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Table of Contents
1. Financial, M & A Updates...................................................................................................................................1
2. Solution Updates..................................................................................................................................................5
3. Rewards and Recognition Updates...................................................................................................................20
4. Customer Success Updates................................................................................................................................26
5. Partnership Ecosystem Updates.......................................................................................................................46
6. Environment & Social.......................................................................................................................................52
7. Miscellaneous Updates......................................................................................................................................54

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AVEVA and OSIsoft Combine Accelerating Digital Transformation of Industrial World
AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, and OSIsoft, a global leader in real-time industrial data software
and services, have announced an agreement for AVEVA to acquire OSIsoft for $5.0 billion. AVEVA and OSIsoft
will combine their complementary product offerings, bringing together industrial software and data management
to help customers in industrial and essential organizations accelerate their digital transformational strategies as
efficiency, flexibility, sustainability and resilience become increasingly urgent requirements for customers.
OSIsoft’s data management software will complement AVEVA’s comprehensive end-to-end engineering,
operations, and performance offerings. Integrating OSIsoft’s PI System into AVEVA’s comprehensive software
portfolio will create an integrated data foundation that can drive big data, Cloud and AI-driven insights to create
meaningful business outcomes for customers. This combination enables AVEVA to grow and diversify the
industries it serves as well as continue to expand its footprint in existing and new markets and geographies.
Together, AVEVA and OSIsoft can provide full-stack solutions that span edge, plant, and enterprise deployment
models, strengthening AVEVA’s position as a global leader in industrial software. With a combined 93 years of
operating expertise and experience, they share a history of meeting the rapidly changing and evolving needs of
their industrial customers, built on foundations of customer centricity and world-class talent. In addition to
sharing a complementary solutions portfolio, this transaction further validates AVEVA’s leading position in
digitization and IIoT. OSIsoft’s PI System enables customers to collect, normalize, store, and stream real-time,
high-fidelity operational data to applications, analytics, and AI and ML platforms. PI System acts as a single
system of record for operations data, designed for massive cloud-enabled scale and data sharing across
enterprises, and enables insightful operations decision making. OSIsoft works with over 1,000 of the world’s
leading power and utilities companies, 38 of the Global Fortune Top 40 oil and gas companies, all of the Global
Fortune Top 10 metals and mining companies, 37 out of 50 of the world's largest chemical and petrochemical
companies and 9 out of 10 of the Global Fortune Top 10 pharmaceutical companies.
Executive Commentary
Commenting on the agreement, CEO of AVEVA, said: “Combining AVEVA and OSIsoft is yet another
significant milestone in our journey to achieving the ambitious growth goals that we have set. This will not
only help us serve existing customers better but also open the flood gates to new opportunities which will
accelerate the delivery of our digitization vision. Data has been enabling organizations to more effectively
determine the cause of problems by allowing them to visualize what is happening in different locations,
departments and systems. This agreement will enable our customers to improve business processes as well
as eliminate inefficiencies. We are extremely proud to be moving into the next chapter with an even stronger
solutions portfolio as well as an ever-increasing and robust customer base which continues to make us
leaders in our sector.”
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Cognizant to Acquire Tin Roof Software to Expand Digital Engineering Services
Cognizant has entered into an agreement to acquire Tin Roof Software, a
privately held custom software and digital product development services
company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Tin Roof specializes in
innovative digital products that allow companies to improve customer
experiences and increase revenue. The acquisition will expand Cognizant’s
software product engineering footprint in the U.S. and connect Tin Roof’s
experts with Cognizant’s broader global software development capabilities.
Tin Roof offers software design, development, DevOps, and delivery
services for clients increasingly dependent on software for a competitive
edge. Custom solutions for Fortune 500 clients and others include
re-architecting and migrating products to the cloud, building
customer-facing web and mobile apps, creating APIs and data pipelines for
transaction processing, and designing secure payment processing systems.
Tin Roof works across a range of industries, including telecom, media and
entertainment, financial services, retail, hospitality, consumer products,
travel, logistics, and transportation.
“To compete effectively, clients are replacing traditional application
development with digital engineering to build leading-edge,
consumer-grade experiences and infuse software into their products,
services, and customer experiences,” said President, Digital Business, at
Cognizant. “Cognizant is investing to compete and win in digital
engineering, one of our strategic priorities. Tin Roof’s exceptional
software product development and agile teams share our philosophy of
customer-centricity and will strengthen our network of engineering
talent in the U.S. We look forward to welcoming Tin Roof’s software
product engineering experts to Cognizant.”
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ESI Group, Paris, France, publishes its sales and results for the first half
of its 2020 fiscal year
Financial results
• H1 EBITDA (before IFRS 16) is €15.0m (18.6%) compared to €21.3m (24.2%) over the same period last
year.
• H1 EBIT (before IFRS 16) is €12.5m (15.4%) vs. €19.6m (22.2%) in H1FY19.
• Gross margin is stable, at 77.3% (vs. 77.7%). Costs to EBIT are also stable (€68.3m in H1FY20 compared to
€68.7m in H1FY19).
Cash position
• The Group's cash position increased to €24.7m at June 30, 2020 (vs. €16.3m end June 2019).
• Gross financial debt is €39.6m (vs. €49.6m as of December 2019) and net debt decreased to €14.9m (vs.
€29.4m) related to business seasonality. The gearing ratio (net debt to equity) is 15.6% (vs. 34.4%).
• As of June 30, 2020, ESI Group held 6.3% of its capital in treasury shares.
• ESI Group requested a State-guaranteed loan (PGE) from its French banking pool and Bpifrance. At the date
of the Board of Directors, the PGE granted by Bpifrance has been received (€1.75m) and the agreements of all
the banks in the pool have been obtained for a syndicated PGE of €12m - the contract is currently being drawn
up.
Recurrence and resilience in an exceptional context
• ESI Group's sales for the first half of 2020 amounted to €80.8m, down 8.5% (at current rates) from the same
period last year. As the entire world entered confinement in Q2, revenue contracted €4m (-13.2%), about the
same absolute value as in Q1 over a smaller revenue.
Geographic and sector footprint unchanged
• The geographical breakdown of half-year revenues is almost identical to that of the first half of 2019: the
EMEA region represents 51.6% (vs. 52.7%) of total revenues, Asia represents 34.1% (vs. 33.2%) and the
Americas represent 14.3% (vs. 14.1%). The EMEA region decreased the most during the half-year, followed by
Asia and the Americas.
• The Group's four priority industries - Automotive & Ground Transportation, Aeronautics & Aerospace, Heavy
Industry, Energy - accounted for approximately 87% of total orders during the period. The Automotive and
Ground Transportation activity, the group's leading industry, remained relatively stable despite a difficult sector
context. The other priority industries suffered more from the current crisis, with a significant slowdown in
orders in the Aerospace industry.
“In H1, while we experienced a sudden decrease in our customers ability to open new projects, the solidity
of our multi-year, mission critical engagements with diversified industry leaders sustained us. As we
continue to manage this global pandemic, we are balancing two business imperatives: proactive cost
management to optimize near-term financial health and continuation of our transformation plan. The latter
gains momentum, reflected in a growing number of customer engagements positioned at the level of
“outcome” and mounting interest in ESI’s offer, as evidenced in wide participation at our regular digital
events.”
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NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion, Creating World’s Premier Computing Company for
the Age of AI
NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) announced a definitive agreement
under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank
Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion. The transaction is expected
to be immediately accretive to NVIDIA’s non-GAAP gross margin and
non-GAAP earnings per share. The combination brings together NVIDIA’s
leading AI computing platform with Arm’s vast ecosystem to create the
premier computing company for the age of artificial intelligence, accelerating
innovation while expanding into large, high-growth markets. SoftBank will
remain committed to Arm’s long-term success through its ownership stake in
NVIDIA, expected to be under 10 percent. As part of NVIDIA, Arm will
continue to operate its open-licensing model while maintaining the global
customer neutrality that has been foundational to its success, with 180 billion
chips shipped to-date by its licensees. Arm partners will also benefit from both
companies’ offerings, including NVIDIA’s numerous innovations. SoftBank
and Arm are fully committed to satisfying the undertakings made by SoftBank
when it acquired Arm in 2016, which are scheduled to complete in September
2021. Following the closing of the transaction, NVIDIA intends to retain the
name and strong brand identity of Arm and expand its base in Cambridge.
Arm’s intellectual property will remain registered in the U.K.
“AI is the most powerful technology force of our time and has launched a
new wave of computing,” said founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “In the years
ahead, trillions of computers running AI will create a new
internet-of-things that is thousands of times larger than internet-of-people.
Our combination will create a company fabulously positioned for the age
of AI. Simon Segars and his team at Arm have built an extraordinary
company that is contributing to nearly every technology market in the
world. Uniting NVIDIA’s AI computing capabilities with the vast
ecosystem of Arm’s CPU, we can advance computing from the cloud,
smartphones, PCs, self-driving cars and robotics, to edge IoT, and expand
AI computing to every corner of the globe. This combination has
tremendous benefits for both companies, our customers, and the industry.
For Arm’s ecosystem, the combination will turbocharge Arm’s R&D
capacity and expand its IP portfolio with NVIDIA’s world-leading GPU
and AI technology. Arm will remain headquartered in Cambridge. We will
expand on this great site and build a world-class AI research facility,
supporting developments in healthcare, life sciences, robotics, self-driving
cars and other fields. And, to attract researchers and scientists from the
U.K. and around the world to conduct groundbreaking work, NVIDIA will
build a state-of-the-art AI supercomputer, powered by Arm CPUs. Arm
Cambridge will be a world-class technology center.”
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AVEVA Prioritizes Cloud Strategy in Order to Respond to the Demands of The
New Normal
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Solution Description
AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, unveiled ‘Cloud-First’, a key component of its long-term software portfolio strategy to focus on providing core
services in the cloud to ensure high uptime and availability, user management and the flexibility to try new solutions. The strategy includes the introduction of scenario-driven
integration between products for rapid time to value. As part of this strategy, AVEVA has also announced significant new advances to its industry-leading cloud platform,
AVEVA Connect - AVEVA Unified Engineering and AVEVA Insight Guided and Advanced Analytics. These new solutions, accessed in the cloud, reduce total cost of
ownership, help users to improve efficiency and enable decision support with infused industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI). Designed to securely host AVEVAsoftware solutions
in the cloud, AVEVA Connect already enables more than 1,900 customers and over 25,000 users to access multiple products from one platform with a single sign-on. Connecting
teams, data and processes in the Cloud is a key differentiator for AVEVA given the changes in working patterns, the massive amounts of data being generated by industries and
the need to bring many disparate processes together via one source. It facilitates improved user management across all assets as well as the capability to monitor usage of
subscription credits across the entire AVEVA software portfolio. AVEVA Unified Engineering, breaks down the silos to deliver a collaborative data-centric environment with a
single source of accountability across the engineering lifecycle. Multi-discipline teams across owner operators and EPCs can now collaborate to execute greenfield and
brownfield projects with high traceability in a secure cloud environment that can be set up in days to accelerate time to value and reduce total installed cost. The AVEVA Insight
Guided and Advanced Analytics are now available in the Cloud for advanced pattern recognition to augment automated analytics and condition monitoring. The solution offers
a quick time to value enabling customers to start on a predictive analytics-based Asset Performance strategy without the need for complex modelling or data science. This
solution allows the user to create easy-to-deploy models targeting specific assets, providing reliable anomaly detection with minimal configuration

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Spexor from Bosch provides security to go
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According to current crime statistics, people in Germany report around 240 domestic burglaries and almost 600 thefts from vehicles every day (source: Polizeiliche
Kriminalstatistik 2019). Especially when it comes to areas that are difficult to secure and monitor, such as attics, laundry rooms, garages, and community gardens, or even
caravans and vintage cars, the only security solutions available are often intended exclusively for individual use cases. With Spexor, Bosch has developed a mobile alarm device
that people can use flexibly in almost any location and for a wide range of applications. Its powerful battery means the device remains active for several weeks, while software
updates ensure it is always up to date. Spexor is the size of a coffee cup and houses several sensors that detect motion, sound, and changes to air pressure in a radius of
approximately five meters around the device. “What sets Bosch’s compact security guard apart are the high precision and intelligent combination of its sensors, enabling Spexor
to reliably detect break-ins,” says co-developer Riedel. If, for instance, the device is placed in garden shed and a football bounces against the window, the sound and pressure
sensors detect the change. However, this alone does not set off the alarm. Only when Spexor detects movement inside the shed does the sensitive security device trigger the
alarm and send a warning to the user’s smartphone. Depending on the individual settings, the device also sounds an alarm and the built-in LEDs flash red as a direct deterrent
to burglars. Not only is Bosch’s mobile, multi-sensor alarm device suitable for use at home; thanks to its rechargeable battery, it can be placed almost anywhere that security is
important. A Wi-Fi connection or cellular network is all Spexor needs to do its job when a break-in occurs. With a battery life of several weeks, this little security guard is an
ideal partner for tasks like protecting motorhomes when parked or looking after expensive equipment, tools, or winter tires stored in a garden shed. Another factor that means
Spexor can be used almost anywhere is that it can be operated and stored at ambient temperatures of –10 to +60 degrees Celsius. Data privacy was also a top priority in the
development of the alarm device: Spexor has no camera and does not analyze or store any voice data. And when it is turned off, it really is off.

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Ford, Bedrock and Bosch are exploring highly automated vehicle technology in
Detroit to help make parking easier
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Ford Motor Company, Bedrock and Bosch are launching a demonstration project with connected Ford Escape test vehicles that can drive and park themselves inside
Bedrock’s Assembly Garage in Detroit using Bosch smart infrastructure. This is the first U.S. infrastructure-based solution for automated valet parking where the vehicle
will park itself inside a parking garage. The research will take place in the Corktown neighborhood, the site of Ford’s new mobility innovation district, anchored by
Michigan Central Station. The district will draw mobility innovators and disruptors from around the world to develop, test, and launch new solutions to solve urban
transportation challenges, improve mobility access for everyone and prepare for the increasingly connected and autonomous world ahead. The demonstration project will
be on display on the ground floor of Bedrock’s Assembly Garage, the real estate developer’s first residential redevelopment project in the Corktown neighborhood. The
project aligns with Bedrock’s vision of combining ground up and historical developments with the newest technology in parking and mobility - including the current
installation of the Midwest’s first automated parking stall, which parks and retrieves vehicles in the basement of the Free Press Building using street-level load bays. The
connected Ford test vehicles operate in a highly automated fashion by vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication with Bosch’s intelligent parking infrastructure. The
infrastructure sensors recognize and localize the vehicle to guide its parking maneuver, including the ability to help avoid pedestrians and other hazards. If the
infrastructure senses something in the vehicle’s path, it can stop the vehicle immediately.

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New Epson SC-F10000 Driver for CalderaRIP Version 13.1
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Caldera is glad to announce the support of the biggest sublimation printer ever released in the Epson portfolio. The Epson SureColor F10000 has been developed
primarily for fast, high-volume dye sublimation printing. Its robust design provides consistency, reliability, high-quality throughput and it supports numerous
applications, including fashion, sportswear, home furnishings and soft signage. The Epson SureColor F10000 can now be used with CalderaRIP software Version 13.1.
CalderaRIP’s unique client/server architecture (coupled with a common user experience for all the major printer brands and models in the print market) allows an
enhanced productivity and a better ROI. For example, rendering a true, rich and saturated black color while printing on textile can be tricky, but being able to get the
color the designer initially wanted will make your products more sellable. For that, CalderaRIP includes numerous features to help textile printshops streamline their
production and deliver high-quality results. Indeed, Caldera’s award-winning software integrates the unrivaled ICC profiler engine from X-Rite and extends its power
with the RGB Workflow option, which streamlines the whole RGB color workflow and reveals the richest black without having to deal with days of trial and error.
Epson SureColor F10000 coupled with CalderaRIP V13.1 is the perfect combination for printshops who seek to scale up their production while delivering high-quality
products. Besides, professionals who wish to hit their ROI in a shorter period can enable Caldera’s additional InkPerformer module. InkPerformer helps wide format
digital printers maintain color consistency and accuracy while saving on ink costs.

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ACS Custom Revolutionizes In-ear Device Production with 3D Systems’ Figure 4
Direct Digital Solution
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The manufacturing industry is undergoing a significant transformation; fueled by the power of additive manufacturing solutions. 3D Systems’ customer, ACS Custom, a
UK-based digital production house for custom hearing protection, in-ear monitors, and other communication devices has revolutionized their workflow with 3D Systems’
Figure 4 direct digital solution. ACS Custom’s bespoke solution – comprised of Figure 4 PRO-BLK 10, Figure 4 Standalone, 3D Sprint software, and application
engineering services – is accelerating its product development cycle for enhanced time to market and competitive advantage. As a result of this direct digital production
workflow, ACS has realized a 4X increase in capacity and 2X increase in efficiency while reducing material consumption by 50% and labor cost by as much as 80% on
one part. ACS built its business around a 100% digital workflow that provides customers with quick access to one-of-a-kind articles. 3D Systems’ team worked closely
with the team at ACS Custom to understand their specific application needs which resulted in a direct digital production solution. At the core of this solution is 3D
Systems’ Figure 4 PRO-BLK 10 material – the company’s first photopolymer for additive manufacturing that exhibits thermoplastic behaviors, providing a combination
of speed, accuracy, strength, and durability previously only associated with injection molding output. This material has unique and compelling properties that represent
significant improvements in first-time print yield, heat deflection, UV stability, durability, flexibility, and impact strength, while also enabling new biocompatible and
direct digital production workflows such as the one designed for ACS. Figure 4 PRO-BLK 10’s material properties – which include being biocompatible capable per
ISO10993-5 and ISO10993-10 - results in a long-wear device that enables enhanced sound transmission and quality.

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GE Renewable Energy Constructing Largest Wind Turbine Rotor Test Rig at
Netherlands Technology Center
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GE Renewable Energy shared an update on progress to construct the largest wind turbine rotor test rig of its kind. The test facility is being constructed at LM Wind
Power’s WMC Technology Center in Wieringerwerf, the Netherlands – located on the border of the IJsselmeer, approximately 70 kilometers north of Amsterdam.
A consortium comprising of GE Renewable Energy, LM Wind Power and TNO was established to construct this test rig under the three-year STRETCH project,
with partial funding from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. The rotor test rig will allow for verification of the strength and the dynamic behaviour of wind
turbine rotors under the enormous mechanical loads caused by large blades. Knowledge gained in the project will be used to improve existing design tools which,
after verification through digital twin concepts, will contribute to the design of larger rotors. GE Renewable Energy is a $15 billion business which combines one
of the broadest portfolios in the renewable energy industry to provide end-to-end solutions for our customers demanding reliable and affordable green power.
Combining onshore and offshore wind, blades, hydro, storage, utility-scale solar, and grid solutions as well as hybrid renewables and digital services offerings, GE
Renewable Energy has installed more than 400+ gigawatts of clean renewable energy and equipped more than 90 percent of utilities worldwide with its grid
solutions. With nearly 40,000 employees present in more than 80 countries, GE Renewable Energy creates value for customers seeking to power the world with
affordable, reliable and sustainable green electrons.

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Health Canada Licenses First Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Embedded
On-Device to Prioritize Critical Chest X-ray Review
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GE Healthcare announced Health Canada’s license of Critical Care Suite, an industry-first collection of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms embedded on a
mobile X-ray device. Built in collaboration with Humber River Hospital in Toronto, using GE Healthcare’s Edison platform, the AI algorithms help to reduce the
turn-around time it can take for radiologists to review a suspected pneumothorax, a type of collapsed lung. Currently, 62 percent of exams are marked ‘STAT’ or
for urgent reading[1], but they aren’t all critical. A prioritized “STAT” X-ray can sit waiting for up to eight hours for a radiologist’s review[1]. However, when a
patient is scanned on a device with Critical Care Suite, the system automatically analyzes the images, searching for a pneumothorax. If a pneumothorax is
suspected, an alert – along with the original chest X-ray – is sent directly to the radiologist for review via picture archiving and communication systems (PACS).
The bedside care team also receives an on-device notification to provide awareness of the prioritized cases. Quality-focused AI algorithms simultaneously analyze
and flag protocol and field of view errors as well as auto rotate the images on-device to save technologists time and simplify workflow. To further assist
technologists and radiologists, Critical Care Suite also includes an:
• On-Device Pneumothorax Alert which is flagged as soon as the X-ray image is acquired, if a pneumothorax is detected;
• AI Score from 0 to 100 in which the higher the score, the more confident the algorithm is that a pneumothorax is detected;
• Image Overlay that can be seen on-device (as well as on the Secondary Capture image sent to PACS) and has accurately localized 96% of positive pneumothorax
findings; and
• Customization of preferences which allows users to set an AI operating point (five setting options) in order to tune the performance of the system to preferred
sensitivity or specificity.

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GE Creating the Future of High-Efficiency, Net-Zero Carbon Flight
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On a quest to break the carbon barrier in commercial flight, a team of scientists at GE Research will design and develop a high-efficiency, carbon-neutral enabling
hybrid electric propulsion system that is capable of powering a commercial narrow body aircraft under the eFLITES and FLyCLEEN projects respectively. These
planes are the workhorse of the aviation industry, with more than 16,000 planes flying globally. GE Research has been awarded two projects through ARPA-E’s
ASCEND and REEACH programs, which are part of $33 million in funding the agency recently announced to support 17 different projects to advance hybrid
electric aviation systems technology. Chief Engineer for Propulsion Technologies at GE Research says ARPA-E’s programs will greatly accelerate new
developments toward a net-zero carbon flight future and notes that many of the answers can be found through innovations made in the energy space. As part of the
two projects, GE researchers will be partnering with engineers in both its Aviation and Gas Power businesses, as well as US laboratories & academic institutions,
to support new developments. The first is a $2.5 million REEACH project focused on developing a multi-megawatt power generation system that turns a carbon
neutral biofuel into electricity called FLyCLEEN (FueL CelL Embedded ENgine). The second is a $2.3 million ASCEND project that involves developing the
electric drive, or powertrain system, which converts that electricity to mechanically drive the propulsor, called eFLITES (Electric Flightworthy Lightweight
Integrated Thermally Enhanced Powertrain System). The projects with ARPA-E will build upon other efforts underway by GE Research and GE Aviation to
promote hybrid electric systems. Last year, GE Research announced a $12 million program with NASA to develop a next generation inverter that meets the size,
power, efficiency and altitude requirements specified by NASA for flight applications. The inverter is a central component of an electric aircraft propulsion system
that provides power to drive the electric motor.

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WGI and GE aim to bring literacy to millions through launch of new education platform
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The WGI Worldwide Company and GE announced the launch of Lyra, a new app-based education platform that uses innovative advanced speech recognition and
touch screen analysis to teach reading and writing. It was co-developed by WGI and GE. The app represents the start of WGI’s transition to a digital provider of
literacy learning, and makes learning literacy skills more accessible for both adults and children. The app’s 26 modules are based on the evidence-based synthetic
phonics approach to literacy and build on the foundation of WGI’s six years of in-person education. Globally, more than 700 million people cannot read or write.
This limits their ability to gain employment, improve their career prospects, or pursue higher education. It also can have a far-reaching impact on mental health.
Lyra now offers a solution for all of them. The Lyra app features an engaging space-themed interface and user experience. The theme reflects the name of the app
– Lyra, which is the brightest constellation in the night sky. The app teaches letters and words by presenting them on the screen, pronouncing them, and then
inviting users to say the letters and words out loud. Powerful voice recognition technology then analyzes the response. The app also uses the phone’s touch screen
to prompt learners to write the letters or words they are studying, then analyzes the results to tell them whether or not the writing is correct. WGI and GE are poised
to continue their partnership by working on developing new versions of the app to provide literacy lessons in other languages. Currently, the app provides more
than two years’ worth of English language literacy lessons and is designed for those who speak English, whether as a first language or as a foreign language, but
can’t read or write it. It is available for download now on the Apple and Android app stores as Lyra by WGI.

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Honeywell Uses Blockchain To Digitize Aircraft Records, Parts Pedigree Data
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For decades, aerospace companies and their customers have drowned in cumbersome documentation processes and storage mechanisms. Honeywell is solving
those problems by fully integrating aircraft record generation into its digital blockchain ledger. This provides Honeywell's customers with an easy way to search
and retrieve scattered data through a simple user interface, creating a level of speed and efficiency never before available in the aerospace industry. Quick and easy
access to this data is critical for airlines because most use dozens of repair facilities, and the paperwork from each is not integrated. Additionally, airlines and
operators commonly deal with lost, printed paperwork associated with a part. This paperwork, or "trace documents," are critical to maintaining the value of a part's
worth. Honeywell's blockchain is a secure, decentralized database crowd-sourced by all its authorized users. Each user that Honeywell allows has a copy of the
database and knows its contents in real time. Instead of storing only PDF documents or a reference to the digital aircraft record, Honeywell now stores the actual
form data "on chain." This data is used to re-construct aircraft records, including records that prove the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has certified that
aircraft parts are safe to fly. These records can be accessed by customers, and in the case where paperwork is missing, customers can simply input the part number
and serial number and the user interface will retrieve the data from the blockchain and "rebuild" the missing document.

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DRIVE
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Robotaxi startup Voyage introduced its third-generation vehicle, the G3, this week. The autonomous vehicle, a Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan retrofitted with
self-driving technology, is the company’s first designed to operate without a driver and is equipped with an ambulance-grade ultraviolet light disinfectant system
to keep passengers healthy. The new vehicles use the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Pegasus compute platform to enable the startup’s self-driving AI for robust perception
and planning. The automotive-grade platform delivers safety to the core of Voyage’s autonomous fleet. Given the enclosed space and the proximity of the driver
and passengers, ride-hailing currently poses a major risk in a COVID-19 world. By implementing a disinfecting system alongside driverless technology, Voyage
is ensuring self-driving cars will continue to develop as a safer, more efficient alternative to everyday mobility. The G3 vehicle uses an ultraviolet-C system from
automotive supplier GHSP to destroy pathogens in the vehicle between rides. UV-C works by inactivating a pathogen’s DNA, blocking its reproductive cycle. It’s
been proven to be up to 99.9 percent effective and is commonly used to sterilize ambulances and hospital rooms. The G3 is production-ready and currently testing
on public roads in San Jose, Calif., with production vehicles planned to come out next year. Voyage has been using the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX platform in its
previous-generation vehicles to power its Shield automatic emergency braking system. With the G3, the startup is unleashing the 320 TOPS of performance from
NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Pegasus to process sensor data and run diverse and redundant deep neural networks simultaneously for driverless operation. Voyage’s
onboard computers are automotive grade and safety certified, built to handle the harsh vehicle environment for safe daily operation.

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NVIDIA Delivers Greatest-Ever Generational Leap with GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
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NVIDIA unveiled its GeForce RTX™ 30 Series GPUs, powered by the NVIDIAAmpere architecture, which delivers the greatest-ever generational leap in GeForce® history.
Smashing performance records, the GeForce RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070 GPUs offer up to 2x the performance and 1.9x the power efficiency over the previous Turing-based
generation. Marvels of NVIDIA Ampere Architecture - 2nd Generation RTX Enabling the blistering performance of the new RTX 30 Series GPUs and the NVIDIA Ampere
architecture are cutting-edge technologies and over two decades of graphics R&D, including:
• New streaming multiprocessors: The building block for the world’s fastest, most efficient GPU, delivering 2x the FP32 throughput of the previous generation, and 30
Shader-TFLOPS of processing power.
• Second-gen RT Cores: New dedicated RT Cores deliver 2x the throughput of the previous generation, plus concurrent ray tracing and shading and compute, with 58
RT-TFLOPS of processing power.
• Third-gen Tensor Cores: New dedicated Tensor Cores, with up to 2x the throughput of the previous generation, making it faster and more efficient to run AI-powered
technologies, like NVIDIA DLSS, and 238 Tensor-TFLOPS of processing power.
• NVIDIA RTX IO: Enables rapid GPU-based loading and game asset decompression, accelerating input/output performance by up to 100x compared with hard drives and
traditional storage APIs. In conjunction with Microsoft’s new DirectStorage for Windows API,(1) RTX IO offloads dozens of CPU cores’ worth of work to the RTX GPU,
improving frame rates and enabling near-instantaneous game loading.
• World’s fastest graphics memory: NVIDIA has worked with Micron to create the world’s fastest discrete graphics memory for the RTX 30 Series, GDDR6X.(2) It provides
data speeds of close to 1TB/s system memory bandwidth for graphics card applications, maximizing game and app performance.
• Next-gen process technology: New 8N NVIDIA custom process from Samsung, which allows for higher transistor density and more efficiency.

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Tempered Expands Zero-Trust Software Defined Perimeter Platform to Secure Critical Infrastructure,
Distributed Organizations
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Tempered – a leading zero-trust SDP provider – announced new hardware and software designed to protect data, applications, and devices across on-premise,
remote, and cloud environments. The new version 2.2.8 software split tunnel includes improved user onboarding, Alibaba Cloud support, high-availability and
performance enhancements, and other improvements. Also announced and available immediately is the Airwall 110-Series. Tempered’s new 110-Series hardware
gateway is ideal for distributed edge deployments where secure connectivity and remote access are needed. The 110e supports ethernet, while the 110g includes
support for cellular modems for truly last-mile connectivity. Both can be deployed to protect, connect, and manage devices at the IoT edge or inside an operational
technology (OT) environment. Key examples include critical infrastructure plants, temporary COVID-19 testing and blood donation sites, election locations and
newly distributed enterprises as a result of the pandemic. Airwall uses the industry’s only truly native zero-trust approach to enable microsegmented, secure
networking for important network assets by making them invisible to unauthorized users such as insider threats, external bad actors, and even nation states – while
enabling authorized users to connect to the ‘things’ they need from anywhere in the world. Protecting critical infrastructure is vital given that 7 out of 10 breaches
in 2019 were perpetrated by external actors, according to the Verizon 2020 DBI Report. Plus, during the COVID-19 period, cybercrime has quadrupled, the
healthcare industry is seeing a rise in patient data hacks, and there have been multiple attacks on electricity grids, water systems and energy organizations.
Tempered’s enhanced technology can help proactively defend against these growing threats.

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Rakuten Successfully Completes Japan’s First Drone Delivery Demonstration Flight in Mountainous
Region with Varying Altitudes
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Rakuten, Inc., announced that the company, as a member of the Hakuba Mountain Drone Logistics Committee, has conducted a successful demonstration of
delivering supplies via drone flight beyond visual range at an altitude difference of up to approximately 1600m from Sarukuraso (altitude 1250m) at the foot of
Mt. Shirouma in Nagano Prefecture’s Hakuba to the mountain huts Hakuba Sanso (2832m) and Hakubadake Chojoshukusha huts (2730m) located at the top of Mt.
Shirouma. This trial marks the first time that supplies have been delivered by drone in a mountainous region in Japan where the difference in altitude between
takeoff and landing locations reached approximately 1600m. The month-long trial was conducted from mid-August to mid-September of this year. The goal of the
Hakuba Mountain Drone Logistics Committee, comprised of 11 companies, organizations and municipalities*1, including the village of Hakuba in Nagano
Prefecture, was to overcome challenges in delivering supplies to mountainous regions, with Rakuten being responsible for the provision of drone delivery solutions
and operations. This delivery was made over a route approximately 5km long, from Sarukuraso (1250m) at the foot of Mt. Shirouma (2932m) in Hakuba, to one
of Japan’s highest mountain huts, Hakuba Sanso (2832m) at the summit and Hakubadake Chojoshukusha hut (2730m). The drone managed to deliver peaches and
pears — fruits easily damaged by vibrations — and other supplies weighing up to 5kg without any damage. Additionally, the time for this delivery, which takes
around seven hours using traditional methods such as carrying supplies on foot*2, was reduced to around 15 minutes via drone flight. On the return trip from
Hakuba Sanso to Sarukuraso, scrapped construction materials were loaded into a delivery box and delivered back.

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WorkWave Launches Easy-to-Use Custom Digital Forms Solution to Create a Paperless Environment,
Improve the Customer Experience and Complete Sales and Service Operations More Quickly
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WorkWave®, a provider of cloud-based software solutions that support every stage of a service business’s lifecycle, announces the launch of WorkWave
Forms, an easy-to-use custom digital form management solution that allows customers to create custom forms tied directly into WorkWave platforms,
creating a paperless environment and reducing the time needed to acquire new customers and complete service orders. WorkWave Forms allows users to craft
a truly unique experience for their end customers, conforming to the way consumers want to interact, while increasing operational efficiency for both office
and field workers. Field technicians have the ability to add and complete business-essential forms, proposals, checklists, and other company-required
documents directly from their mobile device or tablet while in the field, have that information saved directly into the underlying platform database, where
the information can be used to complete sales, service, invoicing and other important activities. At the end of a busy day, the last thing a service technician
wants to do is drive back to the office to fill out or drop off paperwork. With Workwave Forms, having access anytime, from anywhere to one of the most
essential pieces of a technician’s service process will save time and resources by eliminating unnecessary paperwork, searching for information and expense.
While state forms may be mandatory and consistent from company to company, the ability to use and complete uniquely branded, customized forms can
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Inc. Magazine Unveils Its Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the
Inc. 5000
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Inc. Magazine revealed that Ayla Networks ranked within the top 10% on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s
fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic
segment—its independent small businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first
national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000. Not only have the companies on the 2020 Inc. 5000 been very competitive within their markets, but the
list as a whole shows staggering growth compared with prior lists as well. The 2020 Inc. 5000 achieved an incredible three-year average growth of over
500 percent and a median rate of 165 percent. The Inc. 5000’s aggregate revenue was $209 billion in 2019, accounting for over 1 million jobs over the
past three years. The 2020 Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2016 and 2019. To qualify, companies must
have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2016. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries
or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2019. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The
minimum revenue required for 2016 is $100,000; the minimum for 2019 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for
subjective reasons. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue.
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C3.ai Named to Constellation ShortList™ for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Cloud Platforms
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C3.ai, a leading enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software provider for accelerating digital transformation, announced that it was named to the Constellation ShortList™ for
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Cloud Platforms in Q3 2020. The technology vendors and service providers included on this list deliver critical transformation initiative
requirements and a foundation for AI-driven insights for early adopter and fast follower organizations. Following an evaluation of companies in the category, C3.ai was selected as one
of eight “solutions to know” for leaders looking to reinvent operations and digitally transform business models. C3.ai’s core technology is the C3 AI® Suite – a scalable,
production-ready enterprise AI platform that enables organizations to rapidly design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale AI applications on any public or private cloud environment.
It removes the complexities of developing enterprise AI applications by allowing organizations to integrate and unify large, fragmented data sets from disparate data stores and sensors,
and making those data available for use by machine learning algorithms for insights that improve operations, optimize supply chain operations, perform cost-saving predictive
maintenance, reconfigure distribution networks, and predict and mitigate resource risks. Artificial intelligence platforms enable organizations and individuals to build intelligent
applications based on data. The end goal is to provide the infrastructure to support contextual decisions across a range of business processes. Constellation considers the following
criteria for a complete solution. Leading providers must meet at least five out of nine requirements:
• Provides cloud-based scalable computing infrastructure
• Offers compute power acceleration
• Delivers advanced natural language processing (NLP)
• Furnishes microservices and application programming interface (API)-driven access to algorithm libraries and services
• Supports automation of processes
• Supplies supervised and unsupervised learning
• Facilitates machine learning interpretability
• Enables automatic visualization
• Facilitates a tool kit or low-code algorithm creation
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C3.ai Named to Forbes Cloud 100 for Fourth Year in a Row
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For the fourth year in a row, C3.ai has been named to the Forbes 2020 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. C3.ai
was selected for the list after a rigorous process in which the company’s market leadership, estimated valuation, operating metrics, and people and culture were
reviewed and evaluated by a judging panel of public cloud company CEOs. Despite the pandemic, C3.ai achieved substantial growth in bookings and added offices
in the U.S., Europe, and Asia in the past year. Also notable this year, C3.ai expanded a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, added Koch Business
Solutions, LP, an affiliate of Koch Industries Inc. as a customer, and announced a strategic alliance with IBM Services. “While supporting our customers through
their digital transformation journeys is a foremost priority, this recognition comes at a time when we are especially proud of the work we have accomplished to
mitigate the spread of COVID-19. First, through a public-private partnership and the expedited funding of AI-driven COVID research; and second, through the
creation of the C3.ai COVID-19 Data Lake, one of the world’s largest, unified compendiums of public COVID-19 data,” said CEO of C3.ai. “I cannot imagine a
more important use of AI and our resources than to help alter the course of a global pandemic.”
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Clarizen’s Customer Support Department Wins Its Third Gold Stevie® Award in the 2020 International
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Clarizen, the global leader in enterprise collaborative work management, announced it was named the winner of the Gold Stevie® Award in the Customer Support
Department of the Year category in The 17th Annual International Business Awards®. The International Business Awards are the world’s premier business awards
program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small – are eligible to submit nominations. The 2020
IBAs received entries from organizations in 63 nations and territories. Despite the coronavirus pandemic forcing all Clarizen employees to work from home since
mid-March, the customer support department has maintained a CSAT of 98.06% this year. That translates to 3x fewer negative reviews than the industry average.
Clarizen also reduced customer service ticket response times to an average of just over one hour – a factor of 13 faster than the industry average. Clarizen’s
customer support department also won Gold Stevie awards in 2017 and 2019. The company was not eligible to submit an entry in 2018 because support director
Joshua Santos accepted an invitation to serve as the award category’s judging committee chair. To date, the department has maintained at least a 98% Customer
Support Rating (CSAT) for 16 consecutive quarters, reaching up to 99.01% in 2019. More than 3,800 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually
every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than
250 executives worldwide who participated in the judging process from July through early September.
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Rimini Street Wins Gold Stevie® Awards for Company of the Year and Employer of the Year
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Rimini Street, Inc. a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products
and a Salesforce partner, announced it has been named a Gold Stevie® International Business Award (IBA) winner for “Company of the Year – Computer Services”
and a Gold Stevie® Great Employer Award winner for “Employer of the Year – Computer Services.” Rimini Street was also recognized with a Gold Stevie IBA
award for “Innovation of the Year – Business Services” and a Stevie IBA for “Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year.” Rimini Street garnered the
Gold Stevie award for “Company of the Year – Computer Services” in the International Business awards program for its strong financial performance and
excellence in client service through 2019, including new product and service offerings, global workforce expansion and the Company’s full-year revenue growth.
Rimini Street’s AI Support Applications platform, developed by the company’s Global Service Delivery Innovation Team, was honored with a Gold Stevie IBA
for “Innovation of the Year – Business Services.” The Company’s patent-pending artificial intelligence and machine-learning platform – the first of its kind in the
third-party enterprise software support industry – was built to drive excellence and a better support experience for Rimini Street clients, and ensure global service
delivery outcomes at scale. Rimini Street was also recognized with a Gold Stevie in the Great Employer Awards for “Employer of the Year – Computer Services”
for the expansion of its global workforce, the development of new leadership training, its talent management program and employee engagement initiatives. With
a global workforce of more than 1,300 employees and operations in 20 countries, Rimini Street continues to recruit, hire and develop top talent across the enterprise
software support industry.
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NJBIZ Recognizes WorkWave as a Best Place to Work in 2020
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WorkWave, a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions that support every stage of a service business’s life cycle, is pleased to announce it has been
named a 2020 NJBIZ Best Place to Work in New Jersey for the eighth year. WorkWave attributes its award-winning culture to the focus it places on hiring,
onboarding, and developing talented employees as well as the many internal programs it has developed to promote an exciting, challenging, and
performance-oriented culture. The NJBIZ Best Places to Work in New Jersey awards program recognizes and honors the top places of employment in New Jersey
that benefit the state’s economy, workforce, and businesses. The Best Places to Work in New Jersey virtual awards ceremony was held on Thursday, September
17th. Since the company’s last appearance on the NJBIZ Best Places to Work list, WorkWave has created a Credit Union partnership offering financial wellness
classes, formalized soft skill, leadership, and sales training, and hosted monthly company virtual happy hours and recurring town hall meetings. To help employees
reduce out-of-pocket costs, WorkWave is now offering Teledoc services to employees on their medical plan. This upgrade to their benefits package allows
employees to contact a medical professional via phone or computer for quick medical attention, reducing confusion for employees and maintaining the same high
level of quality care at a 0% increase in costs for medical coverage.
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United States Air Force RSO Selects C3.ai as Strategic AI Platform
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C3.ai, a leading enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software provider for accelerating digital transformation, announced an agreement with the United
States Air Force (USAF) Rapid Sustainment Office (RSO) to deliver and deploy the C3 AI® Suite and C3.ai™ Readiness to support predictive analytics and
maintenance across the Air Force enterprise. Predicting an aircraft weapon system’s readiness and increasing fleet availability is essential to the U.S.
military’s operational success. RSO’s Condition-Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) Program Office will use the C3 AI Suite and extend C3.ai Readiness to
deploy an AI-based predictive maintenance application for the USAF to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of maintenance processes. The RSO will
deploy this application to the HH-60 Pave Hawk aircraft weapon system and then assess further fielding to additional aircraft weapon systems. This initiative
will also lay a foundation and framework for the enhancement of RSO’s overall AI and machine learning capabilities. Since 2017, C3.ai has worked with the
Department of Defense (DoD) deploying its AI-based predictive maintenance solution. In January 2020, C3.ai announced a five-year agreement with the
DoD to deliver AI-based predictive maintenance software applications for military use. To date, the USAF has supported four prototype implementations of
the C3.ai Readiness application to more than 920 aircraft, including the E-3 Sentry, C-5 Galaxy, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
Lightning II. This latest award represents the next stage in scaling C3.ai’s predictive maintenance solution across the defense enterprise.
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KION Group relies on ESI's Virtual Reality software solution to rev up product
development
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ESI Group, world player in Virtual Prototyping software and services for industrials, supports KION Group, a global leader in industrial trucks, related services and supply
chain solutions, in the design of its product development. ESI's Virtual Reality software IC.IDO, enables them to accelerate their digital transformation and increase productivity
by reducing or even eliminating the need for physical prototypes during production processes. ESI has been supporting KION Group since 2018 in the evolution of its industrial
product design methodologies. The collaboration began at KION's Châtellerault production site for forklift trucks of its Fenwick brand and was strengthened in 2019 in
Germany with the STILL and Linde Material Handling brands. ESI is currently operating in 4 of the group's production sites in France, Germany and China. Positioned as an
agent of change working alongside KION Group’s experts, ESI is one of the companies involved in the digital transformation of the handling giant’s industrial design tool. ESI
IC.IDO Virtual Reality software enables production lines and assembly to be planned at an early stage thanks to high-end visualization. Real-time physical simulation ensures
realistic behavior of virtual, tested and approved products. This service extends to the maintenance of product components that can be evaluated even before a physical
prototype is realized. Thus, the performance of the solution, which allows a large and complex data to be visualized, opens up the possibility of testing multiple design and
product "customization" scenarios. ESI meets KION's initial need to increase productivity by reducing time-to-market and overall costs. To achieve this goal, the teams had to
reconsider the Test-and-Learn approach which consists of simulating a product and then creating a real prototype and so on until the simulated and real models match. Another
benefit is that the solution can be used by all kind of profiles within the company – not only industrial engineering experts but also marketing and sales teams. The user interface
allows multiple departments to manipulate the prototype in a fluid and intuitive way.
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GE to scale up power stability through two new agreements with Iraqi Ministry
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With growing demand for electricity, especially to meet the requirements during peak summer, the Government of Iraq is accelerating its focus on strengthening the nation’s
power infrastructure through two new agreements signed with GE. A long-term partner committed to meeting the future electricity needs of the nation, GE signed the
agreements, valued at over US$1.2 billion, with the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity to execute the power sector projects that will secure reliable power supply across the country.
Accordingly, GE Gas Power will undertake contracts valued at US$500 million for the upgrade and maintenance of key power plants in the country, which are mission-critical
to sustain the power supply of over 6,000 MW and scale up operational efficiency. Further, GE’s Grid Solutions, having secured a contract valued at US$727 million in a
landmark agreement, will reinforce Iraq’s transmission network and interconnection with the electricity grid of Jordan. In addition to delivering the scope of services, GE will
also work with multiple export credit agencies to facilitate the discussion of financing over US$1 billion for the projects. In the presence of, Prime Minister of Iraq, senior
officials of the Iraqi and US governments, the agreements were signed by Iraq’s Minister of Electricity and Vice President & CFO, GE Gas Power. The service agreement is a
mission-critical Maintenance & Upgrade Program between the Ministry of Electricity and GE Gas Power to execute the maintenance program across multiple sites in Iraq. GE
will deploy its latest technology at the sites to be identified by the Ministry such as parts, repairs and services for power plants in Basra, Mosul, Baghdad and Karbala among
others, which will maintain the supply of over 6,000 MW of power. This builds on 1.575 GW of new capacity that GE added since December 2019, and the sustained delivery
of 4.325 GW to meet peak summer demand.
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GE signs services contract to help Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport achieve higher reliability
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GE announced a new contract from District Cooling System and Power Plant Co., Ltd (DCAP), the biggest district cooling plant in Thailand, for services support for two
existing GE LM6000PD aeroderivative gas turbines that provide power and chilled water to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International airport. The service agreement will help
DCAP improve performance efficiency of the 110-megawatt plant, assure stability and reliability of the international airport’s power production and cooling system, while
reducing overall cost of ownership to the 110 megawatt plant. As the OEM of the gas turbine, GE aims to bring improved availability and performance to the plant while
performing all of the plant’s major maintenance needs over the next five years. Thailand is powered by a GE aeroderivative fleet of over 40 turbines. More than half of the units,
are under a contract service agreement with GE which positions the company currently as the No 1 service provider for GE aeroderivative technology in Thailand. “At DCAP,
we are committed to ensuring a steady supply of electricity to the nation’s international Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand’s leading transportation hub that accommodates about
64 million passengers and 1.3 million tons of cargo a year” says Director Acting General Manager “Being the OEM provider for our current fleet, we selected GE as the service
provider to help us increase the full potential of our plant assets. We know that GE has a proven track record of providing high-quality technology and services, and with this
service agreement, we trust in the company's technical expertise and its regional capabilities in engineering and technical support."
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GE Renewable Energy to integrate UK's first DC-Coupled Battery Energy Storage System at
Wykes's Chelveston Renewable Energy Wind-Solar Park
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GE Renewable Energy announced that it has been selected by Wykes to deliver a 25MW multiple hour duration Energy Storage Systems, to be integrated with Wykes’ Solar
PV plant at the Chelveston Renewable Energy Park, in the United Kingdom. The site currently operates with 60 MW of solar energy and 26 MW of wind energy, featuring GE’s
2.85 MW onshore wind turbines. Wykes will use GE’s Reservoir Energy Storage technology to add another 60 MW of solar capacity, for a total of 120 MW of solar and 146MW
from the park. The Storage system will be the UK’s first direct-DC-coupled Solar deployment where the Solar Panels and the Batteries will share a common set of power
conversion equipment. This will help improve the overall energy output of the solar-storage hybrid system while optimizing costs and increasing the overall system reliability
and flexibility. This represents UK’s first DC-Coupled Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) integrated with a Solar Plant. With the reservoir energy storage system Wykes
have full flexibility for market circumstances and future market dynamics. It allows Wykes to fully optimize the energy they generate on site optimize their grid connection
and flexibility to choose how and when the energy generated is used. The UK Government recently announced that it will make it easier to construct projects to store renewable
energy from solar and wind farms across the UK as part of its efforts to reduce greenhouse gases by 2050. There is currently 4 GW of storage projects in planning which could
power a combined 6 million homes in the UK, in addition to the 1 GW of battery storage already in operation.
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GE Renewable Energy strengthens its position in Vietnam with two projects totaling 60 MW
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GE Renewable Energy announced that it has secured two 30 MW contracts to supply a total of 12 units of GE’s 5MW-158 Cypress wind turbines to support construction of the
Quoc Vinh Soc Trang and Lac Hoa Soc Trang wind farms, located in the Mekong Delta, Southern Region of Vietnam. PowerChina Huadong Engineering Corporation will
provide full Engineering, Procurement and Construction services for the projects. The Cypress onshore wind platform enables significant Annual Energy Production (AEP)
improvements, increased efficiency in serviceability, improved logistics and siting potential, and ultimately more value for customers. The two-piece blade design enables better
transportation option improving logistics to drive costs down and offer more siting options in locations that were previously inaccessible. Each wind farm is expected to
contribute in excess of 100 million kWh of electricity annually to the national grid after once the project is fully operational by third quarter of 2021. This is the first partnership
in Vietnam with PowerChina Huadong Engineering Corporation, a long-term global EPC partner of GE. This partnership signifies the successful collaboration of the two
companies’in EPC projects bringing innovative and challenging renewable projects to advance wind energy in Vietnam and across the globe. GE continues to support Vietnam’s
energy transition by bringing the best technology since the first wind farm in the Mekong Delta, the Bac Lieu project. These two new wind projects further expand GE’s
leadership role in Vietnam providing technological support for a variety of power generation projects throughout the country. GE Vietnam has more than 1600 employees and
is the only wind OEM with a manufacturing footprint in country.
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GE Renewable Energy Brings Two More Wind Farms to Life in Turkey
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GE Renewable Energy announces that it has completed the installation and commissioning of the 53 MW Kirazli and 32 MW Meryem wind farms in Turkey. These two wind
farms are part of a bigger order made a year ago with Turkerler and RT Enerjito supply five wind farms. In total, the five onshore wind farms (Kirazli, Meryem, Sile, Pamukova
and Mahmut Sevket) feature forty-nine of GE’s 3 MW onshore wind turbines, with a total capacity of 158 MW will provide renewable energy to the region, powering the
equivalent of 183,000 homes. The Kirazli wind farm installation presented significant technical challenges as the site is located at the top of a hill and at the end of a narrow,
winding 20-kilometer rural road crossing farms and villages. GE locally produced the blades at its LM Wind Power’s wind turbines blades manufacturing site in Bergama, Izmir,
Turkey, which has more than 450 employees. GE Renewable Energy is a $15 billion business which combines one of the broadest portfolios in the renewable energy industry
to provide end-to-end solutions for our customers demanding reliable and affordable green power. Combining onshore and offshore wind, blades, hydro, storage, utility-scale
solar, and grid solutions as well as hybrid renewables and digital services offerings, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400+ gigawatts of clean renewable energy
and equipped more than 90 percent of utilities worldwide with its grid solutions. With nearly 40,000 employees present in more than 80 countries, GE Renewable Energy creates
value for customers seeking to power the world with affordable, reliable and sustainable green electrons.
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GE Awarded Equipment Contract for Taiwan Power Company’s Hsinta and Taichung Projects
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General Electric International, Inc. has been selected as the successful bidder for the 6,500 megawatt (MW) Hsinta and Taichung combined cycle power plants initiated by
Taiwan Power Company (TPC). GE will be working together with its local consortium partner, CTCI Corporation, to engineer, manufacture, and commission the combined
cycle blocks which are planned to begin commercial operation in phases from 2024. GE has been awarded to deploy its latest gas turbine technology, the 7HA.03, with its
matching steam turbine, generators and HRSG at both sites. The 7HA.03 is the best evaluated technology striking the optimal balance for power output, efficiency and
maintainability. GE will supply 10 7HA.03 gas turbines, 5 steam turbines, 15 generators, 10 heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), and additional balance of plant equipment
as part of the project scope. The award will become an order for GE following contract closure and payment which is expected within six months. The new generating units
will commence operations in phases from 2024, gradually replacing coal-fired power generating units, in line with Taiwan’s Renewable Energy Development Act (REDA)
energy policy that seeks to increase the gas-fired power ratio to 50% by year 2025. GE Gas Power is a world leader in natural gas power technology, services, and solutions.
Through relentless innovation and continuous partnership with our customers, we are providing more advanced, cleaner and efficient power that people depend on and building
the energy technologies of the future. With the world’s largest installed base of gas turbines and more than 200 million operating hours across GE’s installed fleet, we offer
advanced technology and a level of experience that’s unmatched in the industry to build, operate, and maintain leading gas power plants.
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GE to Provide Electric Propulsion Systems to Royal Netherlands Navy new Combat Support Ship
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GE’s Power Conversion business have signed a contract with Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) to deliver an energy management and electric propulsion package intended
for the new Combat Support Ship (CSS) in use at Royal Netherlands Navy. GE’s robust, proven electric propulsion technology was selected for its low noise signature, high level of
reliability and commonality with the Joint Support Ship (HNLMS Karel Doorman). One of the customer’s key concerns is underwater radiated noise, meaning strict noise and vibration
levels are imposed on the propulsion systems. Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) voltage source inverters feed robust, high-torque density induction motors, allowing high-performance
through the modern and optimized propulsion system. GE’s scope of supply includes the main switchboards for the ship distribution system, with two shore connection cubicles, the
main electric propulsion system with two shaft lines of 7.9 MW each, as well as the associated power management and remote-control systems. The ship’s Energy Management
System, which controls power generation and distribution systems, also supplied by GE, will ensure availability of electrical power in the ship network. By utilizing an existing vessel
design, that one of the Joint Support Ship (JSS) already in operation with the Royal Netherlands Navy, GE and DSNS will be able to deliver the ship in June 2024. The CSS will be
built by Damen in Romania, after which the ship’s combat management system – amongst others – will be installed in Den Helder, Netherlands. The engineering of the vessel will
largely take place in the Netherlands, with a large number of systems and components being delivered by Dutch suppliers. Once built, the CSS vessel will supplement the existing JSS,
HNLMS Karel Doorman. The CSS, by its 180-meters almost in length, will accommodate 75-persons basic crew with capacity for an additional 85 persons on-board. The CSS vessel
has capacity for two helicopters and up to twenty-five containers, it will be able to support longer maritime operations, both nationally and internationally. This increases the
effectiveness of both national and combined operations performed by the Royal Netherlands Navy.
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GE secures HA gas turbine order for the expansion of Zainskaya State District Power Plant in
Tatarstan, Russia
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GE announced it has secured an order to supply power generation equipment for a new generating block at JSC Tatenergo’s Zainskaya State District Power Plant (SDPP) located in
Zainsk, Tatarstan Republic, Russia. The new combined cycle plant will be designed and built by the Turkish engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company ENKA, as
part of the modernization project of one of the largest power plants in Tatarstan. GE will supply equipment for the project including GE’s most efficient gas turbine 9HA.02, as well
as a STF-D650 steam turbine, one triple pressure with RH Heat Recovery Steam Generator and H78 and A78 generators. Zainskaya SDPP was built in the 1960s and is one of the
largest combined heat and power plants in Russia, with a capacity of 2.2 GW. The plant connects Russia’s European energy system with the energy systems in the Urals and Siberia
regions, and generates approximately 25% of the power consumed in Tatarstan, including the Republic’s capital city Kazan. Replacing some of the plant’s outdated steam units with
the latest 9HA gas turbine technology will significantly increase the efficiency of the power plant, reduce the natural gas consumption and emissions, while also driving down the cost
of electricity. The new 858 MW CCGT power plant will benefit from the technology capable of reaching more than 64% net combined cycle efficiency. GE was recognized with two
world records for the most efficient combined cycle power plants. When construction of the new power plant is complete, Zainskaya SDPP is expected to become one of the most
efficient power stations in Russia. GE has the fastest growing H-class fleet in the industry. GE’s HA fleet has provided more than 21.5GW of power to 24 power plants globally. The
9HA gas turbine provides exceptional operational flexibility and features an innovative combustion chamber that can significantly reduce harmful emissions and lower environmental
impact. GE’s H-Class combined cycle power plants offer among the lowest emissions in the industry.
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GE Renewable Energy to supply Austrian wind farms with its Cypress Turbine
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GE Renewable Energy announced that it has been selected by PÜSPÖK Group as the supplier for two windfarms located in the Burgenland region in Austria. The 157 MW project,
which will use 30 GE Cypress onshore wind turbine units, represents important progress for GE in the country. The deal, which includes a multi-year service contract, will enable GE
to establish a service organization in the country next year. PÜSPÖK Group will operate the Cypress turbines at 5.5 MW, with a rotor diameter of 158m and two-piece blades provided
by LM Wind Power, a GE Renewable Energy business. The wind farms nominal capacity of 157 MW will generate 380 GWh of electricity per year – equivalent to the electricity
consumption of more than 85,000 households (4,400 KWh per household). The installation of the wind turbines at the project site will commence in Q1 2021 and the turbines will be
fully commissioned and operational by end of 2021. The Austrian wind market meets about 13% of Austria’s power consumption and is expected to rise within the next few years.
According to the Austrian wind power association, IG Windkraft, wind power could meet 26% of the national electricity supply by 2030. The Cypress onshore wind platform enables
significant Annual Energy Production (AEP) improvements, increased efficiency in service ability, improved logistics and siting potential, and ultimately more value for customers.
The two-piece blade design enables blades to be manufactured at even longer lengths, improving logistics to drive costs down and offer more siting options in locations that were
previously inaccessible.
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Honeywell Deploys Blockchain Technology For Label Printers To Help Supply Chains Become
More Secure
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Honeywell announced it is helping companies with complex supply chains leverage blockchain technology for end-to-end tracing, identifying and removing counterfeit parts,
improving inventory management and managing their brand reputation. Honeywell is working with iTRACE Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of supply chain security
applications for anti grey market and anti-counterfeit, to integrate product verification technology with industrial printers to provide real time verification, authentication and
track-and-trace of printed labels. The iTRACE 2DMI® solution can be easily printed, verified and registered to the blockchain directly on the Honeywell PX940v Industrial Printer,
enabling secure product authentication and track and trace to be deployed in any warehouse or production location. This new integration allows the physical printed item to be
connected to the digital ledger creating a digital twin for online authentication, adding another level of security for industries including transportation and logistics, pharmaceuticals
and healthcare, shipping and distribution centers, industrial manufacturing, automotive parts suppliers and applications that are regulated and require high precision and error-free
printing. Industry studies show the business value added from blockchain technology will grow to more than $3.1 trillion by 2030. Blockchain technologies provide new ways for value
exchange, represent assets and implement trust mechanisms. These technologies, working in conjunction, can serve as the foundation for new business and economic models impacting
major swaths of business and society.
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Kongsberg Maritime Supports The One Ocean Sustainability Project And Tall Ship Statsraad
Lehmkuhl
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One Ocean recognises that Norway, as a seafaring nation with long traditions and history, is well placed to use its knowledge and resources to create sustainable, global
solutions. Part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, a key component of the One Ocean project is a 19-month circumnavigation by the tall
ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl, with the aim of obtaining and exchanging new knowledge about the ocean. This will contribute to fulfilling the United Nations’ Sustainable
Development Goals, with a particular focus on SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 13 (Climate Action), SDG 14 (Life Below Water), and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the
Goals). Kongsberg Maritime’s relationship with Statsraad Lehmkuhl stretches back to 1981, when the vessel was fitted with a Bergen KRM-6 engine. Since then,
KONGSBERG has supported the tall ship with propulsion and power equipment – including a 370kWh SAVe Energy battery bank installed in 2019 – and, most recently,
with its market-leading digitalisation solutions. Statsraad Lehmkuhl now uses Vessel Insight for energy management and fuel consumption optimisation, the KOGNIFAI
communication platform, and a full K-Nav navigation suite with radar, AIS and ECDIS. These latest deliveries, which have a market value of around NOK 2.6 million,
bring the vessel’s systems right up to date and further improve the sustainability of its operation.
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Shell Global Solutions International B.V. Has Awarded Kongsberg Digital An Enterprise Framework
Agreement For The Supply Of Kognitwin® Energy, Digital Twin Software
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Shell has now signed an enterprise agreement with Kongsberg Digital for digital twin software to be deployed across its assets and capital projects. The
Kognitwin® Energy Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) solution will provide integration, visualization and analytics capabilities to Shell assets globally.
The solution will be supplied through Kongsberg Digital’s cloud-native Kognitwin® Energy dynamic digital twin service platform, which will integrate
and contextualize real-time sensor data, historical data, engineering information and other transactional business data across a variety of data sources,
enabling Shell to improve work processes and optimize facility performance through digitalization. When adopted, the solution will provide Shell with
the ability to access its portfolio assets from anywhere, expanding the scope of remote operations. Leading up to the award, Shell had run a competitive
tender process that consisted of several stages of competitive down-select steps. The final step of the evaluation was a competitive Proof-of-Concept,
where Kongsberg Digital’s solution emerged as the leading solution.
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Kongsberg Maritime And Massterly To Equip And Operate Two Zero-Emission Autonomous
Vessels For Asko
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Kongsberg Maritime and Massterly (a Kongsberg Wilhelmsen joint venture) have signed contracts with the leading Norwegian grocery distributor ASKO to
equip two new vessels with autonomous technology, and to manage their operations at sea. With Norwegian companies delivering around 60% of the
investment, this is a major milestone for the growth of sustainable maritime operations in Norway. The fully electric ships will replace 2 million kilometres
of truck transport, saving 5,000 tonnes of CO2 every year. ASKO – currently transporting their cargo by more than 800 trucks daily – is committed to
sustainability and is investing heavily in new technologies such as electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles. At present, road transport is the single mode of
transportation to link their warehouses on the western side of the Oslo fjord with their distribution centre on the eastern side. The new RORO (Roll on, Roll
off) vessels will replace the current solution with a zero emission transport alternative. ENOVA has supported the project – including the required port
infrastructure – with 119 MNOK, in line with the Norwegian society's commitment to reduce emissions and transfer transport from road to sea where
feasible. Kongsberg Maritime has a proven track record as an enabler for sustainable maritime logistics, and this ability has been further strengthened through
the partnership with Wilhelmsen. The vessels will be equipped with the technology required for zero emission and unmanned operation by Kongsberg
Maritime, while Massterly will ensure ship management and safe operations from their shore-based Remote Operations Centre. The two vessels will initially
operate with a reduced crew, before moving towards unmanned voyages.
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Elders Switches to Rimini Street Support for its SAP Software
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Rimini Street, Inc., a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software
products and a Salesforce partner, announced that Elders, a leading agribusiness in Australia, has selected Rimini Street for support and maintenance of its
SAP software. By switching to Rimini Street Support, Elders has dramatically reduced the total cost of maintenance and support fees for its SAP applications.
With the savings realized, Elders will invest in technology services for its branch network – primarily based in rural Australia. Elders is also able to run its
stable ERP system for a minimum of 15 years from the time it switched to Rimini Street, without being forced to upgrade their current SAP application
release just to stay fully supported by the vendor. Elders provides agriculture products and services, livestock, real estate, insurance and other advisory
services to the agriculture industry in Australia, with a focus on helping customers become more successful in their agriculture business. The company
operates out of 250+ branches nationwide. Elders began the search for a third-party support provider to improve its application support service levels. They
chose Rimini Street as their support provider based on the Company’s reputation for ultra-responsive support, and to ensure their SAP applications are
running smoothly. With the additional capacity to re-invest in IT, Elders plans to further enhance the end user experience with digital innovation, including
setting up digital support channels for their large workforce which will free up considerable time and resources for their staff.
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Rassini Automotive Switches to Rimini Street Support for its SAPApplications
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Rimini Street, Inc., a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products
and a Salesforce partner, announced that Rassini NHK Automotive (RNA), a leading automotive parts and accessories manufacturer in Brazil, has switched to
Rimini Street Support for its SAP ECC 6.0 applications. RNA plans to redirect the savings generated by migrating to Rimini Street Support for business expansion
and future innovation initiatives, including improving production management with Internet of Things (IoT) technology, deploying industry 4.0 predictive
maintenance in its manufacturing equipment, automating manual processes, and enhancing the company’s project management capabilities. RNA, a
Japanese-Mexican automotive group, is a leading provider of automotive parts and accessories across the region. The company’s products are distributed
nationally, covering passenger and light commercial vehicles equipped with coil springs, as well as pickups, trucks and buses equipped with spring bundles. With
a downturn in the automotive industry in Brazil, the company embarked on a widespread cost optimization initiative across the business, asking its department
leaders to identify and reduce fixed costs that were deemed unnecessary or non-critical to the company’s growth and survival. In addition, the company is
challenged with continuous innovation in a competitive market, which requires significant investment in engineering and new technologies. RNA’s IT department
had already been operating with a lean structure internally, but as it carried out its cost optimization due diligence, the support and maintenance costs for their SAP
system were immediately flagged. In addition, RNA’s CIO noted that the support provided by the vendor was not only expensive, with no new perceived innovation
or enhancements in the product releases to justify the high costs, but the vendor’s support was unsatisfactory as well. All of these reasons led RNA to explore
third-party support as an option, and ultimately the company chose Rimini Street Support.
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FP Corporation Switches to Rimini Street Support for its SAPApplications
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Rimini Street, Inc., a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products
and a Salesforce partner, announced that FP Corporation (FPCO), the largest maker of plastic food containers and related packaging materials in Japan, has
switched to Rimini Street Support for the company’s SAP ECC 6.0 applications. By switching to Rimini Street, FPCO reduced the cost of its annual software
support fees by 50% and deferred a costly migration to S/4HANA while the company evaluates options over time for its next-generation ERP platform. Under
Rimini Street third-party support, FPCO can run its existing SAP applications for at least 15 years from the time that it switched support providers, with no required
upgrades or migrations. Established in 1962, FPCO focuses on utilizing technology to maintain its leadership position in the manufacturing and marketing of
disposable food containers in Japan. In 2015, the company was recognized as a “Competitive IT Strategy Company” by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange for successfully implementing a supply chain infrastructure network across Japan, with supply chain management
enterprise software at its core. The strategy was implemented to organically connect and advance FPCO’s development capabilities, purchasing power,
manufacturing capacity, distribution, recycling and information networks to ultimately improve its customer service levels. As part of this strategy, FPCO relies
heavily on its stable and mature SAP platform, which has been highly customized with many add-ons to meet its unique operational and business needs. After SAP
raised its annual maintenance fees, FPCO reassessed the value of SAP support fees and realized it could no longer justify the costs to remain supported by the
vendor. FPCO then evaluated third-party support to optimize costs and maximize the ROI for its SAP environment.
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Hyundai-Kia Motors Expands Use of Rimini Street Support for its Oracle Database Software To
Include All Overseas Branches And Affiliates Worldwide
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Rimini Street, Inc., a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce
partner, announced that Hyundai-Kia Motors expanded its support agreement with Rimini Street for its Oracle Database software to include all of its affiliates and offices overseas.
Hyundai-Kia Motors, a leading global auto manufacturer, switched from Oracle to Rimini Street Support in 2019 and increased the agreement based on the company’s high satisfaction
with Rimini Street’s support services and the positive impact it has made to its business. With the time, costs and resources saved by switching to Rimini Street Support, Hyundai-Kia
Motors was able to reinvest its significant support and maintenance savings into funding innovation projects – including autonomous driving and vehicle connectivity and electrization
– to drive growth in a fiercely competitive automotive market. Hyundai-Kia Motors initially selected Rimini Street for support of its Oracle Database as the maintenance and support
spend consumed a significant sum of their entire IT operations budget. The company then expanded support beyond Oracle Database software after being highly satisfied with Rimini
Street’s premium quality support services. Now Hyundai-Kia Motors is expanding the use of Rimini Street Support globally to 20 of its group affiliates and offices – located in the
United States, South America, Europe and the Middle East – to reduce maintenance costs further and receive better quality support in these locations as well. Hyundai-Kia Motors can
continue to leverage its mission-critical Oracle Database software for a minimum of 15 years from the time that they switched to Rimini Street Support without costly and unnecessary
upgrades. Rimini Street supports Oracle Database clients around the world with implementations ranging from a single server to large, complex environments with thousands of global
database instances. All Rimini Street clients are assigned a Primary Support Engineer (PSE), backed by a team of functional and technical experts with an average of 15 years’
experience in the client’s specific enterprise software system.
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Vedacit Boosts Innovation with Savings from Switching its Oracle JD Edwards and Database
Software to Rimini Street Support
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Rimini Street, Inc., a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce
partner, announced that Vedacit, a leading manufacturer of construction products based in Brazil, switched to Rimini Street for support of its Oracle JD Edwards and Database software.
By switching to Rimini Street Support, Vedacit was able to free up significant IT budget to drive innovation projects and support its corporate initiative to double revenue by 2023.
Specifically, Vedacit leveraged its savings to help fund five product development startups through Vedacit Labs, the company’s innovation incubator that accelerates startups and
pioneers ideas for the civil construction industry. Founded in 1936, Vedacit manufactures construction products – such as waterproofing additives for concrete and mortar, adhesives,
and asphalt paints – in its São Paulo and Salvador production centers in Brazil, and distributes its products across the country and Latin America. The company’s CIO, Alexandre
Quinze, was tasked with revamping the IT department when he took office in 2018. Like many companies, Quinze discovered that Vedacit was spending approximately 80% of its IT
budget on ongoing operations and enhancements, leaving just 20% for business transformation initiatives, including investments in new technologies and innovations that support
competitive advantage and revenue growth. Under Quinze’s leadership, the organization was able to right-size this budget equation, and the proportion of the budget is closer to 60%
for IT maintenance, with 40% left over to invest in innovation.
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AVEVA Launches New Program for Industrial Channel Partners
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AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, launched AVEVA Select, a new program and name designate giving partners full access to
AVEVA’s comprehensive software portfolio. The new AVEVA Select program is designed to help customers accelerate their digital transformation agendas by
leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio across its install base. The AVEVA Partner Network boasts over 5,000 members providing opportunities
for Alliances, Systems Integrators, Distributors, Solution Providers and Technology Partners to participate in the AVEVA community. With programs designed to
suit every product and solution specialization and industry, AVEVA Select aligns to both market and technology trends helping companies simplify design,
optimize production, reduce energy and maximize performance. Its programs and support initiatives are designed to promote the variety and value of applications
developed and delivered on the AVEVA platform worldwide. With AVEVA Select, partners will be able access the entire AVEVA portfolio through the channel that
they have known and trusted, often for as long as 30 years. The program will expand AVEVA’s reach to a wider distribution of industries, outside its previous core
customer base of mid/downstream Oil & Gas, heavy chemical, power generation and distribution, to incorporate many other sectors including Food and Beverage
(F&B), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Smart Cities and Infrastructure, Mining, Paper and Pulp, Utilities, Water and Waste and Discrete industries (e.g.
automotive, electronics). The ‘AVEVA Select’ designation along with the territory they support will denote a partner capable of representing the entire AVEVA
Portfolio to customers. The expanded AVEVA Select customer base will be able to leverage their installed Monitor & Control (M&C) and Planning & Operations
(P&O) solutions from AVEVA to address new challenges, create opportunities and improve the performance of their industrial operations.
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Strategic partnership: Bosch and SAP aim to simplify corporate processes with a new
standard
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Bosch and SAP have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at simplifying digital corporate processes. The partners’ objective is to further develop a digital industrial standard that governs, for
example, the exchange and usage of company data along the value chain. This would harmonize and further automate processes, both within and between companies – thus achieving substantial
efficiency gains. Given the strength of both companies’ networks across different sectors, the whole economy stands to gain from their collaboration. The partnership holds special promise for the
manufacturing industry, and offers a particular benefit for the global automotive industry, with its highly interwoven supply chains and numerous production locations that are often still managed
individually. At the core of this collaboration is the transfer of Bosch business processes into SAP S/4HANA, SAP’s software suite for enterprise resource planning (ERP). The suite is used in the
planning, management, and administration of resources for a range of processes, including order entry, production, delivery, and invoicing. “Due to its industrial expertise and technology leadership
in several fields, Bosch plays a key role in global supply and value chains. Together we are pursuing the goal of translating this expertise into digital form, using SAP S/4HANA as a basis. In doing
so, we hope to define a uniform industry standard that will open up the advantages of the digital transformation to other industry players as well,” says The CEO of SAP SE. Process, technology, and
development experts from both companies are working closely together as they focus all their efforts on driving internal digitalization forward at Bosch. For example, the rollout and transformation
with SAP S/4HANA is intended to cut the number of ERP systems in half. In Bosch Mobility Solutions alone, the productive systems are to be reduced to just one. This will facilitate a considerable
increase in the options for real-time analysis and control optimization. With its in-depth expertise in multiple business fields and processes, Bosch will help shape the further development of SAP
S/4HANA – to its own benefit but also to the benefit of SAP’s large customer base. SAP will play a crucial role in the integration as partner and advisor, thanks to its multifaceted experience and market
leadership in managing ERP systems. The goal of standardizing and automating processes is to significantly simplify the global system landscape, continuously optimize workflows, and increase
confidence still further in dealing with real-time analysis. There is considerable potential for optimizing the exchange of requirements, planning, and needs, especially at the interfaces to suppliers and
to customers. For the first time, the latest technologies make this possible in real-time across the entire value chain and involving all parties. This leads to a permanent improvement in competitiveness
and agility, from the corporate management level all the way to production.
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Bosch and Weichai Power increase efficiency of Weichai truck diesel engines to 50
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Bosch and the Chinese engine manufacturer Weichai Power have made a huge leap forward in engine technology. The two partners have successfully increased
the efficiency of Weichai diesel engine for heavy commercial vehicles up to 50 percent, thus setting a new global benchmark. Currently, thermal efficiency for
truck engines averages around 46 percent. “In increasing the efficiency by four percentage points, we have jointly reached a new milestone. Even though the diesel
engine is nearly 130 years old, its development continues,” said Chairman of the board of management of GmbH. In addition to its common-rail system with
injection pressure of 2,500 bar, Bosch also contributed its full technical know-how in fuel injection systems. Particularly when it comes to commercial vehicles,
and above all when heavy loads have to be transported over long distances, the diesel engine will remain the preferred choice for the foreseeable future. For this
reason, Bosch and Weichai aim to steadily refine this technology with an eye to protecting the climate and environment. Bosch and Weichai, China’s largest
manufacturer of engines for commercial vehicles, have enjoyed many years of partnership. Their strategic alliance began back in 2003. Over the 17 years since,
both companies have pooled their strengths and expertise in multiple endeavors, one of which was supplying the Chinese market with powerful, energy-efficient,
and eco-friendly diesel engines. Furthermore, Bosch and Weichai collaborate in several other areas, including the mobile fuel cell and driver assistance systems.
They are united by a common objective: making commercial vehicles even cleaner, safer, and more intelligent. Bosch and Weichai’s close partnership also extends
beyond vehicle technology – to Industry 4.0, for example, and in turn, the connectivity and digitalization of factories.
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NVIDIA and Arm to Create World-Class AI Research Center in Cambridge
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NVIDIA, together with Arm, is uniquely positioned to launch this effort. NVIDIA is the leader in AI computing, while Arm is present across a vast ecosystem of edge devices, with more than 180 billion units
shipped. With this newly announced combination, we are creating the leading computing company for the age of AI. Arm is an incredible company and it employs some of the greatest engineering minds in
the world. But we believe we can make Arm even more incredible and take it to even higher levels. We want to propel it — and the U.K. — to global AI leadership. The center in Cambridge will include:
• An Arm / NVIDIA-based supercomputer. Expected to be one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world, this system will combine state-of-the art Arm CPUs, NVIDIA’s most advanced GPU
technology, and NVIDIA Mellanox DPUs, along with high-performance computing and AI software from NVIDIA and our many partners. For reference, the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku in Japan, is
Arm-based, and NVIDIA’s own supercomputer Selene is the seventh most powerful system in the world.
• Research Fellowships and Partnerships. In this center, NVIDIA will expand research partnerships within the U.K., with academia and industry to conduct research covering leading-edge work in healthcare,
autonomous vehicles, robotics, data science and more. NVIDIA already has successful research partnerships with King’s College and Oxford.
• AI Training. NVIDIA’s education wing, the Deep Learning Institute, has trained more than 250,000 students on both fundamental and applied AI. NVIDIA will create an institute in Cambridge, and make our
curriculum available throughout the U.K. This will provide both young people and mid-career workers with new AI skills, creating job opportunities and preparing the next generation of U.K. developers for
AI leadership.
• Startup Accelerator. Much of the leading-edge work in AI is done by startups. NVIDIA Inception, a startup accelerator program, has more than 6,000 members — with more than 400 based in the U.K. NVIDIA
will further its investment in this area by providing U.K. startups with access to the Arm supercomputer, connections to researchers from NVIDIA and partners, technical training and marketing promotion to
help them grow.
• Industry Collaboration. The NVIDIAAI research facility will be an open hub for industry collaboration, providing a uniquely powerful center of excellence in Britain. NVIDIA’s industry partnerships include
GSK, Oxford Nanopore and other leaders in their fields. From helping to fight COVID-19 to finding new energy sources, NVIDIA is already working with industry across the U.K. — but we can and will do
more.
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Tekla and MBS Come Together for Superior Pre-Engineered Metal Buildings
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Global construction technology leader Trimble has recently announced a strategic partnership between Tekla Structures - Trimble’s flagship product and
Metal Building Software (MBS), the globally leading software for the Metal Building Industry. Under this alliance, the two companies have built an
exclusive link between MBS and Tekla Structures that delivers a full Building Information Modeling (BIM) process for all metal buildings. The exclusive
workflow between MBS and Tekla Structures will provide a single complete BIM solution from design & costing through detailing & fabrication for any
kind of metal building more accurately, and in lesser time than ever before. Companies in the pre-engineered building industry can use this exclusive link to
first analyze, design, and weight-optimize the building framing in MBS and then seamlessly transfer the project to Tekla Structures, using the 3D model to
finalize detailing for fabrication. MBS generates engineered and detailed output in minutes. Further, Trimble Connect can be used to control the project in a
centralized manner and have various stakeholders remain connected to the up-to-date information through fabrication to the site. Trimble Buildings, a part
of Trimble's Engineering and Construction segment, is focused on solutions that optimize the complete Design-Build-Operate (DBO) lifecycle of buildings.
Trimble is dedicated to transforming the industry—increasing productivity, reducing waste and optimizing schedules, budgets and real estate
portfolios—with powerful solutions that streamline communication and collaboration. These targeted solutions enable architects, engineers, contractors,
owners, and occupiers to realize greater agility, efficiency and insight. Used in over 150 countries around the world, Trimble Buildings’ solutions are
transforming the way the world designs, builds and operates infrastructure and buildings.
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Rakuten and Tokyu Establish Joint Venture: Rakuten Tokyu Planning
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Rakuten, Inc. and Tokyu Corporation announced that they have established Rakuten Tokyu Planning Co., Ltd., a new joint venture that will provide data
marketing solutions to companies in Japan. The company opens for business on September 1, 2020. Through the comprehensive alliance formed by
establishing Rakuten Tokyu Planning, the two companies will also explore new digital marketing solutions and other business opportunities. The recent
growth of online shopping, cashless payments and shifts in the economic landscape are transforming the lifestyles and shopping habits of consumers, creating
new opportunities for flexible digital services to meet increasingly diverse consumer needs. In the midst of this change, Rakuten is uniquely positioned to
provide more than 70 services, including e-commerce and data marketing, and leverage an 100-million strong membership to offer a diverse range of
marketing options and solutions. To complement Rakuten’s online services, Tokyu offers comprehensive offline support to consumers living along its many
rail corridors featuring transportation facilities, real estate, retail and hotels. Through its multifaceted connections with its customer base, the company has
endeavored to improve the value it adds to their daily lives. Rakuten and Tokyu aim to foster new purchasing habits and customer experiences through
OMO*1 marketing techniques that combine their assets by harnessing the data accumulated by the two companies, strengthening their marketing solutions,
applying them to merchandising in Tokyu Group stores and maximizing the ad performance delivered to advertising clients. This will allow stores to stock
their shelves according to clearly defined consumer needs and all companies to offer customized product advertising, providing consumers with a highly
personalized shopping experience.
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GE Foundation COVID-19 Community Response Grant Supports Grand Forks
Public Schools “Smart Restart” Initiative
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GE Foundation announced a $100,000 COVID-19 Community Response Grant to the Community Foundation of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks
& Region, which will support the Grand Forks Public Schools “Smart Restart” initiative. The grant will help the district offer students the
opportunity to choose face-to-face or remote learning options for the 2020/2021 academic year. The grant will allow 18 schools in the community
retrofit their spaces to better meet COVID-19 safety standards such as providing access to personal protective equipment (PPE), protective
barriers, and sanitizing supplies. The grant will also provide funds to help students access distance learning classes and support professional
development for educators as they shift to more online teaching. GE and GE Foundation are supporting the fight against COVID-19 worldwide.
GE Foundation pledged financial support to the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and Boston Resiliency Fund
and contributed to disaster-relief organization Americares to deliver 1.4 million protective masks to healthcare workers across the U.S. The
Community Foundation of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks & Region is a nonprofit, community foundation created by and for the people of the
region to encourage a spirit of philanthropy. Working in partnership with individuals, families, businesses, and trusted advisers, the Community
Foundation manages charitable funds and provides grants to qualified nonprofit organizations and causes. The Foundation has over $12 million in
assets and has granted over $7 million to create stronger, more vibrant communities within the region.
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Honeywell Donates 25,000 FFP2 Face Masks To Support Beirut Relief Effort
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Honeywell has announced it will donate 25,000 FFP2 respirator face masks to the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC), to help
support relief efforts following the explosion in Beirut earlier this month. The masks, which Honeywell expects to ship to Lebanon this week, will
provide AUBMC’s front-line staff with critical PPE as they continue to treat patients injured by the explosion amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Honeywell’s intelligent safety solutions and personal protective equipment help organizations keep their workers safe and healthy on the job. The
company’s offerings include hazardous gas detectors, safety software solutions and personal protective equipment such as gloves, protective eyewear,
respiratory protection, safety suits, hard hats and boots. Honeywell demonstrates its commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility and community
involvement through Honeywell Hometown Solutions -- a unique global corporate citizenship program that emphasizes STEM education, inclusion and
diversity, and humanitarian relief to provide significant and meaningful results in communities around the world.
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COPA-DATA CEE/ME: new subsidiary in Saudi Arabia
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In the fast-growing markets of the Middle East, COPA-DATA’s zenon software platform has become firmly established as the standard software for digitalization and
automation in the energy and utility sectors. To strengthen market coverage in the region, COPA-DATA CEE/ME, the sales organization in charge of Central and Eastern
Europe and the Middle East, recently established a permanent branch office in Saudi Arabia. Companies on all continents use the zenon software platform from
Salzburg-based Austrian manufacturer COPA-DATA to digitalize and automate machines and plant for discrete and process production as well as power generation and
energy distribution. In Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, COPA-DATA CEE/ME takes care of sales and customer support. Now, the sales organization has
established a direct subsidiary, COPA-DATA Saudi Arabia, to better serve the fast-growing Arabian market. Entering the Arabic market was eased when Saudi Aramco
certified zenon. The Saudi Arabian energy corporation valued the elevated reliability ensured by zenon multi-redundancy. The software platform from COPA-DATA, an
independent manufacturer which isn’t incorporated, also helped to make software operation and maintenance independent of original hardware manufacturers. Among
the numerous plants Saudi Aramco has equipped with zenon is a Saudi Arabian oil field with 30 substations. In 2019, zenon was the first and only independent software
platform to get approval from the power grid operator Saudi National Grid. Potential continues to be high in automating further substations and in decarbonization of
energy supply, for which the region increasingly relies on solar power. Aside of the energy sector, the software platform is also firmly established in the Kingdom in
mining and desalination applications.
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