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Requires Engineering Solutions that Foster Trust

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 25 October 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the publication of a white paper, ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle Development. The white paper describes advanced engineering narratives that will improve ADAS and AV development. The narratives highlight building trust with virtual engineering that exploits continuous verification and validation, continuous optimized system behavior, and comprehensive frontloading of vehicle engineering. Siemens is using these three narratives to drive their Xcelerator solution capabilities that in turn enable automakers to address competitive ADAS and AV engineering, manufacturing, and operational...

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Key Takeaways

• Digital transformation is a continuous journey that requires a range of product lifecycle applications that are flexible and scalable from strategic providers that companies can trust to support and evolve as their needs adapt to a rapidly changing business environment.
• The adoption of PLM in cloud-based environments will continue to grow and garner significant attention across diverse industries.
• The combination of dependable support, flexibility, risk mitigation, security, and scalability provided by SaaS PLM platforms in concert with cloud partners is becoming a business imperative.
• Siemens Digital Industries Software and Amazon Web Services partnership delivers the...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 19 October 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled Canvas GFX: Delivering Digital Content.

True Digital Transformation can and must deliver strategic benefits far beyond product design engineering. While computer-aided design (CAD) leveraged to define the digital, virtual product, and product lifecycle management (PLM) platforms deployed to manage product data are at the core of Digital Transformation, being able to extract the value of that product data and transfer that wealth of information downstream is the payoff that delivers at scale.

This eBook introduces how Canvas...

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Over the past several decades, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has grown into a technological force that “brings things together“ so that product developers, manufacturers, systems integrators, users, owners, and support personnel can make sense of all that is going into, and happening to, products and physical assets. This is crucial to maximizing and extracting value from their definitions.

CIMdata has been at the forefront of the ever-evolving PLM landscape for four decades. As we celebrate our 40th year in 2023, we reflect on the transformation PLM has undergone and how CIMdata’s journey, in many...

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Sharing open collaboration and joint innovation to drive digital transformation across the product life cycle

Key Takeaways

• Growing complexity is affecting all industries and successful companies are digitally transforming their business to become more agile and productive.
• Digital transformation is a continuing journey and companies need to establish strategic partners to enable them throughout that journey.
• Accenture has in-depth experience with many clients in different industries providing the insights that form the base of knowledge needed to pursue digital transformation possibilities.
• Accenture and Siemens Digital Industries Software partnership delivers the expertise, technologies, and coordinated management to enable effective...

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On 16 October 2023 Mr. Ray Hein, one of Propel Software’s co-founders, announced his retirement from day-to-day responsibilities at the firm. He had turned over the CEO role at Propel in 2022 to Mr. Ross Meyercord, a Salesforce veteran,^[1] and last held the title of Chief Strategy Officer. Tapping Mr. Meyercord makes sense given that Propel is built on the Salesforce platform and is part of a huge ecosystem of Salesforce application providers, a great strength of the Propel offering.

Mr. Hein has a long history in...

Eleven country-specific PLM market analyses now available.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 12 October 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of ten additional country-specific 2023 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These additional reports follow the release of the 2023 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.

The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2022 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2022, and forecasts PLM investments...

This presentation is part of CIMdata’s educational webinar series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 11 October 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “How Product Manufacturing Information Enables Digital Transformation.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 9 November 2023, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) is the technology that associates Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and annotations directly to 3D models and has been available for over 20 years. During this time,...

CIMdata’s Sandeepak Natu will give a keynote address on Developing Simulation as an Enterprise Asset.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 5 October 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that Sandeepak Natu, an executive consultant focusing on Simulation Analysis, will participate as a keynote speaker at the upcoming pSeven User Conference 2023. The event will take place virtually on 18 October. Sandeepak’s presentation, “Developing Simulation as an Enterprise Asset: Powered by comprehensive and collaborative engineering platforms,” is...