Presentation will consider the impact of product change cost calculations in the change management workflow.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 28 September 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is pleased to announce that Reynaldo Reyes, Director of Engineering Tools and Processes at Lear Corporation, will make a 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.

The cost calculation for a typical product change requires the involvement of several disciplines within a typical organization. In many organizations, the PLM system...

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• Over the last year, Autodesk invested heavily in building out their Product Innovation Platform, extending the Fusion brand to current and new offerings
• Autodesk announced Cloud PDM for MCAD data management, available now for current Fusion Lifecycle subscribers at no additional cost
• Their recent acquisitions, Configure One (now Fusion Configure) and SeeControl (now Fusion Connect), are being rapidly integrated into existing and new workflows to support the development of highly configured and increasingly smart, connected products

Autodesk held their third annual Accelerate event in Boston’s Seaport District on 15-16 September 2016. Nearly 300 people attended,...

Presentation will consider how the risks associated with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution obsolescence within the aerospace and defense industry can be managed.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 22 September 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, and PDT Europe announce that Dr. Henrik Weimer of Airbus will make a presentation at PLM Road Map™ for the Aerospace & Defense Industry in collaboration with PDT Europe. PLM Road Map for the Aerospace & Defense Industry will take place on November 8 at The Renaissance Paris La Defense, Paris, France. PDT Europe will take place at the same location...

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• Siemens PLM Software is moving quickly to integrate their acquisitions of CD-adapco and Polarion to accelerate their initiatives for predictive analytics
• Siemens PLM Software introduced new design and analysis optimization capabilities that have been designed to help customers create and deliver more efficient, cost-effective products and solutions
• Generative design is a new MCAD capability that will help customers quickly leverage facetted data in their design process, simulation and analysis, and additive manufacturing
• Siemens AG, with significant support from their Siemens PLM Software organization, is delivering the integrated lifecycle vision (PLM—Automation) laid out in their...

Leading PLM solution and service providers to sponsor PLM conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 September 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the key sponsors for its upcoming PLM Road Map for the Global Automotive Industry and their Suppliers conference are: ANSYS, Aras Corp., Autodesk, Geometric, International Technegroup, openBoM, and Tata Consultancy Services. The event, which takes place on November 3 at the Inn at St. John’s in Plymouth, Michigan, is a strategic conference that focuses on how companies successfully define and employ PLM strategies and enabling solutions to meet challenging product development, manufacturing, and...

Popular PLM education program will take place in Santa Clara, California from December 5-9, 2016.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 September, 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to Santa Clara, California from December 5-9. 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 of achievement. The...

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• The lack of integration between EBOM, MBOM, manufacturing process planning, and work instructions results in information silos that create gaps in traceability and make it difficult to keep data synchronized—directly impacting product cost, quality, and time to market
• Automating the transformation of the Engineering Bill of Material (EBOM) to Manufacturing Bill of Material (MBOM) is a goal of many Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementations, yet few fully automated solutions exist due to complexities of the transformation
• Improving the connection between product development and manufacturing data...

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• Industry thought leaders have identified pursuit of global sustainability as not only good for the environment, but also good for business because new product innovation drives growth and minimizes total lifecycle costs
• Wall Street has also recognized the positive correlation between financial performance (expanding market share, earnings growth and market leadership) and breakthroughs in sustainable...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 Septembre 2016—CIMdata, Inc., principal acteur mondial du Conseil Stratégique & Recherche PLM, annonce que le Dr. Venkatesh Agaram, Directeur Conseil en Ingénierie Qualité & Fiabilité, participera au webinaire afin d'aborder les différentes approches pour connecter les composantes du cycle de vie produits intégrant l'ingénierie de conception et de production.

Dans ce webinaire, "Connecter Toutes les Composantes du Cycle de Vie du Produit," suite à l'introduction de la connectivité et de l'intelligence artificielle, Dr. Agaram partagera ses perspectives sur deux aspects émergents du développement des produits à savoir le développement de produits basés sur l'analytique et la conception pour la fiabilité basée sur...

Webinar will focus on the scope of PLM.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 September 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Venkatash Agaram, Director of Quality & Reliability Engineering, will take part in a webinar to discuss different approaches for connecting PLM to all parts of the lifecycle.

In this webcast, “Connect All Parts of the Product Lifecycle,” Dr. Agaram will share his insights on two facets of product development that have emerged due to the increasing introduction of connectivity and artificial intelligence in products and product systems, namely analytics-driven connected product development and knowledge...