The webinar will address how organizations can benefit from implementing Design for Excellence within their engineering processes.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 January 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Ms. Laila Hirr, CIMdata’s Practice Manager for High Tech & Electronics, will highlight issues and trends related to getting products into production, in an upcoming webinar on using Design for Excellence (DFx) to improve product realization sponsored by Geometric Ltd.

“Faulty decisions adversely impact the products we develop,” says Hirr. “Identifying design issues early allows them to be addressed when they are relatively low cost to...

Expanded focus ensures CIMdata is well positioned to take advantage of the move towards a comprehensive model-based enterprise paradigm.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 19 January 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the formation of a Simulation-Driven Systems Development (SDSD) Practice and Knowledge Council. Mr. Donald Tolle will head up the initiative. Mr. Tolle transitions into this new role as a natural extension of his activities with CIMdata over the past 2½ years as Director of CIMdata’s Systems Engineering and Simulation Consulting Practice.

The new SDSD Knowledge Council represents the merger of CIMdata’s Systems...

Industry-focused PLM Conference set for May 24th in Silicon Valley.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 January, 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm announces that its annual PLM Road Map™ for the High Tech & Medical Device Communities conference will take place on May 24, 2016. The event will be held at The Biltmore Hotel and Suites, Santa Clara, California, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Now in their twenty-third year, PLM Road Map conferences bring together leading industry experts from CIMdata, key industry players, and front-line implementation experts to explore end users’ progress, opportunities, and road blocks.

Having...

Free educational webinar focused on managing simulation as a strategic capability, will take place on February 11, 2016.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 January 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Simulation Governance: Managing Simulation as a Strategic Capability.” The webinar will take place on February 11 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will propose that simulation is demonstrably superior to hardware-based test and development in a number of key ways.

The webinar will be an hour long and those attending will: gain an understanding of what Simulation Governance is; learn about the best...

2016 schedule will kick-off in Ann Arbor, Michigan from March 7-11.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 22 December, 2015 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm announces that the first CIMdata PLM Certificate program of 2016 will take place at the Kensington Court Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan from March 7-11. 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...

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Key takeaways:

• Manufacturing enterprises need flexible, scalable PLM environments that can adapt to their changing business needs
• Infor PLM Accelerate is built on third party technology that Infor has significantly extended; they have also incorporated Infor’s intellectual property into the solution
• Infor has used their ION^® (Intelligent Open Network) platform to integrate PLM Accelerate with Infor technology and business solutions such as ERP and they plan to incorporate other solutions such Infor Ming.le^TM and Infor Configure Price Quote
• Infor PLM Accelerate is a cost effective, scalable, flexible solution designed to meet the needs of growing manufacturers

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Manufacturing companies...

Report provides a classification for Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 December 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, announces publication of a report based on multi-sponsored research to create an Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) Solutions guide to help accelerate the development of the global EIM market for the benefit of both solution providers and industry. Co-sponsors of the research effort are eZassi, Planview, Siemens PLM Software, and Sopheon.

The goal of the research was to address the existing concerns—as well as preempt the emerging concerns—of industrial companies about implementing EIM. Through a series of thought leadership...

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Key takeaways:

• Autodesk stayed on message about the future of making things, positioning Fusion 360 and Autodesk 360 at the center of their product innovation platform
• Autodesk announced Forge, an initiative to accelerate cloud solution development for their platform, consisting of a platform-as-a-service offering, a developer program, and a $100 million investment fund
• Inventor 2016 introduced AnyCAD, an approach for importing foreign CAD models into Inventor without data conversion unless the user needs to edit the models

Autodesk University 2015 opened to the fanfare of the Star Wars theme and a phalanx of Imperial storm troopers escorting...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 December 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces new research on “CONTACT Software: Focused on Customer Success.”

In today’s global economy, industrial companies face competitors from around the world. Customers demand increasingly complex products that require new approaches, new value chains, and new enabling technologies. To meet this changing world, many companies apply product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and enabling solutions. CONTACT Software, a German company with a global strategy, has been successful through their laser focus on their customer’s success. This paper focuses on how CONTACT is evolving their offerings...

Free educational webinar focused on the importance of defining and developing a sustainable PLM strategy, will take place on January 14, 2016.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 December 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Developing a Sustainable PLM Strategy.” The webinar will take place on January 14 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will address the evolving nature of a typical enterprise and how PLM strategies should be defined and implemented in a sustainable manner—one that naturally addresses change.

According to the webinar host, CIMdata’s President, Peter Bilello, “Implementation of PLM is like...