This educational webinar will explore the industrial additive manufacturing landscape.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 22 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Barriers & Solutions to Industrializing Additive Manufacturing.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Huge advances have been made over the past five years to bring the prospect of final production-ready Additive Manufacturing (AM) parts closer to reality. Numerous examples prove that it is possible but at what cost? How much investment in terms of human...

The presentation will provide an update on the PLM market.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 22 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, will make a keynote presentation at ESTECO’s International Users’ Meeting entitled, “Trends in Product Development and Manufacturing.” The meeting will be held on 23 and 24 May in Trieste, Italy. Mr. Przybylinski’s presentation will take place during the afternoon of day 2 of the event, on 24 May.

In his presentation, Mr. Przybylinski will provide an update on the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market, which includes simulation and...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 17 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the successful completion of PLM Road Map North America 2018. The theme for the event was Charting the Course to PLM Value Together: Expanding the Value Footprint of PLM and Tackling PLM’s Persistent Pain Points. The event took place at the Tysons Corner Marriott, near Washington, Dulles. 2018 marks the 25th year that PLM Road Map has been in operation. The event comprised presentations made by PLM users representing several industry verticals interleaved with short vignettes about key topics of interest presented...

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Key takeaways:

• SAP Infodays for PLM’s focus on PLM and advances in the portfolio makes it a much more informative event for SAP customers than other venues.
• SAP is rapidly enhancing their PLM offering with support for authoring tools spanning the full product lifecycle, enhanced by elements from SAP Leonardo.
• Customers are driving this innovation pace, helping define necessary enhancements.

CIMdata attended the SAP Infodays for PLM event, held in St. Leon-Rot, Germany on 8-9 May 2018. This session brings together SAP customers, primarily from Germany and Central Europe, SAP partners, and SAP staff to highlight on-going...

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Key takeaways:

• A successful CAD collaboration visualization solution must be cost effective, easy to use, and platform independent.
• HCL’s Glovius solution meets all three business challenges and delivers important capabilities into the hands of downstream users of design data within the organization and the supply chain.
• Glovius directly imports CAD and standard CAD formats without needing a license to any CAD solution.

Collaborative visualization holds the promise of transforming product development—reducing time to market, improving product quality, and enhancing product capabilities to best satisfy customer and market needs. Initial entry into collaborative visualization begins with the ability...

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Key takeaways:

• Actify’s solutions enrich and complement existing enterprise environments, such as PLM and ERP, by bridging information silos to provide informed analysis of disparate data, providing product data intelligence.
• The Actify suite works both within enterprise environments and as a standalone solution that provides an intelligent, visual-based view into product information.
• The solutions are deployed as a service and priced by the size of the user community.

Common Data Intelligence Issues

Discrete manufacturers of all sizes share a data problem: How to maximize value from all of the information that is available about products and services? This...

The webinar will show how cloud PLM can be used to help unite disparate best of breed software solutions.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that James White, Director for Additive Manufacturing Strategy, will take part in a webinar entitled, “Leverage Best Of Breed Software With Cloud PLM.” The webinar will demonstrate how users can best leverage the tools they know while still achieving the enterprise governance they need.

Webinar attendees will gain an understanding about:

• The role of cloud PLM in the manufacturing tech stack
• How cloud PLM helps engineers and...

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Key takeaways:

• Infor continues to invest heavily in “Infor OS,” a strong platform technology stack that includes AI (“Coleman”), Data Lake and Analytics, BI, Cloud, and Common User Experience among others.
• Numerous Infor applications are being rewritten to leverage the capabilities of Infor OS, combining them into a seamless SaaS Cloud offering for their users.
• Infor has made a major commitment to embedding AI and data analytics within their full product suite and providing the tools to help their customer through the digitalization journey.

CIMdata recently attended Infor’s Innovation Summit 2018 held March 19 and 20 in...

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Key takeaways:

• Multi-disciplinary Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is still in the early stages of industry adoption, similar in nature to the state of MCAD and MCAE technology adoption in the early 1990s.
• Early adopters of model-based engineering techniques are working to implement an integrated MBSE/MDAO approach within selected programs and domains with positive metrics of success; albeit not without the normal cultural challenges of organizational/process change and related people training.
• System architecture design and modeling languages such as SysML are maturing to meet the needs of the engineering community in designing, developing, and maintaining more robust...

The presentation will consider the how digitalization will impact the future state of engineering.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 4 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, will make a presentation at SAP’s PLM-Infodays entitled, “Digitalization and the Future of Engineering.” SAP’s PLM-Infodays will take place at the SAP University, St. Leon-Rot, Germany on 8-9 May. Mr. Przybylinski’s presentation will take place during the afternoon of day 1 of the event, on 8 May.

The recent corporate emphasis on digitalization has been driven by technology trends like social, mobile, analytics, cloud,...