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• Frequency of design collaboration is bolstered with augmented reality.
• One button push sharing of augmented reality experiences comes standard in all versions of PTC’s Creo, Creo View, and Windchill.
• PTC’s augmented reality workflow facilitates secure collaborative design.

Product designers find themselves engrossed in daily discussions of the real world versus the virtual world. As they design new products with 3D virtual digital models in CAD they struggle to imagine what their product ideas would be like in context of the real world. Today, the growing use of Augmented Reality (AR) provides an innovative solution to...

The presentation will discuss the US Department of Defense’s Digital Engineering Initiative.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 30 April 2019—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep are pleased to announce that Ms. Philomena “Phil” Zimmerman, Deputy Director of Engineering Tools and Environments, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, will make a keynote presentation at PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2019. This two-day event will take place May 29-30 at the Marriott Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA which is near Washington D.C. The theme for this year's event is “PLM for Professionals—Product Lifecycle Innovation.”

Digital engineering is the...

The presentation will share the challenges and approaches for managing and maintaining data on one of the most complex pieces of engineering imaginable.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 25 April 2019—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep are pleased to announce that Mr. Roger Hobley, Technology Development Manager – Maritime Services IS&S BAE Systems Surface Ships at BAE Systems, will make a keynote presentation at PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2019. This two-day event will take place May 29-30 at the Marriott Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA which is near Washington D.C. The theme for this year's event is “PLM for...

The CIMdata administered group provides research and guidance on the top PLM issues impacting aircraft manufacturers, major defense OEMs, and Tier 1 suppliers.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 April 2019—Representatives from eleven major aerospace and defense companies recently held their annual meeting in Montreal, Canada to discuss and review the status and findings of the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) PLM Action Group’s working teams and to set priorities for the Group’s sixth business year. This year’s meeting was co-hosted by Group members, Bombardier and Pratt & Whitney Canada. The A&D PLM Action Group, which is administered by CIMdata, is an industry-specific PLM...

The workshop will show how Model-Based Engineering, when integrated with analytical solutions, can be used to improve an organization’s ability to win more business.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 24 April 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Keith Meintjes, a CIMdata Executive Consultant, will deliver the opening presentation at Phoenix Integration’s Model-Based Engineering Workshop (MBSE) in Troy, Michigan on April 25.

One of the greatest challenges to enabling Digital Transformation and the lifecycle Digital Thread is integrating the myriad of different engineering models and data silos that exist today in both systems engineering and the...

Survey responses suggest that companies implementing PLM find that it is worth the money.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 April 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the completion of its annual status and trends research related to the global product lifecycle management (PLM) economy.

The goal of the research was to deepen the PLM community’s collective understanding of the status, drivers, and preconditions necessary for companies to derive value from their investment in PLM enabling solutions. A web-based survey was developed and distributed to identify the key issues.

Significant findings show that:

• The majority of respondents identified that...

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Key takeaways:

• To stay competitive and profitable, manufacturers must respond to consumers' increasing demand to personalize the products they buy.
• Companies with complex and highly configurable product lines must have an end-to-end lifecycle mindset.
• Manufacturers require a flexible, scalable platform that supports the full lifecycle of product knowledge and incorporates robust configurator capabilities integrated with their product development process, as well as business systems to support a broad range of product features and complexity.
• Siemens PLM Software has developed a broad configurator solution suite that delivers best-in-class variability management capabilities.

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CIMdata will present its frameworks for the digital transformation of businesses.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 April 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Augmented Intelligence is critical for Robust Digital Transformation.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 25, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

The innovative efforts of manufacturers, suppliers, and startups result in digital intellectual assets that often lead to large volumes of heterogeneous data, only a third of which is being used for extracting useful intelligence. Increasing connectivity between products and the...

The event presents PLM industry trends, 2018 global PLM market growth, and major research topics.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 April 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the successful completion of its 2019 North American PLM Market & Industry Forum—the first in a series of five global events. This year’s North American Forum was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 4 April 2019. There were 36 PLM industry participants representing 20 leading global PLM software and service providers.

CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forums represent the world’s premier event for software and service providers focused specifically...

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Key takeaways:

• Oracle is all-in on the cloud, hosting their cloud-native applications on Oracle-managed cloud infrastructure running on Oracle hardware.
• Oracle is “patient zero” in a major cloud applications outbreak, with the company now relying in-house on their expansive cloud suite.
• Oracle continues to elaborate their Oracle PLM Cloud offering, expanding it to “Digitally Connected PLM” leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).

CIMdata attended the first Oracle Business Experience conference at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, NV, March 19-21, 2019. This new event attracted more than 6,000...