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The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) has announced that online registration will open on September 3, 2024, for its 2025 AMUG Education and Training Conference. The conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois, from March 30 to April 3, 2025. This event is open to owners and operators of industrial additive manufacturing technologies used for professional purposes. The AMUG Conference is a gathering that is unlike all other additive manufacturing events. It is a unique assembly of users of all experience levels who come together as a community to share valuable insights and experiences to help one another. The users exchange expertise, best practices, real-world results, challenges, and application developments through dialogue from the stage and conversations during breaks, meals, and networking activities. Claire Belson Barnes, Director of Membership, said, “AMUG is for users, by users. Our diverse group of problem solvers appreciates the unique opportunities to network and develop relationships with

Microvellum exhibited at the IWF Atlanta 2024 Show, North America's largest woodworking trade show. Our team had an amazing time connecting with manufacturers, shop owners, educators, and so many others who share a passion for woodworking. With 1,093 exhibitors and thousands of attendees, it was impressive to see all the latest and greatest in our industry. Our team traveled across the U.S. and Canada to attend IWF 2024, excited to dive into the latest industry trends and share our innovations with the woodworking community. For 20 years, IWF has been the event where we connect face-to-face with industry experts, discover new products, and build lasting relationships, all while experiencing the latest in manufacturing technology, product design, and wood manufacturing trends—and every year, we leave feeling inspired and ready to bring fresh ideas back home. This year, we were pleased with the continued success of Microvellum University (MVU), our educational platform. RJ Pranski, MVU's instructor, shared

Keysight Technologies, Inc. reported financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2024. “Keysight delivered revenue and earnings above the high end of our guidance in market conditions that were stable and consistent with our expectations,” said Satish Dhanasekaran, Keysight’s President and CEO. “The funnel of opportunities supports our outlook for second half orders to be above first half orders, followed by a more gradual recovery in 2025, barring any further macroeconomic degradation." Third Quarter Financial Summary Revenue was $1.22 billion, compared with $1.38 billion in the third quarter of 2023. GAAP net income was $389 million, or $2.22 per share, which includes a 94-cent year-to-date benefit due to a change in effective tax rate, compared with $288 million, or $1.61 per share, in the third quarter of 2023. Non-GAAP net income was $275 million, or $1.57 per share, which includes a 16-cent year-to-date benefit due to a change in non-GAAP tax rate,

Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, announced that Alain Afflelou, a top global franchise provider for optical and auditory solutions, is using Informatica’s AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC) platform to govern the data collected from its franchisees in 19 countries to make business-critical decisions. Alain Afflelou was founded in France in 1972. Today, the company has grown to more than 1,400 independently-owned franchise stores throughout the world offering vision and hearing health solutions. Afflelou’s primary customers are their franchisees—who are autonomous merchants—meaning data definitions, organisation, types and formats varied significantly across geographies, making the governance of data a significant challenge. Afflelou turned to Informatica to develop a global, cloud-based data management solution that has robust data governance capabilities to ensure data quality and confidentiality. “Data is one of the assets that can make a difference in the franchise business. As we need to rely on it to make

EISELE GmbH now offers customers and interested parties a digital product catalog that is available around the clock. The internationally active company of the Henn Connector Group, headquartered in Waiblingen near Stuttgart, Germany, develops, produces and sells high-quality all-metal connectors for industry and technology. Whether in compressed air technology, automotive engineering, painting and welding applications or in the food industry for filling and packaging systems - components from EISELE GmbH are used in many application areas and industries. However, this diversity does not always make the planning process easy. For this reason, EISELE now offers its customers a digital product catalog. Smooth planning processes The tool is based on the CADENAS software solution and is available on the homepage of EISELE GmbH and on the 3Dfindit platform. The multi-CAD and multi-CAE product catalog is user-friendly and acts as a product selection assistant, for example for pneumatic connections. The software offers 2D and 3D previews for optimal component

MongoDB, Inc., at its MongoDB.local Austin developer conference, announced that Iron Mountain, a global leader in information management services, is using MongoDB as the data platform for their new Iron Mountain InSight® Digital Experience Platform (DXP). Built on MongoDB Atlas, InSight DXP is now available for customers seeking a unified, customizable platform to access, manage, govern, and monetize physical and digital information. The platform's AI-powered self-service tools automate manual processes, enable audit-ready compliance, make data more quickly accessible and get your data AI-ready. Many organizations today—including those in regulated industries—are still reliant upon paper documents as part of their organizational processes. Physical assets are often unsorted, commingled, and stored for too long. On the other hand, digital data often has little or no indexing, making it challenging for organizations to find the information they need when they need it. In addition, disparate and legacy systems can obscure the ability to drive data-driven

Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, announced that Lumen Technologies, a global integrated network solutions provider, has successfully modernized their on-premises PowerCenter workloads to Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform, accelerating time-to-value and minimizing migration costs and effort in its expansion to the cloud. Lumen faced several data and IT challenges caused by mergers and acquisitions, such as data quality, latency, duplication and reconciliation issues. Lumen partnered with Informatica to create a centralized data platform to consolidate its on-premises data and warehouses. Informatica’s AI-powered IDMC platform allowed Lumen to work within a single platform to streamline network assets, cloud connectivity, security solutions and collaboration tools. "Data reconciliation took hours of work a month and was often outdated and unreliable," said Brian Bergquist, Senior Manager of Software Engineering and Data Governance at Lumen Technologies . "With the Informatica PowerCenter Modernization Program, we were able to free up our valuable business resources

Centric Software® is pleased to announce that Mercury, the Chinese bedding company, has selected Centric PLM™ to drive go-to-market innovation and efficient collaboration. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Shanghai Mercury Home Textile Stock Co., Ltd. is a major member enterprise of Mercury Holding Group and an important founder of China’s modern home textile industry. Founded in 1987, Mercury has developed into a modern enterprise that integrates R&D, design, production and sales, specializing in multiple brands. Mercury produces an extensive range of over 300 bedding and sleep products across eight categories. In the face of rapid business development, digital transformation is high on Mercury’s agenda to drive long-term growth. Mercury decided to

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that the Orient Express Racing Team is using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to aid in preparation for upcoming 37th America’s Cup and to gain competitive advantage. The Orient Express Racing Team, founded by sports tech company K-Challenge, brings together some of the best French athletes, engineers, technicians and experts with the aim of winning the most prestigious international sailing competitions, including the America’s Cup. Mastering this ultra-competitive environment is the drive behind the company’s creativity and capacity for innovation. Working in close collaboration with Siemens’ Simcenter Engineering Services, Orient Express Racing Team is gaining an understanding of real-world performance of the hydraulic flight and aeronautic systems that control sails and rudder/foil flaps actuation. Digital twins of these systems have been built, parameterized and functionally validated, along with dedicated libraries, that help ensure the layout and interface are comprehensive and easy to operate in a multi-disciplinary team effort spanning

We confirm the completion of our acquisition of Optimad Engineering, a company specializing in advanced engineering solutions, Reduced Order Modelling and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This strategic acquisition enhances our position in the simulation and analysis market and broadens our product portfolio to better serve our global customer base. The integration of Optimad Engineering’s cutting-edge technologies with ESTECO's robust suite of digital engineering software solutions promises to offer unparalleled capabilities by combining process automation, design optimization and simulation data management with the AI data-driven technology of Optimad. By bringing together the strengths of both companies, we aim to deliver more comprehensive and innovative solutions to industries including aerospace, automotive, energy, and manufacturing. “We’re happy to welcome Optimad Engineering to the ESTECO team - Carlo Poloni, our President, commented. - This acquisition marks a significant milestone in our 25 years of creating trailblazing digital engineering software. Specifically, Optimad Engineering’s expertise and technological advancements perfectly complement our mission to empower engineers and designers