Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday
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OT giants buying into engineering software at ~$20B scale is a bet that value will accrue where digital twins, PLM, and factory controls converge. If you sell into industrials, assume tighter coupling between design tools and automation hardware and revisit where your integrations and data rights sit in that stack.
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