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Key takeaways:

• Oracle’s Modern Supply Chain Experience highlighted their end-to-end supply chain offerings, which includes their PLM solutions
• Oracle’s move to the cloud has deeply affected more than their business results, with many changes in development, collaboration, and other processes spanning their business
• While the cloud is their PLM future, their current PLM strategy echoes their Applications Unlimited approach, allowing customers to mix and match on-premise and cloud offerings based on their specific needs

CIMdata attended the Oracle Modern Supply Chain Experience 2016 in San Jose, California on January 25-27, 2016. The Oracle Modern Supply Chain Experience...

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Key takeaways:

• Predicting product and portfolio profitability is becoming more difficult as products become more complex and business models change
• Identifying and modeling cost drivers and using collaborative decision making to optimize enterprise-level costs early in the development cycle enables revenue, cost, and profitability targets to be achieved while minimizing risks and supporting brand strategy
• Tata Consultancy Services has a framework that provides tools to support the complete product lifecycle allowing systems, processes, and analytics as well as services to be used to plan, implement, and support product portfolio profitability management

Managing profitability of individual products and...

CIMdata Publishes Review of ANSYS 17.0 Product Release

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 February 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm released a new product Commentary for the recent ANSYS 17.0 release. This product review presents CIMdata’s perspectives on the ANSYS product suite as a platform to enable simulation-driven product development and innovation. The latest release of the ANSYS software includes a number of new technology enhancements across all major areas of the product portfolio as well as significant performance enhancements to address the productivity and effectiveness of global engineering teams performing product functional performance simulation across a...

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Key takeaways:

• Global market leaders in multiple industries are rapidly expanding their strategic use of virtual prototyping and simulation starting early in the product development process to gain a competitive advantage via innovation, quality, and time to profit
• Product innovation platforms are emerging to meet the needs of next generation systems and product development in Industry 4.0- and the Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled environments
• ANSYS® is successfully integrating a spectrum of multi-physics analysis solutions across the domains of mechanical, electronics, and software engineering to enable systems-level conceptual design and optimization
• ANSYS 17.0 enhancements are focused on improving...

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Key takeaways:

• PTC has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in IoT and this event showcased their progress in supporting real-world use cases
• The Thing Event highlighted the potential for companies in a range of industries to use big data/analytics powered by IoT and augmented reality to deliver innovative user experiences that bring product and lifecycle knowledge to the point of work where it is needed most
• Augmented reality allows people to use both physical and digital representations of their products, changing the way they can leverage all the information embedded in designs
• PTC is introducing several...

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Internet of Things – Hype or Value?” The webinar will take place on March 10 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will cover the issues and concerns related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and how best to achieve value while avoiding the pitfalls and hype.

The webinar will be an hour long and those attending will: gain the knowledge needed to prepare for IoT in a deliberate way; be in a position to consider all the possibilities for leveraging IoT; have a clearer...

Enabling improved feedback of lessons learned regarding product performance issues into the systems engineering process, to deliver more robust products for enhanced customer satisfaction and increased brand equity.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2 February 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) management consulting and research firm, announces the addition of the Quality & Reliability Engineering consulting practice. This consulting practice concentrates on a seamless flow of knowledge regarding product performance issues between quality and reliability engineering and systems engineering, for mitigating the potential for customer dissatisfaction, warranty problems, and product recalls resulting from the growing complexity of electronics and software...

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Key takeaways:

• Siemens’ intent to acquire CD-adapco reinforces their commitment to the Simulation & Analysis (S&A) market and will expand and strengthen Siemens PLM Software’s portfolio and position in this market
• CD-adapco’s world-class and widely used capabilities in computational fluid dynamics and coupled flow/multi-physics applications are complementary to Siemens PLM Software’s existing 3D simulation capabilities in their NX and LMS portfolios
• The previous acquisition of Red Cedar (HEEDS) by CD-adapco is an asset that further fills in Siemens PLM Software’s simulation and analysis portfolio and adds management talent

In one of the biggest deals of its kind,...

Keynote presentation at CIMdata’s PLM Road Map 2016 for the High Tech and Medical Device industries will show how groundbreaking biomedical research is transformed from the design stage to microfabrication and test.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 26 January 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Damien C. Rodger, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Southern California (USC) and Visiting Associate in Medical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), will kick-off PLM Road Map™ for the High Tech and Medical Device industries with a keynote presentation that will share recent innovative...

CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Workshop and NAFEMS’ Engineering Analysis & Simulation in the Automotive Industry Event will take place on April 27 & 28.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 21 January 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Knowledge Council and NAFEMS will come together to present two unique events that will be of interest to the simulation and systems engineering communities. The events will take place in Troy, Michigan on April 27 & 28.

On April 27, CIMdata will present a workshop that will explore the theme, “Driving Industry to Model-Based Systems...