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Enabling improved manufacturing practices to enable clients to have a higher understanding of their processes and products – delivering enhanced customer satisfaction and increased brand equity. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 31 January 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the expansion of its Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MSE) Consulting Practice. This consulting practice focuses on bridging the flow of data and integrating processes between manufacturing and the design, fabrication, and operation of facilities and infrastructure to improve processes and products through the product lifecycle. The MSE practice will concentrate on new and emerging technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 practices, to achieve the factory of the future goals. To support this expanded practice, Peter Bilello, President of CIMdata, announces that Michael Fry will lead the practice and will have the title of Director, Manufacturing Systems Engineering Practice. “We are extremely pleased that Mr. Fry

Discussion will take a look at what optimization is and why some engineers are anxious about it. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 26 January 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Keith Meintjes, CIMdata’s Practice Manager for Simulation and Analysis, will join a roundtable discussion that will consider the outlook for Optimal Design Technology. Dr. Meintjes will be joined by Advanced Engineering Solutions’ Dr. Andreas Vlahinos. Historically, engineers have been able to rely on industry knowledge, expertise, and aesthetics to decide how a product looks. Now, they have an alternative path available—one that involves generative design, a process where product shape is determined using physics-based simulation methods that consider performance requirements and objectives such as minimum cost and weight; topology optimization, a technique for generative design; and and other technologies that look for input from AI-like algorithms. The roundtable discussion will be moderated Kenneth Wong of Digital

Presentation will include a discussion on the challenges and opportunities associated with the “single digital thread” vision. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 January 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is pleased to announce that Don Tolle, CIMdata’s Director for Simulation-Driven Systems Development Consulting Practice & Knowledge Council, will make a presentation at the INCOSE International Workshop which takes place in Torrance, California from January 28-31. Mr. Tolle will make his presentation titled, The intersection of PLM, MBSE, SMS: What’s next, on Sunday, January 29 as part of the MBSE Workshop: SE Transformation & MBSE Initiative. The large number of acronyms being used to define the digitalization of product development processes throughout the lifecycle is confusing. As industry moves towards the adoption of model-centric and systems-driven development processes they may be regarded as becoming counterproductive. Mr. Tolle’s presentation will highlight the differences and overlap of these different viewpoints

Webinar will discuss the performance issues faced by users in dealing with large product assemblies. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 17 January 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Ken Versprille, CIMdata’s Practice Manager for Social Product Development & Collaboration, will keynote an ENGINEERING.COM webinar, titled “Managing Large CAD Assemblies,” on February 23, 2017. The webinar, sponsored by Siemens PLM Software, will discuss the performance issues that users face in dealing with large product assemblies. Dr. Versprille will highlight the market pressures driving the need for large assemblies and expose a number of best practices that can help realize increased performance. To learn more or to register to attend the webinar, visit: www.engineering.com  About Dr. Ken Versprille Dr. Versprille has over 35 years of experience in the application of computer-based solutions for engineering and manufacturing. His research projects have spanned complex geometric design approaches, design collaboration, design automation, PLM

Educational webinar will provide an overview of semantic web technology that is relevant to product failure knowledge capture and reuse. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 January 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Why Connected Intelligent Products Need Semantic Web Technology.” The webinar will take place on February 9, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour. The development of trustworthy connected intelligent products needs a knowledge system based design-for-reliability capability. Such a capability demands a seamless integration between the processes and tools of systems engineering and reliability engineering, as well as a knowledge system that can be used to transform implicit product failure knowledge into explicit machine-readable knowledge. The knowledge system must enable the capture and reuse of product failure understanding not only from previous generation products, but also from the verification and validation cycles of those currently