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Key Takeaways

• A sustainable PLM solution is one that can meet current and future business requirements with an acceptable return on investment (ROI) via incremental enhancements and upgrades 
• A sustainable PLM solution minimizes risky, complex, and expensive “Rip and Replace” projects
• CIMdata’s PLM Enterprise Value & Integration Knowledge Council has done research on the topic of PLM investment sustainability and developed a model that can be used to assess the sustainability of PLM solution implementations within industrial companies

Introduction

CIMdata defines a sustainable PLM solution as one where the complete PLM solution (i.e., the software, processes enabled, and...

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Key takeaways:

• The global industrial equipment (IE) market is crucial for economic development and growth
• In many IE products, software and embedded electronics are providing differentiating features, and providing the most user value
• Many IE products are delivered as a service, imposing new requirements on product development and lifecycle management
• Product data used downstream to support manufacturing and services requires broad, deep, and varied content and delivery
• Some claim that these trends are driving a fourth industrial revolution

Introduction

Manufacturing is the engine that drives the global economy. Finance and other services may generate large amounts of cash, but it...

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Key takeaways:

• Autodesk held their first ever Autodesk PLM 360 user event, Accelerate 2014, in Boston, MA, a fitting location
• Customers showed their delight with the solution, supporting many varied use cases, some traditional for PLM and many extending to new areas
• Autodesk is transforming their company and their offerings to respond to overarching trends in products, and means of production and consumption
• Autodesk is thinking differently about enabling product development, and is addressing longstanding technical and usability issues in PLM in innovative ways

On September 16 and 17, 2014, Autodesk held their first ever Autodesk PLM 360...

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Key takeaways:

• A resilient, stable PLM upgrade requires an effective quality plan and a solution to ensure that the plan is adhered to
• A key part of an effective quality plan includes automated testing technology to enable consistent and repeatable validation to be performed early, supporting timely corrective action and minimizing or eliminating surprises
• SQS’s PLM testing framework is used by Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter development and maintenance groups to test and validate Teamcenter
• Major manufacturing companies use SQS to ensure the quality of their PLM upgrades and implementations

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

An enterprise PLM environment is...

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Key takeaways:

• SOLIDWORKS 2015 delivers new Model-Based Definition and top-down design solutions
• My.SolidWorks.com expanding to include two priced options that will include file transfer between users and access to online training
• SOLIDWORKS Industrial Conceptual brings a cloud-based conceptual design solution to the SOLIDWORKS portfolio

Bertrand Sicot, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS CEO, hosted a briefing with industry analysts September 5, 2014, to discuss the launch of SOLIDWORKS 2015. He noted that in 2013, SOLIDWORKS garnered revenues of US$555.1 million, accounting for approximately 20% of parent company Dassault Systèmes’ total revenue. Suchit Jain, Vice President of Strategy and User Advocacy...

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Key takeaways:

• Siemens PLM Software has made significant strides in building out their comprehensive vision for how manufacturing companies will operate in a digitized world
• Siemens is expanding its emphasis on education, working with academia and industrial companies to help students solve epic challenges to increase their interest in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
• Siemens’ SIMATIC IT organization will become part of Siemens PLM Software as of October 1, greatly expanding their Smart Innovation Platform portfolio of PLM enabling solutions to include Siemens’ discrete and process industry tools, and further enabling their top floor...