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Key takeaways:

• Addressing today’s and tomorrow’s security threats demands a new solution, Oracle’s Second Generation Cloud, offering “Impenetrable Barriers + Autonomous Robots.”
• The Oracle Digital Supply Chain Platform combines Oracle’s traditional enterprise applications with leading edge capabilities like analytics, blockchain, and the IoT.
• Oracle PLM Cloud continues to expand its capabilities and installed base, including more explicit coverage of and support for fielded products using Oracle’s capabilities in IoT, analytics, and machine learning.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending Oracle OpenWorld, held October 22-25, 2018 in San Francisco, CA. This sprawling event included over 60,000 customers and...

CIMdata was saddened to learn about the untimely passing of a true visionary, Chuck Grindstaff, the former CEO of Siemens PLM Software. Mr. Grindstaff retired from Siemens in 2016 to pursue a passion for winemaking at his Next Step Vineyards, LLC but he left his mark on the industry with his leadership of Siemens PLM Software and its precursors.

Mr. Grindstaff began his association with UGS in 1978, when he joined the Unigraphics Solutions research and development team, holding various leadership positions. Mr. Grindstaff left Unigraphics in 1988 and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Waveframe, where he developed...

Experienced PLM program manager joins CIMdata as PLM Community Practice Manager

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 23 October 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Janie Gurley has joined the firm as PLM Community Practice Manager, responsible for the coordination and execution of CIMdata’s PLM Community and associated solution provider strategic management consulting activities.

During her 26 year career, Ms. Gurley has demonstrated broad experience in understanding and supporting strategic business execution with broad-based expertise in product development solutions within manufacturing. She has worked on projects in numerous industries, including aerospace, steel, steam engineering...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes continues to drive its vision for ENOVIA forward by extending lifecycle support to business planning and after-sales while enriching it with expanded connectivity for lifecycle functions.
• Digital assets are becoming more valuable than physical assets and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is designed to support this concept in multiple ways—as a business platform, as an operating system, and as an enabler of new business models.
• The enhancements to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and ENOVIA with 2019X should be appealing to SmarTeam and SOLIDWORKS users, giving them the capabilities they need to advance their PLM maturity.
• POWER’BY...

Fifth Module of the 2018 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 21 August 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Geography Analysis Report, the fifth of five modules of the CIMdata 2018 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2017. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

The PLM market grew to $43.7 billion...

Leading PLM solution and service providers to sponsor PLM conferences.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 12 October 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Eurostep, organizer of PDT, have today announced the key sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map EMEA and PDT Europe conferences. The participating sponsors are Aras Corporation, ESI, ESTECO, Granta Design, HCL Technologies, Oracle, and TCS. The events will take place on 24-25 October at Le Méridien Hotel in Stuttgart, Germany.

“We are honored to have these leaders in PLM solutions and services choose to sponsor PLM Road Map EMEA 2018 and PDT Europe...

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Key takeaways:

• Siemens PLM Software (Siemens) has a deep understanding of the verification and validation challenges faced by the automotive industry related to safety certification of autonomous vehicles.
• Siemens offers numerous solutions for simulating accident scenarios, active safety sensors, sensor-fusion, systems-of-systems, system-on-chip, functional safety, vehicle dynamics, and robust control.
• Simulation offerings by Siemens accelerate the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) by: i) generating a large set of realistic accident scenarios, ii) reliably simulating the response of complex systems, and iii) optimizing system-performance while minimizing energy consumption.
• Simulation offerings by Siemens are not only helping manufacturers develop safe...

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Key takeaways:

• Autodesk continues to build out their product innovation platform vision to enable an integrated “Design-Make-Use” lifecycle view.
• Their Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle solution is empowering a range of industrial companies to improve their products and processes, including more support for engineering work-in-process.
• Autodesk is expanding the use of generative design technology to other manufacturing processes and other domains, like AEC.

CIMdata had the pleasure to attend the 5th annual Autodesk Accelerate event in Toronto, Canada in September. As in past events, the crowd of approximately 275 was a good mix of Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle customers, prospects,...

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Key takeaways:

• Infor, a leading enterprise software company, has seen dramatic growth with their CloudSuite strategy, delivering cloud-native multi-tenant applications using Amazon Web Services.
• They are rethinking enterprise processes and applications and deploying new Infor Go capabilities that deliver mobile and cloud apps that work in concert to support anytime, anywhere access to Infor offerings.
• Their work in analytics with their Birst acquisition and their Coleman initiative are bringing augmented intelligence to the point of work.

On September 24-27, 2018, Infor, a leading enterprise software firm, held Inforum 2018, their annual customer event, in Washington, DC. Infor...

The sessions will take place on October 9 & 10 in Novi, Michigan. 

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 8 October 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is pleased to announce that Dr. Keith Meintjes, a CIMdata Executive Consultant, will host two sessions at the Lightweighting World Expo, which takes place at the Suburban Collection Showplace, in Novi, Michigan from October 9-10. The sessions Dr. Meintjes will host are concerned with vehicle exterior design and manufacturing.

Through a variety of strategies, automobile manufacturers are removing hundreds of pounds of mass from their products, while maintaining interior space and meeting...