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This eBook describes how an end-to-end approach is needed for companies to thrive in today’s rapidly evolving highly configurable products world.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 27 November 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, released a new eBook that offers insights into how an integrated systems environment can be used to support all aspects needed for complex mass customized products throughout their entire lifecycles.

In the past, the answer to managing product complexity was to make the product simpler. With customers increasingly demanding more complex and highly configurable products this is no longer an option. Companies with complex and...

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On November 20, 2018, PTC announced it had acquired Frustum, Inc., an advanced generative design software company for approximately US$70 million. Frustum develops and markets Generate, a generative design product that employs artificial intelligence (AI) to guide design solutions. PTC President and CEO, Jim Hepplemann, publicized the acquisition to an audience of industry and financial analysts in a hastily called press conference, to say that the Frustum solution would be embedded within Creo, PTC’s flagship CAD solution, in the coming year. This announcement was a bit of a surprise, since Siemens PLM Software...

This popular PLM education program will be made available via a series of publicly offered classes.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 November 2018 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces its CIMdata PLM Leadership Certificate Program schedule for 2019. The program represents the PLM industry’s most comprehensive non-biased education offering for today’s PLM professionals.

The program has been structured to 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...

Experienced PLM program manager joins CIMdata as a Senior Consultant and the organization’s Medical Device PLM Action Group lead.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 November 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Jon McIntosh has joined the firm as a Senior Consultant and Medical Device PLM Action Group lead.

Mr. McIntosh has over 25 years’ experience in global program delivery, industry research, and management consulting for commercial and government clients. He has served as a global program manager, chief scientist to a Department of Defense (DoD) research institution, and management consultant.

Peter Bilello, President...

This free educational webinar will review the significant events that have happened in the PLM economy so far in 2018 and will help attendees make sense of them.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 November 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The State of the PLM Economy.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

If there is one constant in the “PLM Economy”, i.e., the collection of software and service providers that serve industrial companies in pursuing their PLM...

The presentation will consider how to best plan, implement, and fully utilize what PLM offers to maximize a company's return on investment.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 November 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President, Peter Bilello, will make a presentation at PI PLMx Chicago entitled, “PLM’s Future: Where Are We Going?” PI PLMx Chicago will take place at the Westin Michigan Avenue, Chicago on 5-6 November. Mr. Bilello’s presentation will kick-off the Enabling Collaboration track on day 1 of the event.

For many, PLM's future is bright and given that many companies haven't...

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Key takeaways:

• Addressing today’s and tomorrow’s security threats demands a new solution, Oracle’s Second Generation Cloud, offering “Impenetrable Barriers + Autonomous Robots.”
• The Oracle Digital Supply Chain Platform combines Oracle’s traditional enterprise applications with leading edge capabilities like analytics, blockchain, and the IoT.
• Oracle PLM Cloud continues to expand its capabilities and installed base, including more explicit coverage of and support for fielded products using Oracle’s capabilities in IoT, analytics, and machine learning.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending Oracle OpenWorld, held October 22-25, 2018 in San Francisco, CA. This sprawling event included over 60,000 customers and...

CIMdata was saddened to learn about the untimely passing of a true visionary, Chuck Grindstaff, the former CEO of Siemens PLM Software. Mr. Grindstaff retired from Siemens in 2016 to pursue a passion for winemaking at his Next Step Vineyards, LLC but he left his mark on the industry with his leadership of Siemens PLM Software and its precursors.

Mr. Grindstaff began his association with UGS in 1978, when he joined the Unigraphics Solutions research and development team, holding various leadership positions. Mr. Grindstaff left Unigraphics in 1988 and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Waveframe, where he developed...

Experienced PLM program manager joins CIMdata as PLM Community Practice Manager

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 23 October 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Janie Gurley has joined the firm as PLM Community Practice Manager, responsible for the coordination and execution of CIMdata’s PLM Community and associated solution provider strategic management consulting activities.

During her 26 year career, Ms. Gurley has demonstrated broad experience in understanding and supporting strategic business execution with broad-based expertise in product development solutions within manufacturing. She has worked on projects in numerous industries, including aerospace, steel, steam engineering...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes continues to drive its vision for ENOVIA forward by extending lifecycle support to business planning and after-sales while enriching it with expanded connectivity for lifecycle functions.
• Digital assets are becoming more valuable than physical assets and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is designed to support this concept in multiple ways—as a business platform, as an operating system, and as an enabler of new business models.
• The enhancements to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and ENOVIA with 2019X should be appealing to SmarTeam and SOLIDWORKS users, giving them the capabilities they need to advance their PLM maturity.
• POWER’BY...