Product Visualization Across the Extended Enterprise - 195 KB
“Cimmetry's AutoVue Enables Global Product Development”. Demonstrates the usefulness and benefits of employing visualization and collaboration solutions in all roles throughout the enterprise and beyond. A checklist of requirements of an effective visualization and collaboration solution is provided, as well as a description of Cimmetry’s AutoVue solutions.

Visualizing Product Information - 530 KB
"Cimmetry's AutoVue Enables Visualization and Collaboration"
This paper has been replaced by updated product review: Product Visualization Across the Extended Enterprise A CIMdata Product Review

Configit Software, “A Powerful Approach to Managing Complex Configurations” - 452 KB
Describes the difficulties generally associated with traditional approaches to configuration management and how Configit Software’s technology has been designed to overcome many of them.

CONTACT Software GmbH - 2.15 MB
Provides CIMdata’s overall review and assessment of CONTACT Software GmbH and their PLM solution and includes Market Position, Operations, Product and User Assessments.

PLM and APQP How PLM Supports this Key Automotive Industry Initiative - 636 KB
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and how the ENOVIA MatrixOne Automotive Accelerator™ supports it.

Dassault Systèmes – Electrical & Electronics PLM Program - 589 KB
Provides an introduction to both PLM and to Dassault Systèmes’ PLM program, with a review of their program that is focused specifically on the Electrical and Electronics (E&E) industries.

Measuring Business Process Benefits Achieved Using SMARTEAM® - 320 KB
Results of a survey of a cross section of SMARTEAM® customers to understand the improvements these companies have achieved in a number of product-related business processes.

Eurostep’s Share-A-space - 1.2 MB
Describes Eurostep’s solution and provides a review of its ability to support the real life challenges faced when working within a complex and ever changing extended enterprise across a product’s lifecycle.

ECS’ eCenter: An Enterprise Usability Solution - 2.17 MB
Exploration of new IT capabilities to gain user acceptance of and improve the quality of business processes and accelerate the speed of multi-application implementations and a review of ECS’s eCenter product with respect to these capabilities.

Using Federation to Integrate the Extended Enterprise - 565 KB
Discusses Federation services that provide convenient and rapid data access for organizations that have to conduct their product development activities in a distributed environment. A federated approach enables these organizations to automatically maintain their product information in multiple geographic locations so that it can be quickly accessed without the need for moving large blocks of information on an on-demand basis.

Leveraging Product Knowledge: Integration Enabling Product Information Re-Use Throughout the Enterprise - 210 KB
Discusses usage of Proficiency’s Collaboration Gateway to leverage product knowledge.

The Value of Rules-Driven Product Management - 170 KB
Examines Rules-driven Product Management and the way it can help organizations retain and access knowledge of products and includes results from survey of RuleStream users.

Repurposing Digital Assets "Extracting Value from Your Product and Process Data" - 630 KB
Examines Rules-driven Product Management and the way it can help organizations retain and access knowledge of products and includes results from survey of RuleStream users.

Service-Oriented Architecture for PLM An Overview of UGS’ SOA Approach - 300 KB
Description of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), its use in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution enablement, its benefits and how one company, UGS, is adopting SOA throughout its product suite.)

Teamcenter Express, “Rapid cPDm Deployment for Mid-Sized Manufacturing Companies” - 1.43 MB Describes and assesses the Teamcenter Express program for the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market.

UGS’ Velocity Series Portfolio - PLM for Mid-Sized Companies - 512 KB
Offers perspective on the Velocity program since its inception, including a status of the program as it exists and observations about its progress.

SofTech, Inc. ProductCenter™ PLM - 96 KB
Describes the role of a Mockup Visualization and Publishing (MVP) solution in the effective dissemination of product information within multidisciplinary product development teams and offers details about the capabilities of Seemage’s MVP Solutions

Digital Manufacturing in PLM Environments - 747 KB
Presents some of the experiences of companies who have been using Digital Manufacturing in the context of a broader PLM initiative to improve their product development processes.

Manufacturing Goes Digital - 223 KB
Provides a perspective on Digital Manufacturing; the pressures that motivate its use, an introduction to Digital Manufacturing and its role, and an overview of the benefits companies have experienced from its use.

The Value of Digital Manufacturing in a PLM Environment Case Study: Fiat Auto S.p.A - 346 KB
Discusses some of the benefits experienced by companies who have been using Digital Manufacturing for some time in their product development process and within the context of a broader PLM initiative with a specific focus on Fiat Auto.

The Benefits of Digital Manufacturing - 202 KB
Describes benefits achieved from digital manufacturing implementations at twelve companies in the automotive, aerospace, and shipbuilding industries in the United States, Europe, and Japan based upon research sponsored by DELMIA Corporation, a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes.

Leveraging Product Development Knowledge: "The Role of Product Data in Creating Innovation" - 341 KB
A CIMdata White Paper "The Role of Product Data in Creating Innovation". Explores how visual data solutions have evolved to provide access to all product design information in a way that is easily accessible, streamlining the work of many people and producing incredible benefits for the organization and allowing companies to exploit visual data in workflows beyond viewing and mockup.

PLM and APQP How PLM Supports this Key Automotive Industry Initiative - 636 KB
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and how the ENOVIA MatrixOne Automotive Accelerator™ supports it.

Electro-Mechanical Product Development: The Mechatronics Requirement for Automotive Competitiveness - 873 KB
Explores some of these new advances and examines the vehicle and business risks associated with implementing mechatronics into a company’s product design processes and describes how Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) can help mitigate the risks and improve the mechatronic design processes.

Immersive Product Development “An Evolving Product Development Approach that Maximizes Productivity and Leverages Knowledge” - 877 KB
Discusses new concepts and capabilities to support quality product designs more quickly.

Overcoming the Challenge of Electro-Mechanical Product Development in Aerospace and Defense - 831 KB
Focuses on how Force Transformation, the complete reorganization of warfare tactics, human resources training and deployment processes, procurement policies, and product development practices, is mandating new Aerospace and Defense (A&D) product development processes and is driving the need for effective electro-mechanical product development solutions.

Repurposing Digital Assets "Extracting Value from Your Product and Process Data" - 630 KB
Examines Rules-driven Product Management and the way it can help organizations retain and access knowledge of products and includes results from survey of RuleStream users.

Using Federation to Integrate the Extended Enterprise - 565 KB
Discusses Federation services that provide convenient and rapid data access for organizations that have to conduct their product development activities in a distributed environment. A federated approach enables these organizations to automatically maintain their product information in multiple geographic locations so that it can be quickly accessed without the need for moving large blocks of information on an on-demand basis.

PLM-Automation Market Evolution The PLM Footprint Steps onto the Factory Floor - 396 KB
Analyzes the impact on the overall PLM Market of Siemens AG’s Acquisition of UGS.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Definition - 453 KB
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Definition (Japanese Translation) - 900 KB
Describes PLM's vital role in industry to support current changes and challenges and includes a definition of PLM and an overview of how companies can benefit from PLM solutions.
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collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm): An Overview - 692 KB
Presents an overview of a collaborative approach to managing the product definition lifecycle.

Enterprise Simulation Management (ESM): An Expanded Perspective on Simulation - 486 KB
Presents the new role of product-related simulation as a visible and accessible component to significantly improve the overall product development process, pressures motivating its use and the value and future of ESM.

PLM Selection and a Company’s Business Model: Selecting the Most Appropriate PLM Solution - 451 KB
This paper provides an analysis of one of the significant challenges faced by companies in the fabrication and assembly (F&A) industrial segments as they prepare to launch a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) program. The challenge lies in determining what role their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system should play in enabling PLM.

Defining Mid-Market PDM: Companies of all sizes can take advantage of today’s PDM systems - 220 KB
This paper describes the evolution of PDM systems and their growing applicability to mid-size manufacturing companies in multiple industry segments. The paper also explains the key components of PDM that mid-size companies should care about, and how PDM can address their critical business issues. In addition, this paper explains what mid-size companies need to do to get started with PDM, and how to assess the suitability of the different PDM systems on the market.

PLM and ERP Integration: Business Efficiency and Value - 358 KB
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the business motivations for integrating PLM and ERP, factors that should be considered, and various approaches and methods that can be used to perform the integration.

Ed Miller's State of the Industry - 556 KB
Ed Miller's address on the State of the PLM Industry offering insights and analysis on the state of the Product Lifecycle Management industry.

Exchanging Product Design Data - 1 MB
To realize a complete Product Lifecycle Management(PLM) strategy in today’s highly distributed product development environments, organizations need to be able to support collaborative, innovative product definition that engages both their suppliers and their customers. The key creative tools in the PLM process are those used to develop a product's design.

The High-End MCAD and cPDm Market Segments of the PLM Industry - 292 KB
Provides a focused review of two of the primary market segments within the overall Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market: 1) High-End Mechanical Computer-Aided-Design (High-End MCAD) and 2) collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) for the discrete manufacturing industries.

PDM to PLM: Growth of an Industry - 307 KB
Describes the evolution of the Product Data Management (PDM) market of the 1980’s and early 1990’s to the comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market of today to provide a coherent record of the beginnings and growth of this important software industry and the extent to which PLM is being utilized today.