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The CIMdata administered Group provides research and guidance on the top PLM issues impacting aircraft manufacturers, major defense OEMs, and Tier 1 suppliers.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 25 April 2023—Representatives from seven major aerospace and defense companies recently held their annual meeting in Cincinnati, OH, USA, to discuss and review the status and findings of the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) PLM Action Group’s working teams and to set priorities for the Group’s 10th business year. General Electric Aerospace hosted this year’s meeting at its corporate learning center.

Members attended the meeting in person and virtually. The A&D PLM Action Group, which CIMdata...

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Accelerating Sustainable Product Development & Operations

On Tuesday, 18 April 2023, Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced that they are expanding their long-term partnership in a significant way, collaborating to develop an offering that combines their solutions for systems engineering, service lifecycle management, and asset management. The companies believe that this new combined offering will help organizations optimize product lifecycles, make it easier to improve traceability across processes, as well as prototype and test concepts earlier in development, resulting in more sustainable product designs.

Leveraging SysML v1 standards, the companies...

This annual event presents PLM industry trends, global PLM market growth, and major research topics.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 20 April 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the successful completion of its 2023 PLM Market & Industry Forum. For 2023 the Forums were held as in-person events in the North America and EMEA regions and virtually in India, China, and Japan.

CIMdata's PLM Market & Industry Forums are the world's premier event for software and service providers focused on the PLM market and its development and growth. Participants gathered to hear CIMdata's perspective on the...

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Key Takeaways

• Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage with Upchain (Autodesk PLM) is an easy-to-use SaaS cloud solution for product design and manufacturing (D&M) that deploys quickly, is easy to configure, maintain, and can adapt to your existing processes.
• Autodesk PLM provides connected product development that can grow with your business. It provides multi-CAD data management, product data management (PDM), and a full suite of product lifecycle management (PLM) capabilities modularly delivered that companies can deploy as needed.
• Autodesk PLM enables innovation by improving collaboration across work functions, breaking down siloed work practices, and reducing the duplication of...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 April 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that James Roche, Executive Consultant and Aerospace & Defense Practice Director at CIMdata, will participate in a webinar, “The Digital Thread – How will it impact your business?” The webinar, organized by Eurostep, takes place on Thursday, 27 April, at 10:00 AM EDT.

In this webinar, CIMdata will share key findings from recent Digital Thread research commissioned by the Aerospace and Defense PLM Action Group in collaboration with solution providers Aras, Eurostep, Jama Software, PTC, and Siemens Digital Industries Software. The research...

Leading technologies empowering the next generation of 3D engineering software solutions

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 18 April 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a White Paper titled “PLM Components” centered on Siemens Digital Industries Software’s PLM Components solutions.

Software developers face many challenges when building a new application or tool including the need to satisfy technology and quality requirements. Many turn to licensing software components to gain an advantage. Siemens Digital Industries Software provides a full suite of component software including the proven 3D geometry kernel, Parasolid, and the visualization format, JT,...

Leading solution providers to sponsor product lifecycle management (PLM) conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden 7 April—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map and PDT North America 2023 event. The participating sponsors are the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group, Altium, Aras, Digital Enterprise Society, Esteco, Inensia, Magic Software, Processia, Propel, Razorleaf, and Share PLM. The event will take place at The Marriott Tysons Corner on May 3 and 4.

“We are excited to have these key solution providers choose...

CIMdata’s flagship education program will be available in Amsterdam in June.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 28 March 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will hold its public Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate program in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 19-13 June.

This unique CIMdata program prepares PLM professionals to address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and evaluations of achievement. CIMdata experts with years of hands-on experience facilitate the program. Successful completion of the program and assessments leads to a Certificate of...

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Key takeaways

• Advances in high fidelity system simulation software and computing hardware have improved useability and performance, enabling engineers to bring simulation earlier into product development, especially decisions based on complicated, coupled physics, e.g., turbulent flows of gases and fluids affecting lifting forces, drag, thermodynamics, and structural loads.
• Simulation software primarily uses physics-based solutions to perform structural, thermal, and fluid-flow analyses and requires domain experts and historically expensive computers to get useful solutions. Often, empirical data drives matching algorithms to refine and validate models. This landscape is changing thanks to algorithmic refinements using mathematical formulations...