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Educational webinar will provide an overview of semantic web technology that is relevant to product failure knowledge capture and reuse.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 January 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Why Connected Intelligent Products Need Semantic Web Technology.” The webinar will take place on February 9, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

The development of trustworthy connected intelligent products needs a knowledge system based design-for-reliability capability. Such a capability demands a seamless integration between the processes and tools of systems engineering and reliability engineering,...

New consulting services partnership strengthens the ability to deliver broad and deep industry expertise in systems modeling and simulation to help industrial enterprises, as well as software solution providers address market opportunities and challenges.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 December 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, and SMS_ThinkTank™ LLC (SMS_ThinkTank), an industry leading resource providing system modeling and simulation expertise to develop and improve engineering business practices for innovative product development, today announced a strategic partnership to help manufacturers and PLM software providers address the challenges associated with the design, development, and lifecycle...

Attendees will be the first to learn about CIMdata’s analysis of 2016’s PLM market results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 December 2016 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, announces its international 2017 PLM Market & Industry Forum schedule and program. Approaching their twenty-seventh year, these one-day events will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA on March 30; Stuttgart, Germany on April 6; Bangalore, India on April 10; Beijing, China on April 14; and Tokyo, Japan on April 19.

CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forum is designed exclusively for PLM solution providers, PLM service providers, PLM systems integrators,...

2017 schedule will kick-off in Ann Arbor, Michigan in March.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 December, 2016 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm announces that the first CIMdata PLM Certificate program of 2017 will take place at the Kensington Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan from March 6-10. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The three- or five-day program prepares 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...

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Key Takeways:

• A major transformation is underway across multiple industries toward model-based systems engineering (MBSE) processes for the design and deployment of complex products and systems that span multiple domains within the engineering discipline (e.g., mechanical, electronics, embedded software, and controls) as well as multiple disciplines across the entire product lifecycle
• The need to accurately simulate and predict the behavior of today’s complex systems, especially in the cyber-physical realm, has led to a number of strategic acquisitions by ANSYS over the past decade in the areas of electronics and embedded software engineering—the latest of these...

Free educational webinar will share a framework for assessing cloud solution providers and will offer key information for developing a coherent and sustainable cloud strategy.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 7 December 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Connecting the Clouds in AEC & EPC—Where to Start?” The webinar will take place on January 12, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EST).

Nearly every major solution provider serving the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) and Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) markets has introduced cloud-based products and services. In many ways, AEC and EPC are...

An in-depth look at Tebis’ manufacturing solutions and business program.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 December 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of a program review of Tebis’ manufacturing solutions and business.

Tebis software is used by toolmakers to design and build made-to-order mold and die tooling primarily for the automotive sector, and for component manufacturers in the aerospace and mechanical engineering sectors. With a mix of direct sales and distributors throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas, Tebis AG and its subsidiaries serve major markets worldwide. While many may recognize Tebis software as being...

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Key takeaways:

• Product innovation platforms are the foundation upon which functional capabilities, data, and processes are enabled—leading to the potential for much more innovation
• Few PLM implementations, especially those based on monolithic solutions, achieve their goals and often end up as “instant” legacy PDM solutions that are not sustainable
• A strong product innovation platform dramatically eases the burden of integrations with an enterprise’s broad range of PLM-enabling solutions
• Aras Innovator provides an open and extensible product innovation platform that can be employed to provide an enterprise with a...

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• Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge team delivered more than 75 hands-on training and end user presentations to help educate and inspire their user base
• Siemens PLM Software announced the “Solid Edge for Startups” program which offers qualifying businesses one year of free access to Solid Edge software

On October 26, 2016, Mr. John Hayes, CEO of Engineering.com, the digital media publishing company, played host of Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge University 2016 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Hayes directed his welcome to the approximately 500 attendees in the city famous for the Indianapolis 500 automobile...

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Key takeaways:

• Autodesk is establishing itself as a pioneer in cloud services by aggressively deploying a web services platform, building new cloud-based applications, creating new business models, and establishing a modern developer network
• Autodesk is driving to host a “Common Data Environment” for customers across its industry verticals, and to establish a growing portfolio of branded web services, third-party solutions, and independent integrations which use this data
• Artificial intelligence (machine learning) was prominent, with examples ranging from product design optimization to construction risk reduction, and customer service improvement for Autodesk subscribers
• The challenge for Autodesk will be...