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Focused Consulting Practices

Focused Consulting Practices

CIMdata’s consulting practices add knowledge, practical experience, roadmaps, best practices, and focused research about available solutions and their providers to CIMdata's established consulting services.

Additive Manufacturing

Leveraging AM into the Engineering Production Lifecycle

CIMdata’s AM consulting practice adds knowledge, know-how, roadmaps, best practices, and knowledge about available solutions and their providers to CIMdata’s well-established PLM-focused consulting services. AM is a critical new technology, but it requires different design and lifecycle considerations to maximize its value.

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AEC & Manufacturing Convergence

Adding Lifecycle Value for Facilities & Infrastructure Projects and Companies

CIMdata’s AEC & Manufacturing (AEC&M) Convergence Consulting Practice adds knowledge, practical experience, roadmaps, best practices, and focused research about available solutions and their providers to CIMdata’s established consulting services. The practice focuses on extending and connecting PLM processes to encompass and augment BIM for clients throughout the AEC and EPC value chains, including manufacturers, fabricators, architectural and engineering firms, construction firms, contractors, and owner/operators.

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Aerospace & Defense Industry

Accelerating PLM’s Value Curve

CIMdata’s Aerospace & Defense Industry Consulting Practice adds knowledge, know-how, roadmaps, best practices, focused research, and knowledge about available solutions and their providers to CIMdata’s well-established consulting services. The practice focuses on the strategic expansion of PLM within aerospace and defense (A&D) companies, as well as its extension across their external value chains and across the complete product lifecycle.

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Collaborative Innovation & Social Product Development

Better, Faster, and Efficient Innovation Leveraging the “Collective Mind”

CIMdata’s Collaborative Innovation and Social Product Development consulting practice adds knowledge, know-how, roadmaps, best practices, and knowledge about available solutions and their providers to CIMdata’s well-established consulting services. The addition of these capabilities is a recognition that the ways in which businesses and people work are changing based on “open innovation” models and strategies, and social networking technologies and techniques.

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Data Governance

Defining, Realizing, and Driving a Corporate Data Strategy

CIMdata’s Data Governance Practice focuses on the strategic expansion of PLM to provide actionable insight on where to begin and how to define, implement, and maintain data policies, procedures, and structures, as well as the requisite supporting organizational roles and responsibilities. The practice supports an organization’s need to create an information framework that is designed to grow into an enterprise-spanning communication tool that provides a blueprint and enforces rules of engagement, decision rights, and accountabilities for departmental and business unit solutions that are part of an enterprise’s data and process management foundation. As digital transformation spreads throughout business, the need for effective Data Governance is increasingly apparent. Data Governance is a discipline to ensure an organization's data can be trusted.

CIMdata’s data governance methodology recognizes that successful planning, selection, and implementation of new business strategies and enabling solutions involves an ongoing, and cyclical process that is comprised of eight phases that successfully define and implement a data governance strategy and supporting structures. This applies to every organization—whatever the industry, whatever the particular requirements or applications, and whatever the desired end result. Each of the eight phases (as illustrated below) is separate and unique. Each is equally important, and for the outcome to be successful, each requires a set of targeted activities and deliverables. CIMdata is ready to provide support during each phase.

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Phases of Data Governance Strategy Fulfillment

CIMdata’s Data Governance Consulting Practice provides end-to-end data governance guidance and strategic support in the following areas:

  • Vision, strategy, and goals definition
  • Requirements definition
  • Framework definition
  • Implementation roadmaps
  • Implementation ROI models
  • Evaluation & selection of DG supporting solutions
  • Education of staff
  • Organizational change management

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Digital Skills Transformation

Assessing, Defining, and Enabling the Workforce of the Future

CIMdata’s Digital Skills Transformation consulting and educational services are built on nearly 40 years of global experience, working and interacting with thousands of companies based on six continents. These strategic services focus on leading an organization through the assessment, definition, implementation, and continuous improvement of the digital skills of its employees.

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Green Energy

Enabling the Transition to Green Energy

CIMdata’s Green Energy Practice focuses on the strategic aspects of PLM providing companies with actionable insights, assessments, and a roadmap to transform their businesses to design, produce, and maintain more sustainable products with reduced carbon footprints and environmental impact while building business value. The transition to Green Energy and sustainability starts with the recognition that we no longer design solely for manufacturability, but instead for circularity. This is consistent with CIMdata’s belief that industrial sustainability and the circular economy definition are critical to a company’s success as we transition to a decarbonized economy. From a business perspective, we must consider the entire lifecycle, embedding the end of a product’s useful life through reuse and innovation to serve people, our planet, and profits.

CIMdata’s Green Energy Practice recognizes that successful planning, selection, and implementation of new business strategies and solutions involves an ongoing and cyclical process comprised of eight phases that successfully define and implement a data governance strategy and supporting structures. This applies to every organization—whatever the industry, whatever the requirements or applications, and whatever the desired end result. Each of the eight phases (as illustrated below) is separate and unique. Each is equally important, and for the outcome to be successful, each requires a separate list of targeted activities and deliverables. CIMdata is ready to provide support during each phase.

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Phases of Green Energy Consulting Practice

CIMdata’s Green Energy Consulting Practice provides end-to-end consulting guidance and strategic support in the following areas:

  • Vision, strategy, and goals definition
  • Requirements definition
  • Embedded Sustainability definition
  • Implementation roadmaps
  • Implementation ROI models
  • Evaluation & selection of Green Energy and sustainability supporting solutions
  • Education of staff
  • Organizational change management

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Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Developing Strategies to Support Manufacturing Systems Development

CIMdata's Manufacturing Systems Engineering practice focuses on bridging the flow of data and integrating processes between manufacturing and the design, fabrication, and operation of facilities and infrastructure to improve processes and products through the product lifecycle.

The practice covers CAM, digital manufacturing, manufacturing operations management (MOM), manufacturing execution systems, quality execution, manufacturing intelligence strategies and solutions, as well as R&D management for process industries.

Quality and Reliability Engineering

Designing for Reliability through Capture & Reuse of Failure Knowledge

CIMdata’s Quality & Reliability Engineering (QRE) consulting practice focuses on enabling “learning system based design-for-reliability” in order to deal with the complexity and the speed of evolution of software-intensive products as well as the associated challenge of low insights into potential failure modes. This calls for systems engineering to be seamlessly integrated with reliability engineering and supported by a product failure knowledge capture and reuse system. The QRE consulting practice leverages CIMdata’s established consulting services, insights, practical experience, best practices, focused research, maturity models, and roadmaps to provide guidance on how to develop dependable software-intensive products of the future.

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Simulation-Driven Systems Development

Realizing the Business Benefits of Model-Based Systems Engineering

CIMdata's SDSD consulting services concentrate on how to best leverage the full range of MBSE-enabling solutions and industry best practices by integrating these into an organization's daily work processes. Many companies are using MBSE-enabling solutions separately in their existing systems engineering and manufacturing design processes with positive impact. At the same time, a huge potential remains in leveraging MBSE-enabling technologies and processes integrated with PLM platforms for end-to-end manufacturing workflows for design, engineering, bidding, fabrication, and customer service integration across the value chain.

CIMdata's approach is to help our customers assess and understand where they stand today in terms of MBSE maturity ("As Is"), define the vision and objectives for where they need to be in their use of MBSE tools and processes ("To Be"), and help them define an implementation strategy and roadmap to get them to the desired to-be state. This MBSE plan is always developed and defined with the end objectives of the business in mind since MBSE should and must be an enabler for innovation and corporate gain.

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