Position Papers

ESI Group, releases its sales for the financial year starting on February 1, 2019 and ending on December 31, 2019 (11 months), as well as for its last two months, approved by the Board of Directors on February 12th, 2020. As decided at the Annual General Meeting of July 18th, 2019, the Group now closes the fiscal year on December 31 of each year. As a pioneer in virtual prototyping solutions and a key player in industrial transformation, ESI Group empowers manufacturers to navigate increasing complexity by replacing real tests and prototypes with highly accurate, predictive and representational virtual prototypes. ESI Group’s software solutions are built from decades of global expertise in physics of materials, essential to the creation of authentic virtual prototypes. ESI’s customers are an enviable list of industry leaders who benefit from enhanced innovation, competitiveness, performance and productivity thanks to ESI Group’s solutions. Cristel de Rouvray, Chief Executive Officer

Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialised by industry, announced that Stagecoach, the largest bus and coach operator in the UK, has selected Infor CloudSuite EAM (enterprise asset management) in the cloud. Deployed and supported by Infor partner Sapphire Systems, the solution will help digitalise asset management at the bus company, and drive greater fleet availability to enhance service provision. With express and local bus services across the UK, as well as a network of intercity operations under the megabus brand, Stagecoach has a large and widespread asset portfolio. Faced with a need to modernise and fully digitalise its asset management practices, Stagecoach selected Infor CloudSuite EAM to support fleet availability, facilitate comprehensive warranty management and expedite vehicle recovery. Infor was selected based on its technology platform, scalability and fit with Stagecoach’s wider digital transformation goals. The software’s user friendliness and speed of performance were also key to the decision. Infor CloudSuite EAM is a SaaS

With over 1000 new food products being released each month, you need the right products to grow or stay ahead in your brands. With over 250,000 of them, from established favorites to the latest trends, the possibilities are endless. An ever-expanding selection of new products every month from national brands to local entrepreneurs, how can you ensure the competitiveness of your products? 100% cloud deployed and offered as a SaaS pay as you go model with easy pricing options. Embark on your PLM journey with incremental steps based on the value you have realized. Our mission is to help build tomorrow’s best brands. Our PLM solutions help your engineers, marketing, partners, customers, and everyone else collaborate on all the product information needed to get your products from concept to customer About Jovian Technologies Jovian Technologies is a technology startup, provider of AI driven product innovation and product lifecycle management solutions, based in Chicago

This paper discusses some of the reasons PLM initiatives are seen as being hard and not as intuitive to implement and use as they should be. Why is this? Is it a case of over-engineering, making things more complicated than they need to be? In this paper CIMdata explores this topic and considers why “Simple is Best.” Download Full Position Paper Here     Request Download First Name(*) Please let us know your name. Last Name(*) Invalid Input Email(*) Please let us know your email address. Company(*) Please write a subject for your message. Job Title(*) Invalid Input Please check your email for a link to the requested content. Our CIMdata colleague in Japan says it best, “Simple is Best.” A rather unassuming statement when you think about it, and at the same time, rather profound. So, why then do we tend to make things more complicated than they need to be? Why do we consistently tend to over-engineer things? Perhaps that’s just how we

Fashion³, the ecosystem comprised of boutique-oriented textile brands under the Mulliez group − Jules, Brice, Bizzbee, Pimkie, RougeGorge, Grain de Malice/Orsay − has selected Centric Software® Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) in order to significantly optimize its production cycles, boost product quality and reduce time to market. Fashion³ also aims to streamline manufacturers’ processes and communication with partner brands and distributors through Centric PLM™. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury, consumer goods and home décor companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Created in 2017, the Fashion³ (Fashion Cube) brand ecosystem aims to invent a new zero-waste development model across seven textile brands by identifying innovations, imagining new solutions, and initiating synergies such as alignment of design, production and distribution processes meeting the goals and commitments of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR). “From the outset, we identified two strategic axes common to

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been featured as one of the 25 Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK by The Sunday Times, for its outstanding commitment to workplace engagement. The ranking was announced as part of The Sunday Times’ annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. The Best Big Companies list honours 25 large corporations, having at least 2,000 full-time employees, with the highest Best Companies Index scores. TCS was recognized for its employee-friendly workplace practices and continued investments in building up local talent in the UK through professional development initiatives and digital skills programs. More than 90% of the company’s 19,000 employees in the UK and Ireland, have been upskilled in the last two years, and further investments are planned in ongoing learning programmes around digital technologies, artificial intelligence and DevOps. By partnering with some

Wipro Digital, the digital business unit of Wipro Limited announced that it has acquired Rational Interaction, a full-service digital customer experience (CX) company. The acquisition will scale Wipro Digital’s offering for Chief Marketing Officers, connecting Rational Interaction’s ability to map and orchestrate the customer journey with Wipro Digital’s ability to design and build experiences at global scale. Together, the companies will provide bespoke and effective solutions for the marketing suite. Long-term revenue cannot be generated from a single splashy marketing effort. Rather, it requires an ecosystem of connected touchpoints across the entire customer journey. The combined offerings from Wipro Digital and Rational Interaction will address this and help CMOs scale for the future. Rational Interaction helps brands create sustained CX program success, with core offerings that include strategic advising, customer acquisition, and customer lifecycle management. This expertise in digital marketing and experience management complements Wipro Digital’s capabilities across digital engineering, architecture and

Elysium, a global interoperability solutions provider, has integrated its advanced suite of software to support realizing MBD/MBE with Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform to aid users in achieving fast, accurate, compliance-checked transfer of data in multi-CAD environments. The new Elysium integration also ensures that customized quality checks, geometry/PMI/attribute validation, and geometry simplification are done automatically within the 3DEXPERIENCE modeling, simulation and PLM ecosystem to create streamlined data workflows. This enhanced functionality is equally applicable to outside CAD and engineering data that can now be brought into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform as tested, compliant data used for master models and derivates shared by OEMs and their suppliers in collaborative development. “Many 3DEXPERIENCE users have been working to streamline digital data and improve productivity and throughput across product development,” says Atsuto Soma, CTO of Elysium. “The increasing reliance on MBD/MBE to achieve these gains requires seamless interoperability of digital product data between systems. Today, sophisticated yet highly-automated, quality-based data distribution

Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, announced that SodaStream, the Israel-based manufacturer of the consumer carbonation product of the same name, has deployed Infor CloudSuite EAM. Delivered and supported by GIV Solutions, the Infor solution will facilitate more proactive asset management at the manufacturer, facilitating innovation, minimizing costs and maximizing performance. Acquired in 2018 by PepsiCo Food Corp. for $3.4 billion, SodaStream operates in 45 countries, and its products are sold in more than 80,000 retail stores to about 35 million consumers. With approximately 6,000 assets spanning equipment and machinery units such as plastic injection and assembly machines and metal processing and assembly machines, maintenance is a crucial element of its operations. To maximize the availability of production equipment and machinery and to enhance service and response times for maintenance while reducing costs, SodaStream identified a requirement for a new maintenance management system. Having reviewed the market and been impressed

Oracle announced that Oracle Cloud Applications has achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authorization. FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. With this new authorization, U.S. Federal Government customers can benefit from Oracle’s complete and integrated suite of cloud applications for finance, human resources, supply chain, and customer experience. To outpace accelerating change in technology, government agencies need to break down data silos, embrace the latest innovations, and improve digital experiences, collaboration, and service. Built on Oracle’s industry-leading cloud platform and infrastructure, Oracle Cloud Applications enables customers to benefit from best-in-class security, high-end scalability, and performance, in addition to strong integration capabilities. “FedRAMP Authorization for Oracle Cloud Applications is a critical step in meeting the growing demands and compliance requirements of our public sector customers,” said Tamara Greenspan, group vice president, Oracle Public Sector. “By achieving this authorization, we are able to