Accenture leveraged work with their industrial clients to support Siemens Digital Industries Software offerings on Microsoft Azure to create new capabilities in cloud-powered engineering for those clients. Their strategic consulting approach is powered by accelerators and reference architectures jointly developed with Microsoft and Siemens that speed implementation while also limiting risk. Interest in their approach is high and early returns promising.

Mendix and MindSphere solutions from Siemens Xcelerator portfolio provide one way to achieve flexible, adaptable, and sustainable integration of IT and OT capabilities.

Altair continues their annual Future.Industry virtual conference’s focus to explore “Future of” macro trends and technologies. Together with industry and academic thought-leaders, the conference highlighted the accelerating and growing convergence of data analytics, computational science, and cloud HPC technologies and their relevance to product and process innovation, academic instruction, tomorrow’s innovators, and society.

An annual survey conducted by CIMdata in collaboration with Altair explored the role of these key trends and their growing impact today as well as in the future, with a trend analysis comparing 2020 results with 2021 results.

The Aras PLM Platform's low-code approach and web services architecture enables agile development, easy silo connection, app development, and business process evolution, to properly support digital thread creation and maintenance.

Siemens’ AVD solution set broadens SE capabilities enabling a system of systems framework needed for AV development and operations. CIMdata forecasts that companies connecting data with learning digital twins will realize significant benefits during AV development and operations—building trust with cities and passengers. Siemens’ advances in Quality Management , Systems Engineering , Simulation with Executable Digital Twins , and many more concepts in the works will provide a rich set of capabilities that product designers will use for the next generation of mobility, Autonomous Vehicles.

SMBs have the same issues as larger enterprises. They must develop and deliver products faster and provide better service, but with fewer resources—people and money. They need to use modern product lifecycle management (PLM) environments and applications that help them maximize the utilization, flexibility, and adaptability of their business and limited resources.

DFx is a proven solution to improve designs within enterprises. Modern implementations of DFx software such as HCL DFMPro can significantly improve enterprise processes by ensuring designs meet all appropriate criteria as they are produced. Fixing design issues early before they are physically instantiated is faster, easier, and cheaper. At CIMdata we believe that to be successful digital transformation projects, need to focus on product lifecycle issues because the product is what provides the value customers pay for. HCL DFMPro is a tool that does a lot of heavy lifting to ensure designs meet their requirements across all the important domains: purchasing, manufacturing, service, and environmental.

p>CIMdata appreciates Siemens’ efforts to bring traditional classification capabilities into the twenty-first century with the move to AI and the emerging ECLASS Standard. Teamcenter clients will be pleased with these improvements and the ability to increase their reuse of existing part models.

A market survey conducted by CIMdata in conjunction with VCollab and the ASSESS Initiative explored the role of current collaboration techniques and their impact in the participating organizations, with a view of adoption from both the management level as well as at the engineer and CAE technologist levels.

On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, Aras Corporation announced that Mr. Roque Martin will immediately take over the CEO role from founder Peter Schroer. Mr. Schroer will assist with the transition and continue his position on the Aras Board of Directors.