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Plex Systems, a Rockwell Automation company and a leader in cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions, today announced a new modularization approach for its Smart Manufacturing Platform to enable accessibility and scalability for digital transformation in manufacturing. This approach, enabled by Plex’s innovative cloud-native platform, more closely aligns with customers’ needs as they build their smart manufacturing technology strategy, including a focus on flexibility, quick implementation, and ease of entry with a path to grow.

With Plex, manufacturers can start their digital transformation in a number of ways. For example, they can initially implement quality management (QMS) or manufacturing execution (MES)...

Infosys a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting and Harvard Business Publishing, today announced their collaboration to empower India’s next generation, through Infosys Springboard, with critical digital and life skills made available free of cost. This is part of the continued efforts Infosys is making to empower 10 million plus people with digital skills by 2025 – a goal integral to Infosys’ ESG Vision 2030.

Harvard Business Publishing turns provocative ideas influencing business – fueled by the latest thinking in Harvard Business School, Harvard Business Review, and world-renowned experts – into impactful and actionable skill-building and learning resources. Through...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that customer adoption of the Cadence^® Cerebrus™ Intelligent Chip Explorer is accelerating with new production deployments completed. Given that Cadence Cerebrus employs artificial intelligence (AI) technology to automate and scale digital chip design, it offers customers the compelling value proposition of optimized power, performance and area (PPA) and improved engineering productivity.

Cadence Cerebrus is a transformational AI-driven technology that has a unique reinforcement learning engine, which automatically optimizes tool and chip design options to deliver better PPA with significantly less engineering effort and overall time to tapeout. As one example, the Cadence Cerebrus floorplan optimization feature...

This educational webinar will share CIMdata’s twelve most important elements for successful digital transformation.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 14 June 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Digital Transformation’s Critical Dozen: None Are Optional.” The webinar will occur on Thursday, 14 July 2022, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last one hour.

This webinar will focus on digital transformation’s critical role in the future of your business and the critical dozen elements that all digital transformation programs need. The last...

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Using low-code tools delivers competitive business advantage

Key takeaways:

• Growing economic and social uncertainties, and continually changing market issues (competition, product complexity, customer demands, and regulatory requirements) are affecting all industrial companies and their value chains.
• To successfully manage complexity and risk, modern value chains require technology characterized by hyper-connectivity (on-premises, cloud, and edge), and are personalized for ease of use and fit-for-purpose. These key criteria best support end-to-end workflows and a comprehensive digital twin strategy that enables an Industry 4.0 vision.
• Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio enables end-to-end digital threads across value chains and industrial vertical markets. The...

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Key takeaways:

• In response to regulatory requirements, customer demand, and investor demand sustainability is becoming a strategic objective at companies.
• While sustainability goals and targets get the headlines, achieving them in practice is difficult. Although operational issues tend to get the focus, depending on the product, up to 80% of the sustainability impact relates to engineering design decisions.
• While current regulations are strict, as climate change concerns grow, C0₂ output will get increasing scrutiny from consumers, investors, regulatory bodies, and employees.
• Solutions that capture requirements, define features to satisfy requirements, verify the features are implemented, and systematically...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 1 June 2022—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce the successful completion of PLM Road Map & PDT North America. The theme for the event was Digital Transformation and PLM–a call for PLM Professionals to re-define and re-position the benefits and value of PLM. The event took place at the Tysons Corner Marriott, near Washington D.C. 2022 marks the 29th year the event has been in operation.

The event comprised presentations made by PLM users representing several industry verticals interleaved with short vignettes about critical topics of interest presented by the event's sponsors.

Speakers and...

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Key takeaways:

• As cloud technology and software as a service (SaaS) delivery have evolved, CIMdata has observed a split in the Cloud PLM market, which we are labeling Gen 1 and Gen 2.
• First generation (“Gen 1”) SaaS PLM solutions were developed natively on hyperscaler platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, etc.) with multitenant capabilities focused on being deployable, upgradable, cost effective, but not necessarily configurable. A variant of Gen 1 is deploying an on-premises version of a solution in a cloud data center leveraging Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) via virtual machines.
• Gen 2 refers to second...

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Key takeaways:

• SaaS PLM solutions have been around for 20 years and have evolved significantly over that time.
• CIMdata recognizes two distinct generations of SaaS PLM solutions, which we are calling Gen 1 and Gen 2.
• Gen 1 SaaS PLM solutions offer basic capabilities, limited configurability, and are well suited for companies with simpler products or are using out of the box legacy on-premises solutions hosted in a cloud data center.
• Gen 2 SaaS PLM solutions offer full on-cloud capabilities, significantly more configurability, and suit companies with more complex products with a high design content.

Introduction to SaaS...

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CIMdata Highlight

Aras, a mindshare leader in the enterprise product lifecycle management (PLM) software market, recently announced that they had acquired a controlling interest in XPLM, a Dresden, Germany based provider of PLM integration connectors and related services. XPLM is well-known to CIMdata and is considered to be a very capable supplier delivering integration solutions to many of the leading companies within the PLM marketplace and other enterprise solution markets.

XPLM provides a broad and capable suite of integrations that are deployed in PLM implementations including MCAD, ECAD, CAE, MBSE, ALM, PDM, ERP, quality assurance,...