Position Papers

This educational webinar will share CIMdata’s vision on how Blockchain could be applied to product lifecycle management (PLM).

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 August 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Blockchain for Enhancing the Value of PLM.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, September 27 2018, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

A wide range of exploratory Blockchain applications in financial services, supply chain, the public sector, healthcare, and manufacturing are being attempted to understand how the benefits of Blockchain can be realized. A significant number...

This educational webinar will show how product lifecycle management (PLM) can help with common issues experienced in product innovation.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 August 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Innovators Need PLM: Why PLM Should be a Bigger Priority than ERP.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, September 13 2018, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Innovation is often regarded as a competitive advantage. If this is the case why is it so hard to get senior management to invest in improving performance in...

Reimagine Products

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 August 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled “Siemens PLM Software Advances Generative Design Technology in NX.”

Generative design is a process wherein the shape and composition of a product is determined by using physics-based simulation and other analysis methods that consider performance requirements and optimize objectives such as minimum cost and weight. Topology Optimization is the most familiar generative design process and its popularity is being driven by improvements in 3D printing. Such design approaches, however, challenge the traditional product development process in...

How one aerospace and defense supplier is tackling supply chain security and transparency through additive manufacturing, blockchain, and PLM.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 7 August 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, has released a new commentary that describes how Moog Inc., a leading global supplier of integrated control actuation systems for civil and military aircraft, is revolutionizing the way it delivers its complex control systems to its customers by separating the digital from the physical in its supply chains. To achieve this, Moog has developed a revolutionary product delivery platform called VeriPart™. VeriPart integrates additive manufacturing (AM),...

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Key takeaways:

• As Additive Manufacturing (AM) comes into widespread use it may upend supply chains by separating the digital and the physical. PLM can enable this transformation; PLM’s absence could be chaotic.
• Manufacturers working in supply chains may be able to shift production to customers equipped for AM. Instead of physical parts, customer will buy products in digital form as technical data packages (TDPs).
• Moog Inc. is developing this capability with AM, Blockchain, and PLM and it expects significant, measurable benefits.

A&D Supply Chain Issues

Companies in aerospace and defense (A&D) supply chains have many problems, which seem...

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Key takeaways:

• In today’s highly competitive landscape, manufacturers must do everything possible to attract new customers and maintain loyalty among existing customers.
• Product lifecycle management (PLM) focuses on managing the intellectual assets generated from idea through end of life. Enhanced PLM strategies and enabling solutions can ensure that customer requirements are addressed at every development stage.
• Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) solutions can leverage PLM-managed information to enhance the buying experience, while ensuring that only profitable quotes are put in front of customers.
• Empowering digitalization requires enabling end-to-end connectivity and lifecycle optimization, while recognizing that this new approach...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes with its 3DEXPERIENCE platform, integrated industry end-to-end process solutions, and supporting apps, are in the forefront of realizing the future simulation ecosystem, parts of which they already have available today.
• CIMdata believes that Dassault Systèmes continues to innovate in Additive Manufacturing using it as part of the end-to-end processes in their solution and their 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace.
• Dassault Systèmes’ “POWER’BY” strategy includes easy integration of third-party solutions into their simulation ecosystem.
• Industry’s next big challenge remains: to enable the cultural change required to make better use of already available simulation and prediction technology. CIMdata...

Fourth Module of the 2018 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 31 July 2018—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 2018 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2017. 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...

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Key takeaways:

• Hannover Messe, April 2018, proved a perfect stage for Siemens AG Group and Siemens PLM Software to prove what’s available with Additive Manufacturing (AM). Siemens, the largest of 5,000 exhibitors covering 27 halls, had significant presence in both Hall 6 for Digital Factory solutions and Hall 9 for Integrated Automation, Motion & Drives.
• Customers expectations of AM are changing; they are now asking Siemens what’s possible with AM in production. Siemens is well positioned to help customers answer this question.
• Proof that AM is turning industrial and is all digital came from a visit...

Public Volume Focuses on Overall PLM Market Results

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 July 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the public volume of the CIMdata 2018 China PLM Market Analysis Report.

This two-volume report provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the People’s Republic of China’s (“China”) rapidly-evolving PLM market for calendar year 2017. The public and private reports discuss 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...