Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF Key takeaways: While digital transformation and Industry 4.0 dominate the business headlines, improving global sustainability is also a major global imperative. Companies need to evolve their value chain strategy from focusing on logistics and costs to "responsible value chains." Accenture believes that to become responsible and transform the business…

 PDF Key takeaways: Experts collaborate better when contextually connected. Design changes are completed faster when assembly and requirements traceability is easy to access and examine. Reuse of everything, from requirements, to features, to designs, to services, will delight customers with robust products and services. Managing product line variations consistently for…

 PDF Key takeaways: Executives often don't understand PLM and often pay lip service to digital transformation. Digital transformation initiatives often proceed without employing PLM as the source of authoritative product information. Product information must be at the core of any successful digital transformation and is usually much more complex than…

 PDF Key takeaways: The U.S. Department of Defense announced a new Digital Engineering Strategy in June 2018 that dictates 5 key pillars in transitioning the U.S. defense industry from document centric engineering processes to digital, model driven processes for the design, development, manufacturing and on-going use and sustainment of complex…

 PDF Key takeaways: Product Definition in the automotive industry is continuous, expanding to include vehicle use. Integrated Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) provides engineers the ability to see the effects in context of a vehicle’s multiple architectures, including off board support services. Automotive development processes and modelling methodologies are evolving including…

 PDF Key takeaways: As products continue to become more complex, product development companies need to rely more heavily on suppliers with advanced expertise for sophisticated components and subsystems. Managing the collaborative interaction, including engineering changes, among the numerous companies that contribute to a product’s definition, manufacture, and support is essential…

 PDF Continuing PTC’s SaaS journey Today, December 14, 2020, PTC announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Arena Solutions, Inc. (Arena), a leading SaaS PLM solution provider. Under the terms of the agreement, PTC will acquire Arena Solutions for $715 million in cash. Subject to customary closing…

 PDF Key takeaways: Manufacturing companies as well as government organizations are in the early adoption stage of a significant acceleration in the use of multi-disciplinary digital models combined with operational information to support the design, development, manufacture, and operation of cyber-physical “smart systems.” The convergence of IoT, IT, and computational…

 PDF On October 29, 2020, CIMdata attended the HCL Analyst event entitled “Digital Engineering for the next decade, today.” Mr. C. Vijayakumar, President and CEO of HCL Technologies, opened the event with a review of HCL’s strategies and performance. He talked about HCL’s successes in both growth and customer satisfaction.…

 PDF Key takeaways: Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) is a foundational building block for the Digital Twin and digital transformation. Siemens Digital Industries Software’s NX solution is at the forefront of PMI implementation. PMI provides a foundational base for the establishment of the Digital Twin and digital transformation. CIMdata defines PMI…