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This free educational webinar will offer ways to help make net zero a reality.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA December 12, 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, "The Green Energy Transition and Sustainability." The webinar will take place on Thursday, January 12 2023, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is critical to accelerating the Green Energy transition by enabling companies to reduce their carbon footprints and design sustainability into their products, plants, and assets from the outset so they can better manage them throughout...

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Key takeaways:

• Product complexity is increasingly a system-of-systems problem requiring effective, efficient systems engineering management solutions from product inception through operations.
• Requirements must be written well, with no ambiguity. They must be shared as they are refined. Duplication of requirements leads to confusion, wasted time, and in extreme cases poor product performance.
• Models of all sorts (logical, functional, structural, electrical, mechanical, equational, etc.) must also be authored well, with no ambiguity. They must also be shared as they are refined. Copies of any engineering items produced within the system engineering digital thread leads to confusion and...

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Key takeaways:

• Oracle CloudWorld convened in Las Vegas, NV on 17-20 October, their first large in-person event in three years.
• Oracle acknowledged that the future will be multi-cloud and their Microsoft partnership is just the first in what its customers hope will be a series of announcements to support their own cloud journeys.
• The company described innovative new approaches to B2B commerce processes and much needed global innovation in healthcare.
• Migration from Oracle Agile PLM is accelerating and new PLM capabilities are on the horizon.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending Oracle CloudWorld 2022 in Las Vegas, NV...

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TCS’ PREMAP Integrates Knowledge, Data, and Simulation

Key takeaways:

• Product development is increasingly a complex system-of-systems problem requiring effective, efficient decision making to solve.
• Knowledge comes from experience, scientific insights, best practices derived from simulation, data, and observations. It is often acquired in an enterprise in various forms besides being in the heads of experienced engineers.
• Competitive pressures are driving manufacturers to transform their development strategy and toolsets, making sure all knowledge is considered and applied effectively.
• Applications which can deliver knowledge contextually will play a key role in defining the future of business, customer experiences, and product...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 28 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Doug Macdonald, Director of PLM Success and Executive Consultant, will join a webinar specifically for PLM Professionals in the food and beverage (F&B) industry. The webinar is on Thursday, 15 December, at 2:00 PM EST.

The F&B industry faces numerous challenges affecting the ability to bring new products to market and drive growth and margins—inflation, talk of recession, risk of reinstated COVID measures, and continuing supply chain disruptions...

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Key takeaways:

• Configuration management is a fundamental capability requirement for any product produced in series and any complex machine.
• Poor configuration management guarantees business failure in the long-term and often in the short-term.
• Teamcenter supports lifecycle configuration management at scale from requirements through as-maintained serialized configurations. The Advanced Machine Engineering focuses on requirements through the as-designed state and is directly compatible with other lifecycle extensions including advanced simulation, manufacturing, and service.

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The industrial machinery landscape remains incredibly complex. Domain and system requirements, changing assembly designs, third party components—all these facets and more must be managed beneath the...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 22 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an updated whitepaper titled “Advanced Machine Engineering Transforming the Machine Building Industry.” and an update to the related commentary “Configuration Management: Configuration Integrity is a Core Driver for Business Success.” They were originally published in October 2020 and the updates reflect improvements over the past two years.

As machines grow in complexity machine and equipment builders often struggle to meet cost, quality, timing, and functionality requirements demanded by their customers. Machine applications run the gamut of industries from machine...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 22 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will participate in a webinar, “Product Value Management in the Age of Disruption.” The webinar, sponsored by Propel, takes place on Wednesday, 7 December, at 1:00 PM EST.

Due to their siloed nature, traditional enterprise software solutions do not adequately support the creation and capture of value. This webinar will discuss a new approach to managing the lifecycle of products called product value management...

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On 17 November 2022, PTC announced Its intent to acquire field service provider ServiceMax, a cloud-native, product-centric field service management (FSM) solution provider. ServiceMax provides a suite of cloud-native FSM capabilities built on the Salesforce platform. These capabilities include managing all relevant information about serviced products—product description, serial number, service history, and more—creating and managing work orders and scheduling and dispatching technicians. ServiceMax’s FSM capabilities are closely integrated with Salesforce’s customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Subject to the satisfaction of regulatory approval and other applicable closing conditions, the transaction is expected to close...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an updated eBook titled “Accelerating Your Industrial Machinery Projects with Generative Design.” Originally published in 2018 as “Siemens PLM Software Advances Generative Design Technology in NX,” this update reflects the last four years of improvements.

Generative design is a process wherein the shape and composition of a product are determined by using physics-based simulation and other analysis methods that consider performance requirements and optimize objectives such...