700-person workforce.  Blutec will deploy Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform to train employees on sustainable industrial innovation and use the “Electro Mobility Accelerator” industry solution experience to imagine, design, simulate and deliver new vehicle concepts.  The project is expected to be fully implemented in 2018.  “Blutec’s mission for the Termini Imerese site is to produce components and an innovative series of green vehicles for the most prestigious car manufacturers and bring social and economic benefits to the region,” said Cosimo Di

Aras® today announced that the Japan Steel Works, Ltd. (JSW), a global industrial machinery manufacturer, selected the Aras Innovator® platform to improve product data management. JSW will better manage 3D product data to ensure interoperability and efficiency for the engineering and manufacturing of plastic production and processing machinery as the mainline of their industrial machinery products. JSW selected Aras Innovator to achieve the following:  Ensure that accurate, up-to-date information can be viewed by all users during design reviews, engineering changes, defect investigations, and other processes. Provide integrated access to product data. Better control costs due to availability of the platform via subscription pricing. The Aras PLM Platform will be implemented as an iCAD data management system to streamline the design and improve the quality of data management and will replace previous use of Windows folders for data management. JSW initially worked with DIGITAL PROCESS LTD. (DIPRO) to assess the most effective approach to manage

SAP today said that to help its customers step up their digital innovation journey, it would add eight new locations to its global network of SAP Leonardo Centers. The new slate of SAP Leonardo Centers are set to open next year in Berlin, China, Johannesburg, Moscow, Seoul, Singapore, Silicon Valley and Tokyo and follow the successful opening of the SAP Leonardo Centers earlier this year in Bangalore, New York, Paris and São Leopoldo. The announcement was made at the SAP Leonardo Live event in Chicago, being held Nov. 2 and 3. Using SAP’s digital innovation system, SAP Leonardo Centers employ design thinking and co-innovation and act as a “front end” for customers and partners to accelerate their digital innovation journey. “SAP Leonardo Centers provide a creative environment for digital inspiration and co-innovation for SAP customers, partners and the broader ecosystem,” said Dr. Tanja Rueckert, president of IoT & Digital Supply Chain

The market-leading woodwork CAD/CAM solution, Cabinet Vision, was introduced into Vietnam at the country’s Wood 2017 trade fair – and a customer flew in from the Philippines on the opening day to sign a deal to take the software. Graham Rutter, General Manager with Cabinet Vision South East Asia, said it had been “a great start” to the show, and to Cabinet Vision’s presence in the region. “The quality of the visitors was exceptional – we signed up a number of orders, and took some very strong leads to follow up after the show.” He says they also carried out several one-on-one product demonstrations, and several visitors returned to the booth later in the show, with other staff members from their companies to show them the software. “We expect this to be a very strong area for Cabinet Vision’s products and services, as it’s the most widely used software in

NTT Communications Corporation and Secure-24 Intermediate Holdings, Inc. announced today that their respective shareholders entered into a definitive agreement on November 13 (Japan Standard Time), pursuant to which NTT Com will wholly acquire Secure-24. The demand for managed services is growing steadily worldwide and managed-IT services, one of Secure-24’s core businesses, are expected to see especially significant growth in the U.S. market. Secure-24 specializes in delivering effective, comprehensive managed services that leverage proprietary, highly automated operation tools. Its clients represent Fortune 1000 companies in sectors including manufacturing, finance, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, insurance, government, transportation and more. NTT Com will leverage Secure-24’s extensive portfolio of managed application and database services, including SAP, SAP HANA, Oracle, Hyperion, JD Edwards, Microsoft, Epic, custom, industry and other mission-critical applications. Secure-24 is structured for continued growth, fueled by an in-house training academy that builds engineers from a mid-to-long-term perspective. In addition to over 100 industry and