CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
7 September 2004
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CIMdata in the News (Design News)
Simultaneously, those high-end CAD developers beefed up their own flagship products with more features, and then did something else: They changed the game by introducing PLM (product lifecycle management), a collection of software and services with CAD as one of the underlying technologies. "PLM is the big trendsetter in CAD today," says Paris Altidis, an engineer with Borg Warner Automotive.
Today, even those lower-price mid-range CAD products have some aspects of PLM as part of their feature set. And that means engineers using CAD now have more control of decisions that affect the entire product-development process than before, when they were only concerned with design decisions.
CAD, in fact, is one of the cornerstones of PLM, says CIMdata Senior Consultant John MacKrell.
The full text of this article is available at
CAD Takes On New Role (Design News, September 7, 2004)
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