POSPac Complete will be showcased at INTERGEO 2025, the world’s leading trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management, where Trimble is a platinum sponsor.

A redesigned software solution embedded with POSPac PP-RTX, Applanix POSPac Complete is available exclusively as an all-in-one term license that bundles essential GNSS augmentation options — single base, Applanix SmartBase post-processed VRS and POSPac PP-RTX service — into a single, transparent annual fee. This eliminates hidden costs, simplifies budgeting and ensures access to software updates, while Trimble RTX removes the need for base stations and provides global coverage.

Because Trimble RTX is embedded into the software, users around the world can attain seamless and efficient workflows with centimeter-level accuracy, even in remote or inaccessible areas, greatly increasing productivity in their mapping process. Additional time savings are gained with the elimination of the time-consuming and challenging task of setting up and managing base stations that may be in different local datums or epochs.

Additional Features in the new POSPac Complete Include:

• Modernized user interface: A new look and feel with a background map and a streamlined project wizard for easier and more efficient workflows, and a better user experience.
• Trimble IonoGuard: Trimble’s latest technology that detects and mitigates the effects of ionospheric scintillation, which is especially important during the solar activity peaks, supported in single base and PP-RTX processing modes.
• Optional add-on features available for purchase:
  • Camera QC tools: The robust successor to CalQC, providing rapid IMU to camera boresight calibration for single-head and multi-head (oblique) camera constellations with minimal user interaction.
  • LiDAR QC tools: Trimble’s leading software application for IMU to LiDAR boresight calibration and trajectory adjustment using SLAM techniques is now enhanced with support for automatic ground control point (GCP) detection, the RIEGL Lidar native file format and reduced RAM requirements for faster processing.

The POSPac Complete solution will be available in November 2025 through the Trimble sales channels.

For more information about Trimble, visit trimble.com.

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Vitale received her Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering with an aerodynamic specialization in 2001 from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and brings more than two decades of experience with Ingersoll Rand in aerodynamic performance customization of multistage centrifugal compressors.

Vitale brings deep expertise in the meanline to CFD and optimization software tool chain, along with proven leadership in R&D engineering and a track record of delivering cutting-edge new product developments in high-performance rotating machinery.

To learn more, visit conceptsnrec.com.

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As demand for reliable EV charging infrastructure grows, SICHARGE FLEX provides a flexible solution for different applications, including fleet, depot, and en-route charging. Unlike single-purpose systems, it is designed to be adaptable, supporting efficient operation and long-term value for operators and businesses.

The right power at the right outlet at the right time

SICHARGE FLEX sets new benchmarks in technical performance and operational flexibility. At its core is a pioneering fully dynamic power distribution system, which intelligently allocates power across multiple charging points based on real-time vehicle demand. This means that all power groups are routable to all outlets in all configurations, delivering the right power to the right outlet at the right time. This system offers a wide power range, from 480 kW to over 1.68 megawatt, enabling the charge points to deliver power in 80/120 kW increments. As a result, it ensures optimal and efficient power delivery to exactly where it is needed. Supporting both CCS and MCS charging standards allows for up to 4 MCS charge points to be installed with a single system. SICHARGE FLEX delivers up to 1,500 A of charging current through its MCS dispenser, enabling rapid charging for even the largest electric vehicles like heavy-duty trucks as well as electric city and overland buses.

The system also boasts an industry-leading power density, enabling high-capacity charging within a remarkably compact footprint (up to 656 kW/m2). Combined with the front-in front-out cooling system, allowing for wall placements, offering a critical advantage for space-constrained environments. Additionally, the system features the flexibility to support dispensers placed up to 300 meters away from the central power cabinet. These dispensers can also be floor-mounted with a minimal footprint (0.1 m2 for CCS and 0.2 m2 for MCS), wall-mounted or overhead-mounted in different options to flexibly fit any site.

Future-proof technology and user-centric innovation

Engineered for ease of use and long-term reliability, SICHARGE FLEX family features a user-centric design that simplifies installation and maintenance. It is seamlessly integrated with existing Siemens eMobility ecosystems. The cloud-based monitoring and management solution Sifinity Control offers operators full visibility and remote-control of their charging infrastructure, ensuring maximum uptime and operational efficiency. It enables complete configuration – from installation to display customization – tailored to specific operational needs.

For depot operators, integration with DepotFinity’s smart energy management optimizes fleet charging even under limited grid capacity, reducing the need for costly infrastructure upgrades. Combined with the dynamic power distribution of SICHARGE FLEX, this intelligent energy control lowers total cost of ownership while maintaining reliable operations.

Early market adoption and customer confidence

Even before its general release, SICHARGE FLEX attracted significant interest and commitment from key industry players, underscoring the market’s confidence in Siemens’ technology. OMV, a Charge Point Operator (CPO) and Mobility Service Provider (MSP) based in Vienna, Austria operating a network in Austria, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary, has already placed an order for the SICHARGE FLEX system. The site in Kufstein, Austria – a strategically important location along the A12 corridor connecting Germany and Italy – will be designed to serve passenger cars as well as eTrucks and eBuses. Kufstein already hosts an existing petrol station, confirming the site’s excellent positioning and accessibility for long-haul and regional traffic. In the first phase, six charging points will be installed, with a planned expansion to ten charging points following grid reinforcement by the local Distribution System Operator (DSO).

Commitment to sustainability and trust

Beyond its technical capabilities, SICHARGE FLEX reflects Siemens’ deep-rooted commitment to sustainability by enabling highly efficient energy use and optimized power utilization. Its design offers grid-balancing capabilities, further enhancing the stability and sustainability of energy networks.

Furthermore, SICHARGE FLEX is developed with Siemens’ robust “Security by Design” principles, incorporating foundational cybersecurity measures such as encryption at rest, and in transit together with secure boot to protect data and ensure system integrity.

Availability

SICHARGE FLEX was officially launched at Busworld 2025 in Brussels, where attendees experienced its innovative features firsthand. The product will be available for purchase in 2026, with Siemens eMobility poised to support customers in deploying this transformative charging solution across various applications including transportation/logistic companies, CPOs and OEMs.

E-Mobility is crucial for achieving global climate goals. Siemens eMobility is dedicated to integrating it into everyday life, contributing to a more sustainable future. Its portfolio covers all aspects of smart and efficient DC charging infrastructure, including IoT-connected hardware, software, and a comprehensive service offering – beyond hardware. It particularly focuses on the growing high-power fast charging segment – for depot and en-route applications. Siemens eMobility’s customers include Charge Point Operators, OEMs, energy companies, and fleet operators. 

For more information, visit siemens.com.

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AI-powered productivity

A Neural Processing Unit (NPU) powers edge AI, enabling the Leica TS20 to optimise workflows autonomously, identify potential mistakes before they happen, and ensure reliable measurements while safeguarding data privacy. AI-powered target search and automatic target recognition (ATR) enable the TS20 to automatically search, aim, and measure even in adverse weather conditions like rain or mist, or when working with reflective tapes.AI-Detect recognises the target type and alerts surveyors when their target does not match the type they selected in the software. AI-Follow (available as a software update post-launch) saves time by following the Leica AP20 AutoPole even when the line of sight is interrupted.

Durable, connected and protected

The world’s first robotic total station with an IP66 rating, the TS20 is protected against dust and water. The total station blends the familiar feel of traditional models with state-of-the-art components, enhancing user experience for example through:

• Advanced communication sensors: As the cloud redefines what’s possible for surveying workflows and opens up new opportunities for value creation, the TS20 has mobile internet connectivity for data sharing and IoT readiness.
• Fast, maintenance-free motors: speeds up the instrument, makes it dependable in everyday use and reduces the costs of ownership; 
• A new electronic distance measurement (EDM) system: delivers distances with higher frequency;
• And new, high-speed processors: accelerate tasks such as startup times or processing tasks. 

The TS20 works seamlessly with Leica Geosystems’ existing software and cloud ecosystem, accessories, and the AP20 AutoPole. 

Exclusive to the TS20, GeoCloud Protect offers smart safety features like remote locating and locking. TS20 operators can access the total station’s location on a map and, in case of theft, mark it stolen and lock the total station so it can neither be used or serviced. 

For more information, visit hexagon.com.

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The SuperX XN9160-B300 AI Server is purpose-built to accelerate large-scale distributed AI training and AI inference workloads, providing extreme GPU performance for intensive, high-demand applications. Optimized for GPU-supported tasks, it excels in foundation model training and inference, including reinforcement learning (RL), distillation techniques, and multimodal AI models, while also delivering high performance for HPC workloads such as climate modeling, drug discovery, seismic analysis, and insurance risk modeling.

Designed for enterprise-scale AI and HPC environments, the XN9160-B300 combines supercomputer-level performance with energy-efficient, scalable architecture, offering mission-critical capabilities in a compact, data-center-ready form factor.

The launch of the SuperX XN9160-B300 AI server marks a significant milestone in SuperX’s AI infrastructure roadmap, delivering powerful GPU instances and compute capabilities to accelerate global AI innovation.

XN9160-B300 AI server

The SuperX XN9160-B300 AI Server, unleashing extreme AI compute performance within a 8U chassis, features Intel Xeon 6 Processors, 8 NVIDIA Blackwell B300 GPUs, up to 32 DDR5 DIMMs, and high-speed networking with up to 8 × 800 Gb/s InfiniBand.

High GPU power and memory

The XN9160-B300 is built as a highly scalable AI node, featuring the NVIDIA HGX B300 module housing 8 NVIDIA Blackwell B300 GPUs. This configuration provides the peak performance of the Blackwell generation, specifically designed for next-era AI workloads.

Crucially, the server delivers a massive 2,304GB of unified HBM3E memory across its 8 GPUs (288GB per GPU). This colossal memory pool is essential for eliminating memory offloading, supporting larger model residence, and managing the expansive Key/Value caches required for high-concurrency, long-context Generative AI and Large Language Models.

Extreme inference and training throughput

The system leverages the B300 Ultra’s superior FP4/NVFP4 precision and second-generation Transformer Engine to achieve monumental performance leaps. According to NVIDIA, Blackwell Ultra delivers a decisive leap over Blackwell by adding 50% more NVFP4 compute and 50% more HBM capacity per chip, enabling larger models and faster throughput without compromising efficiency.[1] Scaling is effortless, thanks to eight 800Gb/s OSFP ports for InfiniBand or dual 400Gb/s Ethernet. These ports allow for the high-speed, low-latency communication necessary to connect the servers into vast AI Factories and SuperPOD clusters. The fifth-generation NVLink interconnects further ensure that the 8 on-board GPUs communicate seamlessly, acting as a single, potent accelerator.

Robust CPU and power foundation

The GPU complex is supported by a robust host platform featuring Dual Intel Xeon 6 Processors, providing the efficiency and bandwidth required to feed the accelerators with data. The memory subsystem is equally formidable, utilizing 32 DDR5 DIMMs supporting speeds up to 8000MT/s (MRDIMM), ensuring the host platform never bottlenecks the GPU processing.

For mission-critical reliability and sustained performance, the XN9160-B300 is equipped with 12 × 3000W 80 PLUS Titanium redundant power supplies, ensuring extremely high energy efficiency and stability under continuous peak load. The system also includes multiple high-speed PCIe Gen5 x16 slots and comprehensive storage options, including eight 2.5″ Gen5 NVMe hot-swap bays.

Technical specifications:

Market positioning

The XN9160-B300 is built for organizations pushing the boundaries of AI, where maximum scale, next-generation models, and ultra-low latency are core requirements:

• Hyperscale AI Factories: For cloud providers and large enterprises building and operating trillion-parameter foundation models and highly demanding, high-concurrency AI reasoning engines.
• Scientific Simulation & Research: For exascale scientific computing, advanced molecular dynamics, and creating comprehensive industrial or biological Digital Twins.
• Financial Services: For real-time risk modeling, high-frequency trading simulations, and deploying complex large language models for financial analysis with ultra-low latency demands.
• Bioinformatics & Genomics: For accelerating massive genome sequencing, drug discovery pipelines, and protein structure prediction at scales requiring the B300’s immense memory capacity.
• Global Systems Modeling: For national meteorological and governmental agencies requiring extreme compute for global climate and weather modeling and highly detailed disaster prediction.

For more information, visit superx.sg.

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The collaboration will focus on co-developing and delivering an AI agent platform tailored for industry-specific AI agents in sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, and robotics, along with an AI computing infrastructure that seamlessly integrates the FUJITSU-MONAKA CPU series and NVIDIA GPUs via NVIDIA NVLink Fusion. The combined AI agent platform and computing infrastructure will accelerate the AI industrial revolution with AI agents that continuously learn and improve. This will enable cross-industry, self-evolving, full-stack AI infrastructure, overcoming the limitations of general purpose computing systems.

Through this initiative, Fujitsu aims to transform industries starting in Japan, fostering widespread AI adoption that expands globally, thereby enhancing competitiveness across all sectors and

Vision for a full-stack AI infrastructure

Working with NVIDIA, Fujitsu aims to realize a human-AI co-creation cycle and continuous system evolution by integrating high-speed AI computing with human judgment and creativity. Specifically, it will accelerate manufacturing using digital twins, leverage physical AI, including robotics for operational automation to address labor shortages, and stimulate human innovation. The resulting cross-industry, full-stack AI infrastructure will deploy advanced AI to achieve transformative automation and intelligence previously unattainable.

For more information, visit global.fujitsu.

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A report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that electric car sales will exceed 20 million units in 2025, representing over 25% of global car sales. The report also states that by 2030, EVs are expected to account for more than 40% of all car sales globally. To meet this demand, automakers and EVSE manufacturers are accelerating development and deployment, but they face significant challenges:

• Fragmented system architectures across platforms increase design complexity and time-to-market.
• Lack of standardization in power conversion and charging interfaces leads to compatibility issues and higher integration costs.
• Uncertainty around future charging trends makes long-term investment protection difficult.
• High capital expenditure (CAPEX) for testing strains budgets and slows innovation.

Keysight’s expanded EOL portfolio directly addresses these challenges by offering manufacturers a standardized, unified solution that streamlines fragmented system architectures and simplifies integration across power conversion systems — including DC-DC converters, on-board chargers, and EVSE. With scalable, future-proof testing capabilities, the EV2020B and EV2020BE platforms enable manufacturers to confidently innovate across electrification domains. For end users, this translates into faster access to reliable, energy-efficient EV systems that deliver consistent performance and compatibility across vehicle platforms and charging environments.

EV2020B EV Manufacturing Functional Test Platform: Designed to adapt to the diverse and evolving needs of EV manufacturers. Whether testing a DC-DC converter, an on-board charger, or both, the platform offers customizable configurations to meet specific functional test requirements. With built-in flexibility and comprehensive toolsets, EV2020B enables manufacturers to validate performance, ensure compliance, and streamline production — all within a single, scalable solution.

EV2020BE EV Manufacturing Functional Test Platform for EVSE:Engineered to streamline EVSE testing with a unified platform that supports both AC and DC charging standards, eliminating the need for separate systems and reducing operational complexity. Its modular charging interface allows for rapid swap-outs, enabling quick turnaround and minimizing production downtime. With dynamic power sharing for the dual-gun EVSE simulation, it enables the realistic emulation of peak load conditions — critical for validating performance and optimizing energy distribution on dual-gun EVSE.

Keysight’s EOL solutions provide customers with a seamless experience from R&D to manufacturing, building familiarity and confidence in measurement practices across the entire product lifecycle. By aligning early design validation with production testing, Keysight ensures a consistent ecosystem of tools, workflows, and insights to empower manufacturers to innovate with speed and precision.

For more information, visit keysight.com.

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Trimble has been a long-term supporter of EWB’s mission in the US by providing technology donations for student chapters, financial grants for disaster relief and climate resiliency projects through its Trimble Foundation Fund, and championing STEM education initiatives. Now, the company is expanding its support to the international stage.

Collaboration’s first initiative: unlocking critical infrastructure funding in Uganda

The collaboration’s first initiative is focused on an 18-month critical infrastructure project in Eastern Uganda with EWB East Africa, focused on a unique challenge: unlocking available local government funds. Up to 70% of the population lacks access to basic necessities such as safe water, quality sanitation, reliable energy and education facilities. While local funds exist to address these issues, district parishes currently cannot access them due to a lack of necessary data, tools and engineering capacity.

Integrated technology and community engagement

The project in Uganda aims to positively impact the lives of people in the community, beginning immediately with three distinct phases.

The initial phase includes crucial preparatory work:

• Technical baseline surveys and infrastructure mapping using Trimble solutions, GIS software and drone support.
• Recruitment and training of 40 local youth enumerators to conduct a population census.

The subsequent phases will encompass feasibility and technical audits, co-design with community leaders, financial modeling and cost-benefit analysis. This information will be utilized in stakeholder presentations to attract commercial investment, including public-private partnerships.

Focus on local capacity building

A component of phase two is a hands-on ‘Buildathon’ event designed to bring together Trimble teams, customers and partners to provide rapid, practical assistance. Trimble and its education partner Panelle, which connects brands with women in business and underrepresented industries, are forming a working group to gather female leaders from construction and engineering to help shape the initiative’s direction.

For more information, visit trimble.com.

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When the history of engineering is finally written, scholars will talk about the various ages of technology, and up until now, they’ve largely concentrated on motive power. The “Age of Coal”, the “Age of Steam”, the “Age of Petroleum”, and the “Age of Electricity” are already part of the lexicon, but it’s second decade of the 21^st century, and a strong argument can be made for the “Age of Software”.

Particularly the development of the software defined machine, and nowhere is this more prevalent than in the automotive industry. Starting from simple control of electronic fuel injection through firmware maps, modern vehicles now contain hundreds of millions of lines of code, and coders now outnumber mechanical engineers in most automaker R&D departments. Vehicles are more capable, and are much more sophisticated, but the price of this advancement is complexity. Are modern cars and light trucks too complex? Jim Anderton has definite opinions.

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This technical article examines how engineers can leverage modern manufacturing execution approaches to break down silos, improve collaboration, and maintain alignment between as-designed and as-built products. The result: faster ramp-up, fewer errors, and greater efficiency.

Inside, you’ll learn about:

• Why traditional disconnected systems create delays and errors
• How visibility, integration, and automation accelerate production
• The importance of digital continuity between design and execution
• Real-time monitoring and corrective actions to keep programs on track
• Ways to prepare operations for next-gen technologies like IoT, AR/VR, and additive manufacturing

Your download is sponsored by Siemens.

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