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Paving new paths with the Autodesk Platform

Key takeaways:

• For the first time since 2019, Autodesk University 2022 was held as an in-person event, and the 9,000+ in attendance were as excited to be there in person as Autodesk itself.
• As planned, its Forge initiative yielded a platform, now known as the Autodesk Platform, that is leveraged by their Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC), Media & Entertainment (M&E), and Design & Manufacturing (D&M) business segments in their own industry-focused “clouds.”
• Their Design & Manufacturing cloud, now known as Autodesk Fusion, blazed the trail for their efforts and...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 13 October 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Practice Director for Simulation-Driven Systems Development, Don Tolle, will participate in a webinar, “A Cloud-Native, Low Code Environment for Engineering Workflow Automation and Collaboration.” The webinar, sponsored by DATADVANCE, takes place on Wednesday, 9 November, at 11:00 AM EST.

Dealing with the design complexity of cyber-physical products and smart interconnected systems of systems is driving the need for increased use of advanced digital modeling, simulation, and multi-disciplinary analysis and...

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

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 12 October 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “CIMdata’s Critical Dozen: The Top 12 Trends & Enablers for Digital Transformation.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 10 November 2022, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

Many digital transformations fail because one or more of the necessary elements are overlooked or only partially enabled. For a digital transformation to succeed, all elements...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 11 October 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Practice Director for Simulation-Driven Systems Development, Don Tolle, will participate in a webinar, “New Ways For Manufacturers To Accelerate Your Product Design, Development & Market Launch.” The webinar, sponsored by UberCloud, takes place on Wednesday, 2 November, at 11:00 AM EDT.

Digital transformation has become a major business imperative. Dealing with the design complexity of cyber-physical products is driving the need for increased use of advanced digital modeling,...

CIMdata’s education offerings will be available in Santa Clara in December 2022.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 6 October 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global strategic consulting and research firm focused on PLM and the digital transformation it enables, announces that it will offer its PLM Certificate Program in Santa Clara, CA, USA, from 5-9 December 2022.

This program prepares PLM professionals to address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation, allowing them to help their organizations realize the benefits of PLM and the digital transformation it enables. The assessment-based program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and...

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Key takeaways:

• Issues caused by the pandemic, trade relationships, regulatory pressures, Environmental, Sustainability, and Governance (ESG), and economic circumstances have transformed the topic of supply chain from a manufacturing strategy element to a hot C-level business strategy issue.
• Digital transformation leaders need to balance strategic goals of cost, quality, and performance with a wide variety of risks as purchased items are acquired and incorporated into finished products.
• Digital logistics applies the use of digital technologies to improve supply chain efficiency, resiliency, and ESG support.
• Siemens uses the digital logistics capabilities of the Xcelerator cloud architecture to support...

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

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden 4 October 2022—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map and PDT EMEA 2022 event. The participating sponsors are Configit, DxP Services, ESI, Global Product Data Interoperability Summit, PDSVision, The Reuse Company, SAP, Share PLM, TECHNIA, Variantum, and XPLM. The event will take place at the Lindholmen Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, on 18 & 19 October.

“We are excited to have these key solution providers choose to sponsor our PLM Road Map and PDT conference. In fact, sponsorship opportunities are...

Collaborative research partners include the leading Aerospace & Defense Industry OEMs and PLM solution providers active in this space.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 22 September 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the initiation of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program focused on the topic of Digital Thread.

The Digital Thread has been a core element of the PLM vision for decades. The concept of automated linkage of multiple representations of a product, each tuned to the needs of various creators and consumers along...

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Leveraging AI/ML, data analytics, and optmization across the enterprise

Key takeaways:

• Dealing with the design complexity of cyber-physical products and smart, interconnected systems of systems is driving the need for increased use of advanced digital modeling, simulation, and multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) augmented with AI/Machine Learning technologies.
• Engineers can now define and apply multi-disciplinary digital twins and MDAO starting earlier in the conceptual design and development phase as well as apply it in manufacturing and in operations to enable combined physics and ML-based “hybrid digital twins.”
• Industry leaders use MDAO to enable design innovation; reduce overall...

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On September 14, 2022, Aras announced a strategic OEM licensing partnership with AVEVA (OTC: AVEVF) that includes AVEVA licensing Aras’ SaaS product innovation platform. The press release states “AVEVA will license the Aras Innovator^® platform to deliver a series of scalable, Asset Lifecycle Management solutions, which will integrate Aras’ open and flexible portfolio of applications with AVEVA Unified Engineering and AVEVA Asset Information Management.”

Over the years Aras has closed a number of OEM licensing deals with Infor, Minerva PLM, ANSYS, and now AVEVA. All these licensees have delivered products...