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Presentation will highlight the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Digital Thread across the DoD and industry organizations. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 27 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Brench Boden, Chief Technology Officer for the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) and a Senior Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, will make a keynote presentation at CIMdata’s Product & Manufacturing Innovation Driven by Digital Design & Simulation: Challenges, Strategies & Best Practices for Business Success Workshop. The workshop will take place at the UI LABS Innovation Center, home to DMDII, in Chicago, Illinois, on June 6 and 7. The Department of Defense (DoD) /Air Force vision of the Digital Thread is to enable a next generation, model-driven process for the innovative development, manufacturing, and sustainment of complex cyber-physical weapons systems. In his keynote address, “The Digital Thread Revolution: From Digital

Educational webinar will offer a pragmatic step-by-step plan to implement PLM to manage Additive Manufacturing parts. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Essential Role of PLM in the Adoption of Additive Manufacturing into Mainstream Production.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour. Over the years, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been primarily used to produce models, prototypes, and one-off parts made of non-production ready materials, so governance of enterprise solutions, such as PLM, was not required. Now, with recent advances in materials science, new high performance AM machines, improved CAD and simulation tools, together with commercial pressures to make things in lower volumes but faster, lighter, stronger, and more cheaply, an exciting new era for AM is emerging. To fully adopt AM

Two leading PLM global events will co-locate in Gothenburg, Sweden on 17-19 October 2017. Stockholm, Sweden and Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 18 April 2017—Eurostep, the long-time producer of PDT Europe, and CIMdata, the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, are pleased to announce the co-location of PDT Europe 2017 and PLM Road Map 2017. The two events will be held in conjunction with each other at Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. Participants can choose to attend one of the events or both with a discount. PLM Road Map will take place on October 17, while PDT Europe takes place on October 18-19. “With the successful co-location of PDT Europe and PLM Road Map in 2016 we decided to go with the same concept in 2017,” says Mr. Håkan Kårdén, CEO, Eurostep Group. “The PDT Europe 2017 theme is: Continuous Transformation of PLM to Support the Lifecycle Model-Based Enterprise. This is highly

Presentation will consider the role that vendor-neutral standards and MBSE play in digitizing engineering. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Roger Burkhart, Technology Architect for Deere & Company, will make a keynote presentation at CIMdata’s Product & Manufacturing Innovation Driven by Digital Design & Simulation: Challenges, Strategies & Best Practices for Business Success Workshop. The workshop will take place at the UI LABS Innovation Center, home to DMDII, in Chicago, Illinois, on June 6 & 7. The complexity of modern engineering products demands a complex set of virtual tools and processes to design, verify, and validate their performance up front, using digital means. In his keynote address, “System Modeling, Simulation, and Interoperability – View from an End-user Perspective,” Mr. Burkhart will discuss the challenges that end-user companies face in orchestrating these tools and processes, and the important role

Educational webinar will consider model-based technologies and the approaches being used today in industry. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Simulation-Driven Systems Development: Challenges and Opportunities.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour. With the rapid advances in digital technology, the complexity of products is increasing exponentially due to “mass customized” product variants with high levels of software and electronics content. Game-changing new product lifecycle management (PLM) enabling technologies, such as additive manufacturing (3D printing), the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and “design-to-purpose” materials, will require new approaches to product development, manufacturing, and sustainment in operations. As such, there is a need to engage and collaborate across diverse engineering and other business domains to develop better “systems-oriented” solutions and conduct a much

Presentation will show how best practices can help organizations achieve business value from their PLM strategies. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Vice President, John MacKrell, will make a presentation at Purdue University’s Product Lifecycle Management Center of Excellence’s 2017 Spring Meeting which takes place at the Indiana Manufacturing Institute on April 11. The presentation, entitled “PLM Best Practices Drive Value,” will show how employing best practices helps organizations achieve business value from their PLM strategies. Examples of current PLM best practices will be described along with how these impact organizations’ processes. Benefits accruing from implementing PLM strategies properly will also be discussed. Mr. MacKrell has over 40 years of experience in the application of computer-based solutions to engineering and manufacturing, with more than 20 years at CIMdata. He has held senior positions in product management, marketing, research and

The workshop, co-sponsored by three of CIMdata’s knowledge councils, will take place on June 6 & 7 at the DMDII facility in Chicago, Illinois. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 5 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the agenda topics for its upcoming workshop, Product & Manufacturing Innovation Driven by Digital Design & Simulation: Challenges, Strategies, Tools, & Best Practices for Business Success. The workshop will take place on June 6 & 7 at the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII), a world-class, first-of-its-kind, manufacturing hub based in Chicago, Illinois. The Product & Manufacturing Innovation Driven by Digital Design & Simulation workshop is the must-attend event for industrial organizations and product development solution providers interested in learning about “model-driven engineering” strategies and solutions that will enable on-going product and manufacturing innovation to create competitive advantage, minimize total lifecycle costs, and drive top line revenue growth. Over the