ANN ARBOR — Supply chain software developer LLamasoft has appointed two people to newly created senior executive positions: Sandra Moran as senior vice president and chief marketing officer, and Slimane Allab as senior vice president and general manager for the Europe-Middle East-Africa region.. In her new role, Moran will lead the global marketing organization to
DETROIT – Huron Capital announced its building automation and energy services platform, Albireo Energy, has acquired EMS Technologies, which builds automation and network integration products and services. The deal marks the 10th transaction for Albireo, an initiative launched by Huron Capital to provide smart building automation and energy services to commercial and institutional customers throughout
WIXOM – The Wixom-based electronics manufacturer Acromag Inc. has introduced a new single-board computer, the AcroExpress VPX6860 6U OpenVPX. Company officials said the VPX6860, pictured above, features the sixth-generation Skylake Intel Xeon E3-1505M processor and CM236 PCH chipset. Expanded memory performance comes with up to 32GB of DDR4 ECC SODIMMs that are firmly attached to the
SOUTHFIELD – Officials with the SME Education Foundation announced that applications for the SME Education Foundation scholarships will be accepted until Feb. 1. Eligible students include high school seniors, undergraduates and graduate students pursuing degrees in advanced manufacturing and related fields at two- and four-year colleges. The foundation has awarded more than $7 million to nearly 3,000
CORUNNA — Construction of a $250 million, 1,200-acre solar power farm in mid-Michigan’s Shiawassee County is predicted to begin later this year after the project proposed by New York City-based Ranger Power was approved by the Shiawassee County Planning Commission. Officials with Ranger Power said the commission’s approval of a special use permit for the
DETROIT – PlanetM, the state accelerator for the Michigan mobility industry, handed out two awards this week at Automobili-D, the mobility show spinout of the North American International Auto Show. Wise Systems, an autonomous dispatch and routing system for fleets, was named 2019 Techstars Startup of the Year, while WaveSense, developers of a ground-penetrating radar
DETROIT — Pointing to the critical role transportation plays in improving access to services and public life in communities across the state, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the final round of pilot projects to receive funding under the $8 million Michigan Mobility Challenge initiative this week at the North American International Auto Show. The Michigan
DETROIT — Wayne State University and Microsoft Corp. announced a new partnership to pilot an employability skills program. Officials with the company and the university say the program will foster job-ready, employable talent for high-demand technical positions such as cloud computing, data analytics, cybersecurity, AI engineering and more. The goal is to create economic opportunities
FARMINGTON HILLS — Farmington Hills-based 700Credit, LLC, the provider of credit reports and compliance, prescreening and consumer pre-qualification products and services, announced a new product to identify and combat synthetic fraud using a suite of synthetic identity detection rules to prevent criminals from continuing to hide behind false identities. Synthetic ID is an emerging form
LANSING — A $100,000 grant for a manufacturing business incubator at Lawrence Technological University and a $10 million loan to the city of Detroit for the demolition of Joe Louis Arena were among the business expansion and community development projects approved Tuesday by the Michigan Strategic Fund board in its final meeting of 2018. The $100,000 grant will help LTU and
