Industry Summary Articles

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Key takeaways:

• Global customers increasingly want products made just for them.
• Configure-to-Order (CTO) and Engineer-to-Order (ETO) strategies can help industrial companies deliver on this requirement.
• Many CTO and ETO companies struggle to ensure that quoted bids are actually profitable.
• Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) solutions emerged to address this important problem.
• VariSales from Variantum, a global expert in product configuration and lifecycle management, builds on their strength in configuration management across the lifecycle from product definition through life.

Introduction

Manufacturing companies today face a complex, dynamic global market with competitors around every turn. Their customers increasingly demand products that are made just for...

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Key takeaways:

• Most transformation programs fail to deliver to promise due to limited understanding of what really needs to change.
• Without taking a holistic view, true and sustainable transformation is impossible.
• Sustainable transformation requires investment in process change, system deployment, and organizational adjustment.
• Sustainable transformation results in repeatable product and process innovation, which maximizes an organization’s return on investment.
• Customer satisfaction in today’s rapidly changing economy requires sustainable transformation.
• Executing True North Enterprise Calibration™ can enable sustainable transformation.

Today’s business journals and business school literature are filled with articles about transformation initiatives of different types. Most are talking about digital...

The presentation will consider the important role PLM plays in a digital transformation and will identify the success factors and reasons why some projects fail.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 30 October 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will make a presentation at PI PLMx San Diego entitled, “Digitalization Transformation & PLM: Keys to Success & Why Projects Fail.” PI PLMx San Diego will be held at the Paradise Point resort in San Diego, California on 11-12 November. Mr. Bilello’s presentation will take place directly after lunch on day...

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It’s a case of Déjà vu. On October 23, 2019, PTC announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Onshape, authors of the cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) computer aided design (CAD) product for approximately $470 million, net of cash acquired. Onshape was founded in 2012 by CAD leaders Jon Hirschtick, John McEleney, and Dave Corcoran, inventors and former executives of SolidWorks. The industry remembers very well the dynamic entry of SolidWorks in 1993, led by Jon Hirschtick, with their Windows-based CAD solid modeling solution, only to be later acquired...

This webinar will discuss how automotive OEMs and suppliers can meet international standards for crashworthiness and occupant safety.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 24 October 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will take part in a webinar to discuss the challenges faced by the Indian automotive industry in meeting the safety standards set by the Bharat New Car Assessment Program (NCAP).

The Indian automobile market is one of the biggest in the world, with that position India also experiences a high rate of accidents. In response, the Indian Government introduced...

Leading solution providers to sponsor PLM conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden 22 October 2019—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB have today announced the key sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map and PDT EMEA 2019 conference. The participating sponsors are Aras, Configit, DPS, ESI, Quick Release, SAP, Share PLM, and Variantum. The event will take place on 13-14 November at La Renaissance Hotel, La Defense, Paris, France.

“We are excited to have these solution providers choose to sponsor PLM Road Map and PDT EMEA 2019,” stated Cheryl Peck, CIMdata’s Director of Marketing. “The vision we have for this event is...

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Key takeaways:

• Global value chains are growing more complex and expansive with every passing day. The dynamism in value chain participants, and the pace and complexity of their interactions, demands a highly secure and easy to use solution.
• Eurostep, a company known for their expertise in product data exchange standards, has offered ShareAspace, a standards-based on-premise value chain collaboration solution, for over 15 years. It powers global value chains of leading organizations like BAE Systems, Volvo, Siemens Energy, and the French Army.
• A new cloud-native offering, ShareAspace Design to Manufacturing, builds on this knowledge to support...

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Key takeaways:

• Wipro has leveraged its expertise in PLM, IoT, analytics, AR, and systems integration to enable digital twins as a promising application of digital thread.
• Wipro enables digital twins for products, processes, and factories at different levels of detail as desired by its customers.
• Wipro has broad expertise in digital twin enablement that has been proven in several industries including aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, retail, and industrial equipment.

Closed-Loop PLM Drives Product and Process Digital Twins

Internet of Things (IoT) has helped product and process developers with an unprecedented level of feedback about the performance of their...

This webinar will offer an unbiased view of today’s PLM collaboration challenges.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 October 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Ken Versprille, Executive Consultant, will take part in a webinar that will help attendees learn how to identify the problems in today’s extended enterprise collaboration process and adopt a more collaborative approach.

In this webinar, “How to Overcome your Biggest Design Collaboration Challenges,” Dr. Versprille will contribute to a discussion on the following:

• The importance behind a seamless, collaborative experience between internal teams, the supply chain, and customers.
• The biggest barriers faced...

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Key takeaways:

• Oracle OpenWorld 2019 brought together 60,000 attendees from customers and partners to their sprawling event in downtown San Francisco.
• The company is greatly expanding the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning across their expansive portfolio.
• Oracle PLM Cloud continues to evolve and grow their customer base with more and more Oracle Agile customers making the move.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) again this year. The event, held September 16-19, 2019 in downtown San Francisco, drew over 60,000 customers and partners. Just as last year, Oracle also held an expansive one-day...