Commentaries & Highlights

PTC today announced that it has appointed Robert Dahdah as Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer.

Dahdah joins PTC from Microsoft, where he served as Corporate Vice President of Global Healthcare and Life Sciences. Dahdah will be responsible for global sales and customer success for PTC’s Digital Thread group and the overall execution of the company’s vertical-focused go-to-market strategy.

“Rob is an accomplished go-to-market leader with a proven track record of delivering results, building winning teams, and creating a great customer experience,” said Neil Barua, President and CEO, PTC. “We look forward to Rob bringing focus, speed, and accountability to our Digital...

This series of four global events provides the first look at CIMdata’s analysis of 2024’s PLM market results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 19 November 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, today announces “Model-Based Systems Engineering: Optimizing the Systems of Systems” as the theme for its 2025 PLM Market & Industry Forum event series.

The event series will frame the topic of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and explore how industries are adapting to the rising adoption of MBSE beyond aerospace and defense, as well as automotive.

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This free educational webinar will review the significant events in the PLM economy in 2024 and help attendees make sense of them.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA November 12, 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The State of the PLM Economy.” This eagerly awaited annual webinar will take place on Thursday, December 12, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

If there is one constant in the PLM Economy, it is never dull. In this webinar,...

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Key Takeaways

• Oracle has built deep partnerships with the leading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers—AWS, Microsoft, and Google—to better support multi-cloud and hybrid enterprise architectures.
• After their success using the Redwood design system to revamp their Human Capital Management (HCM) offerings, Oracle accelerated Redwood’s application to their supply chain management (SCM) offerings, which include their product lifecycle management (PLM) capabilities.
• Redwood is essential to embed Oracle’s extensive artificial intelligence capabilities in their applications portfolio, including supporting user extensions of generative AI (GenAI) use cases. Oracle delivered over 100 AI use cases last year...

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GoEngineer Cloud PLM as a Service

Key Takeaways

• Companies of all sizes must effectively manage their vital intellectual property, their product designs, across their lifecycle.
• Many companies use ad hoc data management approaches while others implemented on-premises data and process management solutions to help manage their files, bills of material (BOMs), and support configuration management.
• Cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions offer more flexibility in licensing, reduce in-house support requirements, and can be expanded to more users and additional capabilities as business needs demand.
• Based on Dassault Systèmes expansive 3DEXPERIENCE platform, GoEngineer’s Cloud PLM Program is...

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Hexagon Integrates Multi-Discipline Battery Physics with Manufacturing

Key Takeaways

• Companies need new, robust digital solutions that enable the design, packaging, and manufacturing of the latest innovative battery subsystems.
• New battery technologies are emerging and evolving faster due to improved understanding as innovative options are assessed using advanced simulations.
• Hexagon provides simulation capabilities that leverage electrochemistry, physics, and test data, designed to aid battery engineers to innovate across all physics, from anode and cathode details to final battery packaging into products.
• Hexagon also provides virtual manufacturing, inspection, and calibration solutions that accelerate manufacturing and reduce scrap rates.
• Furthermore,...

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Applying new technologies to accelerate design, development, and decision-making

Key Takeaways

• The Retail Footwear and Apparel (RFA) industry is under increasing pressure to accelerate the design of seasonal releases and address sustainability issues across the entire value chain.
• Automated and visual processes are becoming key to successfully meet the challenges.
• Success requires businesses in the RFA industry to adopt new technologies and working paradigms to meet the increasing speed of change and the need for personalized offerings in a sustainable manner.
• RFA industry companies must optimize processes through digitally-driven decision-making and automation with reduced executive (physical)...

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Leading PLM solutions industry provider acquires Altair, Inc.

On Wednesday, October 30, 2024, Siemens AG, the German multinational technology conglomerate, announced its intention to acquire Altair, Inc., a global leader in physics-based simulation and analysis solutions, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics.

While Siemens AG already has a significant digital transformation portfolio in its Digital Industries Software business unit, Altair expands their portfolio further with HPC, data analytics, and key simulation technologies such as CAD-neutral modeling and meshing tools, implicit and explicit dynamics solvers, electromagnetics solvers, and topology optimization,...

Transform Your Business with Siemens Service Lifecycle Management

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 31 October 2024—Today, CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, published a new eBook focused the application of service lifecycle management (SLM) in the heavy equipment industry and how Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) SLM solutions enable companies in that industry to move to a servitization business model. This eBook describes how a robust SLM solution can enable companies in the heavy equipment industry to aggregate, contextualize, simulate, and analyze operational data captured from managed assets into actionable insight that can drive service planning,...

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Key Takeaways

• Over 3,000 attendees convened at IFS Unleashed 2024, the IFS user event held in Orlando FL.
• IFS has grown significantly—both organically and through acquisition—over the last decade, capped by 30% growth in 2023.
• IFS is all-in on generative artificial intelligence (genAI), with their IFS.ai services available across their IFC Cloud offerings and their industry solutions. Over 300 use cases are in development, with 60 use cases being delivered in 2024.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending IFS Unleashed 2024, held on 14-18 October 2024 in Orlando FL.