CHICAGO, IL, May 31, 2023 – Siemens and Paessler announce that Paessler PRTG monitoring software will be used as the monitoring solution of the Siemens Lifecycle Management Suite (LMS).

Helmut Binder of Paessler and Daniel Leese of Siemens agree on ongoing collaboration.

At the Hannover Fair in Germany, Siemens and Paessler strengthened their association in the industrial space with the confirmation that Paessler PRTG is an essential part of Siemens’ Lifecycle Management Suite (LMS).

Daniel Leese, product manager of the Lifecycle Management Suite at Siemens explains the role of PRTG in the Lifecycle Management Suite, “With Paessler’s PRTG, we will extend our Lifecycle Management Suite by a state-of-the-art IT/OT online monitoring solution. This allows our customers to automatically generate a Reactive Maintenance Work package.” As a result, IT and OT monitoring data and alarms from PRTG can be easily integrated into the workflows and processes of engineers and technicians.

This development builds on the partnership between Siemens and Paessler. Both companies already worked together in the past, but now they are taking their relationship to a strategic level to leverage the strengths of Siemens and PRTG in the industrial sphere.

Paessler PRTG and Siemens Industrial Automation DataCenter (IADC)

PRTG is already used with Siemens’ Industrial Automation DataCenter (IADC), which can be maintained by LMS. It monitors the various components of the IADC, displays the collected monitoring data in dashboards, and alerts system administrators of any failures. This helps to ensure the excellent performance and uninterrupted operation of the data center. Furthermore, PRTG provides LMS with transparency across IT and OT.

Helmut Binder, CEO of Paessler, highly values the ongoing trust that Siemens has shown in Paessler PRTG monitoring software. “It is an honor that a world-class company like Siemens, with its reputation for innovation and quality, has chosen our Paessler PRTG monitoring solution to complement their industrial offerings,” Helmut Binder said. “This highlights not only the versatility and reliability of our monitoring software but also the value it delivers in industrial settings.”

In recent years, Paessler has extended its monitoring focus beyond IT and into the world of OT and IIoT and is already monitoring industrial infrastructure across the world. Paessler took another step into OT by releasing Paessler PRTG OPC UA Server, a product extension that provides supervisory and control systems (like SCADA) with monitoring and alarm data from PRTG.

About Siemens AG

Siemens is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a globally leading medical technology provider shaping the future of healthcare. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power. In fiscal 2022, which ended on September 30, 2022, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €72.0 billion and net income of €4.4 billion. As of September 30, 2022, the company had around 311,000 employees worldwide.

About Paessler AG

Paessler believes monitoring plays a vital part in reducing humankind’s consumption of resources. Monitoring data helps its customers save resources, from optimizing their IT, OT, and IoT infrastructures to reducing energy consumption or emissions – for our future and our environment. That is why Paessler offers monitoring solutions for businesses across all industries and all sizes, from SMB to large enterprises. Paessler works with renowned partners, and together they tackle the monitoring challenges of an ever-changing world.

Since 1997, when Paessler first introduced PRTG Network Monitor, it has combined its in-depth monitoring knowledge with an innovative spirit. Today, more than 500,000 users in over 170 countries rely on PRTG and other Paessler solutions to monitor their complex IT, OT, and IoT infrastructures. Paessler’s products empower its customers to monitor everything, and thus help them optimize their resources.

Learn more about Paessler and their products at www.paessler.com.

CAMPBELL, CA, May 31, 2023 – Leading Italian cosmetics group Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB, has selected Centric Software’s product lifecycle management (plm) solution. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, price and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

For more than 70 years, Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB has been supporting high-quality Italian Professional Hair Care in Italy and worldwide. They offer premium products that can be customized to meet specific market needs and suit different hair types and conditions. Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB boasts an impressive sales network spanning 91 countries across the globe and produces 170,000 items every day, including shampoo, masks, styling products, hydrogen peroxide and other technical goods.

Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB aims to create beauty in an ethical and sustainable way through cosmetic products that maximize the potential of those who use them.

The commitment to operating responsibly, sustainably, and transparently is reflected in the fact that Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB officially became a Society Benefit in Italy in 2021.

Pettenon’s Cosmetics Spa SB longstanding success can be attributed to its commitment to three strategic pillars —innovation, digitalization, and sustainability. In 2022, Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB realized they needed a new digital solution to sharpen their competitive advantage and commitment to their guiding pillars.

“Teams were wasting valuable time manually inputting data, which also opened the door to human error,” says Giulio Pistolato, CIO of Pettenon Cosmetics SPA SB. “We saw an opportunity to streamline data and automate tasks to support teams, improve productivity and reduce costs.”

After undertaking an intensive internal process analysis and assessing solution options, Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB selected Centric PLM for Cosmetics and Personal Care to support its digital transformation goals.

“We chose Centric PLM, because it was able to meet all of our needs and is one of the best solutions available in the industry,” says Pistolato. “PLM’s single repository for data and its power to increase efficiency, reduce the risk of error, and ensure we are meeting safety and environmental standards will ultimately lead to enhanced product quality and reduced time to market.”

Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB will deploy Centric PLM across several departments, including research and development, procurement, supply chain and IT. PLM will be the platform for more than 50 new product development projects.

“We expect Centric PLM will significantly streamline product development,” says Pistolato. “With automation, we anticipate increased productivity, reduced costs, and enhanced product quality — all leading to increased competitiveness in the market.”

Collaboration is another core value of Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB, and they foresee an ongoing partnership with Centric Software.

“The collaboration with the Centric Software team has been extremely successful, collaborative and has set the groundwork to grow,” adds Pistolato.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB,” says Chris Groves, CEO of Centric Software. “Our companies are aligned in our values of innovation, digitalization and sustainability and we look forward to working with Pettenon Cosmetics Spa SB over the long-term.”

About Pettenon Cosmetics

Pettenon Cosmetics S.p.A. S.B. has a sales network that spans 114 countries and substantial experience in all of the main global markets. It provides high-quality professional products that can be customized to suit the needs of specific markets and various types and conditions of hair.

Its constantly expanding and evolving production site in San Martino di Lupari (near Padua, Italy) specializes in targeted hair care and beauty treatments.

It covers the entire production process: blowing and screen printing packaging, manufacturing and packing products, and efficient, automated warehousing and logistics. In addition, quality and innovation are guaranteed by four in-house laboratories: one for Research & Development, one for Microbiology and two for Quality Control. The Quality Control department and the Microbiology laboratory constantly carry out meticulous tests on the production batches in order to ensure that the quality of the products is impeccable.

Technical and product development centres work with professional technicians and expert hairdressers, who painstakingly carry out numerous tests on models every day in order to check that products are working and performing properly. They put together utilization protocols and professional tips in order to cater to the needs of even the most demanding clients.

In addition, prompt responses to market demands, safety for end consumers and professional training in its in-house Academies help to keep up the high standards offered by Pettenon Cosmetics to both the professionals who use its products in their salons every day, the designers who make the most of them in the creative hair styles flaunted in international fashion shows and mass market.

For more information, visit www.pettenon.it.

About Centric Software 

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides a product concept to launch a platform for consumer goods such as fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor, consumer electronics, cosmetics & personal care, and food & beverage.

Centric Software’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality, and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries.

Centric Visual Boards offers highly visual, touch-screen experiences for collaboration and decision-making. Centric Planning is an innovative, cloud-native, augmented-intelligence solution delivering end-to-end retail planning to maximize retail and wholesale business performance. Centric Pricing, powered by StyleSage, is an AI-driven market insight platform for data-informed decision-making on pricing and product assortments to maximize revenue and margins.

Among many other market-driven innovations, Centric Software is widely known for its connectivity to dozens of other enterprise systems, including ERP, DAM, PIM, e-com, and more, in addition to creative tools such as Adobe Illustrator, a host of 3D CAD connectors and sustainability tools, such as Higg. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate, and fastest time to value in the industry.

Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-ups, and PLM solutions.

Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, including being named by Red Herring to its Top 100 Global list several times. Centric Software also received five excellence awards from Frost & Sullivan over the past decade.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

ANDOVER, MA, May 22, 2023 – Aras, which provides the most powerful low-code platform with applications to design, build, and operate complex products, today announced the availability of the latest version of its Variant Management application which delivers capabilities designed to manage product platform variability on different product representation levels with full traceability and revision history. It enables designers of next generation products to manage complex product configurations across all engineering domains and organizational boundaries.

Product development expands from traditional mechanical engineering to true interdisciplinary systems engineering. The demand for more customer choices and innovative service offerings requires that companies adopt efficient ways to manage product variants. Defining and managing variants at every level of product representation is critical to controlling costs and staying competitive in today’s market.

Aras Variant Management enables companies to establish a consistent approach to defining and managing variability as an essential element of their product strategy. It provides unprecedented flexibility to define product platforms and maximize module reuse while reducing cost of quality, lowering development cost, and shortening time-to-market. Using high-performing, functionally rich and intuitive user interfaces, engineering and business teams across the organization can easily define and validate product variability features, options and rules, to configure specific product structures.

The application maintains separate data models for rules and for breakdown structures in any domain enabling reuse of both in a new context. This shortens development time of new variants, simplifies conflict resolutions of rules, and allows all domain-specific development teams to participate in the process.

“Product variant management used to be done using typical CPQ tools during the sales process, but product complexity driven by pervasive connectivity, increasing software content, and a high degree of customization is forcing OEMs to consider the basic tenets of variability management much earlier in the product lifecycle,” said John Sperling, SVP of product management at Aras. “Aras Variant Management enables all engineering and business teams to participate in the context of their product representation level.”

With Aras Variant Management, all variant definition information is maintained as part of the tool-agnostic product digital thread managed by the Aras platform. This ensures automatic traceability of variability drivers and results which enables an efficient process of maximizing reuse, incorporating new product features, and performing change impact analysis.

To learn more, visit Aras’ website or attend their demo on May 18 to see Aras Variant Management in action.

About Aras

Aras provides the most powerful low-code platform with applications to design, build, and operate complex products. Its technology enables the rapid delivery of flexible, upgradeable solutions that build business resilience. Aras’ platform and product lifecycle management applications connect users in all disciplines and functions to critical product data and processes across the lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain. Airbus, Audi, DENSO, Honda, Kawasaki, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, and Nissan are using the platform to manage complex change and traceability.

For more information, visit www.aras.com.

CAMPBELL, CA, May 17, 2023 – MarkaLAB, the Turkish design, merchandising, manufacturing, and distribution company specializing in sportswear and fashion apparel, has adopted Centric Software’s comprehensive product lifecycle management (PLM) solution to further expansion into global markets. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products within the apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury segments to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Established in 2019, MarkaLAB’s dynamic team of creatives and designers successfully execute their clients’ visions from concept to consumer at every step, identifying the gaps that brands need to fill in the Turkish and international markets. The company sources high-quality materials from Turkey, Egypt and China. Ensuring competitive pricing structures across the board with in-house operations, MarkaLAB streamlines local and international production to guarantee transparency and a swift turnaround in a competitive market. With steady expansion since 2019, they have capitalized on the Turkish market and are poised to take on the international supply chain.

Having reached the limits of growth at their current scale, MarkaLAB decided that it was time to invest in improving their existing systems. MarkaLAB began investigating various options for a modern, centralized PLM solution and it soon became clear that most of the best-known companies in the fashion industry already partnered with Centric Software to manage their full range of sourcing, development, production and distribution. The company is certain that Centric has the most suitable best practices in its features to enable them to adopt the solution and easily configure Centric PLM to suit their specific needs.

“The design, product development and sourcing departments are going to be the main users of Centric PLM, and our expectation is that it will be instrumental in managing the end-to-end development of materials and products,” says Ceyhun Cenger, strategic planning & business development manager of MarkaLAB.

After a series of meetings in the lead-up to their implementation of Centric PLM, MarkaLAB has expressed great satisfaction with the rollout process so far and indicated that their first impression of the Centric team is that they are very well-organized, confident in the solution’s capabilities and well-prepared to offer world-class customer service to their clients.

“It’s very gratifying to us that a pioneering company like MarkaLAB, which has helped so many other brands achieve success in Turkey and abroad, has decided to partner with us,” says Chris Groves, president and CEO of Centric Software. “We can’t wait to see the successes that will unfold as we continue to grow together.”

About MarkaLAB

MarkaLAB works with clients, partners and vendors to meet and exceed customer demand for brand merchandise. The company’s dynamic team of creatives and designers brings their clients’ vision from concept to consumer, developing products based on in-depth market analyses. Sourcing quality materials from Turkey, Egypt, and China, and ensuring competitive pricing structures across the board with in-house operations, MarkaLAB streamlines local and international production to guarantee transparency and a swift turnaround in a competitive market. With steady expansion since 2019, they have capitalized on the Turkish market and are poised to take on the international supply chain.

MarkaLAB’s product range has grown from sportswear, accessories, and equipment to high-street fashion.

Optimizing and setting global trends in sportswear, apparel, and fashion apparel, MarkaLAB takes the guesswork out of the supply chain with its analytical approach to design, production, and delivery. Their products are created in state-of-the-art facilities that have been vetted with a rigorous evaluation process.

For more information, visit markalab.com.tr.

About Centric Software 

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides a product concept to launch a platform for consumer goods such as fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor, consumer electronics, cosmetics & personal care, and food & beverage.

Centric Software’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality, and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries.

Centric Visual Boards offers highly visual, touch-screen experiences for collaboration and decision-making. Centric Planning is an innovative, cloud-native, augmented-intelligence solution delivering end-to-end retail planning to maximize retail and wholesale business performance. Centric Pricing, powered by StyleSage, is an AI-driven market insight platform for data-informed decision-making on pricing and product assortments to maximize revenue and margins.

Among many other market-driven innovations, Centric Software is widely known for its connectivity to dozens of other enterprise systems, including ERP, DAM, PIM, e-com, and more, in addition to creative tools such as Adobe Illustrator, a host of 3D CAD connectors and sustainability tools, such as Higg. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate, and fastest time to value in the industry.

Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-ups, and PLM solutions.

Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, including being named by Red Herring to its Top 100 Global list several times. Centric Software also received five excellence awards from Frost & Sullivan over the past decade.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

ANDOVER, MA, May 10, 2023 – Aras, which provides the most powerful low-code platform with applications to design, build and operate complex products, today announced that Japan’s JTEKT Thermo Systems is using Aras Innovator to improve information management and eliminate paper-based workflows.

JTEKT is a leading manufacturer of industrial heat treatment systems. To meet the specific needs of each customer, JTEKT follows a specific made-to-order manufacturing process. The company needed to optimize its databases for each piece of equipment – each of which has unique specifications. No two products are alike, which means product information must be captured during the production process and made available for future production. JTEKT needed a centralized process and product management system to meet this challenge.

Using Aras Innovator, a platform for complete end-to-end product lifecycle management, JTEKT has built a new system for product quotation that allows optimization of the database and provides an input form for individual models. The system is a cross-department database that enables JTEKT to access and use a wide range of information. With Aras Innovator, JTEKT Thermo Systems has:

• Reduced production time, which has decreased lead time by 75%
• Sped up ability to respond to user needs as the business environment changes
• Centralized management of information and flow

Masayuki Mukai, member, information planning group, JTEKT Thermo Systems, said: “We required a system that has the capability to meet the unique requirements of each piece of equipment, to support out manufacturing strategy. Aras Innovator provides the high flexibility we need to meet those requirements.”

Rob McAveney, chief technology officer, Aras, said: “Companies like JTEKT that make products to order need a centralized view of product information. It must be easy to access and allow for flexibility. Together, we’ve created a solution that improves efficiency, and paves the way for further optimization of manufacturing processes. No two manufacturers are the same, and each must be able to customize to their own unique needs.”

Download this case study to learn more about JTEKT Thermo Systems and their business transformation with Aras.

About JTEKT Thermo Systems

JTEKT Thermo Systems Corp. is a manufacturer of industrial heat-treatment furnaces for a variety of industries, including automotive. The company was founded in 1958 as one of the business units of Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd. (currently JTEKT Corporation) and is headquartered in Tenri, Nara Prefecture, Japan.

About Aras

Aras provides the most powerful low-code platform with applications to design, build, and operate complex products. Its technology enables the rapid delivery of flexible, upgradeable solutions that build business resilience. Aras’ platform and product lifecycle management applications connect users in all disciplines and functions to critical product data and processes across the lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain.

For more information, visit www.aras.com.

PARIS, France (JEC World), May 9, 2023 – Plataine, a leading provider of Industrial IoT and AI-based optimization solutions for advanced manufacturing, announces its latest release of its Production Scheduler Solution. These advanced tools and algorithms provide composite parts manufacturers with a dynamic approach to production planning, considering all relevant elements including human capacity, tool availability and autoclave optimization, to automatically generate optimized manufacturing schedules.

Plataine’s Production Scheduler is an intelligent and intuitive solution that presents new advancements and features to further maximize capacity while considering human resources, tools and machine constraints. The ability to handle resource capacity is an essential feature of the new Scheduler version, which enables the system to generate optimal plans while considering the availability of human and other factory resources. With the Production Scheduler, manufacturers can utilize their workforce efficiently while creating an optimized and feasible schedule. The tool support feature enables manufacturers to schedule and manage their tools, molds and resources effectively, ensuring that they are always in top condition and ready for use. The maintenance cycle monitoring ensures that tools and machines are properly maintained, reducing downtime and increasing productivity. The new UX design is user-friendly and intuitive, making it easier for planners to navigate and use the system effectively.

Plataine’s Scheduler overcomes bottlenecks in the production process, such as autoclave availability, and offers solutions to optimize production and autoclave runs. The Production Scheduler generates real-time reports that provide insights into the production process, enabling manufacturers to make data-driven decisions.

The Production Scheduler solution can quickly respond to unexpected events on the factory floor such as production delays, machine malfunction or shortage of staff. The automated solution may reduce response time to an incident from days to minutes – the planner can adjust the schedule, approve it with the supervisor and distribute it to the floor in a few mouse clicks. This leads to higher throughput and improved on-time delivery rate.

“Plataine’s Production Scheduler Solution is an industry game-changer. With its advanced Practimum Optimum algorithm, manufacturers can optimize their production processes, enhance productivity, and reduce costs,” said Amir Ben-Assa, VP marketing & product strategy at Plataine. “Our solution provides real-time insight into production processes, allowing manufacturers to identify bottlenecks and quickly respond to unexpected events on the factory floor. With this solution in hand, manufacturers can ramp-up production and meet their targets.”

About Plataine

Plataine is the leading provider of Industrial IoT and AI-based optimization solutions for advanced manufacturing. Plataine’s solutions provide intelligent, connected Digital Assistants for production floor management and staff, empowering manufacturers to make optimized decisions in real-time, every time. Plataine’s patent-protected technologies are used by leading manufacturers worldwide, including Airbus, IAI, Triumph, MRAS (an ST Engineering company), Alestis, Kineco-Kaman, IFS, Light & Strong, Kanfit and Ethan Allen. Plataine partners with SAP, Siemens PLM the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, and CTC GmbH (an Airbus Company), NIAR (The US National Institute of Aviation Research) and is also a part of the UK National Composites Centre (NCC) membership network, to advance the ‘Factory of the Future’ worldwide. For this work, Plataine has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award for its AI-Based Digital Assistants for Manufacturing and Innovation Awards from the JEC, Plataine Receives SME 2021 Excellence in Composites Manufacturing Award and CompositesUK organizations. Plataine is ISO 27001 certified for compliance with information security management requirements.

For more information, visit www.plataine.com.