TROY ? Altair has reached an agreement-in-principle to buy EM Software & Systems ? S.A., and its international distributor offices in the United States, Germany, and China. The agreement is expected to close early in 2014. Terms were not announced. Altair is a global leader in the solver market, offering OptiStruct, RADIOSS, MotionSolve, and AcuSolve
ANN ARBOR - Servant Systems has completed new software updates to the Molly Maid Customer Care System, which the franchise software company developed in 1992 for the residential home cleaning service. Building on Molly Maid?s CCS ?Outlook Release? introduced earlier in last spring, Servant Systems has just added ?Workflow? features. These features are designed to
GALESBURG - Power management company Eaton has named Michael Omotoso senior manager, Global Automotive Market Intelligence. Omotoso is based in Southfield, Michigan, reporting directly to Tom Nellenbach, director of global marketing for Eaton?s Vehicle Group. Omotoso is responsible for leading market research initiatives for Eaton?s Automotive operations and developing related sales forecasts by region, segment,
NORTHVILLE - Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America Inc. is offering a Blu-ray player for the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs. The Blu-ray player is part of the Chrysler Group?s rear seat entertainment system supplied by Mitsubishi. The system features two 9-inch folding screens mounted on the seatbacks and a player located in the
GRAND RAPIDS - Warner Norcross led a successful $500 million acquisition for CCL Industries earlier this year that involved law firms in 23 countries ? a transaction made possible only by its membership in TerraLex, an international network of 150+ independent law firms in 44 states and 100 countries around the globe. CCL Industries, a
MUSKEGON - More than $115 million in investments are currently taking place across Muskegon County, according to local Economic Development Corporation Muskegon Area First. They recently published a list of current and recent economic development projects. This impressive list doesn't include many of the smaller investments that have recently been completed in Muskegon. The MAF
SEATTLE - Amazon is testing a delivery service that uses drones to deliver packages within 30 minutes of an order getting placed. Dubbed Amazon Prime Air, the service uses 8-propeller drones about the size of a remote-controlled airplane to transport shoebox-size plastic bins from fulfillment centers to customers' homes. The service, which still requires more
ANN ARBOR - Llamasoft has released Data Guru, a desktop data productivity tool that enables business analysts and supply chain modelers to connect to all of their different data sources in a single window, apply transforms in a powerful visual interface, and publish the resulting intelligence to any application or reporting environment, including LLamasoft Supply
STERLING HEIGHTS - The U.S. Army TACOM Contracting Command recently awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a $28 million contract for research, development and testing in preparation for the Stryker Engineering Change Proposal upgrade program. The Stryker ECP upgrade program is an engineering-development effort focused on integrating a group of
DETROIT - Comerica Bank?s Michigan Economic Activity Index grew in September, up 4.2 percentage points to a level of 129.4. September's reading is 57 points, or 79 percent, above the index cyclical low of 72.1. The index averaged 114 for all of 2012, 11 points above the index average for 2011. August's index reading was