Position Papers

Now in its 24th year, this event will take place in conjunction with PDT Europe in Gothenburg, Sweden Ann Arbor, Michigan, 20 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the agenda topics for PLM Road Map™ 2017 which will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe. Both events will take place on October 17-19 at the Clarion Hotel Post, Gothenburg, Sweden. PLM Road Map 2017 brings together the perspectives of thought leaders within automotive, aerospace & defense, and other industries who are evolving their company’s PLM solutions to support new business opportunities and value propositions by simplifying, standardizing, and providing multi-faceted views into their PLM information repositories. The theme for this year's event is “Digitalization: The Next Step in PLM’s Evolution.” Over the course of the day, presentations will be made on the following critical topics: PLM: A Key Enabler for Digitalization Digitalization and the Internet of

Siemens’ new Integrated Software Engineering solution for the automotive industry addresses several of the critical product development challenges associated with the explosive growth of embedded software in today’s increasingly sophisticated automobiles. By integrating application lifecycle management (ALM) software with product lifecycle management (PLM) software, Siemens is delivering a solution for the automotive industry to seamlessly manage the inherently different lifecycles of electro-mechanical systems and the development of software used to control those physical systems. As a result, automotive companies could enhance software functionality and traceability, while improving overall product quality and reducing automotive recalls associated with embedded software. Today’s announcement is the first in a series of announcements about the Digital Enterprise Industry Solutions developed by Siemens’ PLM Software business. “As cars get more sophisticated – with features like collision avoidance, automatic parallel parking, and the advent of self-driving autonomous vehicles – the need for software to control these functions

Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced the latest release of its market-leading FloTHERM® product, the industry’s most powerful and accurate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for electronics cooling simulation. The latest product offers new functionality aimed at increasing user effectiveness and productivity. The FloTHERM product includes Command Center, which allows users to understand the product design space by defining variations of the base models. The Command Center design window streamlines the interface and user work to achieve productivity gains. Addressing the needs of industries which demand product reliability including automotive, aerospace, and electronics, the FloTHERM product quickly identifies potential thermal problems early in the design stage to significantly lower the costs of thermal testing and design re-work, enabling customers to get their products to market more quickly. The Command Center is used to create and solve variants of a FloTHERM model. This enables a complete understanding of the product design

DataForm Software announces the migration of its flagship cloud-based product Planet Life Cycle – a robust work management application – to Microsoft Azure. Planet is a team-centric, enterprise work management system that merges strategic and financial planning with execution. The solution is leveraged to plan, track, and execute work - with a single source of truth - across functional areas. Corporate finance is empowered to react to changes in strategy in real-time. Planet reduces workloads and accelerates timelines by allowing matrix teams to stay focused on critical activities and financial levers to achieve critical corporate milestones. DataForm Software's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Rodney Elliott, explains, "DataForm Software is on a value-driven mission to evolve our customers' businesses. Our innovative products and services have been leveraged by companies that are global leaders, such as Allergan Pharmaceutical, to enhance their competitiveness. The move to Microsoft Azure is cost-effective which allows us

BETA CAE Systems announces the release of the new ANSA/EPILYSIS/META suite v17.1.2. In this version new features have been added and corrections have been implemented for identified issues. The most important enhancements and fixes implemented are listed below: Enhancements and known issues resolved in ANSA Enhancements and known issues resolved in META Compatibility and Supported Platforms For more information on all of the changes, as well as where and what to download, please click here. Search for BETA CAE Systems on CIMdata.com

Aras today announced that Fuji Kiko, a leading global manufacturer of automotive components, selected the Aras PLM Platform to manage prototype development, production management, sales, and procurement processes. The automotive supplier went through a comprehensive process to evaluate and select a PLM system with the flexibility and upgradeability necessary to support the pace of innovation by their global product teams. Fuji Kiko product teams will initially use the Aras platform to improve configuration management and change management as well as process management of product design. After a comprehensive search of major PLM providers, the Fuji Kiko team selected Aras based on the following criteria: Scalable, robust, and flexible PLM capabilities to accommodate changing business requirements. Model-based, service-oriented architecture that delivers low total cost of ownership without reducing the long term vision of the project. A proven upgrade process that allows the company to move to future platform and application releases regardless of the

SAP SE will release its results for the second quarter of 2017 on Thursday, July 20. Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP SE, and Luka Mucic, CFO of SAP SE, will host a financial analyst and press conference call to review Q2 results. You are invited to join the call. Media representatives may also listen in on the Financial Analyst and Press Conference Call via Webcast at 2:00 p.m. CET / 8:00 a.m. ET accessible at https://broadcast.co.sap.com/go/QReport. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for SAP on CIMdata.com

International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) is pleased to announce the addition of Raphael Nascimento to its CADIQ Product Development Team. “We are excited to have Raphael join ITI,” stated Don Hemmelgarn, ITI Senior Executive Vice President. “Raphael’s reputation and qualifications are invaluable to us as we grow our validation solutions for Model-Based Definition (MBD).” Nascimento has spent over 20 years with PTC in roles such as sales, delivery and development for the Creo product (formerly Pro/ENGINEER). For the past 8 years, Nascimento was a PTC Creo Product Manager, responsible for the direction and overall strategy of Creo MBD and 2D detailing, including Creo Layout. “I’m delighted with this new opportunity at ITI,” stated Nascimento. “The CADIQ Product Management role is an excellent fit for me. I enjoyed my work on MBD with Creo at PTC, and look forward to continuing to build solutions for manufacturers who are adopting MBE.” “Having someone with Raphael’s

Atos hosted a grand opening event on July 18 at its new state-of-the-art building in Irving, Texas, with North America senior leadership and local government officials. This new central location will facilitate seamless delivery of services to our American customers. Atos vitalizes innovation in the region by combining top experts in Infrastructure and Data Management, Business and Process Solutions, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Unified Communications, and Healthcare industry specialists. The building will house 650 employees dedicated to our customers and their account teams. "This new building in Dallas is a natural progression of our trajectory in the United States," said Michel-Alain Proch, Group Senior Executive Vice President and CEO North America. "By providing the latest technology to our employees, we want to empower them to achieve firsts in the industry for our customers. To accelerate our expansion, we will continue to recruit top talent in the region." Atos will invite customers

ANSYS, Saudi Aramco, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have set a new supercomputing milestone by scaling ANSYS® Fluent® to nearly 200,000 processor cores – enabling organizations to make critical and cost-effective decisions faster and increase the overall efficiency of oil and gas production facilities. This supercomputing record represents a more than 5x increase over the record set just three years ago, when Fluent first reached the 36,000-core scaling milestone. The calculations were run on the Shaheen II, a Cray® XC40™ supercomputer, hosted at the KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab (KSL). By leveraging high performance computing (HPC), ANSYS, Saudi Aramco and KSL sped up a complex simulation of a separation vessel from several weeks to an overnight run. This simulation is critical to all oil and gas production facilities – empowering organizations around the world to reduce design development time and better predict equipment performance under varying operational conditions. Saudi Aramco will apply this