Client Profile:  The client is a partner of the industrial services conglomerate in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with services and products in the chemical industry. It has distribution chains operating across USA, the Gulf area, India, Near East, and North Africa. They cater to the needs of local and regional industries for specialty and industrial chemicals; they also provide primary support in marketing, selling and servicing of chemical industries.

​About the Company: Sparkonix India Private Limited (Sparkonix), established in 1968, is a leading manufacturer and exporter of electrical discharge machining (EDM) equipment. The company also produces special-purpose EDM drill machines and metal arc disintegrators, which are used to remove broken taps and drills. Furthermore, the company engineers a range of innovative solutions in steel rebar branding and handling, and construction technologies.

​About the Company: DCM Shriram Ltd. is a leading business conglomerate, a spin-off from trifurcation of the reputed erstwhile DCM Group in 1990. DCM Shriram has manufacturing facilities of fertilizer, chlor-vinyl, and cement in Kota (Rajasthan), India. The business portfolio of DCM Shriram comprises primarily of:

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced the latest release of its general purpose, front-loading computational fluid dynamics (CFD) FloEFD solution. Updated features in this new version include improved mesh handling, an enhanced transient solver, a more robust EDA interface, and an interface to Abaqus Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software for stress analysis. Engineers and specialists in the automotive, aerospace and electronics markets will leverage these updates to help improve accuracy and productivity.

​About the Company: Avcon Controls Pvt. Ltd. (Avcon) is a manufacturer of products, such as solenoid valves, ball and butterfly valves with pneumatic and electric actuators, gas control valves, and regulation products. The company manufactures more than 1,000 products with many variants. The manufacturing facilities are located in Mumbai and Pune. Avcon serves customers in several process control industries including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food, textiles, and cement.

Mitsubishi Electric will expand its business upgrading plants in China by launching an alliance centered on Internet of Things technology, hoping to take advantage of the government's push to modernize the industrial sector. Mitsubishi Electric aims to have about 60 companies in the network in 2016.

IBM is bringing the power of cognitive analytics to the IoT by making four families of Watson API services available as part of a new IBM Watson IoT Analytics offering. As the physical world of devices and systems are becoming highly digitized, these capabilities will allow clients, partners and developers to make greater sense of this data through machine learning and correlation with unstructured data.

The four new API services include:

​About the Company: Jyothy Laboratories Limited is a fast-moving consumer goods company founded in 1983 and located in Mumbai, India. The company has 21 manufacturing units in 14 locations across the country, including six business divisions: fabric care, household insecticides, utensil cleaners, fragrances, personal care and fabric care service.

Rockwell Automation introduced a new diagnostic reliability service to help manufacturers and industrial producers drive a streamlined maintenance strategy on mission-critical, integrated equipment lines.  The service is designed to help proactively maintain electrical and automation control equipment and lessen time-consuming, manual tasks as devices become more connected.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced the release of Centum VP R6.02, a new version of the company's integrated production control system with enhanced functionality.