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Dassault Systèmes announced that its 3DEXPERIENCE Lab in Pune is enabling the Indian startup PadCare Labs to complete the loop of menstrual hygiene economy in India through safe disposal and recycling of sanitary pads. Dassault Systèmes is offering technical mentoring through the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab in Pune along with design collaborations, analysis and visualizations and formulation development using CATIA, SIMULIA, ENOVIA, 3DEXCITE, and BIOVIA applications powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

In India, the impact of disposing of 12.3 billion sanitary napkins annually is more pronounced because of the unorganised ways of municipal solid waste management and poor community collection, disposal, and transportation...

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Key takeaways:

• Interacting with simulations to improve understanding is moving beyond simulation & analysis specialists to include other engineers, and even product development leadership.
• Pervasive product-use sensing is improving models, which are now being used after mass production to identify quality issues much earlier.
• Scale of possible verification & validation scenarios are exploding—resulting in the is need for an environment to create, manage, and coordinate test cases in specific domains of interest in support of new and existing Automotive engineering activities.
• Siemens Digital Industries Software’s (Siemens) SSE Product Validation offers solutions for managing simulations and test cases...

The webinar will consider the requirements tier-one suppliers have for a robust program-based manufacturing solution.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 1 March 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Ken Versprille, Executive Consultant, will make a keynote presentation at a webinar entitled, “Why Program Management is Ripe for Transformation.” The webinar will also include a discussion between Dave Opsahl, the CEO of Actify, and Ron Stephens, Vice President of ETCS. The webinar, sponsored by Actify, takes place on Thursday, 25 March, at 11:00 a.m. EDT.

Many tier-1 suppliers, especially those in the automotive sector, compete...

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Key takeaways:

• Beginning May 2021 students can obtain 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for $60/year including SOLIDWORKS Premium and SOLIDWORKS 3D Creator. Students will also be provided membership in a cloud job listing community sponsored by Dassault Systèmes.
• Similarly beginning in the second half of 2021, Makers can purchase 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for $9.99/month or $99/year. The solution includes SOLIDWORKS Premium, SOLIDWORKS 3D Creator, and SOLIDWORKS 3D Sculptor. They also gain membership in a cloud Makers community.
• Mr. Bernard Charlès indicated that over 60% of Pharma companies are using Dassault Systèmes’ Medidata for critical clinical trials.

Dassault Systèmes hosted their virtual...

New eBook Describes Siemens NX PMI/MBD Enhancements.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 18 February 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of an eBook “PMI—Enabling MBD, MBE, and Actualizing the Digital Twin” focused on Siemens Digital Industries Software’s recent release of NX Model Based Definition, a suite of PMI and MBD enhancements that helps meet tomorrow’s challenges faced by users.

Product modeling solution providers are looking for ways to improve the authoring of PMI within a MBD context. In addition, they seek improvements in the consumption of PMI within downstream applications. Siemens realizes that a...

This annual survey seeks input from PLM professionals with experience implementing and using PLM strategies and enabling technologies.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 February 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the launch of its annual global PLM status and trends survey.

In its third year, the survey seeks input from PLM practitioners with experience implementing and using PLM strategies and enabling technologies. The survey’s goal is to deepen our collective understanding of the status, drivers, and preconditions for companies to derive value from their PLM investment.

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

The course provides a solid understanding of what is involved in a digital transformation initiative.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, February 16, 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that it is offering a virtual-live Digital Transformation Short Course in May. The program, which is part of CIMdata’s world-class PLM Leadership education and training offering, will take place over two four-hour sessions on May 4 and May 6.

The CIMdata Digital Transformation Short Course offers those participating in or preparing for a digital transformation initiative the opportunity to gain a solid understanding of the critical concepts and...

This free educational webinar will explain how to develop and use a PLM implementation roadmap.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA February 11, 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a free educational webinar, “Defining a Practical Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Roadmap.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 11, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

IT solutions, especially PLM solutions, are a complex mix of people, processes, and technology. Data needs to be organized and managed to optimize and improve business outcomes. Taking a PLM solution from vision to production to...

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Key takeaways:

• Actify’s Automotive Program Management (APM) suite offers top-tier automotive suppliers a strategic advantage in their pre- and post-RFQ award program operations.
• APM delivers a secure, end-to-end suite of applications that manages the entire OEM program lifecycle for suppliers, and consolidates processes and information buried in different enterprise silos into a single version of truth.
• APM maintains a repository of past program operations allowing comparisons using multiple parameters to find similar past bids and programs together with their outcomes.

The automotive sector is the world’s largest manufacturing industry and is profoundly different from other manufacturing endeavors....

The CIMdata administered group presents their detailed requirements for the minimum CAD Part types and data items within each that are needed to develop, build, and certify an aircraft.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 2 February 2021—Representatives of the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) have published a list of their detailed requirements for the minimum data items required for standard 3D Model-Based Definition (MBD) Type Design Certification. The requirements are the culmination of two years of effort by the team made up of domain experts from the eight-member companies and select Tier 1 suppliers.

The report documents the definition of...