Position Papers

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Over the past several decades, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has grown into a technological force that “brings things together“ so that product developers, manufacturers, systems integrators, users, owners, and support personnel can make sense of all that is going into, and happening to, products and physical assets. This is crucial to maximizing and extracting value from their definitions.

CIMdata has been at the forefront of the ever-evolving PLM landscape for four decades. As we celebrate our 40th year in 2023, we reflect on the transformation PLM has undergone and how CIMdata’s journey, in many...

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Sharing open collaboration and joint innovation to drive digital transformation across the product life cycle

Key Takeaways

• Growing complexity is affecting all industries and successful companies are digitally transforming their business to become more agile and productive.
• Digital transformation is a continuing journey and companies need to establish strategic partners to enable them throughout that journey.
• Accenture has in-depth experience with many clients in different industries providing the insights that form the base of knowledge needed to pursue digital transformation possibilities.
• Accenture and Siemens Digital Industries Software partnership delivers the expertise, technologies, and coordinated management to enable effective...

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On 16 October 2023 Mr. Ray Hein, one of Propel Software’s co-founders, announced his retirement from day-to-day responsibilities at the firm. He had turned over the CEO role at Propel in 2022 to Mr. Ross Meyercord, a Salesforce veteran,^[1] and last held the title of Chief Strategy Officer. Tapping Mr. Meyercord makes sense given that Propel is built on the Salesforce platform and is part of a huge ecosystem of Salesforce application providers, a great strength of the Propel offering.

Mr. Hein has a long history in...

Eleven country-specific PLM market analyses now available.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 12 October 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of ten additional country-specific 2023 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These additional reports follow the release of the 2023 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.

The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2022 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2022, and forecasts PLM investments...

This presentation is part of CIMdata’s educational webinar series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 11 October 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “How Product Manufacturing Information Enables Digital Transformation.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 9 November 2023, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) is the technology that associates Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and annotations directly to 3D models and has been available for over 20 years. During this time,...

CIMdata’s Sandeepak Natu will give a keynote address on Developing Simulation as an Enterprise Asset.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 5 October 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that Sandeepak Natu, an executive consultant focusing on Simulation Analysis, will participate as a keynote speaker at the upcoming pSeven User Conference 2023. The event will take place virtually on 18 October. Sandeepak’s presentation, “Developing Simulation as an Enterprise Asset: Powered by comprehensive and collaborative engineering platforms,” is...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 4 October 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will participate in a webinar, “Creating Digital Threads & IDEs to Support Digital Engineering Programs.” The webinar, sponsored by Razorleaf, takes place on Thursday, 12 October, at 1:00 PM EDT.

During this webinar, CIMdata will share findings from its latest survey on the maturity (or lack thereof) of digital threads and twins in...

CIMdata’s education offerings will be available in Santa Clara, CA, in December 2023.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, September 19th, 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global strategic consulting and research firm focused on PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and the digital transformation it enables, announces that it will offer its PLM Certificate Program in Santa Clara, CA, USA, from December 4th to December 8th, 2023.

This unique program equips PLM professionals with the knowledge and skills to tackle the common challenges of PLM strategy formulation and execution. The assessment-based program includes a personalized...

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Key takeaways

• Digital threads enable the sharing of stable configurations of product artifacts throughout the product’s lifecycle.
• Ontologies define the semantic foundation for meaningful digital threads that support any products’ systems of systems.
• Digital threads have impact across the full product lifecycle of tools and information so an adaptive framework is essential for providing an integrated environment.
• Model-Based Engineering (MBSE) helps companies achieve superior products quickly and with fewer issues and flaws.
• SBE Vision’s architecture provides a base upon which companies can develop digital threads to support decision making within their specific information and development tools environment.

Introduction

The Digital...

This presentation is part of CIMdata’s educational webinar series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 12 September 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “How Education Supports PLM Deliberations.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 12 October 2023, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

When a PLM solution suite is selected, the solution must be properly architected and implemented to support an organization’s business processes and methods to maximize its value in a digital transformation. This process...