Position Papers

The presentation will explain the challenges and opportunities of implementing an end-to-end configuration management solution.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 31 August 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President, Peter Bilello, will make a presentation at Configit’s CLM Summit entitled “Configuration Management — An Extended Enterprise Discipline.” The CLM Summit will take place at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Ocean Front on October 23-25.

Historically, many companies have considered configuration management to be a narrowly focused discipline—a discipline that primarily focused on data management during product development and release to manufacturing. However, to fully enable the...

The presentation will examine the digital thread and explore the art of the possible for certifying commercial aircraft designs in an industry consistent manner.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 29 August 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Kenneth Swope of Boeing Commercial Airplanes will make a presentation on “The Digital Thread for Aerospace & Defense: What are We Certifying with Regulators Using Model-Based Definition?” at PLM Road Map™ 2017 in collaboration with PDT Europe 2017. PLM Road Map 2017 will take place on October 17 at The Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. PDT Europe...

The presentation will lead the audience through the PLM journey of a leading global manufacturer.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 22 August 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Petri Hassinen will make a presentation at PLM Road Map™ 2017 in collaboration with PDT Europe 2017. PLM Road Map 2017 will take place on October 17 at The Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. PDT Europe will take place at the same location on October 18-19.

In his presentation, “From Strategy to Execution: Implementation of Model-Based PLM to Support Digital Product Processes for Mass-Customized Products,” Petri Hassinen...

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Siemens AG, with its expertise in digitalization, machine learning, and connectivity is providing solutions that help industrial organizations develop and leverage connected intelligent products, processes, and services through closed-loop innovation. Closed-loop processes and services are key to creating innovative solutions in the new world of connectivity and artificial intelligence. Siemens is focused on enabling companies to create easy, seamless, secure, and widely accessible IoT-based connections between assets equipped with sensors and/or actuators, and the software tools used for design, simulation, and analytics.

Siemens MindSphere is an open IoT operating system and Platform as a...

CIMdata presents at Actify Conference 2017, Ypsilanti, Michigan

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 August 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. John MacKrell, CIMdata’s Chairman, will participate in Actify’s Conference 2017 on Friday 18 August in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The annual Actify event combines thought leadership on managing, using, and sharing high-value product design information with hands-on tutorials on using Actify’s products to support collaboration, data analytics, and more aspects of product data intelligence. This event targets the idea that, if you are constantly trying to do more than time allows, then you need to...

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Key takeaways:

• To Infor, the “last mile” signifies their deep, industry-specific functionality intended to delight their customers.
• Their GT Nexus offerings help them power global value chains, linking customer needs through to fulfillment and lifecycle support.
• Infor’s CloudSuites leverage the best of their industry knowledge, and customers are responding, yielding amazing cloud revenue growth.

Infor held its annual customer event, Inforum 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City July 10-12, 2017. For the benefit of press and analysts, Monday included the Innovation Forum, a special session rescheduled from the spring that provided more focus on...

Educational webinar will show how the implementation of DfAM processes can help evolve a new design/manufacturing strategy.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 8 August 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Design for Additive Manufacturing—reinventing how we design everything we make.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Historically, we have assumed that a product must be broken down into individual components, which are assembled and then put together to become a final product. Whether it’s a plane, smart phone,...

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Earlier this month, Automation Alley, Michigan’s leading nonprofit technology and manufacturing business association, hosted a group of southeast Michigan industry representatives to a “Tech Takeover” focused on “Designing Smart Products for the Internet of Things (IoT).” This event, which was sponsored by Fisher Unitech, set the stage for why and how products need to be designed for the rapidly evolving IoT world, where things are smart and connected. Automation Alley was the perfect setting for the event. Their focused efforts on innovation and technology, entrepreneurship, and talent development, among other things, have been...

Fourth Module of the 2017 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 1 August 2017—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 2017 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2016. 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...

In this free educational webinar participants will learn about the state of the art for generative design tools and the processes they enable.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 1 August 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Generative Design: The Changing Nature of Product Development.” The webinar will take place on September 7, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT).

Generative Design (GD) is a term for a class of tools that create or modify design geometry based on non-geometric requirements or constraints on product performance. GD includes not only Topology Optimization (TopOpt), but also...