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PTC Acquires ServiceMax to Expand Closed Loop PLM
On November 18, PTC announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire ServiceMax for approximately $1.46 billion in cash. It is a provider of cloud-native, Salesforce-based Field Service Management (FSM) software in the U.S., majority...
IBM strategy: Partners Are At The Center
Partners are no longer just important to IBM - they are at the heart of the company's strategy. Because only with a strong ecosystem can the next step of the digital transformation be tackled. This became clear at a partner roundtable at the IBM...
The Role Of IBM And Red Hat For The Development Of Composable Software
IBM acquired Red Hat in July 2019 for US$34 billion. Since then, one of the largest providers of hybrid cloud technology, together with the leading provider of open source software, has provided one of the central foundations for the technological...
Siemens At SPS 22: Open, Modular IT/OT Integration
At the press conference during SPS in Nuremberg on Nov. 8, 2022, Rainer Brehm, CEO of Siemens Factory Automation, presented his company not only with new products and services, but especially with interesting openings regarding software technology....
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Composable Software – Renaissance of Industrial Software
Unless everything is deceptive, we are currently experiencing a veritable renaissance of industrial software. The buzzword is “composable”. Web services encapsulated in containers are now also the answer in industry to the great challenge: software development as an innovation driver and core competence. That’s what this series is all about.
New background series: Interviews on 40+ years of CAD
For almost half a century, CAD has been an important and often driving element in industrial digitalization. What will it be in the future? And what does the acronym mean for the suppliers still active in this market? Look forward to the experts’ answers. First up are those from Siemens and PTC.
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Internet of Production (IoP)
Due to an increasingly dynamic environment, companies are facing numerous challenges, such as the micro-segmentation of markets and ever shorter product life cycles. One way to address these challenges is to sustainably increase their innovative strength.
The »Smart Factory 4.0« Demonstration Cell
The way to Industrie 4.0 involves the trial, testing and skilful combination of novel methods, concepts and technologies. To this end Fraunhofer IPK has developed the »Smart Factory 4.0« demonstration cell which uses batch size 1 production to make the modes …
Enabling System Lifecycle Management through neutral data interfaces
The complexity of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementations has already reached an unpleasantly high level, and the rise of complexity of products and their development will probably accelerate further. By establishing System Lifecycle Management (SysLM) as the next level PLM …
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PLM, Digitalization, IoT, …
Half a century of Computer Aided Design – What does CAD mean today?
PTC’s Dual CAD Strategy: Creo Solutions for Platform Products and Onshape for Agile Product Development
PTC has been one of the world's leading CAD providers since the late 1980s and is now a major supplier of software for engineering, product lifecycle management, augmented reality, and IoT. Jim Heppelmann has been president and CEO of PTC since 2010. Jon Hirschtick,...
NX: From CAD To Engineering
Siemens Digital Industries Software is one of the leading global vendors of engineering software which in the beginning was almost all about CAD, the acronym for Computer Aided Design. During the past 15 years Siemens has become a leading vendor mainly after the...
Half a century of Computer Aided Design – What does CAD mean today?
CAD: It's not just a tool that engineers use to design products. More than any other technology, CAD stands for the beginning of the digitalization of industrial processes and the penetration of the entire industry with the digital. And although CAD has not been the...
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