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Integrating PLM into the Product Lifecycle The PLM Enterprise Value & Integration Knowledge Council (PEV&I Council) gathers and benchmarks best practices for integrating data, processes, tools, and people across all business domains that have an impact on a company’s products. This industry-wide effort focuses on the cross-domain collaboration necessary to integrate specialties to avoid fragmented product realization efforts. The council identifies and prioritizes requirements and capabilities for PLM integration strategies, best practices, and enabling solutions. PEV&I Council sponsors include both industrial companies and PLM solution providers. Two levels of membership are available: Enterprise and Individual. Research Topics Include: Progress made and critical priorities for PLM Enterprise Value & Integration PEV&I framework capabilities  High-level requirements for desktop and enterprise application integration with PLM solutions Features & Benefits of Participation: Enterprise Members Two primary contacts receive all PEV&I Council deliverables. Four secondary contacts. Redistribution rights within the company to archived reports from past CIMdata PLM Knowledge Council research. A one-hour web conference with CIMdata

Strategies to Support Manufacturing Systems Development The Digital Manufacturing Knowledge Council (DM Council) gathers and benchmarks best practices for integrating data, processes, tools, and people across the production environment. The program identifies and prioritizes requirements and capabilities for digital manufacturing strategies, best practices, and enabling solutions. DM Council sponsors include both industrial companies and PLM solution providers. Two levels of membership are offered: Enterprise and Individual. Research Topics Include: Progress made and critical priorities for digital manufacturing Digital manufacturing framework capabilities  High-level requirements for digital manufacturing process management Features & Benefits of Participation: Enterprise Members Two primary contacts receive all DM Council deliverables. Four secondary contacts. Redistribution rights within the company to archived reports from past CIMdata PLM Knowledge Council research. A one-hour web conference with CIMdata consultants to cover specific ongoing issues critical to the member company. Access to executive summaries from all PLM Knowledge Councils. Each primary contact has telephone and e-mail inquiry privileges to the DM Council’s Practice Lead. Participation in

Strategic Decision Analysis & Support for Product Development and Collaboration The Social Product Development and Collaboration Knowledge Council (SPD&C Council) gathers trends and benchmarks best practices in improving traditional collaboration methods within PLM as well as applying new social collaboration technologies to innovation and new product development.In addition to its focus on the architecture and implementation of traditional digital product modeling, the SPD&C Council explores how the new collaboration technologies, collectively known as social technologies, can be applied to product development. The SPD&C Council’s research agenda includes development of a collaboration maturity model. This model will help council members assess their current status and help them develop a roadmap to improve their collaboration culture and infrastructure. SPD&C Council sponsors include both industrial companies and PLM solution providers. Two levels of membership are available: Enterprise and Individual. Research Topics Include: Model validation Mechanical mechanisms and simulation Social collaboration in design Features & Benefits of Participation: Enterprise Members Two primary

Program will take place in Andover, Massachusetts from September 16-20, 2013Ann Arbor, Michigan, 25 June 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that it will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Andover, Massachusetts from September 16-20, 2013. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership, the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution provider agnostic education and training offering available for today’s PLM professionals. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program prepares PLM professionals at several levels to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM strategy development and implementation. This assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. Additionally, the program provides intensive and extensive exposure to a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, each participant receives a CIMdata PLM Certificate and becomes a member of CIMdata’s global PLM

 PDF Key takeaways: Technology, globalization, and innovation are remaking manufacturing and driving a new Industrial Revolution with smarter products and design-anywhere, build anywhere, service-anywhere initiatives Services innovation in conjunction with product innovation or on its own can be a compelling strategy for achieving superior competitive and financial performance PTC announces support for Creo virtualization beginning with five key apps, including Creo Parametric and Creo Direct PTC teams with Stratasys to develop a user-friendly environment for 3D printing On June 10 and 11 PTC held their annual user meeting, PTC Live Global 2013, in Anaheim, California. CIMdata attended the analyst and press portion of the event. PTC reported that overall there were about 1,900 attendees from 466 companies across the globe. The meeting is a major event for PTC’s users to gain an understanding of PTC’s continuing strategies as well as to hear other users discussing how they employ PTC’s products and services. A Compelling Vision and Strategy In

 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes has made significant progress in refining and implementing their Industry strategy Many of their new 3DExperiences key off influencers, standards groups, and existing players in some industry segments, potentially helping these solutions better fit into these industries Dassault Systèmes needs to do a better job updating the world on how their acquisitions fit into their portfolio, and how they will help move the company forward Dassault Systèmes (DS) held their annual Industry Analyst event on June 11-13 in Vélizy, France at their global headquarters. The agenda included briefings from the executive team and then focused in on their work related to their industry segments. Passionate as always, Bernard Charlès updated the analysts on the company strategy. This message has been honed over the last year, and even the last six months since the 3DExperience Forum in Las Vegas. One phrase used throughout the day (and at other recent DS events) was

 PDF Key takeaways: PTC Global Support has been re-engineered to align with customers’ needs based on extensive customer feedback PTC’s support offerings can be personalized for individual users via a new web portal, and include pro-active, social components Support is embedded within PTC software to provide quick access to traditional support features as well as the capability to provide contextually-relevant answers delivered within the application Software Support Drives Full Value of PLM Developing a product, bringing it to market, and supporting it through its operational life are at the core of a product company. Applying the latest Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enabling technology ensures that the latest and most complete product related information is captured and managed using the applicable control processes throughout the product’s lifecycle. But ensuring that a company is receiving the full value from its PLM software investment is not a one-time event; it’s a continuous process. To deliver short- and long-term value

Dassault Systèmes’ Transportation and Mobility Target Zero Defect Industry Solution ExperienceANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 June 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces a new white paper investigating Dassault Systèmes’ Industry Solution Experience “Target Zero Defect” for the Transportation and Mobility industry.Dassault Systèmes has embarked on a journey toward their vision of twenty-first century product development built upon the foundation of their 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The move embodies a shift to market- and industry-focused solution experiences. They offer executives, business managers, and product developers of transportation and mobility vehicles industry-tuned process modules that span application needs across the full range of product development. These modules begin the product development process with attention to a company’s established knowledge, and progress through the full spiral of development phases from conceptual engineering to module design, manufacturing, and final assembly. The Dassault Systèmes industry solution experiences allow users to focus

 PDF Key takeaways: Consolidating your data allows process streamlining and system reduction, improving company performance and reducing IT costs Using the right process, people and tools makes data migration and consolidation a straightforward, predictable project I-Cubed has a proven data migration methodology that reduces the time, cost, and risk associated with global data consolidation Introduction Achieving success in bringing a product to market requires expertise, planning and experience. As the Russian author Anton Chekhov said, “Only entropy comes easy.” Customer requirements are becoming more stringent, material and labor costs are going up, and regulation is increasing. Companies are trying to do more with less to ensure profitability and customer satisfaction. Over the last twenty-five years, the prevalence of computing throughout the complete product lifecycle process has lead to rapid development of product related content. The data supporting this content is often distributed, and even duplicated, across many independent repositories, including homegrown data management systems, commercial data

Industrial end users and solution providers gather to discuss leading edge capabilities and requirements for simulation & analysis and systems engineeringANN ARBOR, Michigan, 3 May 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the successful completion of its 2013 Simulation & Analysis and Systems Engineering workshops. These workshops were held in Cincinnati, Ohio on 30 April and 1 May 2013. The Simulation & Analysis workshop was attended by 43 people representing 24 industrial end user companies and leading global simulation software solution providers. The Systems Engineering workshop had 46 people from 22 industrial and solution supplier companies. CIMdata’s Knowledge Council workshops are unique forums that bring together industrial end users and technology and service providers to focus specifically on topics relevant to each knowledge council and how those impact product and manufacturing systems development. Simulation & Analysis WorkshopIn his opening remarks Dr. Keith Meintjes, CIMdata’s Practice Manager