Commentaries & Highlights

Leading solution providers to sponsor product lifecycle management (PLM) conference.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden 2 October 2024—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT Europe 2024 event. The participating sponsors are Configit, Dassault Systèmes, ESI, Modular Management, PTC, and Razorleaf. The event will take place at the Lindholmen Conference Center, Gothenburg, Sweden, on 23 and 24 October.

"We are excited to have these key solution providers choose to sponsor our PLM Road Map and PDT conference," stated CIMdata's Chief Marketing Officer Cheryl Peck. "We look forward to creating an environment where...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 25 September 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that its Principal Consultant, Tom Gill, will participate in a webinar on variation management. The webinar, organized by Sigmetrix, takes place on Tuesday, 8 October, at 11:00 AM EDT.

Managing variation in parts and assemblies that make up products is a valuable competency that bridges product development and manufacturing processes. Model-based definition (MBD) and model-based enterprise require the application of dimensioning and tolerancing specifications to shift left earlier in the lifecycle. The...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 24 September 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that Sandeepak Natu, Co-Director of the Simulation-Driven Systems Development Consulting Practice, will participate in an online panel discussion, “A Foundation to Enable the Enterprise Digital Thread.” The panel discussion, organized by Ansys, takes place on Friday, 4 October, at 11:00 AM EDT.

The panel discussion is the first event in a planned series on Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM). It will share information on SPDM and how it serves as the...

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Key Takeaways

• Managing variation in parts and assemblies that make up products is a valuable competency that bridges product development and manufacturing processes.
• Model-based definition (MBD) and model-based enterprise require the application of dimensioning and tolerancing specifications to shift left, earlier in the lifecycle, the resulting benefits to an organization can be dramatic, lowering cost, improving quality and shortening time to market.
• Companies continue to struggle to achieve success in their digital transformation programs even as they adopt new agile-based deployment methodologies because they don’t understand the impact of variation. Incorporating variation management into...

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Oberon Technologies’ Dynamic Content Delivery Platform Enables Digital Transformation

Key Takeaways

• Product-related content comes in many forms that are both authored and derived, including product manuals, service bulletins, parts catalogs, marketing materials, training content in various formats, and many other types of content.
• Ensuring that product-related content is accurate, up-to-date, and available to consumers is complex, due to how that information is created and managed, and the wide variety of data repositories that house it.
• Content delivery systems provide end users with seamless access to information managed in disparate repositories including PLM, ERP, file systems,...

Eleven country-specific PLM market analyses are now available.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 19 September 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of ten additional country-specific 2024 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These additional reports follow the release of the 2024 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.

The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s 2023 product lifecycle management (PLM) market analysis. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across various industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2023, and forecasts PLM investments for 2024...

CIMdata’s Sandeepak Natu will give a keynote address on connecting simulation to the enterprise digital thread using collaborative engineering platforms and SPDM.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 18 September 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces that Sandeepak Natu, executive consultant and co-head of CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development practice, will participate as a keynote speaker at the upcoming pSeven User Conference 2024. The event will take place on 8 October in Toulouse, France.

In his presentation, Sandeepak will discuss collaborative design platforms using a low-code...

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Wipro’s Industry DOT solutions lay a foundation for “software-defined” innovation.

Key Takeaways

• The potential for unlocking business value using Generative AI and AI/ML across the entire product lifecycle as reported by numerous studies is unquestionable. Product R&D and software engineering are two of the most valuable opportunities to take advantage of this across a broad range of industries.
• Established Industry 4.0 technologies such as CAx, ALM, MBD, MBE, MBSE, IoT, and SLM are already creating significant enterprise value. The next opportunity in this domain is using AI and ML technologies to improve the data...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 September 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that the company’s Principal Analyst, Tom Gill, will deliver a presentation at the 2024 PLM Components Innovation Conference. The event, hosted by Siemens Digital Industries Software, will take place on 24 & 25 September in Boston, MA.

Software developers face many challenges in building a new application or tool, including the need to satisfy technology and quality requirements. Many turn to licensing software components to gain an advantage. Siemens Digital Industries Software provides a full suite of component software,...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 16 September 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will deliver the keynote presentation at the 2024 Contact Customer Day. The event will take place on 24 September at the Marel campus in Boxmeer, The Netherlands.

Designing, building, and maintaining sustainable products is a major undertaking that requires a comprehensive, end-to-end lifecycle mindset—one that spans from concept and design to production, maintenance, and the product's end of life. Achieving success demands an interdisciplinary approach and a systems-of-systems perspective, considering not just...