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Earlier this month, Automation Alley, Michigan’s leading nonprofit technology and manufacturing business association, hosted a group of southeast Michigan industry representatives to a “Tech Takeover” focused on “Designing Smart Products for the Internet of Things (IoT).” This event, which was sponsored by Fisher Unitech, set the stage for why and how products need to be designed for the rapidly evolving IoT world, where things are smart and connected. Automation Alley was the perfect setting for the event. Their focused efforts on innovation and technology, entrepreneurship, and talent development, among other things, have been...

Fourth Module of the 2017 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 1 August 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Industry Analysis Report, the fourth of five modules of the CIMdata 2017 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2016. 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.

All industries saw growth in PLM spending...

In this free educational webinar participants will learn about the state of the art for generative design tools and the processes they enable.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 1 August 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Generative Design: The Changing Nature of Product Development.” The webinar will take place on September 7, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT).

Generative Design (GD) is a term for a class of tools that create or modify design geometry based on non-geometric requirements or constraints on product performance. GD includes not only Topology Optimization (TopOpt), but also...

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Siemens PLM Software, in conjunction with Siemens AG, is taking a fresh approach to solving challenges in today’s energy industry. To drive further progress, the company recently held an Energy Executive Council event in Houston, Texas, with attendance from key influencers throughout the industry, including independent oil companies (IOCs); oilfield services firms; oilfield equipment manufacturers; and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms.

The energy industry has traditionally adopted highly customized engineering processes for developing projects, and has struggled to reuse design information from project to project as well as to integrate that information throughout...

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Key takeaways:

• Collaboration between aerospace and defense OEMs and their design chain suppliers has been identified as a chronic pain point by the OEMs, i.e., point of friction impeding information flow through the product lifecycle.
• CIMdata research has revealed that, in general, A&D OEMs and their partners have no system in place to record and track collaboration inquiries.
• Establishing an inquiry and response tracking system between collaboration entities is a simple, low cost investment that would go a long way to alleviating this chronic pain point.

Over the past two years CIMdata has participated in collaboration research...

Now in its 24th year, this event will take place in conjunction with PDT Europe in Gothenburg, Sweden

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 20 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the agenda topics for PLM Road Map™ 2017 which will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe. Both events will take place on October 17-19 at the Clarion Hotel Post, Gothenburg, Sweden.

PLM Road Map 2017 brings together the perspectives of thought leaders within automotive, aerospace & defense, and other industries who are evolving their company’s PLM solutions to support new business opportunities and value propositions...

Measuring Organizations’ PLM Readiness

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, released a new eBook focused on Tata Technologies’ PLM Analytics assessments that help companies understand where they are in their PLM journey.

This eBook describes Tata Technologies’ PLM Analytics program which is designed to provide insight and guidance for developing a PLM strategy within an enterprise. Organized into four components (see the figure below), the first level enables a company to start with a quick overview assessment to identify issues and potential directional priorities for their PLM program. With each successive tier,...

Paper sets the bar for assessing the lifecycle management capabilities of a platform.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a new position paper entitled, “Product Innovation Platforms: Definition, Their Role in the Enterprise, and Their Long-Term Viability.”

In this position paper, CIMdata offers an enhanced understanding of platforms in terms of their long-term viability specifically focusing on answering the following questions:

• What is a practical working definition of a product innovation platform?
• How is the long-term viability of a product innovation platform measured?
• What makes product innovation platforms vital to...

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Key takeaways:

• With a “system of systems” approach, Product Innovation Platforms are enabling next-generation PLM.
• The robustness of Product Innovation Platforms is measured with five imperatives and seven strategic characteristics.
• It never makes sense to develop tomorrow’s products with yesterday’s tools.
• Industrial companies need to review and update their PLM strategy and enabling solutions to be successful.

In the more than 30 years that CIMdata has been covering the PLM market, the landscape...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes’ aspires to the role of catalyst and enabler for realizing critical structural transformations across industry value chains that will allow customers to maximize benefits and profits from economic disruptors like the current trends such as smart, connected products and digitalization.
• Dassault Systèmes’ is driving their 3DEXPERIENCE platform to the next level, positioning the platform as an operating system that powers their portfolio and their customers’ operating models, as well as being a business model that powers their marketplace and their customers’ value networks.
• Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform revenues in 2016 grew 30%...