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Evaluate this application by participating in the User Experience Engagement.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 18 May 2023—Members of the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) Global Collaboration project team will participate in a webinar to launch a User Experience Engagement (UXE) to evaluate a newly available Collaboration Management System (CMS) prototype application. The CMS enhances collaboration between Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers.

Collaboration among OEMs and their product design, manufacturing engineering partners, and suppliers is key to any major aerospace and defense (A&D) program....

Leveraging Product Innovation to Achieve Transformational Sustainability

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 16 May 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a Whitepaper titled “Innovate Sustainable Products with PLM” centered on SAP’s support for product innovation and sustainability enabled by their integrated business platform.

In response to increased societal pressure and regulation, businesses focused on product innovation are now prioritizing sustainability in their business goals. But most sustainability initiatives start too late, being focused on fixing a problem that is already designed into a product. Organizations must increasingly think about bringing innovative products to...

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Key Takeaways

• ACE 2023 brought together Aras, their customers, prospects, and partners, as well as a group of industry analysts in Orlando, FL on 1-4 May in a time of great change for the company.
• Aras continues to expand their partnerships with global enterprise software companies (AVEVA and Ansys) building new commercial offerings on top of their Aras Innovator platform.
• Aras and Microsoft announced a major expansion of their long-time partnership, including listing Aras Innovator on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
• The event highlighted customers from a range of industries, some long-time Aras users and others just starting...

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Key Takeaways

• As automotive products continue to become more complex, OEMs rely more heavily on suppliers with special expertise for sophisticated components and subsystems.
• Managing collaborative interactions, including engineering changes, among the numerous companies that contribute to a vehicle’s definition, manufacture, and support is essential for bottom-line profit.
• The manual data exchange processes that automotive OEMs have used in the past are no longer sufficient given increased business speed, agility, and systems complexity. However, OEM’s that allow suppliers inside their firewall expose themselves to serious risks and liabilities.
• Cooperative and collaborative engineering and manufacturing are evolving throughout...

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Further Accelerating Time to Value for Aras Innovator Subscribers

Key Takeaways

• DevOps is a methodology that improves the performance of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by tightly integrating solution development and operation in cloud-based and on-premises solutions.
• To achieve process efficiency all the steps in SDLC from solution planning through deployment and operation must be integrated as a continuous, repeatable workflow. Creating and maintaining the toolchain to support the workflow is complex due to the heterogenous mix of tools and a lack of standards from a variety of software providers.
• Aras Innovator is well-known for its low...

This annual educational webinar will focus on the PLM market results for 2022.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 10 May 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “2023 PLM Market Update.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 8 June 2023, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

The PLM Economy, CIMdata’s phrase describing the global ecosystem of software and services providers that help industrial companies achieve their PLM objectives, has grown strongly over the last decade. This webinar will focus on the results for the calendar year 2022 and...

Research was commissioned by the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group in collaboration with Eurostep and other leading PLM solution providers.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 9 May 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the publication of a new eBook that summarizes the results of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program and highlights Eurostep’s perspective on the topic of digital threads. The CIMdata-administered Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group commissioned the research in collaboration with Eurostep and four other leading PLM solution providers.

The concept of linking multiple representations of a product, each tuned to the needs...

This prototype application, available for evaluation by industry, will debut at the 2023 PLM Road Map & PDT North America Event.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 3 May 2023—Representatives from the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) Global Collaboration project team announce the availability of a working prototype application to enhance collaboration between OEMs and their suppliers. The Collaboration Management System (CMS) prototype is an open-service application developed by Talisen Technologies. The resulting software incorporates best practices defined by the AD PAG Global Collaboration project team for information exchange across...

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Key Takeaways

• Stored electric energy sources are expanding rapidly using both chemical and solid-state technologies.
• Companies need new, robust digital solutions that enable the design and manufacturing of innovative battery systems for existing products.
• New battery technologies are emerging and evolving faster thanks to inexpensive, connected sensing, and machine-learning digital twins that improve understanding by exposing design weaknesses with expansive “destructive” simulations, i.e., improving product robustness, especially safety.
• The stronger collaboration between the Automation and Software business units of Siemens Digital Industries is designed to cover the entire value chain of battery manufacturers. Siemens is supporting newcomers...

Research was commissioned by the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group in collaboration with Aras and other leading PLM solution providers.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 2 May 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the publication of a new eBook that summarizes the results of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program and highlights Aras’ perspective on the topic of digital threads. The CIMdata-administered Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group commissioned the research in collaboration with Aras and four other leading PLM solution providers.

The concept of linking multiple representations of a product, each tuned to the needs of...