Commentaries & Highlights

Webinar will focus on several use cases and the functionality to consider when implementing a product cost management initiative.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 October 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Stan Przybylinski, Vice President, will take part in a webinar on product cost management.

In this webcast, “Optimal Lifecycle Costing is a Team Sport,” Mr. Przybylinski will share highlights from a recent CIMdata commentary of the same name. He will also lead a panel discussion with participants from aPriori, including Ms. Stephanie Feraday, President & CEO and Ms. Julie Driscoll, Vice President, Strategic Marketing...

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Key takeaways:

• Complete and accurate design history files (DHF) and device master records (DMR) are critical to successfully launching and supporting medical device products
• Paper or file folder-based processes often used to manage documentation slow time to market, make data hard to manage, and make effective risk management, verification, validation, and full traceability difficult to support
• Minerva’s Medical Device solution, based on Aras Innovator, helps companies develop and support products by structuring data and processes using industry best practices to speed time to market while managing risk

Introduction

The medical device industry consists of products ranging from single...

Presentation will detail recent developments associated with the Robots in Manufacturing Environments Innovation Institute.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 October 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is pleased to announce that Dr. Dean Bartles, the Senior Technology Advisor with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), will make the opening keynote presentation at PLM Road Map™ for the Global Automotive Industry. This one-day event will be held on 3 November at the Inn at St. John’s, Plymouth, Michigan.

In August of 2012, President Obama launched the “National Network of Manufacturing Innovation” (NNMI) by establishing the first Manufacturing...

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Key takeaways:

• In most companies, product cost and manufacturing knowledge and requirements are spread across different functions and information systems
• Competitive pressures to win business are forcing companies to make decisions earlier in the lifecycle, making it more difficult to get disconnected functions to bid to win and to make money
• The most successful companies take a team approach to product costing, fostering collaboration among design engineers, cost engineers, manufacturing, and supply chain management
• aPriori designed their solutions to support the deep subject matter expertise needed to simulate manufacturing processes cost effectively within a collaboration environment that...

Presentation will offer a high level review of the objectives, the requirements, and a roadmap for the definition and implementation of a “minimum digital thread.”

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 4 October 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Kenneth Swope of Boeing Commercial Airplanes will open PLM Road Map™ for the Aerospace & Defense Industry in collaboration with PDT Europe with a keynote presentation on “Model-Based Definition and Bill of Material Definition to Facilitate Information Flow Through the Product Lifecycle.” PLM Road Map for the Aerospace & Defense Industry will take place on November 8...

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Key takeaways:

• The SOLIDWORKS 2017 launch highlighted the continued evolution of the SOLIDWORKS portfolio to support developing smart, connected products
• This release expands support for multi-CAD and synchronous collaboration, essential capabilities for customers to optimize participation in their value chains
• Companies of all sizes need full lifecycle support from their solution providers, and SOLIDWORKS is focused on delivering right sized, right packaged offerings to their customers

On September 19-20 2016 Dassault Systèmes convened their SOLIDWORKS 2017 launch event in the shadow of Gillette Stadium, the home of the New England Patriots, about 20 miles from their Waltham,...

Educational Program will be co-sponsored in Bangalore by BrainWave Consulting during November.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 29 September 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm, announces its intention to bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Bangalore, India from November 12-14. The program, recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering, will be co-sponsored by BrainWave Consulting.

This three-day program prepares 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....

Presentation will consider the impact of product change cost calculations in the change management workflow.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 28 September 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is pleased to announce that Reynaldo Reyes, Director of Engineering Tools and Processes at Lear Corporation, will make a presentation at PLM Road Map™ for the Global Automotive Industry. This one-day event will be held on 3 November at the Inn at St. John’s, Plymouth, Michigan.

The cost calculation for a typical product change requires the involvement of several disciplines within a typical organization. In many organizations, the PLM system...

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Key takeaways:

• Over the last year, Autodesk invested heavily in building out their Product Innovation Platform, extending the Fusion brand to current and new offerings
• Autodesk announced Cloud PDM for MCAD data management, available now for current Fusion Lifecycle subscribers at no additional cost
• Their recent acquisitions, Configure One (now Fusion Configure) and SeeControl (now Fusion Connect), are being rapidly integrated into existing and new workflows to support the development of highly configured and increasingly smart, connected products

Autodesk held their third annual Accelerate event in Boston’s Seaport District on 15-16 September 2016. Nearly 300 people attended,...

Presentation will consider how the risks associated with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution obsolescence within the aerospace and defense industry can be managed.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 22 September 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, and PDT Europe announce that Dr. Henrik Weimer of Airbus will make a presentation at PLM Road Map™ for the Aerospace & Defense Industry in collaboration with PDT Europe. PLM Road Map for the Aerospace & Defense Industry will take place on November 8 at The Renaissance Paris La Defense, Paris, France. PDT Europe will take place at the same location...