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Attendees will be the first to learn about CIMdata’s analysis of 2017’s PLM market results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 12 December 2017 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, announces its 2018 PLM Market & Industry Forum schedule and theme. Approaching their twenty-eighth year, these one-day events will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA on April 5; Frankfurt, Germany on April 12; Pune, India on April 16; Shanghai, China on April 20; and Tokyo, Japan on April 25.

CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forum is designed exclusively for PLM solution providers, PLM service providers, PLM systems integrators, and...

Webinar will share results from a recent CIMdata collaborative research study.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 8 December 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Gerard Litjens, Vice President EMEA, will take part in a webinar to discuss the current trends, challenges, and benefits of PLM in the cloud.

In this webcast, “PLM in the Cloud,” Mr. Litjens will share the findings from CIMdata’s recent study on PLM in the Cloud. Attendees will gain an understanding of what their peers regard as being the most critical areas and main challenges of cloud PLM adoption.

The webinar, which is...

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Key takeaways:

• Siemens PLM Software and Bentley Systems team to deliver a closed-loop digital solution to resolve factory floor issues.
• Siemens IoT system, MindSphere, and Bentley Systems’ AssetWise solutions monitor intelligent devices and assets to identify production issues and trigger corrective actions.
• Siemens NX with Convergent Modeling and Bentley Systems’ ContextCapture support a union of mesh and precise geometry product modeling to define real world assets.

Product engineers have long understood that CAD product models represent physical products in a virtual world. They author the shape and function of the virtual models, simulate and analyze their performance...

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• Global value chains are a fact of life in most industries today, and developing accurate cost estimates across global value chains often requires melding incompatible spreadsheets and costing processes.
• Working with leading customers, SAP developed the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing solution to provide globally available, managed capabilities to help address these issues.
• Their early successes in discrete industries are promising, and recent wins are from new industries such as consumer products, food, and fashion.

Global markets almost always demand globally sourced solutions today. This is a huge change from previous experience, one that causes struggles...

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• Wipro’s application of machine learning to parts classification has opened the door for large scale parts classification while reducing subject matter expert effort to reasonable levels.
• Wipro’s machine learning driven parts classification retains flexibility by leveraging reference standards such as UNSPSC, e-class, and IPC.
• Wipro’s machine learning driven parts classification can be applied beyond the realm of engineering, for example, into purchasing for supply chain spend analysis and optimization.
• Wipro’s intelligent parts classification solution can be extended to resolve multi-lingual product development issues such as parts description translation, conversational interfaces...

The new website brings the work of the group into the public domain.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 29 November 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the creation of a new website to promote the work being undertaken by the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group.

The Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (A&D PAG) is an association of aerospace & defense companies that functions as an advocacy group to sponsor research and set the direction for the industry on PLM-related topics such as; obsolescence management, product lifecycle integration, and global collaboration. Since its founding in February...

Popular PLM education program will be available via a series of publicly offered classes.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 November 2017 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces its CIMdata PLM Leadership Certificate Program schedule for 2018. The CIMdata PLM Leadership Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership—the PLM industry’s most comprehensive non-biased education offering for today’s PLM professionals.

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...

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Key takeaways:

• SAP is rapidly moving from an on-premise company to one focused on the cloud.
• Technologies like the Internet of Things, big data, analytics, machine learning, and blockchain are transforming industries and the global economy.
• SAP Leonardo helps bring business solutions to companies that leverage these technologies in combination with SAP best practices and existing SAP offerings.

In early 2017 SAP announced the branding of their Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio as SAP Leonardo, and their plans for their first global SAP Leonardo event for SAP customers in Frankfurt in July 2017. After the success of...

Educational webinar will ask if industrial companies are ready to implement additive manufacturing into mainstream production.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 November 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Industrializing Additive Manufacturing to make practical end-use products.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

The days are gone when Additive Manufacturing (AM) was limited to making one-offs, prototypes, and your favorite Disney character. Now, with advances in materials, AM machines, and software, it is possible to make practical everyday...

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Key takeaways:

• CIMdata believes that Mevea offers a exceptional end-to-end solution approach (from inception to in-service operation)—enabling effective digital twin solutions for its customers.
• Digital Twin as a technology, even though relatively young, is developing rapidly. It is the required foundational technology to enable cognitive behavior in real life in the future.
• Mevea’s digital twin approach should allow its customers to not only achieve competitiveness, but sustainable product and process innovation.

Manufacturing OEMs and their suppliers need to remain globally competitive. Unfortunately, this is becoming a significant challenge for most companies in today’s rapidly changing, globally competitive...