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Key Takeaways

• Use of simulations across the product lifecycle has been growing over the years. However, simulation artifacts have largely remained siloed in separate systems in design, testing, and validation workflows. Even proper organization of the data is lacking in most organizations.
• With growing adoption of simulation from simulation-driven design to digital twins of products and manufacturing processes, there is a need to create traceability of data and process information used while performing the simulations as well as for the results of...

A proven solution tailored for shipbuilding digital transformation

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 15 October 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of a new whitepaper, SSI ShipbuildingPLM: PLM Tailored to Unlock Shipbuilding Transformation. The whitepaper describes SSI’s ShipbuildingPLM solution's evolving capabilities and integration with SSI’s ShipConstructor shipbuilding CAD. SSI’s team has extensive experience in shipbuilding, so they are well-positioned to provide solutions and help shipbuilders digitally transform their operations to improve flexibility, scalability, security, and accessibility.

According to John MacKrell, CIMdata Chairman with over 50 years of experience in a variety of industries, including...

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Key Takeaways

• The best known products from the PLM Components business of Siemens Digital Industries Software include Parasolid, the solid modeling kernel, and JT, the ISO standard visualization format, but Siemens also has components to support geometric constraints, kinematics, and rendering, as well as complete OEMable products such as Solid Edge and Femap.
• PLM components’ products are used extensively by Siemens, partners, industrial organizations, and even competitors to bring higher quality products to market faster.
• Several serious competitors, including Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS and PTC Onshape, have been customers for a decade or more, proving...

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Takeaways

• Digital threads enable sharing stable configurations of product artifacts throughout the product’s lifecycle.
• Ontologies are critical to defining the semantic foundation for meaningful digital threads that support products’ systems of systems.
• Developing viable and extensible ontologies for product development leading to long-lived digital threads is a difficult undertaking unless facilitated by experience-based guidance and tools.
• Digital threads have impact across the full product lifecycle of tools and information so SBE Vision’s adaptive framework is essential for providing digital threads that support the full product lifecycle.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 3 October 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that executive consultants Don Tolle and Sandeepak Natu, Co-Directors of the Simulation-Driven Systems Development Consulting Practice, will participate in a webinar, “The Value of SPDM to Physics-Based Simulation, Digital Thread, and Digital Twin.” The webinar, organized by Ansys, takes place on Friday, 18 October, at 11:00 AM EDT.

The increased complexity of modern industrial products is pushing businesses to adopt digital...

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Key Takeaways

• Historically, the construction phase of buildings and industrial facilities is plagued with disconnects between stakeholders pushing for changes in construction while suffering from skill scarcity.
• Dassault Systèmes’ Modular Construction virtualizes knowledge and know-how in a new approach, “productization,” using virtual modules aligned with the objectives of general contractors that can be managed independently of projects and can be reused across many projects, improving quality while saving time and cost.
• Dassault Systèmes’ cloud-based modular construction solution uses virtual twin and generative design capabilities to enable general contractors and fabricators to collaborate in real-time...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 30 September 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, is pleased to announce that Don Tolle, Co-Director of the Simulation-Driven Systems Development Consulting Practice at CIMdata, will be a featured speaker in an upcoming webinar organized by PTC. The webinar, “PTC Modeler 10.1 Release: SysML 2.0 and Much More,” will take place on Thursday, 17 October, at 11:00 AM EDT.

In this insightful webinar, Don Tolle and others will delve into the revolutionary impact of SysML 2.0 (Systems Modeling Language) on engineering...

Leading solution providers to sponsor product lifecycle management (PLM) conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden 2 October 2024—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT Europe 2024 event. The participating sponsors are Configit, Dassault Systèmes, ESI, Modular Management, PTC, and Razorleaf. The event will take place at the Lindholmen Conference Center, Gothenburg, Sweden, on 23 and 24 October.

"We are excited to have these key solution providers choose to sponsor our PLM Road Map and PDT conference," stated CIMdata's Chief Marketing Officer Cheryl Peck. "We look forward to creating an environment where...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 25 September 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that its Principal Consultant, Tom Gill, will participate in a webinar on variation management. The webinar, organized by Sigmetrix, takes place on Tuesday, 8 October, at 11:00 AM EDT.

Managing variation in parts and assemblies that make up products is a valuable competency that bridges product development and manufacturing processes. Model-based definition (MBD) and model-based enterprise require the application of dimensioning and tolerancing specifications to shift left earlier in the lifecycle. The...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 24 September 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that Sandeepak Natu, Co-Director of the Simulation-Driven Systems Development Consulting Practice, will participate in an online panel discussion, “A Foundation to Enable the Enterprise Digital Thread.” The panel discussion, organized by Ansys, takes place on Friday, 4 October, at 11:00 AM EDT.

The panel discussion is the first event in a planned series on Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM). It will share information on SPDM and how it serves as the...