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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Volvo Car Corporation Executive Anders Carlsson to Kick-off CIMdata’s 21st PLM Road Map™ in Plymouth, Michigan in October

Carlsson will discuss how Volvo Car Corporation plans to double its sales by 2020.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 29 July 2014 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Volvo Car Corporation’s  Senior Advisor for Virtual Manufacturing and PLM Anders Carlsson will kick-off  PLM Road Map™ 2014 with a keynote presentation that will address how a global brand with just 0.5% of the world automobile market can stay competitive.

 In his keynote address, “The Volvo Journey,” Carlsson will discuss how Volvo Car Corporation (Volvo Cars)  intends to fulfill its vision of selling 800,000 cars per year by 2020 – an increase of  nearly 100% over current sales. Volvo Cars’ future is about getting as much product to market as quickly as possible and to achieve this goal their plans call for lead time to be reduced by 50%. He will also demonstrate  how Volvo Cars’ investment in a new systems engineering architecture is critical to achieving this goal.

Carlsson is a senior advisor to Volvo Cars in the area of Virtual Manufacturing and PLM. In this role he is responsible for the Volvo Cars lead time reduction project within Manufacturing. He has been using and implementing Virtual Manufacturing solutions at Volvo Cars and within the BMW Group for over 25 years.

PLM Road Map 2014, which takes place on October 2nd, is the must-attend event for industry executives and PLM practitioners globally—providing independent education and a collaborative networking environment where ideas, trends, experiences, and relationships critical to the industry germinate and take root. It is a strategic conference focused on how companies are successfully employing PLM strategies and enabling solutions to meet challenging product development, manufacturing, and deployment issues. This year’s event will focus on PLM-enabled continuous product development and delivery for the automotive and transportation Industry and supply chain.

For more information visit http://www.cimdata.com/en/education/plm-conferences/plm-road-map-2014

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