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PTC today announced the availability of Tech Pack Access App, its first role-based app for FlexPLM 11, the latest version of its product lifecycle management (PLM) solution for retail, fashion, footwear, apparel, and consumer products. Role-based apps improve the user experience by getting the right product data and on-point features to more stakeholders—faster, easier, and in context with the work they do every day. The first of several planned app releases, Tech Pack Access provides vendors with access to product specification data, such as bill of materials, measurements, construction details, and imagery. Finished goods manufacturers can quickly view critical product data without delay, enabling better accuracy, collaboration, and efficiency during product sampling and production. Generation capabilities allow users to maintain product integrity and reduce costly errors. “With Tech Pack Access, we’re seeing the continued evolution and maturation of FlexPLM 11 to allow retailers to rethink the way they develop products and

Tristate Holdings, an international fashion manufacturer, announces a successful product lifecycle management (PLM) and catalog/order entry implementation in four months at its CP Company Division based on Centric 8 Platform. A vertically integrated company with 8 factories, 4 brands and more than 10,000 employees in 12 countries, Tristate Holdings is pushing to develop synergies between their historical manufacturing expertise and core branding processes like design, marketing and distribution.  In 2015, they acquired C.P. Company, an Italian luxury sportswear brand. With this acquisition, they decided to put a new infrastructure in place to help cement their business transformation and the further development of this brand. “We chose Centric 8 PLM because of the flexibility and scalability of the system. As an international, multi-brand and multi-environment company, we needed to build a common foundation for our group business applications. Centric is the right tool to streamline our product development and order

Infor today announced that Löfbergs is implementing Infor Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), with assistance from Infor partner Prevas, for the group's largest roasting house and production facility in Sweden. Löfbergs is one of the Nordic countries' largest family-owned coffee roasting houses. Production corresponds to 10.5 million cups of coffee -- each day. The group has sales of SEK 1.7 billion annually and has approximately 330 employees in five countries. Löfbergs has chosen Infor EAM to help it achieve more optimal and cost-effective asset management in production. "Infor EAM is also an important tool for achieving sustainable development," says Michael Jansson, maintenance manager at Löfbergs. "Asset management can be used to improve efficiency and routine production, and we were looking for a flexible management system that's easy to use. Infor EAM is able to adapt to local conditions and specified requirements; at the same time, Prevas has demonstrated both the will and capability to

MIT Professional Education's new four-course online professional certificate program, Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems will provide a state-of-the-practice view on model-based systems engineering for technical professionals and engineers. This first-of-its-kind professional certificate was developed by leading MIT faculty and incorporates case studies, practitioner guest lectures and examples from a wide variety of industries and companies such as Boeing, NASA, IBM, Apple, US Air Force, MAN Truck & Bus AG, General Motors, GE and more. "Engineering practice is changing rapidly in tandem with the growth of software, driving incredible capability changes, but also causing enormous challenges managing complex development programs," says Bruce Cameron, Director of the System Architecture Lab at MIT and Director of the online professional certificate program. "We believe that this will be a great opportunity for professionals working in a wide range of industries to see the state of the art and discuss their career

Altium has announced the completed acquisition of Perception Software, a provider of enterprise PLM integration solutions. Perception Software will bring over a decade of enterprise integration expertise and technology to the Altium portfolio, allowing engineers and manufacturers to design, build, and support innovative products. As part of this acquisition, Perception Software will continue to operate independently as they bridge the data and information gap between EDA design teams and the enterprise supply chain. “With Perception’s innovative technology and expertise in enterprise integration, the EDA industry as a whole stands to benefit with a more connected and seamless product design ecosystem,” said Henry Potts, Chief Operating Officer at Altium. “Our acquisition of Perception Software will enable Altium to successfully address the enterprise integration gap between engineering teams and organizations in new and innovative ways.” The Perception Software team will form the foundation for the introduction and go-to-market of the Altium high-end

 PDF Key takeaways: Smart, connected products and product-systems capable of adaptive autonomous functioning which can be remotely monitored, diagnosed, repaired, and updated, are increasingly the norm in the market Innovative connected and intelligent products will drive unprecedented increases in design complexity and software content, while time to market and profit margins continue to shrink due to competition To mitigate the risk of recalls due to the failure of smart, connected products, it is imperative to enable rapid verification and validation cycles, supported by full traceability of requirements, as well as closed-loop feedback from testing and field trials into the upstream design phases Arena Solutions is on target for a staged release of a highly scalable, multi-tenant cloud-based closed-loop product development offering for developing innovative connected and intelligent products Arena’s cloud-based closed-loop product development offering has been designed to be cost effective and easy-to-access and use, as well as to help small, medium, and large enterprises competitively

The technology and processes that collectively make up what we refer to as Building Information Modeling (BIM) are now firmly established in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC), and BIM adoption continues to grow. Despite the growth in BIM, many observers would agree that the industry isn’t fulfilling its productivity potential, and statistics support this perspective. A July 2015 article from McKinsey (http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/infrastructure/our-insights/the-construction-productivity-imperative) highlights a widening gap in productivity between manufacturing and construction globally. Why is construction productivity flat despite increasing investment in BIM? Why is manufacturing productivity outpacing construction? Those two questions highlight what I refer to as the BIM Paradox. Pondering this paradox isn’t enough, however. We need to understand the reasons behind it, and take action to resolve it. It’s logical to begin by looking at how manufacturing has achieved its impressive productivity results. Manufacturing productivity growth can be attributed to many factors, but three stand out above all

CD-adapco today announced accelerated development efforts for its industry-leading Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) simulation solutions. The overall plan enhances capabilities in the STAR-CD/es-ice suite of software along with enabling a majority of in-cylinder simulation features within the company’s flagship product, STAR-CCM+®, by the close of 2017. Additionally, plans are underway to integrate this new capability with a collaborative data management backbone provided by Teamcenter and full 1D-3D coupling between Imagine.Lab Amesim and STAR-CCM+. The combined effort is focused on one goal - to improve the model fidelity, simplicity, and speed with which powertrain engineers can create, validate, and improve virtual prototypes of their products. “The ground transportation market has been at the heart of CD-adapco’s success, specifically in the area of Internal Combustion Engine simulation solutions. The recent acquisition by Siemens and synergies with our product offerings will allow us to execute even faster on our multidisciplinary design exploration vision for powertrain customers,” said

AVEVA Solutions today announced that its AVEVA NET Gateway 5.0 has achieved certified integration with the SAP® ERP application. AVEVA’s intent is to provide IT and Operations managers with peace of mind when integrating critical engineering information.  The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that AVEVA NET Gateway 5.0 integrates with SAP ERP to augment existing critical operations systems with additional engineering information and tag data. This dynamically supplements the information in SAP ERP by providing context through the models and drawings.  SAP ICC has certified that AVEVA NET Gateway 5.0 is based on proven and supported SAP integration technologies. Taking information from outside of one software solution into another system typically adds risk. The SAP certification confirms that AVEVA NET Gateway 5.0 makes accurate, up-to-date, reliable information readily available and accessible, while supporting data integrity and reducing risk to data such as data loss or the

Tukatech, Inc. proudly announces the purchase of 50 licenses of TUKAcad Learning Edition software, with modules for pattern making, grading, and marker making, along with digitizers by Bahir Dar University. Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia’s largest institute of Textile and Fashion Technology is the most advanced university in Ethiopia’s apparel sector. “With the ever growing demand of setting new factories in Ethiopia, and so many established Tukatech users like Arvind, EPIC, Hirdaramani, Indochine, and many others who are setting up or already operating, need qualified CAD users. With our training program and 50 TUKAcad stations, we will be able to help fill those positions,” explains Mr. Ram Sareen, CEO and Founder of Tukatech, Inc. “Historically, Bahir Dar University has been known for supplying the Ethiopian market with some of the best technicians who are now running most of the local businesses in many different sectors. Through our partnership with Bahir Dar