Industry Summary Articles

This webinar will describe how to best drive an end-to-end business transformation approach that avoids the sub-optimization trap.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 8, 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Today’s Disruptions: Sub-optimization Is Not an Option.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, November 14, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

Sub-optimization runs rampant in most organizations. Businesses and organizational structures are defined by traditional departmental lines, limited span of control, and associated measurements that significantly hamper a company’s ability to make the transformational adjustments...

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Key takeaways:

• Industry 4.0 and digital transformation are having global impacts and Accenture is riding this wave with their Industry X.0 practice.
• To Accenture, Industry X.0 is the digital reinvention of industry, where businesses use advanced digital technologies to transform their core operations.
• Their global Industry X.0 practice has over 13,000 practitioners, and can draw upon Accenture’s 500,000+ staff, knowledge, and technology resources.
• Accenture recently expanded their vision with “Reinventing the Product,” a new book that combines their vast consulting experience with leading edge industrial research to help companies navigate this smart connected future.

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This popular PLM education program will take place in Cypress, California from December 2-6, 2019.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 26 September 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to Cypress, California from December 2-6. The program is recognized as the industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering focused on PLM and the digital transformation it enables.

The program helps prepare PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and...

This presentation will consider the digital twin as part of current engineering trends.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 September 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Frank Popielas, Executive Consultant, will make a presentation at the MEVEA Seminar entitled, “Challenges Implementing Digital Twin Capabilities and Methodologies.” The MEVEA Seminar will take place at the Scandic Helsinki Aviacongress on October 3, 2019.

Companies need to understand the various maturity levels of the digital twin to implement it properly and which industries are potential leaders in this field. This presentation will discuss the digital twin as part of...

The webinar will take a look at the new ShareAspace cloud offering from Eurostep AB.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 24 September 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, will take part in a webinar that will discuss the new cloud offering from Eurostep AB.

In this webinar, “Are you having a hard time with your supply chain & product data management?” Mr. Przybylinski will be part of a discussion that will highlight ways to:

• More easily control and manage the supply chain.
• Securely share and organize product data with multiple suppliers and partners.
• Manage...

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Key takeaways:

• Siemens PLM Software, now Siemens Digital Industries Software, a name that represents the growth of the company and the scope of its solutions, introduced Xcelerator, the new name of their integrated portfolio of software, services, and application development.
• Mendix, both an application development platform and an integration mechanism, is being widely used within and across the Siemens product suite to significantly reduce the time and cost to create personalized solutions by both Siemens and its customers.
• Simcenter Flex is a new, token-based, licensing model that provides access to any module within the Simcenter STAR-CCM+,...

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Key takeaways:

• Knowledge must be easy to record, review, comprehend, and apply.
• Knowledge is applied throughout product lifecycles and is often viewed in a comparative way (peer reviews, similar products, field failures, etc.).
• PLM/PDM/ALM systems manage resulting design throughout a product lifecycle, but institutional knowledge lasts longer than any individual product’s lifecycle.
• Knowledge has a lifecycle related to proven practices and technology application.

The application of experience, knowledge, and practice are hallmarks of any successful enterprise. When solving problems, whatever their source, one often relies on recorded, reliable, peer approved knowledge gained through experience. The practical use of...

Eleven country-specific PLM market analyses now available.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 17 September 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of ten additional country-specific 2019 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These additional reports follow the release of the 2019 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.

The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2018 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2018, and forecasts PLM investments...

This webinar will explore the need to enable frictionless operation between OEMs, their suppliers, and partners.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, September 17, 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “A Call for Collaboration Revolution.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, October 10, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

The collaborative exchange of product data among OEMs, suppliers, and other partners can best be described as tedious. Each company has different PLM solutions, versions, and customizations, and also different CAD systems and versions. Exchanging data between companies...

This presentation will discuss the need for companies to rethink their PLM solution strategy before they implement enterprise business platforms.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 September 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will make a keynote presentation at the Global Product Data Interoperability Summit 2019 (GPDIS) entitled, “Emerging Technologies & the Future of PLM Platforms.” GPDIS will take place at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak, Phoenix, Arizona, from 16-19 September. Mr. Bilello’s presentation will take place on Tuesday, 17 September.

The development and complete lifecycle management of complex, smart-connected...