Position Papers

This webinar will offer an unbiased view of today’s PLM collaboration challenges.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 September 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Ken Versprille, Executive Consultant, will take part in a webinar that will help attendees learn how to identify the problems in today’s extended enterprise collaboration process and adopt a more collaborative approach.

In this webinar, “How to Overcome your Biggest Design Collaboration Challenges,” Dr. Versprille will contribute to a discussion on the following:

• The importance behind a seamless, collaborative experience between internal teams, the supply chain, and customers.
• The biggest barriers faced...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 September 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled “Generative Engineering: Driving Business Innovation via Simulation-Driven and AI-Driven Systems Design.”

With the exponential increase in the use of software and electronics in providing new product features and functionality, the complexity of cyber-physical products and systems continues to increase dramatically. These “smart products” now function as “systems of systems” within the context of the Industrial IoT. As such, companies can no longer develop innovative new products with traditional stage-gate design processes working across disconnected silos of engineering...

This major PLM industry event will take place in Paris, France in November.

Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 5 September—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce the agenda topics and speakers for PLM Road Map™ & PDT 2019 which will take place on 13 & 14 November at the Renaissance Hotel, La Defense, Paris, France. The theme for this year's event is “PLM for Professionals—Product Lifecycle Innovation.”

Using a format that will offer a series of keynote and plenary sessions designed to facilitate conversations between conference speakers and conference participants, PLM Road Map & PDT will bring together the perspectives...

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Waymo announced, on July 10, 2019, at the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility 2019^[1] conference that it has driven autonomous vehicles (AVs) over 10 billion miles in simulation and over 10 million miles in the real world. In Waymo’s experience, the relationship between the number of miles driven in simulation and those driven in the real-world is a function of the capability and maturity of the autonomous system. The more advanced the autonomous driving system, the more driven-miles are needed to focus on edge cases and advanced navigation...

The presentation will describe how to best drive an end-to-end business transformation approach that avoids the sub-optimization trap.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 August 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will make a presentation at the Institute for Process Excellence’s (IpX) ConX19 conference entitled, “Today’s Disruptions: Sub-optimization Is Not an Option.” ConX19 will take place at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort near San Diego, California, on 26-28 August. Mr. Bilello’s presentation will take place during day 3 of the conference, on 28 August.

The presentation will describe and offer...

Fifth Module of the 2019 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 August 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Geography Analysis Report, the fifth of five modules of the CIMdata 2019 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2018. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

This webinar will share CIMdata’s methodology for helping companies select the right PLM solution for their company.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, August 6, 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “PLM Solution Evaluation & Selection.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, September 12, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Many organizations considering a PLM initiative and the selection of a PLM solution know they want to start, yet the ever-changing offerings that are available today make it difficult to know what questions to ask. CIMdata has...

Fourth Module of the 2019 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 30 July 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Industry Analysis Report, the fourth of five modules of the CIMdata 2019 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2018. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

All industries saw growth in PLM spending...

General Motors’ PLM/ALM Leader joins CIMdata as an Executive Consultant.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 23 July 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that General Motors’ (GM) veteran, Craig A. Brown has joined the firm as an Executive Consultant.

Mr. Brown has 40 years of experience in systems engineering, both in the automotive and aerospace industries and comes to CIMdata after recently retiring from GM as their PLM Leader, a position he held since September 2012.

Peter Bilello, President & CEO of CIMdata stated, “Craig Brown comes to CIMdata with a strong and diverse background...

Focuses on Overall PLM Market Results in China

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 July 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata 2019 China PLM Market Analysis Report.

This report provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the People’s Republic of China’s (“China”) rapidly-evolving PLM market for calendar year 2018. The report discusses the major PLM trends and issues, PLM purchase investments in software and services, PLM adoption in various industry sectors, and market growth forecasts that pertain to China; an important and quickly expanding economic region. The report provides insight into PLM...