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This webinar will show why seamless connectivity between CAM, tooling, and simulation software is crucial for today’s manufacturers.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 19 February 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mike Fry, Executive Consultant, will take part in a webinar that will help attendees gain an understanding about why it is imperative to have seamless connectivity between CAM, tooling, and simulation software in today’s manufacturing environment.

In this webinar, “Create Better Parts in Less Time with Advanced NC Simulation & Optimization,” Mr. Fry will join a discussion that will include the following topics:

• Advanced NC...

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Key takeaways:

• Managing the product lifecycle today involves many tools, often with their own data and use cases, that add significant complexity to managing lifecycle information across global value chains.
• Capturing and managing the content and relationships among information that spans the product lifecycle from idea through life is essential to maintaining a digital thread and traceability through life.
• Long-lived products and their digital thread often outlive the applications used to develop them (or even the enterprises involved), raising the importance of using a standards-based approach, specifically those standards designed to support cross-enterprise sharing across the...

This webinar will focus on implementation strategies for eBOM, mBOM, and sBOM structures.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 18 February 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Making Multiple-View Bill of Materials Management a Reality.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

The Digital Thread has been a core element of the PLM vision for decades. Within the last 3- to 5-years, commercial PLM solutions have advanced to a point where the enablement of the Digital Thread is technically...

The new program will form an integral part of CIMdata’s PLM Leadership offering.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 4 February 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, and SMS_ThinkTank, an industry leading resource providing system modeling and simulation expertise, announce that CIMdata has added a new Certificate Program to its PLM Leadership education and training offerings.

The new “Systems Modeling & Simulation Certificate Program,” has been created by combining CIMdata’s knowledge and experience with that of SMS_ThinkTank. The new program is an integral part of CIMdata PLM Leadership—the PLM industry’s leading non-biased education and training offering.

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Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 30 January 2020-CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce the dates for PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2020. These events will come together once again in 2020 to address the critical topic of “Digital Thread—the PLM Professionals’ Path to Delivering Innovation, Efficiency, and Quality.” The event will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA on 12-13 May.

In the tradition of offering an event tailored to the interests of PLM Professionals, our agenda will present reports from teams of industry domain experts working to remediate pain points that...

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Key takeaways:

• Wipro’s event demonstrated their commitment to the automotive industry by showing recent successes and thought leadership regarding transportation and mobility issues.
• Event participation by top-tier technology providers and partners including Microsoft, Bosch, and KPMG, in support of both products and infrastructure, gave attendees a clear view of how broad the industry issues are and the impact of potential solutions.
• Wipro solutions, including the ITI PLM-related products and crowdsourcing platform Topcoder, were showcased as special capabilities Wipro has available to help the automotive OEMs, suppliers, and infrastructure providers get their products and solutions to market.

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Key takeaways:

• Over the last forty years, the quantity and capability of digital tools to support the product lifecycle has exploded, and the solutions employed to manage lifecycle data and processes have evolved in tandem.
• In the last decade, enterprise software has evolved to a platform approach where the platform offers core technical capabilities to help synthesize more sources of data to better support cross-functional collaboration and decision making.
• CONTACT Software embraces the platform concept and offers CONTACT InSync, a user interface design system based on comprehensive usability standards to help create first-class user experiences for...

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On January 14, 2020, Aras announced a strategic partnership with ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) that includes ANSYS licensing Aras’ platform technology. The press release states “ANSYS is leveraging Aras’ resilient platform services combined with its proven simulation domain expertise and technology for new product offerings to improve productivity and maximize business value from simulation investments. ANSYS will deliver commercial offerings for simulation process and data management, process integration, design optimization and simulation-driven data science.”

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Aras’ open ecosystem strategy helps partners leverage and even incorporate Aras technology in their own solutions. This approach enables...

Platform powered physics-based NC program optimization.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 8 January 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of an eBook focused on CGTech’s VERICUT manufacturing program verification solution suite.

Since 1990, CIMdata has provided coverage of the CAM and Digital Manufacturing software market spaces. We are pleased to provide this eBook on CGTech’s manufacturing program verification and optimization solution suite. This comprehensive review highlights enhanced capabilities from CGTech including:

• Simulation and validation of additive and hybrid manufacturing processes
• Capabilities to examine composite materials layup processes
• Optimized toolpath recommendation
• A physics-based process optimization tool called Force
• Many other improvements...

This webinar will identify the challenges associated with PLM in the medical device industry and how they can be overcome.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 8 January 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “PLM in Medical Devices.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

To be successful, medical device companies must get to market quickly in order to benefit from the “first-mover” advantage. Some factors are outside the company’s control, for example, the work of regulatory bodies. As...