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ctrlX Automation Ecosystem Of Bosch Rexroth Grows
There are worlds between conventional automation using proprietary MES systems and the new world of cloud-native, open microservices. All the more impressive, therefore, how Bosch Rexroth's fledgling open automation platform is growing and finding important partners in the industry for a digital ecosystem. Most recently Dell Technologies, Nokia...
Rittal, Eplan, Cideon, GEC at SPS: Using Data Spaces as an Opportunity
At the SPS in Nuremberg, the companies of the Friedhelm Loh Group want to show how the optimization of processes across the entire value chain increases efficiency and productivity while helping to master the energy transition. Through the digital networking of hardware and software in shared data spaces. Among other things, using the example of...
Jim Heppelmann In Munich: Farewell And One More Success Message
At the end of 26 years of successfully leading PTC, Jim Heppelmann stopped by PTC's new office in Munich on October 5 as part of his global farewell tour. At the beginning of 2024, he will hand over the baton as CEO to Neil Barua, who joined him at the end of the press roundtable. Just the day before, another corporate acquisition had been...
59th sendler\circle in Hamburg – an interesting closing point
If it were up to the interesting topics and top-class speakers, the 59th sendlercircle would not have had to be the last one. But its core, the industry of industrial software providers, has changed fundamentally, and the number of participants has become too small for the continuation of the circle. Today, software for digital transformation is...
25 years iTAC: A pioneer of microservice-based automation
iTAC Software AG is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. In 2021, the iTAC.MOM.Suite became its core product, a holistic, flexible manufacturing management system with functions for controlling, optimizing and forecasting production processes. This positions iTAC as one of the pioneers of microservice-based automation software, which is in...
ERP, PLM, MES And CRM – New Perspective With Pyramid?
A response to the theses of Jörg W. Fischer Prof. Jörg W. Fischer has dealt intensively with the current development of automation and has formulated very valuable theses in two articles that build on each other, on what effects this development has on the large standard IT systems with which industry controls and organizes its processes. This is...
“In PLM, Too, The Future Lies In The Cloud,” Says Frank Patz-Brockmann
A conversation with Frank Patz-Brockmann, Director Software Development, Contact Software. After the official launch of the CIM Database Cloud, I was able to have a conversation with Frank Patz-Brockmann, Director Software Development at Contact Software, in which he gave me a deeper insight into the special features and performance of the cloud...
EF|A Eplan Forum for Automated Engineering Attracts Great Interest
On September 21 and 22, EF|A will take place in Düsseldorf and online. Modularization, standardization and automation - these are the topics again this year. The enormous pressure to act in mechanical and plant engineering explains a high number of registrations for the international event with participants from over 12 countries. In...
CONTACT Software launches CIM Database Cloud
CIM Database Cloud is CONTACT's new out-of-the-box PLM. Presented as no-code software, the solution combines enterprise PLM functionality with innovative cloud technology and offers the highest IT security standards and powerful DevOps services, according to a July 28 press release.CIM Database Cloud (Photo Contact Software ) is the new...
Jim Heppelmann Marks The End Of An Era
On July 27, PTC announced that Neil Barua, president of PTC's Service Lifecycle Management business, will succeed James Heppelmann as PTC's chief executive officer at the company's annual meeting in February 2024. At the same time, Heppelmann will step down as CEO and retire. This will not only mark the end of his 26-year tenure at PTC, 13 of...
Data Spaces Like Those Of Catena-X Picking Up Speed Internationally
A conversation with Ulrich Ahle, founding and board member of the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) and CEO of the Fiware Foundation.Ulrich Ahle, board member of the International Data Spaces Association (Photo Ulrich Ahle)Ulrich Sendler: Mr. Ahle, you were one of the founders of the International Data Spaces Association in 2016. What...
Sights set on change – Siemens Realize Live Europe 2023
Siemens Digital Industries Software's major customer event for Europe took place this year from July 10 to 12 near Munich in Unterschleissheim. Around 1,000 participants came to get up to date on the development of industrial software in their respective application areas and to exchange ideas with Siemens specialists and other users. The motto:...
Dassault Systèmes now also part of the EPLAN Partner Network
At the end of 2020, EPLAN founded the EPLAN Partner Network, to which 65 manufacturers already belong. A new member since April 2023 is Dassault Systèmes. The interface between the EPLAN platform and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes is thus being systematically further developed in a mutual exchange.Sebastian Seitz, CEO Eplan and...
Automatica 2023: Not A Good Reflection Of The Current Development
Automatica 2023 took place in Munich from 27.6. to 30.6. The strong visitor turnout should not hide the fact that essentially the type of automation and robotics that has been known for decades was exhibited here and also sought after. But even if there is still an enormous amount of revenue to be made with it - the industry urgently needs...
A New Star In The PLM Market: Bluestar PLM
Embedded In Microsoft Dynamics Finance & Supply Chain Management
During the past years the number of PLM vendors was continuously shrinking. Especially in Germany and the German speaking region there is not much local software left.