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Key takeaways:

• Actionable, holistic Digital Twins are living models fed by analytics and exercised by math-based simulations.
• Digital Twins create a predictive engineering analytics function that enables companies to improve their product design, process design, warranty, and maintenance approaches.
• Siemens PLM Software defines an actionable, holistic digital twin composed of multiple functional twins, including product, performance, and production digital twins—one of the broadest digital twin strategies in the industry.
• As a developer of technology as well as a manufacturer and user of products and systems, Siemens AG and Siemens PLM Software are leveraging the breadth of their...

Leading PLM solution and service providers to sponsor PLM conferences.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 October 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Eurostep, organizer of PDT Europe, have today announced the key sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map and PDT Europe conferences. The participating sponsors are Altair Engineering, Aras Corporation, Configit, HCL Technologies, openbom, and Siemens PLM Software. The events will take place on 17-19 October at the Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden.

“We are honored to have these leaders in PLM solutions and services choose to sponsor PLM Road Map 2017 and PDT...

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Key takeaways:

• As a strategic part of Siemens AG, Siemens PLM Software is delivering a comprehensive and cohesive end-to-end solution.
• With more than US$10B in acquisitions, Siemens PLM Software (Siemens) has expanded significantly and continues to deliver solutions to support the digital transformation of industry, including expanding to operations and service.
• Both of Siemens’ design solutions, NX and Solid Edge, offer improved workflow for generative design techniques including topology optimization by leveraging Convergent Modeling that includes faceted and precise geometry, additive manufacturing, and reverse engineering.
• Siemens’ actionable, holistic digital twin composed of multiple functional twins, includes product,...

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Key takeaways:

• Customers leverage Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle solutions to power a wide range of business processes in many different industries.
• Companies like the ability to rapidly tailor the solution mostly without deep technical skills, helping to quickly address pressing business problems, speeding its adoption within organizations.
• The company has a longer road ahead to flesh out their product innovation platform to support engineering work-in-process management and other essential PLM use cases on the cloud.

Autodesk convened their fourth Accelerate conference on September 21-22, 2017 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA. The crowd of about...

Eight country-specific PLM market analyses now available.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 28 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of ten additional country-specific 2017 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These new reports follow the release of the 2017 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.

The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2016 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2016, and forecasts PLM investments...

Seamlessly connecting the disconnected with an end-to-end, extended enterprise approach.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 26 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new whitepaper focused on Configit’s end-to-end configuration lifecycle management approach titled “Configuration Lifecycle Management: Seamlessly Connecting the Disconnected.”

Product complexity is increasing, in part due to the incorporation of embedded electronics and software in today’s smart, connected products. This increase in the level of complexity must be handled by an efficient configuration management methodology with appropriate enabling technologies. Traditional configuration management approaches can no longer manage the complexity and disconnects that many companies...

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Key takeaways:

• The long-awaited merger of Geometric and HCL is complete, and the combined entity has the capabilities to support next generation products and evolving business models using a newly created dedicated service line known as GeometricPLM.
• HCL leverages the best of both organizations, the traditional PLM strengths of Geometric, with the IT and product realization expertise of HCL, providing customers and prospects end-to-end services for their product lifecycle needs.
• HCL’s capabilities include commercial software products to support product development such as CAMWorks, DFMPro, and GeometricEDGE, and is further strengthened by major investments made by HCL...

Popular PLM education program will take place in Cypress, California from December 4-8, 2017.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 21 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to Southern California from December 4-8. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The program helps prepare PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. The program is facilitated by...

The presentation will share China-Euro Vehicle Technology AB’s PLM journey.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 19 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Erik Gräns, Director of PLM Development at China-Euro Vehicle Technology AB (CEVT) and PLM Solutions Development Lead at the Geely Group (Geely), will make a presentation at PLM Road Map™ 2017. The event will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe 2017 on October 17 at The Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. PDT Europe will take place at the same location on October 18-19.

CEVT was founded in 2013 with the assignment...

Private and Public Volumes Focus on Detailed and Overall PLM Market Results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata 2017 China PLM Market Analysis Report.

This two-volume report provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the People’s Republic of China’s (“China”) rapidly-evolving PLM market for calendar year 2016. The public and private reports discuss the major PLM trends and issues, PLM purchase investments in software and services, PLM adoption in various industry sectors, and market growth forecasts that pertain to China; an important and quickly expanding...