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Thursday, 08 October 2026 00:00
Connected Product Development for Small and Medium Manufacturers (Commentary)
How Autodesk Fusion and Fusion Manage help SMBs scale without creating enterprise PLM complexity
Takeaways
- Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face many of the same competitive pressures as large enterprises but with significantly fewer engineering, IT, and administrative resources; more constrained budgets; and no tolerance for long deployments typically required for traditional enterprise PLM.
- Disconnected data and processes result in multiple issues, including measurable increases in costs, missed profitability targets, late launches, and expensive late-stage changes, that early cross-functional collaboration could prevent.
- Connected product development establishes a common product definition that improves collaboration across engineering,...
Monday, 05 October 2026 13:34
Schneider Electric to Acquire PTC (Highlight)
Today, 5 October 2026, PTC announced an agreement to be acquired by Schneider Electric in an all-cash transaction valued at $22.6 billion. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies, with closure of the transaction anticipated by Q3 2027. Upon closing, Boston-based PTC will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Schneider Electric and will be delisted from Nasdaq.
Schneider Electric is a French multinational company that specializes in energy technology, industrial automation, and digital energy management. The acquisition is a major push during recent years by...
Thursday, 01 October 2026 00:00
Has The Holy Grail of Fluid Mechanics Been Achieved? (Thought Leadership)
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What a proposed proof means for industrial CFD and physics AI
Key Takeaways
- OpenAI has published a proposed resolution of the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness Millennium Prize Problem, constructing finite time blowup from rest under smooth compact forcing with bounded kinetic energy. Roughly 10,000 concurrent agents produced their solution in 88 hours, and it was formalized in Lean, but priority is contested, and independent review will take years.
- The result does not make industrial computational fluid dynamics obsolete. Its value is to sharpen the boundary of trust: in CIMdata’s opinion, the differentiating capability in...
Tuesday, 22 September 2026 00:00
CIMdata to Host Educational Webinar on Navigating PLM End-of-Life
This free educational webinar will introduce an Audit and Risk Assessment Framework to help enterprise leaders evaluate technical debt and plan low-risk platform migrations.
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 22 September 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, announces a free live educational webinar titled "Managing a PLM Solution’s Lifecycle.” The webinar will be held on Thursday, October 22, 2026, at 11:00 AM ET.
Like most enterprise software, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platforms follow a natural lifecycle and eventually reach the end of their architectural life. When this...
Thursday, 17 September 2026 08:38
CIMdata to Join a Webinar on the Importance of AI Governance and a Strong Product Data Backbone
The webinar will explore why AI in PLM often fails due to poor data quality.
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, September 17, 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces its participation in an upcoming webinar titled “The Critical Need for AI Governance and a Strong Product Data Backbone.” The webinar, sponsored by PRO.FILE, will be held on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 11:00 AM EDT and will last one hour.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds massive promise for engineering, but the reality is sobering. Data quality...
Tuesday, 15 September 2026 09:20
CIMdata to Participate in a Webinar on Strategies for a Successful PLM Modernization Journey
The webinar will cover the technical, operational, and strategic imperatives of replacing legacy PLM systems
CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces its participation in an upcoming webinar, “Oracle Agile End of Life: Strategies for a Successful PLM Modernization Journey.” Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens), the webinar will be held on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 1:00 PM EDT and will last one hour.
As a PLM system nears mainstream end-of-support, industrial and technology leaders face a pressing mandate: maintain aging software or migrate...
Friday, 11 September 2026 09:09
Dassault Systèmes Analyst Event (Commentary)
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At the Farnborough International Airshow, 23 July 2026
Takeaways
- Dassault Systèmes is fully committed to AI as a major new source of value and revenue, and to virtual twin as the foundational construct for navigating and extracting value from the enterprise product information asset.
- Several startups provided persuasive examples of the power of Dassault Systèmes’ virtual twin, simulation, collaboration, and AI capabilities to enable speed and agility.
- An eclectic mix of companies reported success applying 3D UNIV+RSES—3D modeling, virtual twin simulations, and AI engines—to optimize product lifecycle outcomes, whether the product is an electronic control...
Thursday, 10 September 2026 00:00
CIMdata Releases Series of Country-Specific 2026 PLM Market Analysis Reports
Ten country-specific PLM market analyses now available.
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 10 September 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of nine country-specific 2026 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These reports follow the release of the 2026 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.
The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2025 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis offers CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews 2025 investments in PLM-related software and services, and forecasts PLM investments for 2026...
Tuesday, 08 September 2026 00:00
CIMdata to Host Educational Webinar on Navigating the Simulation Software Mega-Mergers One Year Later
This free educational webinar offers industrial leaders data-driven analysis and practical frameworks to de-risk simulation software roadmaps after major industry consolidation.
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 8 September 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, announces a free live educational webinar titled, "One Year After the Mega-Mergers: How Simulation Portfolios Are Being Redrawn and What 50 Years of Simulation Software History Can Tell Us About the Road Ahead.” The webinar will be held on Thursday, October 8,...
Wednesday, 02 September 2026 00:00
Beyond the Hype: Why Every PLM Leader Should Bookmark Peter Bilello’s Engineering.com Library
For product lifecycle management (PLM) executives, software architects, and engineering directors, navigating today’s industrial technology landscape feels less like executing a steady roadmap and more like managing constant disruption. Between the rise of Generative AI, cloud-native Product Innovation Platforms, closed-loop Digital Twins, and shifting business models like Products-as-a-Service (PaaS), separating marketing hype from operational reality is increasingly difficult.
For those seeking an independent, grounded source of strategic clarity, Peter Bilello’s regular author column on Engineering.com stands out as one of the most valuable open resources in the industrial software sector.
As President and...
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