CIMdata Blog

Events offer the first look at CIMdata’s analysis of 2022’s PLM market results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 9 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm, announces the schedule and theme for its 2023 PLM Market & Industry Forum.

The theme for 2023 is “The Digital Thread: Powering Business Transformation.” In this industry-leading Forum designed exclusively for PLM software and service providers, CIMdata will frame the topic of the digital thread and discuss the issues faced by industrial users so that members...

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Key takeaways:

• The creation of today’s highly complex cyber-physical products, combined with intense global competition and time to market pressures, requires significantly greater use of computer-aided engineering (CAE) to assess, validate, and optimize the functional performance of components and sub-systems, as well as complete systems.
• The expanded use of CAE, the cloud, big data analytics, digital twins, and AI/machine learning is driving the need for ever-increasing access to high performance computing (HPC) resources by significantly more engineers across the global enterprise.
• Simr (formerly known as UberCloud) provides enterprises of all sizes with an integrated, engineering computing...

This free educational webinar will review the significant events in the PLM economy so far in 2022 and help attendees make sense of them.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA November 8, 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The State of the PLM Economy.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

If there is one constant in the PLM Economy, i.e., the collection of software and service providers that...

This survey seeks input from PLM professionals regarding their experiences with PLM providers and solutions.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 27 October 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the launch of a new survey on the experiences PLM Professionals have with their PLM providers.

The survey seeks input from PLM practitioners with experience implementing and using PLM strategies and enabling technologies. The survey’s goal is to understand better the strengths and weaknesses of current PLM solutions and providers and the emerging needs and challenges within the market.

Responses are confidential and are not attributable to any person...

Moving from a single BOM to a common representation

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 3 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of a summary of CIMdata research on the application of an enterprise bill of material (BOM).

Manufacturers from many industries face incredible demand to bring their multi-domain products to market faster while differentiating from their competition. As product complexity continues to increase, companies are exploring enterprise-level BOM management strategies to better manage part and product data throughout the product lifecycle and foster collaboration across software, electronic, electrical, and mechanical domains. To better...

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Key takeaways:

• IFS Unleashed 2022 brought together IFS and its customers in person for the first time since 2019.
• The company has transformed from a regional, mid-market ERP player to a global enterprise software dynamo that is winning larger and larger customers.
• Their customers cite their technology AND their corporate culture as key buying decision criteria.
• IFS’ enhanced go-to-market capabilities will help drive continued strong growth.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending IFS Unleashed 2022, the IFS user conference, in Miami Beach, FL on October 10-13, 2022. For IFS, this was a return to an in-person event for...

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Key takeaways:

• Buildings, infrastructure, and other similar physical assets are designed and constructed by AEC/EPC firms and typically owned and operated (O/O) by other organizations. This leads to a typical data dilemma: too much data that is often not the correct data nor semantically accurate to be usable. Data governance is badly needed, which itself requires data alignment.
• The AEC/EPC and O/O domains often struggle to deliver a complete and accurate information model to their O/Os, missing clear guidance from “data stewards.”
• Without an overarching data model and resulting digital twin of a physical asset, O/Os...

Evolving from Product Development into Operational Efficiency

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 2 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of an eBook, “Hybrid Digital Twins: Evolving from Product Development into Operational Efficiency,” focused on the state of the art in applying digital twin technologies in industrial companies.

Manufacturers in all industries have been applying digital modeling and simulation technologies since the 1970s but now face new challenges as products continue to become more complex, more functional, and more connected with an ever-increasing amount of embedded software and electronics as part of the Industry 4.0...

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Key takeaways:

• Companies in process-oriented industries have many unique challenges to overcome to get products to market and sustain them successfully.
• Rather than the product, the process complexity makes the difference for these companies.
• Tight integration between systems across the product lifecycle is essential to manage the product lifecycle efficiently and realize the benefits in manufacturing (benefits during hand-over, scale-up, and BOM synchronization).
• PLM is a critical enabler for the development of formulated products, and the adoption of an integrated suite such as SAP PLM can help businesses be more efficient.
• Linx-AS has a heritage of success with...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 19 October 2022—Today, CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, published a new eBook focused on Siemens Digital Industries Software’s (Siemens) Enterprise Bill of Material (BOM) solution. Siemens’ comprehensive enterprise BOM solution is designed to enable manufacturers to engineer, produce, and service configured products while effectively managing change and feeding their downstream business solutions (e.g., ERP, service, supply chain). This eBook describes manufacturers need to better manage the many BOMs used throughout their extended enterprise, the benefits of an enterprise BOM approach. It will also describe Siemens’ solution to this problem...