Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF 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…

 PDF 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…

 PDF 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…

 PDF Mendix: Siemens low-code solution for tailoring product and production processes Key Takeaways Businesses today struggle to adapt technology solutions to create tailored, highly productive working and operational environments—due to increasing product, process, supply-chain, development, production, and service complexity. Businesses need to easily be able to tailor their operational environments…

 PDF Realize the value of simulation and MDAO in the enterprise digital thread. Key Takeaways Use of simulations across the product lifecycle has been growing over the years. However, simulation artifacts have largely remained siloed in separate systems in design, testing, and validation workflows. Even proper organization of the data…

 PDF Key Takeaways The best known products from the PLM Components business of Siemens Digital Industries Software include Parasolid, the solid modeling kernel, and JT, the ISO standard visualization format, but Siemens also has components to support geometric constraints, kinematics, and rendering, as well as complete OEMable products such as…

 PDF Facilitate digital thread development & maintenance with SBE Vision’s platform. Takeaways Digital threads enable sharing stable configurations of product artifacts throughout the product’s lifecycle. Ontologies are critical to defining the semantic foundation for meaningful digital threads that support products’ systems of systems. Developing viable and extensible ontologies for product…

 PDF Key Takeaways Historically, the construction phase of buildings and industrial facilities is plagued with disconnects between stakeholders pushing for changes in construction while suffering from skill scarcity. Dassault Systèmes’ Modular Construction virtualizes knowledge and know-how in a new approach, “productization,” using virtual modules aligned with the objectives of general…

 PDF 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…

 PDF 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,…