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First Module of the 2020 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 June 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata 2020 Executive PLM Market Report. This report provides an executive-level view of CIMdata’s comprehensive analysis of the PLM market, with summary charts on the overall market and specific PLM solution segments (including the chart below). It also includes perspectives on current trends in the PLM industry and how they may affect existing suppliers and investments.

Distribution of 2019 PLM...

The global CAM market grew 3.9% in 2019.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 June 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the 2020 CIMdata CAM Market Analysis Report (MAR), the twenty-eighth annual study of the global Computer-Aided Machining (CAM) market. CIMdata estimates that based on end-user payments, the worldwide CAM software and related services market grew by 3.9% in the calendar year 2019. The estimated end-user payments grew from just under $2.3 billion in 2018 to nearly $2.4 billion in 2019. According to Mr. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Vice President, “The CAM results at...

This educational webinar will introduce participants to the concept of Systems Modeling and Simulation.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 10 June 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Systems Modeling and Simulation: An Introduction.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 9 July 2020, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Innovation leaders realize that accurate and accessible data is the foundation for insight and inspiration. It is also critical to recognize that the surrounding ecosystem must be brought into play and linked appropriately. This combined structure is foundational...

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Helping manufacturers simulate and manage employee exposure risks while enabling productivity

Recently, Siemens Digital Industries (Siemens) announced a new solution that enables companies to quickly and efficiently model how employees interact in proximity to one another, and how it may impact the production line and plant design. The new solution also enables organizations to build an end-to-end digital twin to simulate worker safety, iterate on and optimize workspace layouts, and validate safety and efficiency measures to help future-proof production lines.

Siemens developed the solution using the following products:

• Siemens’ SIMATIC Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS)
• Siemens’ Trusted...

eBook defines the characteristics of a configurable manufacturing enterprise innovation platform.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 3 June 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled “An Enterprise Innovation Platform for Manufacturers.”

Products continue to become more complex, often with software and electronics driving product functionality and differentiation. However, complexity is also reflected beyond the product, with more intelligent production environments, as well as in-service management requirements. These challenges, and many others, are requiring companies to digitalize their business and evolve their current product, production, and service lifecycle scopes from ideation to realization...

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Key takeaways:

• Ensuring that the use of enterprise data, especially product data, is optimized to maximize innovation and profit, while at the same time delighting customers, is a never-ending challenge.
• Platform strategies are the best practice approach for products and for the enterprise solutions used to bring those products to market.
• Aras Innovator was conceived and built as a platform. Its service-oriented architecture has been proven over many years and manufacturers are seeing the benefits it promises and believe it will be a long-term sustainable solution.
• CIMdata recently discussed the platform journey with 9 manufacturing companies to...

This educational webinar will help organizations understand why changing the skill set of its employees in the context of a broader digital transformation initiative is critical.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 27 May 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Digital Skills Transformation: Assessing, Defining & Enabling the Workforce of the Future.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 25 June 2020, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

A company’s employees are its most critical asset. Many organizations are embarking on digital transformation initiatives, but many fall short...

The short course will ensure that those involved in a digital transformation initiative have a solid understanding of the critical concepts.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, May 14, 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that it has added a new Digital Transformation Short Course to its world-class PLM Leadership education and training offering. The first course will be a virtual-live class that will take place over two half-days on July 14 and July 21.

The new "Digital Transformation Short Course" has been created for those who are sponsoring or participating in a digital transformation initiative. The...

This educational webinar will focus on the results of the PLM market for the calendar year 2019.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 13 May 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “2020 PLM Market Update.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 11 June 2020, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

The PLM Economy, CIMdata’s phrase that describes the global ecosystem of software and services providers that help industrial companies achieve their PLM objectives, has grown strongly over the last decade. This webinar will focus on the results...

Results from Collaborative Research with Leading PLM Solution Providers

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 12 May 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook on digitalization, the second eBook published as part of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program on digitalization / digital transformation in industrial companies.

According to Mr. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Vice President, “For many, digitalization is about applying digital technologies to change a business model, resulting in new revenue and value-producing opportunities. CIMdata believes that if you are a product company that is pursuing a digitalization or digital transformation initiative it...