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to adopt. We have seen more customer demand for it, and as more customers demand information in a standard format the more tooling vendors adopt. We can see that this movement has been adopted by many companies, and have populated data on the machining cloud, or offer information in that format from their web site or digital catalogs. TDM supports this effort, and are TAG [Technical Advisory Group] members of the MTConnect committee that develops this standard. TDM can integrate catalogs from tool manufacturers according to ISO 13399 and GTC structure. The tool data from these catalogs can be man- aged in TDM. ME: How much progress has there been on tooling stan-
dardization efforts, like those of MachiningCloud, and NTB’s work with Siemens, Sandvik, Iscar and Kennametal on the Generic Tool Catalog [GTC]? Speidel: We see efforts in the digital space. TDM Sys- tems is following the defi nitions regarding GTC, as these companies are advancing.
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etworking equipment giant Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced its intention to acquire AppDynamics Inc. (San Francisco), a privately held application intelligence software developer, for a purchase price of approximately $3.7 billion in cash and assumed equity awards. AppDynamics’ cloud application and business monitoring platform helps companies improve application and business performance. “Applications have become the lifeblood of a
company’s success. Keeping those apps running and performing well has never been more important. Unfortunately, that job has only gotten harder, as IT departments and developers struggle with a tangled web of disconnected, complex data that’s hard to understand,” said Rowan Trollope, Cisco senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Internet of Things and Applications Business Group. AppDynamics will be led by
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