This biennial NAFEMS conference reaffirms the growing importance of engineering modeling and simulation across all industries and domains.

CIMdata recently attended Dassault Systèmes’ annual two-day PLM analyst meeting. During two carefully composed days of presentations and demonstrations, senior management of Dassault Systèmes shared their strategy and the progress the company has made with regards to their 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

CIMdata is observing the fast growth of cloud services and expects growth to accelerate significantly over the next few years. T-Systems has an interesting offering that is a flexible, scalable, and perhaps most important, customizable and easy to integrate PLM cloud solution with full application management services.

While PLM strategies are common in manufacturing industries, they can provide just as much value in the development and long-term monitoring of insurance coverages and banking products.

Over 7,000 attendees converged on the Javit’s Center in New York City to attend Inforum 2016, the Infor user event of the year, held from July 10 to 13. Infor is a major provider of enterprise software constructed mainly through acquisitions and offers dozens of applications.

A major transformation is underway in engineering processes for today’s complex systems and cyber-physical products (mechanical, electronics, embedded software, and controls), triggered by several significant global trends.

ESI continues to execute on a corporate strategy to provide multi-domain and multi-fidelity solutions for realistic virtual prototyping of both components and systems by unifying the detailed 3D/4D capabilities of FEA, SEA, and CFD with the 0D/1D systems simulation space.

ESI is undertaking the next major step in providing physics-based performance simulation within a cloud-based platform to link the virtual and physical worlds via model-based, predictive data analytics.

The AEC market is undergoing rapid change. Now that the majority of customers have adopted BIM, the next challenge for the industry is to achieve the productivity and efficiency benefits promised by BIM. To meet this challenge, industry participants, ranging from building products manufacturers to AEC firms and solution providers, are looking to lifecycle strategies pioneered in the manufacturing industry. By combining technology innovations, new business models, and new work processes, the industry has the opportunity to close the productivity gap with manufacturing and generate greater efficiencies throughout the lifecycle from initial concept through facility operations.

Based on CIMdata’s consulting experience, many organizations are still struggling to achieve the efficient introduction of ALM and QMS in a PLM environment in their quest to develop dependable smart, connected products as part of their overall PLM strategy. CIMdata believes that Arena, with its cloud-based closed-loop product development solution, offers a flexible, efficient, robust, and cost-effective backbone that could prove ideal for launching all sizes of manufacturers very quickly into their competitive markets with innovative smart, connected products.

Market leaders are increasingly adopting systems-based, multi-physics modeling, and simulation technology to rapidly evaluate many more innovative systems concepts early in the design cycle and optimize product performance for energy sustainability throughout the lifecycle of products. The implementation of a simulation-driven product development platform as offered by engineering technology providers, such as ANSYS, is able to make a significant impact on producing breakthrough energy innovations to address the world’s concerns about the long-term sustainment of energy, resources, and human life, as we now know it on this planet.

Aras’s MPP application provides a solution to manage the EBOM to MBOM transformation. By using a manufacturing process plan to derive the MBOM, data integrity can be preserved and EBOM changes propagated to the process plan, MBOM, and work instructions. Manual work that has to be repeated for every change or variant is automated, reducing time spent, minimizing errors, improving quality, and lowering cost.

Aras subscribers that need to support manufacturing should evaluate MPP since it is included within their subscription. Companies that need to support complex manufacturing processes should also investigate the solution as the tight EBOM to MBOM linkage, process planning, and work instruction capabilities can have a significant impact on meeting operational requirements.