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This free webinar will show how effective data analytics combining digital twins with experience can improve product safety.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 20 August 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Complex Products Are Safer with PLM and Digital Twins.” The webinar will occur on Thursday, 23 September 2021, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

The historic validation processes driven by manufacturing robust, durable products are being augmented, even expanded, by the inclusion and expansion of...

This webinar is part of CIMdata’s educational webinar offerings.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 August 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Digital Thread is Really a Web, with the Engineering Bill of Materials at Its Center.” The webinar will occur on Thursday, 9 September 2021, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

The Digital Thread has been a core element of the PLM vision for decades. The concept of linking multiple representations of a product, each...

CIMdata’s President & CEO will make a keynote address on the key components for a successful transformation.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 11 August 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will make a keynote address at the upcoming Global Product Data Interoperability Summit’s (GPDIS) 2021 virtual event. The presentation, “The Keys to Successful Transformation,” will occur on Thursday, 16 September. CIMdata is a GPDIS partner along with The Boeing Company, Elysium, Northrop Grumman, Parker, and PDES.

As industrial...

Fifth Module of the 2021 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 4 August 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Industry Analysis Report, the fifth of five modules of the CIMdata 2021 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2020. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, revenues of leading PLM providers, and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

All industries saw growth in PLM...

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Key takeaways:

• New advanced technologies and products with embedded software have created new kinds of disruptions and opportunities that require companies to rethink how to design and deliver their offerings. Increasingly, customers are demanding complete solutions—smart, connected products and anything-as-a-service offerings.
• Companies looking to capitalize on these trends, including social media, mobile technology, advanced analytics, cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Industry 4.0, will require a unified platform to support their product lifecycles that span from idea through life, and that will leverage information from any source, at any stage in the lifecycle,...

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Closed-Loop Quality Solution Leverages Teamcenter Backbone

Key takeaways:

• Quality Management Systems must expand beyond a narrow focus of managing manufacturing repeatability and customer usage complaints. Exploring quality from the very start of a new idea, in the context of a trusted digital twin which comprehends changing consumer usage patterns and evolving manufacturing practices, will be the hallmark of leading products companies.
• As product complexity continues to expand, organizations will need quality management techniques applied across the complete lifecycle–this will require organizations to redefine roles and governance within PLM in the context of product lifecycle quality.
• Siemens Teamcenter...

This educational webinar focuses on the role that SMS training plays in improving an organization’s engineering maturity.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 27 July 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Education: Driving Systems Modeling and Simulation Understanding and Adoption.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 26 August 2021, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

In previous webinars, we introduced Systems Modeling and Simulation (SMS). This approach leverages a common systems engineering...

Product Lifecycle Management and Optimizing the Customer Experience

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 22 July 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a new eBook that examines the importance of customer experience (CX) and how leveraging product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and enabling solutions can help ensure superior CX.

According to Mr. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Vice President, “In today’s competitive business environment, getting and keeping customers is the name of the game. CIMdata sees business platforms as key to unifying...

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A boost for Marine and Offshore design and build

On 20 July 2021 Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) announced an agreement with SENER Group to acquire the FORAN ship and marine structures design, analysis, and manufacturing planning platform. FORAN is well known in marine and offshore circles, and particularly in shipbuilding as one of the premier ship design and analysis solutions currently available. The acquisition will bring considerable ship design expertise including people who developed FORAN’s capabilities across a multitude of disciplines for more than 50 years. CIMdata believes that Siemens’ ability to leverage...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 21 July 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a new eBook, Autonomous Vehicle Development Requires Closed Loop Solutions. The eBook describes why automakers, their supplier network, and city operations need to expand systems integration to make autonomous vehicles a reality. Autonomous Vehicles require multiple systems working together well beyond an individual vehicle. It discusses how Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens), a proven provider for the automotive industry, enables a highly integrated model-based systems engineering (MBSE)...