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Eight country-specific PLM market analysis reports now available.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 October 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of seven additional country-specific 2016 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These new reports follow the release of the 2016 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year. The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2015 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 2015, and forecasts...

Presentation will show how changes in the approach to program management resulted in improvements in delivery performance.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 18 October 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Neil J. Fleming, IM&T Solution Design Manager at BAE Systems Maritime Submarines, will make a presentation on “Improving PLM Delivery Performance with Solution Adoption Measures Linked to Milestone Approval,” at PLM Road Map™ for the Aerospace & Defense Industry. PLM Road Map will take place on November 8 and will be followed by PDT Europe on November 9-10. The venue for both events is the...

Educational webinar will share CIMdata’s findings from recent research on over 230 PLM-related standards.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 17 October 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Navigating the PLM Standards Universe.” The webinar will take place on November 10, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. (EST).

CIMdata recently researched over 230 PLM-related standards. Over 60 of the standards that impacted engineering and manufacturing were researched in more depth. This enabled the development of a list of 20 standards that are really important for an organization’s PLM vision. During the webinar the top standards...

Webinar will focus on several use cases and the functionality to consider when implementing a product cost management initiative.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 October 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Stan Przybylinski, Vice President, will take part in a webinar on product cost management.

In this webcast, “Optimal Lifecycle Costing is a Team Sport,” Mr. Przybylinski will share highlights from a recent CIMdata commentary of the same name. He will also lead a panel discussion with participants from aPriori, including Ms. Stephanie Feraday, President & CEO and Ms. Julie Driscoll, Vice President, Strategic Marketing...

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Key takeaways:

• Complete and accurate design history files (DHF) and device master records (DMR) are critical to successfully launching and supporting medical device products
• Paper or file folder-based processes often used to manage documentation slow time to market, make data hard to manage, and make effective risk management, verification, validation, and full traceability difficult to support
• Minerva’s Medical Device solution, based on Aras Innovator, helps companies develop and support products by structuring data and processes using industry best practices to speed time to market while managing risk

Introduction

The medical device industry consists of products ranging from single...

Presentation will detail recent developments associated with the Robots in Manufacturing Environments Innovation Institute.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 October 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is pleased to announce that Dr. Dean Bartles, the Senior Technology Advisor with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), will make the opening keynote presentation at PLM Road Map™ for the Global Automotive Industry. This one-day event will be held on 3 November at the Inn at St. John’s, Plymouth, Michigan.

In August of 2012, President Obama launched the “National Network of Manufacturing Innovation” (NNMI) by establishing the first Manufacturing...

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Key takeaways:

• In most companies, product cost and manufacturing knowledge and requirements are spread across different functions and information systems
• Competitive pressures to win business are forcing companies to make decisions earlier in the lifecycle, making it more difficult to get disconnected functions to bid to win and to make money
• The most successful companies take a team approach to product costing, fostering collaboration among design engineers, cost engineers, manufacturing, and supply chain management
• aPriori designed their solutions to support the deep subject matter expertise needed to simulate manufacturing processes cost effectively within a collaboration environment that...

Presentation will offer a high level review of the objectives, the requirements, and a roadmap for the definition and implementation of a “minimum digital thread.”

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 4 October 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Kenneth Swope of Boeing Commercial Airplanes will open PLM Road Map™ for the Aerospace & Defense Industry in collaboration with PDT Europe with a keynote presentation on “Model-Based Definition and Bill of Material Definition to Facilitate Information Flow Through the Product Lifecycle.” PLM Road Map for the Aerospace & Defense Industry will take place on November 8...

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Key takeaways:

• The SOLIDWORKS 2017 launch highlighted the continued evolution of the SOLIDWORKS portfolio to support developing smart, connected products
• This release expands support for multi-CAD and synchronous collaboration, essential capabilities for customers to optimize participation in their value chains
• Companies of all sizes need full lifecycle support from their solution providers, and SOLIDWORKS is focused on delivering right sized, right packaged offerings to their customers

On September 19-20 2016 Dassault Systèmes convened their SOLIDWORKS 2017 launch event in the shadow of Gillette Stadium, the home of the New England Patriots, about 20 miles from their Waltham,...

Educational Program will be co-sponsored in Bangalore by BrainWave Consulting during November.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 29 September 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm, announces its intention to bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Bangalore, India from November 12-14. The program, recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering, will be co-sponsored by BrainWave Consulting.

This three-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 of achievement....