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This event provides the first look at CIMdata’s analysis of 2021’s PLM market results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 17 December 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm, announces its 2022 PLM Market & Industry Forum schedule and theme.

The theme for 2022 is “Sustainability: PLM Essential to Facing this Global Challenge.” Sustainability has gone from one of many topics in corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs to a global imperative, and PLM is essential to a systemic response. Leading PLM software and service providers define the needed metrics,...

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Bringing Siemens Xcelerator Portfolio to Microsoft Azure

Key takeaways:

• Interest in and adoption of cloud-based enterprise software is accelerating, but rates vary by segment. Just as in on-premises software, industrial customers want a choice of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers to support their own cloud strategies.
• Accenture leveraged work with their industrial clients to support Siemens Digital Industries Software offerings on Microsoft Azure to create new capabilities in cloud-powered product engineering for those clients.
• Their strategic consulting approach is powered by accelerators and reference architectures jointly developed with Microsoft and Siemens that speed implementation while also limiting risk. Interest...

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Key takeaways:

• Information and Operational Technologies (IT and OT) provide different, complementary capabilities essential to every business.
• IT and OT integration used to be difficult because legacy applications were developed, managed, and used separately, but modern technology and solutions make it much easier to integrate IT and OT.
• Integrating selected capabilities within these two domains can deliver significant improvements in business performance by improving data quality and reducing time to find needed information.
• Mendix and MindSphere solutions from Siemens Xcelerator portfolio provide one way to achieve flexible, adaptable, and sustainable integration of IT and OT capabilities.

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Manufacturing enterprises...

CIMdata’s 2022 education offerings will kick off in Ann Arbor, Michigan in March.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 8 December 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces the first public CIMdata Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate program of 2022. The program will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from March 14-18.

The program effectively prepares PLM professionals to address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation enabling them to help their organizations realize the benefits of PLM and its enabling technologies. The assessment-based program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and evaluations...

Experienced PLM executive joins CIMdata as a Senior Business Development Manager.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 6 December 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that John Jenkins has joined the firm as a Senior Business Development Manager.

Mr. Jenkins is an accomplished enterprise account executive with 35 years of experience in engineering software sales, technology commercialization business development for research, engineering, and manufacturing organizations, and engineering research in academia. During his career, Mr. Jenkins has developed customer/partner relationships in several industries, including automotive (e.g., Ford, Honda, Visteon, BorgWarner, Garrett Motion, Meritor, Harley Davidson),...

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Key takeaways:

• The convergence of Simulation, Artificial Intelligence, and High-Performance Computing enables the cost-effective use of predictive digital twins in a wide range of industrial applications across entire product lifecycles.
• IT, computational science technologies, and cloud computing accelerate IoT initiatives.
• Simulation and meaningful models are being adopted at an accelerated pace in part due to technology convergence and in part due to the pandemic driven need to find better, safer ways of working.
• Altair continues their annual Future.Industry virtual conference’s focus to explore “Future of” macro trends and technologies. Together with industry and academic thought-leaders, the conference...

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Key takeaways:

• The concept of a digital thread is becoming mainstream within manufacturing companies and is often part of a digital transformation program.
• Connecting silos throughout the lifecycle with a digital thread to improve data integrity, access, and business performance is a common goal of many digital transformation programs.
• CIMdata research shows companies continue to struggle to achieve success in their digital thread projects even as they adopt agile-based development methodologies.
• Successful digital transformations need to address people, process, and technology.
• The Aras PLM Platform's low-code approach and web services architecture enables agile development, easy silo connection, app...

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System of Systems Engineering Requires Architectural Frameworks

Key takeaways:

• New sensors, automotive software including on-vehicle embedded and off-vehicle (cloud) software, and computing advances are the building blocks that are enabling advanced driver-assisted system (ADAS) features and eventually driverless autonomous vehicles. The exponential growth of vehicle-related electronics and software is changing vehicle differentiation, development, verification and validation, and lifecycle support.
• 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, need to become connected with today’s vehicles.
• System of systems practices are needed to...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 30 November 2021—Today, CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, published a new eBook focused on Siemens Digital Industries Software’s (Siemens) Mendix, a complete, all-in-one low-code application development platform. This eBook describes the broad capabilities available within the Mendix platform and how it can enable companies to accelerate business value.

Mendix is designed to make it easy for domain experts (also known as citizen developers) to co-create personalized applications, processes, and integrate data across diverse, distributed information repositories...

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Engineering and Operations Software-as-a-Service provides smaller manufacturers opportunities to compete more effectively in their markets

Key takeaways:

• SMBs face the same IT and innovation challenges as larger enterprises, but often don’t have the resources available to address them.
• SMBs must be ultra-responsive to the dynamics of their position in the value chain—whether they are an OEM or a lower-level supplier.
• Startups and SMBs trying to
disrupt a market need to leverage the latest cloud architectures and functional capabilities available to gain an advantage over incumbents still utilizing legacy solutions.
• SaaS-delivered PLM solutions can enable SMBs to compete more effectively...