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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 5 February 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free webinar, “Physics-Based Simulation Software: Consolidation Implications for Industry.” The webinar, hosted by members of CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Consulting Practice, will take place on Thursday, 27 February 2025, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last one hour.

The consolidation of the engineering software industry is reshaping the landscape of physics-based simulation. As competing providers merge and expand their offerings, companies must navigate overlapping PLM, PDM/MCAD, EDA/MBSE, and MCAE solutions....

Delivering Complex Products Faster and Accurately

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 28 January 2025—Today, CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, published a new eBook focused on Aras’ Configure-to-Order solution. This eBook describes Configure-to-Order (CTO), a product and sales strategy that efficiently defines and manages customer demand through the use of product variants.

Aras’ approach enables common variability definitions across the lifecycle, from sales to product development to manufacturing and finally to service. This ensures consistency while leveraging a low-code approach to support maximum product configurability.

Aras has developed a comprehensive enterprise CTO solution that enables manufacturers to engineer,...

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The Design and Make Conference—Transforming today, reinventing tomorrow.

Key Takeaways

• Autodesk is establishing itself as a leader in driving AI-powered automation to help users save time and enhance efficiency across its entire portfolio.
• Autodesk is advancing its goal of seamless data connectivity across domains and disciplines through enhancements in Autodesk Platform Services and AI-driven improvements.
• Customers showcased their use of Autodesk Vault and Autodesk Fusion Manage to cover the entire spectrum of organizational workflows from requirements management, BOM management, change management, and project management to quality, and supplier management.
• Autodesk presented Project Bernini, an AI, paradigm-shifting...

Siemens Enterprise BOM—Driving Business Value

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 22 January 2025—Today, CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, published a new eBook focused on Siemens Digital Industries Software’s (Siemens) Enterprise Bill of Material (BOM) solution. The eBook describes manufacturers’ need to manage better the many BOMs used throughout their extended enterprise and the benefits of an enterprise BOM approach. It also describes Siemens’ enterprise BOM solution.

Developing, producing, and servicing today’s complex products requires maintaining consistent integration of requirements, structures, and BOMs across multiple technological and functional domains. An enterprise BOM contains all the data, relationships,...

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Key Takeaways

• Companies without a modern, well-integrated PLM strategy and solution struggle to manage end-to-end product development efficiently in a timely manner.
• Companies that delay implementing PLM miss out on streamlining their product development processes and operational efficiency. This leads to widening gaps between their strategic vision and actual capabilities, higher operational costs, increased time-to-market and lower product quality and innovation.
• Company leadership without a PLM solution often experience delayed access and visibility to critical product development data for agile decision making to adapt business strategies.
• Using a PLM solution enables companies to manage complex...

This annual survey is now in its seventh year.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 January 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the launch of its annual PLM Status & Trends survey.

Now in its seventh year, this eagerly awaited survey is intended for PLM practitioners with experience implementing and using PLM strategies and enabling technologies. The goal is to deepen the collective understanding of the status, drivers, and preconditions for companies to achieve value from their investment in PLM.

We want to understand the following from the respondents:

• Their company's current position in its PLM journey
• The Goals...

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Accenture highlighting significant GenAI benefits

Key Takeaways

• In the 1950s, the press used the term “electronic brain” to describe early work by Alan Turing and others. Since then, researchers have attempted to create thinking technologies—artificial intelligence (AI)—equal to or surpassing the human mind.
• Engineering is an ideal domain to apply generative AI (genAI): the engineering discipline rigorously and systematically creates and collaborates on varied information across the product lifecycle from idea through life, creating the raw material, parsed from enterprise and IT-OT systems, that forms the basis of all genAI use cases.
• Accenture is applying...

Transform Industrial Machinery Business with Siemens Service Lifecycle Management

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 14 January 2025—Today, CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, published a new eBook focused on the application of service lifecycle management (SLM) in the industrial machinery industry and how Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) SLM solutions enable companies in that industry to move to a servitization business model. This eBook describes how a robust SLM solution can enable companies in the industrial machinery industry to aggregate, contextualize, simulate, and analyze operational data captured from managed assets into actionable insight that can drive...

This webinar is part of CIMdata’s educational series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 14 January 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Recovery for a Stalled PLM Initiative – Part Two.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 13 February, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last one hour.

Implementing a PLM solution is a complex process often marked by unforeseen obstacles. Many initiatives stall, fall short or fail to deliver the expected benefits. In Part One of this webinar series, CIMdata...

This PLM-focused event will take place in May.

Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Bromma, SWEDEN 9 January 2025—CIMdata and Eurostep are delighted to share the details about the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT 2025 North America conference, scheduled to take place at the Marriott Hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA on May 7th and 8th. This premier PLM-focused event, under the theme “PLM’s Integral Role in Digital Transformation From Strategy to Execution: Elevating PLM to an Enterprise Business Solution, the PLM Professional's Road Map to Success?” promises an...