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Key takeaways:

• Augmented Reality solutions are being rapidly adopted in automotive, aerospace, and other industry sectors with particular use in design and service applications
• Recent CIMdata research on augmented reality and mixed reality applications suggests that industrial companies are just scratching the surface with the enablement of potential use cases
• The Vuforia acquisition should enable PTC to provide significant new capabilities for product design, operational management, and service

PTC announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Vuforia business from Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), for $65 million. Vuforia...

Leading PLM solution and service providers to sponsor PLM conference.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 13 October 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Longview Advisors, Inc., organizer of 3D CIC, have today announced the key sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map for the Aerospace & Defense Industry featuring 3D CIC conference. The participating sponsors are 3D PDF Consortium, Anark, Aras Corp., Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, ITI, Kisters, Siemens PLM Software, Tata Consultancy Services, and Theorem Solutions. The event, which takes place on October 28 and 29 at the Westfields Marriott - Dulles, is a strategic conference...

Presentation will show how General Motors is enabling true end-to-end modeling and simulation as a core part of its product innovation platform.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 15 October 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm is pleased to announce that Dr. Ulrike Warnecke, Engineering Group Manager for Systems Development & CAx Support, GM Vehicle Engineering Europe (Adam Opel), will make a presentation at PLM Road Map™ for the Global Automotive Industry. This one-day event, focused on the global automotive industry, will take place on 24 November at the Sofitel Bayerpost, Munich, Germany.

Systems engineering, simulation and analysis, and...

Webinar will take place on November 11, 2015 and will share an emerging innovation system framework.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 October 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free webinar, “Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions – Connecting the Dots!” The webinar will take place on November 11 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will share the early findings from CIMdata’s research on Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM).

According to webinar co-host, CIMdata’s Director for Collaborative Innovation & Social Product Development Consulting, Dr. Suna Polat, “Many enterprises struggle with inefficiencies in their innovation due to disjointed processes, solutions,...

Presentation will discuss how managing engineering changes is a critical step for Parker Aerospace’s business strategy

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1 October 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Longview Advisors, Inc., organizer of 3D CIC, announce that Bob Deragisch, Director of Engineering & Infrastructure Services at Parker Aerospace (Parker), will make a keynote presentation at PLM Road Map™ for the Aerospace & Defense Industry featuring 3D CIC. Additional keynote presentations will be made by Henrik Weimer of Airbus, Jeff Plant of Boeing, and Peter Bilello of CIMdata. This two-day event focused on the Aerospace &...

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Key takeaways:

• SOLIDWORKS 2016 boasts a new redesigned user interface complementary to Windows 10 and supports high resolution, high-pixel density displays
• SOLIDWORKS Visualize incorporates technology from Dassault Systèmes’ acquisition of Bunkspeed

On September 22, 2015, Mr. Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO, SOLIDWORKS, opened the SOLIDWORKS 2016 Launch event at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Speaking from the front of the podium in the Institute’s full-scale reproduction of the U.S. Senate Chamber, Mr. Bassi reminded his audience of customers, analysts, and press sitting at the 100 replica Senator desks of SOLIDWORKS’ mission: who they are;...

Boeing’s Jeff Plant will discuss strategies for influencing standards for data storage and exchange.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 24 September 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Longview Advisors, Inc., organizer of 3D CIC, announce that Jeff Plant, Chief Process Architect & Director of Business Capabilities at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, will make a keynote presentation at PLM Road Map™ for the Aerospace & Defense Industry featuring 3D CIC. This two-day event will be held October 28-29 at The Westfields Marriott – Washington, Dulles.

All major PLM software providers offer commercial capability for conversion of their native format...

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Key takeaways:

• Siemens PLM Software’s annual Analyst event highlighted the progress they have made integrating some key acquisitions like LMS and Camstar, and leveraging Siemens AG’s intellectual assets
• They introduced a new drawing tool, Catchbook, designed to enable casual users to easily create drawings and capture their ideas and/or highlight issues
• Demonstrations showed integrations between product development and product realization and illustrated how Siemens PLM Software’s investments in modeling, simulation, and production can be used to achieve virtual products and virtual production environments that can be validated before capital investments are made

CIMdata recently attended Siemens PLM...

Weimer will discuss the importance of open interoperability standards in digital product definition.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 17 September 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Longview Advisors, Inc., organizer of 3D CIC, announce that Henrik Weimer, Head of PLM Architecture & Innovation at Airbus, will kick-off PLM Road Map™ for the Aerospace & Defense Industry featuring 3D CIC with a keynote presentation that will consider the importance of open interoperability standards in today’s digital product definition.

Due to significant growth and diversification in the aerospace industry, the typical OEM's role has been evolving over the last decades...

Eight country-specific PLM market analysis reports now available

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 17 September 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of seven additional country-specific PLM Market Analysis Reports. These new reports follow the release of the 2015 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.

The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2014 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2014, and forecasts PLM investments for...