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Key takeaways:

• Siemens Digital Industries Software's 2019 Simcenter conference, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, was packed with more than 150 comprehensive customer, product update, and training sessions.
• The multi-industry applicability of Siemens' Simcenter multi-physics simulation and test solution portfolio was demonstrated by their customers throughout the event.
• The depth and breadth of Simcenter has its roots in a host of acquisitions, as well as solutions that have been organically developed and enhanced working with customers.
• The synergy between Siemens' extensive test and simulation & analysis solution portfolio was showcased, along with how they complement each other, to...

Digitally Transforming Capital Asset Creation and Operation

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 19 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new eBook focused on how PLM technology can be applied to support the design, construction, and operations of capital projects such as factories, power plants, and offshore oil platforms to enable digital transformation.

This eBook describes how Siemens Digital Industries Software and Bentley Systems have combined PLM capabilities to enable digital transformation related to capital asset creation and operation and why a lifecycle approach to capital asset lifecycle management (CALM) is important to digital transformation...

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Key takeaways:

• SAP has repositioned their digital supply chain offerings with new messaging and new capabilities.
• The SAP Intelligent Digital Supply Chain vision is much expanded since 2018, with more networks and initial integrations with Qualtrics.
• Their PLM offerings play a key role in “Design to Operate”, a core part of their Intelligent Digital Supply Chain vision, including support for the digital thread, digital twins, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending an SAP Digital Supply Chain Analyst event in Boston, MA on November 14. SAP’s supply chain leadership updated the...

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Key takeaways:

• Autodesk remains focused on their transition from perpetually licensing on-premise to subscription licensing their on-premise and growing cloud portfolios, with several important announcements at Autodesk University 2019.
• The company remains committed to manufacturing but sees their architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) business as a bigger opportunity.
• The Autodesk Forge platform ecosystem continues to grow, with over 4,000 attendees at the one-day developers conference (DevCon).
• Autodesk continues pushing the boundaries of generative design beyond geometry for additive manufacturing to new manufacturing processes, and to new applications like site design and plant layout.

CIMdata had the pleasure of...

Offering verification, simulation, analysis, and optimization of CNC machine operations.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 17 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of a report focused on CGTech’s VERICUT^® manufacturing program verification solution suite.

CIMdata has covered the CAM and Digital Manufacturing software market spaces since the early 1990s and is pleased to provide this update on the current state of manufacturing program verification and optimization. This comprehensive review focuses on the enhanced capabilities from CGTech including:

• support for additive and hybrid manufacturing,
• composite materials and processes, optimized toolpath processes,
• physics-based optimization called Force, and
• a host of...

This free educational webinar will describe how data and process flows can be organized to support digitalization.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 17 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “PLM and ERP Drive Digitalization.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

In the drive to digitalize a broad-based view is needed. Too often companies look at their issues from the perspective of siloes of information creation and use. This approach creates an environment in which it is...

The 2020 schedule will kick-off in Ann Arbor, Michigan in March.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 12 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces that the first public CIMdata Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate program of 2020 will take place at the Kensington Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan from March 2-6. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The program effectively prepares PLM professionals to address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation enabling them to help their organizations realize the benefits of PLM and its enabling technologies....

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 11 December 2019 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm, announces its 2020 PLM Market & Industry Forum schedule and theme. The one-day events will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA on March 25; Frankfurt, Germany on April 2; Pune, India on April 6; Shanghai, China on April 10; and Tokyo, Japan on April 14.

CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forum is designed exclusively for PLM software providers, PLM service providers, PLM systems integrators, and PLM channel partners of all sizes. Forum attendees will explore the challenges currently facing...

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Key takeaways:

• Trends like digital transformation and Industry 4.0 require rethinking the fundamental relationship between the product lifecycle and supply chains, thus pushing quality requirements to the forefront in the drive to deliver strategic and incremental business value.
• While product quality has always had an impact on a company's revenue, it was often difficult to measure the direct impact. With the shift from products to smart, connected products with embedded services, it will now to possible to directly link customer experience, satisfaction, and revenue.
• The Internet of Things (IoT) offers an unprecedented opportunity to proactively translate...

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Key takeaways:

• Selecting and deploying a product innovation platform is a sizable investment that if done correctly can have a significant impact on the company’s return on investment.
• Resilient, sustainable solutions consist of much more than apps, the underlying solution architecture and services must be flexible to run on hardware and technology stacks that will be available in the future while supporting easy app development and maintenance.
• The Aras platform's underlying architecture has stood the test of time, it performs, scales, and has enabled a wide variety of industrial applications with its low-code development environment.
• Available Aras...