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Key Takeaways

• Autodesk University returned to Las Vegas for the first time since 2019, with over 12,000 attendees in person and many more connecting worldwide.
• Their industry-focused cloud offerings—Autodesk Fusion, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Flow—continue to evolve through organic development, partnership, and acquisition.
• Autodesk AI, a new branding for the company, highlights their past, present, and future with artificial intelligence.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending Autodesk University 2023 (AU) on November 12-16, 2023.^[1] The city was abuzz with preparations for the first Formula 1 event run in Las Vegas...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 January 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Chairman, John MacKrell, will be featured as a speaker at the upcoming Shipbuilding & Lifecycle Technology 4.0 event. The event will take place virtually on January 26 and February 9.

As the shipbuilding industry is undergoing and embracing change, the systems used to design, build, and operate vessels must adapt accordingly. Some changes involve moving from drawing and paper-based processes to a much more digital world, a need to design ships as systems of systems, and others. These activities require...

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Electronics industry solution provider consolidating solutions across “silicon-to-systems” and “systems-to-silicon” development

On Tuesday, January 16, 2024, Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) announced its intention to acquire Ansys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS). Ansys, Inc. is the undisputed market share leader in the multiphysics simulation and analysis (S&A) solutions segment.

While Synopsys, Inc. is a leader in the EDA segment, the acquisition of Ansys will provide Synopsys with a significant advancement in its portfolio for EDA applications, especially in the simulation and analysis space. The companies in a joint press call estimated the total available market for the combined...

This annual survey is now in its sixth year.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 16 January 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the launch of its annual PLM Status & Trends survey.

This eagerly awaited survey, now in its sixth year, is intended for PLM practitioners with experience implementing and using PLM strategies and enabling technologies. The goal is to deepen the collective understanding of the status, drivers, and preconditions for companies to achieve value from their investment in PLM.

We want to understand the following from the respondents:

• Where your company is on its PLM journey.
• Where your...

This presentation is part of CIMdata’s educational webinar series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 9 January 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “AI & PLM: Beyond All the Hype.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 8 February 2024, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

Without a doubt, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the innovation engine for product manufacturing businesses as it helps orchestrate the creation, maintenance, and reuse of digital assets central to developing new...

This PLM-focused event will take place in May.

Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Stockholm, SWEDEN 3 January 2024—CIMdata and Eurostep are delighted to share the details about the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT 2024 North America conference, scheduled to take place at the Marriott Hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA on May 8th and 9th. This globally recognized PLM-focused event, under the theme “Value Drivers for Digitalization of the Product Lifecycle: Insights for the PLM Professional—Why the investment, what are the returns, and how are they achieved?” promises...

This presentation is part of CIMdata’s educational webinar series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 21 December 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Maximizing Business Impact by Unleashing the Power of Proven Best Practices to Drive Business Value.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 11 January 2024, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

Once the decision is made to digitalize an enterprise supported by a PLM solution suite, maximizing the value of this investment for your enterprise is essential. To do that, PLM must be properly architected...

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Key Takeaways

• Successful adoption of ADAS and AV requires trust—trust by the end users, trust in the knowledge and solutions used to design, develop, and validate vehicles.
• Continuous optimization can be effectively applied as IoT and ML/AI techniques learn the nuances of a product’s actual, ongoing use.
• Modern virtual engineering ecosystems ensure conformance to regulations and safety standards as new features are derived using state of the art optimization techniques.
• Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) solutions enable optimized product designs even as the knowledge and requirements evolve over a product’s lifecycle.

Introduction

Understanding how to address and validate changing...

Siemens Digital Industries Software today announces that autonomous factory automation start-up, wheel.me, has selected the Siemens Xcelerator as a Service portfolio of industry software to help drive development of its next generation Genius 2 - an autonomous system that can turn almost any object into an autonomous mobile robot. The wheel.me system allows customers to optimize intra-logistical operations by efficiently transporting goods on the factory floor without human intervention and can transform anything into an autonomous mobile robot with minimal effort - without the need to alter its design or form.

Designed and engineered at the company’s Oslo headquarters using Siemens...

Infor^®, the industry cloud company, today announced that Grosfillex, a leading global manufacturer of high-end resin outdoor furniture and other products, is leveraging the Infor CloudSuite Manufacturing solution — integrated with Infor AI (artificial intelligence), automation and analytics — to boost revenues and sales productivity while increasing customer satisfaction.

The integrated solution enabled Grosfillex to increase revenues by 10 percent and increase sales productivity by 83 percent by automating the process of analyzing and grading customer accounts. The company also used Infor’s AI-driven product recommender to provide the right products at the right time, resulting in greatly improved customer satisfaction.

“In the...