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Solution powered by Salesforce supports crucial steps in national lending program designed to help keep small businesses open amid the pandemic

Accenture recognized with 2020 Salesforce Partner Innovation Award

Accenture has developed a comprehensive, cloud-based Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan application and forgiveness solution built on Salesforce technology for Regions Bank.

Regions Bank is one of America’s largest regional lenders. Like banks across the industry, Regions began facilitating PPP funding from the Small Business Administration for qualified clients seeking financial lifelines in the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, Regions turned to Accenture for a technology solution that would...

TraceParts, one of the world’s leading providers of 3D digital content for engineering, announces the immediate availability of its free 3D Design Library app to all Onshape CAD users through the Onshape App Store.

This new native application allows instant and unlimited free access to hundreds of millions of free standard and supplier-certified 3D models seamlessly integrated to Onshape cloud-based CAD system.

Once the TraceParts 3D Design Library app is added to Onshape as a free subscription, designers can instantly find millions of products from over 1,100 leading suppliers of mechanical, electrical, electronics, pneumatics, hydraulics, and many more types of industrial components.

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Today, Siemens Canada virtually inaugurated its first Canadian MindSphere Application Center (MAC) – expanding the Siemens global MAC footprint.

The facility, physically based at its headquarters in Oakville, Ontario, will serve as an environment for customers and partners across multiple vertical markets to collaborate on driving their digital transformation agenda and leveraging the true potential of data. This is the first center of its kind in North America to focus specifically on smart energy grids, intelligent buildings and industry digitalization solutions serving transmission system operators (TSOs), distribution system operators (DSOs), utilities, industry partners, smart building operators and other infrastructure entities.

The Siemens...

CIMdata’s 2021 education offerings for PLM professionals continue with a PLM Core Virtual-Live program in June.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 30 March 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces that it will hold a PLM Core Virtual-Live Certificate Program in June. The class will take place from June 14-18 and is available to students in multiple time zones including the Americas and Europe.

The program comprises two modules—PLM Basics, three self-paced e-learning sessions, and PLM Core Concepts, five half-day virtual-live sessions over five consecutive workdays. Successful completion of the course and associated assessments leads to a Core...

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Key takeaways:

• Cloud is pervasive in our daily lives and is rapidly taking over many enterprise application segments. Increasingly, that includes product lifecycle management (PLM).
• Cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) helps reduce capital expenses (CapEx) and greatly simplifies operating expenses (OpEx) when compared with traditional on-premise offerings.
• A recent market entrant, CassiniPLM, delivers a cloud-native SaaS platform targeting small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) that spans the lifecycle from idea through life.
• CassiniPLM’s flexible modular platform is designed for ease of implementation and adaptation by their SMB targets.

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In the civilized world, it is almost impossible to escape cloud computing. Today,...

The presentation will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for PLM to support the United States Army.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 24 March 2021—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep are pleased to announce that Dr. Raj Iyer, Chief Information Officer for IT Reform, United States Army, will make a keynote presentation at PLM Road Map & PDT North America Spring 2021. The event will take place virtually over two half days on May 19 & 20. The theme for this year’s event is “Disruption—the PLM Professionals’ Exploration of Emerging Technologies that Will Reshape the PLM Value Equation.”

The United States...

CIMdata recently published a whitepaper, titled "Connecting the Product Lifecycle Across the Enterprise.” The whitepaper highlights the issues faced by companies that need to manage their smart, connected products through their lifecycle, the emerging technologies that will help power their business strategy, and where they will need to make investments to reap the most benefits.

Key topics addressed in this paper include the digital thread, digital twins, platform trends in PLM and the enterprise, bill of material (BOM) management, configuration management, and the cloud.

The whitepaper can be downloaded for free here.

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Key takeaways:

• The cost of inventory is a significant and well-understood issue. While statistical models can help manage inventory, end customer satisfaction can be at substantial risk especially in the case of high value and low volume items.
• Technology evangelists often promote additive manufacturing machines that use metal or resin to create parts on demand to meet MRO requirements, but, while important, it only addresses a single dimension of the multi-dimensional inventory management for service parts.
• A robust, profitable solution addressing high-value, low volume inventory issues with digital technology must connect domains across the lifecycle to...

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Key takeaways:

• Global trends like social computing, cloud computing, mobile devices, analytics/artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have dramatically changed our personal and business lives over the last 15 years.
• Smart, connected products are being introduced at an increasing pace across a wide range of industries, retrofit kits make older production equipment smarter and enable new and innovative business opportunities.
• The IoT, and its application to industrial use cases (the Industrial Internet of Things—IIoT), have created new business opportunities and companies need a powerful, flexible IoT platform to best take advantage of them.
• CONTACT Software,...

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Key takeaways

• Autonomous vehicle development is a complex system-of-systems problem to solve but will have large societal impacts on many of our day-to-day activities.
• Competitive pressures and autonomous technology complexity are driving manufacturers to transform their development strategy, processes, and toolsets.
• Technology will play a key role in defining the future of business, customer experiences, and product or service behaviors of the agile automotive enterprise.
• By leveraging its manufacturing and automotive experience as well as its Neural Automotive Framework, TCS has launched Autoscape™—a comprehensive suite of solutions and services to help customers accelerate their autonomous vehicle development.

Autonomous...