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Presentation will discuss the five distinct efforts that make up DARPA’s Adaptive Vehicle Make Portfolio.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 28 August 2013 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that LTC Nathan Wiedenman, a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will make a keynote presentation at PLM Road Map™ 2013. The event, which is celebrating its 20th year in 2013, will be held in conjunction with Product Innovation Chicago on October 9 and 10.

Current approaches to the development of defense systems and vehicles have proven inadequate for the timely delivery of...

Program will take place in Oslo – November 18-22

Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 15, 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 Oslo, Norway from November 18-22, 2013. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership, the PLM industry’s most comprehensive non-biased 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...

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Key takeaways:

• Making better-informed decisions produces better business results.
• Presenting product- and business-related information three-dimensionally makes digital content more accessible and understandable to users.

This is a visual world. Using 3D graphical images of products in development or of facilities being managed makes digital content more accessible and understandable to users, because most people find 3D visual representations easier to comprehend than tabular data, lengthy textual descriptions, or drawings. When joined with other business data associated with an item being viewed, stakeholders gain stronger insights relative to the everyday assessments and judgments they must make to deliver...

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Key takeaways:

• Companies are striving to apply simulation early in the product development cycle, where systems engineering is often used to allocate requirements and to define and evaluate multi-discipline tradeoffs.
• The majority of product lifecycle cost is determined by decisions made early in the development process. The decisions upon which costs are based become very expensive to alter or correct later in the process.
• Products are no longer simply mechanical systems. Model-based systems engineering can be used to enable collaboration across multiple engineering (e.g., mechanical electrical, software, and controls) and other enterprise disciplines (e.g., purchasing, finance, and...

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Key takeaways:

• Infor continues to expand its ability to deliver a complete enterprise solution suite based on its ION middleware platform.
• Ming.le is a new user interface, which provides a rich user experience for all Infor solutions by combing modern social paradigms and effective integration within business processes.
• Infor’s announced acquisition of TDCI, will add a product configurator to their business suites that enable users to better quote and order configured and non-configured products.

CIMdata recently attended Inforʼs Inforum 2013 in Orlando, Florida—a global event with attendees interested in all of Inforʼs business lines. Infor stated that they...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Key takeaways:

• Topology optimization generates efficient lightweight structures that meet performance requirements for weight, stiffness, and strength
• Altair, the parent company of solidThinking, pioneered the commercial availability of topology optimization with OptiStruct
• solidThinking Inspire is a purpose-built topology optimization tool that can be used by design engineers up front in the product development process
• Customers report that topology optimization results in first-time capable designs and eliminates iterative redesigns to meet performance requirements
• solidThinking Inspire is finding applications in industries beyond automotive and aerospace, including architecture and industrial design
• The organic shapes generated with this technology are functional and often aesthetically...