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 PDF Key takeaways: Increased product complexity and global competition are driving manufacturing companies to increasingly look at PLM for competitive advantage Inconsistent alignment of enterprise value elements is leading to a widening of the value gap between the projected value and realized benefits of PLM systems Automotive, aerospace, and industrial…
 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes views the world economy as entering an “Experience Economy” phase, one which they are well positioned to support Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Forum further demonstrated their support for the PLM industry and the company’s desire and progress towards enabling a robust product innovation platform On November…
 PDF Key takeaways: Over the years, Windchill has grown in breadth, depth, and flexibility to support the growing complexity of PTC’s customers’ products ThingWorx technology is transforming Windchill into a smart, connected PLM platform by enabling integration and mash-ups of data created and maintained within PLM and other environments Windchill…
 PDF Key takeaways: Solid Edge users are increasingly employing Synchronous technology in their model creation and editing—they report 61% are more satisfied using this approach than purely history-based modeling techniques Solid Edge, Siemens PLM Software’s mainstream CAD solution, celebrated its twentieth birthday Mr. John Miller, Senior Vice President and General…
 PDF  PDF (Japanese) Key takeaways: Managing electronic components that meet design requirements in an increasingly complex systems development environment is error-prone and time consuming and the lack of accurate information can drive up costs and impact product launch schedules Ensuring electronics components are compliant (e.g., to RoHS, REACH, environmental, and…
 PDF Key takeaways: Over 330 customers from 45 countries converged on the AVEVA World Summit in Dubai on 20-22 October 2015 AVEVA’s acquisition of software assets from Schneider Electric will result in a much larger company, serving more industrial markets that will reduce AVEVA’s traditional reliance on the oil &…
 PDF Key takeaways: SAP is expanding their reach across the extended supply chain, focused on needs and opportunities in the age of smart connected products The platformization of the SAP portfolio on S/4HANA illustrates the evolution of the product innovation platform as defined by CIMdata and others Expansions like Innovation…
 PDF Key takeaways: Product complexity is increasing as products become smarter and more connected As new methods and paradigms for design emerge the importance of PLM to manage the increased scope of requirements and information needed for design, development, manufacturing, and service continues to increase Introduction In their latest article…
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

PTC To Acquire Vuforia (Commentary)

 PDF Key takeaways: Augmented Reality solutions are being rapidly adopted in automotive, aerospace, and other industry sectors with particular use in design and service applications Recent CIMdata research on augmented reality and mixed reality applications suggests that industrial companies are just scratching the surface with the enablement of potential use…
Thursday, September 24, 2015

SOLIDWORKS 2016 Launch (Commentary)

 PDF Key takeaways: SOLIDWORKS 2016 boasts a new redesigned user interface complementary to Windows 10 and supports high resolution, high-pixel density displays SOLIDWORKS Visualize incorporates technology from Dassault Systèmes’ acquisition of Bunkspeed On September 22, 2015, Mr. Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO, SOLIDWORKS, opened the SOLIDWORKS 2016 Launch event at the…
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