In the Stuttgart Messe International Conference Center, PTC announced a new partnership with Bosch Software Innovations, as well as a new version of its Windchill technology. The launch follows a recent alliance with General Electric, which saw PTC contribute its ThingWorx platform to GE’s Brilliant Factories initiative, as well as the closing of PTC’s acquisition of Qualcomm’s Vuforia augmented reality (AR) platform. The combination of these separate elements adds up to a more complete ThingWorx platform for PTC, and one that is being used by two of the largest industrial businesses in the world. With Vuforia (which RIoT covered a few weeks ago), ThingWorx gains a transformative machine-interaction tool that can have a transformative effect on the way remote operators…