Commentaries & Highlights

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Key takeaways:

• Customers leverage Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle solutions to power a wide range of business processes in many different industries.
• Companies like the ability to rapidly tailor the solution mostly without deep technical skills, helping to quickly address pressing business problems, speeding its adoption within organizations.
• The company has a longer road ahead to flesh out their product innovation platform to support engineering work-in-process management and other essential PLM use cases on the cloud.

Autodesk convened their fourth Accelerate conference on September 21-22, 2017 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA. The crowd of about...

Eight country-specific PLM market analyses now available.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 28 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of ten additional country-specific 2017 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These new reports follow the release of the 2017 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.

The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2016 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2016, and forecasts PLM investments...

Seamlessly connecting the disconnected with an end-to-end, extended enterprise approach.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 26 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new whitepaper focused on Configit’s end-to-end configuration lifecycle management approach titled “Configuration Lifecycle Management: Seamlessly Connecting the Disconnected.”

Product complexity is increasing, in part due to the incorporation of embedded electronics and software in today’s smart, connected products. This increase in the level of complexity must be handled by an efficient configuration management methodology with appropriate enabling technologies. Traditional configuration management approaches can no longer manage the complexity and disconnects that many companies...

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Key takeaways:

• The long-awaited merger of Geometric and HCL is complete, and the combined entity has the capabilities to support next generation products and evolving business models using a newly created dedicated service line known as GeometricPLM.
• HCL leverages the best of both organizations, the traditional PLM strengths of Geometric, with the IT and product realization expertise of HCL, providing customers and prospects end-to-end services for their product lifecycle needs.
• HCL’s capabilities include commercial software products to support product development such as CAMWorks, DFMPro, and GeometricEDGE, and is further strengthened by major investments made by HCL...

Popular PLM education program will take place in Cypress, California from December 4-8, 2017.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 21 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to Southern California from December 4-8. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The program helps prepare PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. The program is facilitated by...

The presentation will share China-Euro Vehicle Technology AB’s PLM journey.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 19 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Erik Gräns, Director of PLM Development at China-Euro Vehicle Technology AB (CEVT) and PLM Solutions Development Lead at the Geely Group (Geely), will make a presentation at PLM Road Map™ 2017. The event will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe 2017 on October 17 at The Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. PDT Europe will take place at the same location on October 18-19.

CEVT was founded in 2013 with the assignment...

Private and Public Volumes Focus on Detailed and Overall PLM Market Results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata 2017 China PLM Market Analysis Report.

This two-volume report provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the People’s Republic of China’s (“China”) rapidly-evolving PLM market for calendar year 2016. The public and private reports discuss the major PLM trends and issues, PLM purchase investments in software and services, PLM adoption in various industry sectors, and market growth forecasts that pertain to China; an important and quickly expanding...

Educational webinar will show the business value of managing the relationship of data and processes between the core enterprise software solutions of PLM and ERP.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Creating Value When PLM and ERP Work Together—ERP is PLM’s Most Important Customer.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

The product development lifecycle is supported by a number of solutions that allow the data relevant to product design, production planning,...

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Key takeaways:

• The deployment of 3D model-based enterprise (MBE) processes is rapidly expanding across multiple industry verticals and the use of 3D PDF plays a central role in their effective implementation.
• Anark Corporation and International TechneGroup have formed a strategic partnership to provide users a production quality 3D PDF solution for 3D data and document publishing, including model-based definition (MBD), validation, and exchange through the integration of ITI’s CADIQ and Anark Core technologies supported by their combined implementation expertise.

The exchange of product design and manufacturing data between an OEM and its supply chain partners is...

The presentation will consider the fundamentals needed to implement a lightweight engineering backbone for digital transformation.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that, Dr.-Ing. Fabrice Mogo Nem will round out the keynote line up at PLM Road Map™ 2017 in collaboration with PDT Europe 2017. PLM Road Map 2017 will take place on October 17 at The Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. PDT Europe will take place at the same location on October 18-19.

In his presentation, “Lightweight Engineering Backbone for Digital Transformation,” Dr. Mogo Nem will consider how...