Presentation will call on the systems engineering community to start looking beyond Model-Based Systems Engineering.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 February 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that David Long, the immediate past president of INCOSE (The International Council on Systems Engineering), will make a keynote presentation at CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Knowledge Council workshop which will take place at Michigan State University’s Management Education Center in Troy, Michigan on April 27. The event is being held in conjunction with NAFEMS’ Engineering Analysis & Simulation in the Automotive Industry: Emerging Standards & Practices event which...

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• SOLIDWORKS announced Xdesign, a new cloud-based CAD product, and Xdrive, a cloud-based storage solution to be delivered in the future
• Bernard Charlès, Dassault Systèmes’ CEO promised a major company push to be #1 in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) market
• SOLIDWORKS and Altium announced a new SOLIDWORKS/PCB application with integration to SOLIDWORKS that provides much needed functionality for developing smart, connected products

Dassault Systèmes recently staged their 18^th annual user conference, SOLIDWORKS World 2016, in Dallas, Texas. Over 5,000 users, value-added resellers, solution partners, press, industry analysts, and SOLIDWORKS employees attended the January 31...

Under the agreement ZXLearning will be the authorized distributor of CIMdata’s premier global PLM Leadership Certificate Program in the greater China region.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 February 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Shanghai-based ZXLearning, a leading provider of multi-level professional services training. This alliance will help make it easier for PLM professionals in the greater China region, which encompasses mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, to take advantage of CIMdata’s globally acclaimed PLM Leadership Certificate Program. The program is recognized as the PLM...

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Key takeaways:

• Oracle’s Modern Supply Chain Experience highlighted their end-to-end supply chain offerings, which includes their PLM solutions
• Oracle’s move to the cloud has deeply affected more than their business results, with many changes in development, collaboration, and other processes spanning their business
• While the cloud is their PLM future, their current PLM strategy echoes their Applications Unlimited approach, allowing customers to mix and match on-premise and cloud offerings based on their specific needs

CIMdata attended the Oracle Modern Supply Chain Experience 2016 in San Jose, California on January 25-27, 2016. The Oracle Modern Supply Chain Experience...

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Key takeaways:

• Predicting product and portfolio profitability is becoming more difficult as products become more complex and business models change
• Identifying and modeling cost drivers and using collaborative decision making to optimize enterprise-level costs early in the development cycle enables revenue, cost, and profitability targets to be achieved while minimizing risks and supporting brand strategy
• Tata Consultancy Services has a framework that provides tools to support the complete product lifecycle allowing systems, processes, and analytics as well as services to be used to plan, implement, and support product portfolio profitability management

Managing profitability of individual products and...

CIMdata Publishes Review of ANSYS 17.0 Product Release

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 February 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm released a new product Commentary for the recent ANSYS 17.0 release. This product review presents CIMdata’s perspectives on the ANSYS product suite as a platform to enable simulation-driven product development and innovation. The latest release of the ANSYS software includes a number of new technology enhancements across all major areas of the product portfolio as well as significant performance enhancements to address the productivity and effectiveness of global engineering teams performing product functional performance simulation across a...

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Key takeaways:

• Global market leaders in multiple industries are rapidly expanding their strategic use of virtual prototyping and simulation starting early in the product development process to gain a competitive advantage via innovation, quality, and time to profit
• Product innovation platforms are emerging to meet the needs of next generation systems and product development in Industry 4.0- and the Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled environments
• ANSYS® is successfully integrating a spectrum of multi-physics analysis solutions across the domains of mechanical, electronics, and software engineering to enable systems-level conceptual design and optimization
• ANSYS 17.0 enhancements are focused on improving...

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Key takeaways:

• PTC has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in IoT and this event showcased their progress in supporting real-world use cases
• The Thing Event highlighted the potential for companies in a range of industries to use big data/analytics powered by IoT and augmented reality to deliver innovative user experiences that bring product and lifecycle knowledge to the point of work where it is needed most
• Augmented reality allows people to use both physical and digital representations of their products, changing the way they can leverage all the information embedded in designs
• PTC is introducing several...

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Internet of Things – Hype or Value?” The webinar will take place on March 10 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will cover the issues and concerns related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and how best to achieve value while avoiding the pitfalls and hype.

The webinar will be an hour long and those attending will: gain the knowledge needed to prepare for IoT in a deliberate way; be in a position to consider all the possibilities for leveraging IoT; have a clearer...

Enabling improved feedback of lessons learned regarding product performance issues into the systems engineering process, to deliver more robust products for enhanced customer satisfaction and increased brand equity.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2 February 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) management consulting and research firm, announces the addition of the Quality & Reliability Engineering consulting practice. This consulting practice concentrates on a seamless flow of knowledge regarding product performance issues between quality and reliability engineering and systems engineering, for mitigating the potential for customer dissatisfaction, warranty problems, and product recalls resulting from the growing complexity of electronics and software...