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Carlsberg, which employs more than 40,000 people across the globe, has tapped into PTC’s Digital Manufacturing Solution Suite to boost the performance of 28 of its breweries in Europe and Asia.

Having already helped almost 250 new customers around the world to achieve their digital transformation goals, PTC and Rockwell Automation have announced the expansion and early extension of their strategic alliance.

Success in business is usually about collaboration – between customers and suppliers, between companies offering different areas of expertise, between teams. The aim is to make two plus two equal rather more than four. Inside individual companies too, success is normally about people and systems working together to common purpose to produce more than the sum of the parts.

UK manufacturing is increasingly positive about the business value of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), says PTC regional director, Kevin Asbridge: "PLM has emerged as a driver for change that can actually materially impact company performance in the way that ERP did from a cost reduction perspective in the '90s and early 2000s, and companies are extremely hungry to actually get those benefits." Kevin is interviewed here.

PTC has released Windchill 10.0, the latest version of its product lifecycle management (PLM) software with new capabilities that focus on product analytics and quality management. Windchill 10.0 has enhanced the user's ability to define, manage, and validate complete bills of material (BOMs), providing linkages across domain-specific views of product structures throughout the entire lifecycle.

Aston Martin Racing (a joint venture between Aston Martin and Prodrive) has selected and implemented PTC's Creo Elements/Pro for the 3D CAD design of its racing vehicles and PTC's Windchill for product lifecycle management (PLM) in its race car division. Aston Martin is the only manufacturer that produces a car to compete in every category of the FIA GT Championship sports car racing series. Models range from modified standard vehicles to the Le Mans prototype LMP1 Aston Martin.

PTC has released Mathcad Prime 1.0, its next generation engineering calculation software. The powerful capabilities of Mathcad coupled with its open architecture and easy-to-use live mathematical notation enable critical design processes to be streamlined, while its new task-based user interface allows engineers to focus on developing their calculations rather than formatting design documents.