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New Eplan Marketplace Service for Networking with Professionals
This is an interesting idea that Eplan has implemented for its customers. It is certainly a helpful approach, especially for medium-sized customers. With Eplan Marketplace, Eplan presents an international platform that links users of the CAE software and providers of services - for example in engineering, control cabinet construction and...
Autodesk immediately ceases business in Russia
As previously reported about PTC, Autodesk has also ceased doing business with Russia with an announcement on March 3. However, it does not call the war a war but a crisis and conflict. Why is Autodesk accommodating Putin, who is demanding exactly that war not be called war? Because they are scared about their employees in Russia. After all, the...
PTC Ceases Business in Russia
PTC today issued a press statement taking a stand on Ukraine's side in Putin's war. Without calling the war a war. It is at least the first such statement from the industrial software vendors to come to my attention via the various press distribution lists. Hopefully, there will be more to come. Here's the statement: "PTC stands with the...
Deindustrialization of Swiss SMEs – A SATW Study
The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) has presented an updated study that confirms the trend toward deindustrialization in Switzerland it already identified in 2018. SMEs (up to 250 employees), which play a similarly central role in Switzerland as in Germany, are particularly affected. Without targeted countermeasures, a threat to...
Study: Individual software in German companies
According to a study conducted by techconsult, 74 percent of respondents believe that their company's success is based on the use of custom software. An interesting study, even if it does not illuminate the large gray area of customized standard software.On February 3, 2022, the research and analyst firm techconsult in Kassel announced the...
Schaeffler after Inquiry About PTC and Aras
In my message on January 26, about the strategic alliance between Schaeffler and PTC, I wrote that Schaeffler had not told me anything about Aras. Now I have received answers to a few questions from the press office. They confirm my interpretation of the fundamental change. To my question whether the Engineering Cockpit based on Aras still...
Schaeffler: Strategic Alliance with PTC
In 2017, Schaeffler announced that despite many years as a user of PTC software, it was moving to a company-specific "Engineering Cockpit" with Aras for the purpose of integration and consistency of data. On Jan. 25, 2022, Schaeffler and PTC now announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a strategic partnership. There is...
Aras With a Focus on PLM Market Leadership
For Aras, a year that has brought a lot of news has come to an end. . New investors have taken over the majority of shares and new managers have joined the team of directors. Is it possible that Aras will become a new heavyweight in the PLM industry in the coming years? The key points in a nutshell and a conversation with the Vice President for...
Book review of Dietmar Trippner “The 1×1 Of Strategy”
Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Trippner is known to many people in industry, especially in the field of engineering and the IT used in it. For many years at BMW, from 2004 to 2014 in the upper management, he was one of the initiators and founders of ProSTEP GmbH and the ProSTEP Association in the nineties. Since 2014, he has been the managing owner of the...
“Apache Log4j 2 Security Vulnerability And The Beauty of SaaS”
When a vast number of systems around the world was impacted early Friday morning with a critical open-source vulnerability breach, Log4j, PTC was able to keep its SaaS customers safe. Within just three hours, we mitigated that high severity issue for every customer using products that run on our SaaS platform, Atlas. A Guest Expert Commentary:...
Friedhelm Loh Group Acquires Digital Technology Poland
The Friedhelm Loh Group is further expanding its offering for the digitalization of the industrial value chain. Eplan, Rittal and German Edge Cloud are getting a new sister company from Poland: Long-time development partner Digital Technology Poland is now 100% part of the group.Eplan, Rittal and German Edge Cloud have been working with Digital...
Siemens Opens Industrial Edge Marketplace – Also For Third-party Providers
Siemens is opening a digital, multi-vendor, independent app store for industrial customers. According to a Siemens press release, the marketplace forms the transaction mechanism specifically for the Siemens Industrial Edge platform.The new IT platform enables apps on the store floor to be applied in a scalable manner in the production...
Rittal Offers New Cabinet Configurator With RiPanel
With RiPanel, individual enclosures and accessories can be configured online and ordered with live price information. Plant planners and designers need also for individual cabinets simple configurators that include accessories, plausibility checks and 3D visualization. Rittal now offers this with RiPanel. Predefined drilling patterns come from...
Rittal ePocket – Digital Circuit Diagram Pocket
The sister companies Eplan and Rittal present Rittal ePocket, a digital circuit diagram folder, on 25.11.21. The new space in the cloud does away with the paper document folder and offers operators, planners, switchgear constructors and maintenance personnel easy access to the always up-to-date data for better collaboration.With the development...
Siemens Simcenter Now Also With NVH Prediction
Siemens Digital Industries Software now offers NVH prediction functions for motor vehicles in Simcenter. NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) behavior concerns the interior and exterior noise of a vehicle, which can be simulated even before physical prototypes are built. The prediction capabilities cover all powertrain types: Hybrid, all-electric...