Newly created position solidifies CIMdata’s position in the Middle Eastern and African Markets.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 9 August 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the global strategic PLM management consulting and research firm, announces the promotion of Gerard Litjens to the newly created position of Vice President Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Mr. Litjens, who joined CIMdata in 2000, has been serving as CIMdata’s Director of European Operations since June 2010.

"This promotion recognizes Gerard's contribution to CIMdata and CIMdata's expanding global footprint into the Middle Eastern and African markets. CIMdata has been an international company for over 30 years, with associates in Europe and Asia,...

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Key takeaways:

• A major transformation is underway in engineering processes for today’s complex systems and cyber-physical products (mechanical, electronics, embedded software, and controls), triggered by several significant global trends, including:
  • “Smart Systems” driven by the “Internet of Things” and Industry 4.0
  • “Mass Customization” with software features as key differentiators
  • “Design for purpose” materials and manufacturing methods (e.g., additive)
  • “Design for energy efficiency” and scarce materials conservation and re-use
  • “Products delivered as services” (an on-going utility business model)
• Global market leaders in multiple industries are rapidly expanding their strategic use of virtual prototyping and simulation into...

Fourth Module of the 2016 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 2 August 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Industry Analysis Report, the fourth of five modules of the CIMdata 2016 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2015. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

All industries saw growth in PLM spending...

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Key takeaways:

• Infor has a diverse set of applications that span many industries and they believe opportunities for “adjacent innovation” are a company strength
• Infor continues to make significant investments in their application layer and bringing their solutions to the cloud, with strong early results
• The company is working to shore up a weakness in services with both organic investments and key partnerships with systems integrators like HCL

Over 7,000 attendees converged on the Javit’s Center in New York City to attend Inforum 2016, the Infor user event of the year, held from July 10 to 13....

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Key takeaways:

• While PLM strategies are common in manufacturing industries, they can provide just as much value in the development and long-term monitoring of insurance coverages and banking products.
• Insurance policy premiums and bank loan repayments do not fundamentally differ from a manufacturer's flow of revenues from sales of goods.
• Financial companies are searching for people with PLM implementation experience while PLM solution providers seek people with backgrounds in underwriting and lending.

One sure sign of a strategy’s lasting success is its uptake by industries that have seemingly little in common with the industry that generated the...

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Key takeaways:

• Interest in cloud-based PLM is exploding, and deployments are ramping up
• PLM on the cloud has all the usual advantages of cloud-based enterprise solutions, such as low cost of entry, scalability, ease of deployment, and easier supply chain access
• T-Systems is offering Aras Innovator, a well-known, flexible PLM solution, on a public or a private cloud to support small workgroups through global distributed enterprises and their supply chains
• The T-Systems Cloud PLM solution includes T-Systems products as well as the Aras Subscriber-only solutions licensed by user per month

CIMdata has tracked PLM’s growth on the cloud...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes’ goal of enabling companies across multiple industry segments to build and run virtual environments in which innovative products and processes can be defined, simulated, analyzed, and optimized as a real-life experience and across the full lifecycles is becoming a reality
• Dassault Systèmes’ strategy builds on both their 3DEXPERIENCE platform, as well as on their well-respected brands (i.e., CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, BIOVIA, etc.)
• Dassault Systèmes’ continues to expand their 3DEXPERIENCE platform through a balanced expansion of specific functional capabilities, and a significant number of industry experiences focused on delivering industry-specific business process enablement

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In this free educational webinar participants will gain an understanding about the critical need for learning about failure modes.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 7 July 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Failure Knowledge Capture and Reuse for Designing Dependable Software-Intensive Products.” The webinar will take place on August 11, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will share more about the methods available to assist with product failure knowledge management, the commercial software tools that are available, and strategies for deploying these tools.

According to the webinar host, CIMdata’s Director for Quality...

Third Module of the 2016 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 July 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Market and Solution Provider Analysis Report, the third of five modules of the CIMdata 2016 Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2015. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM solution providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

“The PLM market grew...

Popular PLM education program will take place in Andover, Massachusetts from October 3-7, 2016.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 July, 2016 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to the Boston area from October 3-7. 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....