Unique, two-day event takes place on October 28-29 in the Washington D.C. area.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 23 July 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Longview Advisors, Inc., organizer of 3D CIC announce the presentation topics for PLM Road Map for the Aerospace & Defense Industry featuring 3D CIC, to be held October 28-29 at The Westfields Marriott – Washington, Dulles.

PLM Road Map 2015 for the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) Industry featuring 3D CIC is the must-attend event for A&D industry executives and PLM practitioners globally—providing independent education and a collaborative networking environment where ideas, trends,...

Presentation will share BASF’s journey to a culture of innovation excellence.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 21 July 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Dr. Svetlana Dimovski, BASF Corporation’s (BASF) Senior Manager for Innovation Excellence, will make a presentation at CIMdata’s Social Product Development & Collaboration Knowledge Council Workshop. The workshop will take place in Louisville, Kentucky on October 7-8. In addition to Dr. Dimovski’s presentation, the workshop will feature presentations from Local Motors and GE Appliances.

Dr. Dimovski’s presentation, Unleashing Innovation with External Partners: From a Corporate Initiative to a Global Movement, will take a...

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Key takeaways:

• At the same time that overall product complexity is increasing, manufacturers must also produce custom product configurations, often in small quantities
• Better collaboration between engineering, process and product planning, and manufacturing is required to manage growing product and variant complexity
• Collaborative manufacturing provides a key solution for analyzing the product mix to understand its impact on production, allowing companies to optimize overall production throughput
• Siemens PLM Software is enhancing their PLM portfolio with focused solutions designed to help customers define, sell, and produce today’s complex products more efficiently

Introduction

Manufacturing enterprises face many challenges. Two that are...

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Key takeaways:

• The February 2012 commitment to innovation experience is well underway—more to come
• Maturing “Experience” concept is being extended to all aspects of Dassault Systèmes business and services
• Power of optimization capabilities with Quintiq brings high value and high returns
• With the aging world population and the availability of extensive computing resources, Dassault Systèmes’ BIOVIA solutions should result in enhanced returns
• A changing channel management strategy demonstrates deliberate intent towards partnership success

Dassault Systèmes held their annual Industry Analyst event on June 10-11, 2015 at their global headquarters in Velizy, France. The agenda was full and included briefings...

Experienced PLM program manager joins CIMdata as PLM Success Practice Manager

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 14 July 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Chris Gregory has joined the firm as PLM Success Practice Manager, responsible for the coordination and execution of CIMdata’s PLM Community and associated solution provider strategic management consulting activities.

During his 30+ year career, Mr. Gregory has provided PLM strategic support to a wide variety of clients over a broad spectrum of industries including: Aerospace, Automotive, Defense Industrial Base, Federal, State Government, Heavy Equipment, High-Technology Electronics, and Medical Devices....

Third Module of the 2015 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 8 July 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Market and Solution Provider Analysis Report, the third of five modules of the CIMdata 2015 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2014. 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 CIMdata PLM Market...

The S&A market grew by 7.8% to over $4.6 billion in 2014

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 7 July 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata Simulation and Analysis (S&A) Market Analysis Report. This report deepens the S&A market analysis conducted as part of the CIMdata 2015 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The well-known PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during calendar year 2014. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry...

Free educational webinar, focused on developing a strategy for managing product changes, will take place on August 4, 2015

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 7 July 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Managing Product Changes.” The webinar will take place on August 4 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will consider the impact of managing product changes throughout the product lifecycle.

According to the webinar host, CIMdata’s Vice President, John MacKrell, “CIMdata’s consulting reveals that too many organizations approach product changes from the view that one process works for all. Our experience shows that...

Event will take place in Louisville, Kentucky on October 7 & 8 and will include a tour of First Build’s Microfactory.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 2 July 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that CIMdata’s Social Product Development & Collaboration Knowledge Council will present a workshop on the topic of “Collaboration and Innovation in the Digital Age.” The workshop will take place in Louisville, Kentucky and will run over two consecutive half days.

The workshop will start during the afternoon of October 7 and will end on October 8. A personal tour of First Build’s Microfactory...

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Key takeaways:

• To be successful in today’s global economy requires more than just supply chains; it demands value chains that have the geographic reach and robustness to meet ever-changing market demands
• SAP has a strategic focus on enabling product and demand networks that leverages their extended enterprise strengths and emerging capabilities including support for front-end innovation
• Moving to S/4HANA as their new business platform illustrates the platformization trend well documented by CIMdata, and provides new opportunities for user experience (UX) enhancement and new use cases
• Engineering Control Center (ECTR), the new authoring hub for SAP PLM, will...