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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...

Deferred PLM modernization delays time to value.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 1 February 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, is partnering with Aras Corporation (Aras), a leading PLM platform provider, to conduct a survey to understand better how companies manage their PLM solution upgrades.

In CIMdata’s experience of consulting with industrial clients, we find that PLM technologies, once implemented, are not modernized (i.e., upgraded) frequently or not at all. Most solution providers make their newest functionality available in their newest releases to encourage their customers to make the move. As a...

This PLM-focused event will take place virtually in May, with the hope of holding a face-to-face event in the late fall.

Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 27 January 2021—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce that PLM Road Map & PDT Spring 2021 will take place in May as a virtual-live event. The conference will address the critical topic of “Disruption—the PLM Professionals’ Exploration of Emerging Technologies that Will Reshape the PLM Value Equation.” The event will take place over two half-day sessions on May 19th and 20th.

PLM Road Map & PDT 2021 represents an event customized to the...

Teamcenter SLM: An Open Solution Spanning Your Extended Enterprise

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 26 January 2021—Today, CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, published a new eBook focused on describing the characteristics of a modern service lifecycle management (SLM) solution and how Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) SLM strategy and solutions incorporates them. This eBook describes how a robust SLM solution can enable a company to aggregate, contextualize, simulate, and analyze operational data captured from managed assets into actionable insights that can drive service planning, improve design for serviceability, and optimize asset in-service use and operations.

Siemens’ SLM...

This educational webinar focuses on the role that SMS training plays in improving an organization’s engineering maturity.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 26 January 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Education: Driving Systems Modeling and Simulation Understanding & Adoption.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 25 February 2021, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

During a webinar last July, we introduced Systems Modeling and Simulation (SMS). The approach presented leveraged a common systems engineering and product data model (Model-Centric Systems Engineering) that encompasses benefits, requirements, platform, program,...

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Key takeaways:

• While digital transformation and Industry 4.0 dominate the business headlines, improving global sustainability is also a major global imperative.
• Companies need to evolve their value chain strategy from focusing on logistics and costs to "responsible value chains."
• Accenture believes that to become responsible and transform the business value paradigm, businesses must become trusted, net zero, and circular, and smart, connected products will be essential to power that transformation.
• Smart, connected products will be an essential element to collect and interpret data necessary to help companies become trusted, net zero, and circular.
• Accenture Industry X solutions, services,...

The webinar will show how model-based definition can help manufacturing companies win market share.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 20 January 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Ken Versprille, a CIMdata Executive Consultant, will participate in a webinar, “Realize a Product’s Complete Digital Twin with Model-Based Definition.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 28 January.

In this webinar, Dr. Versprille will provide an overview of the challenges facing manufacturing companies. He will explain how a clear strategy and the supporting technology for deploying a Model-Based Definition strategy can help companies accelerate their product...

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Key takeaways:

• Experts collaborate better when contextually connected.
• Design changes are completed faster when assembly and requirements traceability is easy to access and examine.
• Reuse of everything, from requirements, to features, to designs, to services, will delight customers with robust products and services.
• Managing product line variations consistently for requirements, features, parts, and subsystems enables powerful reuse, which in turn enhances product and service quality.
• Siemens’ Software & Systems Engineering (SSE) Connected Engineering capabilities provides an integrated, heterogeneous Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment managing reuse of everything.

Need to Improve Collaboration Amongst Disciplines

Historically, companies established synchronization points, aka mockups,...