Commentaries & Highlights

The Challenge in Preparing Students for Industry 4.0

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 8 May 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm released a new whitepaper focused on research recently conducted on PLM education from high school through university.

Industrial companies are experiencing a very serious gap in new employees’ understanding of PLM and their lack of practical experience using a multitude of concepts that exist in the PLM realm. What companies need isn’t always what is being provided by educational institutions. This is not just an issue at the university level, education for tomorrow’s work environment must start much...

Presentation will consider the technical skills and capabilities required to change the way in which we work.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 2 May 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Mark Meili, Director of Modeling and Simulation at Procter & Gamble, will make a keynote presentation at the upcoming Product & Manufacturing Innovation Driven by Digital Design & Simulation Workshop. The workshop will take place at the UI LABS Innovation Center, home to DMDII, in Chicago, Illinois, on June 6 and 7.

In-silico is a term that describes science done on a computer as opposed...

Presentation will highlight the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Digital Thread across the DoD and industry organizations.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 27 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Brench Boden, Chief Technology Officer for the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) and a Senior Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, will make a keynote presentation at CIMdata’s Product & Manufacturing Innovation Driven by Digital Design & Simulation: Challenges, Strategies & Best Practices for Business Success Workshop. The workshop will take place at the UI LABS Innovation Center, home to...

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Key takeaways:

• Aras is positioned as a platform that implements digital threads to enable digital twins and digital transformations to support lifecycles of complex systems of systems.
• Aras announced the release of, or updates to, several major applications and supporting frameworks including: Technical Documentation (Tech Docs), Quality Management System (QMS), and Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP). They also previewed new solutions to support Extended Classification and Variant Management.
• Tony Affuso, former CEO of Siemens PLM Software, is now on the Aras Board of Directors.
• Aras continues to invest in its PLM Community, with support for GitHub and the...

Educational webinar will offer a pragmatic step-by-step plan to implement PLM to manage Additive Manufacturing parts.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Essential Role of PLM in the Adoption of Additive Manufacturing into Mainstream Production.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Over the years, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been primarily used to produce models, prototypes, and one-off parts made of non-production ready materials, so governance of enterprise solutions, such as...

Two leading PLM global events will co-locate in Gothenburg, Sweden on 17-19 October 2017.

Stockholm, Sweden and Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 18 April 2017—Eurostep, the long-time producer of PDT Europe, and CIMdata, the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, are pleased to announce the co-location of PDT Europe 2017 and PLM Road Map 2017.

The two events will be held in conjunction with each other at Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. Participants can choose to attend one of the events or both with a discount. PLM Road Map will take place on October 17, while PDT Europe takes place on...

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Key Takeaways:

• CIMdata believes Dassault Systèmes has made strong progress in developing a platform that enables their customers to leverage simulation to achieve “sustainable innovation.” The base platform includes data management and process automation tools that enable the creation of apps that can be managed and shared to support collaborative workflows.
• The simulation technology of Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA brand emphasizes multiscale and multiphysics capabilities that enable an integrated approach to model-based systems engineering along with other PLM applications on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform.

CIMdata recently attended SIMULIA’s analyst event at its headquarters in Johnston, RI. The fact...

Presentation will consider the role that vendor-neutral standards and MBSE play in digitizing engineering.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Roger Burkhart, Technology Architect for Deere & Company, will make a keynote presentation at CIMdata’s Product & Manufacturing Innovation Driven by Digital Design & Simulation: Challenges, Strategies & Best Practices for Business Success Workshop. The workshop will take place at the UI LABS Innovation Center, home to DMDII, in Chicago, Illinois, on June 6 & 7.

The complexity of modern engineering products demands a complex set of virtual...

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Key takeaways:

• PLM, which embodies the virtual assets of companies combined through mergers or acquisitions, is crucial for predicting and realizing potential synergies.
• PLM solution integration experts must be engaged early in the merger or acquisition target selection and due diligence so they can take appropriate action to realize synergies.
• Choice of the right framework for PLM harmonization is crucial for mitigating risks and gaining the benefits of a merger or acquisition.
• Wipro is a global leader in providing both strategic advisory and integration implementation support to get the most from merger and acquisition activities.

The growth of...

Educational webinar will consider model-based technologies and the approaches being used today in industry.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Simulation-Driven Systems Development: Challenges and Opportunities.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

With the rapid advances in digital technology, the complexity of products is increasing exponentially due to “mass customized” product variants with high levels of software and electronics content. Game-changing new product lifecycle management (PLM) enabling technologies, such as additive...