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Program will take place from May 13-17, 2013 Ann Arbor, Michigan, 28 February 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that it will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Ann Arbor, Michigan from May 13-17, 2013. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership, the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution provider agnostic education and training offering available for today’s PLM professionals. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program prepares PLM professionals at several levels to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM strategy development and implementation. This assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. Additionally, the program provides intensive and extensive exposure to a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, each participant receives a CIMdata PLM Certificate and becomes a member of CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community. “We

 PDF Key takeaways: Most companies have business processes that need to leverage product information stored within their engineering or product development environments Managing and improving those processes has a significant positive impact on the business Autodesk PLM 360 provides a flexible, cost effective solution to address business processes as needed Introduction In today’s highly competitive global market, bringing compelling new products to market faster is a core strategy for success. For many companies it is critical to obtain a “first mover” competitive advantage. Global competition, product complexity, time to market, regulations, unit cost, life–cycle cost, compliance, and quality continually drive businesses to become more efficient and innovative across industries. Each year every company has a select number of initiatives in which they will invest to achieve their business goals but not all are design and engineering focused. Finding the right solutions to support these initiatives is critical to business success. One area that is crucial to success

 PDF CIMdata attended Oracle’s Value Chain Summit in San Francisco, February 4–6, 2013, along with a few thousand Oracle professionals and customers. The event was billed by Oracle as the event where you will “…learn how Oracle is helping companies transform supply chains into value chains to gain competitive edge.” According to Oracle, they designed this single event to bring together a number of related summits, including the Product Lifecycle Management Summit, Manufacturing Summit, Maintenance Summit, Logistics Summit, and the Value Chain Planning and Procurement Summit, to create a comprehensive conference that included almost 200 sessions across all of their supply chain management solution areas. For those who have ever attended the much larger, if not overwhelming, Oracle Open World, the Value Chain Summit offers a more right–sized venue to focus on solution suites of greatest importance with peers who care about the same issues and trends. The summit certainly delivered

CIMdata’s 2014 PLM Market & Industry Forum: “Moving Towards a Circular Economy: New Challenges Offer New Opportunities” Data Sheet For more information on the Circular Economy take a look at CIMdata's Essential Reading List. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has emerged as a strategy to support product and process development, enabled by software technology and services. Ideally, companies manage products from concept to retirement as part of their PLM strategy. Aiming to reduce the environmental impact of products in both production and in their use, sustainability has become a common rallying cry for manufacturers. Great strides have been made in design for the disassembly, recycling, and reuse of materials and PLM strategies and enabling solutions have played a significant role in the successes to date. But what if we could have zero impact, what if everything we took out of the ground, or created, could be infinitely reused and repurposed? This is one way of looking at the

Observe, Analyze, and Guide Business Optimization ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 26 February 2013 - CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces a new paper exploring SAP’s 3D Visual Enterprise product. Industry executives have long known that making better-informed decisions improves business results. Presenting product- and business-related information three-dimensionally makes digital content more accessible and understandable to users. When presented together with associated business data and analytics, stakeholders can better comprehend data relationships and better support their decision processes. This visual decision-making approach enables better-informed users to make more insightful judgments that deliver higher business value. For SAP and non-SAP customers alike, the SAP 3D Visual Enterprise solution affords the ability to interact with 3D images of products, business information, and facilities in order to understand what is being developed, extract information from it, and accelerate decision making within and across the full range of business domains. Decisions

CIMdata's Consultants Senior, Experienced, and Professional The core of CIMdata's business is our consulting organization. Our expertise is unrivaled and we have been leaders in the industry for more than 30 years. CIMdata consultants are senior, experienced professionals with diverse back­grounds. Having worked in manufacturing, engineering, management, and technology-based companies themselves, CIMdata consultants have a firsthand appreciation of the problems our clients face. Through their direct contact with organizations worldwide they have developed an understanding of the impact exerted by culture on business decisions, and the particular stresses that this places on organizations struggling to operate globally. CIMdata consultants employ our world-class best practices strategic PLM consulting methodology and associated tools and techniques. Their expertise is anchored in solid industry research and is proactively transferred through comprehensive educational programs. Their professionalism assures that trust and confidentiality are the cornerstones of every client relationship. CIMdata's Business Model Consulting, Education, Research: A Range of Complementary Services Since our

Part of CIMdata’s expanding coverage of the S&A segment Ann Arbor, Michigan, 20 February 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the publication of the Simulation & Analysis Market Overview Report, a module of the CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report (MAR) series. The report, one part of CIMdata’s expanded coverage of this PLM segment, includes a revamped market segmentation, a discussion of trends in the market, and profiles of the leading S&A firms. “CIMdata routinely gathers data on the S&A market as part of the PLM Market Analysis Report process. The addition of our Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council (through our 2011 acquisition of CPDA) and establishment of an S&A Practice helped us expand our definition and coverage in the broader S&A market,” stated Stan Przybylinski, Vice President of Research at CIMdata. This report is one step in documenting the results of CIMdata’s expanded coverage. Building

CIMdata co-chairs annual PLM event. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 19 February 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces participation in the annual Product Innovation (PI) Congress which is taking place in Berlin, Germany. With about 375 delegates and speakers, PI Congress is presented by UK-based MarketKey. The theme of this year’s conference is to provide insight and inspiration into product information creation, development, and management. This conference follows three previous PLM conferences held in Europe and North America. In addition to chairing and facilitating the conference CIMdata will also present a full track of speakers covering PLM in discrete industries. The first-day speakers include: Steve Wozniak, Chief Scientist Fusion-IO (Innovation, Creativity, & Technology); Brian Chiesi, Director Process & Tool System Integration, The Boeing Company (The Sky’s the Limit? Reaching for the value of PLM at Boeing Commercial Airplanes); Magnus Dahlen, Director of Corporate Engineering Process, Autoliv Inc.

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