Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, announced the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) is using Bentley’s Blyncsy solution to enhance its existing performance-based budgeting process for highway maintenance. ALDOT adopted a performance-based budgeting model more than 15 years ago and continues to refine its implementation to ensure maintenance funds are allocated based on objective, data-driven insights. Historically, collecting asset condition data across Alabama’s 11,000 miles of roadway network has required significant manual effort and resources. While ALDOT has long employed a data-driven statewide survey, traditional methods, such as manual inspections, are labor-intensive and can introduce inconsistencies. To improve efficiency and accuracy, ALDOT is incorporating Blyncsy’s automated AI analytics into its established process, providing a faster and more consistent assessment of specific designated roadway assets. Blyncsy, part of Bentley’s Asset Analytics portfolio, uses crowdsourced high-resolution dash camera imagery from vehicles and applies AI to automatically analyze roadway conditions. This provides a consistent, empirical

The start-up develops innovative solutions for green hydrogen. With CIM Database Cloud and Elements for IoT, it now creates an end-to-end digital backbone that connects product development, operations, and service. Hydrogen is considered a key energy carrier of the future. To date, however, its production and transport remain cost-intensive and technically demanding. H2Green Oil addresses these challenges with a holistic and standardized approach for decentralized hydrogen production. The company sees itself as a system integrator that combines individual components – such as those from Advanced Hydrogen Storage GmbH – into an integrated hydrogen concept that optimally aligns production, storage, and transport from both a technological and an energetic perspective. H2Green Oil uses green wind and solar energy to produce hydrogen in electrolyzers. The water required for electrolysis is extracted directly from the surrounding air using a proprietary, innovative process. This conserves local drinking water resources and enables independent water supply. For storage

Flexxbotics, the autonomous manufacturing platform leader, announced the update to its FANUC industrial robot connector driver within the Flexxbotics Transformers open-source project on GitHub. The enhanced FANUC connector driver expands robot-to-machine interfacing interoperability, real-time robot awareness, and secure bi-directional control across automated production environments and advanced robotic workcells. The updated FANUC transformer is available now as part of the Flexxbotics open-source repository, released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, at: https://github.com/Flexxbotics/transformers Advancing Industrial Robotics with Software-Defined Automation Industrial robots are central to modern manufacturing, however, interfacing between robot controllers and the many different protocols used in factory machines, safety systems, inspection & test equipment, and other plant assets remains a complicated, custom project. Now with the updated connector driver, Flexxbotics further modernizes robot connectivity by enabling FANUC robots to communicate in a standardized way with over 1000 makes and models of factory equipment using a software-defined automation (SDA) runtime designed for scalable, many-to-many interoperability.  Flexxbotics

IFS, the world's leading provider of Industrial AI software, launched IFS Nexus Black Resolve for Utilities – purpose-built and combining decades of utilities expertise with cutting-edge AI capabilities to revolutionize the most inefficient element of field service operations. The announcement was made at DISTRIBUTECH® International 2026, where IFS is demonstrating how utilities can apply AI to navigate increasingly complex challenges – from aging infrastructure and extreme weather to workforce constraints, rising customer expectations, and increasing regulatory pressure. Resolve for Utilities represents a breakthrough in how energy and utilities companies respond to disasters, manage daily operations, and modernize the grid. Developed by IFS Nexus Black, the solution extends proven IFS Field Service Management technology with AI to deliver rapid innovation that gets results in weeks, not months – while maintaining the reliability, scalability, and security that utilities demand. AI That Understands the Realities of Utilities Operations  Unlike generic AI solutions designed for white-collar

OpenSpace, the Visual Intelligence Platform for builders, announced the general availability of OpenSpace Field, an image-based,  field-first solution for creating and managing tasks and issues that helps jobsite teams create, capture, document, and act on work items in real time.   OpenSpace Field expands OpenSpace from a system of visual record into a system of visual action – connecting reality captured in the field directly to the workflows that drive execution, without replacing existing project management platforms. Built for smartphones and powered by breakthrough Spatial AI, OpenSpace Field enables jobsite teams to create and manage punch list items, observations, and issues dramatically faster, with rich visual context and seamless, bi-directional integrations with Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC). “The field is the most underutilized source of data in construction, and it’s where projects are truly won or lost,” said Jeevan Kalanithi, co-founder and CEO of OpenSpace. “OpenSpace Field puts the intelligence of the jobsite at

Elysium has released CADdoctor SX11.0. Key Enhancement Changed support of CAD versions Import & Export Options Versions added in SX11.0 Supported Versions CATIA V5 (Standalone) Importer / Exporter R35(V5-6R2025) Importer: R10 – R35(V5-6R2025) Exporter: R14, R19 – R35 NX (Standalone) Importer 2412.7000 UG10 – NX 2412 Series Parasolid (Standalone) Importer / Exporter V37.0 V7 – V37.0 STEP (Standalone) Importer / Exporter AP242 ed4 AP203, AP214, AP242 (ed1/ed2/ed3/ed4) JT (Standalone) Exporter v10.10 v9.0 – v10.10 To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Elysium on CIMdata.com

Sage, the leader in accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses, announced new AI-powered enhancements to Sage X3. The new capabilities give product-centric organizations clearer visibility across finance, sales, and supply chain operations, allowing teams to respond faster as conditions change. Mid-sized businesses are operating in a near-constant state of change. Ongoing supply chain disruption, new compliance demands, and tighter resources mean finance and sales teams are expected to respond faster than ever. At the same time, businesses are generating more data than they know what to do with, and too often that information doesn’t translate into timely action in the systems people use every day. According to McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI report, 88% of organizations now use AI in at least one part of their business. However, most are still at an early stage when it comes to using AI to actively support decision-making and day-to-day operations.

Zoo, a company that creates infrastructure for hardware design, announced the launch of Zookeeper, a conversational CAD design agent that helps engineers move from intent to fully editable CAD models through natural language interaction. With Zookeeper, users can describe what they want to design, ask questions, explore alternatives, and iterate on existing designs, all within Zoo Design Studio. Zookeeper lets engineers delegate tasks such as research, reasoning, and manufacturing-aware design decisions to an AI agent that designs based on their goals and descriptions. It conducts relevant research, proposes design constraints and parameters, and generates a clear design plan before producing a CAD model. The resulting model is fully editable using the same sketch and feature tree workflows engineers already rely on. Building on their Text-to-CAD experience, the team added research and reasoning capabilities and engine-level tools that allow the agent to inspect, snapshot, and debug geometry while generating production-ready CAD. “We built

Asite, a leading platform for information management in the built environment, is proud to announce the successful renewal of its ISO 19650 Framework Kitemark. This internationally recognized standard reaffirms Asite’s commitment to helping organizations meet ISO 19650 standards. Asite is one of just two SaaS organizations to have this accreditation in the UK. The BSI Kitemark™ for Building Information Modelling (BIM) software is an independent certification that demonstrates a software’s ability to manage information in line with the internationally recognized ISO 19650 standard. It assures that a BIM software solution has been independently assessed across key areas, including software functionality, security-minded processes, user support, development practices, and organizational resilience. Together, this demonstrates that both the technology and the processes supporting it meet rigorous, industry-defined standards. As digital collaboration has become standard practice, the industry’s challenge is evolving from information access to ensuring information quality. ISO 19650 plays a critical role in providing a

Qflow announces a £2 million strategic investment from Autodesk, Inc., marking a major step in its ambitious plan to link construction data back with design intent.  The investment builds on the existing product collaboration between Qflow and Autodesk Construction Cloud, with the shared goal of creating a powerful integrated solution that helps close the loop between design intent and construction reality.  By reconciling construction data on real-time material quality, quantity and supply-chain intelligence back into design data, Qflow strives to enable construction teams to identify and resolve material-related issues before they cause delays, rework, or budget overruns. With many project teams still relying on manual, fragmented processes to monitor site activity, material supply-chain issues are some of the most persistent sources of rework and cost overruns in construction. This move emphasises the growing demand for a solution that delivers accurate, real-time material and waste intelligence to reduce errors, cut emissions, and protect tight