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The S&A market grew by 8.5% to $11.67 billion in 2025

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 2 July 2026— CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, announces the release of the CIMdata Simulation and Analysis (S&A) Market Analysis Report.

This report expands on the S&A market analysis conducted as part of the CIMdata 2026 PLM Market Analysis Report (MAR) Series. The well-known PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during calendar year 2025. The 2026 S&A MAR contains updated and extensive...

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Integrating industrial AI capabilities for development through production

On Monday, 29 June 2026 Siemens and IFS announced a strategic partnership to help manufacturers connect engineering intelligence with operational reality. Siemens and IFS state that this partnership is intended to help deliver productivity and adaptability for manufacturers by connecting design, production and asset performance in one continuous loop—from engineering intent to operational outcome. It will also apply industrial AI to help optimize their production assets across the entire product lifecycle.

By bringing together Siemens’ industrial AI, engineering, automation, and manufacturing execution focused solutions with...

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Insights from the 3DEXPERIENCE Forum EuroWest 2026

Key Takeaways

• Dassault Systèmes is positioning Virtual Twins as the foundation for Industrial AI. Through its Industry Renaissance strategy, the company aims to combine enterprise knowledge, simulation, scientific models, and AI-powered Virtual Companions within a common Virtual Twin framework.
• Digital continuity is becoming a strategic requirement. Customer presentations demonstrated growing demand for connected processes spanning systems engineering, software, manufacturing, construction, operations, and long-term asset management.
• Digital sovereignty and knowledge preservation are emerging as major business drivers. Organizations in critical industries increasingly view trusted platforms, secure collaboration, and retention...

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Takeaways

• PTC is transitioning its solutions from passive “Systems of Record” to active “Systems of Intelligence,” aiming to eliminate lifecycle friction by using AI to bridge the gap between design and physical asset maintenance.
• PTC has replaced distributed product launches with two unified portfolio launches per year (Spring and Fall).
• PTC launched two major portfolio solutions: PTC Jetstream, a multi-tenant SaaS hub for cross-company collaboration, and PTC Orbit, an AI-first product and data layer that connects upfront designs to downstream as-maintained asset states.
• PTC introduced a three-tiered strategic framework—Advise, Assist, and Automate—to guide organizations in...

Upcoming webinar presents new global data to help PLM and product development leaders benchmark their AI progress.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 16 June 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, announces a free educational webinar titled “The State of AI in Product Development: What CIMdata’s AI in PLM Global Study Reveals About Adoption, Investment, and Readiness.” The webinar, scheduled for Thursday, July 9, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT), will share findings from CIMdata's landmark 2026 global research study, offering industrial companies a rare, unbiased look at...

Second Module of the 2026 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 10 June 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Industry Review and Trends Report, the second of five modules of the CIMdata 2026 Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2025. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

This Trends report includes insights...

CAM Market Grew by 9.5% in 2025

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 June 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the 2026 CIMdata CAM Market Analysis Report (MAR), the 34th annual study of the global Computer-Aided Machining (CAM) market. CIMdata estimates that, based on end-user payments, the worldwide CAM software and related services market grew by 9.5% in calendar year 2025. The estimated end-user payments grew from $2.9 billion in 2024 to $3.1 billion in 2025. CIMdata projects that in 2026 the CAM market, and the entire PLM Economy, will continue to grow....

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The Frontier of B-Rep, Convergent, Implicit modeling, and more

Takeaways

• The 2026 Siemens PLM Components conference signaled a distinct industry shift focused heavily on integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and expanding geometry representation paradigms. The central themes revolved around the collision and convergence of traditional boundary representation (B-rep) with facet geometry and implicit modeling.
• While implicit modeling leverages modern GPU parallel processing efficiently, converting it back to traditional B-rep for manufacturing creates a major interoperability challenge. To solve this, Siemens is expanding Parasolid’s Convergent Modeling framework to natively support and mix implicit geometry seamlessly without...

First Module of the 2026 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 4 June 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata 2026 Executive PLM Market Report. This report offers an executive-level overview of CIMdata’s comprehensive 2025 PLM market analysis, featuring summary charts of the overall market and specific PLM solution segments (including the chart below). It also presents perspectives on current trends in the PLM industry and how they may affect suppliers and investments.

Distribution of 2025...