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Siemens is collaborating with DrinkPAK, one of North America’s largest canned beverage manufacturers, to automate its new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Through a unique combination of advanced automation, smart infrastructure and tailored financial solutions, Siemens helps DrinkPAK scale its operations, maintain industry-leading reliability, maximize energy efficiency, and enable sustainable decision-making. DrinkPAK has a North American network of facilities where it batches, fills, tests, warehouses and distributes drinks for global beverage brands at speeds of up to 3,000 cans per minute. The company’s two current facilities, in Santa Clarita, California and in Fort Worth, Texas, are the largest canned contract manufacturing facilities in the United States. With the addition of the company’s third facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, set for early 2027, this coast-to-coast network provides DrinkPAK’s customers with access to the largest, fastest, and most flexible canned manufacturing assets in the world. “Partnering with Siemens gave us the flexibility to scale rapidly

NASA selected Synopsys, Inc. and EMA to verify spacesuit compatibility with the lunar environment. This work advances Synopsys' ongoing support of future Artemis missions, which also includes a collaborative effort with Cesium, part of Bentley Systems, and NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to validate cellular system performance on the lunar surface using digital twin technology. The joint effort by EMA and Synopsys focuses on reducing risks to extravehicular activity (EVA) systems, specifically spacesuits, caused by both triboelectrification from lunar regolith interactions, and electrical charging and electrostatic discharge (ESD) from the space plasma environment. Analyzing charging levels that the complex, multi-layer Artemis spacesuits may experience on the moon is a key consideration for sustained lunar surface operations, because ESD events can damage mission-critical electronics needed for communications and life support. Under the planned approach, EMA and Synopsys will apply and develop physics-based analysis workflows using Ansys Charge Plus™, a software simulation tool for electromagnetic charging and discharging, to

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 14 April 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “2026 PLM Status & Trends.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 14 May 2026, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour. This eagerly awaited annual webinar provides exclusive insight into CIMdata’s global PLM Status & Trends research survey results. Each year, the cumulative research aims to deepen the global PLM community’s collective understanding of the status, drivers, and preconditions required for companies to derive value from their PLM investments. Key topics include spending trends, implementation focus, and value perception across the executive suite. Additionally, the webinar will highlight critical industry disruptors, featuring a deep dive into Augmented Intelligence, one of CIMdata’s "Critical Dozen" elements essential for successful digital transformation. Attendees will gain the insights needed to: Analyze

ENGYS is proud to announce the release of ELEMENTS version 4.5.0, an open-source CFD software suite tailored for automotive design applications, distributed by Streamline Solutions LLC. This release introduces a new multi-physics workflow, alongside improvements in usability, meshing and post-processing performance, with a focus on simplifying the setup and analysis of complex automotive simulations. Updated versions of the ELEMENTS-Adjoint and ELEMENTS-Coupled modules are also included, aligned with the new capabilities available in ELEMENTS 4.5.0.What’s New in ELEMENTS 4.5.0? Version 4.5.0 introduces several key additions and enhancements, including:Improved Simulation Workflow New Multi-Physics Interface:define different physics and solver settings on different mesh regions, enabling more flexible modelling of complex vehicle scenarios. Modular Modelling Environment:refactored setup interface with clearer structure and improved navigation, making it easier to configure and manage simulations.Enhanced Meshing and Performance Faster Meshing Performance:approximately 20% improvement in meshing speed with reduced memory usage. Improved Mesh Control:better handling of boundary layers, feature-based refinement, and support for reference frames

DXC Technology, a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, announced new Assure Smart Apps built on ServiceNow, recently launched at the DXC Connect Insurance Executive Forum in March 2026. Assure Smart Apps combine DXC's deep insurance expertise with ServiceNow's agentic AI and workflow technology to deliver modular, outcome-driven solutions for insurers. Each app is orchestrated through DXC's Assure Platform to accelerate targeted transformation. Insurers face mounting pressure from evolving customer expectations, regulatory complexity, and increased competition while operating across fragmented legacy systems and siloed data. Addressing these challenges typically requires large, multi-year transformation programs that can take years to deliver results. Assure Smart Apps are designed to help insurers modernize incrementally, without disrupting core systems or requiring extensive time and resource investments. These modular, AI-driven workflow applications are pre-integrated with core policy solutions to deliver measurable outcomes in 12 weeks or less. Insurers can reduce manual processes by 30–40% and cut cycle

AI is rapidly reshaping how people learn, solve problems, and get work done. As AI-powered assistants become more embedded in everyday workflows, the quality and trustworthiness of the information behind them have never mattered more.  At Autodesk, trust is foundational to how we bring AI to the people who design and make the world around us. That commitment shapes how we embed Autodesk Assistant into our products, using AI to surface helpful guidance and support so customers can stay focused in their workflows.  And now, we’re taking the next step of that journey.  Autodesk announces the public release of the Autodesk Product Help MCP Server: a new, read-only service that allows AI agents outside Autodesk products to securely access Autodesk’s help documentation. The service enables AI agents to deliver answers grounded in trusted, up-to-date Autodesk documentation, supporting faster learning and problem solving. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Autodesk on CIMdata.com

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global leader in IT services and consulting announced the renewal of its major, multi year strategic partnership with Marks & Spencer (M&S). This continuing engagement builds on the more than a decade long trusted partnership between the two organisations and will see TCS continue to serve as M&S’s strategic technology partner as the retailer embeds its technology transformation. As part of this continuing partnership, TCS will support M&S as it transforms to become an omnichannel, data driven retailer supported by globally best-in-class modern technologies. TCS will utilise AI in its transformation approach—supported by its extensive domain expertise and one of the world’s largest AI talent pools. This will support future-readiness, provide the right base for long term growth, and create superior customer experience. Sacha Berendji, Operations Director, Marks and Spencer, said, “Technology transformation is a key strategic priority for M&S as we invest for growth. Having the right

OpenText™, a global leader in secure information management for AI, announced that it will make a number of its world-leading enterprise data and AI solutions available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new independent cloud for Europe.  By making its hybrid sovereign cloud offering available via the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, Canadian-based OpenText expands its ability to provide a hybrid sovereign cloud in Europe, giving customers the flexibility to leverage the cloud capabilities of AWS while keeping sensitive data and governance firmly anchored within European boundaries.  OpenText™ Content Management, OpenText™ Documentum Content Management, OpenText™ Core Application Security and OpenText™ Core Service Management will be available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, further supporting OpenText’s growing European client base. OpenText's solutions deliver structured, secure content management, making data ready for AI-powered analytics and automation that accelerate data-driven decision-making; while providing clients with the same security, availability, and performance they expect from AWS.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) announced that it has entered into an agreement with Wiley under which Wiley will operate a significant portion of ASME’s publishing business, including sales and marketing, for ASME journals and conference proceedings, and the digital collection comprising these publications. ASME will continue to manage its book publishing business, a collection of nearly 400 print and more than 200 digital books covering established and emerging areas of interest to mechanical engineers. All ASME publications remain ASME products, with ASME retaining copyright, while its mission, editorial governance, and peer review authority remain unchanged across all publication types.  The Society will continue to work closely with its volunteer leadership, serving as stewards of its corpus of scholarly knowledge. This collaboration ensures that ASME’s publications continue to be guided by the independent technical expertise of its volunteer community, notably the Technical Committee on Publications and Communications (TCPC)

At Hannover Messe 2026, Siemens presents the next generation of its Industrial Automation DataCenter, a custom-configured data center for all IT requirements in production - further developing its proven turnkey solution into an AI-ready platform. In partnership with NVIDIA and in collaboration with Palo Alto Networks, Siemens delivers secure NVIDIA computing infrastructure at the edge for powerful AI acceleration, alongside NVIDIA BlueField data processing units (DPUs) for intelligent real-time data processing and security from Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS. Delivered fully pre-installed, pre-configured, and system-tested from a single source, the turnkey solution combines high-performance virtualization for OT applications, backup and restore capabilities, data archiving, and an industrial demilitarized zone, effectively separating IT networks from OT environments. Through a strategic partnership with NVIDIA and collaboration with Palo Alto Networks, accelerated AI computing power and advanced AI-specific cybersecurity from NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks is now enabled directly at the edge. This evolution addresses a