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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 27 August 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of the “PLM-Enabled Digital Transformation Benefits Appraisal Guide” and an associated benefits appraisal and ROI analysis service.

Products continue to become more complex, often with software and electronics driving product functionality and differentiation. Many organizations struggle to understand how to thrive in this evolving reality while providing better products, services, and support to their customers. Complexity goes beyond the product, with more intelligent production environments, as well as in-service operational and maintenance requirements. These are some of the challenges that...

This webinar will focus on how to remediate industry-wide pain points through joint action.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 25 August 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group as a Model for Industry Collaboration.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 24 September 2020, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

After decades of individual action, key aerospace and defense (A&D) companies decided their common PLM pain points could best be remediated through joint action. These companies came together and formed the...

This educational webinar will consider process orchestration and shared configurations as key for improving product development.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 20 August 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Bridging Information Silos to Improve Product Decisions.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 10 September 2020, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Contextual views combining relevant data from different information silos improve decision making within a company. Finding the data when it is outside your immediate responsibilities can be challenging. Making sure the data...

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Key takeaways:

• Increasingly, heavy equipment manufacturers must produce custom configurations, often in small quantities, while simultaneously managing increasing product complexity.
• Effective collaboration between product engineering, manufacturing planning, production, and service operations, leveraging closed-loop manufacturing, is required to compete and win in today’s complex heavy equipment industry.
• A comprehensive collaborative manufacturing environment is essential to analyze the impact of a product mix on production, allowing companies to optimize overall throughput.
• Xcelerator from Siemens Digital Industries Software is a comprehensive, integrated suite of software, services and an application development platform designed to help customers define, sell, produce, and service...

This educational webinar will focus on the partnership from a market and a strategic perspective.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 4 August 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Putting the SAP-Siemens Partnership in Context.” The webinar will take place on Tuesday, 18 August 2020, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

On 14 July, two of CIMdata’s PLM Mindshare leaders, SAP and Siemens, announced a momentous partnership. Based on a series of briefings and follow-up discussions, the full details of the partnership are still being...

Fifth Module of the 2020 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 28 July 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Industry Analysis Report, the fifth of five modules of the CIMdata 2020 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2019. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, revenues of leading PLM providers, and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

All industries saw growth in PLM...

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Key takeaways:

• In the last 5 to 10 years companies have experienced a dramatic technology and business transformation with the advent of connected products, digital factories, products as services, and Industry 4.0, forcing them to move from static supply chains to dynamic global value networks. Accurate and timely product lifecycle information is essential to bring those innovative product ideas to life.
• The walls and disparate data silos between PLM and other enterprise business processes must be eliminated. Oracle’s single cloud platform and an enterprise product record help eliminate these silos, providing the velocity and resiliency...

The role-specific classes will be offered in the early fall.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 22 July 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that it has set dates for the first series of Systems Modeling & Simulation Certificate Programs.

The goal of the classes is to provide a superior educational experience for today’s simulation and analysis professionals. Each class will be delivered through a series of education and training sessions designed to equip those involved in systems modeling and/or simulation with a strong understanding of systems modeling and simulation concepts and industry-leading best practices.

The following SMS...

This educational webinar will consider why PLM is hard and what we can do to make it simple to maximize PLM-related ROI.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 21 July 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Why is PLM so Hard? How to make the complex simple.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 27 August 2020, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

There should be no doubt, simple is best when it comes to implementing PLM. So, why has PLM typically been so hard, and often not...

The CIMdata administered group presents their findings and conclusions from evaluating the capability of commercially available PLM software to enable a core element of the Digital Thread.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 July 2020—Representatives of the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) have published the results and conclusions from a sponsored project team that engaged with four leading software providers to validate the team’s recently defined multiple-view bill of materials (Multi-view BOM) requirements by benchmarking use cases using commercially available software. The benchmarks are the culmination of three years of effort by the team made up of domain experts from...