Industry Summary Articles

Focus on Simulation-Driven Design Best Practices

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 15 June 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a new market research effort and invites the participation of industry in a web-based survey on the current state of digital collaboration between the engineering simulation and analysis community and other product development disciplines.

There is much discussion these days about digital transformation, model-based engineering, and simulation-driven design. The business driver is for engineers and managers across the multiple disciplines involved in product development to use interactive 3D digital models instead of static 2D drawings, spreadsheets, and...

In this free educational webinar, CIMdata will offer real-world examples based on its experience supporting companies facing decisions to stay with their existing solution or move to a new one.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA June 15, 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a free educational webinar, “Should I Stay, or Should I Go?”: The Cost, Risks, and Rewards of Moving-On from a Legacy PLM Solution. The webinar will take place on Thursday, July 8, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

CIMdata has supported many PLM program assessments and platform evaluations...

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Key takeaways:

• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturing and assembly efficiencies are coming to the fore front, driving demand for first time producible electronics.
• More sensors and their electronics on smaller PCBs now enable massive data collection for performance analytics.
• PCB Verification and Validation will benefit with more manufacturing IoT operational data collection and advanced analytics leveraging AI/ML.
• PollEx’s Unified User Interface and well-integrated analyses accelerate the electronics design and verification process including manufacturing requirements.
• Altair’s expanding electronic system modeling improves electronic and mechatronic system robustness for multiple disciplines: structural, thermal, EMI/EMC, optimization, and controls.

Products in all industries are...

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During last week’s Realize LIVE User2User virtual event, Siemens Digital Industries Software announced the release of Simcenter™ Studio, a web application that allows engineers and data scientists to create workflows in computational notebooks that enable generative engineering of complex systems. Simcenter Studio fosters innovation in designing new products by finding the best possible system architectures out of hundreds or thousands of possibilities using Simcenter’s physics-based system simulation and design space exploration capabilities augmented by artificial intelligence. Optimal conceptual design results are automatically generated to meet the user’s design requirements and specific system architecture...

This educational webinar will explain why structured content is critical for product lifecycle management.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 1 June 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Structured Content: A Critical Component of a Robust PLM Strategy.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 24 June 2021, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour. CIMdata’s co-host for this webinar is JANA, an engineering service company specializing in technical documentation.

The need to make available the right product content (i.e., manuals, guides, bulletins, etc.) in the right format to the...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 27 May 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a new eBook focused on the complex problem of managing profitability in the automotive supply chain. This eBook identifies the characteristics of initiatives, solutions, and technologies required to successfully support this critical factor for any company—assuring that their product offerings will be profitable at a winning price. This is especially problematic for automotive suppliers due to complex relationships with their primary customers, the automotive OEMs. Campfire Interactive presents an especially compelling solution suite that enables its customers to...

The webinar will consider how to ease the burden placed on engineers to produce and review technical content.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 26 May 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Ken Versprille, Executive Consultant, will lead a discussion at an upcoming webinar entitled, “Documentation completing the Digital Thread.” The webinar, sponsored by Oberon Technologies, takes place on Wednesday, 23 June, at 1:00 p.m. EDT.

As part of their product design, manufacturing companies must manufacture and deliver a large volume of associated documentation ranging from product specifications to user manuals. Though there are many...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 19 May 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a new white paper that describes the rationale, feasibility, and potential benefits of applying agile approaches to Aerospace & Defense (A&D) product development. The paper outlines the driving characteristics of A&D product development, an overview of an agile product development approach, an illustrative example of how one company applied agile development in A&D, and how Siemens Digital Industry Software’s technology and solutions enable this approach.

A&D products and systems are extremely complex, have long service lives, and must function...

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Key takeaways:

• Competitive pressures are increasing faster than ever, driving manufacturers to move beyond lean to a more value driven approach, fueled by adaptability and empowerment.
• The agile approach is well developed for software and is rapidly emerging as a methodology to develop manufactured products and respond to change by identifying and leveraging marketplace opportunities.
• Agility is a paradigm shift—TCS’ approach to Agile Product Development for Manufacturing is holistic and uses a multi-dimensional approach to guide an organization step-by-step along the journey.
• TCS’ agile approach has been matured based on the imperatives of a variety of customers...

L&T Technology Services, a leading global engineering services company, announced today that it worked with Intel Corporation to develop an outdoor smart parking solution. The solution is powered by the Intel distribution of the OpenVINO Toolkit to run AI inferencing models on Intel Xeon scalable processors and Intel Movidius VPUs. With edge AI capabilities, the solution aims to redefine the outdoor smart parking experience in public areas across the globe.

Designed for a cloud-enabled world, the solution has four key components: an operator portal that hosts user information; a mobile application for end-user interface; a digital signage module to ensure safe...