PLM professionals will convene for two days of collaborative insights into the opportunities and challenges of AI across the product lifecycle.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & Stockholm, Sweden, October 28, 2026—The planning committee responsible for PLM Road Map & PDT Europe 2026 has announced that the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT EMEA 2026 conference has reached maximum capacity and is officially sold out.

Scheduled for 4-5 November 2026 at the Lindholmen Conference Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, the event brings together senior executives, engineering leaders, and PLM practitioners from across Europe and around the globe. This year’s theme, AI in PLM: A...

IFS Unleashed 2026

Key Takeaways

• IFS is sustaining strong growth while expanding beyond its asset-management foundation. Recent acquisitions and partnerships reinforce its push into AI agents, supply chains, robotics, and broader industrial operations.
• IFS Intelligence moves AI from assistance to governed execution. Cowork, Loops and Runway support human-led work, autonomous workflows, and faster implementation—with permissions, approvals, and auditability built in.
• Early customer results are promising. Examples cited substantial procurement savings, faster report conversion, dramatic reductions in maintenance task time, and major transaction efficiency gains.
• The Siemens and AVEVA partnerships have been designed to connect engineering, operational,...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 27 October 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of an eBook titled “What’s the State of AI in PLM?” based on CIMdata research sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software and other PLM solution providers. The publication reports on the current state of AI adoption in PLM across industrial companies, software providers, and service providers, identifies barriers to deployment, and pairs each finding with practical guidance on how to address them.

AI is now a central topic in product development, yet the research shows that deployment remains in its...

How MathWorks Connects AI to Engineering Context, Simulation, and Evidence

Takeaways

• Adoption of AI in engineering is real but early, and the obstacles are practical: data, integration, and trust. According to CIMdata’s 2026 AI in PLM study, fewer than one in five industrial organizations use agentic AI, data quality is their top adoption challenge (60%), only 5% are very confident validating AI outputs, and integration with existing systems is their most important selection criterion (62%).
• Executives are funding engineering AI to deliver concrete business outcomes: faster development cycles, less repetitive work, and better design...

Oracle: Unleashing Agentic Applications Across the Enterprise

Takeaways

• A Shift to Outcome-Driven Execution: Oracle is redefining enterprise software by shifting the focus from systems of record to systems of outcomes.
• Breaking Down Organizational Silos: Oracle is leveraging foundational transactional data across its enterprise footprint; domain-specific artificial intelligence agents effectively remove traditional organizational walls.
• Growing AI Ecosystem: Oracle reports that more than 7,000 customers have deployed its basic generative AI services. It has delivered over 1,000 AI agents through Fusion Applications and says more than 80,000 certified experts have trained in Oracle AI Agent Studio. Oracle...

Addressing the Needs of the Next Generation of PLM Professionals: New module covering AI in PLM added.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 22 October 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global strategic consulting and research firm focused on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its digital transformation, announces that registration is now open for its upcoming PLM Certificate Program class, scheduled for December 7-11, 2026, in Ann Arbor, MI.

This intensive, weeklong program equips PLM professionals with actionable strategic frameworks and high-level knowledge to formulate and execute effective PLM strategies. Participants gain expertise in addressing common challenges and take a deep dive into advanced topics—including the...

How Nora IPLM uses a connected digital thread, cloud-native architecture, and AI to simplify product lifecycle management

Takeaways

• Manufacturers need increasingly sophisticated lifecycle capabilities, but SMBs face many of the same competitive pressures as large enterprises with significantly fewer engineering, IT, and administrative resources, more constrained budgets, and limited tolerance for implementation complexity.
• The objective of a modern PLM solution should be to reduce unnecessary user and implementation complexity without weakening configuration control, change discipline, traceability, or the product definition.
• A modern innovative PLM foundation must connect ideas, requirements, items, CAD data, EBOMs and MBOMs,...

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

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 14 October 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Sustainability Investment Imperative: Where PLM Delivers the Greatest Impact.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 12 November, at 11:00 a.m. (ET) and will last for one hour.

Sustainability has not gone away; it has evolved. Corporate reporting requirements have been recalibrated, yet atmospheric CO₂ continues to rise. Product-level requirements, such as Product Carbon Footprints (PCF) and Digital Product Passports (DPP), continue to advance, and energy security, critical...

The white paper details the technical imperatives, architecture requirements, and strategic roadmap for high-tech electronics manufacturers transitioning away from legacy PLM platforms.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 13 October 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of a white paper titled “PLM for Tomorrow’s Competitive High-Tech Electronics Enterprises: Addressing Legacy PLM Solution End-of-Life.” Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens), the white paper examines how high-tech electronics (HTE) organizations can transform forced legacy software sunsetting into an enterprise-wide modernization opportunity.

As legacy PLM platforms approach mandatory end-of-life (EOL) milestones, high-tech electronics manufacturers...

Leading solution providers to sponsor product lifecycle management (PLM) conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – 13 October 2026—CIMdata, Inc. and HKAB announce the sponsors of the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT EMEA 2026 event. Participating sponsors include the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group, AMC Bridge, Configit, Contact Software, Dassault Systèmes, PROSTEP, PTC, Share PLM, TCS, and Uncountable. The event is scheduled for 4 & 5 November at the Lindholmen Conference Center in Gothenburg, Sweden.

"We are delighted to have these key solution providers join us for PLM Road Map & PDT," said Cheryl Peck, CIMdata’s Chief Marketing...