Commentaries & Highlights

View the current schedule here: https://www.incose.org/iw2018/program/agenda  Saturday, January 20 – Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront 225 East Coastline Drive  Jacksonville, Florida 32202 USA To view the original press release, please click here. Search for INCOSE on CIMdata.com

Siemens PLM Software Company will build an "Industry 4.0" intelligent manufacturing innovation center in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province. A cooperative agreement has been signed between Siemens, Shanxi Transformation and Comprehensive Reform Demonstration Zone and a local smart data company. According to the plan, Siemens will provide research and development for Chinese manufacturers through the innovation center as Shanxi pushes forward digitalization of its companies. Last year, Siemens said it would work with the Chinese government authorities and research institutions on a new robotics center. The company currently employs around 4,500 scientists and engineers in China. Robotics and the automatization of industry are areas which the government is heavily promoting under the framework of its "Made in China 2025" initiative. German industry is seen as a potential partner in this context. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Siemens on CIMdata.com

PTC today announced the launch of Material Exchange, an advanced filtering and material visualization platform, developed in collaboration with industry manufacturers, brands, Material Exchange Ventures AB, and the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA), the footwear industry’s business and trade association. Traditionally, brands and manufacturers sifted through dozens of physical material swatch books to find the appropriate material for their design and development projects. Leveraging digitalization, Material Exchange is an online database of materials that can be searched, filtered, and downloaded, enabling users to reduce time and manual data entry. This platform enables companies to pull material specs and pictures into 3D design programs – allowing them to change materials and colorways instantly and continuously throughout the design process. It also enables development teams to gain line-of-sight into material costs, availability, quality, and compliance issues. “Together with PTC and many top brands, we’ve developed a platform that has the potential

Kaminario today announced it is transitioning to a software-centric business model and partnering with Tech Data to streamline operations, while focusing its resources on continued software innovation. Tech Data is the leading end-to-end distributor of technology products, services and solutions around the world. The agreement will allow Tech Data to provide supply chain, integration and product support services for Kaminario’s composable data platform solutions, including the Kaminario K2TM all-flash array. This alliance represents a strategic business model shift for Kaminario, combining software-defined storage technology with Tech Data’s product and supply chain expertise to deliver fully integrated hardware-software all-flash storage appliances at a disruptive industry price point.Kaminario’s composable data platform delivers highly scalable, all-flash storage solutions for public, private and hybrid cloud data centers. K2 combines the Kaminario VisionOSTM software operating platform with a certified reference hardware stack into an integrated appliance. Kaminario’s channel-first go-to-market strategy leverages a network of over 200 technology

Itoc is proud to announce that we have achieved the AWS DevOps Competency which demonstrates our continued investment in next generation capabilities to bring increased value to our customers. This competency reflects recognition by AWS and our customers of our deep experience working with businesses to enable them in implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery practices. The competency additionally highlights our investment and proven experience in delivering best of breed DevOps solutions leveraging automation of infrastructure provisioning and management with configuration management tools on AWS. AWS established the DevOps Partner Competency Program to identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise. APN Partners with the AWS DevOps Competency have demonstrated industry expertise, readily implemented solutions that align with AWS architectural best practices, and have staff with AWS-certifications. DevOps is a challenging skill set to master. The stakes are high but so are the rewards, and with

Dassault Systèmes today announced Executive Committee appointments and changes. Philippe Forestier, Executive Vice President, Global Affairs & Communities and a founding member of Dassault Systèmes when it was created in 1981 will retire. Monica Menghini, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, is resigning for family reasons. Both departures are effective as of February 28, 2018. Thibault de Tersant, currently Senior Executive Vice President and CFO, will take the position of General Secretary (Secrétaire Général) and Pascal Daloz, currently Executive Vice President, Brands and Corporate Development, has been named Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Strategy Officer, with the changes effective February 5th following the release of 2017 fourth quarter and full year financial results scheduled for February 1, 2018. Florence Verzelen has joined as Executive Vice President, Industry Solutions, Marketing, Global Affairs and Communication, effective January 15, 2018. Bernard Charlès, Vice Chairman and CEO, Dassault Systèmes commented, “These changes in our Executive Committee

TXT Retail will present TXT Retail 9, its newest and most advanced end-to-end merchandise lifecycle management solution at NRF 2018: Retail's Big Show in New York City, Jan. 14-16. Uniquely positioned in the market for its depth and breadth of functionality, TXT Retail 9 supports all activities involved with planning, designing, distributing and managing assortments. TXT Retail 9 provides significant new benefits, including improved collaboration in assortment planning, stronger visualization and reporting functionality, enhanced capabilities to support both retail and wholesale buying processes, and more. "In addition to delivering exceptional functionalities covering end-to-end merchandising needs, TXT Retail 9 also provides superior standards of usability and performance," states Riccardo Proni, SVP solution center and product at TXT Retail, an Aptos Company. "The power of in-memory, coupled with the best tools for visual and collaborative planning, leads to the ability to create, analyze and socialize plans ever faster and smarter." TXT Retail 9 offers a

Centric Software announces that CAMILLA has selected Centric Software to provide its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Jane McNally, CEO of CAMILLA explains that design is the center of the brand’s DNA and that they needed to find ways to streamline the design process to make it easier for teams to collaborate. “Every year, our designers gather inspiration from exotic locations around the world to produce our unique print designs,” says McNally. “These designs are then applied to multiple products, from womenswear to swimwear to surfboards. We needed a system that could handle the design and product development process smoothly, allowing us to easily apply our intricate prints to multiple canvasses and products in order to improve collaboration between our design, product development, sourcing and merchandising teams.” “We had been operating with Excel spreadsheets and email, which meant that information and design files were scattered in different locations,” continues

Tech Data today introduced its Global Lifecycle Management Services portfolio to help manage the entire technology product and customer lifecycle—from design, integration and installation to service, support and IT Asset Disposition (ITAD). Available globally and designed for both original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and solution providers, the portfolio also features complete customer management solutions, including customer acquisition, enablement and revenue-growth services, such as contract renewals and software license compliance. Services is a key component of Tech Data's end-to-end portfolio that spans the entire technology ecosystem, benefitting both vendors and customers. By using Tech Data's services, OEMs and solution providers can focus their resources on what is most important to them. In addition, Tech Data's resources and team of experts help customers expand their geographic and technology reach, accelerating the adoption of new technology with the confidence that comes from a trusted partnership. "Our services portfolio adds a new dimension to distribution," said John O'Shea, senior vice president, Global Lifecycle Management Services, Americasat Tech Data.

The long-standing partnership between Wipro and PTC will reach another milestone with the launch of Thinkspace Studio - a dedicated IIoT Center of Excellence - at Wipro’s Electronic City campus. Wipro is committed to accelerate our customer’s digital transformation journey while delivering holistic end-to-end IoT solutions from intelligent devices and gateways, human to machine interaction and data-driven insights. Thinkspace Studio will help in enabling transformation from product to service-centric business models. Both Wipro and PTC share the view that the future of ALM, PLM, and Industrial Automation lies in its extension to use cases in the field, and closing the loop through IoT and digital engineering. Building on Wipro’s extensive IoT, Product Engineering and System Integration capabilities, Thinkspace Studio will help to drive innovation and digital transformation for our customers by leveraging digital engineering solutions across IOT/PLM/ALM/SLM technologies. The partnership will also benefit customers by reducing time to market for