Commentaries & Highlights

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Ten years ago, Siemens acquired UGS. At that time, the acquisition clearly set a new agenda for the entire PLM industry. Customers across manufacturing and process industries could envision the benefits of integrating the physical world, such as through Siemens AG’s leading automation design and production technology, and the virtual world, through UGS’s leading factory design, product design, and digital collaboration software.

Since then that vision has become a reality in many different forms (i.e., virtual commissioning, simulation, and test; IoT and simulation). Once again that vision is realized with Siemens PLM Software’s Additive...

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On September 6, 2017, at a Siemens PLM Software gathering for industry analysts, Mr. Bob Haubrock, Senior Vice President, Product Engineering Solutions offered early looks at the strategy and content of NX 12, Siemens PLM Software’s flagship CAD solution. Targeted for commercial release at the end of October 2017, NX 12 showcases three major technical thrusts into areas of high industry interest. The release contains major enhancements for generative design, additive manufacturing, and multidiscipline design. CIMdata views all three directions as important and timely advances.

CIMdata defines generative design as a collection of tools...

Educational webinar will share CIMdata’s experience in applying a semantic technology- based ontology for knowledge capture and reuse.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 24 October 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “What Does Semantic Technology do for Robust Design?” The webinar will take place on November 16, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

Semantic web technology based ontology is generally associated with its potential to help convert implicit subject matter knowledge in any domain to explicit machine-readable and -searchable knowledge. CIMdata believes that semantic web technology applied...

The Razorleaf Approach

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 October 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new eBook focused on Model-Based Enterprise (MBE).

This eBook describes what a model-based enterprise is and also describes several related concepts including digital thread and digital twin. The core premise of the eBook is MBE enabled by a product innovation platform is a key strategy necessary to support the rapidly growing complexity of software-enabled, connected products. Several MBE related projects implemented by Razorleaf, a leading system integrator that focuses on bridging the gap between business issues and product lifecycle management...

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Key takeaways:

• SOLIDWORKS 2018 is planned for release at the end of October 2017.
• CAMWorks has been packaged and released under the SOLIDWORKS banner as SOLIDWORKS CAM.
• The release introduces topology optimization technology from SIMULIA.

On September 26, 2017, Dassault Systèmes hosted industry analysts, technical press, and customers at their Waltham, Massachusetts headquarters for the launch of SOLIDWORKS 2018. The event was also live streamed over the Internet. Mr. Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO of the SOLIDWORKS brand, welcomed the attendees and noted that “SOLIDWORKS is everywhere,” with 5.1 million users at 261,000 companies around the world. He...

Results from Collaborative Research with Leading PLM Solution Providers

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 October 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook on cloud product lifecycle management (PLM) adoption, the second such eBook published as part of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program on the use of cloud-based solutions to PLM strategies and processes in industrial companies.

This research program focused on the collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) segment of PLM, defined by CIMdata as the category of data and process management solutions at the core of most industrial PLM implementations. In 2016,...

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Key takeaways:

• From the opening keynote through the many sessions, Oracle’s laser focus is on the cloud and the cloud leader, Amazon Web Services.
• Their new Autonomous Database offering and approach toward Highly Automated Cyber Security focus on the needs and threats facing information technology infrastructure today and tomorrow.
• Machine learning is behind both offerings, and will increasingly be embodied in their applications software portfolio.
• Oracle PLM Cloud continues to mature, including adding their process PLM offerings to the cloud roadmap and developing important synergies with their evolving Internet of Things (IoT) strategy and offerings.

Oracle convened their...

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Key takeaways:

• Actionable, holistic Digital Twins are living models fed by analytics and exercised by math-based simulations.
• Digital Twins create a predictive engineering analytics function that enables companies to improve their product design, process design, warranty, and maintenance approaches.
• Siemens PLM Software defines an actionable, holistic digital twin composed of multiple functional twins, including product, performance, and production digital twins—one of the broadest digital twin strategies in the industry.
• As a developer of technology as well as a manufacturer and user of products and systems, Siemens AG and Siemens PLM Software are leveraging the breadth of their...

Leading PLM solution and service providers to sponsor PLM conferences.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 October 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Eurostep, organizer of PDT Europe, have today announced the key sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map and PDT Europe conferences. The participating sponsors are Altair Engineering, Aras Corporation, Configit, HCL Technologies, openbom, and Siemens PLM Software. The events will take place on 17-19 October at the Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden.

“We are honored to have these leaders in PLM solutions and services choose to sponsor PLM Road Map 2017 and PDT...

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Key takeaways:

• As a strategic part of Siemens AG, Siemens PLM Software is delivering a comprehensive and cohesive end-to-end solution.
• With more than US$10B in acquisitions, Siemens PLM Software (Siemens) has expanded significantly and continues to deliver solutions to support the digital transformation of industry, including expanding to operations and service.
• Both of Siemens’ design solutions, NX and Solid Edge, offer improved workflow for generative design techniques including topology optimization by leveraging Convergent Modeling that includes faceted and precise geometry, additive manufacturing, and reverse engineering.
• Siemens’ actionable, holistic digital twin composed of multiple functional twins, includes product,...