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• In today’s global competitive markets, it is increasingly difficult for small-to-medium size manufacturers (SMEs), such as part manufacturing companies, to survive as the manufacturing and supply chain challenges become more complex.
• SMEs, even those with 25 or fewer employees, can now adopt modern digital manufacturing technologies and solutions once reserved for large enterprises to get the most out of their limited resources and remain competitive.
• Siemens Xcelerator portfolio enables creation of a digital thread and management of the product data and processes that span the complete production process, allowing manufacturers of all sizes to...

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• Organizations are responding to sustainability needs and challenges with increased urgency and higher prioritization, evolving from an element of corporate social responsibility to a critical global reporting imperative.
• Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals provides focus for the sustainability programs for companies from a wide range of industries, with investors, Boards of Directors, regulators, and customers raising their expectations and demanding progress reporting on a company’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) efforts.
• Innovation investments in sustainability during new product and service design processes generates long-term social and environmental benefits while incrementally creating economic profits...

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

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 18 January 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Attaining Successful Digital Transformation through a Well-Executed Implementation.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 9 February 2023, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

When a PLM solution suite is selected, the solution must be properly architected and implemented to support an organization’s business processes and methods to maximize its value in a digital...

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ESI’s predictive, real-time & immersive virtual testing support democratization of product & process simulation.

Key takeaways

• Simulation software primarily uses physics models to perform structural, thermal, and fluid-flow analyses, requiring deep domain expertise, and often expensive high-performance computers to get accurate results.
• Modeling effort and lengthy calculation times historically forced simulation off the critical path, impacting schedules, placing it in expert silos, and squandering broader opportunities that simulation can provide.
• Advances in simulation software, big data, machine learning, and computing hardware combined with a single logical source of truth mindset enable the means to test new designs...

This annual survey is now in its fifth year.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 January 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the launch of its annual PLM Status & Trends survey.

This eagerly awaited survey, now in its fifth year, is intended for PLM practitioners with experience implementing and using PLM strategies and enabling technologies. The goal is to deepen the collective understanding of the status, drivers, and preconditions for companies to achieve value from their investment in PLM.

We want to understand the following from respondents:

• Where your company is on its PLM journey.
• Where your company...

Developing hybrid digital twins with strategic insights and implementation consulting.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 16 January 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the expansion of its Simulation-driven Systems Development (SDSD) practice team, with the addition of Sandeepak Natu as an Executive Consultant.

With industry experience of more than 25 years, Sandeepak has a strong background in multi-physics-based modeling and simulation technologies, including the development and application of hybrid digital twins. Sandeepak started his career with Fluent India (now part of ANSYS Inc.) and has been associated...

Research seeks input from PLM professionals on how they are approaching this critical challenge.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 12 January 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the launch of a new research effort on how industrial companies are addressing sustainability and the transition to Green Energy.

Sustainability and the transition to Green Energy are critical issues that are top of mind for companies, investors, and consumers alike. CIMdata would like to understand how industrial firms address this by inviting participation in a new CIMdata...

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Key takeaways

• aPriori’s key message is that, with respect to sustainability, it’s time to move from intent to impact.
• aPriori announced aP Sustainability Insights, scheduled for release in Q1 2023, which garnered a lot of attention from attendees.
• aPriori announced aP Workspace scheduled for release in Q1 2023, with the promise of greater collaboration across the extended enterprise.
• aPriori announced the next major releases of aP Pro, aP Design, and aP Analytics in March 2023.
• Presenters at the conference emphasized the importance of applying early product design feedback, which improves manufacturability, profitability, and sustainability.
• Sustainable design is the key...

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• The food & beverage (F&B) industry is facing many challenges affecting the ability to bring new products to market and drive growth and margins, notably inflation, fear of recession, risk of reinstated COVID measures, new regulations, and continuing supply chain disruptions for all materials from raw ingredients to packaging materials.
• Continuing pressure on national brands from competitively priced private brands is driving product innovation, complicated by the emergence of new food categories, and changing consumer preferences. At the same time, opportunities are being created for local brands to gain shelf space at large...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 4 January 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Craig Brown, Executive Consultant, will join a webinar entitled “Systems Engineering Rigor needs an Interoperability Framework.” The webinar, hosted by The Reuse Company, takes place on Tuesday, 17 January, at 11:00 AM EST.

The webinar will look at why an interoperability framework is vital for systems engineering and will consider the following:

• How an interoperability framework can eliminate holding copies of requirements in separate files, ensuring that engineers use the same basis for requirements.
• How through the use of rigorous change and notification...