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Siemens solutions foster broader closed-loop collaboration

Key takeaways:

• To bridge the gap between today’s advanced driver-assisted systems and tomorrow’s fully autonomous vehicles (AV), transportation management systems, from fleet coordination to traffic management, must be well connected.
• New sensors, automotive software including on-vehicle embedded and off-vehicle (cloud) software, and computing advances are the building blocks enabling advanced driver-assisted system (ADAS) features and eventually driverless autonomous vehicles. Connecting empirical data for model validation, will enhance collaboration between all stakeholders during AV product development and operations.
• Connectedness will keep AV products safer while improving the travel experience by reducing traffic...

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Key takeaways:

• Known as a regional ERP provider, IFS is in fact a global leader in Enterprise Asset Management and Field Service Management.
• Their business platform, IFS Cloud, is architected to support both extensive customization that supports ready migration to new versions and the introduction of new technologies.
• Their new branding around the “Moment of Service” has taken hold in their customers and is deeply engrained within the company as well.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending the IFS Virtual Analyst Forum on February 16 and 17, 2022. Over the two days, the IFS team provided updates...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 2 March 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of a new whitepaper, Accelerated Product Development—Faster Decisions while Reducing Physical Prototypes. The whitepaper describes Siemens Digital Industries Software’s integrated and cross-discipline approach enabling accelerated product development within automakers, including the benefits automakers are realizing by using trusted simulations to make key product decisions earlier. Furthermore, the time consumed to build prototypes can be reduced once simulations are good enough to support the next set of product development decisions. With new drive lines and battery technology, not to mention...

PLM is central to a systemic response across global value chains.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 24 February 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of a whitepaper focused on the issues faced by industrial companies looking to enhance their sustainability efforts.

This paper, written with SAP, “The Sustainability Imperative,” highlights the issues faced by companies that are trying to improve the sustainability of their products and services, and more broadly across their entire operations. CIMdata and SAP believe that product lifecycle management (PLM) needs to be central to the industrial response for manufacturing companies...

This position paper presents the primary business requirements of the A&D industry for PLM interoperability standards.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 22 February 2022—Representatives of the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) have published a position paper, Interoperability Standards for Aerospace & Defense, that considers the value proposition of standards enablement of Model-Based Enterprise interoperability.

Ineffective implementation of interoperability standards industry-wide and the selective capabilities embraced by PLM solution providers severely impacts collaboration within a large, global, distributed supply chain of design and development partners. These two factors prevent the digital continuity needed to set up a Model-Based Enterprise.

The future development...

This free educational webinar will look at the confusion surrounding digital twin definitions and the complexity of developing a good plan.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA February 18, 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a free educational webinar, “Digital Twin - Why the big deal?” The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 10, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

The digital twin concept has legs. Most solution providers have included the digital twin in their marketing material, if not their products. This webinar will examine CIMdata’s view on digital twins,...

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Key takeaways:

• Recent CIMdata research on Cloud-SaaS PLM shows that two-thirds of respondents are considering a move to Cloud-based PLM solutions that they see offering them a wide variety of potential benefits.
• Over 40% of the survey respondents plan to phase in cloud-delivered PLM capabilities and integrate with on-premises solutions, and then phase out the on-premises solutions.
• Aras Enterprise SaaS is a PLM solution designed to leverage the scalability and accessibility of the cloud while connecting with legacy and on-premises solutions via its open, resilient integration approach.
• Aras Enterprise SaaS retains the differentiators appreciated by subscribers including...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes is a global market leader in product lifecycle management (PLM) and leads the global computer-aided design (CAD) market in combined revenues from its CATIA and SOLIDWORKS offerings.
• The company has been working hard to bring their considerable technical and business assets to bear to support SOLIDWORKS’ existing customers and a broad range of newer market targets, like makers, entrepreneurs, and long-time users of 2D CAD.
• Organizational and product announcements made at their 2022 3DEXPERIENCE World event illustrate their progress to date and their heady plans for growth.

After 20 years as SOLIDWORKS World,...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 17 February 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Tom Gill, Practice Manager for PLM Enterprise Value and Integration, will participate in a webinar organized by HCL Technologies (HCL). The webinar, “Design for Manufacturing: A Critical Digital Transformation Element,” will occur on Thursday, 24th February 2022, at 8:30 AM PST / 5.30 PM CET.

Digital transformation is a significant trend in manufacturing companies and requires new automated ways to leverage digitalized information. While technology is available for implementing a...

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Brings Cloud-Native Digital Thread Capabilities

Altair Engineering announced today, 16 February 2022, their acquisition of Cassini, an Indian startup based in Hyderabad that offers the cloud-native CassiniPLM platform for product lifecycle management (PLM)—a platform that can be used to span idea through life (a concept core to CIMdata’s preferred PLM definition). Mergers & acquisitions (M&A) are common in the simulation and analysis (S&A) market. This acquisition extends a recent trend for S&A market leaders to provide PLM platform capabilities integrated with their multi-physics S&A portfolios (e.g., Ansys, Aras, Siemens, Dassault Systems). As such, CIMdata...