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• In response to regulatory requirements, customer demand, and investor demand sustainability is becoming a strategic objective at companies.
• While sustainability goals and targets get the headlines, achieving them in practice is difficult. Although operational issues tend to get the focus, depending on the product, up to 80% of the sustainability impact relates to engineering design decisions.
• While current regulations are strict, as climate change concerns grow, C0₂ output will get increasing scrutiny from consumers, investors, regulatory bodies, and employees.
• Solutions that capture requirements, define features to satisfy requirements, verify the features are implemented, and systematically...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 1 June 2022—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce the successful completion of PLM Road Map & PDT North America. The theme for the event was Digital Transformation and PLM–a call for PLM Professionals to re-define and re-position the benefits and value of PLM. The event took place at the Tysons Corner Marriott, near Washington D.C. 2022 marks the 29th year the event has been in operation.

The event comprised presentations made by PLM users representing several industry verticals interleaved with short vignettes about critical topics of interest presented by the event's sponsors.

Speakers and...

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• As cloud technology and software as a service (SaaS) delivery have evolved, CIMdata has observed a split in the Cloud PLM market, which we are labeling Gen 1 and Gen 2.
• First generation (“Gen 1”) SaaS PLM solutions were developed natively on hyperscaler platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, etc.) with multitenant capabilities focused on being deployable, upgradable, cost effective, but not necessarily configurable. A variant of Gen 1 is deploying an on-premises version of a solution in a cloud data center leveraging Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) via virtual machines.
• Gen 2 refers to second...

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• SaaS PLM solutions have been around for 20 years and have evolved significantly over that time.
• CIMdata recognizes two distinct generations of SaaS PLM solutions, which we are calling Gen 1 and Gen 2.
• Gen 1 SaaS PLM solutions offer basic capabilities, limited configurability, and are well suited for companies with simpler products or are using out of the box legacy on-premises solutions hosted in a cloud data center.
• Gen 2 SaaS PLM solutions offer full on-cloud capabilities, significantly more configurability, and suit companies with more complex products with a high design content.

Introduction to SaaS...

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Aras, a mindshare leader in the enterprise product lifecycle management (PLM) software market, recently announced that they had acquired a controlling interest in XPLM, a Dresden, Germany based provider of PLM integration connectors and related services. XPLM is well-known to CIMdata and is considered to be a very capable supplier delivering integration solutions to many of the leading companies within the PLM marketplace and other enterprise solution markets.

XPLM provides a broad and capable suite of integrations that are deployed in PLM implementations including MCAD, ECAD, CAE, MBSE, ALM, PDM, ERP, quality assurance,...

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Siemens solutions foster continuous verification and validation

Key takeaways:

• Delivering reliable, safe autonomous and ADAS vehicles requires a data-driven, closed-loop development process and robust, continuous verification and validation processes focused on multiple levels from the chip to electronics, to the vehicle, and ultimately a city’s infrastructure (i.e., from chip to city).
• Only a fully integrated, complete lifecycle solution can move and sustain an automaker into a ADAS and AV transportation leader for tomorrow—a solution that fosters discovery to learn, adapt, and continually improve ADAS knowledge.
• Performance engineering must embrace continuous product evaluations, continually adjusting to customer usage...

This annual educational webinar will focus on the PLM market results for 2021.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 11 May 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “2022 PLM Market Update.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 9 June 20212, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

The PLM Economy, CIMdata’s phrase describing the global ecosystem of software and services providers that help industrial companies achieve their PLM objectives, has grown strongly over the last decade. This webinar...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden 10 May 2022—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map and PDT North America 2022 event. The participating sponsors are Accenture, Altium, Aras, Autodesk, Digital Enterprise Society, Intelizign, Jana, Processia – an Atos Company, PTC, and Siemens Digital Industries Software. The event will take place at The Marriott Tysons Corner, VA on May 24 and 25.

“We are excited to have these key solution providers choose to sponsor our PLM Road Map and PDT conference,” stated Cheryl Peck, CIMdata’s Director of Marketing. “We are excited to be back...

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Key takeaways:

• Industrial companies must be able to easily create and evolve flexible, dynamic, composable value chains and the digital threads that run through them.
• The digital thread and digital twin are key concepts in use today to improve business performance but have often required complex customization to create and sustain them.
• Low-code platforms are being applied to solve many business challenges including the creation and maintenance of digital threads and digital twins across product lifecycles throughout an industrial company’s ecosystem.
• Siemens’ Mendix low-code platform enables creation of personalized, business-unique solutions leveraging digital threads and digital twins...

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Key takeaways:

• Siemens AG is committed to leveraging its combined hardware and software assets to become a technology company—a significant evolution for itself and its operating units, as well as the industries and customers it supports.
• Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) is pursuing an aggressive cloud and SaaS strategy and is moving to provide all its solutions via SaaS.
• Siemens is focused on increasing their clients’ business and operational flexibility through the use of Mendix and composable applications.
• Siemens explained their Executable Digital Twin (xDT), a smart, connected virtual representation of a physical asset, that optimizes and...