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Engineering giant Siemens will support Team Penske’s Nascar, Indycar and Supercar programs in a partnership between the two companies.
Team Penske will implement Siemens’ software for digital design and simulation.
The new technical partnership between Team Penske and Siemens is a multi-year agreement. [Read more…] about Team Penske forms technical partnership with Siemens
Siemens has agreed to acquire Sarokal Test Systems, a provider of test solutions for electronics components, such as integrated circuits.
Sarokal’s test solutions cover fronthaul networks that are comprised of links between the centralized radio controllers and the radio heads, or masts, at the “edge” of a cellular network.
Sarokal products are used by chipset vendors, fronthaul equipment manufacturers, and telecom operators to develop, test and verify their 4G and 5G network devices from the early design stages through implementation and field-testing.
Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software, says: “The planned acquisition of Sarokal reinforces our ongoing commitment to EDA [electronic design automation] and the IC [integration circuit] industry. [Read more…] about Siemens to acquire Sarokal to strengthen product lifecycle management business
Enterprise software and work and resource management company Planview has acquired LeanKit.
Planview says the acquisition further expands its mission to “support all of the ways that organizations and their employees do work”.
Planview says Leankit is a “leader in enterprise Kanban for engineers”, and its capabilities are the “perfect addition” to Planview’s solutions portfolio. [Read more…] about Planview acquires LeanKit to strengthen product lifecycle management product for engineers
Siemens is strengthening its digitalization offerings – in particular, its product lifecycle management platform – through a new acquisition.
Siemens has reached an agreement to acquire Solido Design Automation, a provider of machine learning-based variation-aware design and characterization software.
Siemens says the purchase will strengthen the integrated circuit design and verification technologies it already offers through Mentor, a previous acquisition. [Read more…] about Siemens acquires integrated circuit software developer Solido Design Automation to strengthen its digital offerings
Scania, one of the world’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers, has partnered with Dassault Systèmes to develop a new generation of trucks and buses.
Scania, which is part of the Volkswagen group, employs approximately 46,000 people in 100 countries. It claims to have delivered more than 81,000 commercial vehicles to customers in 2016.
This year, among the new developments for Scania is the expansion of its alternative energy bus range, including hybrid vehicles, a record number of which – 140 – the company has been contracted to supply to public transport authorities in Norway. [Read more…] about Scania opts for Dassault Systèmes platform to develop new generation of vehicles
For fashion companies across the globe, managing data is one of the most time-consuming tasks.
Those companies which have implemented a product lifecycle management system are more able to decrease time to market and optimize a single source of data across their supply chain easily.
Bill Brewster, vice president and general manager, enterprise software solutions at Gerber, says: “Digitalization is imperative to thrive today and our customers are embracing it.
“They are realizing the benefit of centralized / single version of the truth that’s achieved by implementing a PLM system and that is evident by the growth in numbers this year.” [Read more…] about Gerber’s YuniquePLM claims to be the fashion industry’s ‘number-one’ product lifecycle management platform
Blue Software, a provider of design collaboration software, says its proofing and artwork annotation technology is now available as “advanced proofing” in the Siemens Teamcenter portfolio.
Siemens claims its Teamcenter is the world’s most widely used digital lifecycle management software.
Anyway, it’s part of Siemens’ product lifecycle management software business. A list of popular PLMs can be found here. [Read more…] about Siemens selects Blue Software for proofing and artwork annotation in its product lifecycle management software
General Electric claims it was the first company to have launched an industrial internet of things platform when it released Predix last year.
The company’s software business unit, GE Digital, has been generating revenues of more than $4 billion a year, and looks like it’s strongly influencing the future direction of the overall business.
Another of the big ideas at GE is the “Brilliant Factory” concept, which is essentially the digitalisation of anything and everything that can be digitised in a manufacturing or industrial process. [Read more…] about General Electric deepening its interest in the software business
Siemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Montreal, Canada-based Infolytica, expanding the company’s simulation suite into electromagnetics.
Infolytica is said to be one of the original pioneers in the field of simulating low-frequency electromagnetics and its market-leading simulation software is used by manufacturers worldwide to predict electromagnetic and thermal performance.
This accelerates the development of reliable and optimized solutions for electric and electromagnetic devices such as electric machines – including motors, generators and transformers – as well as sensors, induction heating, magnetic resonance imaging, and shielding. [Read more…] about Siemens buys Infolytica to further expand its product lifecycle management offering
Stibo Systems has launched the latest version of its product lifecycle management software.
Stibo says its new SpirePLM 8.2 is a comprehensive PLM solution enabling organizations to reduce the time required to introduce new products to market, compete efficiently and meet market and consumer expectations.
The company says it realised that new product introduction and product updates must be managed effectively in today’s digital world to achieve success. [Read more…] about Stibo Systems launches new version of its Spire product lifecycle management software
