This PLM-focused event will take place in May.
Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Bromma, SWEDEN 9 January 2025—CIMdata and Eurostep are delighted to share the details about the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT 2025 North America conference, scheduled to take place at the Marriott Hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA on May 7th and 8th. This premier PLM-focused event, under the theme “PLM’s Integral Role in Digital Transformation From Strategy to Execution: Elevating PLM to an Enterprise Business Solution, the PLM Professional's Road Map to Success?” promises an engaging exploration of the critical enablers of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its digital transformation.
Our agenda will feature a curated blend of reports and case studies from industry experts, focusing on the interests of PLM professionals. Covering technologies, processes, and people, PLM Road Map & PDT 2025 will build on what is possible when PLM is aligned with Digital Transformation and show how to achieve it. The conference will provide an environment to learn, discuss, and collaboratively advance product lifecycle digitalization.
Agenda topics will include the following and more:
- Digital engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE): Incorporating strategies and trends into a digital transformation initiative.
- Digital Twins: Improving efficiency and reducing costs by creating digital replicas of physical assets to simulate and optimize manufacturing processes.
- Digital Threads: The reuse of quality-assured data downstream and upstream, allowing the opportunity to break out of traditional software application silos.
- Data Governance: The importance of robust data governance and enterprise data modeling.
- Executive Sponsorship: The importance of strong executive-level sponsorship in driving transformation initiatives.
- Organizational Change Management: Implementing organizational change management (OCM) from the departmental to the enterprise level.
- Interoperability, openness, and standards: Using strategies for achieving interoperability, openness, and leveraging the role of standards.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML): Leveraging AI and ML to analyze data, predict equipment failures, optimize production schedules, and enhance quality control.
- Enhanced Customer Experience: Integrating digital tools to improve customer interactions, from order tracking to personalized product recommendations.
- Sustainability: Using digital technologies to reduce waste, improve energy efficiency, and minimize the environmental impact of manufacturing operations.
CIMdata’s President & CEO, Peter Bilello, emphasizes the critical importance of PLM’s role in digital transformation, noting that “A true digital transformation is not going to take place without a modern enterprise-level Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) approach.” He continues, “PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2025 is not just a gathering; it’s a convergence of thought leadership, real-world insights, and collaborative exploration. As PLM continues its evolution as a critical enterprise business solution, this event focuses on the strategies, tools, and best practices needed to advance digital transformation and drive product lifecycle digitalization forward.”
“A Digital Transformation is or should be an indispensable component of any Business Transformation, and modern PLM is key to such transformation in any organization that touches product data, says Håkan Kårdén, a Strategic Advisor and part of the PDT Europe organizing team since 2004.
“A successful Digital Transformation requires vision as well as execution. While the vision serves as a beacon and is always challenging to nail, the trickiest part, in many ways, is the execution. There are so many options available, and as much as we love it, technology has the drawback of becoming outdated well before real business benefits have been delivered. In the 2025 PLM Road Map and PDT conferences, we are looking to leadership and organizations that have successfully taken on the grand challenge to transform business digitally in a way that adds to the bottom line and corporate value. This includes much more than just the technology, and we are looking to address the bigger picture of what must be included to reach a successful digital transformation— elevation of PLM to an Enterprise Business Solution,” ends Håkan Kårdén.
In addition to the May event in North America, CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce PLM Road Map & PDT Europe, which will take place from November 5 to 6 in Paris, France.
For more information and to register, please visit the CIMdata website: https://www.cimdata.com/en/education/plm-conferences/2025-plm-road-map-pdt-north-america.
