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Key takeaways:

• Recipe management is a multifaceted business challenge for companies that develop food or formula based products
• Infor enhances Optiva for the user experience, and leverages Ming.le to put the power of social at users’ fingertips
• Infor brings added capabilities to project management and compliance
• Infor provides consistency for their on premise and cloud based offerings

Infor’s Optiva has always been a strong technical application for managing recipes. With Optiva VER. 12, Infor focused on taking Optiva from a technical platform to being a user friendly solution. In addition, Infor has tied Optiva into Ming.le, enabling social...

First Module of the 2016 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 2 June 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata 2016 Executive PLM Market Report. This report provides an executive-level view of CIMdata’s comprehensive analysis of the PLM market, with summary charts on the overall market and on specific PLM solution segments (including the chart below). It also includes perspectives on current trends in the PLM industry and how they may affect current suppliers and investments.

While the global economy...

In this free webinar participants will learn how Agile methodology can be used in PLM deployments to add significant benefits.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 2 June 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Using Agile Methods to Speed Time to Value in a PLM Deployment.” The webinar will take place on July 14, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and will share CIMdata’s observations of clients using an Agile methodology for PLM deployment achieving benefits in line with those experienced by commercial software developers. Benefits include faster time to value, a higher...

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Key takeaways:

• Capgemini offers a custom solution to access product information across disparate data managed repositories
• Metadata search capabilities leverage Dassault Systèmes’ EXALEAD solution

In order to fight increasing competition, industrial product companies allocate extensive time and budget to increase the productivity of their product development design process by installing the latest technology including up-to-date design software and strong computing IT infrastructures. Yet the “weak link” in the workflow of new product design—lack of effective search capabilities that enable part reuse—often goes ignored. Most product design companies maintain extensive repositories of released components and subassemblies that...

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Key takeaways:

• “Monetizing innovation”—capitalizing on disruption is key to forward movement in the current technological environment
• Siemens PLM Software is moving to “Totally Integrated Automation”
• Companies must “own the edge” by using disruptive technology to create new products, solutions, and business models
• Solid Edge ST9 release announced expanded licensing options and an option for increased productivity using Teamcenter integration

On May 16, 2016, Siemens PLM Software users opened PLM World 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The event celebrated its 40th year with over 1,900 attendees from 423 different companies and 73 partners traveling from 30 countries worldwide. This annual...

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Key takeaways:

• HTE companies are ill-equipped today to deal with the next wave of product complexity driven by IOT and connected products
• High tech product knowledge is distributed across the supply chain so collaboration with security is needed
• Today’s High Tech business challenges should not be solved through islands of solutions—things must change
• Platformization of PLM needs to be considered, it’s not about tearing out legacy tool—they need to be connected to get much better value

There has been an ongoing illusion shared by executives in the High Tech sector that they have PLM. Despite the fact that...

Leading PLM solution and service providers to sponsor PLM conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 19 May 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announced today the key sponsors for its upcoming PLM Road Map for the High Tech Electronics and Medical Device Industries conference are: ANSYS, Aras Corp., Autodesk, PropelPLM, and PTC. The event, which takes place on May 24 at the Biltmore Hotel & Suites in Santa Clara, California, is a strategic conference that focuses on how companies successfully define and employ PLM strategies and enabling solutions to meet challenging product development, manufacturing, and deployment issues....

Increasing Productivity with Teamcenter Integration

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 May 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm released a new whitepaper on Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge ST9 integration with Teamcenter for data management and collaboration.

Two fundamental pressures design engineers face are managing the overall growth of their CAD design files and supporting collaboration with their co-developers and clients. This whitepaper presents CIMdata’s perspective on the integration of Teamcenter with Solid Edge ST9. The features and business benefits of utilizing Teamcenter from within the Solid Edge environment are outlined in the paper including several customer testimonials.

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Key takeaways:

• Product-related information and other enterprise information is created and generally used effectively inside engineering, but its use is often limited to engineering, even though others could make better decisions faster with access to up-to-date product related information
• The restricted use of data from PLM and other enterprise systems greatly reduces the potential benefits from broad usage, but most PLM solutions have been implemented in an engineering-centric manner, making it difficult for occasional users outside of engineering...

Presentation will share how the use of observational research is leading to more innovative solutions for medical professionals.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12 May 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mary Beth Privitera, Director for the Medical Device Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Cincinnati, will make a presentation at CIMdata’s Innovation Engagement & Governance workshop. This one-day workshop will take place on May 25 at The Biltmore Hotel & Suites in Santa Clara, California.

Designing medical devices with a focus on human factors is critical to addressing the needs of medical professionals...