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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 7 May 2025— Today, the Aerospace and Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG), an association of leading companies in the aerospace and defense industry, announced its decision to collaborate with member companies of the prostep ivip Association (prostep ivip) to support further development and adoption of the Code of PLM Openness (CPO). The CPO aims to promote openness, making it easier to integrate IT systems into connected IT environments, extending from development and production through to after-sales, with many heterogeneous IT systems provided by numerous IT vendors. The CPO provides a framework allowing industrial users and...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 1 May 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces its participation in an upcoming web dialogue, “What’s Next for PLM? A 3DEXPERIENCE Dialogue with CIMdata.” Sponsored by GoEngineer, this virtual discussion is set to take place on Wednesday, 21 May, at 3:00 PM EDT.

For this session, GoEngineer’s Product Manager Cody Salyer, will be joined by CIMdata’s Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, to talk about current Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) demands and...

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Enabling U.S. National Security Objectives Through an End-to-End Digital Sustainment Platform

Key Takeaways

• The U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB) has been shrinking for decades and is now projected by September 2025 to have decreased by 58%.
• Small and Medium Manufacturers (SMMs) make up the majority of the DIB and those left are struggling to maintain profitable operations and meet continually increasing regulations.
• The DIB must support a globally deployed war fighter, this represents the largest and most complex sustainment problem, managing weapon systems, vehicles, aircraft, ships, and all materials fielded by the DoD with life...

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Enabled by Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE^® Platform

Key Takeaways

• Businesses must explore transformative approaches to streamline product development to navigate the challenges of today’s world such as evolving customer needs, increasing product complexity, changing regulations, and escalating focus on sustainability.
• An integrated approach on a single platform that manages requirement specifications, simulations, and testing, ensuring traceability and enabling better decision-making can be immensely valuable to mitigate these challenges.
• MODSIM technology and processes from Dassault Systèmes’ unifies modeling and simulation on a common data model within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, streamlining workflows and enabling rapid design iterations. Through...

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Key Takeaways

• Most industrial companies have one or more digital solutions that support the lifecycle of their products from idea through life but those data and process management solutions are complex to purchase, implement, and use.
• Nexus offers an open digital platform for customer engagement applicable to a broad range of manufacturing customers supporting key use cases in design, production, and metrology.
• Some of the early Nexus cloud-native offerings focus on improving machine shop efficiency, including Design Review for Manufacturing, Paperless Traveler for CABINET VISION, Nexus Cutting Tool Library, and ProPlanAI with Copilot.

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Using digital...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden - 16 April 2025—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2025 event. Participating sponsors include the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group, Altium, Aras, Configit, Keysight, Oberon Technologies, PTC, Razorleaf, SBE Vision, and Sinequa. The event is scheduled at The Marriott Tysons Corner Virginia on 7 and 8 May.

"We are excited that these key solution providers have chosen to sponsor our PLM Road Map and PDT conference," stated CIMdata's Chief Marketing Officer Cheryl Peck. "We look forward to fostering an environment that...

This presentation is part of CIMdata’s on-going educational webinar series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 8 April 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free webinar, “AI Governance: Ensuring Responsible AI Development & Use.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 15 May 2025, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last one hour.

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly evolves in the context of the product lifecycle, organizations and governments must implement effective governance frameworks to ensure ethical, transparent, and responsible AI development and deployment....

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Key Takeaways

• Digital transformation initiatives are driving manufacturers to create robust digital threads throughout their organizations.
• Effective integration of product data requires a rare blend of skills in business and technology. Challenges include the high cost in technical expertise to configure and maintain integrations, the expansion of new systems, and adapting to internal processes.
• Razorleaf has deep expertise in PLM and MES and offers the next generation of CLOVER—a complete solution for product data integration, enabling manufacturers to enhance their digital thread and maximize their business performance.
• CLOVER is a low-code/no-code integration platform built on...

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On 2 April 2025, Siemens AG announced their intent to acquire Dotmatics, a provider of life sciences R&D software based in Boston, MA for US$5.1 billion.^[1] According to Dotmatics, they offer “the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform–best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.”^[2] Their...

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Key Takeaways

• Deploying CAD in a SaaS environment provides ease of initial deployment, automatic upgrades, and flexible scalability. NX X is installed on the desktop via the cloud (similar to MS Office 365), and as an option it can be streamed remotely.
• NX X provides built-in data management but also can be deployed in a Teamcenter Share, Teamcenter or Teamcenter X environment.
• Siemens delivers seamless scalability from startup to global OEM with 100% data fidelity from browser to desktop.
• Through Designcenter, Siemens delivers complete, transparent compatibility across its MCAD solutions—the data models are identical among...