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This free educational webinar will review the significant events in the PLM economy so far in 2020 and help attendees make sense of them.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA November 11, 2020—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 10, 2020, 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 serve industrial companies in pursuing their PLM strategies, it is that...

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Key takeaways:

• Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) is a foundational building block for the Digital Twin and digital transformation.
• Siemens Digital Industries Software’s NX solution is at the forefront of PMI implementation.

PMI provides a foundational base for the establishment of the Digital Twin and digital transformation. CIMdata defines PMI as data pertinent to manufacturing a product including information such as tolerances, reference dimensions, datum points for quality processes, surface finish, material specifications, etc. This data has historically been included in 2D drawings to be used for design validation and in manufacturing operations. MCAD solutions may also...

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Key takeaways:

• PLM is finally gaining momentum in its move to the cloud as security and performance concerns are addressed. The COVID-19 pandemic and work-from-home are accelerating the transition.
• Enabling CAD and PLM on the cloud, requires a complex mix of hardware, software, processes, and data to work in harmony—not an easy task.
• HCL's 1PLMCloud supports a matrix of software solutions that have been designed to enable manufacturing companies’ digital thread requirements and remote work challenges. The modular end-to-end service offering includes initial consulting, deployment, and operations support.
• 1PLMCloud enables remote work and scalable, secure, and agile...

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Key takeaways:

• In 2020, CONTACT Software is celebrating their thirtieth year delivering quality solutions to their customers.
• CONTACT has evolved their solution to support the evolving needs of their customers and target industries.
• Industries’ movement from Industry 3.0 to the Industry 4.0 vision levies many requirements on PLM-enabling solutions and CONTACT either had delivered or plans to deliver just about all of them.
• Their plans to invest €50 million over the next 36 months will help them evolve from a “hidden champion” to a more prominent global solution provider.

CONTACT Software, a German product lifecycle management (PLM) solution...

Teamcenter X: Simplified, proven, future-ready cloud SaaS PLM

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 03 November 2020—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 PLM solution and how Teamcenter X, the latest release of Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) Teamcenter embodies them.

This eBook describes how Siemens latest release of Teamcenter, called Teamcenter X, addresses the innovation needs of industrial companies. Teamcenter has been the backbone of many companies’ product lifecycle product and data management for decades, supporting some of the largest and most complicated PLM environments....

Leading solution providers to sponsor PLM conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden 3 November 2020—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map and PDT 2020 Virtual-Live event. The participating sponsors are Anark, Aras, ESI, Plural Technology, PTC, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Technia, Vertex, and Zumen. The event will take place between 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (EST) / 15:00 – 19:00 (CET) on November 17-19.

“We are excited to have these key solution providers choose to sponsor our first ever virtual-live PLM Road Map and PDT conference,” stated Cheryl Peck, CIMdata’s Director of Marketing....

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Key takeaways:

• Digital transformation is a well-defined trend that is key to long-term business success and COVID-19 is accelerating the transformation process.
• A well-developed digital thread that enables a comprehensive, actionable digital twin that can span the full extended enterprise value chain is critical to remaining competitive.
• Digital threads and digital twins are most easily accomplished with platform solutions. The flexibility of modern platforms enables companies to innovate faster with fewer IT technology-based limitations.
• Xcelerator, Siemens Digital Industries Software’s solution portfolio, supports the end-to-end lifecycle and includes Mendix, a modern, innovative low code application and integration platform....

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Key takeaways:

• Digital threads enable sharing stable configurations of product artifacts throughout the product’s lifecycle.
• Without a comprehensive digital thread it is very difficult to manage the complex web of collaborative interactions that happen during engineering processes such as requirements traceability and change control.
• Digital threads support end-to-end traceability (from requirements through verification) within today’s prevalent heterogeneous tool ecosystems.
• Managing requirements (allocating, refining, and committing them) as part of a digital thread throughout the product lifecycle improves and accelerates decision making.
• SBE Vision provides solutions for developing, aggregating, and managing product artifacts, starting with requirements, and supporting decision...

The webinar will share information on a solution that helps our warfighters maintain battlefield readiness and air superiority.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 22 October 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Don Tolle, Director for Simulation-Driven Systems Development, will take part in a webinar that is being sponsored by NLign Analytics (NLign). Other participants include Lieutenant Colonel Gary J. Steffes, United States Air Force, and Craig Rees, VP Sales, NLign. The webinar, NLign’s Structural Integrity 3D Digital Environment enables Aircraft Quality and Reliability, will take place on Tuesday, 24 November, at 11:00 a.m. EST.

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On October 1, 2020, CIMdata met with Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) personnel to be briefed on the latest and coming capabilities for Simcenter—Siemens’ simulation solution. During the briefing, Siemens delivered a product and strategy overview and then focused on four topics:

• Model-based systems engineering
• Process industry
• Executable Digital Twin
• Autonomous driving

CIMdata has followed Simcenter from its inception and continues to be impressed with the capabilities and the closed-loop support across the lifecycle. The Simcenter portfolio includes simulations of individual product components up to system of systems simulations, CAE simulation, and physical test. These three capabilities are...