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 by the sponsors of the event.
Speakers and their presentation topics included:
- The State of the PLM Industry: Why the C-Suite is Not Happy - Peter Bilello, President, CIMdata, Inc.
- Value Creation through Synergies between PLM and Digital Transformation - Daniel Dubreuil, CDO for Products and Service, Safran
- MBSE: The Digital Evolution of Systems Engineering - Mark Williams, Engineer and MBSE Project Leader, The Boeing Company
- MBSE Means Many Models - Managing the Risk and Keeping Records - Nigel Shaw, Eurostep Limited
- Industrialization of Additive Manufacturing - Peter Kerl, Moog
- Blockchain & PLM - James van Oss, Moog
- Rip & Replace or Embrace & Extend to Enable a PLM Platform - Boris Cononetz, Jr., Director, Enterprise PLM, Microsoft
- Influencing Standards for Data Storage and Exchange – Brian Chiesi, BCA Business Capabilities, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- Agile PLM Development - Antoine Scotto d'Apollonia, Vice-President - IM Develop, Airbus
- System of Systems Approach to Product Design - Professor Dr.-Ing. Martin Eigner, Chair of Virtual Product Engineering, The Technical University of Kaiserslautern
- The State of PLM on the Cloud - Stan Przybylinski, Vice President, CIMdata, Inc.
- Generative Design: A New Era of Product Development - Dr. Ted Blacker, Manager, Simulation Modeling Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories
- Sustainable PLM Overcoming Obsolescence - Dr. Henrik Weimer, Head of Business Architecture and Planning, Airbus
- Challenges and Approaches to Implementing Structured System Architecture in the Medical Device Industry - Sumit Gupta, Director, Engineering Head of PLM Systems, Tools and Infrastructure, Siemens Healthineers
- Model-based Definition and Minimum Digital Thread - Melissa Harvey, The Boeing Company
- Physics-based Digital Twins: Beyond Data Analytics - SDSD Knowledge Council Round Table chaired by CIMdata
- PLM's Future: Where are we going? - Peter Bilello, President, CIMdata, Inc.
The PLM Collaboration Cafe™, provided a vibrant environment for open discussions among the attendees and the sponsors of the event. Sponsors were: Aras, Configit, Eurostep, IpX, Mercury Digital Services, and Siemens PLM Software.
For more information on PLM Road Map North America visit: https://www.cimdata.com/en/education/plm-conferences/2018-plmrmna-pdt/2018-plmrmna-about-plmrm. The next PLM Road Map event will take place in Stuttgart, Germany on October 24, 2018.
