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Key Takeaways

• Businesses must explore transformative approaches to streamline product development to navigate the challenges of today’s world such as evolving customer needs, increasing product complexity, changing regulations, and escalating focus on sustainability.
• An integrated approach on a single platform that manages requirement specifications, simulations, and testing, ensuring traceability and enabling better decision-making can be immensely valuable to mitigate these challenges.
• MODSIM technology and processes from Dassault Systèmes’ unifies modeling and simulation on a common data model within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, streamlining workflows and enabling rapid design iterations. Through...

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Key Takeaways

• Most industrial companies have one or more digital solutions that support the lifecycle of their products from idea through life but those data and process management solutions are complex to purchase, implement, and use.
• Nexus offers an open digital platform for customer engagement applicable to a broad range of manufacturing customers supporting key use cases in design, production, and metrology.
• Some of the early Nexus cloud-native offerings focus on improving machine shop efficiency, including Design Review for Manufacturing, Paperless Traveler for CABINET VISION, Nexus Cutting Tool Library, and ProPlanAI with Copilot.

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Using digital...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden - 16 April 2025—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2025 event. Participating sponsors include the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group, Altium, Aras, Configit, Keysight, Oberon Technologies, PTC, Razorleaf, SBE Vision, and Sinequa. The event is scheduled at The Marriott Tysons Corner Virginia on 7 and 8 May.

"We are excited that these key solution providers have chosen to sponsor our PLM Road Map and PDT conference," stated CIMdata's Chief Marketing Officer Cheryl Peck. "We look forward to fostering an environment that...

This presentation is part of CIMdata’s on-going educational webinar series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 8 April 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free webinar, “AI Governance: Ensuring Responsible AI Development & Use.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 15 May 2025, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last one hour.

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly evolves in the context of the product lifecycle, organizations and governments must implement effective governance frameworks to ensure ethical, transparent, and responsible AI development and deployment....

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Key Takeaways

• Digital transformation initiatives are driving manufacturers to create robust digital threads throughout their organizations.
• Effective integration of product data requires a rare blend of skills in business and technology. Challenges include the high cost in technical expertise to configure and maintain integrations, the expansion of new systems, and adapting to internal processes.
• Razorleaf has deep expertise in PLM and MES and offers the next generation of CLOVER—a complete solution for product data integration, enabling manufacturers to enhance their digital thread and maximize their business performance.
• CLOVER is a low-code/no-code integration platform built on...

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On 2 April 2025, Siemens AG announced their intent to acquire Dotmatics, a provider of life sciences R&D software based in Boston, MA for US$5.1 billion.^[1] According to Dotmatics, they offer “the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform–best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.”^[2] Their...

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Key Takeaways

• Deploying CAD in a SaaS environment provides ease of initial deployment, automatic upgrades, and flexible scalability. NX X is installed on the desktop via the cloud (similar to MS Office 365), and as an option it can be streamed remotely.
• NX X provides built-in data management but also can be deployed in a Teamcenter Share, Teamcenter or Teamcenter X environment.
• Siemens delivers seamless scalability from startup to global OEM with 100% data fidelity from browser to desktop.
• Through Designcenter, Siemens delivers complete, transparent compatibility across its MCAD solutions—the data models are identical among...

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Optimizing Manufacturing with Industrial IoT

Key Takeaways

• Modern manufacturing solutions must evolve beyond traditional MES capabilities, integrating systems like PLM, ERP, and EAM to improve operational efficiency across the entire manufacturing asset lifecycle.
• CONTACT’s MES solution is based on CONTACT Elements for IoT—a framework constructed on a composable architecture that is extendable to other process areas related to the Smart Factory, including Manufacturing Operations Management.
• CONTACT Elements for IoT enables an incremental approach to implementing Smart Factory capabilities, allowing companies to balance risk and achieve quick wins by improving automation, connectivity, and process optimization.
• CONTACT for...

This presentation is part of CIMdata’s educational webinar series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 11 March 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Embedding Sustainability within PLM.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 10 April, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Global warming and other sustainability challenges force organizations to rethink how they design, manufacture, operate, and recycle products. This webinar will explore embedding sustainability into an organization’s PLM processes to reduce its environmental impact. It...

CIMdata will attend this annual event in Bristol, UK on 18-19 March.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 10 March 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its Digital Transformation, announces that members of the CIMdata team will attend the upcoming Digital Engineering Conference 2025 (DE25). The event will take place on 18 and 19 March in Bristol, United Kingdom.

CIMdata will be represented at DE25 in several ways:

Conference Presentation: CIMdata’s President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will present on Day 1 at 14:30. His presentation will discuss digital transformation and digital engineering across the...