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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

How do you reduce the effort, time and costs normally associated with preparing a 3D model for visualization? And how do you get the full potential out of 3D data, which is available anyway? Threedy's answer is to use 3D streaming instead of downloading and converting. And the virtualization of the results of almost any calculations made in 3D...

In July, Siemens had acquired Malaysia's Radica Software, with 300 customers in 50 countries for browser-based electrical design. Now Siemens Digital Industries Software announces the immediate availability of Capital Electra X.Automatic wiring - Capital Electra X automatically wires circuits when symbols are placed in drawings. (Siemens...

Press release sendlercircle Munich, October 13, 2022 - Since 1995, the sendler\circle has been a circle that connects providers of IT innovation for the industry in Germany. At the same time, it offers itself as a kind of information hub where members and guests can learn about the latest trends and technologies via protagonists from research, IT...

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 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...

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...

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...