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The presentation will explain how to introduce more agility and speed into PLM delivery processes.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 22 March 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Antoine Scotto d’Apollonia, Vice President of Information Management Develop at Airbus, will make a keynote presentation at PLM Road Map North America 2018. This two-day event will be held in collaboration with PDT North America. Both events will take place May 15-17 at the Marriott Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA which is near Washington D.C. The theme for this year's event is “Charting the Course to...

This popular and proven PLM education program with over 400 graduates will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in June.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 March 2018-CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to the Mercure Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 11-15 June.

Recognized as the PLM industry's most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering, with over 400 PLM professionals certified to date, the program helps prepare PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based program includes a personalized classroom...

Changing How We Engineer, Validate, Market, and Operate our Products

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 March 2018-CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled "Digital Twins," how they are changing the way we engineer, validate, market, and operate our products. The physics-based Digital Twin plays a key role in the business transformations needed to meet the increased complexity of cyber-physical products and their IoT-enabled operating environments, which demands thinking beyond traditional stage-gate oriented engineering approaches.

Being competitive in the modern fast-paced business environment means applying the latest principles in organization, process, and...

This educational webinar will look at what standards exist and what needs to mature to support a model-based enterprise strategy.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 March 2018-CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, "Model-Based Enterprise & Standards." The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Many companies are adopting Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) as a fundamental business practice. In doing so, these companies enter some uncharted waters concerning how to create a model that can become the base for their product...

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Key takeaways:

• One of SOLIDWORKS' stated "big ambitions is…to be the Amazon for your ideas and dreams to design and make."
• Dassault Systèmes' continued investment in SOLIDWORKS illustrated its strategic commitment to add value for SOLIDWORKS' users and ensure that SOLIDWORKS remains a design platform of choice.
• SOLIDWORKS and its partners continue to emphasize additive manufacturing as a major area of investment, development, and enablement.

The 20th annual SOLIDWORKS World conference was held February 4-7, 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California. A large and enthusiastic crowd of more than 5,000 SOLIDWORKS users attended...

Findings suggest that it is extremely difficult for industrial users to move PLM beyond traditional Product Data Management topics.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 March 2018-CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the completion of its research in to the current status and trends related to the product lifecycle management (PLM) economy.

The goal of the research was to deepen the PLM community's collective understanding of the status, drivers, and preconditions necessary for companies to derive value from their investment in PLM. A web-based survey was developed to identify the key issues.

Significant findings show that:

• Industrial companies continue...

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Key takeaways:

• CIMdata was impressed by the level of satisfaction displayed by HCL customers including presenters from major US industrial users.
• DFMPro's new costing module extends the suite of Design For X (DFx) applications to help companies determine what a product should cost.
• Many customers noted that every very experienced organization made the same DFx mistakes over and over, likely due to the ad-hoc way DFx knowledge is shared and used within organizations.

CIMdata attended the DFMPro annual user meeting, DFX Insights '18, in downtown Detroit at the Renaissance Center. The one-day event was focused on the...

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Key takeaways:

• Analytics-driven insights from the data produced by connected products and processes must be fully leveraged to build a successful digital enterprise.
• TCS has helped businesses in many industries develop and execute digital enterprise transformation strategies by leveraging analytics-driven insights.
• TCS invests heavily in analytics-related R&D to ensure that the latest knowledge and tools are available for accelerating enterprise digital transformation.
• TCS has wide expertise in applying analytics at the intersection of enterprise resources and product engineering for identifying hitherto untapped value.

Journey to Analytics-Driven Insights and Decision-Making

Internet of Things (IoT) deployments are generating and capturing...

This popular and proven PLM education program with over 400 graduates will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan in May.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 27 February 2018-CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to the Kensington Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan from May 21-25. The program is recognized as the PLM industry's most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering, with over 400 PLM professionals certified to date.

The program helps prepare PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based program includes...

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Key takeaways:

• The ENOVIA brand of Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform has a comprehensive strategy and is making solid progress toward their vision with over 2,400 companies in production.
• Investments are being made across the lifecycle, including innovation planning and strategic sourcing and operations.
• Demonstrations showing multi-CAD integration with competitor's CAD tools, the No Magic systems engineering solution, and quality applications demonstrated progress toward connecting competitive systems into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
• The support for Cloud continues to grow, and the strategy of migrating product development appears to be a good way to bring their installed base forward as...