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Having passed through the corporate hands of Ford, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has emerged within Tata Motors as an exciting, dynamic global enterprise. Due to its varied ownership history, JLR inherited a complex and mixture of auto industry software from its previous owners, not scaled or supportive of JLR’s aggressive…

Propel today announced that it has teamed with Rootstock to help customers easily share critical business information across Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing and Field Service departments. Because both applications are built on a common platform, the applications can work together in a single, consistent user interface to increase customer responsiveness, improve…

“At its core, building information modeling (BIM) is about collaboration. The full potential of BIM can only be realized when all stakeholders are connected – from architects to engineers, construction managers, specialty contractors, facility owners, and service trades. The concept of BIM is based upon a common data environment (CDE)…

openBoM, the world’s first cloud BOM management tool specifically designed to help manufacturing companies manage and track BOMs across organizational and geographic boundaries, is now available as an app seamlessly integrated within the Onshape environment, the world’s first full cloud CAD solution. openBoM addresses the pain of data handover between…

Viewpoint Construction Software® is pleased to announce that Nova Group, Inc., a long time customer, has increased its investment in Viewpoint by purchasing Vista™ by Viewpoint. Nova Group is a general engineering contractor and specialist in building aircraft fueling systems and marine facilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. The company has…

MSC Software Corporation today announced that the Research Institute in Communications and Cybernetic of Nantes (IRCCyN), a scientific institution linked to the French Na­tional Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), is using Adams multibody dynamics simulation software to validate theoretical works done on a visual servoing system to control a parallel robot based on…

PTC today announced that it has been named “IoT Platform Market Leader” in the “IoT Platforms Market Report 2015-2021,” published by IoT Analytics, and the “Industry 4.0/Internet of Things Vendor Benchmark 2016,” report published by Experton Group. Both research and consulting firms recognize the effective and easy-to-use rapid application development capabilities of…

Hexagon AB today announced the acquisition of Multivista, a leading provider of visual, cloud-based construction documentation solutions. Visual construction documentation enables visibility of construction progress throughout the life cycle of a built asset – from start to finish. Multivista has offered documentation technology and services to support construction projects of…

Whenever a new job comes into a company that film studios describe as needing the “cavalry,” digital designer and CNC supervisor Jason Szukalski is instantly thinking how Alphacam CAD/CAM software will break it down into machinable parts. “We’re getting a reputation for being the cavalry because we can pull things…

KPIT will participate in the MOM Expertise Alliance Center (MEAC) in the US, a community of highly skilled partners providing MOM specific services to manufacturers. KPIT will integrate SIMATIC IT from Siemens in its MOM Portfolio. This means that KPIT can now offer its current and future customers the same…