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Key takeaways:

• Configuration management is a fundamental capability requirement for any product produced in series and any complex machine.
• Poor configuration management guarantees business failure in the long-term and often in the short-term.
• Teamcenter supports lifecycle configuration management at scale from requirements through as-maintained serialized configurations. The Advanced Machine Engineering focuses on requirements through the as-designed state and is directly compatible with other lifecycle extensions including advanced simulation, manufacturing, and service.

Introduction

The industrial machinery landscape remains incredibly complex. Domain and system requirements, changing assembly designs, third party components—all these facets and more must be managed beneath the...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 22 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an updated whitepaper titled “Advanced Machine Engineering Transforming the Machine Building Industry.” and an update to the related commentary “Configuration Management: Configuration Integrity is a Core Driver for Business Success.” They were originally published in October 2020 and the updates reflect improvements over the past two years.

As machines grow in complexity machine and equipment builders often struggle to meet cost, quality, timing, and functionality requirements demanded by their customers. Machine applications run the gamut of industries from machine...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 22 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will participate in a webinar, “Product Value Management in the Age of Disruption.” The webinar, sponsored by Propel, takes place on Wednesday, 7 December, at 1:00 PM EST.

Due to their siloed nature, traditional enterprise software solutions do not adequately support the creation and capture of value. This webinar will discuss a new approach to managing the lifecycle of products called product value management...

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On 17 November 2022, PTC announced Its intent to acquire field service provider ServiceMax, a cloud-native, product-centric field service management (FSM) solution provider. ServiceMax provides a suite of cloud-native FSM capabilities built on the Salesforce platform. These capabilities include managing all relevant information about serviced products—product description, serial number, service history, and more—creating and managing work orders and scheduling and dispatching technicians. ServiceMax’s FSM capabilities are closely integrated with Salesforce’s customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Subject to the satisfaction of regulatory approval and other applicable closing conditions, the transaction is expected to close...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an updated eBook titled “Accelerating Your Industrial Machinery Projects with Generative Design.” Originally published in 2018 as “Siemens PLM Software Advances Generative Design Technology in NX,” this update reflects the last four years of improvements.

Generative design is a process wherein the shape and composition of a product are determined by using physics-based simulation and other analysis methods that consider performance requirements and optimize objectives such...

Events offer the first look at CIMdata’s analysis of 2022’s PLM market results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 9 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm, announces the schedule and theme for its 2023 PLM Market & Industry Forum.

The theme for 2023 is “The Digital Thread: Powering Business Transformation.” In this industry-leading Forum designed exclusively for PLM software and service providers, CIMdata will frame the topic of the digital thread and discuss the issues faced by industrial users so that members...

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Key takeaways:

• The creation of today’s highly complex cyber-physical products, combined with intense global competition and time to market pressures, requires significantly greater use of computer-aided engineering (CAE) to assess, validate, and optimize the functional performance of components and sub-systems, as well as complete systems.
• The expanded use of CAE, the cloud, big data analytics, digital twins, and AI/machine learning is driving the need for ever-increasing access to high performance computing (HPC) resources by significantly more engineers across the global enterprise.
• Simr (formerly known as UberCloud) provides enterprises of all sizes with an integrated, engineering computing...

This free educational webinar will review the significant events in the PLM economy so far in 2022 and help attendees make sense of them.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA November 8, 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The State of the PLM Economy.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

If there is one constant in the PLM Economy, i.e., the collection of software and service providers that...

This survey seeks input from PLM professionals regarding their experiences with PLM providers and solutions.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 27 October 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the launch of a new survey on the experiences PLM Professionals have with their PLM providers.

The survey seeks input from PLM practitioners with experience implementing and using PLM strategies and enabling technologies. The survey’s goal is to understand better the strengths and weaknesses of current PLM solutions and providers and the emerging needs and challenges within the market.

Responses are confidential and are not attributable to any person...

Moving from a single BOM to a common representation

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 3 November 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of a summary of CIMdata research on the application of an enterprise bill of material (BOM).

Manufacturers from many industries face incredible demand to bring their multi-domain products to market faster while differentiating from their competition. As product complexity continues to increase, companies are exploring enterprise-level BOM management strategies to better manage part and product data throughout the product lifecycle and foster collaboration across software, electronic, electrical, and mechanical domains. To better...