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This annual educational webinar will focus on the PLM market results for 2023.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 7 May 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is excited to announce an upcoming free educational webinar, “2024 PLM Market Update.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 13 June 2024, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will run for one hour.

The PLM Economy, CIMdata’s term for the global ecosystem of software and services providers that help industrial companies achieve their PLM objectives, has grown strongly over the past decade. This webinar will focus on the results for the...

CIMdata’s Sandeepak Natu will look at the role of simulation-driven design in small to medium-sized businesses.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 3 May 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that Sandeepak Natu, the co-director of CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development practice, will participate in Altair’s upcoming Simulate at the Speed of Design event. The event will take place virtually on 16 May. Sandeepak’s presentation, “Driving Product Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises: Powered by Simulation-Driven Design and Manufacturing,” is open to all.

Small and medium businesses (SMBs)...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 30 April 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that its Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, will participate in a webinar, “The Key to Success is Controlling Your IP.” The webinar, sponsored by SOLIDWORKS^®, takes place on Tuesday, 7 May, at 11:00 AM EDT.

During this webinar, Stan will draw on research completed by CIMdata on Cloud Services and will summarize what it means for the SOLIDWORKS community. The webinar will also include...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 26 April 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the promotion of several key individuals within its ranks. These promotions mark significant milestones in their professional journeys and reaffirm CIMdata’s commitment to excellence and growth.

Cheryl Peck has been promoted to Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Since joining CIMdata in May 2011 through the acquisition of Collaborative Product Development Associates (CPDA), Cheryl has played an integral role in CIMdata’s evolution, dating back to her tenure with CPDA and its predecessor, D.H. Brown Associates, since 1997. Her appointment as CMO recognizes her invaluable...

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Key Takeaways

• Modern virtual engineering ecosystems keep regulations and safety standards visible ensuring compliance throughout the complete lifecycle.
• Concurrent, end to end requirements traceability ensures regulatory compliance and speeds development and upgrades.
• PTC’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions enable end users to capture system requirements to drive design, analysis, and verification of multi-disciplinary system models.
• PTC’s enterprise ALM solution portfolio (codebeamer, pure::variants, Modeler, and RV&S) powers Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Requirements Management (RM), Product Line Engineering (PLE), Variant Management (VM), Test Management (TM), and more.
• VW and BMW have recently selected PTC for their broad...

This annual event presents PLM industry trends, global PLM market growth, and major research topics.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 25 April 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the successful completion of its 2024 PLM Market & Industry Forum series of events. For 2024 the Forums were held as in-person events in North America, EMEA, India, China, and Japan.

CIMdata's PLM Market & Industry Forums are the world's premier event for software and service providers focused on the PLM market and its development and growth. Industry leaders and experts gathered to hear CIMdata's perspective on the...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 19 April 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is saddened to announce that Kenneth J. Versprille, Ph.D., passed away on 18 April 2024 after a short illness. Ken was a respected colleague and a pioneer in the global mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) market.

Ken received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of New Hampshire and earned his Master of Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse University. He is best known for his groundbreaking work on Non-Uniform Rational...

Leading solution providers to sponsor product lifecycle management (PLM) conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden 19 April 2024—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2024 event. The participating sponsors are the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group, Altium, Aras, Collaboration Synergies Inc., Configit, Dassault Systemès, DxP Services, ESI, Modular Management, PTC, Razorleaf, SBE Vision, and Sinequa. The event will take place at The Marriott Tysons Corner on 8 and 9 May.

"We are excited to have these key solution providers choose to sponsor our PLM Road Map and PDT...

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Leveraging a Digital Thread between Digital and Physical

Key Takeaways

• Asset and service data can provide a wealth of valuable insights to help improve design, reliability, uptime, customer experience, and quality—yet it is often unavailable or not readily accessible.
• Greater product complexity, such as smart products, is driving renewed interest in gaining better access to service information to unlock new business models, such as those based on output.
• Manufacturers should extend digital thread initiatives to field service operations to unlock this data to make it more easily accessible and actionable as part of a digital...

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Key Takeaways

• Presentations on the digital thread by customers and partners highlighted the strength of Aras Innovator’s architecture and applications, which have been enabling digital thread creation for over 20 years. Additionally, updates from past ACE presenters revealed the growth of Aras Innovator’s digital thread deployments and the additional value they provide.
• SAIC, a platinum Aras partner, presented their ReadyOne SaaS platform that uses Aras Innovator as its backbone. ReadyOne enables rapid deployment and one-stop shopping for complete end-to-end top-to-bottom PLM environments that adhere to the DoD’s strategic Digital Engineering initiative.
• For many, migrating...