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• HTE companies are ill-equipped today to deal with the next wave of product complexity driven by IOT and connected products
• High tech product knowledge is distributed across the supply chain so collaboration with security is needed
• Today’s High Tech business challenges should not be solved through islands of solutions—things must change
• Platformization of PLM needs to be considered, it’s not about tearing out legacy tool—they need to be connected to get much better value

There has been an ongoing illusion shared by executives in the High Tech sector that they have PLM. Despite the fact that...

Leading PLM solution and service providers to sponsor PLM conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 19 May 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announced today the key sponsors for its upcoming PLM Road Map for the High Tech Electronics and Medical Device Industries conference are: ANSYS, Aras Corp., Autodesk, PropelPLM, and PTC. The event, which takes place on May 24 at the Biltmore Hotel & Suites in Santa Clara, California, 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 deployment issues....

Increasing Productivity with Teamcenter Integration

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 May 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm released a new whitepaper on Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge ST9 integration with Teamcenter for data management and collaboration.

Two fundamental pressures design engineers face are managing the overall growth of their CAD design files and supporting collaboration with their co-developers and clients. This whitepaper presents CIMdata’s perspective on the integration of Teamcenter with Solid Edge ST9. The features and business benefits of utilizing Teamcenter from within the Solid Edge environment are outlined in the paper including several customer testimonials.

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Key takeaways:

• Product-related information and other enterprise information is created and generally used effectively inside engineering, but its use is often limited to engineering, even though others could make better decisions faster with access to up-to-date product related information
• The restricted use of data from PLM and other enterprise systems greatly reduces the potential benefits from broad usage, but most PLM solutions have been implemented in an engineering-centric manner, making it difficult for occasional users outside of engineering...

Presentation will share how the use of observational research is leading to more innovative solutions for medical professionals.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12 May 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mary Beth Privitera, Director for the Medical Device Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Cincinnati, will make a presentation at CIMdata’s Innovation Engagement & Governance workshop. This one-day workshop will take place on May 25 at The Biltmore Hotel & Suites in Santa Clara, California.

Designing medical devices with a focus on human factors is critical to addressing the needs of medical professionals...

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Key takeaways:

• Software increasingly has become the technology differentiator in today’s complex products—without integrating software into the product development process, product launches can become market failures
• Integrated Product Development Lifecycle should be tool agnostic and able to use existing installed toolsets that are already in production, rather than requiring a rip-and-replace approach
• Wipro has developed an holistic and product agnostic framework uniting software development into PLM

Over the last few decades, manufactured products have become increasingly “smart,” driving growth in the level of embedded electronics and software. The ubiquity of Internet access and the availability of cheap...

Webinar participants will find out what can be done to improve the dependability of complex, software-intensive products, and product-systems.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 May 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Ensuring the Dependability of Smart Connected Products.” The webinar will take place on June 23, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will propose a road map that connects commonly used tools in reliability engineering with systems engineering processes, including a formal knowledge management system, to improve the dependability of complex, software-intensive products, and product-systems.

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• Kubotek Creation Engineering launches a new 3D geometry kernel, the KCM Modeler
• Each object in the KCM modeler carries its own precision for better computational speed and accuracy
• Kubotek USA’s Key Creator will be released using the KCM kernel

Kubotek Creation Engineering, a Division of Kubotek Corporation announced the availability of a new 3D geometry kernel, the KCM Modeler.^[1] Most readers will be familiar with Key Creator, the 3D direct modeling CAD solution from Kubotek USA, a subsidiary of Kubotek Creation Engineering.^[2] A geometry kernel underpins the 3D modeling...

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Key takeaways:

• Oracle PLM manages the creation, maintenance, and governance of the Common Product Model which includes the complete definition of a product or item end to end from ideation to commercialization and extends that definition to include all the operational attributes and constructs needed for to support ERP, SCM, and CRM
• PLM Cloud provides flexible entry to managing product data in the cloud through innovation, development, and commercialization
• PLM Cloud enables social product development by connecting social input to product definition for long term traceability
• A common product approach enables data harmonization across PLM, ERP, and...

New e-learning course will make CIMdata’s world class PLM education opportunities available to a wider cross-section of the PLM community.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 May 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that it has added a new E-learning course to its PLM Leadership education and training offerings.

The new “PLM Basics” e-learning course, has been created to provide a way for the broader PLM community to experience CIMdata’s world-class PLM education opportunities. The PLM Basics e-learning course is delivered through three self-paced, on-line educational sessions. Each session lasts for one hour and can be taken...