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On January 14, 2020, Aras announced a strategic partnership with ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) that includes ANSYS licensing Aras’ platform technology. The press release states “ANSYS is leveraging Aras’ resilient platform services combined with its proven simulation domain expertise and technology for new product offerings to improve productivity and maximize business value from simulation investments. ANSYS will deliver commercial offerings for simulation process and data management, process integration, design optimization and simulation-driven data science.”

Digital Transformation Support

Aras’ open ecosystem strategy helps partners leverage and even incorporate Aras technology in their own solutions. This approach enables...

Platform powered physics-based NC program optimization.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 8 January 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of an eBook focused on CGTech’s VERICUT manufacturing program verification solution suite.

Since 1990, CIMdata has provided coverage of the CAM and Digital Manufacturing software market spaces. We are pleased to provide this eBook on CGTech’s manufacturing program verification and optimization solution suite. This comprehensive review highlights enhanced capabilities from CGTech including:

• Simulation and validation of additive and hybrid manufacturing processes
• Capabilities to examine composite materials layup processes
• Optimized toolpath recommendation
• A physics-based process optimization tool called Force
• Many other improvements...

This webinar will identify the challenges associated with PLM in the medical device industry and how they can be overcome.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 8 January 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “PLM in Medical Devices.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

To be successful, medical device companies must get to market quickly in order to benefit from the “first-mover” advantage. Some factors are outside the company’s control, for example, the work of regulatory bodies. As...

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Key takeaways:

• Siemens Digital Industries Software's 2019 Simcenter conference, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, was packed with more than 150 comprehensive customer, product update, and training sessions.
• The multi-industry applicability of Siemens' Simcenter multi-physics simulation and test solution portfolio was demonstrated by their customers throughout the event.
• The depth and breadth of Simcenter has its roots in a host of acquisitions, as well as solutions that have been organically developed and enhanced working with customers.
• The synergy between Siemens' extensive test and simulation & analysis solution portfolio was showcased, along with how they complement each other, to...

Digitally Transforming Capital Asset Creation and Operation

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 19 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new eBook focused on how PLM technology can be applied to support the design, construction, and operations of capital projects such as factories, power plants, and offshore oil platforms to enable digital transformation.

This eBook describes how Siemens Digital Industries Software and Bentley Systems have combined PLM capabilities to enable digital transformation related to capital asset creation and operation and why a lifecycle approach to capital asset lifecycle management (CALM) is important to digital transformation...

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Key takeaways:

• SAP has repositioned their digital supply chain offerings with new messaging and new capabilities.
• The SAP Intelligent Digital Supply Chain vision is much expanded since 2018, with more networks and initial integrations with Qualtrics.
• Their PLM offerings play a key role in “Design to Operate”, a core part of their Intelligent Digital Supply Chain vision, including support for the digital thread, digital twins, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending an SAP Digital Supply Chain Analyst event in Boston, MA on November 14. SAP’s supply chain leadership updated the...

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Key takeaways:

• Autodesk remains focused on their transition from perpetually licensing on-premise to subscription licensing their on-premise and growing cloud portfolios, with several important announcements at Autodesk University 2019.
• The company remains committed to manufacturing but sees their architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) business as a bigger opportunity.
• The Autodesk Forge platform ecosystem continues to grow, with over 4,000 attendees at the one-day developers conference (DevCon).
• Autodesk continues pushing the boundaries of generative design beyond geometry for additive manufacturing to new manufacturing processes, and to new applications like site design and plant layout.

CIMdata had the pleasure of...

Offering verification, simulation, analysis, and optimization of CNC machine operations.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 17 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of a report focused on CGTech’s VERICUT^® manufacturing program verification solution suite.

CIMdata has covered the CAM and Digital Manufacturing software market spaces since the early 1990s and is pleased to provide this update on the current state of manufacturing program verification and optimization. This comprehensive review focuses on the enhanced capabilities from CGTech including:

• support for additive and hybrid manufacturing,
• composite materials and processes, optimized toolpath processes,
• physics-based optimization called Force, and
• a host of...

This free educational webinar will describe how data and process flows can be organized to support digitalization.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 17 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “PLM and ERP Drive Digitalization.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

In the drive to digitalize a broad-based view is needed. Too often companies look at their issues from the perspective of siloes of information creation and use. This approach creates an environment in which it is...

The 2020 schedule will kick-off in Ann Arbor, Michigan in March.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 12 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces that the first public CIMdata Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate program of 2020 will take place at the Kensington Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan from March 2-6. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The program effectively prepares PLM professionals to address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation enabling them to help their organizations realize the benefits of PLM and its enabling technologies....