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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 3 September 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that it will be participating in the upcoming Life Sciences PLM Innovation Forum Virtual Experience. The event takes place on 10 September.

CIMdata President & CEO, Peter Bilello will make an on-demand presentation on “PLM in Medical Devices.” The presentation will focus on the typical challenges associated with PLM in medical device companies and how to overcome them.

CIMdata is also sponsoring the Life Sciences PLM Innovation Forum Virtual Experience, and members of the CIMdata team will be on hand to meet with...

This major PLM industry event will take place virtually in November.

Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 2 September—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce the agenda topics for PLM Road Map™ & PDT 2020, which will take place this year as a virtual-live event in November. The theme for this year’s event is “Digital Thread—the PLM Professionals’ Path to Delivering Innovation, Efficiency, and Quality.” The event will take place between 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM (EST) / 15:00 – 18:30 (CET) on November 17-19.

PLM Road Map & PDT will bring together the perspectives of leading thinkers from aerospace &...

This eBook explains Upchain’s User-Centric Approach to Enabling Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

ANN ARBOR, Michigan,USA 1 September 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces the release of a new eBook, Simple is Hard—But When You Get It Right, You Can Change the World. The eBook describes Upchain’s guiding principle and vision for PLM—one where PLM acts like an operating system that is always on, always there, never to be worried about, and never in the way of getting the work done.

PLM is an enterprise strategy that must be enabled for all participants throughout an...

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...