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Jan 2020

Strategic partnership: Aras licenses platform to ANSYS

Aras announced today that the platform provider has entered a strategic partnership with ANSYS, provider of computational and simulation software. The agreement includes the licensing of the Aras platform technology to implement modern, digital engineering methods.

05

Dec 2019

Siemens at SPS: Increased Digital Enterprise and Environmental Efficiency

As always, the SPS 2019 was all about automation. But at the Siemens press conference, CEO Klaus Helmrich made a new announcement: "Environmental efficiency is just as important as productivity, flexibility and time-to-market”. Siemens also wants to meet this challenge with its Digital Enterprise Portfolio.

24

Oct 2019

PTC takes over Onshape

On October 23, PTC announced the planned takeover of the US software provider Onshape. With this acquisition, PTC acquires CAD software that has been tried and tested in the market and is available purely as Software as a Service. The previous CAD and PLM portfolio is not affected by this according to the press release, but will be fully further developed.

24

Oct 2019

Siemens: Acquisition of Edge Technology planned

Siemens plans to acquire Edge Technology from the American company Pixeom. With Siemens Industrial Edge, an ecosystem is created in which data is analyzed locally on the machine using suitable apps, while relevant data is sent to the Industrial Edge Management System for global analysis.

22

Oct 2019

Quo Vadis “PLM”?

For almost 20 years, PLM was considered the umbrella term for software that manages all data of products over their entire life cycle. Now all major vendors have said goodbye to this term without exchanging it for a new one. What does this mean for industrial users? And what about all the names and brands in which PLM is the core term today?