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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 14 April—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Tom Gill, Senior Consultant, will participate in a webinar entitled, “Move from Digital Trauma to Digital Nirvana.” The webinar, sponsored by Aras, takes place on Thursday, April 28th, at 11:00 AM EDT.

In this webinar, Tom will be part of a discussion that will explain how businesses can be transformed using a digital thread enabled by SaaS PLM.

Tom Gill has over 35 years of experience applying computer-based solutions to engineering and manufacturing. Before joining CIMdata, he worked as an independent PLM consultant...

The CEO Spotlight session will feature leaders from Aras, PTC, and Siemens Digital Industries Software.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 13 April 2022—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep are pleased to announce that they will bring together the CEOs from three major PLM solution providers for an open discussion at PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2022. The CEO Spotlight, "View From the Top: The Future of PLM in the Age of Digitalization," will be moderated by CIMdata's President and CEO, Peter Bilello. This two-day in-person event will take place May 24-25 at the Marriott Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA, near...

This educational webinar will share CIMdata’s 2022 global PLM status and trends survey results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 6 April 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “2022: PLM Status & Trends.” The webinar will occur on Thursday, 12 May 2022, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

This webinar will provide insight into the results of CIMdata’s recent global PLM Status & Trends research. The study aimed to deepen the global PLM community’s collective understanding of the...

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Success is a multi-variable equation; you need to address all the variables

Key takeaways:

• Successful companies must digitally transform their business to create and sustain their competitive advantage.
• Digital transformation is more than just digitizing data—it requires a change in how a business operates, eliminating information silos and creating a digital thread that spans the value network.
• Digital transformation enables companies to create and drive more competitive business models, opportunities, and business resilience.
• Success requires commitment, planning, focus, and sustained funding and effort.

Introduction

The world is in the midst of a digital industrial revolution, today’s manufacturing enterprises are facing...

How to Maximize Flexibility while Reducing Cost

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 23 March 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of an eBook focused on Siemens Mechanical Bundle for Solid Edge and NX licensing.

Based on annual CIMdata research, the mechanical CAD market is bifurcated into design-focused and multi-discipline mechanical CAD. The design-focused segment supports the majority of product design needs. The multi-discipline segment incorporates advanced capabilities such as advanced surface modeling to support complex, aesthetic shapes needed in styled products in addition to virtual commissioning and factory automation. Annual sales show the relative...

CIMdata’s education offerings will be available in North America and Europe during the second quarter of 2022.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 22 March—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces that it will offer two in-person PLM Certificate Programs during the second quarter of 2022. The programs will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, from 16-20 May and in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 20-24 June.

These programs prepare 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 its enabling technologies....

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Key takeaways:

• A closed-loop requirements view through all phases of the product lifecycle—from design to manufacturing and including customer use—is critical so that an Automaker can learn, adapt, and adjust continually to stay ahead of its competition.
• Only a fully integrated solution—one that is and remains integrated through a product’s lifecycle across all disciplines—can enable the process revolution essential to establish and sustain an automaker in a leadership position for tomorrow.
• Reducing early physical prototypes with simulation by relating requirements with test results enables repeatable, traceable correlation of virtual to actual performance.
• Concurrently examining how a requirement...

I recently spent some “quality” “Zoom” time with my colleague, Jim Roche, who is CIMdata’s A&D Practice Director. Jim was excited to talk about his upcoming presentation, The Multi-View BOM Value Potential, at the CIMdata PLM Market & Industry Forum, which takes place over the late March to early April time frame as a live event in North America and as virtual events in EMEA.

The first thing on the table in our discussion touched on the hype surrounding the Multi-view BOM

For decades, the Digital Thread has been core to the PLM vision. The concept of linking multiple representations of a...

The CIMdata administered group presents its vision for global collaboration with the supply chain.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 15 March 2022—Representatives of the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) have published their future vision for supply chain collaboration. The position paper is the culmination of a year of effort by the team of domain experts from the seven-member companies and select Tier 1 suppliers.

According to Ken Versprille, Ph.D., Executive Consultant, CIMdata, “Supply chain collaboration is undergoing an evolution supported by advancements in cloud-based technology. Aerospace and defense companies are looking to a future using these capabilities to improve their...

This free educational webinar will look at the business benefits of a multi-view BOM approach.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA March 8, 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a free educational webinar, “The Value Potential of Multi-view Bill of Materials.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 7, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

Adopting a Multi-view Bill of Materials approach has value potential. In the Multi-view BOM approach, a consolidated information resource contains all the information and...