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CIMdata’s Sustainability and Green Energy Practice Director, Mark Reisig, will moderate the Alliance’s coverage of PLM and Green Energy, and co-moderate the Alliance’s PLM and Sustainability theme.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA – 6 December 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces its support for the PLM Green Global Alliance (PGGA), an international community of professionals who work with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enabling technologies and who are collaborating, educating, and advocating for a more sustainable decarbonized circular economy.

In support of the PGGA, Mark Reisig, CIMdata’s Sustainability...

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Key Takeaways

• Autodesk PLM is a SaaS Cloud solution for product design and manufacturing that provides connected product development and suppler collaboration with a closed-loop quality management capability.
• Autodesk PLM enables connected product development across the supply chain with automated processes and supplier collaboration.
• Autodesk PLM has a New Product Introduction/Development business process workspace that aids companies in reducing their time-to-market.
• Autodesk PLM is designed to provide companies with the flexibility to rapidly adapt to changing customer and business needs.

Historically, as products began to be mass produced, organizations found it more efficient to divide labor into...

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Key Takeaways

• Successful adoption of ADAS and AV requires trust—trust by the end users, and trust in the tools and solutions used to design, develop, and validate the vehicles.
• Frontloaded engineering is required to establish and maintain the needed trust.
• Modern virtual engineering ecosystems keep regulations and safety standards visible helping ensure compliance throughout the complete lifecycle, from ideation throughout product architectural studies and product planning.
• Siemens Digital Industries Software solutions enable collaborating, improving design decision-making earlier—from the beginning of ideation (aka, frontloaded engineering) through enhancing product and feature upgrades.

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How can automakers deliver trustworthy and compliant ADAS...

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Leveraging Packaged Solutions for SAP to Accelerate R&D Transformation

Key Takeaways

• Companies in process manufacturing industries have many unique challenges to overcome to get formulated products to market and sustain them successfully.
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions are a critical enabler for the development of formulated products, and the adoption of PLM can help businesses be more efficient.
• SAP has helped many customers develop products more efficiently and with better quality by implementing SAP PLM, a key element of their integrated business suite.
• Successfully implementing SAP PLM to meet specific customer requirements requires deep technical knowledge coupled with...

This free educational webinar will review the significant events in the PLM economy so far in 2023 and help attendees make sense of them.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA November 9, 2023—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 annual webinar will take place on Thursday, December 14, 2023, 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...

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Key Takeaways

• Oracle CloudWorld 2023 brought together 20,000+ in-person and virtual attendees to their event in Las Vegas, NV on September 18-21, 2023.
• As at many conferences in the last year, Generative AI was an important topic across Oracle’s offerings.
Oracle is expanding their embedded finance capabilities with new partnerships with Mastercard and HSBC.
• Their cloud infrastructure business has seen strong results, driven by their support for multi-cloud, the integration of their cloud infrastructure and applications, and offerings supporting generative AI development in their customer base.
• Oracle customers are moving to PLM on the cloud but may have...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 7 November 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Digital Twin’s Role in the Product Lifecycle.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 30 November 2023, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

The digital twin is not a new concept. NASA dabbled with “paring technology” in the early days of space exploration. What is new is the ability to support digital twins from idea through life cost-effectively.

Today, the phrase “digital twin” is ubiquitous in the PLM market, with virtually all of the...

Leading solution providers to sponsor product lifecycle management (PLM) conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden 1 November 2023—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map EMEA and PDT Europe 2023 event. The participating sponsors are the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group, Altium, Contact Software, Dassault Systemès, ESI, Inensia, Modular Management, PTC, SAP, Share PLM, and Sinequa. The event will take place at The Renaissance La Defense, Paris, France, on 15 and 16 November.

"We are excited to have these key solution providers choose to sponsor our PLM Road Map and PDT conference," stated...

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Marking Another Platform Investment

On October 31, 2023 BAE Systems announced its acquisition of Eurostep AB, a provider of product data sharing software and solutions for collaboration. After the acquisition, Eurostep will become part of BAE Systems’ Digital Intelligence business. The parent company, BAE Systems, is one of Europe’s largest defense contractors. BAE Systems Digital Intelligence supports customers in 16 countries to help collect, manage, and interpret complex data.

Eurostep AB has a long history in promoting and supporting product lifecycle management (PLM) implementations. Their laser focus on building their solution around key international data...