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Strategic Partnership Between Siemens And Eplan
Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Eplan are entering into a strategic partnership for the industrial and infrastructure market segments to deepen cooperation in the area of software solutions, according to a press release dated 10/4/22. The Siemens Electrical Products business unit will join the Eplan Partner Network as a strategic partner....
Eplan Platform 2023 With eStock, Multinorm And Other Innovations
Eplan Platform 2023 simplifies and accelerates project planning with cloud-based item management and multinorm support for schematic macros, according to an Eplan press release. Other new features include a new 3D graphics core, an optimized cable editor and an insertion center.According to Thomas Weichsel, Vice President Software Portfolio, the...
Contact Open World 2022: A Pioneer In Composable IT In A Spirit Of Optimism
With around 500 participants, Contact Open World once again took place in Bremen from September 13 to 15 as a personal network of suppliers, partners and customers. The motto: "Shape the sustainable future now!" The well-filled and attended exhibition and numerous presentations offered plenty of material for intensive networking. (All pictures...
The prostep ivip Symposium Still Extremely Present
A conversation with Dr. Alain Pfouga For the first time after more than two years of pandemic, the prostep ivip Symposium took place again as a face-to-face event at the beginning of June. In this interview, Managing Director Dr. Alain Pfouga explains why the event was so successful again, what importance the face-to-face meeting has for the...
“Low-code: Far Too Important To The Industry To Burn The Term”
A conversation with Raffaello Lepratti, Mendix. The low-code platform Mendix was acquired by Siemens in the fall of 2018. Until then, the main Mendix applications were not in the manufacturing industry, but in the financial, insurance, retail and other sectors. A lot has happened since then. Responsible for this is now the Global Vice President...
Siemens buys ZONA Technology, Inc. for climate-neutral aviation
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that it has entered into a purchase agreement with ZONA Technology, Inc., a provider of aeroelastic simulation solutions. The addition to the Xcelerator portfolio is expected to enable customers to more quickly design their digital thread for more sustainable innovation.ZONA Technology, Inc....
Revalize To Close keytech
Founded in Florida a year ago, first becoming known as a buyer of German industrial software companies at the end of 2021 - there is news from Revalize again, and unfortunately again nothing good. As reported by the Recklinghäuser Zeitung (RZ), keytech Software, a company of the acquired PROCAD Group, is to close its doors at the end of March...
Loh Group: Digitalization Of Automation
At Hanover Fair 2022, they were not only all on a single booth in Hall 11, but also on a common strategic mission: Rittal, Eplan, Cideon and German Edge Cloud (GEC). Unless everything is deceptive, the Friedhelm Loh Group is hinting at a redefinition of automation: data-driven instead of programmed. (Photos Sendler)At the last Hannover Fair...
Hannover Fair 2022: Return To The Upheaval
In 2022, the Hannover Fair was back. True, 2,500 exhibitors were only about half of what they had been in pre-pandemic times, and even 75,000 visitors did not add up to a jubilant figure for 75 years of Hannover Fair. Nevertheless, most of those involved were satisfied that the fair was back. For the special industry of industrial software...
Cybus Aims At A Factory API
Peter Sorowka is the founder and CEO of Cybus. Their software Cybus Connectware is so interesting, at least for Porsche, that the manufacturer has connected around 5,000 machines via it. A surprising meeting in Hall 4 at the Hannover Messe.While quite a few old hands in industrial software have disappeared from Hall 4, either because they are not...
Aucotec AG grows considerably
Aucotec AG, an independent medium-sized engineering software developer with headquarters near Hanover since 1985, announced the founding of the subsidiary Aucotec Netherlands B.V. based near Rotterdam for the Benelux region at the start of the new fiscal year on April 1, 2022. Aucotec India Private LTd. in Pune followed on May 1. The Indian...
Industry 4.0 business unit becomes Schaeffler Lifetime Solutions
Schaeffler wants to make it clear in its name what the new value proposition of the former Industry 4.0 division is. According to a press release dated 12.5.22, the associated motto "Keep your machines rolling" formulates "the claim to serve the wishes and needs of maintenance and plant managers throughout the entire life of a machine." Dr....
PROCAD is history – Revalize appoints Marc Maurer as Managing Director EMEA
Just a few months after the investment firm Revalize, which was founded in Jacksonville, Florida, in the summer of 2021, acquired the PROCAD Group and other industry software companies, the company name PROCAD is disappearing. The new Managing Director EMEA will replace PROCAD's current CEO, Gerhard Knoch. The global company no longer needs a CEO...
PTC continues on the road to SaaS with Windchill+ and DxP Services
PTC introduces Windchill+, a new generation of PLM software via a modern Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) architecture. At the same time, the vendor announces that a larger group of PTC experts in Windchill implementations is moving to a newly formed business unit of long-time partner ITC Infotech: DxP Services. The focus is on the implementation of...
PTC Acquires Codebeamer Manufacturer Intland
PTC announced May 4 that it has completed the acquisition of Intland Software for approximately $280 million. Intland develops and markets the Codebeamer application lifecycle management (ALM) software family, including CodebeamerX, a next-generation cloud-enabled offering.Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO of PTC, said, "We are pleased to...