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Daimler Truck: Development Platform With Xcelerator
Siemens Digital Industries Software and Daimler Truck Holding AG announce their collaboration on the introduction of an engineering platform built on the Siemens Xcelerator software and services portfolio. It will be rolled out globally across all development centers and across all Daimler Truck brands and divisions, replacing a variety of...

Rittal, Eplan, Cideon and GEC: Hannover Messe 2023 Hour of Practice
Last year, Rittal, Eplan, Cideon and German Edge Cloud (GEC) held their first joint press conference at the Hannover Fair with the presentation of the ONCITE Digital Production System (DPS). This year, the companies announce that they will show visitors that and how Smart Production works. With a cloud view into their own practice. In Hannover,...

Keynote Prof. Scheer: “Game-Changer” Composable Application Architecture
30th Munich Management Colloquium The Munich Management Colloquium (MMK) is the largest business congress in Germany. For 30 years now, it has been organized by Prof. Horst Wildemann and each year gathers the crème de la crème of industry managers, but also from politics, research and IT providers, at the Technical University of Munich to debate...

Siemens: Announcement of Easy Field Data Connection
Most of the vast amounts of data in manufacturing companies are difficult to use. It is stored in production machines, systems and devices or in sensors installed in them. Interfaces for IT or in the cloud were usually not planned for during their development. Now Siemens has announced that it will be offering solutions for precisely this purpose...

Cideon Conify Makes Product Data Chain Continuous
Industry is expected to deliver individualized products as quickly and cheaply as mass-produced goods. However, many companies do not have the one digital twin of their products that enables automation of handling across processes. They have a CAD model in design, a PDM model for reusability, production and maintenance, and perhaps a configurator...

Fugro replaces Equipment Management System with Mendix
An interesting practical example of the use of Siemens' low-code platform Mendix: geospatial data specialist Fugro used it to introduce a cloud-based, mission-critical equipment management system in its nearshore site characterization business unit within seven months, replacing its old Equipment Management System (EMS).Special ship from Fugro...

PTC Extends OSLC Connection Of Codebeamer And Windchill
PLM and ALM remain two major application areas, both of which are needed when a company develops and manufactures hardware products and associated software. Even if both corresponding systems belong to the same provider, as is the case at PTC with Windchill (PLM) and Codebeamer (ALM). PTC has already been using the OSLC standard to enable, for...

CONTACT Software Has Strong OEM Partner For Shipbuilding With Cadmatic
With the aim of bringing shipbuilding-specific PLM solutions to market, CONTACT and shipbuilding engineering software provider Cadmatic have entered into an OEM partnership.Cadmatic is an engineering software provider founded in the mid-eighties with its headquarters in Turku, Finland. Currently, the family-owned company has around 280 employees...

Joint Venture Cofinity-X to Breathe Life Into Catena-X Data Room
Even two years after the founding of Catena-X, one has searched in vain for practical examples. Now, 10 participating companies have joined forces to form a joint venture that is to fill the Catena-X dataspace with life and business. The focus is on EDC as a Service, an Eclipse Dataspace Connector.Cofinity-X (image Cofinity-X) is the name of the...

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 owned by investor Silver Lake. This is a continuation of PTC's efforts to offer the most...

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 Watson Center in Munich on November 16, to which media representatives were invited in addition to...

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 change that is currently sweeping the industry in particular: Composable software instead of...

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. Siemens supports the Kubernetes standard and container technology. Probably the most important news...

GEC and Scheer PAS: Strategic Partners for Digitalization of Manufacturing
German Edge Cloud (GEC) and Scheer PAS on November 3 announced a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the digitalization of production processes. Two owner-managed companies that are both among the pioneers of digital transformation.This makes clearer what had already been foreshadowed at a press conference at the Friedhelm Loh Group booth...

Scheer PAS – A New Platform For Application Composition
Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer, one of the fathers of the first wave of industrial digitalization, gave the big buzzword CIM for Computer Integrated Manufacturing a symbol with his famous Y of process integration. Now, under the wing of his Scheer Holding, a young team is about to support industry in the next wave of digitalization. Scheer PAS - PAS...