CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

1 July 2008

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CIMdata in the News: Winning With Digital Manufacturing

The IndustryWeek article, “Winning With Digital Manufacturing”, focuses on the growing visibility of Digital Manufacturing as a critical area of investment for industrial companies around the world.

In this article CIMdata President Ed Miller observes

"Supported by a wide range of technologies, PLM is now regarded as a do-or-die competitive necessity," says Ed Miller, president, CIMdata. "In today's turbulent global economy companies leveraging these [digital manufacturing] solutions will likely be among the top performers in the coming years."

According to CIMdata, companies that have implemented PLM typically report ROIs that range from 100% to 300%. Miller explains that the impact of this broad PLM footprint is that many diverse, previously-isolated disciplines and pockets of automation are now being tightly integrated, with processes optimized for the entire enterprise and across the full product lifecycle.

To read the full article, click here.

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