ABB's Robotics and Manufacturing Automation business unit is offering many of its software solutions free of charge from March 27 to December 31, 2020. This will help ABB's customers and partners keep their day-to-day business and production lines running while most of them work from home.

The construction of the modular Leishenshan hospital in Wuhan in the Chinese province of Hubei at the beginning of this year in response to the outbreak of the corona virus there attracted worldwide attention, particularly due to the scale and record completion time. Dassault Systèmes has now announced a strategic partnership with the Central-South Architectural Design Institute (CSADI), which was responsible for planning the hospital.