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This educational webinar will show how PLM can improve after-sales and service operations. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 19 March 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, "The As-Maintained BOM: Managing the Product Lifecycle After the Sale." The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 11, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour. Many of CIMdata’s industrial consulting clients have aspirations of improving profitability by capturing after-sales revenue including service, repairs, and upgrades. While a few companies are known for effective service and support operations, most only have a notion or aspiration about how to capture much of the potential opportunity, even when they have a functioning service organization. To meet the vision of improved revenue from service operations a lifecycle configuration strategy that leads to configuration-controlled after-sales BOMs must be put into place. Key processes need to be introduced,

This major PLM industry event will take place in the Washington D.C. area in May. Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 14 March 2019—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce the agenda topics for PLM Road Map™ North America & PDT North America 2019 which will take place on May 29 & 30 at the Marriott Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA. The theme for this year's event is “PLM for Professionals—Product Lifecycle Innovation.” Using a format that will offer a series of keynote and plenary sessions designed to facilitate conversations between conference speakers and conference participants, PLM Road Map & PDT NA will bring together the perspectives of leading thinkers from aerospace & defense, automotive, medical device, and other industries who are expanding the value footprint of PLM and who are tackling the pain points that erode PLM’s value potential. Over the course of the two-days, presentations will be made on the following

This popular and proven PLM education program with over 500 graduates will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in June. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 March 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to the Mercure Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 17-21 June. Recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering, with over 500 PLM professionals certified to date, the program helps prepare attendees to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. The program is facilitated by a team of CIMdata subject matter experts. Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a CIMdata PLM Certificate and are invited to join CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community. The program, which is available to industrial

The conference will discuss key technology and business issues. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 12 March 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, will deliver the opening keynote address at the Berenberg Design Software Conference in New York City on March 14. The conference brings together software providers and investment firms to discuss the key technology and business issues they face in their solution markets. Mr. Przybylinski’s presentation, "Getting to Markets of One," will focus on a key element of the Industry 4.0 vision, the ability to profitably serve individual customers their own unique product. The presentation will highlight how some of the leading players in the market are addressing this vision and how new entrants and new application areas are proving important to market success. Mr. Przybylinski has over 30 years of experience in the development of business-enabling IT solutions for research,

This webinar will discuss PLM challenges around variant configuration management. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 March 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Configuring Products That Delight Your Customers–Advanced Variant Configuration Management.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 18, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour. In this webinar, sponsored by Siemens PLM Software, CIMdata will be joined by speakers from Siemens PLM Software and Siemens IEC in a discussion that will explore the current state of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) customers and advanced variant configuration management technology. CIMdata will share recent research on PLM challenges around variant configuration management, with recommendations on how to overcome them. Siemens PLM Software will discuss their variant configuration management strategy and the value that Teamcenter Product Configurator can bring to customers. Siemens IEC will share their experiences using Teamcenter Product