CIMdata Blog

There is a lot happening on the topic of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) at the moment. The annual INCOSE event in Torrance, which featured an MBSE workshop, and the recent publication of the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group's position paper [download here] on Model-Based Systems Engineering Data Interoperability to…

Many companies pursuing digitalization or Industry 4.0 strategies share a common goal: being able to profitably serve markets of one by making their products and processes more configurable. Products have been a part of commerce since almost from the beginning of commerce. Artisans used their knowledge of (mostly) local materials…

Those who know me will know that I like to speak about the remarkable impact of Moore’s Law. In the words of Don Tappan at Intel, computing has become infinitely fast and vanishingly cheap. What Gordon Moore said, over 50 years ago, was that as you put more transistors on…

CIMdata has chosen blockchain as a strategic direction of focus in product lifecycle management (PLM) for accelerating the digital transformation of businesses. In a webinar on September 27th,[1] the CIMdata Value Lens™ for blockchain was introduced for systematically studying different stages of PLM to identify potential new value that could…

On October 24th, CIMdata will host its annual EMEA PLM Road Map Conference in Stuttgart, Germany. The theme of this year’s conference is Digitalizing Reality—PLM's role in enabling the digital revolution. The rapidly increasing degree of digitalization impacts companies of all sizes, across all industries, and is often struggled with.…

Having just arrived in Cleveland, Ohio for CAASE18 (Conference on Advancing Analysis & Simulation in Engineering), I was reminded of the recent COFES meeting where I was struck by the similar propositions of two people I greatly respect. Ken Welch of SIMSOLID talked about how rapid simulation response enables better…