Focused Consulting Practices

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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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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Accelerating PLM’s Value

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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Cut through the complexity of AI to realize measurable business value

CIMdata's AI in PLM Practice delivers strategic consulting to help industrial organizations and solution providers successfully navigate AI adoption. Drawing on over 40 years as the leading independent PLM consultancy, CIMdata provides the neutral perspective, research-driven insights, and proven methodologies needed to move from uncertainty to strategic clarity.

The practice addresses AI's application across the full scope of the PLM lifecycle, including:

• Concept Development & Requirements Management
• Systems Engineering & Design
• Simulation
• Compliance
• Analytics
• Manufacturing Process Definition
• In-Service Support

Whether you need to deploy AI solutions that deliver business results or develop AI capabilities for market differentiation, CIMdata provides the trusted path forward.

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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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Defining, Realizing, and Driving a Corporate Data Strategy

CIMdata’s Data Governance Practice supports an organization’s need to create an information framework for an enterprise-spanning communication tool that 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 and that problems associated with it will be uncovered before an analysis or decision is made based on bad data.

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.

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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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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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.

Realizing the Benefits of Model-Based Engineering through Systems Modeling, Simulation, and Analytics

CIMdata’s SDSD consulting services focus on helping organizations fully leverage model-based engineering technologies and industry best practices by integrating them into daily work processes. While many companies already see positive results using MBSE-enabling solutions in their existing systems engineering and manufacturing design processes, significant potential remains. Integrating these technologies with PLM platforms can unlock seamless, end-to-end manufacturing workflows—spanning design, engineering, bidding, fabrication, and customer service—driving efficiency and value across the entire chain.

CIMdata’s approach is to help our clients assess their current digital engineering maturity (“As-Is”), define a clear vision and objectives for future use of model-based engineering tools and processes (“To-Be”), and develop an implementation strategy and roadmap to achieve that future state. This SDSD digital engineering plan is designed with the organization’s business goals at its core, ensuring that enterprise digital transformation is a powerful enabler for innovation and corporate gain.

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Enabling the Transition to Green Energy

CIMdata’s Sustainability & 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 Sustainability & 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.

Phases of Sustainability & Green Energy Consulting Practice

CIMdata’s Sustainability & 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 sustainability and green energy supporting solutions
• Education of staff
• Organizational change management

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