Position Papers

Third Module of the 2018 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 19 July 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Market and Solution Provider Analysis Report, the third of five modules of the CIMdata 2018 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 solution providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

“The PLM market grew...

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Sponsored by Infor

Key takeaways:

• Manufacturers are facing both increasing market velocity and product complexity.
• The trend toward smart, connected products requires new skills, tools, and workflows to ensure market success.
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategies and enabling solutions must evolve to meet these challenges.

Introduction

The pace of change in product realization today is staggering and increasing at an exponential rate. Many product categories have evolved from simple to complex, smart, and connected. Computerized components, sensors, digital displays, speakers, voice activation, and blue-tooth capabilities are being added to a wide selection of products, from toys to appliances. Today,...

This educational webinar will consider the issues and the solutions that are being developed.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 July 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Topology Optimization Changing the Face of CAD.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, August 9 2018, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

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...

Results from Collaborative Research with Leading PLM Solution Providers

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 12 July 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook on cloud product lifecycle management (PLM) adoption, the third such eBook published as part of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program on the use of cloud-based solutions to PLM strategies and processes in industrial companies.

This research program focused on the collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) segment of PLM, defined by CIMdata as the category of data and process management solutions at the core of most industrial PLM implementations. In 2016,...

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Key takeaways:

• Tata Technologies’ wide expertise in engineering techniques and processes has given it a deep understanding of the engineering knowledge needed to support different industries.
• Tata Technologies offers a wide variety of knowledge-based engineering solutions and continually invests in expanding and enhancing them as technology evolves.
• Tata Technologies’ expertise in knowledge-based engineering spans the spectrum from knowledge reuse-related business transformation to tactical implementation of solutions for repetitive engineering tasks.
• Tata Technologies has demonstrated its robust methodology for knowledge-based engineering in several industries through client-specific solution designs and implementations.

Combating Product & Process Complexity with Knowledge-Based Engineering

The growth...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes positions itself as a science company, which acts as an enabler of the 21st Century Industry Renaissance by providing innovative technologies, processes, intelligence, and education to the global market.
• Dassault Systèmes has a strong commitment toward the workforce of the future through its still growing number of partnerships that includes more than 6,000 schools and universities. Dassault Systèmes’ Marketplace offering aims to connect engineers with industrial service providers, covering an n-to-n value stream.
• Dassault Systèmes’ long-term commitment to their 3DEXPERIENCE vision and strategy is rapidly evolving from a platform as a business...

Popular PLM education program will take place in Andover, Massachusetts from October 1-5, 2018.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 July, 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to the Boston area from October 1-5. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The program helps prepare PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. The program is facilitated...

CAM Market Grew 7.8% in 2017

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 July 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the 2018 CIMdata CAM Market Analysis Report (MAR), the twenty-sixth annual study of the global Computer-Aided Machining (CAM) market. CIMdata estimates that based on end-user payments, the worldwide CAM software and related services market grew by 7.8% in calendar year 2017. The estimated end-user payments grew from $1.94 billion in 2016 to nearly $2.1 billion in 2017. According to Mr. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Vice President, “The CAM results were very strong in 2017, above...

Empowering the Product Stakeholder Network with a user centric PLM system

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 3 July 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled “Connecting the Value Chain to Accelerate New Product Introduction.”

Many industrial and consumer engineered products comprise between 40% and 70% of procured-in content. Engineers must work with components, sub-modules, and whole products that come from outside their organization; that they did not design. These items must be evaluated for performance, price, availability, and form, fit, and function properties along with internally designed engineering content, yet PLM systems don’t...

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Key takeaways:

• In 2018, PTC established strategic relationships with Microsoft, ANSYS, and Rockwell Automation to expand its ability to deliver full product lifecycle solutions.
• The relationship with ANSYS significantly strengthens PTC’s capabilities in simulation and analysis while the Rockwell relationship should deliver greatly expanded shop floor/production integration with their PLM and IoT solutions.
• PTC continues to build out their ThingWorx IoT platform, which they now term an “Industrial Innovation Platform.” This reflects a deliberate strategy to focus on the smart factory and services as providing the most tangible and value-demonstrating use cases for IoT.
• PTC consolidated...