A PLM Leadership Event
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 October 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the successful start of its 2013 PLM Road Map™ conference in Chicago. The theme of the conference is The Evolving PLM Paradigm - Toppling the Status Quo. Attendance grew by about 15% over the 2012 event to 330 attendees. Sponsorship booths totaled 31.
The two-day program features keynote and breakout sessions. CIMdata’s Stan Przybylinski, VP Research, is the PI Congress chair. Highlights of this year’s event are the keynote speakers. The first-day speakers included Adrian Micu, CES Group (PLM as a Key Transformational Tool in Engineering Excellence); and Peter Bilello, CIMdata President (Exploring the Evolving World of Social Product Development); and LTC Nathan Weidenman, DARPA (Compressing Development Timetables for Complex Defense Systems: DARPA’s Adaptive Vehicle Make). These were augmented by four tracks of more detailed discussions by PLM users and panel discussions on Social Product Development & Collaboration, Digital Manufacturing, Systems Engineering, and PLM Integration and Sustainability.